This anthology makes accessible to the reader sixteen of the most important studies of Homer and the Iliad to appear in the last forty years. The essays, by leading Homeric …
From the identity of Greek athletes and the place of Greek games in the Roman era to forms, functions, and venues of Roman spectacles, this second volume of Sport in the Greek and …
Greek and Roman Historiography is a collection of important articles from the last thirty years which treat the ways in which the ancient Greeks and Romans thought about and wrote …
The ancient historian Herodotus, the Father of History, is also considered a great anthropologist. In his account of the Persian invasions of Greece in the fifth century BCE, he …
This collection of papers, many of them either published here in English for the first time or previously available only in specialist libraries, deals with the religious history …
This volume of seminal essays examines the origins of modern comedy. The papers are pulled together in the introduction which sets all the pieces included in their historical and …
Thucydides' account of the war between Athens and Sparta is the first great work of political history and still a fundamental text for political science and international relations …
