Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 282 p. How did audiences of ancient Greek comedy react to the spectacle of masters and slaves? If they were expected to laugh at a slave threatened with a beating by his master at one moment but laugh with him when they bantered familiarly at the next, what does this tell us about ancient Greek slavery? This volume presents ten essays by...
Second edition. Revised by Dimitrios Yatromanolakis and Panagiotis Roilos. — Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002. — xviii, 320 p. Margaret Alexiou's The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition, first published in 1974, has long since been established as a classic in several fields. This is the only generic and diachronic study of learned and popular lament and its...
Yale University Press, 2017. — 288 p. Millennia ago, Greek myths exposed the dangers of violent rage and the need for empathy and self-restraint. Homer’s "Iliad", Euripides’ "Hecuba", and Sophocles’ "Ajax" show that anger and vengeance destroy perpetrators and victims alike. Composed before and during the ancient Greeks’ groundbreaking movement away from autocracy toward more...
Yale University Press, 2017. — 288 p. Millennia ago, Greek myths exposed the dangers of violent rage and the need for empathy and self-restraint. Homer’s "Iliad", Euripides’ "Hecuba", and Sophocles’ "Ajax" show that anger and vengeance destroy perpetrators and victims alike. Composed before and during the ancient Greeks’ groundbreaking movement away from autocracy toward more...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001. — 256 p. Ten papers, from a conference held at Ohio State University in 1997, reconsider Greek experience and its lessons for later cultures from a variety of perspectives. The contributions reflect in particular the central role of politics and the `Polis', so distinctively and uniquely Greek, in the development of Greek culture. The papers also...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 360 p. Ashes, Images, and Memories argues that the institution of public burial for the war dead and images of the deceased in civic and sacred spaces fundamentally changed how people conceived of military casualties in fifth-century Athens. In a period characterized by war and the threat of civil strife, the nascent democracy claimed the fallen...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 360 p. Ashes, Images, and Memories argues that the institution of public burial for the war dead and images of the deceased in civic and sacred spaces fundamentally changed how people conceived of military casualties in fifth-century Athens. In a period characterized by war and the threat of civil strife, the nascent democracy claimed the fallen...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 452 p. Classical Athens boasted some of the most original and influential achievements in literature, art, philosophy, medicine and politics. This best-selling book, now issued in a second edition, provides a comprehensive and highly illustrated introduction to its history, society, culture and values aimed at the student and the general...
Cornell University Press, 2008. — 240 p. Like the male heroes of epic poetry, Helen of Troy has been immortalized, but not for deeds of strength and honor; she is remembered as the beautiful woman who disgraced herself and betrayed her family and state. Norman Austin here surveys interpretations of Helen in Greek literature from the Homeric period through later antiquity. He looks...
Oxbow Books, 2017. — 604 p. These thirty essays were presented to Alan L Boegehold, a distinguished philologist and an inspirational teacher, on the occasion of his retirement and his seventy-fifth birthday. The contributions fall into two categories, each one reflecting Boegehold's diverse interests in classical studies: the first section includes essays on literary and...
Edinburgh University Press, 2021. — 576 p. This collection includes twenty-one new essays by leading scholars in the field of Greek art and archaeology. Exploring a range of media including vase painting, sculpture, gems and coins, they each address questions that cross the boundaries of specialised fields. They outline the range of visual experiences at stake in the various...
Edinburgh University Press, 2021. — 576 p. This collection includes twenty-one new essays by leading scholars in the field of Greek art and archaeology. Exploring a range of media including vase painting, sculpture, gems and coins, they each address questions that cross the boundaries of specialised fields. They outline the range of visual experiences at stake in the various...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 280 p. This new comparative reading of Euripides' Bacchae and Aristophanes' Frogs sets the two plays squarely in their contemporary social and political context and explores their impact on the audiences of the time. Both were composed during a crucial period of Athenian political life following the oligarchic seizure of power in 411 BC and the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 280 p. This new comparative reading of Euripides' Bacchae and Aristophanes' Frogs sets the two plays squarely in their contemporary social and political context and explores their impact on the audiences of the time. Both were composed during a crucial period of Athenian political life following the oligarchic seizure of power in 411 BC and the...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. — 280 p. The sea is omnipresent in Greek life. Visible from nearly everywhere, the sea represents the life and livelihood of many who dwell on the islands and coastal areas of the Mediterranean, and it has been so since long ago - the sea loomed large in the Homeric epics and throughout Greek mythology. The Greeks of antiquity turned to...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. — 280 p. The sea is omnipresent in Greek life. Visible from nearly everywhere, the sea represents the life and livelihood of many who dwell on the islands and coastal areas of the Mediterranean, and it has been so since long ago - the sea loomed large in the Homeric epics and throughout Greek mythology. The Greeks of antiquity turned to...
University of Chicago Press, 2024. — 456 p. This volume brings together Seth Benardete’s studies of Hesiod, Homer, and Greek tragedy, eleven Platonic dialogues, and Aristotle’s Metaphysics. The Argument of the Action spans four decades of Seth Benardete’s work, documenting its impressive range. Benardete’s philosophic reading of the poets and his poetic reading of the...
De Gruyter, 2017. — 386 p. From Homer to Sophocles and Greek Middle Comedy, and from Plato and Protagoras to Ovid, this volume features a panoramic and cross-generic overview of the diverse handling and ad hoc elaboration of the overarching literary notions of "time" and "space". The twenty-one contributions of this volume written by an international group of esteemed scholars...
De Gruyter, 2017. — 386 p. From Homer to Sophocles and Greek Middle Comedy, and from Plato and Protagoras to Ovid, this volume features a panoramic and cross-generic overview of the diverse handling and ad hoc elaboration of the overarching literary notions of "time" and "space". The twenty-one contributions of this volume written by an international group of esteemed scholars...
BAR Publishing, 2021. — 214 p. — (British Archaeological Reports International Series 3039). Following the recent upsurge of interest in ancient geography and astronomy, together with the ever-present fascination with myth, this book offers a fresh study of what is commonly but erroneously known as 'solar myth'. This subject has been at the margins of scholarly interest, mainly...
BAR Publishing, 2021. — 214 p. — (British Archaeological Reports International Series 3039). Following the recent upsurge of interest in ancient geography and astronomy, together with the ever-present fascination with myth, this book offers a fresh study of what is commonly but erroneously known as 'solar myth'. This subject has been at the margins of scholarly interest, mainly...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 320 p. Ancient Greek culture is pervaded by a profound ambivalence regarding female beauty. It is an awe-inspiring, supremely desirable gift from the gods, essential to the perpetuation of a man's name through reproduction; yet it also grants women terrifying power over men, posing a threat inseparable from its allure. The myth of Helen is the...
Routledge, 1998. — 208 p. In classical Greece women were almost entirely excluded from public life. Yet the feminine was accorded a central place in religious thought and ritual.This volume explores the often paradoxical centrality of the feminine in Greek culture, showing how out of sight was not out of mind. The contributors adopt perspectives from a wide range of...
Routledge, 1998. — 208 p. In classical Greece women were almost entirely excluded from public life. Yet the feminine was accorded a central place in religious thought and ritual.This volume explores the often paradoxical centrality of the feminine in Greek culture, showing how out of sight was not out of mind. The contributors adopt perspectives from a wide range of...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 304 p. Telamonian Ajax provides a complete overview of the development of Telamonian Ajax's myth in archaic and classical Greece. It is a systematic study of the representations of the hero in all kinds of media, such as literature, art, or cultic practice, establishing how and why the constitutive elements of Ajax's myth evolved by examining...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 304 p. Telamonian Ajax provides a complete overview of the development of Telamonian Ajax's myth in archaic and classical Greece. It is a systematic study of the representations of the hero in all kinds of media, such as literature, art, or cultic practice, establishing how and why the constitutive elements of Ajax's myth evolved by examining...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 304 p. Telamonian Ajax provides a complete overview of the development of Telamonian Ajax's myth in archaic and classical Greece. It is a systematic study of the representations of the hero in all kinds of media, such as literature, art, or cultic practice, establishing how and why the constitutive elements of Ajax's myth evolved by examining...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 304 p. Telamonian Ajax provides a complete overview of the development of Telamonian Ajax's myth in archaic and classical Greece. It is a systematic study of the representations of the hero in all kinds of media, such as literature, art, or cultic practice, establishing how and why the constitutive elements of Ajax's myth evolved by examining...
Princeton University Press, 2000. — 176 p. When a Gesture Was Expected encourages a deeper appreciation of ancient Greek poetry and prose by showing where a nod of the head or a wave of the hand can complete meaning in epic poetry and in tragedy, comedy, oratory, and in works of history and philosophy. All these works anticipated performing readers, and, as a result, they...
Princeton University Press, 2000. — 176 p. When a Gesture Was Expected encourages a deeper appreciation of ancient Greek poetry and prose by showing where a nod of the head or a wave of the hand can complete meaning in epic poetry and in tragedy, comedy, oratory, and in works of history and philosophy. All these works anticipated performing readers, and, as a result, they...
University of California Press, 2020. — 286 p. Ancient Greek ethnographies - descriptions of other peoples - provide unique resources for understanding ancient environmental thought and assumptions, as well as anxieties, about how humans relate to nature as a whole. In Other Natures , Clara Bosak-Schroeder examines the works of seminal authors such as Herodotus and Diodorus...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 300 p. Studies of ancient theater have traditionally taken Athens as their creative center. In this book, however, the lens is widened to examine the origins and development of ancient drama, and particularly comedy, within a Sicilian and southern Italian context. Each chapter explores a different category of theatrical evidence, from the...
Cambridge University Press, 2025. — 350 p. The idea of the Amazons is one of the most romantic and resonant in all antiquity. Greeks were fascinated by images and tales of these fierce female fighters. At Troy, Achilles' duel with Penthesilea was a clash of superman and superwoman. Achilles won the fight, but the queen's dying beauty had torn into his soul. This vibrant new...
Routledge, 2005. — 220 p. In Greek mythology, Hyperboreans were a tribe who lived far to Greece's north. Contained in what has come down to us of Greek literary tradition are texts that identify the Hyperboreans with the Celts, or Hyperborean lands with Celtic ones. This groundbreaking book studies the texts that make or imply this identification, and provides reasons why some...
Oxbow Books, 2017. — 384 p. Textiles comprise a vast and wide category of material culture and constitute a crucial part of the ancient economy. Yet, studies of classical antiquity still often leave out this important category of material culture, partly due to the textiles themselves being only rarely preserved in the archaeological record. This neglect is also prevalent in...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2018. — 256 p. Presenting an innovative new reading of Sophocles' plays, Tragic Rites analyzes the poetic and narrative function of ritual in the seven extant plays of Sophocles. Adriana Brook closely examines four of them - Ajax , Electra , Philoctetes , and Oedipus at Colonus - in the context of her wide-ranging consideration of the entire...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 316 p. The New Politics of Olympos explores the dynamics of praise, power, and persuasion in Kallimachos' hymns, detailing how they simultaneously substantiate and interrogate the radically new phenomenon of Hellenistic kingship taking shape during Kallimachos' lifetime. Long before the Ptolemies invested vast treasure in establishing Alexandria...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 316 p. The New Politics of Olympos explores the dynamics of praise, power, and persuasion in Kallimachos' hymns, detailing how they simultaneously substantiate and interrogate the radically new phenomenon of Hellenistic kingship taking shape during Kallimachos' lifetime. Long before the Ptolemies invested vast treasure in establishing Alexandria...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 336 p. Recent decades have seen a major expansion in our understanding of how early Greek lyric functioned in its social, political, and ritual contexts, and the fundamental role song played in the day-to-day lives of communities, groups, and individuals has been the object of intense study. This volume places its focus elsewhere, and attempts...
Praeger, 2013. — 352 p.
This work explores various aspects of ancient Greek personal and emotional lives, beginning with their understandings of their own bodies, individual and personal relationships, and ending with their feelings about religion and the afterlife. It covers ancient Greek culture from the early Archaic period in the 8th century BCE through the Late Classical...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 383 p. In this study, Stephanie Budin demonstrates that sacred prostitution, the sale of a person's body for sex in which some or all of the money earned was devoted to a deity or a temple, did not exist in the ancient world. Reconsidering the evidence from the ancient Near East, the Greco-Roman texts, and the Early Christian authors, Budin...
Dover, 2002. — 448 p.
This monumental work by a distinguished European scholar presents a scrupulously realistic approach to ancient Greek civilization. Professor Burckhardt dispenses with superficial and sentimental views of ancient Greece to embrace a more sophisticated and accurate vision of a complex culture that practiced both the best and worst elements of the social...
St. Martin's Press, 1999. — 504 p. In 1872, Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897), one of the preeminent historians of classical and Renaissance culture, presented this revolutionary work, which portrays ancient Greek culture as an aristocratic world based on a ruthless competition for honor, a competition that led, in turn, to a tyranous state with minimal personal freedoms. Burckhardt's...
Harvard University Press, 1995. — 248 p. The rich and splendid culture of the ancient Greeks has often been described as emerging like a miracle from a genius of its own, owing practically nothing to its neighbors. Walter Burkert offers a decisive argument against that distorted view, replacing it with a balanced picture of the archaic period “in which, under the influence of...
Cambridge University Press, 1982 (digitally printed version 2010). — 247 p. One of the difficulties in appreciating the literature of a foreign culture, and even more that of an ancient one, is to be sensitive to the overtones that certain concepts held for the original audience. A distinctive feature of Greek culture was an awareness of the power of words, and an interest in...
Classical Press of Wales, 2004. — 296 p. An international cast of distinguished scholars here offers seventeen new contributions on the detail and development of Athenian law; the life, work, and political background of the Attic orators; and the intersection of Attic Comedy with Athenian law, politics, and society. In their detailed and careful use of evidence and deep...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1997. — 352 p. New and revised edition, translated by Derek Collins and Janice Orion. In this groundbreaking work, Claude Calame argues that the songs sung by choruses of young girls in ancient Greek poetry are more than literary texts; rather, they functioned as initiatory rituals in Greek cult practices. Using semiotic and anthropologic...
Edinburgh University Press, 2018. — 672 p. — (Edinburgh Leventis Studies). There is a long history of successful engagement between social science and classical studies. Social science has been a source of new and productive approaches to understanding ancient Greece, while classical Greek history and culture has been a touchstone for social theorists since the 19th century....
