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Actors and Icons of the Ancient Theater
Wiley 2010; US$ 134.95Actors and Icons of the Ancient Theater examines actors and their popular reception from the origins of theater in Classical Greece to the Roman Empire Presents a highly original viewpoint into several new and contested fields of study Offers the first systematic survey of evidence for the spread of theater outside Athens and the impact of the expansion... more...
Aesopic Conversations
Princeton University Press 2010; US$ 37.50Examining the figure of Aesop and the traditions surrounding him, Aesopic Conversations offers a portrait of what Greek popular culture might have looked like in the ancient world. What has survived from the literary record of antiquity is almost entirely the product of an elite of birth, wealth, and education, limiting our access to a fuller range... more...
Allusion, Authority, and Truth
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 168.00The past few decades have seen the development of new critical methods with which the poetic and rhetorical dimensions of ancient Greek texts can be evaluated. In this volume, an international group of distinguished scholars comes together to examine how a wide range of ancient texts in different genres were able to assert their authority and claims... more...
Antike als Inszenierung
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 147.00The third Bruno Snell-Symposium presents interdisciplinary contributions that place Antiquity in a modern framework. The central theme is performance. This involves presenting the Ancient World in a number of different historical and cultural contexts and presentational media beyond the environment of the stage. The starting point for the ten papers... more...
Antike und moderne Tragödie
De Gruyter 1962; US$ 133.00Antike Und Moderne Tragoedie: Neun Abhandlungen. 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...
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...
The Attic Orators
Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 59.99A collection of fourteen essays by influential scholars on the `Attic Orators', the ten or so speechwriters who developed rhetoric in democratic Athens from c.420 to c.320 BC. All Greek quotations have been translated. - ;The `Attic Orators' have left us a hundred speeches for lawsuits, a body of work that reveals an important connection between... more...
Authors of Greece
Andrews UK 2012; US$ 2.99A fantastic look at the great Ancient Greek authors. Covers Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato and Demosthenes. more...
Bad Women, Mad Women
Narr Francke Attempto 2011; US$ 106.53Hauptbeschreibung Das deviante weibliche Verhalten in der griechischen Tragödie wird in zwei Gruppen von Frauen gefasst, nämlich in Frauen, die von ihrer Gender-Rolle sich entfernen (s. aischyleische Klytaimestra, euripideische Medea) und dabei männliche Verhaltensräume usurpieren, und Frauen, die ihre weibliche Rolle übertrieben ausleben (s. sophokleische... more...









