Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece

Claude Calame

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• In this groundbreaking work, Claude Calame argues that the songs sung by choruses of young girls in ancient Greek poetry are more than literary texts;... 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

Imagining Illegitimacy in Classical Greek Literature

Mary Ebbott

• Paperback | Engels | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• In Imagining Illegitimacy , Mary Ebbott investigates metaphors of illegitimacy in classical Greek literature, concentrating in particular on the way i... Lees meer

Recapturing Sophocles' Antigone

William Blake Tyrrell, Larry J Bennett

• Hardcover | 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

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

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

Eurykleia and Her Successors

Helen Pournara Karydas

• Paperback | Engels | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• In Greek literature from Homer to Euripides, the Nurse is a central figure of authority, but until now no one has attempted a systematic, comprehensiv... Lees meer

Homeric Stitchings

M D Usher

• Paperback | Engels | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• Homeric Stitchings is the first extended study of the Homeric Centos, a long pastiche poem on a biblical theme composed by the Theodosian Empress Eudo... Lees meer

The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition

Margaret Alexiou

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• Margaret Alexiou's The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition , first published in 1974, has long since been established as a classic in several fields. Thi... Lees meer

Greek Heroes in and out of Hades

Stamatia Dova

• Hardcover | 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

Aegean Strategies

• Hardcover | 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

Poet and Audience in the Argonautica of Apollonius

Robert V Albis

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• In this innovative study of the Argonautica , Robert Albis examines structural elements of the text that recreate phenomena associated with composers ... 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

Contextualizing Classics

• Hardcover | 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

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

Exile and the Poetics of Loss in Greek Tradition

Nancy Sultan

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• In Exile and the Poetics of Loss in Greek Tradition , Nancy Sultan examines the theme of heroic exile and return in Greek poetic tradition from the Ar... Lees meer

Homeric Stitchings

M D Usher

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• Homeric Stitchings is the first extended study of the Homeric Centos, a long pastiche poem on a biblical theme composed by the Theodosian Empress Eudo... 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

The Other Self

Dimitris Tziovas

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• The Other Self is the first English-language, book-length literary analysis of some of the most celebrated Greek novels of the nineteenth and twentiet... Lees meer

The Poetry of Homer

S E Bassett

• Paperback | Engels | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• S.E. Bassett's classic work The Poetry of Homer investigates the rhetorical techniques that enable the Iliad and the Odyssey speak to both ancient and... Lees meer

Allegory and the Tragic Chorus in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus

Roger Travis

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• In this book, Roger Travis brings together poetics and psychology to study the tragic chorus in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus. Beginning from Quintili... Lees meer

The Blinded Eye

Gregory Crane

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• Thucydides, the patron saint of Realpolitik, continues to be read in many fields outside of classics. Why did his History succeed in setting the patte... 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