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This fascinating study shows how the minor Greek story of Orpheus and Eurydice came to have a more persistent and varied impact on Western culture than any other Greek myth. In the last two thousand years, it has captivated the imagination of successive ages.
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Christopher Pelling provides the first detailed commentary and translation with notes in over fifty years of Plutarch's Life of Alexander. This is a companion volume to Pelling's Plutarch Caesar (2011), also in the Clarendon Ancient History Series.
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The first and only book to study how ancient Graeco-Roman sculptures of Venus were used to visualise the "fit American woman" in the fitness and beauty industries that emerged at the turn of the 20th century.
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This book offers the first systematic, up-to-date, cross-cultural, and detailed study of “semi-volitional bodily behaviour” (sneezing, spitting, coughing, burping, vomiting, defecating, etc.) in the classical world.
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This book explores the theological significance of horror elements in the works of Hesiod and in the Homeric Hymns for the characters within these poems, the mortal audience consuming them, and the poet responsible for mythopoesis.
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Necessity and Philosophy in Plato’s Republic offers an interpretation of the concept of necessity in what is perhaps Plato’s most read dialogue. The book... Læs mere
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