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Menander, the dominant figure in New Comedy, wrote over 100 plays, of which one complete play, substantial portions of six others, and smaller but interesting fragments have been recovered. The complete play, Dyskolos (The Peevish Fellow), won first prize in Athens in 317 BC.
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This book probes the narratives of poets who are exiled, tried or executed for their satire. It... Læs mere
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Under the microscope of recent scholarship the universality of Greek tragedy has started to fade, as particularities of Athenian culture have come into focus. Miriam Leonard contests... Læs mere
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Of the roughly seventy treatises in the Hippocratic Collection, many are not by Hippocrates (said to have been born in Cos in or before 460 BC), but... Læs mere
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After a theoretical introduction that also serves as a general introduction to the dramatic chorus from the comic vantage point, a reading of... Læs mere
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In this dazzling commentary on Greek and Roman myth and society, weaving emerges as a metaphor rich with possibility. From rituals symbolizing the cohesion... Læs mere
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In a series of interconnected essays, Charles Segal studies five of Sophocles’ seven extant plays: Ajax, Oedipus Tyrannus, Philoctetes, Antigone, and the often neglected Trachinian Women.
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Slatkin’s influential book explores the superficially minor role of Thetis in the Iliad, showing how our awareness of alternative myths brings a far greater... Læs mere
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Poems of Christopher of Mytilene and John Mauropous collects the varied Byzantine Greek verses of these witty and vibrant poets their epigrams, satires, encomia, polemics, and more in English for the first time.
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What warranted the skewering of Richard Bentley (whom Rhodri Lewis called “perhaps the most notable—and notorious—scholar ever to have English as a mother... Læs mere
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This book examines the overall testimony of Plato as an expert about the cultural legacy of these Homeric... Læs mere
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An eminent cultural historian examines the works of Italo Svevo, Alberto Moravia, Carlo Levi, Primo Levi, Natalia Ginzburg, and Giorgio... Læs mere