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This 1983 book provides a serious modern literary treatment of perhaps the best known of all surviving works of ancient Greek fiction. Dr Hunter demonstrates the... Læs mere
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Callimachus was one of the most influential writers in the ancient world and had a profound effect on the subsequent course of Greek and Roman literature.... Læs mere
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Covering the beginnings of critical consciousness in Greece and proceeding to the writings of Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle, and... Læs mere
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A commentary on the six surviving speeches of the fifth-century BC orator Antiphon.
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This collection of poems, once thought to be the work of the archaic Greek poet Anacreon, was considered unworthy of attention when... Læs mere
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This pioneering work explores how legal disputes were settled out of court in fourth-century BC Athens and second-century BC Rome.
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These delightful narrative poems tell of Apollo's birth and foundation of the Delphic oracle, Hermes' invention of the lyre and theft of Apollo's... Læs mere
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The book offers an interpretation of Euripides' The Trojan Women which issues from the argument that the function of Greek tragedy was to educate.
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The Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates provides an interpretation of an important, but largely neglected and disregarded, fourth-century Athenian... Læs mere
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Throughout antiquity Menander was the third most popular poet in the Greek-speaking world, and his plays, through Roman imitations and adaptations, engendered a... Læs mere
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In this book, Peter Ahrensdorf examines Sophocles' powerful analysis of a central question of political philosophy and a perennial question of political life: should citizens and leaders govern political society by the light of unaided human reason or religious faith?
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This book shows that Xenophon's Oeconomicus, Varro's De Re Rustica and Virgil's Georgics are not simply works on farming but in fact belong to a tradition of philosophical satire which uses allegory and irony to question the meaning of morality and the right way to live.