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This highly original work builds on two neglected facts about Virgil's Book of Bucolics: its popularity on the bawdy Roman stage and its impact as sequence poetry on readers and …
Persia's relations with Greek city-states provide a fascinating case study in ancient imperialism.Thirty years after Xerxes invaded Greece, the Achaemenid Persian Empire ended its …
"e;A fresh approach to the Greco-Persian wars focusing on Athens's evacuation, Persian occupation, and rebuilding . . . [a] compelling book."e; -John O. Hyland, Christopher …
Extending his distinctive analysis of Homeric epic to the Iliad, Bruce Louden, author of The "e;Odyssey"e;: Structure, Narration, and Meaning, again presents new approaches …
A thorough and original study of the linothorax, the linen armor worn by Alexander the Great.Alexander the Great led one of the most successful armies in history and conquered …
You've just won the gold medal, what are you going to do? In Ancient Greece, your patron could throw a feast in your honor and have a poet write a hymn of praise to you. The great …
A thoroughly revised and updated edition of Mark Golden's groundbreaking study of childhood in ancient Greece.First published in 1990, Children and Childhood in Classical Athens …
Famed translator David Slavitt lends his distinctly contemporary voice to four lesser-known plays of Sophocles.There are seven surviving tragedies by Sophocles. Three of them form …
Love triangles and Pythagorean women.In Pythagorean Women, classical scholar Sarah B. Pomeroy discusses the groundbreaking principles that Pythagoras established for family life in …