Greece

Archilochos Heros: Diskin Clay; The discovery of the Mnesiepes inscription on Paros revealed the third century B.C. belief that the young Archilochos was transformed into a poet by an encounter with the Muses. It also revealed that the poet had become the object of a cult by his fellow islanders as he was transformed in death to a local hero. This is the first attempt to trace the history of this cult and addresses for the first time the larger phenomenon of the cult of poets in the Greek states.; Paperback 2005

The Ascension of Authorship: Jed Wyrick; This book traces the history of the idea of the author in the ancient world, beginning with the attribution practices of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism. Wyrick argues that the fusion of Jewish and Hellenistic approaches toward attribution helped lead to St. Augustine's reinvention of the writer of scripture as an author whose texts were governed by both divine will and human intent.; Paperback 2004 / Hardcover 2004

Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Walter Burkert; At the distant beginning of Western civilization, according to European tradition, Greece stands as an insular, isolated, near-miracle of burgeoning culture. This book traverses the ancient world's three great centers of cultural exchange--Babylonian Nineveh, Egyptian Memphis, and Iranian Persepolis--to situate classical Greece in its proper historical place, at the Western margin of a more comprehensive Near Eastern-Aegean cultural community that emerged in the Bronze Age and expanded westward in the first millennium B.C.; Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2007

Black Doves Speak: Rosaria Munson; In Greek thought, barbaroi are utterers of unintelligible or inarticulate sounds. What importance does the text of Herodotus's Histories attribute to language as a criterion of ethnic identity? The answer to this question illuminates the empirical foundations of Herodotus's pluralistic worldview.; Paperback 2005

Commentaries on Plato, Volume 1, Phaedrus and Ion: Marsilio Ficino; Edited and translated by Michael J. B. Allen; Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. This volume contains Ficino’s extended analysis and commentary on the Phaedrus.; Hardcover 2008

Comparative Anthropology of Ancient Greece: Marcel Detienne; Comparative Anthropology of Ancient Greece looks at the anthropology of the Greeks and other cultures across space and time, and in the process discovers aspects of the art of comparability. Marcel Detienne tries to see how cultural systems react not just to a touchstone category, but also to the questions and concepts that arise from the reaction.; Paperback

The Death of Socrates: Emily Wilson; Socrates's death in 399 BCE has figured largely in our world ever since, shaping how we think about heroism and celebrity, religion and family life, state control and individual freedom, the distance of intellectual life from daily activity--many of the key coordinates of Western culture. In this book, Wilson analyzes the enormous and enduring power the trial and death of Socrates has exerted over the Western imagination.; Hardcover 2007

Demons and Dancers: Ruth Webb; Compared to the wealth of information available to us about classical tragedy and comedy, not much is known about the culture of pantomime, mime, and dance in late antiquity. Webb fills this gap in our knowledge of the ancient world and provides us with a detailed look at social life in the late antique period through an investigation of its performance culture.; Hardcover 2008

The Discovery of the Greek Bronze Age: J. Lesley Fitton; J. Lesley Fitton traces an exciting tale of archaeological discovery and weaves it into an engaging, in-depth portrait of Greek Bronze Age civilizations. The result is an elegant assimilation of vast historical detail and a fully illustrated tour of the art and artifacts, the grand palaces and tombs, the mythical heroes, and the Trojan treasures that form at least one cradle of our own civilization.; Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998

The Epic City: Annette L. Giesecke; As Greek and Trojan forces battled in the shadow of Troy's wall, Hephaistos created a wondrous, ornately decorated shield for Achilles. Viewed as Homer's blueprint for an ideal, or utopian, social order, the Shield reveals that restraining and taming Nature would be fundamental to the Hellenic urban quest. It is this ideal that Classical Athens, with her utilitarian view of Nature, exemplified. This new ideal, vividly expressed through the domestication of Nature in villas and gardens and also through primitivist and Epicurean tendencies in Latin literature, informed the urban endeavors of Rome.; Paperback 2007

Euripides, II, Children of Heracles. Hippolytus. Andromache. Hecuba: Euripides; Edited and translated by David Kovacs; Hippolytus has been judged to be one of Euripides' masterpieces. Hecuba and Andromache recreate the tragic stories of two noble Trojan women after their city's fall. Children of Heracles celebrates an incident long a source of Athenian pride: the city's protection of the sons and daughters of the dead Heracles.; Hardcover 1995

