The Life and Miracles of Thekla

Scott Fitzgerald Johnson

The Life and Miracles of Thekla offers a unique view on the reception of classical and early Christian literature in Late Antiquity. This study examines the Life and Miracles as an intricate example of Greek writing and attempts to situate the work amidst a wealth of similar literary forms from the classical world.

Paperback 2006

Actors in the Audience

Shadi Bartsch

This is a book about language, theatricality, and empire--about how the Roman emperor dramatized his rule and how his subordinates in turn staged their response. Informed by theories of dramaturgy, sociology, new historicism, and cultural criticism, this close reading of literary and historical texts gives us a new perspective on the politics of the Roman empire--and on the languages and representation of power.

Hardcover 1998

Aelian, IV, Historical Miscellany

Aelian

Nigel G. Wilson, Translator

Aelian's Historical Miscellany (Varia Historia) is a pleasurable example of light reading for Romans of the early third century. Offering engaging anecdotes about historical figures, retellings of legendary events, and enjoyable descriptive pieces, Aelian's collection of nuggets and narratives appealed to a wide reading public.

Hardcover 1997

Aeschylus, I, Persians. Seven against Thebes. Suppliants. Prometheus Bound

Aeschylus

Edited and translated by Alan H. Sommerstein

Hardcover 2009

Aeschylus, II, The Oresteia: Agamemnon. Libation-Bearers. Eumenides

Aeschylus

Edited and translated by Alan H. Sommerstein

Hardcover 2009

Aeschylus, III, Fragments

Aeschylus

Edited and translated by Alan H. Sommerstein

Hardcover 2008

Apollonius of Tyana, I

Philostratus

Edited and translated by Christopher P. Jones

This biography of a first-century C.E. holy man has become one of the most widely discussed literary works of later antiquity. With an engaging style, Philostratus portrays a charismatic teacher and religious reformer from Tyana in Cappadocia (modern central Turkey) who travels across the known world, from the Atlantic to the Ganges. His miracles, which include extraordinary cures and mysterious disappearances, together with his apparent triumph over death, caused pagans to make Apollonius a rival to Jesus of Nazareth.

Hardcover 2005

Apollonius of Tyana, II

Philostratus

Edited and translated by Christopher P. Jones

This biography of a first-century C.E. holy man has become one of the most widely discussed literary works of later antiquity. With an engaging style, Philostratus portrays a charismatic teacher and religious reformer from Tyana in Cappadocia (modern central Turkey) who travels across the known world, from the Atlantic to the Ganges. His miracles, which include extraordinary cures and mysterious disappearances, together with his apparent triumph over death, caused pagans to make Apollonius a rival to Jesus of Nazareth.

Hardcover

Apollonius of Tyana, III

Philostratus

Edited and translated by Christopher P. Jones

Philostratus's colorful biography of Apollonius of Tyana provoked a long-lasting debate between pagans and Christians. This new translation of Apollonius's letters reveals his personality and his religious and philosophical ideas. The bishop Eusebius's reply to Hierocles' use of the biography in an anti-Christian polemic is an essential chapter in the history of Philostratus's masterpiece. New for this edition is a selection of ancient reports about Apollonius from authors such as St. Jerome and St. Augustine.

Hardcover 2006

The Apostolic Fathers, I, I Clement. II Clement. Ignatius. Polycarp. Didache

Edited and translated by Bart D. Ehrman

The writings of the Apostolic Fathers give a rich and diverse picture of Christian life and thought in the period immediately after New Testament times. Some of them were accorded almost Scriptural authority in the early Church. This new Loeb edition reflects the latest scholarship.

Hardcover 2003

The Apostolic Fathers, II, Epistle of Barnabas. Papias and Quadratus. Epistle to Diognetus. The Shepherd of Hermas

Edited and translated by Bart D. Ehrman

The writings of the Apostolic Fathers give a rich and diverse picture of Christian life and thought in the period immediately after New Testament times. Some of them were accorded almost Scriptural authority in the early Church. This new Loeb edition of these essential texts reflects current idiom and the latest scholarship.

Hardcover 2003

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

Argonautica

Apollonius Rhodius

Edited and translated by William H. Race

Hardcover 2009

Aristophanes, III, Birds. Lysistrata. Women at the Thesmophoria

Aristophanes

Edited and translated by Jeffrey Henderson

In Birds Aristophanes turns from the pointed political satire characteristic of earlier plays to a fantasy that soars literally into the air and creates a utopian counter-Athens, called Cloudcuckooland, ruled by birds. Lysistrata blends rambunctious comedy and an earnest call for peace. Lysistrata, our first comic heroine, organizes a panhellenic conjugal strike of young wives until their husbands end the war between Athens and Sparta. Athenian women again take center stage in Women at the Thesmophoria, this time to punish Euripides for portraying them as wicked. Parody of Euripides' plots enlivens this witty confrontation of the sexes.

