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In this volume an international team of experts discusses the Iliad and the Odyssey, their background and composition and, most originally, their subsequent reception... Læs mere
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This Dictionary provides students, pastors, and others with a convenient and useful source of word meanings and English glosses for the entire vocabulary of... Læs mere
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This study examines how one of the most popular and glamorous figures of Greek mythology, and a key character in the Homeric epics, was imagined on the tragic stage of... Læs mere
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This examines the role of women as producers of joking speech, especially within cults of Demeter. This speech, sometimes known as aischrologia, had considerable... Læs mere
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Romance was the dominant Greek literary genre of the Roman Empire. This book explores its distinctive qualities and the reasons for... Læs mere
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In the Theogony and the Works and Days Hesiod provides the earliest systematic and comprehensive account of the genesis of the Greek gods and the nature of human life. Hesiod's Cosmos... Læs mere
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The first volume of its kind to be devoted to the works of Philostratus, the great essayist, biographer and historian of Greek culture in the Roman world. The papers contained cover his... Læs mere
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How were the Greeks of the sixth century BC able to invent philosophy and tragedy? In this book Richard Seaford argues that the answer can be... Læs mere
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This study explores the Greek poetry of the third and second centuries BC and its reception and influence at Rome. Close readings of the most familiar... Læs mere
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The Catalogue of Women, ascribed to Hesiod, maps the Greek world and its heroic myths through the mortal women who bore children to the... Læs mere
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Offers a detailed literary and cultural analysis of Euripides' Helen, a work which arguably embodies the variety and dynamism of fifth-century Athenian tragedy more than any other... Læs mere
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This work is a collection of character-sketches of those who might be met in Athens in the late fourth century BC. This edition presents an improved text and a translation which,... Læs mere