Euripides, VII, Fragments: Euripides; Edited and translated by Christopher Collard; Edited and translated by Martin Cropp; The extant plays and the fragments together make Euripides by far the best known of the classic Greek tragedians. This edition offers the first complete English translation of the fragments together with a selection of testimonia bearing on the content of the plays. Each play is prefaced by a select bibliography and an introductory discussion of its mythical background, plot, and location of the fragments, general character, chronology, and impact on subsequent literary and artistic traditions.; Hardcover 2008

The Founders and the Classics: Carl J. Richard; The influence of Greek and Roman authors on our American forefathers finally becomes clear in this fascinating book--the first comprehensive study of the founders' classical reading. In this analysis, we see how the classics not only supplied the principal basis for the U.S. Constitution but also contributed to the founders' conception of human nature, their understanding of virtue, and their sense of identity and purpose within a grand universal scheme.; Paperback 1995 / Hardcover

Genos Dikanikon: Victor Bers; Under the Athenian democracy, litigants were expected to speak for themselves, though they could memorize a speech written for them. These amateur performances often manifested an unmanly yielding to emotions of anger or fear; professional speech, Bers seeks to demonstrate, was to a large degree crafted in reaction to amateur stumbling.; Paperback 2008

Greek Architecture and Its Sculpture: Ian Jenkins; From Athens and Arcadia on one side of the Aegean Sea and from Ionia, Lycia, and Karia on the other, this book brings together some of the great monuments of classical antiquity--among them two of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the later temple of Artemis at Ephesos and the Mausoleum at Halikarnassos. With 250 photographs and specially commissioned line drawings, the book comprises a monumental narrative of the art and architecture that gave form, direction, and meaning to much of Western culture.; Hardcover 2007

The Greek Pursuit of Knowledge: Edited by Jacques Brunschwig; Edited by Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd; Translated by Catherine Porter; Ancient Greek thought is the essential wellspring from which the intellectual, ethical, and political civilization of the West draws and to which, even today, we repeatedly return. In this volume drawn from the reference work Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge, major scholars take up basic topics in philosophy and science, offering an account of the extraordinary explosion of desire for knowledge in the classical Greek world.; Paperback 2003

Greek Ritual Poetics: Edited by Dimitrios Yatromanolakis; Edited by Panagiotis Roilos; Investigating ritual in Greece from cross-disciplinary and transhistorical perspectives, this book offers novel readings of the pivotal role of ritual in Greek traditions by exploring a broad spectrum of texts, art, and social practices. This collection of essays written by an international group of leading scholars in a number of disciplines presents a variety of methodological approaches to secular and religious rituals, and to the narrative and conceptual strategies of their reenactment and manipulation in literary, pictorial, and social discourses.; Paperback 2005

Greek Thought: Edited by Jacques Brunschwig; Edited by Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd; Translated by Catherine Porter; Contributions by Julia Annas; Contributions by Serge Bardet; Contributions by Annie Bélis; Contributions by Enrico Berti; Contributions by Henry Blumenthal; Contributions by Richard Bodéüs; Contributions by Luc Brisson; Contributions by Monique Canto-Sperber; Contributions by Paul Cartledge; Contributions by Barbara Cassin; Contributions by Maurice Caveing; Contributions by François De Gandt; Contributions by Armelle Debru; Contributions by John Dillon; Contributions by Françoise Frazier; Contributions by Michael Frede; Contributions by D. J. Furley; Contributions by Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé; Contributions by François Hartog; Contributions by Carl Huffman; Contributions by Edward Hussey; Contributions by Christian Jacob; Contributions by Jacques Joanna; Contributions by José Kany-Turpin; Contributions by Wilbur Knorr; Contributions by André Laks; Contributions by Alain Le Boulluec; Contributions by Carlos Lévy; Contributions by Anthony A. Long; Contributions by Mario Mignucci; Contributions by Donald Morrison; Contributions by Claude Mossé; Contributions by Oswyn Murray; Contributions by Carlo Natali; Contributions by John David North; Contributions by Martin Ostwald; Contributions by Pierre Pellegrin; Contributions by Gilbert Romeyer Dherbey; Contributions by Malcolm Schofield; Contributions by R. W. Sharples; Contributions by Pierre Somville; Contributions by G. J. Toomer; Contributions by Robert Wardy; Ancient Greek thought is the essential wellspring from which the intellectual, ethical, and political civilization of the West draws and to which, even today, we repeatedly return. In more than sixty essays by an international team of scholars, this volume explores the full breadth and reach of Greek thought--investigating what the Greeks knew as well as what they thought about what they knew, and what they believed, invented, and understood about the conditions and possibilities of knowing.; Hardcover 2000

