Ancient Greek Lyrics collects Willis Barnstone's elegant translations of Greek lyric poetry -- including the most complete Sappho in English, newly translated. This volume includes a representative s
Scholars of the poetry of Hesiod will appreciate this companion book to his writing, which covers the state of research today as well as reviewing ancient reception of Hesiod. Montanari (ancient Greek
This new, fully-annotated translation by a leading expert on Hesiodic poems combines accuracy with readability and includes an introduction and explanatory notes on these two works by one of the oldes
Adrian Hollis's second edition of Callimachus' Hecale includes an English translation of the original Greek text. Twenty years after the first edition appeared in 1990, close study of the Byzantine po
Poetry. Translated from the Greek by George Economou. ANANIOS OF KLEITOR introduces to the revolving stage of world literature the work of an ancient Greek poet largely unknown and hitherto unread out
Through a balanced discussion of poetry as performance, relevant kinds and genres of poetry, the definition and scope of "woman's song" as a mode, partheneia (maidens' songs) and the girls'
Increasing importance is being attached to how Greek and Latin books of poems were arranged, but such research has often been carried out with little attention to the physical fragments of actual anci
There are several good histories of Greek literature of various shapes and sizes, but the purpose of this book is not simply to consider the literature of ancient Greece as an isolated subject, treati
The personal may have been the political a lot longer than we thought. Vickers (archaeology, U. of Oxford, etc.) argues that generations of literary historians who assumed Sophocles wrote in a vacuum
This study of the language of insult charts abuse in classical Athenian literature that centres on the mouth and its appetites, especially talking, eating, drinking, and sexual activities. Attic comedy, Platonic dialogue, and fourth-century oratory often deploy insulting depictions of the mouth and its excesses in order to deride professional speakers as sophists, demagogues, and women. Although the patterns of imagery explored are very prominent in ancient invective and later western literary traditions, this is the first book to discuss this phenomenon in classical literature. It responds to a growing interest in both abusive speech genres and the representation of the body, illuminating an iambic discourse that isolates the intemperate mouth as a visible emblem of behaviours ridiculed in the democratic arenas of classical Athens.
John Geometer was an eleventh-century Byzantine writer whose work included essays and both secular and profane poetry. Although he ended life as a monk his earlier years were spent at the imperial cou
First published in the 1970s, this was a pioneering work in applying modern literary-critical conventions and terminology to further the comprehension of difficult passages in classical texts. Cairns
Philosophers have often reflected on the Ancient Greeks' concepts of time, but an anthropological approach is necessary to understand their practical concept of time as tied to space. The Greeks not o
Francis M. Dunn's Present Shock in Late Fifth-Century Greece examines the widespread social and cultural disorientation experienced by Athenians in a period that witnessed the revolution of 411 B.C.E
Epaphroditus was a Greek teacher and grammarian and slave of rich Romans during the era of Nero. German classicist Braswell and Billerbeck (Greek and Latin languages and literature, U. of Fribourg, Sw
Martin West is widely recognized as one of the most significant classicists of all time. Over nearly half a century his publications have transformed our understanding of Greek poetry. This volume cel
He worked in so many genres you may suspect he was a compulsive writer. Then you read one of his 150 or so fragments and understand why Ion is the denizen of many a footnote and the target of constant
