Aegean Strategies

• Paperback | Engels | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• With a long, detailed historical record, a large corpus of archaeological data, and, more recently, a number of sophisticated analyses of current and ... Lees meer

An Archaeology of Ancestors

Carla M Antonaccio

• Paperback | Engels | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• In this fresh consideration of the origins of the ancient Greeks' ideas and practices concerning their own past, Carla M. Antonaccio demonstrates that... Lees meer

Metrical Constraint and the Interpretation of Style in the Tragic Trimeter

Nicholas Baechle

• Paperback | Engels | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• This study is an interpretation of the choices the tragedians made in regard to certain forms of standardized variations in word order and prosody. Th... Lees meer

Greek Heroes in and out of Hades

Stamatia Dova

• Paperback | Engels | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• Greek Heroes in and out of Hades is a study on heroism and mortality from Homer to Plato. Through systematic readings of a wide range of ancient Greek... Lees meer

Black Ships and Sea Raiders

Jeffrey P Emanuel

• Paperback | Engels | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• This book investigates the chaotic end of the Bronze Age in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean through the lens of Homeric poetry, with an emphasis ... Lees meer

Diachronic Dialogues

Ahuvia Kahane

• Paperback | Engels | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• Diachronic Dialogues considers central aspects of Homer's poetry, such as truth, knowledge, gender, virtue and the heroic code, authorship, memory and... Lees meer

Out of Line

Matthew Clark

• Paperback | Engels | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• Building upon the groundbreaking work of Milman Parry and Albert Lord, Out of Line presents a new theory of Homeric composition, focusing upon pattern... Lees meer

Strange Instances of Time and Space in the Odyssey

Menelaos Christopoulos

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• Menelaos Christopoulos offers a detailed, original, and thought-provoking analysis of the major thematic questions raised by the Homeric Odyssey . The... Lees meer

Belted Heroes and Bound Women

Michael J Bennett

• Paperback | Engels | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• This clearly written, beautifully illustrated book introduces a previously unrecognized Homeric theme, the 'belted hero, ' and argues for its lasting ... Lees meer

The Song of the Sirens and Other Essays

Pietro Pucci

• Paperback | Engels | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• In this collection of his essays on Homer, some new and some appearing for the first time in English, the distinguished scholar Pietro Pucci examines ... Lees meer

Contextualizing Classics

• Paperback | Engels | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• This collection of original essays examines innovations in both the theory and practice of classical philology. The chapters address interdisciplinary... Lees meer

Recapturing Sophocles' Antigone

William Blake Tyrrell, Larry J Bennett

• Paperback | Engels | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• In this book, Wm. Blake Tyrrell and Larry J. Bennett examine Sophocles' Antigone in the context of its setting in fifth-century Athens. The authors at... Lees meer

Theatrical Space and Historical Place in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus

Lowell Edmunds

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• While Greek tragedies are often studied as works of literature, they are less frequently examined as products of the social and political environment ... Lees meer

Greek Modernism and Beyond

Dimitris Tziovas

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• Although it is one of the most dynamic and controversial areas of Greek culture, Greek modernism has received little scholarly attention as a literary... Lees meer

Lyric Quotation in Plato

Marian Demos

• Paperback | Engels | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• In this book, Marian Demos demonstrates the significance of three famous lyric quotations within their respective contexts in the dialogues of Plato. ... Lees meer

Imagining Illegitimacy in Classical Greek Literature

Mary Ebbott

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• In Imagining Illegitimacy , Mary Ebbott investigates metaphors of illegitimacy in classical Greek literature, concentrating in particular on the way i... Lees meer

The Usable Past

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• In this volume, K.S. Brown and Yannis Hamilakis bring together scholars of history, archaeology, and anthropology to explore the located and contextua... Lees meer

Immortal Armor

Derek Collins

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• Although military concepts in Homeric poetry have been studied since Alexandrian times, there has not been until now an extended study of the concept ... Lees meer

Tragedy and Athenian Religion

Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• Stemming from Harvard University's Carl Newell Jackson Lectures, Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood's Tragedy and Athenian Religion sets out a radical reexam... Lees meer

Immortal Armor

Derek Collins

• Paperback | Engels | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• Although military concepts in Homeric poetry have been studied since Alexandrian times, there has not been until now an extended study of the concept ... Lees meer

Out of Line

Matthew Clark

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• Building upon the groundbreaking work of Milman Parry and Albert Lord, Out of Line presents a new theory of Homeric composition, focusing upon pattern... Lees meer

Becoming Achilles

Richard Kerr Holway

• Paperback | Engels | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• Viewing the Iliad and myth through the lens of modern psychology, Richard Holway exposes sacrificial childrearing practices at the root of competitive... Lees meer

Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion is a ground-breaking volume dedicated to a thorough examination of the well known empirical cate... Lees meer

Homeric Variations on Lament by Briseis

Casey Dué

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• Casey Dué examines the figure of Briseis, the concubine of Achilles in the Iliad , as an example of the traditional artistry enabled by a complex and ... Lees meer