metalepsis
Peter v. Möllendorff
From a functional point of view, metalepsis can be defined as the shift of a figure within a text (usually a character or a narrator) from one narrative level to another, marking a ...
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Erichthonius (2), mythical Trojan king
Adam Rappold
A mythic king of the Trojans, son of Dardanus and Batea, and father of Troos. Little is known about the Trojan Erichthonius, apart from what is related in Homer—he was the grandson of Zeus, son of ...
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Alexander Romance
Richard Stoneman
The Alexander Romance is a fictionalized life of Alexander III of Macedon (Alexander the Great, 356–323 bce), originating in the 3rd century BC, though the earliest evidence for its ...
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Pancrates, Greco-Egyptian hexameter poet, 2nd century CE
Tim Whitmarsh
Pancrates was a Greek hexameter poet of the 2nd centuryce,1 a native Egyptian operating in Alexandria in the time of Hadrian. He may be identical with the Heliopolitan prophet and magician Pachrates ...
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Musaeus (3), Greek poet, 5th century CE
Silvia Montiglio
Musaeus (5th or early 6th centuryce; Colluthus and Agathias know his poem1) is the author of Hero and Leander, an epyllion of 343 lines. The attribution to him of a fragment of an epic ...
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the self in Greek literature
Christopher Gill
The notion of “self” is a non-technical one, bridging the areas of psychology and ethics or social relations. Criteria for selfhood include psychological unity or cohesion, agency, ...
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revision in Greek and Latin literature
Sean Alexander Gurd
Revision happens when a text is changed. Its most common name in Greek was διόρθωσις; in Latin, emendatio. It was practised by writers of all styles and levels of ability, working alone ...
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(Aelia) Eudocia, c. 400–460 CE
Pavlos Avlamis
Originally named Athenais, Eudocia was the daughter of Leontius, a teacher of rhetoric. She was born in Athens (Evagrius Scholasticus Historia ecclesiastica 1.20) and probably followed her father in ...
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