The Invention of Prose

Simon Goldhill

• Paperback | Engels | New Surveys in the Classics | nr. 32
• This is the first general study of the earliest writers of Greek prose for students and teachers alike. Looking at history, medicine, science, philoso... Lees meer

Plutarch: Volume 47

Geert Roskam

• Paperback | Engels | New Surveys in the Classics | nr. 47
• Plutarch of Chaeronea is one of the most influential and fascinating authors of antiquity. His Parallel Lives and Moralia are storehouses of challengi... Lees meer

Roman Oratory

Catherine Steel

• Paperback | Engels | New Surveys in the Classics | nr. 36
• Recent scholarship has emphasised that ancient oratory was primarily a performance art. At Rome during the Republican period, public speaking was one ... Lees meer

Greek Religion: Volume 46

Jan N Bremmer

• Paperback | Engels | New Surveys in the Classics | nr. 46
• This brief but highly informative book presents an outline of Greek religion in the classical period. After surveying its main characteristics, it off... Lees meer

Greek Art

Brian Sparkes

• Paperback | Engels | New Surveys in the Classics | nr. 40
• This survey, which centres mainly on Greek sculpture and vase-painting from 600 to 300 BC, examines research over the past twenty years. Organised chr... Lees meer

Virgil

Philip Hardie

• Paperback | Engels | New Surveys in the Classics | nr. 28
• In this volume Philip Hardie provides an introduction to Virgil's three major works, a survey of changing critical approaches to the poems during the ... Lees meer

Sophocles

P J Finglass

• Paperback | Engels | New Surveys in the Classics | nr. 44
• Produced in Athens during the fifth century BC, the tragedies of Sophocles are a high point in world literature, vividly depicting unforgettable chara... Lees meer

The Second Sophistic

Timothy Whitmarsh

• Paperback | Engels | New Surveys in the Classics | nr. 35
• The 'Second Sophistic' is arguably the fastest-growing area in contemporary classical scholarship. This short, accessible account explores the various... Lees meer

Homer

Richard Rutherford

• Paperback | Engels | New Surveys in the Classics | nr. 41
• This is a revised and updated version of the survey on Homer which the author originally published in 1996. It provides a wide variety of readers with... Lees meer

Greek Historians

John Marincola

• Paperback | Engels | New Surveys in the Classics | nr. 31
• This survey of recent work on Herodotus, Thucydides, and Polybius focuses on new developments in the study of Greek historiography and synthesises som... Lees meer

Greek Science

T E Rihll

• Paperback | Engels | New Surveys in the Classics | nr. 29
• Greek Science, first published in 1999, is written for scientists, classicists, historians of science, and anyone with an interest in the beginnings o... Lees meer

The Sophists

Mauro Bonazzi

• Paperback | Engels | New Surveys in the Classics | nr. 45
• From Socrates and Plato onwards, the Sophists were often targeted by the authoritative philosophical tradition as being mere charlatans and poor teach... Lees meer

Latin Historians

C S Kraus, A J Woodman

• Paperback | Engels | New Surveys in the Classics | nr. 27
• In recent decades there has been a complete revolution in the way we read the historians of Greece and Rome. Their works have been shown to be quite d... Lees meer

Early Greek Hexameter Poetry

• Paperback | Engels | New Surveys in the Classics | nr. 43
• This is the first book to give an introduction to all genres of early Greek hexameter poetry; not only heroic legend and the origins of the gods, but ... Lees meer

Horace

S J Harrison

• Paperback | Engels | New Surveys in the Classics | nr. 42
• This book sets out to give a full and authoritative survey of the scholarly literature on the Roman poet Horace (65-8 BC), a central figure in Latin l... Lees meer

Epigram

Niall Livingstone, Gideon Nisbet

• Paperback | Engels | New Surveys in the Classics | nr. 38
• This is an introduction to the ancient genre of epigram, short poems literally written or inscribed 'on' an object or figuratively 'on' a topic. The a... Lees meer

Roman Religion

J A North

• Paperback | Engels | New Surveys in the Classics | nr. 30
• The last forty years have brought about a transformation in the understanding of pagan Roman religion, rescuing it from the margins of the discipline ... Lees meer

Reception Studies

Lorna Hardwick

• Paperback | Engels | New Surveys in the Classics | nr. 33
• The texts, images and events of the ancient world have been used both as sources of authority and exploitation in politics, culture and society and as... Lees meer

Roman Landscape

Diana Spencer

• Paperback | Engels | New Surveys in the Classics | nr. 39
• This book tackles how and why 'landscape' (farms, gardens, countryside) set the scene in the first centuries BCE and CE for Romans keen to talk up and... Lees meer

Comedy

N J Lowe

• Paperback | Engels | New Surveys in the Classics | nr. 37
• Comedy is the classical world's most resilient and durable theatrical tradition. This volume offers a concise, accessible guide to the study of Greek ... Lees meer

Greek Thought

Christopher Gill

• Paperback | Engels | New Surveys in the Classics | nr. 25
• Four related themes in Greek thought are examined in this book: (1) personality and self, (2) ethics and values (3) individuals and communities, and (... Lees meer