Edinburgh University Press, 2018. — 672 p. — (Edinburgh Leventis Studies). There is a long history of successful engagement between social science and classical studies. Social science has been a source of new and productive approaches to understanding ancient Greece, while classical Greek history and culture has been a touchstone for social theorists since the 19th century....
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 280 p. Theme park studies is a growing field in social and cultural studies. Nonetheless, until now little attention has been dedicated to the choice of the themes represented in the parks and the strategies of their representation. This is particularly interesting when the theme is a historical one, for example ancient Greece. Which elements of...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 496 p. The political function of Greek tragedy is of ever increasing interest to scholarship, but there is widespread disagreement over what this function was. Particularly contentious is the relationship between tragedy and Athenian democracy. For some, the very genre is democratic and the politics of the plays speak principally to citizens of...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 288 p. This book examines how the various groups of people of which the polis of Classical Athens was composed got on together--or failed to do so. The authors collectively bring out what was distinctive about life in an ancient Greek city that was unusual both in its size and social complexity and in the extent of the democracy it practiced....
Bristol Classical Press, 1990. — 101 p. Aristophanes, the Athenian comic dramatist, remains popular despite historical changes in attitude and belief. Placing the plays in their total civic, religious and dramatic context, this account explores their significance for contemporary audiences, and their continuing appeal. Separate chapters address aspects of his work and world,...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. — 250 p. — (Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture, v. 61). In the world of sports, the most important component is the athlete. After all, without athletes there would be no sports. In ancient Greece, athletes were public figures, idolized and envied. This fascinating book draws on a broad range of ancient sources to explore the development of...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020. — 544 p. — (Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien 63). The study of emotions has emerged in the last two decades as a major research subject in ancient studies. One of the primary aims of the study of emotions in the context of Greek and Roman Antiquity is to explore the means through which emotions are displayed and aroused,...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2013. — 391 p. — (Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien (HABES) 55). The study of emotions has emerged as one of the most dynamic topics of research in Ancient History, Classics, and Archaeology. Studying a variety of sources (historiography, Greek and Latin poetry and oratory, the New Testament, inscriptions, medical authors,...
Pen and Sword Military, 2020. — 240 p. Еven though war, and conflict generally, feature prominently in Greek mythology, comparatively little has been written on the subject. This is surprising because wars and battles in Greek mythology are freighted with symbolism and laden with meaning and significance – historical, political, social and cultural. The gods and goddesses of...
Pen and Sword Military, 2020. — 240 p. Еven though war, and conflict generally, feature prominently in Greek mythology, comparatively little has been written on the subject. This is surprising because wars and battles in Greek mythology are freighted with symbolism and laden with meaning and significance – historical, political, social and cultural. The gods and goddesses of...
Fonthill Media, 2017. — 240 p. This is a much-needed analysis of how women behaved in Greek society, how they were regarded, and the restrictions imposed on their actions. Given that ancient Greece was very much a man’s world, most books on ancient Greek society still tend to focus on men; this book redresses the imbalance by shining the spotlight on that neglected other half:...
Routledge, 2023. — 344 p. This book explores the imaginative processes at work in the artefacts of Classical Athens. When ancient Athenians strove to grasp ‘justice’ or ‘war’ or ‘death’, when they dreamt or deliberated, how did they do it? Did they think about what they were doing? Did they imagine an imagining mind? European histories of the imagination have often begun with...
Brill, 2000. — 560 p. Ancient Greece is characterized by a vision of reality in which a pre-eminent human type is defined in opposition to non-ideal 'others'. The social structure of democratic Athens privileged male citizens, while marginalizing women, resident aliens, and slaves. Across a broad spectrum of classical Greek imagery, this anthology provides an investigation of...
Brill, 2000. — 560 p. Ancient Greece is characterized by a vision of reality in which a pre-eminent human type is defined in opposition to non-ideal 'others'. The social structure of democratic Athens privileged male citizens, while marginalizing women, resident aliens, and slaves. Across a broad spectrum of classical Greek imagery, this anthology provides an investigation of...
Princeton University Press, 2007. — 448 p. In this sumptuously illustrated book, Joan Breton Connelly gives us the first comprehensive cultural history of priestesses in the ancient Greek world. Connelly presents the fullest and most vivid picture yet of how priestesses lived and worked, from the most famous and sacred of them--the Delphic Oracle and the priestess of Athena...
Princeton University Press, 2007. — 448 p. In this sumptuously illustrated book, Joan Breton Connelly gives us the first comprehensive cultural history of priestesses in the ancient Greek world. Connelly presents the fullest and most vivid picture yet of how priestesses lived and worked, from the most famous and sacred of them - the Delphic Oracle and the priestess of Athena...
Princeton University Press, 2007. — 448 p. In this sumptuously illustrated book, Joan Breton Connelly gives us the first comprehensive cultural history of priestesses in the ancient Greek world. Connelly presents the fullest and most vivid picture yet of how priestesses lived and worked, from the most famous and sacred of them--the Delphic Oracle and the priestess of Athena...
Princeton University Press, 2007. — 448 p. In this sumptuously illustrated book, Joan Breton Connelly gives us the first comprehensive cultural history of priestesses in the ancient Greek world. Connelly presents the fullest and most vivid picture yet of how priestesses lived and worked, from the most famous and sacred of them--the Delphic Oracle and the priestess of Athena...
Brill, 2007. — xx, 380 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 280). This volume represents the sixth in the series on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds. The present work comprises a collection of essays that explore the tensions and controversies that arise as a society moves from an oral to literate culture. Part 1 deals with both Homeric and other forms of...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 276 p. The Greeks have long been regarded as innovators across a wide range of fields in literature, culture, philosophy, politics and science. However, little attention has been paid to how they thought and felt about novelty and innovation itself, and to relating this to the forces of traditionalism and conservatism which were also present...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 304 p. This book develops an authentic and at the same time revolutionary musical analysis of ancient Greek poetry. It departs from the abstract metrical analyses of the past in that it conceives the rhythmic and harmonic elements of poetry as integral to the whole expression, and decisive in the interpretation of its meaning. David offers a...
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2020. ― 576 p. ― (Blackwell companions to the ancient world). ― ISBN: 978-1118271568, 978-1118341360, ISBN: 978-1118341377. An innovative, up-to-date treatment of ancient Greek mobility and migration from 1000 BCE to 30 BCE A Companion to Greeks Across the Ancient World explores the mobility and migration of Greeks who left their homelands in the ten...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2020. — 576 p. ― (Blackwell companions to the ancient world). ― ISBN: 978-1118271568, 978-1118341360, ISBN: 978-1118341377. An innovative, up-to-date treatment of ancient Greek mobility and migration from 1000 BCE to 30 BCE A Companion to Greeks Across the Ancient World explores the mobility and migration of Greeks who left their homelands in the ten centuries...
De Gruyter, 2024. — 415 p. Scholars have recognized that fake news is not a phenomenon peculiar to the 21st century. While efforts for a more focused approach to fake news in the ancient world have been carried out in the field of Roman history, the phenomenon of fake news in ancient Greece has received limited attention. The contributions in this volume offer a selective...
2nd Edition. — Bristol Classical Press, 2004. — 346 p. Acclaimed as one of the pioneering texts to introduce narratology (the theory that deals with the general principles underlying narrative texts) to classical scholarship, Irene de Jong's work explains the key concepts such as "narrator", "focalization" and "prolepsis", highlighting their relevance by using them for the...
Edited and with an introduction by Hunter R. Rawlings III and Jeffrey S. Rusten. — Cornell University Press, 2012. — 216 p. — (Translated by , Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings). The publication of Jacqueline de Romilly’s Histoire et raison chez Thucydide in 1956 virtually transformed scholarship on Thucydides. Rather than mining The Peloponnesian War to speculate on its layers of...
Edited and with an introduction by Hunter R. Rawlings III and Jeffrey S. Rusten. — Cornell University Press, 2012. — 216 p. — (Translated by , Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings). The publication of Jacqueline de Romilly’s Histoire et raison chez Thucydide in 1956 virtually transformed scholarship on Thucydides. Rather than mining The Peloponnesian War to speculate on its layers of...
Edited and with an introduction by Hunter R. Rawlings III and Jeffrey S. Rusten. — Cornell University Press, 2012. — 216 p. — (Translated by , Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings). The publication of Jacqueline de Romilly’s Histoire et raison chez Thucydide in 1956 virtually transformed scholarship on Thucydides. Rather than mining The Peloponnesian War to speculate on its layers of...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 270 p. How should articulations of blackness from the fifth century BCE to the twenty-first century be properly read and interpreted? This important and timely new book is the first concerted treatment of black skin color in the Greek literature and visual culture of antiquity. In charting representations in the Hellenic world of black...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 270 p. How should articulations of blackness from the fifth century BCE to the twenty-first century be properly read and interpreted? This important and timely new book is the first concerted treatment of black skin color in the Greek literature and visual culture of antiquity. In charting representations in the Hellenic world of black...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. — 256 S. — (Materiale Textkulturen 29). Considering Greek statue inscriptions from the archaic and early classical periods, this book emphasizes inscription practices without losing sight of issues of semantics. The analysis focuses on the layout and graphical or ornamental features of the inscriptions. With this approach, for the first time...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. — 256 S. — (Materiale Textkulturen 29). Considering Greek statue inscriptions from the archaic and early classical periods, this book emphasizes inscription practices without losing sight of issues of semantics. The analysis focuses on the layout and graphical or ornamental features of the inscriptions. With this approach, for the first time...
Lexington Books, 2012. — 242 p. — (Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches). Greek Heroes in and out of Hades is a study on heroism and mortality from Homer to Plato. In a collection of thirty enjoyable essays, Stamatia Dova combines intertextual research and thought-provoking analysis to shed new light on concepts of the hero in the Iliad and the Odyssey , Bacchylides 5 ,...
Lexington Books, 2012. — 242 p. — (Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches). Greek Heroes in and out of Hades is a study on heroism and mortality from Homer to Plato. In a collection of thirty enjoyable essays, Stamatia Dova combines intertextual research and thought-provoking analysis to shed new light on concepts of the hero in the Iliad and the Odyssey , Bacchylides 5 ,...
De Gruyter, 2014. — 380 s. Philosophie und Rhetorik entwickelten sich in klassischer Zeit zu einem festen Bestandteil der athenischen Kultur. Vom Wert und Nutzen der neuen Bildung waren allerdings nicht alle Zeitgenossen gleichermaßen überzeugt. Es entwickelte sich ein dezidiert kritischer Diskurs, der einerseits den Sinn einer Beschäftigung mit der Philosophie grundsätzlich in...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2018. — 220 p. A holistic study of how the Greek peoples (of primarily the classical period) collectively commemorated the Persian Wars. This work analyses commemorative objects, places, and groups for a complete representation of the commemorative tradition. This study is concerned with how the Greek peoples, of primarily the classical period,...
Routledge, 2019. — 268 p. Forensic Narratives in Athenian Courts breaks new ground by exploring different aspects of forensic storytelling in Athenian legal speeches and the ways in which forensic narratives reflect normative concerns and legal issues. The chapters, written by distinguished experts in Athenian oratory and society, explore the importance of narratives for the...
Brill, 2023. — 486 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 474). Friendship ( philia ) is a complex and multi-faceted concept that is frequently attested in ancient Greek literature and thought. It is also an important social phenomenon and an institution that features in classical Greek social, cultural, and intellectual history. This collected volume seeks to complement the extensive...
Harvard University Press, 2001. — 239 p. The ancient Greeks commonly resorted to magic spells to attract and keep lovers--as numerous allusions in Greek literature and recently discovered "voodoo dolls," magical papyri, gemstones, and curse tablets attest. Surveying and analyzing these various texts and artifacts, Christopher Faraone reveals that gender is the crucial factor in...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 213 p. In this study of poetic form in early Greek elegy, Christopher A. Faraone argues against the prevailing assumption that it was a genre of stichic poetry derived from or dependent on epic verse. Faraone emphasizes the fact that early elegiac poets composed their songs to the tune of an aulos (a kind of oboe) and used a five-couplet stanza...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 528 p. This collection of essays by notable scholars from a variety of disciplines deals with different aspects of the history and culture of the Greek island of Aegina in the fifth century BC. The island is well known as the home of magnificent architecture and sculpture; as the patron of impressive lyric poetry composed by Pindar and his...
Routledge, 2020. — 324 p. Herodotus is the epochal authority who inaugurated the European and Western consciousness of collective identity, whether in an awareness of other societies and of the nature of cultural variation itself or in the fashioning of Greek self-awareness - and necessarily that of later civilizations influenced by the ancient Greeks - which was perpetually in...
University of California Press, 2008. — 326 p. The seer (mantis), an expert in the art of divination, operated in ancient Greek society through a combination of charismatic inspiration and diverse skills ranging from examining the livers of sacrificed animals to spirit possession. Unlike the palm readers and mediums who exist on the fringe of modern society, many seers were...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 400 p. What role did poetry, music, song, and dance play in the social and political life of the ancient Greek city? How did philosophy respond to, position itself against, and articulate its own ambitions in relation to the poetic tradition? How did ancient philosophers theorize and envision alternatives to fourth-century Athenian democracy?...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 400 p. What role did poetry, music, song, and dance play in the social and political life of the ancient Greek city? How did philosophy respond to, position itself against, and articulate its own ambitions in relation to the poetic tradition? How did ancient philosophers theorize and envision alternatives to fourth-century Athenian democracy?...
Princeton University Press, 2012. — 288 p. Most studies of ancient Greek politics focus on formal institutions such as the political assembly and the law courts, and overlook the role that informal social practices played in the regulation of the political order. Sara Forsdyke argues, by contrast, that various forms of popular culture in ancient Greece - including festival...
Princeton University Press, 2012. — 288 p. Most studies of ancient Greek politics focus on formal institutions such as the political assembly and the law courts, and overlook the role that informal social practices played in the regulation of the political order. Sara Forsdyke argues, by contrast, that various forms of popular culture in ancient Greece - including festival...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 160 p. Heracles and Athenian Propaganda examines how Greece's most important hero was appropriated and portrayed by Athens in religion, politics, architecture and literature, with a detailed study of Euripides' Heracles in relation to this interplay between the hero and the city's ideology. Though Athens needed a hero of Hellenic stature, Heracles...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 240 p. In the Greek Classical period, the symposium - the social gathering at which male citizens gathered to drink wine and engage in conversation - was held in a room called the andron. From couches set up around the perimeter, symposiasts looked inward to the room's center, which often was decorated with a pebble mosaic floor. These mosaics...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2013. — 293 p. — (Supplements to Novum Testamentum 155).