Hardcover 2000

Aristophanes, IV, Frogs. Assemblywomen. Wealth

Aristophanes

Edited and translated by Jeffrey Henderson

Frogswas produced in 405 BCE, shortly after the deaths of Sophocles and Euripides. Dionysus, on a journey to the underworld to retrieve Euripides, is recruited to judge a contest between the traditional Aeschylus and the modern Euripides, a contest that yields both comedy and insight on ancient literary taste. In Assemblywomen Athenian women plot to save Athens from male misgovernance. They institute a new social order in which all inequalities based on wealth, age, and beauty are eliminated--with raucously comical results. The gentle humor and straightforward morality of Wealth made it the most popular of Aristophanes' plays from classical times to the Renaissance. Here the god Wealth, cured of his blindness, is newly able to distinguish good people from bad.

Hardcover 2002

Aristophanes, V, Fragments

Aristophanes

Edited and translated by Jeffrey Henderson

Over forty plays by Aristophanes were read in antiquity, of which nearly a thousand fragments survive. These provide a fuller picture of the poet's ever astonishing comic vitality and a wealth of information and insights about his world. Henderson's latest volume contains what survives from, and about, his lost plays. Each fragmentary play is prefaced by a summary. Also included in this edition are ancient reports about Aristophanes' life, works, and influence on the later comic tradition.

Hardcover 2008

The Art of Bacchylides

Anne Pippin Burnett

Burnett shows us the art of Bacchylides in the context of Greek lyric traditions. She discusses the beginnings of choral poetry and the functions of the choral myth; she describes the purposes of the victory song in particular and the practices of Bacchylides and Pindar as they fulfilled their victory commissions. In analyzing individual poems Burnett's approach is two-fold, for each ode is seen as a choral performance reflecting archaic cult practice, while it is also studied as the expression of a particular poetic vision and sensibility.

Hardcover 1985

The Art of Plato

R. B. Rutherford

This book is not a study of Plato's philosophy, but a contribution to the literary interpretation of the dialogues, through analysis of their formal structure, characterization, language, and imagery. Among the dialogues considered in these interrelated essays are some of Plato's most admired and influential works, including Gorgias, the Symposium, the Republic and Phaedrus.

Hardcover 1998

Augustine the Reader

Brian Stock

Augustine of Hippo, a central figure in the history of Western thought, is also the author of a theory of reading that has had a profound influence on Western letters from the ages of Petrarch, Montaigne, Luther, and Rousseau to Freud and our own time. Brian Stock provides the first full account of this theory within the evolution of Augustine's early dialogues, his Confessions, and his systematic treatises.

Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998

The Bible As It Was

James L. Kugel

This is a guide to the Hebrew Bible unlike any other. Leading us chapter by chapter through its most important stories--from the Creation and the Tree of Knowledge through the Exodus from Egypt and the journey to the Promised Land--James Kugel shows how a group of anonymous ancient interpreters radically transformed the Bible and made it into the book that has come down to us today.

Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1999

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

Caesar

Mattias Gelzer

Peter Needham, Translator

The political career of one of the great statesmen of Antiquity--indeed of all times--is here captured in a full, authoritative, and lively biography that has long been a classic.

Hardcover / Paperback

Catullus

Catullus

Edited by Elmer Truesdell Merrill

Hardcover 1965

Cicero, XXVIII, Letters to Quintus and Brutus. Letter Fragments. Letter to Octavian. Invectives. Handbook of Electioneering

Cicero

Edited and translated by D. R. Shackleton Bailey

Cicero's letters to his brother, Quintus, allow us an intimate glimpse of their world. Vividly informative too is Cicero's correspondence with Brutus dating from the spring of 43 BCE, which conveys the drama of the period following the assassination of Julius Caesar. These are now made available in a new Loeb Classical Library edition. Shackleton Bailey also provides in this volume a new text and translation of two invective speeches purportedly delivered in the Senate; these are probably anonymous ancient schoolbook exercises but have long been linked with the works of Sallust and Cicero. The Letter to Octavian, ostensibly by Cicero but probably dating from the third or fourth century CE, is included as well. Here too is the "Handbook of Electioneering," a guide said to be written by Quintus to his brother, an interesting treatise on Roman elections.

Hardcover 2002

Comparative Studies in Greek and Indic Meter

Gregory Nagy

View a video of Professor Greg Nagy leading discussion and commentary on one of the greatest epics of all time: The Iliad"

Hardcover 1974

A Concordance to Livy

David W. Packard

Hardcover 1968

Concordia Discors

Andrew Scholtz

Writing to a friend, Horace describes him as fascinated by "the discordant harmony of the cosmos, its purpose and power." Scholtz takes this notion of "discordant harmony" and argues for it as an aesthetic principle where classical Athenian literature addresses politics in the idiom of sexual desire. Drawing on theorists of the sociality of language, his approach is an untried one for this kind of topic.

Paperback 2008

The Consolation of Philosophy

Boethius

Translated by David R. Slavitt

Introduction by Seth Lerer

Hardcover 2008

The Craft of Zeus

John Scheid

Jesper Svenbro

Carol Volk, Translator

In this dazzling commentary on Greek and Roman myth and society, weaving emerges as a metaphor rich with possibility. From rituals symbolizing the cohesion of society to the erotic and marital significance of weaving, this lively book defines the logic of one of the central concepts in Greek and Roman thought.

Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 2001

The Culture of Kitharoidia

Timothy Power

The Culture of Kitharoidia is the first study dedicated exclusively to the art, practice, and charismatic persona of the citharode. Traversing a wide range of discourse and imagery about kitharoidia--poetic and prose texts, iconography, inscriptions--the book offers a nuanced account of the aesthetic and sociocultural complexities of citharodic song and examines the iconic role of the songmakers in the popular imagination.

Paperback 2008

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

The Development of Greek Biography, Expanded Ed

Arnaldo Momigliano

Paperback

The Dialects of Ancient Gaul

Joshua Whatmough

Hardcover 1970

Dionysos at Large

Marcel Detienne

Arthur Goldhammer, Translator

Hardcover

Epiloke

Thomas Cole

Hardcover 1988

Euripides and the Full Circle of Myth

Cedric H. Whitman

Hardcover 1974

Euripides, IV, Trojan Women. Iphigenia among the Taurians. Ion

Euripides

Edited and translated by David Kovacs

Trojan Women, a play about the causes and consequences of war, develops the theme of the tragic unpredictability of life. Iphigenia among the Taurians and Ion exhibit tragic themes and situations (the murder of close relatives); each ends happily with a joyful reunion.

Hardcover 1999

Euripides, V, Helen. Phoenician Women. Orestes

Euripides

Edited and translated by David Kovacs

In this fifth volume of the new Loeb Classical Library Euripides, in Helen the poet employs an alternative history in which a virtuous Helen never went to Troy but spent the war years in Egypt, falsely blamed for the adulterous behavior of her divinely created double in Troy. This volume also includes Phoenician Women, Euripides' treatment of the battle between the sons of Oedipus for control of Thebes; and Orestes, a novel retelling of Orestes' lot after he murdered his mother, Clytaemestra. Each play is annotated and prefaced by a helpful introduction.

Hardcover 2002

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 Feast of Poetry

Pavlos Sfyroeras

Situated at the intersection of various approaches to the comic genre, this book adopts a synchronic viewpoint to focus on comedy within the dramatic festival of Dionysus. By inscribing Aristophanes's plays in the poetic and ritual traditions of Greece, it attempts to reconstruct a fifth-century view of the performance of comedy as a sacrificial offering that both honors the god and is shared by the assembled citizen body.

Paperback

Fragments of Sappho

Dimitrios Yatromanolakis

Paperback 2008

Genos Dikanikon

Victor Bers

Paperback 2008

Greek Elegiac Poetry

Douglas E. Gerber, Ed. and Trans.

Tyrtaeus

Solon

Theognis

Mimnermus

The Greek poetry of the archaic period that we call elegy was composed primarily for banquets and convivial gatherings. Its subject matter consists of almost any topic, excluding only the scurrilous and obscene. In this completely new Loeb Classical Library edition, Douglas Gerber provides a faithful translation of the fragments and significant testimonia that have come down to us, with full explanatory notes.

Hardcover 1999

Greek Epic Fragments

Martin L. West, Ed. and Trans.

Greek epics of the archaic period include poems that narrate particular heroic episodes and poems that recount the history of families or peoples. They are an important source of mythological record. Here is a new text and translation of the examples of this poetry that have come down to us. The heroic epics include poems about Hercules and Theseus and two great epic cycles: the Theban Cycle and the Trojan Cycle. Among the genealogical epics are poems that create prehistories for Corinth and for Samos.

Hardcover 2003

Greek Grammar

Herbert Weir Smyth

Revised by Gordon M. Messing

Hardcover

Greek Iambic Poetry

Douglas E. Gerber, Ed. and Trans.

Archilochus

Semonides

Hipponax

The poetry of the archaic period that the Greeks called iambic is characterized by scornful criticism of friend and foe and by sexual license. The purpose of these poems is unclear, but they seem to have some connection with cult songs used in religious festivals--for example, those honoring Dionysus and Demeter. In this completely new Loeb Classical Library edition of early Greek iambic poetry, Douglas Gerber provides a faithful and fully annotated translation of the fragments that have come down to us.

Hardcover 1999

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

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 100,

Charles Segal, Editor

This volume celebrates 100 years of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. It contains essays by Harvard faculty, emeriti, currently enrolled graduate students and most recent Ph.D.s. It displays the range and diversity of the study of the Classics at Harvard at the beginning of the 21st century.

