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Rhetorical Exercises from Late Antiquity
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 91.00The first translation of the Declamations and Preliminary Talks of the sixth-century sophist Choricius of Gaza. more...
Literature and Society in Renaissance Crete
Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 64.00This book presents a comprehensive study of the literature of the time of the Cretan Renaissance. more...
The History of Linguistics in the Classical Period
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1987; US$ 180.00The study of Greek and Roman language science has figured prominently in the remarkable renascence of interest in the history of linguistics of the last twenty years. We know more now than we did several decades ago about what the Greeks and Romans were thinking, writing, and doing in matters grammatical, and the scholars who contribute to this volume... more...
The Collected Poems
OUP Oxford 2007; US$ 8.95a Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe' E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster's description of C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) perfectly encapsulates the unique perspective Cavafy brought to bear on history and geography, sexuality and language in his poems. Cavafy writes about people on the periphery,... more...
The Shade of Homer
Cambridge University Press 1989; US$ 40.00This 1989 book explores the significance of Homer for the poetry of modern Greece. more...
Landor
The Lilliput Press 1999; US$ 7.28Walter Savage Landor was born in Warwick, in 1775, and died in Florence in 1864. His output in prose and poetry was prodigious. 'No English writer - no English poet - of equal size and quality has been less attended to in the last fifty years' wrote Geoffrey Grigson in 1964, and though three selections appeared in the next eight years, this remains... more...
Folk Poetry of Modern Greece
Cambridge University Press 1980; US$ 42.00A wide-ranging study of popular poetry and songs from the end of the Byzantine Empire to the present. more...
Mediterranean Modernisms
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 99.95Engaging with the work of Nobel Prize-winning poet Odysseus Elytis within the framework of international modernism, Marinos Pourgouris places the poet's work in the context of other modernist thinkers in Europe, including Albert Camus, Charles Baudelaire, Gaston Bachelard, Sigmund Freud, and C. G. Jung. Informed by extensive research in the United... more...
The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 99.50The life of Nikos Kazantzakis--the author of Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ --was as colorful and eventful as his fiction. And nowhere is his life revealed more fully or surprisingly than in his letters. Edited and translated by Kazantzakis scholar Peter Bien, this is the most comprehensive selection of Kazantzakis's letters... more...
Byzantinische Sprachkunst
De Gruyter 2007; US$ 224.00Twenty articles on Byzantine literature written in honour of W. Hörandner by colleagues are contained in this volume. They focus on his research interests, in particular epigrams and the literature of the Comnenan period, as well as the history of literary motifs, rhetoric and questions of literary language. Several contributions include editions of... more...