In Corinth in Contrast, archaeologists, historians, art historians, classicists, and New Testament scholars examine the stratified nature of socio-economic, political, and religious interactions in the city from the Hellenistic period to Late Antiquity. The volume challenges standard social...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 572 p. Cosmography is defined here as the rhetoric of cosmology: the art of composing worlds. The mirage of Hyperborea, which played a substantial role in Greek religion and culture throughout Antiquity, offers a remarkable window into the practice of composing and reading worlds. This book follows Hyperborea across genres and centuries, both...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 456 p. This book explores a phenomenon known as aniconism - the absence of figural images of gods in Greek practiced religion and the adoption of aniconic monuments, namely objects such as pillars and poles, to designate the presence of the divine. Shifting our attention from the well-known territories of Greek anthropomorphism and naturalism,...
2nd Edition — Greenwood, 2008. — 368 p. Ancient Greece comes alive in this exploration of the daily lives of ordinary people-men and women, children and the elderly, slaves and foreigners, rich and poor. With new information drawn from the most current research, this volume presents a wealth of information on every aspect of ancient Greek life. Discover why it was more...
2nd Edition — Greenwood, 2008. — 368 p. Ancient Greece comes alive in this exploration of the daily lives of ordinary people-men and women, children and the elderly, slaves and foreigners, rich and poor. With new information drawn from the most current research, this volume presents a wealth of information on every aspect of ancient Greek life. Discover why it was more desirable...
De Gruyter, 2011. — 312 p. — (Sozomena 11). The inscribed text referred to as the sacred law of Andania contains almost 200 lines of regulations about a mystery festival and the sanctuary in which it took place. Although it concerns one annual festival in Messenia, it imparts information relevant to the general nature of sanctuary activity and the issues that were important in...
Liverpool University Press, 2021. — 208 p. The concept of the afterlife has always been prominent in both Greek literature and modern scholarship alike. The fate of man after his/her allotted time has come to an end has a central position in poetry, philosophy and religion, often leading to questions and answers as to how one can best live one's life, and how can one deal with...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 180 p. In this concise but stimulating book on history and Greek culture, Hans-Joachim Gehrke continues to refine his work on 'intentional history', which he defines as a history in the self-understanding of social groups and communities – connected to a corresponding understanding of the other – which is important, even essential, for the...
University of Chicago Press, 2013. — 384 p. On museum visits, we pass by beautiful, well-preserved vases from ancient Greece - but how often do we understand what the images on them depict? In Image and Myth , Luca Giuliani tells the stories behind the pictures, exploring how artists of antiquity had to determine which motifs or historical and mythic events to use to tell an...
The University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. — 360 p. — (Wisconsin Studies in Classics). — ISBN: 0299235645 Greek Prostitutes in the Ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE-200 CE challenges the often-romanticized view of the prostitute as an urbane and liberated courtesan by examining the social and economic realities of the sex industry in Greco-Roman culture. Departing from the...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 504 p. Covering the Bronze Age, as well as the Archaic, Classical, and early Hellenistic periods, Themes in Greek Society and Culture introduces students to central aspects of ancient Greek society. The volume brings together 19 expert contributors who explore the institutions, structures, activities, and cultural output that formed the...
2nd Edition. — Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. — 272 p. A thoroughly revised and updated edition of Mark Golden’s groundbreaking study of childhood in ancient Greece. First published in 1990, Children and Childhood in Classical Athens was the first book in English to explore the lives of children in ancient Athens. Drawing on literary, artistic, and archaeological sources...
2nd Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 380 p. This book is an advanced critical introduction to Greek tragedy. It is written specifically for the reader who does not know Greek and who may be unfamiliar with the context of the Athenian drama festival but who nevertheless wants to appreciate the plays in all their complexity. Simon Goldhill aims to combine the best...
De Gruyter, 2015. — 400 p. Not a few of the more prominent and persistent controversies among classical scholars about approaches and methods arise from a failure to appreciate the fundamental role of time in structuring the interpretation of Greek culture. Diachrony showcases the corresponding importance of diachronic models for the study of ancient Greek literature and culture....
Oxford University Press, 2025. — 362 p. Experiencing Childhood in Ancient Athens uses literary sources and archaeological and iconographic evidence to investigate children's identities throughout the ninth to fourth centuries BCE in Athens and Attica, the city's surrounding hinterland. The book presents detailed analyses of mentions of children in ancient sources, scenes...
Indiana University Press, 2022. — 424 p. Hearing, Sound, and the Auditory in Ancient Greece represents the first wide-ranging philosophical study of the role of sound and hearing in the ancient Greek world. Because our modern western culture is a particularly visual one, we can overlook the significance of the auditory which was so central to the Greeks. The fifteen chapters of...
University of Michigan Press, 2014. — 494 p. A widely accepted truism says that luxury corrupts, and in both popular and scholarly treatments, the ancient city of Sybaris remains the model for destructive opulence. This volume demonstrates the scarcity of evidence for Sybarite luxury, and examines the vocabulary of luxury used by the Hellenic world. Focus on the word truphe...
Routledge, 2013. — 256 p. In Theatre in Ancient Greek Society the author examines the social setting and function of ancient Greek theatre through the thousand years of its performance history. Instead of using written sources, which were intended only for a small, educated section of the population, he draws most of his evidence from a wide range of archaeological material -...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 344 p. This book studies the social and ethical formation of youthful figures in Homer, Sophocles, and Euripides. Every fictional character comes with a past attached, a presumed personal history that is both implicit and explicit; for the youthful heroes and heroines of epic and tragedy, early education figures significantly in that past....
Cambridge University Pres, 2023. — 208 p. The taxonomies of narratology have proven valuable tools for the analysis of ancient literature, but, since they were mostly forged in the analysis of modern novels, they have also occluded the distinct quality of ancient narrative and its understanding in antiquity. Ancient Greek Texts and Modern Narrative Theory paves the way for a...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 336 p. Astyanax is thrown from the walls of Troy; Medeia kills her children as an act of vengeance against her husband; Aias reflects with sorrow on his son's inheritance, yet kills himself and leaves Eurysakes vulnerable to his enemies. The pathos created by threats to children is a notable feature of Greek tragedy, but does not in itself...
London and New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2017. — 272 p. Edith Hamilton buoyantly captures the spirit and achievements of the Greek civilization for our modern world. In The Greek Way , Edith Hamilton captures with "Homeric power and simplicity" (New York Times) the spirit of the golden age of Greece in the fifth century BC, the time of its highest achievements. She explores...
W. W. Norton & Company, 1993. — 272 p. Edith Hamilton buoyantly captures the spirit and achievements of the Greek civilization for our modern world. In The Greek Way , Edith Hamilton captures with "Homeric power and simplicity" (New York Times) the spirit of the golden age of Greece in the fifth century BC, the time of its highest achievements. She explores the Greek aesthetics of...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 292 p. Through a series of interdisciplinary studies this book argues that the Athenians themselves invented the notion of "classical" tragedy just a few generations after the city's defeat in the Peloponnesian War. In the third quarter of the fourth century BC, and specifically during the 'Lycurgan Era' (338-322 BC), a number of measures were...
Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021. — 54 S. Mit einem Satz des Dichters Paul Valéry betitelt François Hartog seine Suche nach den Schlüsselmomenten in der Begegnung der europäischen Neuzeit mit dem antiken Griechenland und schöpft dabei aus seiner langjährigen Auseinandersetzung mit der Alten Geschichte und der Historiographie sowie ihrer Theorie. Das Ergebnis ist eine...
Edinburgh University Press, 2001. — 272 p. This work centres on identity, questioning how the ancient Greeks saw themselves and others, and what this tells us about Greek mentality and culture. It looks at voyagers and explorers, at travels in reality and in the mond, to show what these reveal at key points in Greek history. It first follows the journeying of Odysseus,...
American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2022. — 448 p. — (Hesperia Supplement 51). An unparalleled assemblage of Archaic black-figure painted pinakes (plaques) was uncovered near Penteskouphia, a village west of ancient Corinth, over a century ago. The pinakes—represented by over 1,200 fragments—and their depictions of gods, warriors, animals, and the potters...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 236 p. This book proposes a new approach to the study of ancient Greek and Mesopotamian literature. Ranging from Homer and Gilgamesh to Herodotus and the Babylonian-Greek author Berossos, it paints a picture of two literary cultures that, over the course of time, became profoundly entwined. Along the way, the book addresses many questions of...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 236 p. This book proposes a new approach to the study of ancient Greek and Mesopotamian literature. Ranging from Homer and Gilgamesh to Herodotus and the Babylonian-Greek author Berossos, it paints a picture of two literary cultures that, over the course of time, became profoundly entwined. Along the way, the book addresses many questions of...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 394 p. This book explores the persona of the artist in Archaic and Classical Greek art and literature. Guy Hedreen argues that artistic subjectivity, first expressed in Athenian vase-painting of the sixth century BCE and intensively explored by Euphronios, developed alongside a self-consciously constructed persona of the poet. He explains how...
New York: Zone Books, 2011. — 215 p. — ISBN10: 193540816X; ISBN13: 978-1935408161. An ancient tradition holds that Pythagoras discovered the secrets of harmony within a forge when he came across five men hammering with five hammers, producing a wondrous sound. Four of the five hammers stood in a marvelous set of proportions, harmonizing; but there was also a fifth hammer....
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 163 p. — (American Classical Studies 53).
Hyperides' Funeral Oration is arguably the most important surviving example of the genre from classical Greece. The speech stands apart from other funeral orations (epitaphioi) in a few key respects. First, we have the actual text as it was delivered in Athens (the other speeches, with the possible...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 316 p. The symposion was a key cultural phenomenon in ancient Greece. This book investigates its place in ancient Greek society and thought by exploring the rhetorical dynamics of its representations in literature and art. Across genres, individual Greeks constructed visions of the party and its performances that offered persuasive...
Walter de Gruyter, 2023. — 320 p. The book presents a broad survey of Greek votive terracotta figurines, a class of votives where previous scholarship has mainly consisted of research in specific sites and collections. They have traditionally been interpreted as inexpensive and inconspicuous votives for everyday use, but this study questions whether this is in fact the case. By...
Routledge, 2022. — 236 p. This book examines how sleep and dreams were approached in early Greek thought, highlighting the theories of the Presocratic and Hippocratic writers on both phenomena as more varied, complex, and substantial than is usually credited. It explores how the Presocratic natural philosophers and early Hippocratic medical writers developed theories which drew...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 384 p. A recurring and significant theme in ancient Greek literature is that of returns and returning, chiefly - but by no means only - of mythical Greek heroes from Troy. One main, and certainly the most 'marked', ancient Greek word for 'return' is nostos (plural nostoi ), from which is derived the English 'nostalgia'. Nostos-related traditions...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 384 p. A recurring and significant theme in ancient Greek literature is that of returns and returning, chiefly - but by no means only - of mythical Greek heroes from Troy. One main, and certainly the most 'marked', ancient Greek word for 'return' is nostos (plural nostoi ), from which is derived the English 'nostalgia'. Nostos-related traditions...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021. — 264 p. This book uses the mythological hero Heracles as a lens for investigating the nature of heroic violence in Archaic and Classical Greek literature, from Homer through to Aristophanes. Heracles was famous for his great victories as much as for his notorious failures. Driving each of these acts is his heroic violence, an ambivalent force that...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 237 p. The Greeks inscribed their works of art and craft with labels identifying mythological or historical figures, bits of poetry, and claims of ownership. But no type of inscription is more hotly debated or more intriguing than the artist's signature, which raises questions concerning the role and status of the artist and the work of art or...
Cornell University Press, 1985. — 367 p. This handsomely illustrated book offers a broad synthesis of Archaic Greek culture. Unlike other books dealing with the art and architecture of the Archaic period, it places these subjects in their historical, social, literary, and intellectual contexts. Origins and originality constitute a central theme, for during this period...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 398 p. This volume assembles fourteen highly influential articles written by Michael H. Jameson over a period of nearly fifty years, edited and updated by the author himself. They represent both the scope and the signature style of Jameson's engagement with the subject of ancient Greek religion. The collection complements the original...
Routledge, 2021. — 342 p. Xenophon’s Socratic Works demonstrates that Xenophon, a student of Socrates, military man, and man of letters, is an indispensable source for our understanding of the life and philosophy of Socrates. David M. Johnson restores Xenophon’s most ambitious Socratic work, the Memorabilia (Socratic Recollections), to its original literary context, enabling...
University of California Press, 1999. — 352 p. During the archaic and classical periods, Greek ideas about the dead evolved in response to changing social and cultural conditions - most notably changes associated with the development of the polis, such as funerary legislation, and changes due to increased contacts with cultures of the ancient Near East. In Restless Dead, Sarah...
University of California Press, 2013. — 352 p. During the archaic and classical periods, Greek ideas about the dead evolved in response to changing social and cultural conditions - most notably changes associated with the development of the polis, such as funerary legislation, and changes due to increased contacts with cultures of the ancient Near East. In Restless Dead, Sarah...
University of California Press, 1999. — 352 p. During the archaic and classical periods, Greek ideas about the dead evolved in response to changing social and cultural conditions - most notably changes associated with the development of the polis, such as funerary legislation, and changes due to increased contacts with cultures of the ancient Near East. In Restless Dead, Sarah...
University of Wisconsin Pres, 2020. — 272 p. Scholarly investigations of the rich field of verbal and extraverbal Athenian insults have typically been undertaken piecemeal. Deborah Kamen provides an overview of this vast terrain and synthesizes the rules, content, functions, and consequences of insulting fellow Athenians. The result is the first volume to map out the full...
De Gruyter, 2019. — 204 p. — (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes 88). This volume examines the issue of violence in Xenophon’s works, who lived in circumstances of war for many years. All the papers address issues of violence from different aspects. The exclusive focus on this issue is justified, since no previous detailed study exists on the subject. Most of the...
De Gruyter, 2019. — 204 p. — (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes 88). This volume examines the issue of violence in Xenophon’s works, who lived in circumstances of war for many years. All the papers address issues of violence from different aspects. The exclusive focus on this issue is justified, since no previous detailed study exists on the subject. Most of the...
