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  • The Elements of New Testament Greekby Jeremy Duff; David Wenham

    Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 26.00

    A step-by-step guide to learning New Testament Greek which assumes no prior knowledge of the language. Hundreds of examples cover every book of the New Testament and there is a passage to translate in almost every chapter. Jeremy Duff brings a century-old tradition of Cambridge learning to a new generation. more...

  • Slavery and the Roman Literary Imaginationby William Fitzgerald; Denis Feeney; Stephen Hinds

    Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 27.00

    This book deals with the ways in which the Roman literary imagination explored the phenomenon of slavery. It discusses the ideological relation of Roman literature to the institution of slavery, and the ways in which slavery provided a metaphor for other relationships and experiences, and in particular for literature itself. more...

  • The Essential Metamorphosesby Ovid; Stanley Lombardo; W. R. Johnson

    Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2011; US$ 7.95

    The Essential Metamorphoses , Stanley Lombardo's abridgment of his translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, preserves the epic frame of the poem as a whole while offering the best-known tales in a rendering remarkable for its clarity, wit, and vigor. While making no pretense of offering an experience comparable to that of reading the whole of Ovid's self-styled history "from the world's first origins down to my own time," this practical and judicious selection of myths at the heart of Roman mythology and literature yet manages to relate many of the most fascinating episodes in that world—historical march toward the Age of Augustus—and is accompanied by an Introduction that deftly sets them in their... more...

  • Compromising Traditionsby Judith P. Hallett; Thomas Van Nortwick

    Routledge 1996; US$ 42.95

    Compromising Traditions: The Personal Voice in Classical Scholarship is the first collection of theoretically informed autobiographical writing in the field of classical studies. more...

  • Demosthenesby Ian Worthington

    Routledge 2000; US$ 44.95

    Demosthenes is still quoted in speeches by modern politicians, and is often viewed as the supreme example of the patriot. This book examines why his speeches came to be regarded so highly and asks whether his reputation is justified. more...

  • Persuasionby Ian Worthington

    Routledge 1994; US$ 44.95

    An exciting and accessible introduction to rhetoric and oratory in ancient Greece. All Greek and Latin is translated. more...

  • Plato and the English Romanticsby E. Douka Kabitoglou

    Routledge 1990; US$ 125.00

    Tackles the problematic relationship between Platonic philosophy and Romantic poetry, between the intellect (Apollo) and the emotions (Dionysus). It concentrates on the daemonic `mania' which the author sees as originating both. more...

  • Plutarch and the Historical Traditionby Philip A. Stadter

    Routledge 1992; US$ 135.00

    These essays offer diverse perspectives on the biographical techniques and appropriation of sources for the use and reshaping of historical tradition by one of the most prominent philosophers and biographers of the ancient world. more...

  • Dangerous Voicesby Gail Holst-Warhaft

    Routledge 1995; US$ 47.95

    Holst-Warhaft investigates the power and meaning of the Greek lament, especially women's mourning of the dead, in Antiquity as well as in modern times. more...

  • Roman Epicby Anthony J. Boyle

    Routledge 1996; US$ 125.00

    Distinguished Latinists examine the formation and evolution of Roman epic from its beginnings in the third century BC to the high Italian Renaissance. more...