Saffron-Robed Monks and Long-Haired Gurus have become familiar characters on the American popular culture scene. Jane Iwamura examines the contemporary fasination with Eastern spirituality and provide
Archestratos of Gela's Life of Luxury is a fundamental source for our understanding not only of fourth-century literature but also of the significance of food and dining, and the reception of epic poe
The fragments of Matro of Pitane (c. 300 BC) offer insights not only into the largely forgotten and obscure late-classical genre of epic parody, but also into 4th-century Athenian history, the role of