Brill, 2025. — xii, 255 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 492). This is the first collection of essays approaching aspects of Greek antiquity and its reception through ‘necropolitics’. It discovers traces of necropolitics in the unburied and maltreated corpses of the Homeric epics; it follows the manifestations of necropower in Greek tragedy, historiography, and biography; and it...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 304 p. Wedding, Gender, and Performance in Ancient Greece traces the wedding song tradition, its imagery, and its tropes as a genre that became crystallized throughout the ages. It explores how wedding poetics permeates ancient Greek literature. It first analyzes how explicit or implicit matrimonial references shape archaic epic diction and...
Peter Lang Publishers, 2009. — 174 p. Athena is recognized as an allegory or representative of Athens in most Athenian public art except in tragedy. Perhaps this is because tragedy is rarely studied as a public art form or, perhaps, because her character is not static in tragedy. Although Athena's characterization changes to fit the needs of a particular drama, her clear...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 244 p. What is art's relationship to play? Those interested in this question tend to look to modern philosophy for answers, but, as this book shows, the question was already debated in antiquity by luminaries like Plato and Aristotle. Over the course of eight chapters, this book contextualizes those debates, and demonstrates their...
Routledge, 2020. — 268 p. This volume, from an international and interdisciplinary cohort of scholars, offers independent-minded essays about central Greek texts and about the relation of social theory and comparative method to the study of archaic and classical Greek literature. It is in honour of James M. Redfield, whose innovative and theoretically-informed work has been a...
Oxford University Pres, 2018. — 304 p. Much of the Western intellectual tradition’s interest in pain can be traced back to Greek material. This book investigates one theme in the interest in physical pain in Greek culture under the Roman Empire. Traditional accounts of pain in the Roman Empire have either focused on philosophical or medical theories of pain or on Christian...
2nd Eition. — Routledge, 2002. — 412 p. This classic work not only records developments in the form and style of Greek drama, it also analyses the reasons for these changes. It provides illuminating answers to questions that have confronted generations of students, such as: - why did Aeschylus introduce the second actor? - why did Sophocles develop character drawing? - why are...
2nd Eition. — Routledge, 2002. — 412 p. This classic work not only records developments in the form and style of Greek drama, it also analyses the reasons for these changes. It provides illuminating answers to questions that have confronted generations of students, such as: - why did Aeschylus introduce the second actor? - why did Sophocles develop character drawing? - why are...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 176 p. Life in ancient Greece was musical life. Soloists competed onstage for popular accolades, becoming centrepieces for cultural conversation and even leading Plato to recommend that certain forms of music be banned from his ideal society. And the music didn't stop when the audience left the theatre: melody and rhythm were woven into the whole...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 176 p. Life in ancient Greece was musical life. Soloists competed onstage for popular accolades, becoming centrepieces for cultural conversation and even leading Plato to recommend that certain forms of music be banned from his ideal society. And the music didn't stop when the audience left the theatre: melody and rhythm were woven into the whole...
Edinburgh University Press, 2003. — 320 p. Classical Greece was permeated by a spirit of rivalry. Games and sports, theatrical performances, courtroom trials, recitation of poetry, canvassing for public office, war itself - all aspects of life were informed by a competitive ethos. This pioneering book considers how the Greeks viewed, explained, exploited and controlled the...
I.B. Tauris, 2017. — 272 p. Animals were omnipresent in the everyday life and the visual arts of classical Greece. In literature, too, they had significant functions. This book discusses the role of animals - both domestic and wild - and mythological hybrid creatures in ancient Greek literature. Challenging the traditional view of the Greek anthropocentrism, the authors provide...
I.B. Tauris, 2017. — 272 p. Animals were omnipresent in the everyday life and the visual arts of classical Greece. In literature, too, they had significant functions. This book discusses the role of animals - both domestic and wild - and mythological hybrid creatures in ancient Greek literature. Challenging the traditional view of the Greek anthropocentrism, the authors provide...
Second Revised Edition. — Brill, 1993. — 264 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 95). Donald Kyle concludes this fine book by stating that “it should now be clear that the interrelationship between the histories of Athens and its athletics is significant and continuous...Athletics were a public, integral, and potentially unifying or disruptive element in the civic experience of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2024. — 302 p. In this volume, Carolyn M. Laferrière examines Athenian vase-paintings and reliefs depicting the gods most frequently shown as musicians to reconstruct how images suggest the sounds of the music the gods made. Incorporating insights from recent work in sensory studies, she considers formal analysis together with literary and...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 350 p. In this volume, Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper investigates the impact of Greek art on the miniature figure sculptures produced in Babylonia after the conquests of Alexander the Great. Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia were used as agents of social change, by visually expressing and negotiating cultural differences. The scaled-down...
Princeton University Press, 2001. — 302 p. This collection attempts to recover the voices of women in antiquity from a variety of perspectives: how they spoke, where they could be heard, and how their speech was adopted in literature and public discourse. Rather than confirming the old model of binary oppositions in which women’s speech was viewed as insignificant and...
University of Michigan Press, 1998. — 368 p. In Sardonic Smile , Donald Lateiner examines every major variety of Homeric nonverbal behavior, especially those found in the Odyssey . Noting differences from modern gestures and attending to variation that results from gender, age, and status, Lateiner explores the "silent language" and "what goes without saying" among the heroes...
University of Michigan Press, 1998. — 368 p. In Sardonic Smile , Donald Lateiner examines every major variety of Homeric nonverbal behavior, especially those found in the Odyssey . Noting differences from modern gestures and attending to variation that results from gender, age, and status, Lateiner explores the "silent language" and "what goes without saying" among the heroes...
American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2017. — 248 p. — (Athenian Agora, Book 38). This volume includes all of the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman votive reliefs found to date in the excavations of the Athenian Agora. In addition to providing a catalogue of the reliefs arranged according to their subjects, the author treats the history of their discovery, their...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 382 p. This is the first general monograph on ancient Greek dress in English to be published in more than a century. By applying modern dress theory to the ancient evidence, this book reconstructs the social meanings attached to the dressed body in ancient Greece. Whereas many scholars have focused on individual aspects of ancient Greek...
State University of New York Press, 2018. — 270 p. Discusses the importance of the early history of Greek mathematics to education and civic life through a study of the Parthenon and dialogues of Plato. The Parthenon and Liberal Education seeks to restore the study of mathematics to its original place of prominence in the liberal arts. To build this case, Geoff Lehman and Michael...
Cornell University Press, 2019. — 269 p. How do people map a homeland? How does the homeland define them? Focusing on the interrelations between culture and geography, Artemis Leontis illuminates the making of modern Greece. As she fashions a new approach to contemporary Greek literature, Leontis explores the transformation of Hellenism from a cultural ideal to a nation-state....
Routledge, 2002. — 276 p. Here Sian Lewis considers the full range of female existence in classical Greece - childhood and old age, unfree and foreign status, and the ageless woman characteristic of Athenian red-figure painting. Ceramics are an unparalleled resource for women's lives in ancient Greece, since they show a huge number of female types and activities. Yet it can be...
Routledge, 2002. — 276 p. Here Sian Lewis considers the full range of female existence in classical Greece - childhood and old age, unfree and foreign status, and the ageless woman characteristic of Athenian red-figure painting. Ceramics are an unparalleled resource for women's lives in ancient Greece, since they show a huge number of female types and activities. Yet it can be...
Loomsbury Academic, 2022. — 240 p. When Homeric heroes think about the meaning of their actions, they expect this to take the form of kleos, 'fame', in a future song. This volume explores the consequences of this mode of thinking in the Iliad in particular, and argues that the form of kleos and the interposition of a gap of time between event and meaning produces widespread...
Classical Press of Wales, 2003. — 368 p. Greek women routinely wore the veil. That is the unexpected finding of this major study. The Greeks, rightly credited with the invention of civic openness, are revealed as also part of a more eastern tradition of seclusion. Llewellyn-Jones' work proceeds from literary and, notably, from iconographic evidence. In sculpture and vase...
Harvard University Press, 2010. — 320 p. Ancient Greece has for too long been studied in isolation from its Near Eastern neighbors. And the ancient Near East itself has for too long been seen as an undifferentiated cultural monolith. Classics and Near Eastern Studies, in our modern universities, continue to be separated by various disciplinary, linguistic, and ideological...
Harvard University Press, 2010. — 320 p. Ancient Greece has for too long been studied in isolation from its Near Eastern neighbors. And the ancient Near East itself has for too long been seen as an undifferentiated cultural monolith. Classics and Near Eastern Studies, in our modern universities, continue to be separated by various disciplinary, linguistic, and ideological...
New York: Zone Books, 2006. — 343 p. The Divided City: Mappings To Forget in the City To Repolitize the City The Soul of the City Under the Sign of Eris and Some of Her Children The Bond of Division Oath, Son of Discord Of Amnesty and Its Opposite Politics of Reconciliation Politics of Brothers A Reconciliation in Sicily Of Justice as Division And Athenian Democracy Forgot Cratos
University of Arkansas Press, 2022. — 184 p. The Crown Games were the apex of competition in ancient Greece. Along with prestigious athletic contests in honor of Zeus at Olympia, they comprised the Pythian Games for Apollo at Delphi, the Isthmian Games for Poseidon, and the Nemean Games, sacred to Zeus. For over nine hundred years, the Greeks celebrated these athletic and...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 336 p. Life / Afterlife: Revolution and Reflection in the Ancient Greek Underworld from Homer to Lucian explores the mechanics, function, and impact of ancient Greek Underworld scenes, a unique and ancient form of embedded storytelling appearing across time and genres. This book approaches Underworld scenes as a special register of language that...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 336 p. Life / Afterlife: Revolution and Reflection in the Ancient Greek Underworld from Homer to Lucian explores the mechanics, function, and impact of ancient Greek Underworld scenes, a unique and ancient form of embedded storytelling appearing across time and genres. This book approaches Underworld scenes as a special register of language that...
Brill, 2007. — 296 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 298). The volume represents the seventh in the series on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds. It comprises a collection of essays on the significance and working of memory in ancient texts and visual documentation, from contexts both oral (or oral-derived) and literate. The authors discuss a variety of...
Edinburgh University Press, 2012. — 378 p. This volume in The Edinburgh Leventis Studies series collects the papers presented at the sixth A. G. Leventis conference organised under the auspices of the Department of Classics at the University of Edinburgh. As with earlier volumes, it engages with new research and new approaches to the Greek past, and brings the fruits of that...
Edinburgh University Press, 2012. — 378 p. This volume in The Edinburgh Leventis Studies series collects the papers presented at the sixth A. G. Leventis conference organised under the auspices of the Department of Classics at the University of Edinburgh. As with earlier volumes, it engages with new research and new approaches to the Greek past, and brings the fruits of that...
De Gruyter, 2019. — 456 p. — (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes Series 74). This multiauthored volume, as well as bringing into clearer focus the notion of drama and oratory as important media of public inquiry and critique, aims to generate significant attention to the unified intentions of the dramatist and the orator to establish favourable conditions of internal...
De Gruyter, 2019. — 456 p. — (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes Series 74). This multiauthored volume, as well as bringing into clearer focus the notion of drama and oratory as important media of public inquiry and critique, aims to generate significant attention to the unified intentions of the dramatist and the orator to establish favourable conditions of internal...
Oxford University Pres, 2019. — 528 p. As a speechwriter, orator, and politician, Demosthenes captured, embodied, and shaped his time. He was a key player in Athens in the twilight of the city's independence, and is today a primary source for its history and society during that period. The Oxford Handbook of Demosthenes sets out to explore the many facets of his life, work, and...
Oxford University Pres, 2019. — 528 p. As a speechwriter, orator, and politician, Demosthenes captured, embodied, and shaped his time. He was a key player in Athens in the twilight of the city's independence, and is today a primary source for its history and society during that period. The Oxford Handbook of Demosthenes sets out to explore the many facets of his life, work, and...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. — 320 p. The proem to Herodotus's history of the Greek-Persian wars relates the long-standing conflict between Europe and Asia from the points of view of the Greeks' chief antagonists, the Persians and Phoenicians. However humorous or fantastical these accounts may be, their stories, as voiced by a Greek, reveal a great deal about the...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. — 320 p. The proem to Herodotus's history of the Greek-Persian wars relates the long-standing conflict between Europe and Asia from the points of view of the Greeks' chief antagonists, the Persians and Phoenicians. However humorous or fantastical these accounts may be, their stories, as voiced by a Greek, reveal a great deal about the...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020. — 420 p. This engaging study documents how ancient Greeks perceived the qualities of female hair as both alluring and attractive, and, therefore, seductive and dangerous. In this sense, ancient Greeks viewed feminine hair differently than it is perceived today. While modern culture can identify with ancient culture by considering a woman’s...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017. — 141 S. — (Philippika: Altertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen 113). In der griechischen Archaik entwickelte sich die Vorstellung, dass Tote mithilfe von Bildnissen (Puppen, Figuren etc.) manipuliert werden können, sei es, um sie sich dienstbar zu machen oder sie zu bannen. Ausgehend von der erstmals in den 1990er Jahren publizierten lex sacra...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 230 p. The Bacchic gold tablets are a remarkable collection of objects from the Ancient Greek world: inscribed with short verse texts and buried in graves of mystery initiates, they express extraordinary hopes for post-mortem salvation. Past approaches to these objects have sought to reconstruct their underlying belief system. This book is...
Princeton University Press, 2009. — 336 p. In ancient Athens, where freedom of speech derived from the power of male citizenship, women’s voices were seldom heard in public. Female speech was more often represented in theatrical productions through women characters written and enacted by men. In Spoken Like a Woman , the first book-length study of women’s speech in classical...
Princeton University Press, 2009. — 336 p. In ancient Athens, where freedom of speech derived from the power of male citizenship, women’s voices were seldom heard in public. Female speech was more often represented in theatrical productions through women characters written and enacted by men. In Spoken Like a Woman , the first book-length study of women’s speech in classical...
State University of New York Press, 2010. — 354 p. This collection offers a vibrant exploration of the bonds between sexual difference and political structure in Greek tragedy. In looking at how the acts of violence and tortured kinship relations are depicted in the work of all three major Greek tragic playwrights - Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides - the contributors shed...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 256 p. In this book, McCoy examines how Greek epic, tragedy, and philosophy have important insights to offer about the nature of human vulnerability, which is central to the human experience. While studies of Greek heroism and virtue often focus on strength of character, prowess in war, or the achievement of honour, McCoy examines another side to...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. — 188 p. Revenge was an all important part of the ancient Athenian mentality, intruding on all forms of life - even where we might not expect to find it today. Revenge was of prime importance as a means of survival for the people of early Greece and remained in force during the rise of the 'poleis'. The revenge of epic heroes such as Odysseus and...
