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This book is a systematic study of the importance of Greek tragedy as a fundamental 'intertext' for Vergil's Aeneid. Vassiliki Panoussi... Læs mere
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This highly innovative and accessible study by one of the world's leading Homeric scholars applies research in cognitive psychology and visual... Læs mere
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Working from the example of the mythic prophet Cassandra, this book uses insights from translation theory to uncover the value of... Læs mere
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A detailed study of how Aristophanes manipulates traditional narratives of important religious... Læs mere
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Boiotia was - next to Athens and Sparta - one of the most important regions of ancient Greece. Albert Schachter, a leading expert on the region, has for many decades... Læs mere
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Athenian comedy was written for performance in competitions at religious festivals. This book applies traditional philological techniques to five of... Læs mere
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Examines the relationship of Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica with Herodotus' Histories. Argues that it uses Herodotean historiography as a key intertext... Læs mere
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For over two millennia, the "Cyropaedia", an imaginative biography of the Persian king Cyrus the Great, was Xenophon's most popular work. This study examines the work, demonstrating its overall coherence and unity and focusing, in particular, on the notoriously difficult ending.
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This text demonstrates how Thucydides' "History of the Peloponnesian War" analyzes both the power and the dramatic weaknesses of... Læs mere
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The Attic orators often filled their speeches with charges of conspiracy involving almost every facet of Athenian life. This work examines the range and nature of the conspiracy charges. It considers their rhetorical, cultural, and psychological significance.
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Combining several critical approaches this study develops a synthetic view of the messenger in Greek tragedy, showing how this role illuminates... Læs mere
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A study traces the tendentiousness of Greek representations by introducing comparative Egyptian material, thus interrogating the Greek texts and authors from a cross-cultural perspective.