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Arion's Lyre
Princeton University Press 2010; US$ 46.95Arion's Lyre examines how Hellenistic poetic culture adapted, reinterpreted, and transformed Archaic Greek lyric through a complex process of textual, cultural, and creative reception. Looking at the ways in which the poetry of Sappho, Alcaeus, Ibycus, Anacreon, and Simonides was preserved, edited, and read by Hellenistic scholars and poets, the... more...
Ancient Greek Lyrics
Indiana University Press 2010; US$ 16.95Ancient Greek Lyrics collects Willis Barnstone's elegant translations of Greek lyric poetry -- including the most complete Sappho in English, newly translated. This volume includes a representative sampling of all the significant poets, from Archilochos, in the 7th century BCE, through Pindar and the... more...
Politics of Orality
BRILL 2006; US$ 188.00Part of the series on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds, this work contains essays that explore the tensions and controversies that arise as a society moves from an oral to literate culture. It deals with the various forms of epic; explores the ways in which texts and writing were manipulated for political ends; and more. more...
Aeschylus
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 154.99Aeschylus' Persae, first produced in 472 BC, is the oldest surviving Greek tragedy. It is also the only extant Greek tragedy that deals, not with a mythological subject, but with an event of recent history, the Greek defeat of the Persians at Salamis in 480 BC. Unlike Aeschylus' other surviving plays, it is apparently not part of a connected... more...
Expressions of Agency in Ancient Greek
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 93.00This title explores the development by Ancient Greek of prepositions to mark the agents of passive verbs, from Homer through to the first millennium AD. The translation of examples renders the title accessible to non-classicists interested in changes in prepositional systems generally. more...
Space in Archaic Greek Lyric
Amsterdam University Press 2012; US$ 42.50From the end of the twentieth century onwards space has become a 'hot topic' in literary studies. This thesis contributes to the spatial turn by focusing on space in archaic Greek lyric (7th-5th c bc). A theoretical framework inspired by narratology, phenomenology and metaphor theory is applied to archaic lyric poems in which city, countryside... more...
On Coming After
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 238.00This work gathers together the principal essays of Richard Hunter, whose work has been fundamental in the modern re-evaluation of Greek literature after Alexander and its reception at Rome and elsewhere. At the heart of Hunter?s work lies the high poetry of Ptolemaic Alexandria and the narrative literature of later antiquity (?the ancient novel?),... more...
Sexuality in Greek and Roman Literature and Society
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 37.95This Sourcebook contains numerous original translations of ancient poetry, inscriptions and documents, all of which illuminate the multifaceted nature of sexuality in antiquity. The detailed introduction provides full social and historical context for the sources, and guides students on how to use the material most effectively. Themes such as marriage,... more...
A Referential Commentary and Lexicon to Homer, Iliad VIII
Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 198.99Adrian Kelly shows that familiarity with the oral background of Homeric poetry is vital for a proper appreciation of Homeric narrative. He presents the kind of information a modern reader requires to become as fluent in traditional epic poetry as an original ancient audience. - ;This book aims to provide the reader of Homer with the traditional knowledge... more...
The Sibylline Oracles
Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 264.99The Sibyl was a legendary figure in Greco-Roman antiquity. J. L. Lightfoot describes how the verse prophecies attributed to her were taken over by Hellenistic Jews, and later by Christians, as a vehicle for their own understandings of prophecy, and provides an edition, translation, and commentary on the first and second books of extant oracles. - ;In... more...