Greek and Roman Life: Ian Jenkins; Paperback

A Guide to Greek Thought: Edited by Jacques Brunschwig; Edited by Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd; Catherine Porter, Translated under the direction of; The philosophers, historians, and scientists of ancient Greece inaugurated and nourished the tradition of Western thought. This volume, drawn from the reference work Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge, gives fresh insight into the originality of major figures and the legacy of important currents of thought.; Paperback 2003

Helots and Their Masters in Laconia and Messenia: Edited by Nino Luraghi; Edited by Susan Alcock; Contributions by Paul Cartledge; Contributions by Thomas J. Figueira; Contributions by Jonathan M. Hall; Contributions by Stephen Hodkinson; Contributions by Nigel M. Kennell; Contributions by Orlando Patterson; Contributions by Kurt A. Raaflaub; Contributions by Walter Scheidel; Contributions by J. G. B. (Hans) van Wees; The Helots fulfilled all the functions that slaves carried out elsewhere in the Greek world, allowing their masters the leisure to be full-time warriors. Yet, despite their crucial role, Helots remain essentially invisible in our ancient sources and peripheral and enigmatic in modern scholarship. This book is devoted to a much-needed reassessment of Helotry and of its place in the history and sociology of unfree labor.; Paperback 2004

Hippocrates, VIII, Places in Man. Glands. Fleshes. Prorrhetic 1-2. Physician. Use of Liquids. Ulcers. Haemorrhoids and Fistulas: Hippocrates; Translated by Paul Potter; This is the eighth volume in the Loeb Classical Library®'s edition of these invaluable texts which are essential sources of information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and about Greek theories concerning the human body. Paul Potter presents the Greek text and facing English translation for ten treatises that offer an illuminating overview of Hippocratic medicine.; Hardcover 1995

Histoires Grecques: Maurice Sartre; Translated by Catherine Porter; Sartre spans the grand narrative of Greek culture over a thousand years and a vast expanse of land and sea. Ranging from Afghanistan to the Mediterranean world, these excursions amount to a panoramic vision of one of the most important civilizations of all time.; Hardcover 2009

Iliad, I: Homer; Translated by William Wyatt; Translated by A. T. Murray; The works attributed to Homer include the two oldest and greatest European epic poems, the Odyssey and the Iliad. These have been published in the Loeb Classical Library for three quarters of a century, the Greek text facing a faithful and literate prose translation by A. T. Murray. William F. Wyatt brings the Loeb's Iliad up to date, with a rendering that retains Murray's admirable style but is written for today's readers.; Hardcover 1924

The Learned Banqueters, I, Books 1-3.106e: Athenaeus; Edited and translated by S. Douglas Olson; In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from valuable Greek works that have been lost. Athenaeus also preserves a wide range of information about Greek culture. S. Douglas Olson has undertaken to produce a complete new edition of the work, replacing the previous seven-volume Loeb Athenaeus (published under the title Deipnosophists).; Hardcover 2007

The Learned Banqueters, II, Books 3.106e-5: Athenaeus; Edited and translated by S. Douglas Olson; In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from valuable Greek works that are now lost. Athenaeus also preserves a wide range of information about Greek culture. S. Douglas Olson has undertaken to produce a complete new edition of the work, replacing the previous seven-volume Loeb Athenaeus (published under the title Deipnosophists).; Hardcover 2007

The Learned Banqueters, IV, Books 8-10.420e: Athenaeus; Edited and translated by S. Douglas Olson; Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the second century CE) is amusing and of extraordinary value as a treasury of quotations from works now lost.; Hardcover 2008