Hardcover 2002

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 102,

Edited by Albert Henrichs

Hardcover 2006

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 103,

Edited by Albert Henrichs

Hardcover 2008

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 104,

Edited by Nino Luraghi

Hardcover 2008

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 71,

Department of Classics Harvard University

Hardcover 1967

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 72,

Department of Classics Harvard University

Hardcover 1968

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 73,

Department of Classics Harvard University

Hardcover 1969

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 74,

Department of Classics Harvard University

Hardcover 1970

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 75,

Department of Classics Harvard University

Hardcover 1971

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 76,

Department of Classics Harvard University

Hardcover 1972

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 77,

Department of Classics Harvard University

Hardcover 1973

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 78,

Department of Classics Harvard University

Hardcover 1974

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 79,

Department of Classics Harvard University

Hardcover 1976

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 80,

Department of Classics Harvard University

Hardcover 1976

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 81,

Department of Classics Harvard University

Hardcover 1977

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 82,

Albert Henrichs, Editor

Hardcover 1979

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 83,

Albert Henrichs, Editor

Hardcover 1980

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 84,

D. R. Shackleton Bailey, Editor

Hardcover 1981

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 85,

D. R. Shackleton Bailey, Editor

Hardcover 1982

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 86,

Wendell Clausen, Editor

Hardcover 1982

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 87,

D. R. Shackleton Bailey, Editor

Hardcover 1983

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 88,

D. R. Shackleton Bailey, Editor

Hardcover 1984

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 89,

D. R. Shackleton Bailey, Editor

Hardcover 1985

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 90,

R. J. Tarrant, Editor

Hardcover 1987

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 91,

R. J. Tarrant, Editor

Hardcover 1988

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 92,

R. J. Tarrant, Editor

Hardcover 1990

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 94,

Wendell Clausen, Editor

Hardcover

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 95,

Wendell Clausen, Editor

Hardcover

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 96,

R. J. Tarrant

Hardcover

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 97, Greece in Rome

Charles Segal, Editor

Hardcover 1998

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 99,

Charles Segal, Editor

Hardcover 2000

Herodotean Narrative and Discourse

Mabel Lang

Hardcover 1984

Hesiod, I, Theogony. Works and Days. Testimonia

Hesiod

Edited and Translated by Glenn W. Most

Hesiod's exact dates are unknown, but he has often been considered a younger contemporary of Homer. This volume of the new Loeb Classical Library edition contains his two extant poems, along with a selection of testimonia from a wide variety of ancient sources.

Hardcover 2007

Hesiod, II, The Shield. Catalogue of Women. Other Fragments

Hesiod

Edited and translated by Glenn W. Most

This volume, which completes the new Loeb Classical Library edition of Hesiod, contains The Shield and extant fragments of other poems, including the Catalogue of Women, that were attributed to Hesiod in antiquity. None of these is now thought to be by Hesiod himself, but all have considerable literary and historical interest. The volume concludes with a comprehensive index to the complete edition.

Hardcover 2007

Homer and the Nibelungenlied

Bernard Fenik

Hardcover 1986

Homer's Odyssey

John H. Finley

Throughout his book, Finley applies a lifetime's learning to a work that is universally recognized as one of the highest achievements of our civilization. At a time when Homer is in danger of being swallowed by specialists, it is important to recognize and uphold the poet's basic concern for life and myth and legend. Such sympathy combined with knowledge is Finley's fine achievement.

Hardcover 1978

Homeric Conversation

Deborah Beck

Homeric Conversation is the first full-length study of conversation in the Homeric poems. Deborah Beck argues that conversation should be considered a traditional Homeric type scene, alongside recognized types such as arrival, sacrifice, battle, and hospitality. This book is a wide-ranging, closely argued aesthetic analysis of repetition and variation in the Homeric epics.

Paperback 2006

Homeric Hymns. Homeric Apocrypha. Lives of Homer

Edited and translated by Martin L. West

Thirty-three poems have come down to us under the title Homeric Hymns. Among the longest are the hymn To Demeter, which tells the story of the Eleusinian Mysteries, and To Hermes, distinctive for being amusing. The comic poems gathered as Homeric Apocrypha include Margites and the Battle of Frogs and Mice. The edition of Lives of Homer presented here contains The Contest of Homer and Hesiod as well as nine other biographical accounts.

Hardcover 2003

Horace, I, Odes and Epodes

Horace

Niall Rudd, Ed. and Trans.

The poetry of Horace (born 65 BCE) is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private concerns, urban and rural settings, Stoic and Epicurean thought. Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of the great Roman poet's Odes and Epodes.

Hardcover 2004

Horace, II, Satires. Epistles. The Art of Poetry

Horace

H. Rushton Fairclough, Translator

In the style originated by Lucilius, Horace in his satires mocks himself as well as the world's vices and follies. The main purpose of the first book (published about 35 BCE) is to entertain; attacks on moral and literary faults frequently are directed at specific individuals, but the poet's tone is rarely abusive. The poems in the second book make playful use of dramatic presentation and humorous situations. The verse epistles, addressed to real people, seem to reveal many aspects of the poet's opinions and way of life. This volume also contains the Art of Poetry (Ars Poetica), a series of often memorably expressed maxims for the guidance of young poets, which famously set forth Horace's literary theory and critical judgments about theater as well as the poet's craft.

Hardcover 1926

Humanist Educational Treatises

Translated by Craig W. Kallendorf

Paperback 2008

Ideology in Cold Blood

Is Lucan's brilliant and grotesque epic Civil War an example of ideological poetry at its most flagrant, or is it a work that despairingly proclaims the meaninglessness of ideology? Shadi Bartsch offers a startlingly new answer to this split debate on the Roman poet's magnum opus.

Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2001

Iliad, I

Homer

William Wyatt, Translator

A. T. Murray, Translator

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

Iliad, II

Homer

A. T. Murray, Translator

Hardcover 1925

The Inner Citadel

Pierre Hadot

Michael Chase, Translator

Written by the Roman emperor for his own private guidance and self-admonition, the Meditations set forth principles for living a good and just life. Hadot probes Marcus Aurelius's guidelines and convictions and discerns the hitherto unperceived conceptual system that grounds them.

Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2001

Invectives

Francesco Petrarca

Edited and translated by David Marsh

Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), one of the greatest of Italian poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive ancient Roman language and literature. His four Invectives were intended to revive the eloquence of the great Roman orator Cicero. The Invectives are directed against the cultural idols of the Middle Ages--against scholastic philosophy and medicine and the dominance of French culture in general. This volume provides a new critical edition of the Latin text based on the two autograph copies, and the first English translation of three of the four invectives.

Hardcover 2004

Invectives

Francesco Petrarca

Translated by David Marsh

Paperback 2008

The Invention of Jane Harrison

Mary Beard

Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) is the most famous female Classicist in history, the author of books that revolutionized our understanding of Greek culture and religion. This lively and innovative portrayal of a fascinating woman raises the question of who wins (and how) in the competition for academic fame. Questioning the common criteria for identifying intellectual "influence" and "movements," Mary Beard exposes the mythology that is embedded in the history of Classics. At the same time she provides a vivid picture of a sparkling intellectual scene.

Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002

Juvenal and Persius

Juvenal

Persius

Edited and translated by Susanna Morton Braund

Juvenal and Persius are seminal as well as stellar figures in the history of satirical writing. Juvenal especially had a lasting influence on English writers of the Renaissance and succeeding centuries. The bite and wit of these two satirists are captured here in a new Loeb Classical Library edition.

Hardcover 2004

King of Sacrifice

Sarah Hitch

Descriptions of animal sacrifice in Homer offer us some of the most detailed accounts of this attempt at communication between man and gods. This book explores the structural and thematic importance of animal sacrifice as an expression of the quarrel between Akhilleus and Agamemnon through the differing perspectives of the primary narrative and character speech.

Paperback 2008

Labored in Papyrus Leaves

Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Editor

Elizabeth Kosmetatou, Editor

Manuel Baumbach, Editor

This colloquium volume celebrates a new Hellenistic epigram collection attributed to the third-century B.C.E. poet Posidippus, one of the most significant literary finds in recent memory. Included in this collection are an unusual variety of voices and perspectives: papyrological, art historical, archaeological, historical, literary, and aesthetic.

Paperback 2004

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, III, Books 6-7

Athenaeus

Edited and translated by S. Douglas Olson

In The Learned Banqueters (late-2nd century CE), Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. 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 2008

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

The Lesser Declamations I

Quintilian

Edited and translated by D. R. Shackleton Bailey

The Lesser Declamations emanate from "the school of Quintilian." The collection represents classroom materials for budding Roman lawyers. The instructor who composed these specimen speeches for fictitious court cases adds his comments and suggestions concerning presentation and arguing tactics, thereby giving us insight into Roman law and education. The 145 surviving sample cases in the collection are now added to the Loeb Classical Library in a two-volume edition, with a fluent translation by D. R. Shackleton Bailey facing an updated Latin text.

Hardcover 2006

The Lesser Declamations II

Quintilian

Edited and translated by D. R. Shackleton Bailey

The Lesser Declamations emanate from "the school of Quintilian." The collection represents classroom materials for budding Roman lawyers. The instructor who composed these specimen speeches for fictitious court cases adds his comments and suggestions concerning presentation and arguing tactics, thereby giving us insight into Roman law and education. The 145 surviving sample cases in the collection are now added to the Loeb Classical Library in a two-volume edition, with a fluent translation by D. R. Shackleton Bailey facing an updated Latin text.

Hardcover 2006

The Literary Guide to the Bible

Robert Alter, Editor

Frank Kermode, Editor

Rediscover the incomparable literary richness and strength of a book that all of us live with an many of us live by. An international team of renowned scholars, assembled by two leading literary critics, offers a book-by-book guide through the Old and New Testaments as well as general essays on the Bible as a whole, providing an enticing reintroduction to a work that has shaped our language and thought for thousands of years.

Hardcover 1987 / Paperback 1990

A Loeb Classical Library Reader

Loeb Classical Library

This selection of lapidary nuggets drawn from thirty-three of antiquity's major authors includes poetry, dialogue, philosophical writing, history, descriptive reporting, satire, and fiction--giving a glimpse at the wide range of arts and sciences, thought and styles, of Greco-Roman culture. The selections span twelve centuries, from Homer to Saint Jerome. The texts and translations are reproduced as they appear in Loeb volumes, offering a taste of the ideas characteristic of the splendid culture to which we are heir.

Paperback 2006

Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism

Walter Burkert

Translated by Edwin L. Minar

Hardcover 1972

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

Matrices of Genre

Mary Depew, Editor

Dirk Obbink, Editor

The literary genres given shape by the writers of classical antiquity are central to our own thinking about the various forms literature takes. Examining those genres, the essays collected here focus on the concept and role of the author and the emergence of authorship out of performance in Greece and Rome.

