SUBJECT INDEX:

POETRY:

Argonautica: Apollonius Rhodius; Edited and translated by William H. Race; Hardcover 2009

A Garland of Satire, Wisdom, and History: Edited by Jan Ziolkowski; Edited by Bridget K. Balint; This book brings into print editions, translations, and commentaries for more than two dozen unique poems (in Latin) from the late eleventh and early twelfth century, preserved in Houghton Library's anthology known as MS Lat 300. This book offers unparalleled access to the anthology, previously unavailable in English.; Paperback 2008

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

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

Poems: Cristoforo Landino; Edited and translated by Mary P. Chatfield; Hardcover 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

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

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