{"product_id":"9781785707841","title":"Gestures: Essays in Ancient History, Literature, and Philosophy presented to Alan L Boegehold","description":"These thirty essays were presented to Alan L Boegehold, a  distinguished philologist and an inspirational teacher, on the  occasion of his retirement and his seventy-fifth birthday. The  contributions fall into two categories, each one reflecting  Boegehold's diverse interests in classical studies: the first  section includes essays on literary and philosophical topics,  several of which pick up on the theme of \"gestures\"; the second  section is representative of Boegehold's more specialised  research in Greek epigraphy, history and law. Contents: Biography  of Alan L Boeghold; A divine  audience for the celebration of Asopichus' victory in Pindar's   Fourteenth Olympian Ode (L Athanassaki) ;  Poi de kai pothen ; self-motion in Plato's  Phaedrus (G W Bakewell) ; Drinking from the sources: John Barton's  Tantalus  and the epic cycle  (D Boedeker) ; Mania and melancholy: Some Stoic texts on insanity  (M Graver) ; A gesture in Archilochos 118 (West)?  (C Hahnemann) ; When an identity was expected: The slaves in Aristophanes'  Knights (J Henderson) ; Nemesis and Phthonos  (D Konstan) ; A reading of Ausonius,  Professores I (J Pucci) ; Horace  epi.  1.13: Compliments to Augustus  (M C J Putnam) ; When a gesture was misinterpreted:  didonai titthion  in Menander's  Samia (A C Scafuro) ; Optical illusions in ancient Greece  (P Tribodeau) ; Gesture  (W F Wyatt, Jr) ; Some observations on the Appianos sarcophagus ( IGUR  1700)  (G Bucher) ; The first tragic contest: Revision revised  (A P Burnett) ; Notes for a philologist  (J McK Camp) ; Two passages in Thucydides  (M Chambers) ; Livy's narrative habit  (J D Chaplin) ; Athenian prostitution as a liberal profession  (E E Cohen) ;  Sanides  and  Sanidia (John E Fischer) ; Thuc. 2.13.3: 600 T. of tribute  (C W Fornara) ; Delivering the go(o)ds: Demetrius Poliorcetes and Hellenistic divine kingship   (P Green) ; Lysias 14 and 15. A note on the  grafes astrateias (M H Hansen) ; Counterproposal at Carthage (Aristotle,  Politics  II.11.5-6)  (G L Huxley) ; Kallias A ( IG  I3 52A) and Thucydides 2.13.3  (J Kennelly) ; Slander in ancient Athens: A common law perspective  (W T Loomis) ; The bones of Orestes  (D D Philips) ; The ostracism of Damon  (K A Raaflaub) ; The date of Pnyx III:  SEG  XII 87, the law of Eukrates on tyranny (337\/6 BC)  (M B Richardson) ; Archon dates, atthidographers and the sources of  Ath. Pol.  22-26  (J P Sickinger) ; A major Athenian letter-cutter ca. 410 to ca. 380: The cutter of  IG  II2 17  (S V Tracy) .","brand":"Oxbow Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47114698555632,"sku":"9781785707841","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781785707841_p0.jpg?v=1763728152","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781785707841","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}