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  • World Without Secretsby Richard Hunter

    Wiley 2002; US$ 50.00

    The 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 Womenby Richard Hunter

    Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 42.00

    The 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"by Richard Hunter

    Oxford University Press 2004; US$ 24.99

    Plato'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 Callimachusby Richard Hunter

    Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 29.00

    Examines 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 Afterby Richard Hunter

    De Gruyter 2008; US$ 238.00

    This 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 Literatureby Richard Hunter

    Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 86.00

    A 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 Poetryby Richard Hunter

    Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 42.00

    This book focuses on the hymns, mimes and erotic poems of the Greek poet Theocritus. more...

  • Plato and the Traditions of Ancient Literatureby Richard Hunter

    Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 79.00

    Plato 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)by Richard Hunter

    OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 8.99

    The 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 Philadelphusby Theocritus; Richard Hunter; Richard Hunter

    University of California Press 2003; US$ 60.00

    Under 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...