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Justice as an aspect of the polis idea in Solon's political poems
BRILL 2003; US$ 156.00This text seeks to examine the meaning of justice or "dike" in the political poems of Solon from a new interpretative perspective. The author's central proposal is that the polis idea, from new classical archaeology, provides an objective standard for an interpretation of Solon's "dike". more...
Aeschylus: The Oresteia
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 18.00This is the only general introduction in English to Aeschylus' Oresteia, one of the most important and most influential of all Greek dramas. The volume's clear structure and guide to further reading will make this an invaluable guide for students and teachers alike. more...
The New Simonides
Oxford University Press 2001; US$ 124.99Boedecker and Sider's edited volume gathers the best of the recent research on Simonides' newly expanded oeuvre into this collection ,which is a useful reference for scholars of Greek poetry. more...
Gorgias
MobileReference.com 2008; US$ 3.99This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. ******************. Gorgias is an important Socratic Dialogue in which Plato sets the rhetorician, whose specialty is persuasion, in opposition to the philosopher, whose specialty is dissuasion, or refutation. The art of persuasion was necessary for political and legal... more...
Parmenides
MobileReference.com 2008; US$ 3.99This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. ******************. Parmenides is one of the dialogues of Plato. It is perhaps Plato''s most challenging dialogue, as well as one of the most challenging works of philosophy ever written. The Parmenides purports to be an account of a meeting between the two... more...
Phaedrus
MobileReference.com 2008; US$ 3.99This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. ******************. The Phaedrus, written by Plato, is a dialogue between Plato''s main protagonist, Socrates, and Phaedrus, an interlocutor in several dialogues. The Phaedrus was presumably composed around 370 BC, around the same time as Plato''s Republic... more...
Theognis und die Theognidea
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 168.00The collection of poems preserved under the name of Theognis is - apart from Homer and Hesiod - the only extant poetic text handed down in manuscript from the time before Pindar. Its peculiar form has provoked a long-running debate on its authenticity and genesis, which has gone so far as to cast doubts on the existence of the poet Theognis. How did... more...
The Poetry of Sappho
Oxford University Press, USA 2007; US$ 19.99Translator's Note. The Poetry of Sappho. Sappho of Lesbos. The Text of Sappho's Poems. Abbreviations & Bibliography. Textual Notes more...
Aeschylus
Oxford University Press, UK 2008; US$ 124.99An accurate and readable new translation, with introduction, extensive explanatory notes, and up-to-date bibliography, of four of Aeschylus' plays, including the unique historical tragedy Persians and the hugely influential Prometheus Bound. - ;A new, accurate, and readable translation of four of Aeschylus' plays: Persians, Seven Against Thebes,... more...
The Languages of Aristophanes
Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 65.00The play with linguistic styles constitutes an important ingredient of Aristophanic humour. Andreas Willi uses the stylistic diversity as a source to reconstruct the 'real' styles upon which Aristophanes based his text. Most of these 'real' styles would otherwise be lost because they are not represented in serious literature. - ;By... more...