Hardcover 2000

Memorable Doings and Sayings, I

Valerius Maximus

D. R. Shackleton Bailey, Ed. and Trans.

Valerius Maximus compiled his handbook of notable deeds and sayings during the reign of Tiberius (14-37 CE). D. R. Shackleton Bailey's is the first modern English translation. Valerius arranges his instructive examples in short chapters, each focused on a particular virtue, vice, religious practice, or traditional custom--including Omens, Dreams, Anger, Cruelty, Bravery, Fidelity, Gratitude, Friendship, Parental Love. The moral undercurrent of this collection is readily apparent. But Valerius tells us that the book's purpose is practical: he decided to select worthwhile material from famous writers so that people looking for illustrative examples might be spared the trouble of research. Whatever the author's intention, his book is an interesting source of information on Roman attitudes toward religion and moral values in the first century.

Hardcover 2000

Memorable Doings and Sayings, II

Valerius Maximus

D. R. Shackleton Bailey, Ed. and Trans.

This concludes the Memorable Doings and Sayings.

Hardcover 2000

Menaechmi

Plautus

Hardcover 1961

Menander, III, Samia. Sikyonioi. Synaristosai. Phasma. Unidentified Fragments

Menander

W. G. Arnott, Ed. and Trans.

Volume III begins with Samia (The Woman from Samos), which has come down to us nearly complete. Here too are the very substantial extant portions of Sikyonioi (The Sicyonians) and Phasma (The Apparition) as well as Synaristosai (Women Lunching Together), on which Plautus's Cistellaria was based. Arnott's edition of the great Hellenistic playwright has been garnering wide praise for making these fragmentary texts more accesible, elucidating their dramatic movement.

Hardcover 2000

Miles Gloriosus

Plautus

Mason Hammond, Editor

Arthur W. Mack, Editor

Walter Moskalew, Editor

Miles Gloriosus or "Braggart Warrior" is one of the best-known and liveliest Roman comedies. It shows Plautus at his ablest in ingenious plot construction, vivid characterization, fast-moving action, and humorous dialogue.

Paperback 1997

A New Introduction to Greek

Alston Hurd Chase

Henry Phillips

Hardcover 1961

New Perspectives on Plato, Modern and Ancient

Julia Annas, Editor

Christopher J. Rowe, Editor

In recent years, scholars have looked more closely at the philosophical importance of the imaginative and literary aspects of Plato's writing, and have begun to appreciate the methods of the ancient philosophers and commentators who studied Plato and their attitudes to Plato's appropriation of Socrates. This study brings together leading philosophical and literary scholars who investigate these new-old approaches and their significance in distancing us from the standard ways of reading Plato.

Hardcover 2003

On Architecture, I

Vitruvius

Frank Granger, Translator

Vitruvius' classic work on architecture is the only book of its kind to survive antiquity. Vitruvius was himself an architect and engineer, but this is not a handbook for professionals; rather it serves readers who want to understand architecture. Book 1 discusses town planning and architecture in general; Book 2, building materials; 3 and 4, temples and the architectural orders; 5, other civic buildings. In his preface Vitruvius takes note of the "eminent dignity" of the public buildings Augustus constructed, which express "the majesty of the empire."

Hardcover 1931

On Architecture, II

Vitruvius

Frank Granger, Translator

Book 6 concerns houses; 7, pavements, mosaics, and wall decoration; 8, water supply; 9, measurements; 10, machines.

Hardcover 1934

The Oral Palimpsest

Christos Tsagalis

Oral intertextuality is an innate feature of the web of myth, whose interrelated fabrics allow the audience of epic songs access to an entire horizon of story variations. The Oral Palimpsest argues that just as the discarded text of a palimpsest still carries traces of its previous writing, so the Homeric tradition unfolds its awareness of alternate versions as it reveals signs of their erasure.

Paperback 2008

The Orator's Education, I

Quintilian

Donald A. Russell, Ed. and Trans.

Quintilian was born in Spain about 35 CE; he became a well-known and prosperous teacher of rhetoric in Rome, probably the first to receive a salary as such from public funds. His Institutio Oratoria (Training of an Orator), a comprehensive training program in twelve books, draws on his own rich experience. Here Quintilian gives guidelines for proper schooling (beginning with the young boy); analyzes the structure of speeches and recommends devices for engaging listeners and appealing to their emotions; reviews a wide range of Greek and Latin authors of use to the orator; and counsels on memory, delivery, and gestures. This practical guide, in lucid style, provides valuable insight on Roman education. The work also yields many a memorable comment on the styles of various writers.

Hardcover 2002

The Orator's Education, II

Quintilian

Donald A. Russell, Ed. and Trans.

Hardcover 2002

The Orator's Education, III

Quintilian

Donald A. Russell, Ed. and Trans.

Hardcover 2002

The Orator's Education, IV

Quintilian

Donald A. Russell, Ed. and Trans.

Hardcover 2002

The Orator's Education, V

Quintilian

Donald A. Russell, Translator

Hardcover 2002

The Orientalizing Revolution

Walter Burkert

Margaret Pinder, Translator

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

William H. Race, Translator

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

William H. Race, Translator

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

Plato's Symposium

Edited by James H. Lesher

Edited by Debra Nails

Edited by Frisbee Sheffield

In his Symposium, Plato crafted a set of speeches in praise of love that has influenced writers and artists from antiquity to the present. Early Christian writers read the dialogue's "ascent passage" as a vision of the soul's journey to heaven. The dialogue's view of love is still of enormous philosophical interest in its own right. Nevertheless, questions remain concerning the meaning of specific features, the significance of the dialogue as a whole, and the character of its influence. This volume brings together an international team of scholars to address such questions.