Cambridge University Press, 2024. — 368 p. Griffins, centaurs and gorgons: the Greek imagination teems with wondrous, yet often monstrous, hybrids. Jeremy McInerney discusses how these composite creatures arise from the entanglement of humans and animals. Overlaying such enmeshment is the rich cultural exchange experienced by Greeks across the Mediterranean. Hybrids, the author...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 352 p. — (Greek Culture in the Roman World ). — ISBN: 1-107-07933-0, 978-1-107-07933-5. This book presents the first comprehensive study of how and why athletic contests, a characteristic aspect of Greek culture for over a millennium, disappeared in late antiquity. In contrast to previous discussions, which focus on the ancient Olympics, the...
University of Chicago Press, 2011. — 248 p. The understanding of the soul in the West has been profoundly shaped by Christianity, and its influence can be seen in certain assumptions often made about the soul: that, for example, if it does exist, it is separable from the body, free, immortal, and potentially pure. The ancient Greeks, however, conceived of the soul quite...
Routledge, 2020. — 298 p. This title was first published in 2001. These collected essays by Patricia Cox Miller identify new possibilities of meaning in the study of religion in late antiquity. The book addresses the topic of the imaginative mindset of late ancient authors from a variety of Greco-Roman religious traditions. Attending to the play of language, as well as to the...
Yale University, 2004. — 288 p. — ISBN: 0-300-10083-3. A comprehensive survey of sports in ancient Greece, available just in time for the Summer Olympics in Athens The earliest Olympic games began more than twenty-five hundred years ago. What were they like, how were they organized, who participated? Were ancient sports a means of preparing youth for warfare? In this lavishly...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. — 208 p. In our contemporary Western society, death has become taboo. Despite its inevitability, we focus on maintaining youthfulness and well-being, while fearing death’s intrusion in our daily activities. In contrast, observes Maria Serena Mirto, the ancient Greeks embraced death more openly and effectively, developing a variety of rituals...
Routledge, 2021. — 210 p. Monsters in Greek literature are often thought of as creatures which exist in mythological narratives, however, as this book shows, they appear in a much broader range of ancient sources and are used in creation narratives, ethnographic texts, and biology to explore the limits of the human body and of the human world. This book provides an in-depth...
Routledge, 2021. — 210 p. Monsters in Greek literature are often thought of as creatures which exist in mythological narratives, however, as this book shows, they appear in a much broader range of ancient sources and are used in creation narratives, ethnographic texts, and biology to explore the limits of the human body and of the human world. This book provides an in-depth...
Routledge, 2021. — 210 p. Monsters in Greek literature are often thought of as creatures which exist in mythological narratives, however, as this book shows, they appear in a much broader range of ancient sources and are used in creation narratives, ethnographic texts, and biology to explore the limits of the human body and of the human world. This book provides an in-depth...
Brill, 2015. — 1532 p. — (Brill's Companions to Classical Studies). Brill’s Companion to Ancient Greek Scholarship aims at providing a reference work in the field of ancient Greek and Byzantine scholarship and grammar, thus encompassing the broad and multifaceted philological and linguistic research activity during the entire Greek Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The first part...
Brill, 2020. — 717 p. This is the first book, after J. E. Sandys, to cover the multiform field of “ancient scholarship” from the beginnings to the fall of Byzantium. It is worth underlining the benefits of a work with multiple expert voices in a field so complex. The book is based on the four historiographical chapters of Brill's Companion to Ancient Greek Scholarship (2015),...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 272 p. From the Odyssey and King Lear to modern novels by Umberto Eco and John le Carré, the recognition scene has enjoyed a long life in western literature. It first became a regular feature of prose literature in the Greek novels of the first century CE. In these examples, it is the event that ensures the happy ending for the hero and heroine,...
I.B. Tauris, 2015. — 378 p. Sleep was viewed as a boon by the ancient Greeks: sweet, soft, honeyed, balmy, care-loosening, as the Iliad has it. But neither was sleep straightforward, nor safe. It could be interrupted, often by a dream. It could be the site of dramatic intervention by a god or goddess. It might mark the transition in a narrative relationship, as when Penelope...
I.B. Tauris, 2015. — 378 p. Sleep was viewed as a boon by the ancient Greeks: sweet, soft, honeyed, balmy, care-loosening, as the Iliad has it. But neither was sleep straightforward, nor safe. It could be interrupted, often by a dream. It could be the site of dramatic intervention by a god or goddess. It might mark the transition in a narrative relationship, as when Penelope...
University of Chicago Press, 2005. — 288 p. From the Archaic period to the Greco-Roman age, the figure of the wanderer held great significance in ancient Greece. In the first comprehensive study devoted to this theme, Wandering in Ancient Greek Culture unearths the many meanings attached to this practice over the centuries. Employing a broad range of literary and philosophical...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 254 p. This book examines the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes through one aspect of its relationship with other texts. The particular intertextual relationship examined is that with the Histories of Herodotus, focusing on the presence of the latter text in the former in terms of the poem's employment of characteristics and features of...
Routledge, 2009. — xiv, 240 p. — (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies). — ISBN 978-0-415-39130-6, 978-0-203-88952-7. From the first ‘murderous symbols’ scratched on a tablet instructing the recipient to kill the one who delivered it, to the letters of St Paul to the early Church, and to later literary experiments, this comprehensive study examines the range of...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 350 p. Why did the male nude come to occupy such an important place in ancient Greek culture? Despite extended debate, the answer to this question remains obscure. In this book, Sarah Murray demonstrates that evidence from the Early Iron Age Aegean has much to add to the discussion. Her research shows that aesthetics and practices involving...
Walter de Gruyter, 2008. — 816 S. — (Image & Context 1). Nur wenige Bilder beschäftigen und polarisieren die gesellschaftliche Diskussion unserer Zeit so sehr wie Darstellungen von Gewalt. Mediale Gewalt wird dabei meist als unmittelbarer Ausdruck von Einstellungen zur Gewalt begriffen, als Instrument zur Verarbeitung von Gewalterfahrungen und als Stimulans zur Entfaltung von...
University of California Press, 2012. — 418 p. — (Sather Classical Lectures) Homer the Preclassic considers the development of the Homeric poems-in particular the Iliad and Odyssey-during the time when they were still part of the oral tradition. Gregory Nagy traces the evolution of rival "Homers" and the different versions of Homeric poetry in this pretextual period, reconstructed...
New edition — Belknap Press / Harvard University Press, 2020. — 752 p. The ancient Greeks’ concept of "the hero" was very different from what we understand by the term today, Gregory Nagy argues - and it is only through analyzing their historical contexts that we can truly understand Achilles, Odysseus, Oedipus, and Herakles. In Greek tradition, a hero was a human, male or...
New edition — Belknap Press / Harvard University Press, 2020. — 752 p. The ancient Greeks’ concept of "the hero" was very different from what we understand by the term today, Gregory Nagy argues - and it is only through analyzing their historical contexts that we can truly understand Achilles, Odysseus, Oedipus, and Herakles. In Greek tradition, a hero was a human, male or...
Lucent Books, 2005. — 112 p. — (The Lucent Library of Historical Eras. Ancient Greece). — ISBN: 1-59018-528-5. The Lucent Library of Historical Eras series offers young readers insight into important eras in world history. Individual books in every multivolume set present readers with a historical perspective and comprehensive picture of the cultural, political, and social...
Lucent Books, 2004. — 112 p. — (Lucent Library of Historical Eras). — ISBN: 1-59018-526-9. The Lucent Library of Historical Eras series offers young readers insight into important eras in world history. Individual books in every multivolume set present readers with a historical perspective and comprehensive picture of the cultural, political, and social events that characterize...
University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. — 248 p. The foremost religious festival of ancient Athens - the city dedicated to Athena, goddess of war, fertility, arts, and wisdom - was the Panathenaia. Challenging old assumptions and refuting new theories, Worshipping Athena addresses the many problems of interpretation and understanding that have swirled for years around the...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 288 p. The Rhetoric of Medicine explores problems that confront medical professionals today by first examining similar problems that confronted physicians in ancient Greece. This framework provides illuminating entry points into challenges faced by the practice of medicine, enabling readers to understand more clearly their shape and operation in...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 296 p. Athletics represented an important institution through which the Greek aristocracies sought to maintain their privileged political position, with the assistance of charioteers, jockeys and trainers from the lower classes. In the late archaic and early classical period, the relationship between the victors and helpers changed radically,...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 296 p. Athletics represented an important institution through which the Greek aristocracies sought to maintain their privileged political position, with the assistance of charioteers, jockeys and trainers from the lower classes. In the late archaic and early classical period, the relationship between the victors and helpers changed radically,...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 372 p. The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West examines the relationship between epinician and the heroizing narratives about athletes, or "hero-athlete narratives," that circulated orally in Sicily and Italy in the late archaic and early classical period. Drawing on the colorful stories told about athletes in later sources, the fragments of...
Henry Holt and Co., 2014. — 318 p. Adam Nicolson sees the Iliad and the Odyssey as the foundation myths of Greek - and our - consciousness, collapsing the passage of 4,000 years and making the distant past of the Mediterranean world as immediate to us as the events of our own time. Why Homer Matters is a magical journey of discovery across wide stretches of the past, sewn...
Oxbow Books, 2009. — 327 p. This volume presents the proceedings of the second Athenian Potters and Painters conference, which was held at the American School of Classical Studies, Athens 2007. Together with the 1994 conference (Volume I, Oxbow 1997), these are the first of their kind - focusing purely on Athenian pottery and addressing key aspects of its study. The thirty-two...
Routledge, 2020. — 256 p. This volume offers the first comprehensive treatment of how the five canonical Greek novels represent slaves and slavery. In each novel, one or both elite protagonists are enslaved, and Owens explores the significance of the genre’s regular social degradation of these members of the elite. Reading the novels in the context of social attitudes and...
Routledge, 2022. — 256 p. This volume offers the first comprehensive treatment of how the five canonical Greek novels represent slaves and slavery. In each novel, one or both elite protagonists are enslaved, and Owens explores the significance of the genre’s regular social degradation of these members of the elite. Reading the novels in the context of social attitudes and...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 336 p. This book provides the first complete study of the documentation relevant to the gymnasium and gymnasial life in Egypt at the time of the Ptolemies, the longest reigning Hellenistic Royal House (323-30 BC). Paganini analyses the diffusion, characteristics, administration, and developments of the institution of the gymnasium in Ptolemaic...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 336 p. This book provides the first complete study of the documentation relevant to the gymnasium and gymnasial life in Egypt at the time of the Ptolemies, the longest reigning Hellenistic Royal House (323-30 BC). Paganini analyses the diffusion, characteristics, administration, and developments of the institution of the gymnasium in Ptolemaic...
Routledge, 2019. — 222 p. From the eighth century BCE to the late third century CE, Greeks trained in sport and competed in periodic contests that generated enormous popular interest. As a result, sport was an ideal vehicle for the construction of a plurality of identities along the lines of ethnic origin, civic affiliation, legal and social status as well as gender. Sport and...
2nd Edition. — Brill, 2008. — 494 p. — (Brill's Companions to Classical Studies). This volume on Apollonius of Rhodes, whose Argonautica is the sole full-length epic to survive from the Hellenistic period, comprises articles by eighteen leading scholars from Europe and America. Their contributions cover a wide range of issues from the history of the text and the problems of the...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 467 p. In ancient Greece, epiphanies were embedded in cultural production, and employed by the socio-political elite in both perpetuating pre-existing power-structures and constructing new ones. This volume is the first comprehensive survey of the history of divine epiphany as presented in the literary and epigraphic narratives of the...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 304 p. What difference does music make to performance poetry, and how did the ancients themselves understand this relationship? Although scholars have long recognized the importance of music to ancient performance culture, little has been written on the specific effects that musical accompaniment, and features such as rhythmical structure and...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 304 p. What difference does music make to performance poetry, and how did the ancients themselves understand this relationship? Although scholars have long recognized the importance of music to ancient performance culture, little has been written on the specific effects that musical accompaniment, and features such as rhythmical structure and...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 384 p. - The first monograph-length study on how the body is staged, represented, and perceived in ancient Greek Old and Middle Comedy - Examines together not only Aristophanes' work but all the comic poets' fragmentary plays and the comedy-related imagery from 440 BCE to 320 BCE - Provides a comprehensive examination of all the visual aspects...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 384 p. - The first monograph-length study on how the body is staged, represented, and perceived in ancient Greek Old and Middle Comedy - Examines together not only Aristophanes' work but all the comic poets' fragmentary plays and the comedy-related imagery from 440 BCE to 320 BCE - Provides a comprehensive examination of all the visual aspects...
University of Chicago Press, 2021. — 280 p. The story of our ongoing fascination with Homer, the man and the myth. Homer, the great poet of the Iliad and the Odyssey, is revered as a cultural icon of antiquity and a figure of lasting influence. But his identity is shrouded in questions about who he was, when he lived, and whether he was an actual person, a myth, or merely a...
University of Chicago Press, 2021. — 280 p. — ISBN-13 978-0226675893. The story of our ongoing fascination with Homer, the man and the myth. Homer, the great poet of the Iliad and the Odyssey, is revered as a cultural icon of antiquity and a figure of lasting influence. But his identity is shrouded in questions about who he was, when he lived, and whether he was an actual...
Open Book Publishers, 2022. — 350 p. In Horos , Thea Potter explores the complex relationship between classical philosophy and the 'horos', a stone that Athenians erected to mark the boundaries of their marketplace, their gravestones, their roads and their private property.Potter weaves this history into a meditation on the ancient philosophical concept of horos, the...
University of Texas Press, 2009. — 286 p. Civic virtue and the type of education that produces publicly minded citizens became a topic of debate in American political discourse of the 1980s, as it once was among the intelligentsia of Classical Athens. Conservatives such as former National Endowment for the Humanities chairman William Bennett and his successor Lynn Cheney held...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 288 p. In a series of literary studies, Priestley explores some of the earliest ancient responses to Herodotus' Histories through the extant written record of the early and middle Hellenistic period. Responses to the Histories were rich and varied, and the range of Hellenistic writers responding in different ways to Herodotus' work is in part a...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 344 p. Sophist Kings: Persians as Other sets forth a reading of Herodotus' Histories that highlights the consistency with which the Persians are depicted as sophists and Persian culture is infused with a sophistic ideology. The Persians as the Greek 'other' have a crucial role throughout Herodotus' Histories, but their characterisation is far...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 344 p. Sophist Kings: Persians as Other sets forth a reading of Herodotus' Histories that highlights the consistency with which the Persians are depicted as sophists and Persian culture is infused with a sophistic ideology. The Persians as the Greek 'other' have a crucial role throughout Herodotus' Histories, but their characterisation is far...
