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Michigan Classical Press
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Sappho's Gift: The Poet and Her Community
by Franco Ferrari, translated by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes and Lucia Prauscello
Now available in English for the first time, Franco Ferrari's important Sappho's Gift: The Poet and Her Community offers extraordinary new insight into the life and works of Sappho, one of the ancient world's most brilliant poets. One of the very few women writers whose works have survived from antiquity, Sappho occupies a unique spot in literature in part because of her gender but more importantly because of the light she sheds on her ...
Hardback. Price US$62.00
The Well-Read Muse: Present and Past in Callimachus and the Hellenistic Poets
by Peter Bing
"Tradition and originality, the interplay of present and past, are a concern of poets in any age. " Peter Bing's seminal monograph, The Well-Read Muse: Present and Past in Callimachus and the Hellenistic Poets, chases this idea through the thickets of Hellenistic poetry and particularly among the lines of Callimachus' Hymn to Delos.
In this carefully argued and stimulating study, the author investigates the era in which ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$35.00, Our Price US$20.00
Generic Composition in Greek and Roman Poetry
by Francis Cairns
Original in conception and powerful in scope, Generic Composition in Greek and Roman Poetry remains one of the most important books on early Greek, Hellenistic and Roman poetry in a generation. First published in the philological climate of the early 1970s, Francis Cairns' book was among the first works that sought to further our comprehension of difficult or obscure ancient poems by applying new literary-critical conventions and ...
Hardback. Price US$40.00
The Roman Empire of Ammianus
by John Matthews
John Matthews' brilliant analysis of Ammianus and his world is foundational for the study of the Roman Empire in the fourth century CE. Matthews' Ammianus is a man very much in touch with his times, engaged in many of the exciting events that he describes, and a commentator motivated by a passionate devotion to justice.
The empire that he depicts in The Roman Empire of Ammianus is undergoing a profoundly important intellectual ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$60.00, Our Price US$30.00
Thucydidean Narrative & Discourse
by Mabel L. Lang, edited by Jeffrey S. Rusten, Richard Hamilton, and Eleanor Dickey
Mabel Lang's long career as a scholar and teacher has given her a unique perspective on one of the most important authors in western literature. Thucydidean Narrative and Discourse brings together several of her most thoughtful papers on figures and issues including the 400, Cleon, and Alcibiades, and joins them with new material on narrative technique.
The assembled papers are an important complement to Professor Lang's ...
Hardback. Price US$65.00
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