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The Origins of Criticism
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 39.95By "literary criticism" we usually mean a self-conscious act involving the technical and aesthetic appraisal, by individuals, of autonomous works of art. Aristotle and Plato come to mind. The word "social" does not. Yet, as this book shows, it should--if, that is, we wish to understand where literary criticism as we think of it today came from. Andrew... more...
Von den Toren des Hades zu den Hallen des Olymp. Artemiskult bei Theokrit und Kallimachos
BRILL 2007; US$ 130.00Investigates the reception of contemporary religion in Hellenistic poetry and analyses the treatment of the cult of Artemis - taken as paradigmatic - in Theocritus' second Idyll and Callimachus' Hymns. This monograph aims to advance scholarly understanding of the contextualization and transformation of religious motifs in Hellenistic literature. more...
Critical Moments in Classical Literature
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 86.00A series of innovative critical readings exploring how the ancients discussed the meaning of literary works and their importance in society. more...
An Introduction to Greek Tragedy
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 22.00This book provides a brief and accessible introduction to Greek tragedy for students and general readers alike. more...
Found in Translation
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 40.00Found in Translation addresses the wider issues of transferring any piece of theatre from a source into a target language. more...
Tragedy in Athens
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 46.00This book examines the performance of Greek tragedy in the classical Athenian theatre. more...
Tragic Props and Cognitive Function
BRILL 2009; US$ 147.00With its focus on 'reasoning through imagery' this book applies aspects of cognitive psychology to a study of key tragic props in order to draw connections between visual imagery and the spectators' intellectual experience of ancient Greek tragedy. more...
The Dance of the Muses
OUP Oxford 2006; US$ 109.99This book develops an authentic and at the same time revolutionary musical analysis of ancient Greek poetry. It departs from the abstract metrical analyses of the past in that it conceives the rhythmic and harmonic elements of poetry as integral to the whole expression, and decisive in the interpretation of its meaning. David offers a thoroughgoing... more...
Bühnenmord und Botenbericht
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 112.00Murder and manslaughter, eye gouging, suicide, human sacrifice - Greek tragedy is full of horrible acts which disturb and fascinate, but are never directly presented on stage. But how are they presented? Which means and forms did poets use to present the invisible in such a way on stage that it would not lose its harrowing effect? The book analyzes... more...
The Muse at Play
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 154.00Riddles and other word games are widespread in classical literature and played a crucial role in shaping Greek and Roman cultural discourses, yet few efforts have been made to treat them in all their variety and complexity. This volume, the fruit of a conference held in May 2011 by the Institute of Classical Studies of the University of Warsaw, gathers... more...









