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A Commentary on Cicero, de natura deorum II

By Andrew R. Dyck
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Roman, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Michigan Classical Commentaries

First English commentary on Cicero’s examination of the gods in over fifty years
 

Specters of Cavafy

By Maria Boletsi
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Greek / Modern Intersections

Haunting the future through poetry

Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece

Kid pro quo?

By Gonda Van Steen
Subjects: American Studies, History, American History, European History, Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, European Literature

Reveals the history of how 3,000 Greek children were shipped to the United States for adoption in the postwar period

Our Ancient Wars

Rethinking War through the Classics

By Victor Caston & Silke-Maria Weineck
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies

Explores how classical Greek literature provides timeless insights into the complexities of wars both ancient and modern

Antisthenes of Athens

Texts, Translations, and Commentary

By Susan Prince
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Philosophy, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

Antisthenes’ Homeric criticism is examined in depth for the first time

Shipwrecked

Disaster and Transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the Modern World

By James Morrison
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, 19th Century Literature, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Media Studies, Cinema Studies

Four thousand years of shipwrecks in literature and film

Listening to Homer

Tradition, Narrative, and Audience

By Ruth Scodel
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, European Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

A discussion of how ancient Greek bards ensured that their poetry would reach audiences of various backgrounds

The Iliad

Translated by Rodney Merrill
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

A new translation of Homer's classic follows Merrill's successful earlier version of the Odyssey in capturing the feel of the original Greek

The Scroll and the Marble

Studies in Reading and Reception in Hellenistic Poetry

By Peter Bing
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

Seminal essays from one of the most prominent scholars of Hellenistic poetry

Homer and the Dual Model of the Tragic

By Yoav Rinon
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

A probing and much needed examination of "the tragic" as a concept distinct from tragedy as a genre

Theogony and Works and Days

Edited by Henry Michael Weinfield & Catherine McKee Schlegel
By Hesiod
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Classical Studies, Greek

A new verse-translation celebrating the poetry of Hesiod's great works, Theogony and Works and Days

The Myths of Fiction

Studies in the Canonical Greek Novels

By Edmund Cueva
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Foreign Language, Ancient Greek, Literary Studies, European Literature

A revolutionary account of the emergence of myth over history as the defining feature of the Greek novel

Death by Philosophy

The Biographical Tradition in the Life and Death of the Archaic Philosophers Empedocles, Heraclitus, and Democritus

By Ava Chitwood
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, European Literature, Philosophy

Brings to vivid life the connections between philosophy and biography by examining the spectacular—and often wildly implausible—biographies of famous pre-Socratic thinkers

Graceful Errors

Pindar and the Performance of Praise

By Hilary Mackie
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Theater and Performance

Reveals Pindar's competing motives without oversimplifying his work

The Narcissus and the Pomegranate

An Archaeology of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter

By Ann Suter
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, European Literature, Religion

Examines in detail the two myths in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter and the relation of the hymn to historic cult activities at Eleusis

The Odyssey

Translated by Rodney Merrill
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, European Literature

Translated into dactylic hexameter, this edition of the Odyssey recaptures the oral-formulaic experience as never before

Iliad, Book 1

Edited by Pamela Ann Draper
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Foreign Language, Ancient Greek, Literary Studies, European Literature

A user-friendly edition for the student reading Homer in the original Greek

Telling Wonders

Ethnographic and Political Discourse in the Work of Herodotus

By Rosaria Vignolo Munson
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, History, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

A sharp analysis of how Herodotus' narrative participates in the rhetoric of shaping public attitudes about the present

Early Greek Lyric Poetry

Translated by David Mulroy
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

New approach to translating the Greek lyric poets

The Heart of Achilles

Characterization and Personal Ethics in the Iliad

By Graham Zanker
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

Explores the moral choices and values Homer offers in his Iliad

Travelers to an Antique Land

The History and Literature of Travel to Greece

By Robert Eisner
Subjects: History, Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, European Literature

The Stranger's Welcome

Oral Theory and the Aesthetics of the Homeric Hospitality Scene

By Steve Reece
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

Poetics

By Aristotle
Translated by Gerald Else
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Philosophy
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

A work of transcendent importance, both for the history of literary criticism and in its own right

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