Paperback 2007

Poetic and Performative Memory in Ancient Greece

Claude Calame

The Ancient Greeks not only spoke of time unfolding in a specific space, but also projected the past upon the future in order to make it active in the social practice of the present. Poetic and Performative Memory in Ancient Greece shows how the Ancient Greeks' collective memory was based on a remarkable faculty for the creation of ritual and narrative symbols.

Paperback 2008

Pointing at the Past

Egbert J. Bakker

With numerous fresh linguistic observations Bakker shows that the epic narrator makes the epic past come to the present: epic is not only a verbal artifact that points to the past; it also is a performer's act of pointing at a past that has become present in and through language. Building on his earlier work, Egbert Bakker demonstrates the power of discourse analysis as an essential tool for elucidating the poetics of the Homeric tradition.

Paperback 2006

The Power of Thetis and Selected Essays

Laura Slatkin

Laura Slatkin's influential and widely admired book explores the superficially minor role of Thetis in the Iliad. Slatkin uncovers alternative traditions about the power of Thetis and shows how an awareness of those myths brings a far greater understanding of Thetis's place in the thematic structure of the Iliad. This second edition also includes six additional essays, which cover a broad range of topics in the study of the Greek Epic.

Paperback 2008

Preface to Plato

Eric Havelock

Hardcover 1963 / Paperback

Profile of Horace

D. R. Shackleton Bailey

In this concise analysis, written with elegant wit, the greatest living textual critic of Latin authors offers new insight into the poetry of Horace. In a reading of all the poetry, but focusing especially on problematic areas, Bailey examines Horace's art of self-presentation.

Hardcover 1982

Recapturing a Homeric Legacy

Edited by Casey Due

Hardcover 2008

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

Ritual and Performativity

Anton Bierl

Translated by Alexander Hollmann

In this groundbreaking study, Anton Bierl uses recent approaches in literary and cultural studies to investigate the chorus of Old Comedy. After an extensive theoretical introduction that also serves as a general introduction to the dramatic chorus from the comic vantage point, a close reading of Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae shows that ritual is indeed present in both the micro- and macrostructure of Attic comedy, not as a fossilized remnant of the origins of the genre but as part of a still existing performative choral culture.

Paperback 2008

Sappho in the Making

Dimitrios Yatromanolakis

This book offers the first interdisciplinary and in-depth study of the cultural practices and ideological paradigms that conditioned the politics of the "reading" of Sappho's songs in the early and most pivotal stages of her reception. Yatromanolakis investigates visual representations and ancient texts in their synchronic and diachronic multilayeredness to trace the discursive nexuses that defined the making of "Sappho" in the late archaic, classical, and early Hellenistic periods.

Paperback 2008

Sappho's Immortal Daughters

Margaret Williamson

This book is a search for Sappho through the poetry she wrote, the culture she inhabited, and the myths that have arisen around her. It is an expert and thoroughly engaging introduction to one of the most enduring and enigmatic figures of antiquity.

Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1998

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, III, Fragments

Sophocles

Edited and translated by Hugh Lloyd-Jones

Sophocles, by common consent one of the world's greatest poets, wrote more than 120 plays. Only seven of these survive complete, but we have a wealth of fragments, from which much can be learned about Sophocles' language and dramatic art. This volume presents, in Greek and facing English translation, a collection of all the major fragments, ranging in length from two lines to a very substantial portion of the satyr play The Searchers. Prefatory notes provide frameworks for the fragments of the known plays. Among the lost plays of which we have large fragments, The Searchers shows the god Hermes, soon after his birth, playing an amusing trick on his brother Apollo; Inachus portrays Zeus coming to Argos to seduce Io, the daughter of its king; and Niobe tells how Apollo and his sister Artemis punish Niobe for a slight upon their mother by killing her twelve children. Throughout the volume, as in the extant plays, we see Sophocles drawing his subjects from heroic legend.

Hardcover 1996

Statius, I, Silvae

Statius

D. R. Shackleton Bailey, Ed. and Trans.

Statius' Silvae, thirty-two occasional poems, were written probably between 89 and 96 CE Here the poet congratulates friends, consoles mourners, offers thanks, admires a monument or artistic object, describes a memorable scene. The verse is light in touch, with a distinct picture quality. Statius gives us in these impromptu poems clear images of Domitian's Rome. D. R. Shackleton Bailey's new edition of the Silvae, a freshly edited Latin text facing a graceful translation, replaces the earlier Loeb Classical Library edition with translation by J. H. Mozley.

Hardcover 2003

Statius, II, Thebaid

Statius

Edited and translated by D. R. Shackleton Bailey

Statius published his Thebaid in the last decade of the first century. This epic recounting the struggle between the two sons of Oedipus for the kingship of Thebes is his masterpiece, a stirring exploration of the passions of civil war.