Love for Lydia: Edited by Nicholas D. Cahill; Contributions by Elizabeth B. Baughan; Contributions by Barbara Burrell; Contributions by Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre; Contributions by David Gordon Mitten; Contributions by George M. A. Hanfmann; Contributions by Andrew Ramage; Contributions by Christopher Ratte; Contributions by Marcus L. Rautman; Contributions by Christopher H. Roosevelt; Contributions by Aimee Francesca Scorziello; Contributions by Kent Severson; Contributions by Philip T. Stinson; Contributions by Grechen Umholtz; Contributions by Fikret K. Yegul; This generously illustrated volume, presents new studies by scholars closely involved with Professor Greenewalt’s excavations during the Sardis Expedition in western Turkey.; Hardcover 2009

Master of the Game: Derek Collins; The interest in the performance of ancient Greek poetry has grown dramatically in recent years. But the competitive dimension of Greek poetic performances, while usually assumed, has rarely been directly addressed. This study provides for the first time an in-depth examination of a central mode of Greek poetic competition--capping, which occurs when speakers or singers respond to one another in small numbers of verses, single verses, or between verse units themselves.; Paperback 2005

Menander, II, Heros. Theophoroumene. Karchedonios. Kitharistes. Kolax. Koneiazomenai. Leukadia. Misoumenos. Perikeiromene. Perinthia: Menander; Translated by W. G. Arnott; Volume II contains the surviving portions of ten Menander plays. Among these are the recently published fragments of Misoumenos ("The Man She Hated"), which sympathetically presents the flawed relationship of a soldier and a captive girl; and the surviving half of Perikeiromene ("The Girl with Her Hair Cut Short"), a comedy of mistaken identity and lovers' quarrel.; Hardcover 1997

The Orientalizing Revolution: Walter Burkert; Translated by Margaret Pinder; The 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, pointing toward a balanced picture of the archaic period "in which, under the influence of the Semitic East--from writers, craftsmen, merchants, healers--Greek culture began its unique flowering, soon to assume cultural hegemony in the Mediterranean.; Paperback 1998 / Hardcover

Paradise Earned: Yannis Tzifopoulos; This is a study of the twelve small gold lamellae from Crete that were tokens for entrance into a golden afterlife. The lamellae are placed within the context of a small corpus of similar texts, and published with extensive commentary on their topography, lettering and engraving, dialect and orthography, meter, chronology, and usage. This work adduces parallels to the texts on the lamellae from the Byzantine period and modern Greece to illuminate the everlasting and persistent human quest for "earning Paradise."; Paperback 2008

Pindar, I, Olympian Odes. Pythian Odes: Pindar; Translated by William H. Race; William H. Race gives us, in two volumes, a new edition and translation of Pindar's four books of victory odes, along with surviving fragments of his other poems. Brief introductions to each ode and full explanatory footnotes afford invaluable guidance throughout. Like Simonides and Bacchylides, Pindar wrote elaborate odes in honor of prize-winning athletes. His 45 victory odes celebrate triumphs in athletic contests at the four great Panhellenic festivals: the Olympic, Pythian (at Delphi), Nemean, and Isthmian games. In these poems, Pindar commemorates the achievement of athletes and powerful rulers against the backdrop of divine favor, human failure, heroic legend, and the moral ideals of aristocratic Greek society. Readers have long savored their rich poetic imagery, moral maxims, and vivid portrayals of sacred myths.; Hardcover 1997

Pindar, II, Nemean Odes. Isthmian Odes. Fragments: Pindar; Translated by William H. Race; Pindar's forty-five victory odes celebrate triumphs in athletic contests at the four great Panhellenic festivals: the Olympic, Pythian (at Delphi), Nemean, and Isthmian games. In these complex poems, Pindar commemorates the achievement of athletes and powerful rulers against the backdrop of divine favor, human failure, heroic legend, and the moral ideals of aristocratic Greek society.; Hardcover 1997

The Politics of Ethnicity and the Crisis of the Peloponnesian League: Edited by Peter Funke; Edited by Nino Luraghi; Contributions by K. Freitag; Contributions by M. Giangiulio; Contributions by Catherine Morgan; Contributions by R. Parker; Contributions by Maria Pretzler; Contributions by J. Roy; Contributions by C. Ruggeri; Contributions by C. Ulf; Contributions by E. Robinson; The crisis of Spartan power in the first half of the fourth century has been connected to Spartan inability to manage the hegemony built on the ruins of the Athenian Empire. The present book offers a new perspective, suggesting that the crisis that finally brought down Sparta was in important ways a result of centrifugal impulses within the Peloponnesian League.; Paperback 2008

