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Musaeus. Linus. Epimenides. Papyrus Derveni. Indices
De Gruyter 2007; US$ 112.00This final volume of the Poetae epici Graeci includes the testimonia and fragments of Musaeus, Linus, Epimenides and the Papyrus Derveni. Numerous indices (fontium, verborum, auctorum et operum) and a Concordantia numerorum facilitate the use of the entire edition. more...
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...
Classical Greek Theatre
University of Iowa Press 1998; US$ 29.95Many dogmas regarding Greek theatre were established by researchers who lacked experience in the mounting of theatrical productions. In his wide-ranging and provocative study, Clifford Ashby, a theatre historian trained in the practical processes of play production as well as the methods of historical research, takes advantage of his understanding... more...
Archaic and Classical Choral Song
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 168.00This book addresses the performance and dissemination of Greek poems of the seventh to the fifth centuries BC whose premieres were presented by a chorus singing in a ritual context or in secular celebrations of athletic victories. It explores how choruses presented themselves; individuals? and communities?roles in funding performances and securing... more...
Staged Narrative
University of California Press 2002; US$ 60.00The messenger who reports important action that has occurred offstage is a familiar inhabitant of Greek tragedy. A messenger informs us about the death of Jocasta and the blinding of Oedipus, the madness of Heracles, the slaughter of Aigisthos, and the death of Hippolytus, among other important events. Despite its prevalence, this conventional figure... more...
Murder among Friends
Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 109.99This volume argues that Greek tragedy as a genre is characterized by plots centering on kin killing. It contains a detailed analysis of five plays, and comprehensive documentation of this plot pattern in all of the extant tragedies, and in the lost plays of the fifth and fourth centuries BC. more...
Die französische Literatur im Zeichen von Kollaboration und Faschismus
Narr Francke Attempto 2012; US$ 73.33Hauptbeschreibung Mehr als sechzig Jahre nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs sind der "Verrat der Intellektuellen" (Julien Benda) und die Kollaboration in Frankreich sensible und hochaktuelle Themen. Vor diesem Hintergrund untersucht die Autorin ausgewählte, zu politisch signifikanten Zeitpunkten entstandene Werke französischer Kollaborationsschriftsteller... more...
Hyperboreans
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 44.95In Greek mythology, Hyperboreans were a tribe who lived far to Greece's north. Contained in what has come down to us of Greek literary tradition are texts that identify the Hyperboreans with the Celts, or Hyperborean lands with Celtic ones. This groundbreaking book studies the texts that make or imply this identification, and provides reasons why some... more...
Greek Mythography in the Roman World
Oxford University Press 2004; US$ 99.99This title illustrates the importance of semi-learned mythographic handbooks in the social, literary, and artistic world of Rome. One of the most intriguing features of these works is the fact that they all cite classical sources for the stories they tell, sources which are often forged. more...









