The Usable Past

• Paperback | 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

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

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• 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

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

Greek Heroes in and Out of Hades

Stamatia Dova

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• Greek Heroes in and out of Hades is a study on heroism and mortality from Homer to Plato. In a collection of thirty enjoyable essays, Stamatia Dova co... Lees meer

Metrical Constraint and the Interpretation of Style in the Tragic Trimeter

Nicholas Baechle

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• Metrical Constraint and the Interpretation of Style in the Tragic Trimeter is an interpretation of the choices the Greek tragedians made in regard to ... Lees meer

Diachronic Dialogues

Ahuvia Kahane

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• In Diachronic Dialogues: Authority and Continuity in Homer and the Homeric Tradition author Ahuvia Kahane considers central aspects of Homer's poetry,... Lees meer

Belted Heroes and Bound Women

Michael J Bennett

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• This clearly written, beautifully illustrated book introduces a previously unrecognized Homeric theme, the "belted hero," and argues for its lasting h... Lees meer

Strange Instances of Time and Space in the Odyssey

Menelaos Christopoulos

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• Strange Instances of Time and Space in the Odyssey explores several aspects of the Homeric Odyssey , focusing on the complex relationship between time... Lees meer

The Song of the Sirens and Other Essays

Pietro Pucci

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

Tragedy of the Athenian Ideal in Thucydides and Plato

John T Hogan

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• This book shows how Plato's Statesman and Thucydides' presentation of the moral collapse in Athenian political discourse reveal many points of agreeme... Lees meer

Lyric Quotation in Plato

Marian Demos

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• In this book, Marian Demos demonstrates the significance of three famous lyric quotations within their respective contexts in the dialogues of Plato. ... Lees meer

Theatrical Space and Historical Place in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus

Lowell Edmunds

• Hardcover | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• Lowell Edmunds combines two readings of the "Oedipus at Colonus" to arrive at a fresh way of looking at Greek tragedy. He sets forth a semiotic theory... Lees meer

Imagining Illegitimacy in Classical Greek Literature

Mary Ebbott

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• An investigation of the metaphors of illegitimacy in classical Greek literature, concentrating in particular on the way in which the illegitimate chil... 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 | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• A radical re-examination of the relationship between Greek tragedy and religion. Based on a reconstruction of the context in which tragedy was generat... 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

Homeric Variations on Lament by Briseis

Casey Due

• Hardcover | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• An examination of the figure of Briseis, Achilles' concubine in the "Iliad", as an example of the traditional artistry enabled by the oral poetic syst... Lees meer

Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion

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• 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

Becoming Achilles

Richard Kerr Holway

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• Viewing the Iliad and myth through the lens of modern psychology, in Becoming Achilles: Child-Sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the Iliad and Beyond, Ric... Lees meer

Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece

Claude Calame

• Paperback | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• This work argues that the songs sung by choruses of young girls in ancient Greek poetry functioned as initiatory rituals in Greek cult practices. Usin... Lees meer

Choral Identity and the Chorus of Elders in Greek Tragedy

U S Dhuga

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• Debate concerning the extent to which the tragic chorus is marginal to the dramatic action has prevailed in discussions of choral identity and, more b... Lees meer