A. S. Byatt
in Sibylline Sisters
September 2011; published online January 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: classical literature. 7114 words.
A. S. Byatt's work has always been densely intertextual, and has always reflected the impossibility of separating artistic nourishment from lived experience. Her writing draws heavily upon writers...
A′ccius, Lucius (170–c.86 bc)
in The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
January 2011; published online January 2011.
Reference Entry. Subjects: classical literature. 277 words.
Latin poet and literary scholar, from Picenum in Umbria. He was a younger contemporary of the tragedian *Pacuvius and the
Ab Urbe Condita: Roman History on the Shield of Aeneas
in Citizens of Discord
July 2010; published online September 2010.
Chapter. Subjects: classical literature. 5919 words.
This chapter offers a reading of the shield of Aeneas that shows civil war to be disturbingly present in an artefact announced as a history of Rome's triumphs: civil war fights for space with the...
Abdera
in The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
January 2011; published online January 2011.
Reference Entry. Subjects: classical literature. 55 words.
Greek city on the coast of Thrace, founded in the seventh century bc and refounded in the sixth by
Abȳ′dos
in The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
January 2011; published online January 2011.
Reference Entry. Subjects: classical literature. 34 words.
Milesian colony on the eastern, Asiatic, side of the Hellespont, at its narrowest point. Here *Xerxes crossed to Europe in
Acadē′mica (‘Concerning Academic philosophy’)
in The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
January 2011; published online January 2011.
Reference Entry. Subjects: classical literature. 134 words.
Dialogue by *Cicero (1) of 45 bc discussing the philosophical views of the Greek New *Academy, particularly the Sceptic
Acadē′mus
in The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
January 2011; published online January 2011.
Reference Entry. Subjects: classical literature. 3 words.
Academic Therapy: Philo of Larissa and Cicero’s Project in the Tusculans
in Philosophy and Power in the Graeco-Roman World
August 2002; published online January 2010.
Chapter. Subjects: classical literature. 9046 words.
This chapter begins with a translation and re-examination of the Stobaeus text. It considers whether there is anything distinctively Academic in Philo's presentation of the analogy as mediated by...
The Academical Ass: Apuleius and the Northern Renaissance
in The Protean Ass
December 2007; published online May 2008.
Chapter. Subjects: classical literature. 30161 words.
This chapter explores Apuleian influences in the Renaissance. It is argued that controversy was the common denominator of Apuleian influences in the Renaissance. Platonists used Apuleius in their...
Academy
in The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
January 2011; published online January 2011.
Reference Entry. Subjects: classical literature. 497 words.
Originally a shrine to a *hero, Akademos, and a public gymnasium just north of Athens near the hill of