Practitioners of the Divine: Beate Dignas; Kai Trampedach; “What is a Greek priest?” The volume, which has its origins in a symposium held at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C., focuses on the question through a variety of lenses: the visual representation of cult personnel, priests as ritual experts, variations of priesthood, ideal concepts and their transformation, and the role of manteis.; Paperback 2008

Procopius, VII, On Buildings. General Index: Procopius; Translated by H. B. Dewing; Translated by Glanville Downey; The Byzantine historian's graphic description of the churches, public buildings, fortifications, and bridges erected by Justinian throughout his empire--from the Church of St. Sophia in Constantinople to city walls at Carthage--is a rich source of information on architecture of the 6th century. This volume also contains a General Index to all seven volumes of the Loeb edition of Procopius.; Hardcover 1940

Restraining Rage: William V. Harris; The angry emotions, and the problems they presented, were an ancient Greek preoccupation from Homer to late antiquity. Drawing on a wide range of ancient texts, and on recent work in anthropology and psychology, Restraining Rage explains the rise and persistence of this concern. W. V. Harris shows that the discourse of anger-control was of crucial importance in several different spheres, in politics--both republican and monarchical--in the family, and in the slave economy.; Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004

Soliciting Darkness: John T. Hamilton; In discussing both poets and scholars from a broad historical span, with special emphasis on the German legacy of genius, Soliciting Darkness investigates how Pindar's obscurity has been perceived and confronted, extorted and exploited. As such, this study addresses a variety of pressing issues, including the recovery and appropriation of classical texts, problems of translation, representations of lyric authenticity, and the possibility or impossibility of a continuous literary tradition.; Paperback 2004 / Hardcover 2004

Sophocles' Tragic World: Charles Segal; In a series of interconnected essays, Charles Segal studies five of Sophocles' seven extant plays: Ajax, Oedipus Tyrannus, Philoctetes, Antigone, and the often neglected Trachinian Women.; Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1998

Theophrastus, VI, Theophrastus, Characters. Herodas, Mimes. Sophron and Other Mime Fragments: Theophrastus; Herodas; Sophron; Edited and translated by Jeffrey Rusten; Edited and translated by I. C. Cunningham; This volume collects important examples of Greek literary portraiture. The Characters of Theophrastus consists of thirty fictional sketches of men who are each dominated by a single fault, such as arrogance, boorishness, or superstition. The Hellenistic poet Herodas wrote Mimes, a popular entertainment in which one actor or a small group portrayed a situation from everyday life, concentrating on depiction of character rather than on plot. The volume also includes a new translation and text of extant portions of the mimes of Sophron. Here too is a selection of anonymous mime fragments.; Hardcover 2003

The Tomb of Agamemnon: Cathy Gere; Mycenae, the fabled city of Homer's King Agamemnon, leapt into the headlines in the late nineteenth century when Heinrich Schliemann announced that he had opened the Tomb of Agamemnon and found the body of the hero smothered in gold treasure. In this book, historian of science Cathy Gere tells the story of these extraordinary ruins.; Hardcover 2006

Urban Religion in Roman Corinth: Edited by Daniel Schowalter; Edited by Steven J. Friesen; This book discusses the history, topography, and urban development of Corinth with special attention to civic and private religious practices in the Roman colony. Expert analysis of the latest archaeological data is coupled with consideration of what can be known about the emergence and evolution of religions in Corinth. The volume seeks to gain insight into the nature of the Greco-Roman city visited by Paul, and the ways in which Christianity gradually emerged as the dominant religion.; Paperback 2005 / Hardcover 2005

Xenophon's Retreat: Robin Waterfield; In The Expedition of Cyrus, Xenophon told how, in 401 b.c., a band of unruly Greek mercenaries traveled east to fight for the Persian prince Cyrus the Younger in his attempt to wrest the throne from his brother. With this first masterpiece of Western history forming the backbone of his book, Robin Waterfield explores what remains unsaid and assumed in Xenophon's account. The result is a nuanced and dramatic perspective on a critical moment in history that may tell us as much about our present-day adventures in the Middle East.; Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008

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