University of Texas Press, 2018. — 402 p. Before they were written down, the poems attributed to Homer were performed orally, usually by rhapsodes (singers/reciters) who might have traveled from city to city or enjoyed a position in a wealthy household. Even after the Iliad and the Odyssey were committed to writing, rhapsodes performed the poems at festivals, often competing...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002 — 464 p. — ISBN10: 0691058091; ISBN13: 978-0691058092. Is "space" a thing, a container, an abstraction, a metaphor, or a social construct? This much is certain: space is part and parcel of the theater, of what it is and how it works. In The Play of Space, noted classicist-director Rush Rehm offers a strikingly original approach to the...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2016. — 282 p. — (Wisconsin Studies in Classics). Ancient sources and modern scholars have often represented the Athenian festival of Adonis as a marginal and faintly ridiculous private women’s ritual. Seeds were planted each year in pots and, once sprouted, carried to the rooftops, where women lamented the death of Aphrodite’s youthful consort...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 390 p. — (Greek Culture in the Roman World ).
This book presents the first comprehensive study of how and why athletic contests, a characteristic aspect of Greek culture for over a millennium, disappeared in late antiquity. In contrast to previous discussions, which focus on the ancient Olympics, the end of the most famous games is analysed...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 522 p. Greek comedy flourished in the fifth and fourth centuries BC, both in and beyond Athens. Aristophanes and Menander are the best-known writers whose work is in part extant, but many other dramatists are known from surviving fragments of their plays. This sophisticated but accessible introduction explores the genre as a whole, integrating...
State University of New York Press, 1994. — 360 p. — (SUNY series in Western Esoteric Traditions). This book provides proof of the existence and explains the significance of planned alignments between classical temples and Oracle sites over a wide range of territory, pointing to an astrological system of planning in the ancient world. This system of symbolism may be used...
Lexington Books, 2011. — 358 p. Pharmakon: Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens examines the emerging concern for controlling states of psychological ecstasy in the history of western thought, focusing on ancient Greece (c. 750 - 146 BCE), particularly the Classical Period (c. 500 - 336 BCE) and especially the dialogues of the Athenian philosopher Plato (427 -...
Lexington Books, 2011. — 358 p. Pharmakon: Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens examines the emerging concern for controlling states of psychological ecstasy in the history of western thought, focusing on ancient Greece (c. 750 - 146 BCE), particularly the Classical Period (c. 500 - 336 BCE) and especially the dialogues of the Athenian philosopher Plato (427 - 347...
Oxford University Press, 1994. — 320 p. This book examines the progress of literacy in ancient Greece from its origins in the eighth century to the fourth century B.C.E., when the major cultural institutions of Athens became totally dependent on alphabetic literacy. By introducing new evidence and re-evaluating the older evidence, Robb demonstrates that early Greek literacy can...
Princeton University Press, 2024. — 464 p. Covering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conquest in 30 BCE, Out of One, Many is an accessible and lively introduction to the Greeks and their ways of living and thinking. In this fresh and witty exploration of the thought, culture, society, and history of the...
Wiley, 2014. — 926 p. The Encyclopedia of Greek Tragedy is the first comprehensive reference work to cover all facets of the distinct form of dramatic theater that flourished in ancient Greece with its apex in the 5th century BCE. Offers the first comprehensive reference work to cover all facets of the distinct form of dramatic theater that flourished in ancient Greece with its...
University of California Press, 2005. — 300 p. The concept of manhood was immensely important in ancient Athens, shaping its political, social, legal, and ethical systems. This book, a groundbreaking study of manhood in fourth-century Athens, is the first to provide a comprehensive examination of notions about masculinity found in the Attic orators, who represent one of the most...
University of Michigan Press, 2021. — 366 p. Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece examines how Greek men presented themselves and their social groups to one another. The author examines identity rhetoric in sympotic lyric: how Greek poets constructed images of self for their groups, focusing in turn on the construction of identity in martial-themed poetry, the...
University of Michigan Press, 2021. — 365 p. Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece examines how Greek men presented themselves and their social groups to one another. The author examines identity rhetoric in sympotic lyric: how Greek poets constructed images of self for their groups, focusing in turn on the construction of identity in martial-themed poetry, the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 192 p. What role does food play in the shaping of humanity? Is sharing a good meal with friends and family an experience of life at its best, or is food merely a burdensome necessity? David Roochnik explores these questions by discussing classical works of Greek literature and philosophy in which food and drink play an important role. With thoughts...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 192 p. What role does food play in the shaping of humanity? Is sharing a good meal with friends and family an experience of life at its best, or is food merely a burdensome necessity? David Roochnik explores these questions by discussing classical works of Greek literature and philosophy in which food and drink play an important role. With thoughts...
PALGRAVE, 2002. — xxiv, 268 p. — ISBN 0–312–29562–6. The Greeks are on trial. They have been for generations, if not millennia, from Rome in the First century, to Romanticism in the Nineteenth. We debate the place of the Greeks in the university curriculum, in New World culture - we even debate the place of the Greeks in the European Union. This book notices the lingering and...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 440 p. Contact and interaction between Greek and Egyptian culture can be traced in different forms over more than a millennium: from the sixth century BC, when Greeks visited Egypt for the sake of tourism or trade, through to the Hellenistic period, when Egypt was ruled by the Macedonian-Greek Ptolemaic dynasty who encouraged a mixed Greek and...
Edinburgh University Press, 2000. — 272 p. In ancient Greek society communication was largely oral and visual. The epic poets sang and recited the legends that served the Greeks as their historical past; lyric and elegiac poets sang songs of love and death and celebrated military and sporting success to the accompaniment of the lyre and pipes; the art of rhetoric was a vital...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 206 p. Emotions vary between cultures, especially in their eliciting conditions, social acceptability, forms of expression, and co-extent of terminology. This book examines the sensation, expression, and literary representation of envy and jealousy in Classical Athens. Previous scholarship has primarily taken a lexical approach, focusing on...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2016. — 402 S. — (Historia – Einzelschriften 241). Die integrative Kraft von Eiden als einem Fundament der inneren Ordnung griechischer Gemeinwesen wird von den antiken Quellen viel beschworen und von der modernen Forschung häufig konstatiert. Was passierte jedoch, wenn der Eid die Grenzen einer Polis überschritt? Wie konnte der Eid in einem Kontext...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. - 200 p. - (Wisconsin Studies in Classics).
In his first book of Satires, written in the late, violent days of the Roman republic, Horace exposes satiric speech as a tool of power and domination. Using critical theories from classics, speech act theory, and others, Catherine Schlegel argues that Horace’s acute poetic observation of hostile...
De Gruyter, 2024. — 166 p. — (Münchner Vorlesungen zu Antiken Welten 7). Die Institution des antiken griechischen Symposions wird in der bisherigen Forschung wie folgt charakterisiert: Es handle sich dabei um eine aristokratische Einrichtung, die ausschließlich Männern vorbehalten war. Doch erlaubt dieses dominierende Deutungsmodell tatsächlich, dem griechischen Trinkgelage...
De Gruyter, 2024. — 166 p. — (Münchner Vorlesungen zu Antiken Welten 7). Die Institution des antiken griechischen Symposions wird in der bisherigen Forschung wie folgt charakterisiert: Es handle sich dabei um eine aristokratische Einrichtung, die ausschließlich Männern vorbehalten war. Doch erlaubt dieses dominierende Deutungsmodell tatsächlich, dem griechischen Trinkgelage...
Albin Michel, 1996. — 608 p. Pour tout Grec en passe de devenir adulte, la chasse est à la fois une épreuve et un passe-temps. Sa pratique est l'un des révélateurs de l'histoire de la cité. En examinant les liens qui unissent les figures du chasseur dans la Grèce archaïque et classique, Alain Schnapp, professeur à l'Université de Paris I et membre du Centre Louis Gernet (CNRS),...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 266 p. This book provides a brief and accessible introduction to Greek tragedy for students and general readers alike. Whether readers are studying Greek culture, performing a Greek tragedy, or simply interested in reading a Greek play, this book will help them to understand and enjoy this challenging and rewarding genre. An Introduction to...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 380 p. This book further develops Professor Seaford's innovative work on the study of ritual and money in the developing Greek polis. It employs the concept of the chronotope, which refers to the phenomenon whereby the spatial and temporal frameworks explicit or implicit in a text have the same structure, and uncovers various such chronotopes...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 380 p. This book further develops Professor Seaford's innovative work on the study of ritual and money in the developing Greek polis. It employs the concept of the chronotope, which refers to the phenomenon whereby the spatial and temporal frameworks explicit or implicit in a text have the same structure, and uncovers various such chronotopes...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 384 p. How were the Greeks of the sixth century BC able to invent philosophy and tragedy? Richard Seaford argues that a large part of the answer can be found in another momentous development, the invention and rapid spread of coinage. By transforming social relations, monetization contributed to the concepts of the universe as an impersonal...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 258 p. Greek artists and architects were important social agents who played significant roles in the social, cultural, and economic life of the ancient Greek world. In Artists and Artistic Production in Ancient Greece, art historians, archaeologists, and historians explore the roles and impacts of artists and craftsmen in ancient Greek...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 258 p. Greek artists and architects were important social agents who played significant roles in the social, cultural, and economic life of the ancient Greek world. In Artists and Artistic Production in Ancient Greece, art historians, archaeologists, and historians explore the roles and impacts of artists and craftsmen in ancient Greek...
De Gruyter, 2006. — 226 s. In der Kunst der Moderne kommt den vielfältigen Erfahrungen von physischer und psychischer Gewalt eine zentrale Bedeutung zu. Die sich daraus ergebende Frage nach den Formen der Präsentation von Gewalt und nach den Gründen für das Vergnügen an tragischen Gegenständen stellt sich jedoch bereits in der griechischen Klassik in durchaus vergleichbarer Weise....
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020. — 250 p. — (Boethius 72). The recently discovered Arabic translation of an anonymous ancient treatise describing advanced methods for constructing magic squares has improved our knowledge of Greek mathematics considerably. The early tenth-century translator reports that he found two manuscripts of this treatise, for the greater part damaged by...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 208 p. This bold new set of interpretations of tragedy offers innovative analyses of the dynamic between politics and youth in the ancient world. By exploring how tragedy responded to the fluctuating attitudes to young people at a highly turbulent time in the history of Athens, Shipton sheds new light on ancient attitudes to youth. Focusing on...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 208 p. This bold new set of interpretations of tragedy offers innovative analyses of the dynamic between politics and youth in the ancient world. By exploring how tragedy responded to the fluctuating attitudes to young people at a highly turbulent time in the history of Athens, Shipton sheds new light on ancient attitudes to youth. Focusing on...
Princeton University Press, 1992. — 542 p. The ancient Athenians were "quarrelsome as friends, treacherous as neighbors, brutal as masters, faithless as servants, shallow as lovers–all of which was in part redeemed by their intelligence and creativity." Thus writes Philip Slater in this classic work on narcissism and family relationships in fifth-century Athenian society....
Brill, 2011. — 202 p. — (Monumenta Graeca et Romana 19). In this study Dr Smith investigates the use of political personifications in the visual arts of Athens in the Classical period (480-323 BCE). Whether on objects that served primarily private roles (e.g. decorated vases) or public roles (e.g. cult statues and document stelai), these personifications represented aspects of...
Harvard University, 2015. — 775 p. The prevalence of orality in the 8th/7th centuries BCE and the inherent limits of oral memory, in the wake of centuries of illiteracy, invalidate the conventional premise that the archaizing world of the Iliad somehow represents a Late Bronze Age (LBA) reality: generally, one can look back in time no further than two or three centuries—to the...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2019. — 1222 p. — ISBN10: 1118605047, 13 978-1118605042. Available online or as a 3-volume print set, The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy is a comprehensive and accessible reference covering all of Greek comedy and its reception from antiquity to the present. Under the editorship of an esteemed expert in the field, it brings together the work of an international...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 304 p. The Tangled Ways of Zeus is a collection of studies written over the last twenty years by the distinguished classicist Alan Sommerstein about various aspects of ancient Greek tragedy (and, in some cases, other related genres). It complements his recent collection of studies in Greek comedy, Talking about Laughter (OUP, 2009). Some of the...
Third Edition. — Routledge, 2015. — 294 p. — ISBN: 978-0-415-72728-0. The Greeks has provided a concise yet wide-ranging introduction to the culture of ancient Greece. In this new and expanded third edition, the best-selling volume offers a lucid survey that covers all the key elements of ancient Greek civilization from the age of Homer to the Hellenistic period. It provides...
De Gruyter, 2019. — 234 p. — (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes 83). This book is an addition to the burgeoning secondary literature on ancient emotions. Its primary aim is to suggest possible ways in which recent approaches to emotions can help us understand significant aspects of persuasion in classical antiquity and, especially audiences' psychological manipulation...
Classical Press of Wales, 2000. — 288 p. The Greeks, in Dr. Johnson's phrase, 'shock the mind by ascribing effects to non-entity'. The culture of ancient Greece was thronged with personifications. In poetry and the visual arts, personified figures of what might seem abstractions claim our attention. This study examines the logic, the psychology and the practice of Greeks who...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 326 p. This study explores the phenomenon of spectators in the Classical world through a database built from a census of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, which reveals that spectator figures flourished in Athenian vase painting during the last two-thirds of the sixth century BCE. Using models developed from psychoanalysis and the theory of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 320 p. Why did the Greeks of the archaic and early Classical period join in choruses that sang and danced on public and private occasions? This book offers a wide-ranging exploration of representations of chorality in the poetry, art and material remains of early Greece in order to demonstrate the centrality of the activity in the social,...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 320 p. Why did the Greeks of the archaic and early Classical period join in choruses that sang and danced on public and private occasions? This book offers a wide-ranging exploration of representations of chorality in the poetry, art and material remains of early Greece in order to demonstrate the centrality of the activity in the social,...
Princeton University Press, 2002. — 384 p. In archaic and classical Greece, statues played a constant role in people’s religious, political, economic, aesthetic, and mental lives. Evidence of many kinds demonstrates that ancient Greeks thought about - and interacted with - statues in ways very different from our own. This book recovers ancient thinking about statues by...
