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Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)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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Comedy and Religion in Classical Athens: Narratives of Religious Experiences in Aristophanes' Wealth (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)A detailed study of how Aristophanes manipulates traditional narratives of important religious... Læs mere
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Boiotia in Antiquity: Selected Papers (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)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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Aristophanes and the Poetics of Competition (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)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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Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)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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Xenophon's Prince: Republic and Empire in the Cyropaedia (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)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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Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity: The Limits of Political Realism (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)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 Rhetoric of Conspiracy in Ancient Athens (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)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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Staged Narrative: Poetics and the Messenger in Greek Tragedy (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)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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The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)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.
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Moral Vision in the Histories of Polybius (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Arthur Eckstein's interpretation challenges the way Polybius' "Histories" have long been viewed. He argues that Polybius evaluates people and events as much from a moral viewpoint as from a pragmatic, utilitarian, or even Machiavellian one.
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Interpreting a Classic: Demosthenes and His Ancient Commentators (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Craig A. Gibson tells the story of how one group of ancient scholars helped their readers understand Demosthenes writings. This book... Læs mere
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