Panhellenism and local tradition in early Greek epos by Webber, JM

“…The first chapter sets out previous scholarship on the question and my working assumptions about the poetic tradition. …”

Inventing Slavonic: cultures of writing between Rome and Constantinople by Ivanova, M

“…</p> <p>In contrast with existing scholarship which largely accepts these texts as telling a unified, monolithic story of the birth of Slavonic culture, the thesis approaches each text as an intellectual monument, that sought to make an intervention into a specific set of socio-political circumstances. …”

Inscribing manumission in the Hellenistic world by Hewitt, M

“…</p> <p>The Introduction outlines some of the key conceptual and legal problems involved in the freeing of slaves, and provides an overview of the scholarship on manumission in ancient Greece. Chapter 1 sets some parameters for defining a manumission inscription, and for identifying shared cultural features in the practice and recording of manumission across the sites which produced these inscriptions. …”

An ecological approach to Aristotle’s theories of light and vision by Costello, SM

“…Scholarship on Aristotle’s theory of visual perception has traditionally held that Aristotle had a single, static conception of light and that he believed that illumination occurs prior to and independent of the actions of colours. …”