Hardcover 2004

Statius, III, Thebaid

Statius

Edited and translated by D. R. Shackleton Bailey

The extant portion of Statius's unfinished Achilleid is strikingly different in tone: this second epic begins as a charming account of Achilles' life. This two-volume edition of the epics completes Shackleton Bailey's new edition of Statius.

Hardcover 2004

Terence, I, The Woman of Andros. The Self-Tormentor. The Eunuch

Terence

John Barsby, Ed. and Trans.

Terence came to Rome from North Africa as a slave in the household of a senator who freed him. His six plays (all of them extant), first performed in the 160s BCE in Rome, were all based on New Comedy models--like other Roman comedies of the time. In contrast to the exuberance and buffoonery of Plautus, Terence gives us realistic scenes and witty, refined Latin. Volume I contains a substantial introduction and three plays: The Woman of Andros, a romantic comedy; The Self-Tormentor, which looks at contrasting father-son relationships; and The Eunuch, whose characters include the most sympathetically drawn courtesan in Roman comedy.

Hardcover 2001

Terence, II, Phormio. The Mother-in-Law. The Brothers

Terence

John Barsby, Ed. and Trans.

The other three plays are in Volume II: Phormio, a comedy of intrigue with an engaging trickster; The Mother-in-Law, unique among Terence's plays in that the female characters are the admirable ones; and The Brothers, which explores contrasting approaches to parental education of sons.

Hardcover 2001

Three Classical Poets

Richard Jenkyns

In this engaging essay Jenkyns shows us how to read three quite different ancient poets. In a close and sensitive reading of Sappho, Catullus, and Juvenal, he delineates the uniqueness of the poet's individual voice in relation to poetic traditions. His book constitutes a challenge to the view that one method will suffice for the interpretation of ancient poetry.

Hardcover 1982

Tragedy and Civilization

Charles Segal

Hardcover 1981

Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman

Nicole Loraux

In ordinary life an Athenian woman was allowed no accomplishments beyond leading a quiet and exemplary existence as wife and mother. Her glory was to have no glory. In Greek tragedy, however, women die violently and, through violence, master their own fate. It is a genre that delights in blurring the formal frontier between masculine and feminine. Through the subtlety of her reading of these powerful and ambiguous texts, Nicole Loraux elicits an array of insights into Greek attitudes toward death, sexuality, and gender.

Hardcover 1987 / Paperback 1991

The Transmission of the Text of Lucan in the Ninth Century

Harold C. Gotoff

Hardcover 1971

Unruly Eloquence

Bracht Branham

Hardcover

Verse with Prose from Petronius to Dante

Peter Dronke

Hardcover

Victim of The Muses

Todd Merlin Compton

This book probes the narratives of poets who are exiled, tried or executed for their satire. It views the scapegoat as a group's dominant warrior, sent out to confront predators or besieging forces. Both poets and warriors specialize in madness and aggression and are necessary, yet dangerous, to society.

Paperback 2006

Virgil, I, Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid

Virgil

H. Rushton Fairclough, Translator

Revised by G. P. Goold

For this revised edition of the Loeb Classical Library's Virgil, G. P. Goold has corrected the text in accord with recent scholarship, revised the translation to reflect current idiom, and supplied a new introduction and explanatory notes. Fairclough's edition, long a faithful standard, has thus been thoroughly updated.

Hardcover 1916

Virgil, II, Aeneid

Virgil

Translated by H. Rushton Fairclough

Revised by G. P. Goold

The Loeb edition of Virgil, long a standard, has now been thoroughly updated. Retaining the excellence of Fairclough's "heroic prose" translation but pruning away its archaisms, G. P. Goold gives us a revised reading that reflects current idiom. Goold has also amended the text and apparatus and provides a new Introduction and explanatory notes. In a preface to the Appendix Vergiliana he addresses the provenance and attribution of these poems traditionally ascribed to Virgil and previously collected as his "Minor Poems."

Hardcover 1918

Weaving Truth

Ann Bergren

"What if truth were a woman?" asked Nietzsche. In ancient Greek thought, truth in language has a special relation to the female by virtue of her pre-eminent art-form--the one Freud believed was even invented by women--weaving. The essays in this book explore the implications of this nexus: language, the female, weaving, and the construction of truth.

Paperback 2008

Written Voices, Spoken Signs

Egbert J. Bakker, Editor

Ahuvia Kahane, Editor

Written Voices, Spoken Signs is a stimulating introduction to new perspectives on Homer and other traditional epics. Taking advantage of recent research on language and social exchange, the nine innovative essays in this volume--by leading scholars of Homer, oral poetics, and epic--focus on performance and audience reception of oral poetry.

Hardcover 1997

The Yavanajataka of Sphujidhvaja

David Pingree, Ed. and Trans.

Hardcover 1978

Zeus in the Odyssey

J. Marks

This book makes the case that the plot of the Odyssey is represented within the narrative as a plan of Zeus, Dios boulê, that serves as a guide for the performing poet and as a hermeneutic for the audience. The “Zeus-centric” reading proposed here offers fresh perspectives on the tenor of interactions among the Odyssey’s characters.

Paperback 2008