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World Without Secrets
Wiley 2002; US$ 50.00The future of computing-the future of business Rapid technological innovation is moving us towards a world of ubiquitous computing-a world in which we are surrounded by smart machines that are always on, always aware, and always monitoring us. These developments will create a world virtually without secrets in which information is widely available... more...
The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 42.00The Catalogue of Women, ascribed to Hesiod, maps the Greek world and its heroic myths through the mortal women who bore children to the gods. In this collection leading scholars offer the first exploration of the meaning, significance, and reception of this fascinating and highly influential poem. more...
Plato's "Symposium"
Oxford University Press 2004; US$ 24.99Plato's Symposium tells of a dinner party at a crucial point in Athenian history at which the guests decide that they will each in turn deliver a speech in praise of love. The humourous and brilliant work that follows points the way towards all Western thinking about love. The Symposium is also one of Plato's most sophisticated meditations on the practice... more...
The Shadow of Callimachus
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 29.00Examines the Roman reaction to, and adoption of, the Greek poetry of the last three pre-Christian centuries. The critical readings offered embrace not just the central figures of Callimachus, Theocritus and Apollonius of Rhodes but the full scope of what remains of Hellenistic poetry. more...
On Coming After
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 238.00This work gathers together the principal essays of Richard Hunter, whose work has been fundamental in the modern re-evaluation of Greek literature after Alexander and its reception at Rome and elsewhere. At the heart of Hunter?s work lies the high poetry of Ptolemaic Alexandria and the narrative literature of later antiquity (?the ancient novel?),... 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...
Theocritus and the Archaeology of Greek Poetry
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 42.00This book focuses on the hymns, mimes and erotic poems of the Greek poet Theocritus. more...
Plato and the Traditions of Ancient Literature
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 79.00Plato is one of the central figures of the Greek literary heritage. This book explores that heritage in antiquity. more...
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 8.99The Argonautica is the dramatic story of Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece and his relations with the dangerous Colchian princess, Medea. The only extant Greek epic poem to bridge the gap between Homer and late antiquity, it is a major product of the brilliant world of the Ptolemaic court at Alexandria, written by Apollonius of Rhodes in the... more...
Encomium of Ptolemy Philadelphus
University of California Press 2003; US$ 60.00Under Ptolemy II Philadelphus, who ruled Egypt in the middle of the third century B.C.E., Alexandria became the brilliant multicultural capital of the Greek world. Theocritus's poem in praise of Philadelphus?at once a Greek king and an Egyptian pharaoh?is the only extended poetic tribute to this extraordinary ruler that survives. Combining the Greek... more...









