The Purpled World

Morris Silver

• Paperback | Engels | Hellenic Studies
• During the Aegean Bronze Age (ca. 3000-1500 BCE), the spread of woolen textiles triggered an increased demand for color. The dyes included those made ... Lees meer

The Oral Palimpsest

Christos Tsagalis

• Paperback | Engels | Hellenic Studies | nr. 29
• Oral intertextuality is an innate feature of the web of myth, whose interrelated fabrics allow the audience of epic song to have access to an entire h... Lees meer

The Politics of Ethnicity and the Crisis of the Peloponnesian League

• Paperback | Engels | Hellenic Studies | nr. 32
• The crisis of Spartan power in the first half of the fourth century has been connected to Spartan inability to manage the hegemony built on the ruins ... Lees meer

Pindar's Verbal Art

James Bradley Wells

• Paperback | Engels | Hellenic Studies | nr. 40
• In Pindar's Verbal Art , James Bradley Wells argues that the victory song is a traditional art form that appealed to a popular audience and served exc... Lees meer

Achilles Unbound

Casey Dué

• Paperback | Engels | Hellenic Studies | nr. 81
• Though Achilles the character is bound by fate and by narrative tradition, Achilles's poem, the Iliad , was never fixed and monolithic in antiquity--i... Lees meer

Sappho in the Making

Dimitrios Yatromanolakis

• Paperback | Engels | Hellenic Studies | nr. 28
• This book offers the first interdisciplinary and in-depth study of the cultural practices and ideological paradigms that conditioned the politics of t... Lees meer

Plato's Symposium

• Paperback | Engels | Hellenic Studies | nr. 22
• In his Symposium , Plato crafted a set of speeches in praise of love that has influenced writers and artists from antiquity to the present. Early Chri... Lees meer

The Aethiopis

Malcolm Davies

• Paperback | Engels | Hellenic Studies | nr. 71
• It may seem odd to devote an entire book, however short, to a lost epic of which hardly any fragments (as normally defined) survive. The existence of ... Lees meer

The Culture of Kitharoidia

Timothy Power

• Paperback | Engels | Hellenic Studies | nr. 15
• Kitharoidia was arguably the most popular, most geographically widespread, and longest-running performance genre in antiquity. From the archaic period... Lees meer

The Theory and Practice of Life

Tarik Wareh

• Paperback | Engels | Hellenic Studies | nr. 54
• The Theory and Practice of Life is a study of the literary culture within which the works, schools, and careers of Plato, Aristotle, and contemporary ... Lees meer

Lovers of the Soul, Lovers of the Body

• Paperback | Engels | Hellenic Studies | nr. 88
• The relationship between the soul and the body was a point of contentious debate among philosophers and theologians in late antiquity. Modern scholars... Lees meer

A Monument More Lasting Than Bronze

Paul McKechnie, Steve Nyamilandu, Samson Kambalu

• Paperback | Engels | Hellenic Studies
• Formed in 1964, the year of independence, the University of Malawi promised more than the distant University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland--founde... Lees meer

Loving Humanity, Learning, and Being Honored

Norman B Sandridge

• Paperback | Engels | Hellenic Studies | nr. 55
• Xenophon is generally thought to have done his best theorizing on leadership through his portrayal of Cyrus the Great, the first king of the Persian E... Lees meer

The Epic Rhapsode and His Craft

José M González

• Paperback | Engels | Hellenic Studies | nr. 47
• The Epic Rhapsode and His Craft studies Homeric performance from archaic to Roman imperial times. It argues that oracular utterance, dramatic acting, ... Lees meer

Iliad 10 and the Poetics of Ambush

Casey Dué, Mary Ebbott

• Paperback | Engels | Hellenic Studies | nr. 39
• This edition, commentary, and accompanying essays focus on the tenth book of the Iliad , which has been doubted, ignored, and even scorned. Casey Dué ... Lees meer

Love in the Age of War

Wilfred E Major

• Paperback | Engels | Hellenic Studies
• Love in the Age of War explores soldier characters in Menander's situation comedies, the oldest of their kind. Menander came to dominate and define co... Lees meer

The Iliad and the Oral Epic Tradition

Karol Zieliński

• Paperback | Engels | Hellenic Studies
• The Iliad reveals a traditional oral poetic style, but many researchers believe that the poem cannot be treated as solely a product of oral tradition.... Lees meer

The Power of Thetis and Selected Essays

Laura M Slatkin

• Paperback | Engels | Hellenic Studies | nr. 16
• Laura Slatkin's influential and widely admired book, here published in a second edition together with six additional essays, explores the superficiall... Lees meer

Paradise Earned

Yannis Tzifopoulos

• Paperback | Engels | Hellenic Studies | nr. 23
• This is a study of the twelve small gold lamellae from Crete that were tokens for entrance into a golden afterlife: the deceased who were buried or cr... Lees meer

The Web of Athenaeus

Christian Jacob

• Paperback | Engels | Hellenic Studies | nr. 61
• In The Web of Athenaeus , Christian Jacob produces a completely fresh and unique reading of Athenaeus's Sophists at Dinner (ca. 200 CE). Jacob provide... Lees meer

Demetrios of Scepsis and His Troikos Diakosmos

Alexandra Trachsel

• Paperback | Engels | Hellenic Studies | nr. 85
• Ancient scholarship had many faces, but most have faded away over time. Demetrios of Scepsis is one of the more shadowy of these lost figures, best kn... Lees meer

Poetic and Performative Memory in Ancient Greece

Claude Calame

• Paperback | Engels | Hellenic Studies | nr. 18
• Philosophers have often reflected on the Ancient Greeks' concepts of time, but an anthropological approach is necessary to understand their practical ... Lees meer

Plato's Counterfeit Sophists

Håkan Tell

• Paperback | Engels | Hellenic Studies | nr. 44
• This book explores the place of the sophists within the Greek wisdom tradition, and argues against their almost universal exclusion from serious intel... Lees meer

Genos Dikanikon

Victor Bers

• Paperback | Engels | Hellenic Studies | nr. 33
• Under the Athenian democracy, litigants were expected to speak for themselves, though they could memorize a speech written for them. The texts of abou... Lees meer