Princeton University Press, 2002. — 384 p. In archaic and classical Greece, statues played a constant role in people’s religious, political, economic, aesthetic, and mental lives. Evidence of many kinds demonstrates that ancient Greeks thought about - and interacted with - statues in ways very different from our own. This book recovers ancient thinking about statues by...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 384 p. While there have been many studies devoted to the major heroes and heroines of Homeric epic, among them Achilles, Odysseus, and Helen, the figure of Menelaus has remained notably overlooked in this strand of scholarship. Menelaus in the Archaic Period is the first book-length study of the Homeric character, taking a multidisciplinary...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 384 p. While there have been many studies devoted to the major heroes and heroines of Homeric epic, among them Achilles, Odysseus, and Helen, the figure of Menelaus has remained notably overlooked in this strand of scholarship. Menelaus in the Archaic Period is the first book-length study of the Homeric character, taking a multidisciplinary...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 304 p. Greek tragedy is one of the most important cultural legacies of the classical world, with a rich and varied history and reception, yet it appears to have its roots in a very particular place and time. The authors of the surviving works of Greek tragic drama-Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides-were all from one city, Athens, and all lived...
London: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., 1911. — 520 p. Classical work on the history of ancient Greek culture. "Greece" and "Greek" mean different things to different people. The historian, of course, will inform us that all Western civilisation has Greece for its mother. The author aims to throw some fresh light upon the secret of that people’s greatness. It cannot be done by studying...
Good Press, 2019. — 516 p. Classical work on the history of ancient Greek culture. "Greece" and "Greek" mean different things to different people. The historian, of course, will inform us that all Western civilisation has Greece for its mother. The author aims to throw some fresh light upon the secret of that people’s greatness. It cannot be done by studying their history only....
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 464 p. The Sourcebook of Ancient Greek Athletics offers the most comprehensive collection to date of primary sources in translation for the study of ancient Greek athletics. Because Greek athletics was such an essential feature of both Greek and Roman culture, there is an especially strong need for proper treatment and understanding of the texts...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 464 p. The Sourcebook of Ancient Greek Athletics offers the most comprehensive collection to date of primary sources in translation for the study of ancient Greek athletics. Because Greek athletics was such an essential feature of both Greek and Roman culture, there is an especially strong need for proper treatment and understanding of the texts...
Princeton University Press, 2019. — 548 p. When the Greeks and Macedonians in Alexander’s army reached India in 326 BCE, they entered a new and strange world. They knew a few legends and travelers’ tales, but their categories of thought were inadequate to encompass what they witnessed. The plants were unrecognizable, their properties unknown. The customs of the people were various...
Princeton University Press, 2019. — 548 p. When the Greeks and Macedonians in Alexander’s army reached India in 326 BCE, they entered a new and strange world. They knew a few legends and travelers’ tales, but their categories of thought were inadequate to encompass what they witnessed. The plants were unrecognizable, their properties unknown. The customs of the people were various...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 256 p. Agamemnon is the first of the three plays within the Oresteia trilogy and is considered to be one of Aeschylus' greatest works. This collection of 12 essays, written by prominent international academics, brings together a wide range of topics surrounding Agamemnon from its relationship with ancient myth and ritual to its modern reception....
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 256 p. Agamemnon is the first of the three plays within the Oresteia trilogy and is considered to be one of Aeschylus' greatest works. This collection of 12 essays, written by prominent international academics, brings together a wide range of topics surrounding Agamemnon from its relationship with ancient myth and ritual to its modern reception....
Cambridge University Press, 1992. — 213 p. — (Key Themes in Ancient History).
This book explores the role of written and oral communication in Greece and is the first systematic and sustained treatment at this level. It examines the recent theoretical debates about literacy and orality and explores the uses of writing and oral communication, and their interaction, in ancient...
Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2002. — 224 p. — ISBN: 1851682988 (ISBN13: 9781851682980). Contained in this illustrated anthology are insights from all the key thinkers of Ancient Greek civilization, from Homer to Sophocles and Socrates. Dates of some key writers included in this anthology Wisdom, philosophy and learning Friendship, love and passion Moderation and diligence...
Walter de Gruyter, 2011. — 526 S. — (Image & Context 9). Menschliche Figuren mit Flügeln kennt der Betrachter von Bildern auch heutzutage, vor allem als Engel. Auf griechischen Vasenbildern sind Flügelfiguren ebenfalls häufig zu sehen. Dort stehen sie jedoch in einem ganz anderen kulturellen und speziell religiösen Zusammenhang. Welche Bedeutung haben sie in diesen Kontexten,...
Westview Press, 1997. — xvii, 282 p. — ISBN 0-8133-3225-7. Eros: The Myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality is a controversial book that lays bare the meanings Greeks gave to sex. Contrary to the romantic idealization of sex dominating our culture, the Greeks saw eros as a powerful force of nature, potentially dangerous and in need of control by society: Eros the Destroyer, not Cupid...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 264 p. This volume explores irony – in its essence, saying other than one actually means – in the collected works of Xenophon. Xenophon's Other Voice argues that there are two voices in the author: one ostensible at the level of the literal text, which is available to everyone, while the sub-title designates the other voice, which is less obvious to...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 264 p. This volume explores irony – in its essence, saying other than one actually means – in the collected works of Xenophon. Xenophon's Other Voice argues that there are two voices in the author: one ostensible at the level of the literal text, which is available to everyone, while the sub-title designates the other voice, which is less obvious to...
De Gruyter, 2016. — 254 p. This book has chapters on methodology, on the writing of the first decrees and laws of the years ca. 515 to 450 B.C., on unique examples of writing of ca. 450 to 400, on the inscribers of the Lapis Primus and Lapis Secundus (IG I3 259-280), and on those of the Attic Stelai (IG I3 421-430). These are followed by studies of 11 individual cutters...
De Gruyter, 2016. — 254 p. This book has chapters on methodology, on the writing of the first decrees and laws of the years ca. 515 to 450 B.C., on unique examples of writing of ca. 450 to 400, on the inscribers of the Lapis Primus and Lapis Secundus (IG I3 259-280), and on those of the Attic Stelai (IG I3 421-430). These are followed by studies of 11 individual cutters...
University of Texas Press, 2012. — 222 p. After fending off Persia in the fifth century BCE, Athens assumed a leadership position in the Aegean world. Initially it led the Delian League, a military alliance against the Persians, but eventually the league evolved into an empire with Athens in control and exacting tribute from its former allies. Athenians justified this...
Liverpool University Press, 2023. — 230 p. Talking to Tyrants breaks new ground in the study of Classical Greek history and political thought, exploring the previously unexamined question of how citizens of Greek city-states approached interaction with kings, tyrants, and other absolute rulers. Throughout history, states that value collective government and civic liberties have...
Praeger, 2008. — 192 p. Exploring models for masculinity as they appear in major works of Greek literature, this book combines literary, historical, and psychological insights to examine how the ancient Greeks understood the meaning of a man's life. The thoughts and actions of Achilles, Odysseus, Oedipus, and other enduring characters from Greek literature reflect the...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. — 160 p. Drawing on ancient mythical patterns & modern psychology, this book explores the rich & mysterious interplay between life & art. Thomas Van Nortwick examines two masterpieces of Greek tragic poetry, Sophocles' Oedipus Rex & Oedipus at Colonus, as symbolic representations of the masculine life cycle. Tracing Oedipus' painful voyage of...
Oxford University Press, 1996. — 224 p. The ancient hero's quest for glory offers metaphors for our own struggles to reach personal integrity and wholeness. In this compelling book, Van Nortwick traces the heroic journeys in three seminal works of ancient epic poetry, The Epic of Gilgamesh , Homer's Iliad , and Virgil's Aeneid . In particular, he focuses on the relationship of...
Lexington Books, 2005. — 190 p. "Women's Work" as Political Art traces the evolution of weaving as metaphor in Homer's Odyssey , Aristophanes' Lysistrata , and Plato's Statesman and Phaedo . This figurative technique represents a dialectical approach to politics that combines disparate individuals within a greater community through philosophic inquiry. Expanding on feminist...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. — 392 p. The black hunter travels through the mountains and forests of Greek mythology, living on the frontier of the city-state, of adulthood, of class, of ethics, of sexuality. Taking its title from this figure, The Black Hunter approaches the Greek world from its margins and charts the elaborate system of oppositions that pervaded Greek...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. — 392 p. The black hunter travels through the mountains and forests of Greek mythology, living on the frontier of the city-state, of adulthood, of class, of ethics, of sexuality. Taking its title from this figure, The Black Hunter approaches the Greek world from its margins and charts the elaborate system of oppositions that pervaded Greek...
NY: The Metropolitan museum of art, 1982. — 51 p. The New York supplement to the official catalogue of the exhibition The Search for Alexander describes the added objects that were not shown in the Washington D.C. venue of the show. The new material is drawn mainly from the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, but also includes the Amphipolis hoard lent by the New York...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957. — 278 p. The author tells us that this work started as a doctoral thesis on Amazons in Greek Art to the End of Attic Black-Figure; that it has now been entirely rewritten and brought down to the end of the fifth century; that Etruscan and Italiote Amazons have been excluded but will be treated elsewhere; and that within those limits an attempt has...
Zea Books, 2020. — 428 p. When the Greek leader Agamemnon took for himself the woman awarded to Achilles as his spoils of battle, the warrior’s resulting anger and outrage nearly cost his side the war. Beyond the woman herself was what she symbolised - a matter of esteem rather than material value. In Archaic Greece the practices of gift giving existed alongside an economy of...
Routledge, 2020. — 188 p. This volume argues that ancient Greek girls and early Christian virgins and their families made use of rhetorically similar traditions of marriage to an otherworldly bridegroom in order to handle the problem of a girl’s denied or disrupted transition into adulthood. In both ancient Greece and early Christian Rome, the standard female transition into...
Routledge, 2020. — 188 p. This volume argues that ancient Greek girls and early Christian virgins and their families made use of rhetorically similar traditions of marriage to an otherworldly bridegroom in order to handle the problem of a girl’s denied or disrupted transition into adulthood. In both ancient Greece and early Christian Rome, the standard female transition into...
Walter de Gruyter, 2015. — 437 S. — (Image & Context 14). Die Monographie arbeitet erstmals an den Formen, Bildern und Inschriften der attischen Grabmäler die Athener Haltung dem Tod gegenüber, ihren Wandel in der geometrischen, archaischen und klassischen Zeit (1000–300 v. Chr.), und den grundsätzlichen Unterschied von der christlich-abendländischen heraus. Gleich bleibt in...
Walter de Gruyter, 2015. — 437 S. — (Image & Context 14). Die Monographie arbeitet erstmals an den Formen, Bildern und Inschriften der attischen Grabmäler die Athener Haltung dem Tod gegenüber, ihren Wandel in der geometrischen, archaischen und klassischen Zeit (1000–300 v. Chr.), und den grundsätzlichen Unterschied von der christlich-abendländischen heraus. Gleich bleibt in...
Walter de Gruyter, 2015. — 367 S. — (Image & Context 3). Das Komische ist ein wesentliches Element jeder Kultur. Es entfaltet seine Wirkung im Spiel mit geltenden Normen, im gezielten Überschreiten der von Anstand und Sitte gesetzten Grenzen, im Unterlaufen der Gesetze einer herrschenden Logik. Seinen Platz findet es vor allem im Performativen, so dass Fest, Tanz und...
Walter de Gruyter, 2015. — 367 S. — (Image & Context 3). Das Komische ist ein wesentliches Element jeder Kultur. Es entfaltet seine Wirkung im Spiel mit geltenden Normen, im gezielten Überschreiten der von Anstand und Sitte gesetzten Grenzen, im Unterlaufen der Gesetze einer herrschenden Logik. Seinen Platz findet es vor allem im Performativen, so dass Fest, Tanz und...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2017. — 184 p. — (Wisconsin Studies in Classics). The Persica is an extensive history of Assyria and Persia written by the Greek historian Ctesias, who served as a doctor to the Persian king Artaxerxes II around 400 bce. Written for a Greek readership, the Persica influenced the development of both historiographic and literary traditions in...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 432 p. In The Rise of the Greek Aristocratic Banquet , Wecowski offers a comprehensive account of the origins of the symposion and its close relationship with the rise of the Greek city-state, or polis. Broadly defined as a culture-oriented aristocratic banquet, the symposion - which literally means "drinking together" - was a nocturnal wine party...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 240 p. - First study to analyze female characters' trauma in tragedies about homecoming - Offers innovative synthesis of modern trauma research and theory with historical and literary analysis of tragedy - Advocates for more inclusive understanding of harmful consequences of war and critiques social hierarchies that exclude or marginalize...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 432 p. This work examines how politicians in late classical Athens made persuasive use of the city’s past when addressing mass citizen audiences, especially in the law courts and Assembly. It focuses on Demosthenes and Aeschines - both prominent statesmen, and bitter rivals - as its case-study orators. Recent scholarly treatments of how the...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 432 p. This work examines how politicians in late classical Athens made persuasive use of the city’s past when addressing mass citizen audiences, especially in the law courts and Assembly. It focuses on Demosthenes and Aeschines - both prominent statesmen, and bitter rivals - as its case-study orators. Recent scholarly treatments of how the...
Harrassowitz Verlag, 2016. — 237 p. — (Classica et Orientalia 13). Der Band bietet die indienbezogenen Beitrage der Tagung "Bilder des Orients: Megasthenes, Apollodoros von Artemita und Isidoros von Charax", die vom 27.06. bis zum 30.06.2012 am Institut für Klassische Altertumskunde der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel stattfand. Megasthenes bot sich als zentraler...
Armida Publications, 2017. — 153 p. Most of us associate Aphrodite – also known as Venus – with love, beauty, and fertility, but the symbolic value of this goddess is by far more complex than we would have known or dared to believe. The remarkable and unique ancient civilization of the Cypriots is also reflected in their cults and religious perceptions. From the earliest...
Edited by David M. Halperin and Kirk Ormand. — Princeton University Press, 2023. — 272 p. A bold reconception of ancient Greek drama by one of the most brilliant and original classical scholars of his generation. When John Winkler died in 1990, he left an unpublished manuscript containing a highly original interpretation of the development and meaning of ancient Greek drama....
Edited by David M. Halperin and Kirk Ormand. — Princeton University Press, 2023. — 272 p. A bold reconception of ancient Greek drama by one of the most brilliant and original classical scholars of his generation. When John Winkler died in 1990, he left an unpublished manuscript containing a highly original interpretation of the development and meaning of ancient Greek drama....
