Language & Literature
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Plutarch and History: Eighteen studies [Paperback]
Christopher Pelling (Author)
$66.00ISBN: 9781905125531
Published by : Classical Press of Wales
Much of ancient history can only be written thanks to evidence supplied by Plutarch. His historical methods and qualities were for long subjected to little systematic analysis. However, in recent decades, an authoritative and profoundly influen... .... Learn More -
Xenophon: Greece, Persia, and Beyond [Paperback]
Bogdan Burliga (Author)
$30.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9788375311037
Published by : Akanthina
Series: MONOGRAPH SERIES AKANTHINA
Volume: 5
The importance of Xenophon as a historical source for the history of Greece in the classical period has long been recognised as an established fact. Many scholars also rightly judge him to be a priceless source of information about the Achemen... .... Learn More -
Reading Games in the Greek Novel [Hardback]
Eleni Papargyriou (Author)
$89.50ISBN: 9781906540838
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
How is play constituent in the formation of the Greek modernist novel? Reflecting competition with European and North American models as well as internal antagonism with more established literary genres in Greece, the novel after the 1930s empl... .... Learn More -
Echoing Narratives: Studies of Intertextuality in Greek and Roman Prose Fiction [Hardback]
Konstantin Doulamis (Editor)
$102.00ISBN: 9789077922859
Published by : Barkhuis
Series: Ancient Narrative Supplementum
Volume: 13
Intertextuality has been recognised as an important feature of ancient prose fiction and yet it has only received sporadic attention in modern scholarship, despite the recent explosion of interest in the ancient novels. This volume is intended to ... .... Learn More -
Euripides: Medea [Hardback]
Judith Mossman (Author)
$85.00ISBN: 9780856687839
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Classical Texts
Jason, in exile in Corinth, is marrying the king's daughter. It looks as though his problems are over, though it's hard on Medea, who has betrayed her family for him, followed him all the way from Colchis, killed for him, and borne him two sons... .... Learn More -
Euripides: Medea [Paperback]
Judith Mossman (Author)
$38.00ISBN: 9780856687884
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Classical Texts
Jason, in exile in Corinth, is marrying the king's daughter. It looks as though his problems are over, though it's hard on Medea, who has betrayed her family for him, followed him all the way from Colchis, killed for him, and borne him two sons... .... Learn More -
Metics and the Athenian Phialai Inscriptions [Hardback]
Elizabeth AA Meyer (Author)
$84.00ISBN: 9783515093316
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Beneath the shining world of the citizen of Classical Athens was the perilous shadow-realm of the resident foreigner, the metic. Emblematic of the status of metic was the requirement to pay a special metic tax, the metoikion. And if a metic failed... .... Learn More -
Arion's Lyre: Archaic Lyric into Hellenistic Poetry [Hardback]
Benjamin Acosta-Hughes (Author)
Regular Price: $45.00
Special Price: $19.98
ISBN: 9780691095257
Published by : Princeton University Press
This study examines how Hellenistic poetic culture adapted, reinterpreted, and transformed Archaic Greek lyric through a complex process of textual, cultural, and creative reception. Looking at the ways in which the poetry of Sappho, Alcaeus, Ibyc... .... Learn More -
Ancient Greek Epigrams [Paperback]
Gordon L. Fain (Author)
Regular Price: $24.95
Special Price: $7.98
ISBN: 9780520265806
Published by : University of California Press
This volume presents a selection of Greek epigrams in verse translation, including many from the recently discovered Milan papyrus. The poets represented are Anyte, Leonidas of Tarentum, Asclepiades, Posidippus, Callimachus, Theocritus, Meleager, ... .... Learn More -
Testimonia: Die literarischen Zeugnisse über das antike Aigina von Homer bis in byzantinische Zeit [Paperback]
Jörg Weilhartner (Author)
$186.00ISBN: 9783700160618
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: Denkschriften der Gesamtakademie
Volume: LVII
The island of Aegina lies in the middle of the Saronic Gulf between the east coast of the Argolid and the south coast of Attica. Because of its favoured geographical position it was of great strategic and supra-regional economic importance. Co... .... Learn More