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Orpheus
Random House 2011; US$ 20.01For at least two and a half millennia, the figure of Orpheus has haunted humanity. Half-man, half-god, musician, magician, theologian, poet and lover, his story never leaves us. He may be myth, but his lyre still sounds, entrancing everything that hears it: animals, trees, water, stones, and men. In this extraordinary work Ann Wroe goes in search... more...
Anthology of Classical Myth
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2009; US$ 17.50This volume is designed as a companion to the standard undergraduate mythology textbooks or, when assigned alongside the central Greek and Roman works, as a source-based alternative to those textbooks. more...
Irony and Misreading in the Annals of Tacitus
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 42.00This book is a literary analysis of the language and style of Tacitus' Annals. The political context of first-second century AD Rome is also taken into consideration. Issues relating to the study of narrative, Roman politics and theories of history are addressed in the course of the discussion. more...
The Swerve
Random House 2011; US$ 14.67WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION Almost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man took a very old manuscript off a library shelf. With excitement, he saw what he had discovered and ordered it copied. The book was a miraculously surviving copy of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of Things by Lucretius and it changed... more...
Euripides, "Hekabe"
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 210.00In medieval Byzantium Hecabe was Euripides? most popular tragedy, so that it is this play for which we have the most manuscripts. Although this means that the production of a critical editionto satisfymodern criteria is particularly difficult, such an edition can now be presented. It comprises a revised text, a collection of testimonials, an extensive... more...
CliffsNotes On Aristotle's Ethics
John Wiley & Sons 2004; US$ 5.99The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. People have not changed significantly in the many years since Aristotle first lectured on ethics at the Lyceum in Athens . The human types and problems covered in CliffsNotes on Aristotle’s Ethics... more...
Seleukeia
De Gruyter 2014; US$ 182.00Dedicated to Getzel M. Cohen, one of the world?s leading experts in Hellenistic and above all Seleucid history, this volume gathers contributions from more than 40 authors addressing a wide range of topics in Seleucid history, archaeology, and numismatics, including the royal house, relations with the Roman Republic and other Hellenistic kingdoms,... more...
Literatur der Antike und Philologie der Neuzeit
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 182.00This collection of papers contains some 60 articles selected from the works of the philologist Ernst Vogt. They dealwith a variety of very different aspects of the study of ancient languages, for example the history of literary forms and genres, Greek literature of the Hellenistic and Roman imperial periods, the history of transmission and reception,... more...
Scholia Graeca in Thucydidem
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 280.00The scholia to Thucydides, which are marginalia found in Medieval Greek manuscripts, provide us with the remainders of valuable ancient and Byzantine commentaries on the verbal and textual difficulties presented by Thucydides?s complex texts. The last edition of these scholia appeared in 1927, and this publication fails to live up to important contemporary... more...