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 384 p.
In this book, Roger D. Woodard argues that when the Greeks first began to use the alphabet, they viewed themselves as participants in a performance phenomenon conceptually modeled on the performances of the oral poets. Since a time older than Greek antiquity, the oral poets of Indo-European tradition had been called "weavers of words"...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 320 p. In the history of ancient Macedonia, the last three Antigonid kings--Philip V (r. 221-179), his son Perseus (r. 179-168), and the pretender Andriscus or Philip VI (r. 149-148)--are commonly overlooked in favor of their predecessors Philip II (r. 359-336) and his son Alexander the Great (r. 336-323), who established a Macedonian empire. By...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 280 p. This book answers the question 'How did Athenian drama shape ideas about civic identity?' through the medium of three case studies focusing on props. Traditional responses to the question have overlooked the significance of props which were symbolically implicated in Athenian ideology, yet the key objects explored in this study (voting urns...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 360 p. The Persian War was one of the most significant events in ancient history. It halted Persia's westward expansion, inspired the Golden Age of Greece, and propelled Athens to the heights of power. From the end of the war almost to the end of antiquity, the Greeks and later the Romans recalled the battles and heroes of this war with unabated...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 360 p. The Persian War was one of the most significant events in ancient history. It halted Persia's westward expansion, inspired the Golden Age of Greece, and propelled Athens to the heights of power. From the end of the war almost to the end of antiquity, the Greeks and later the Romans recalled the battles and heroes of this war with unabated...
Springer International Publishing, 2020. — 270 p. The book offers the first comprehensive account of the debate on true courage as it was raging in ancient Greece, from the times when the immensely influential Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, were composed, to the period of the equally influential author, Aristotle. The many voices that contribute to this debate...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2008. — 320 с. — ISBN: 978-5-91419-038-2. В работе прослежена эволюция античной художественной культуры от мифологических образов к изображению человека в своеобразии его внешнего облика и индивидуальных черт характера. Автором представлена панорама развития древнегреческого общества, в недрах которого возник уникальный тип античной культуры, где большое значение...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2008. — 320 с. — ISBN: 978-5-91419-038-2. В работе прослежена эволюция античной художественной культуры от мифологических образов к изображению человека в своеобразии его внешнего облика и индивидуальных черт характера. Автором представлена панорама развития древнегреческого общества, в недрах которого возник уникальный тип античной культуры, где большое значение...
Второ електронно издание. — София, 2006.
Изложение основ древнегреческой культуры. Издание на болгарском языке предназначено для студентов класической филологии и для всех, кто интересуется древнегреческой культуры.
Ростов н/Д: Феникс, 1994. - 892 с. - ISBN: 5-85880-082-3.
Качество: Отсканированные страницы + слой распознанного текста
Книга известного швейцарского ученого А. Боннара — уникальное по глубине и яркости исследование истории греческой цивилизации. Переведенная на многие европейские языки, она дает наиболее полную художественно и философски осмысленную картину греческой...
Т. I. От Илиады до Парфенона / Пер. с франц. О. В. Волкова; Предисл. проф. В.
И. Авдиева. — М.: Искусство, 1992 — 269 с.
Книга известного швейцарского ученого А. Боннара - уникальное по глубине и яркости исследование истории греческой цивилизации. Переведенная на многие европейские языки, она дает наиболее полную, художественно и философски осмысленную картину греческой...
Т. 3-й. От Еврипида до Александрии. — М.: Искусство, 1991. — 398 с: ил.
Последняя из трех книг известного швейцарского ученого А. Боннара, завершающая его блестящее исследование греческой цивилизации. Третий том знакомит читателя с эпохой поздней античности — временем походов Александра Македонского, философии Аристотеля и Платона, драматургии Еврипида, ораторского искусства...
М.: Искусство, 1991. — 269 с., ил.
Пер. с франц. О. В. Волкова; Предисл. проф. В. И. Авдиева.
Книга известного швейцарского ученого А. Боннара — уникальное по глубине и яркости исследование истории греческой цивилизации. Переведенная на многие европейские языки, она дает наиболее полную, художественно и философски осмысленную картину греческой культуры, от ее истоков до...
М.: Искусство, 1991. — 334 с., ил.
Пер. с франц. О. В. Волкова; Редакция и предисловие Ф. А. Петровского.
Книга известного швейцарского ученого А. Боннара — уникальное по глубине и яркости исследование истории греческой цивилизации. Переведенная на многие европейские языки, она дает наиболее полную, художественно и философски осмысленную картину греческой культуры, от ее истоков...
СПб.: Издание М.О. Вольфа, 1868. — 345 с. Пер. П. Евстафиева. Работа представляет собой исторический очерк повседневной и политической жизни эллинов в XI-VI вв. до н.э. Автор уделил значительное внимание рассмотрению древнегреческой мифологии, а также достижений древних греков в области науки и искусства. Аннотация от издательства: "Предлагаемая "Эллада" есть плод труда...
М.: Ад Маргинем, 2022. — 206 с. ил. — ISBN 978-5-91103-612-6. Книга Сьюзен Вудфорд представляет собой краткое введение в святая святых античного искусства, в мир интерпретаций и поисков совершенной формы. Древние мастера жили в эпоху мифов и сами были их творцами, экспериментируя с разными техниками и материалами, споря с идеями и сюжетами авторитетных мифологических циклов (о...
Пер. Ю. Евсеевой. — Москва: Ад Маргинем, 2022. — 288 с. — ISBN 978-5-91103-612-6. Книга Сьюзен Вудфорд представляет собой краткое введение в святая святых античного искусства, в мир интерпретаций и поисков совершенной формы. Древние мастера жили в эпоху мифов и сами были их творцами, экспериментируя с разными техниками и материалами, споря с идеями и сюжетами авторитетных...
Новосибирск: Наука, Сибирское отделение, 1990. — 335 с. — ISBN 5-02-0291-41-2. В монографии мифологические представления древних греков о судьбе исследуются главным образом с точки зрения малоразработанной историко-философской проблемы генезиса категорий закона, необходимости и случайности. Особое внимание уделяется анализу важнейших аспектов концептуального содержания...
Новосибирск: Наука, , Сибирское отделение, 1990. — 335 с. — ISBN 5-02-0291-41-2. В монографии мифологические представления древних греков о судьбе исследуются главным образом с точки зрения малоразработанной историко-философской проблемы генезиса категорий закона, необходимости и случайности. Особое внимание уделяется анализу важнейших аспектов концептуального содержания...
Русская мысль. - М., 1916. - Год тридцать седьмой, кн. IX. - С. 41-69. Зелинский Фаддей Францевич (1859-1944) - филолог-классик, поэт-переводчик. Изучал древнюю историю и классическую филологию в Лейпцигском университете; в 1880 г. защитил там же докторскую диссертацию. С 1887 г. - экстраординарный, с 1890 г. - ординарный профессор Петербургского университета. Обладая...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2005. — 189 с. — ISBN 5-9524-1834-1 Авторы, через поэтический эпос Гомера, пытаются воссоздать подлинные картины жизни в Древней Греции. Объемно и полно представлены все аспекты бытия древних греков: дворцовые покои и их расположение, снаряжение кораблей, оружие, процесс ткачества, жертвоприношение богам. Книга приоткрывает тайны античного мира времен...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2008. — 176 с.
Вино - душа древнегреческой культуры. Симпосий, дружеская попойка и, одновременно, один из самых значимых социальных институтов, - одно из главных мест, где зарождались и производились культурные смыслы и формы. Книга Франсуа Лиссаррага, одного из лучших современных французских эллинистов, через анализ симпосия и действующих в...
Москва: Новое литературное обозрение, 2008. — 176 с. — ISBN: 978-5-86793-604-4. Вино - душа древнегреческой культуры. Симпосий, дружеская попойка и, одновременно, один из самых значимых социальных институтов, - одно из главных мест, где зарождались и производились культурные смыслы и формы. Книга Франсуа Лиссаррага, одного из лучших современных французских эллинистов, через...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2008. — 224 с. Вино - душа древнегреческой культуры. Симпосий, дружеская попойка и, одновременно, один из самых значимых социальных институтов, - одно из главных мест, где зарождались и производились культурные смыслы и формы. Книга Франсуа Лиссаррага, одного из лучших современных французских эллинистов, через анализ симпосия и действующих в...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2005. — 219 с. Историй Древней Греции продолжает хранить многочисленные загадки и противоречия. Одним из самых острых является вопрос о древнегреческом театре и не только о его начале, но и о "Золотом веке". Сегодня принято считать классическую трагедию высшей формой драматического искусства и ассоциировать ее с первой европейской "сценой" театра Диониса. Однако,...
Москва: Центрополиграф, 2008. — 255 с. — ISBN 978-5-9524-3825-5. Живыми и полными человеческих страстей предстают перед нами герои греческих мифов. Они общаются с простыми смертными, вступают с ними в любовные союзы, мстят недругам и помогают избранникам. Древние греки видели мифологических персонажей существами, в которых все свойственное людям проявляется многократно...
Ростов н/Д.: Ростовский государственный университет путей сообщения, 2000. — 24 с.
Рассказывается о культуре эллинской античности, образе жизни и структуре мировоззрения, об общественно-политических и естественнонаучных взглядах, искусстве древней Греции. Предназначены для студентов ИТ курса всех специальностей, аспирантов, изучающих курс культурологии, и преподавателей всех...
М.: Common place, 2017. — 494 с. — ISBN: 978-999999-0-23-3. Древняя Греция внесла определяющий вклад в европейскую культурную традицию. Софокл и Эзоп, Фидий и Платон, Гомер и Сафо, Евклид и Гиппократ, Перикл и Геродот – эти имена волнуют нас и по сей день, и именно в Элладе впервые появились театр, философия и большинство наук. Но что о своем мире думали сами эллины? Как они...
Учеб. пособие. – М.: Высшая школа, 2008. – 460 с.
ISBN 978-5-06-005593-1
Книга посвящена древнегреческой культуре, лежащей в основе современной европейской цивилизации. В ней изящным языком рассказывается о религии, литературе, музыке, театре, экономической, военной и естественной науках. Автор рассматривает рациональное и простое устройство древнегреческого общества, гармонию...
Учеб. пособие. – М.: Высшая школа, 2008. – 462 с. ISBN: 978-5-06-005593-1 Книга посвящена древнегреческой культуре, лежащей в основе современной европейской цивилизации. В ней изящным языком рассказывается о религии, литературе, музыке, театре, экономической, военной и естественной науках. Автор рассматривает рациональное и простое устройство древнегреческого общества, гармонию...
М.: Языки славянской культуры, 2015. — 720 с. — (Studia historica). — ISBN: 978-5-94457-236-3. В книгу вошли очерки, написанные автором в разные годы на достаточно разнообразные темы. Рассматриваются как общие проблемы менталитета эллинов, так и вопросы более конкретные, связанные с античной греческой религией (включая мифологию и спортивные игры), с правовым, историческим,...
М.: Вече, 2024. — 400 с. — (Античный мир). — ISBN 978-5-4484-4532-3. Вклад древних греков в мировую и особенно европейскую историю колоссален. Античная греческая цивилизация - в полном смысле слова фундамент всей последующей жизни Европы. Без преувеличения можно сказать, что никакой другой народ не обогатил культурную сокровищницу человечества таким количеством шедевров и...
М.: Русский фонд содействия образованию и науке, 2012. — 450 с. Вклад древних греков в мировую и особенно европейскую историю колоссален. Античная греческая цивилизация – в полном смысле слова фундамент всей последующей жизни Европы. Без преувеличения можно сказать, что ни один другой народ не обогатил культурную сокровищницу человечества таким количеством шедевров и плодотворных...
СПб: Алетейя, 1999. — 717 с. Книга состоит из статей, написанных в разное время и по различному поводу, но одинаково недоступных широкому кругу любителей и ценителей истории античной культуры. Включенные в сборник исследования охватывают древнегреческую культуру, выраженную преимущественно в мифе и символе, начиная от глубокой древности, от Гомера и орфических космогоний, и...
СПб: Алетейя, 1999. — 717 с. Книга состоит из статей, написанных в разное время и по различному поводу, но одинаково недоступных широкому кругу любителей и ценителей истории античной культуры. Включенные в сборник исследования охватывают древнегреческую культуру, выраженную преимущественно в мифе и символе, начиная от глубокой древности, от Гомера и орфических космогоний, и...
СПб.: Алетейя, 1999. — 717 с. Книга состоит из статей, написанных в разное время и по различному поводу, но одинаково недоступных широкому кругу любителей и ценителей истории античной культуры. Включенные в сборник исследования охватывают древнегреческую культуру, выраженную преимущественно в мифе и символе, начиная от глубокой древности, от Гомера и орфических космогоний, и...
М.: Ад Маргинем Пресс, 2002. — 115 с. — ISBN 978-5-91103-701-7. Известный немецкий археолог Тонио Хёльшер предлагает свою интерпретацию фресок так называемой Гробницы ныряльщика в Пестуме, открытой в 1968 году, — уникального памятника греческой живописи классического периода. Восстанавливая исторический контекст произведения, Хёльшер расходится с его метафизическими...
Пер. М. Сокольской. — Москва: Ад Маргинем Пресс, 2023. — 160 с. — ISBN 978-5-91103-701-7. Известный немецкий археолог Тонио Хёльшер предлагает свою интерпретацию фресок так называемой Гробницы ныряльщика в Пестуме, открытой в 1968 году, - уникального памятника греческой живописи классического периода. Восстанавливая исторический контекст произведения, Хёльшер расходится с его...
Пер. М. Сокольской. — Москва: Ад Маргинем Пресс, 2023. — 160 с. — ISBN 978-5-91103-701-7. Известный немецкий археолог Тонио Хёльшер предлагает свою интерпретацию фресок так называемой Гробницы ныряльщика в Пестуме, открытой в 1968 году, - уникального памятника греческой живописи классического периода. Восстанавливая исторический контекст произведения, Хёльшер расходится с его...
Київ, 2003. — 102 с.
Навчальний посібник створено на основі лекційного курсу «Антична культура», який читається на гуманітарному факультеті НаУКМА. Він містить необхідний для гуманітаріїв-початківців пропедевтичний матеріал про давньогрецьку культуру як систему, її топіку та морфологію, основні типи духовної діяльності, ментальність, картину світу давньогрецькою соціуму,...
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