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Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy
The specially-commissioned essays in this 1999 book discuss the ways in which performance is central to the practice and ideology of democracy in classical Athens. From theatre to …
Classical Philology and Theology
Modern disciplinary silos tend to separate the fields of classical philology and theology. This collection of essays, however, explores for the first time the deep and significant …
The End of Dialogue in Antiquity
'Dialogue' was invented as a written form in democratic Athens and made a celebrated and popular literary and philosophical style by Plato. Yet it almost completely disappeared in …
What Is a Jewish Classicist?
In recent years, there has been no issue that has convulsed academia and its role in society more stridently than the personal politics of its institutions: who has access to …
Christian Invention of Time
Time is integral to human culture. Over the last two centuries people's relationship with time has been transformed through industrialisation, trade and technology. But the first …
Victorian Engagements with the Bible and Antiquity
Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Brontë's Grave
The Victorian era was the high point of literary tourism. Writers such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Sir Walter Scott became celebrities, and readers trekked far and wide …
Aeschylus: The Oresteia
This is the only general introduction in English to Aeschylus' Oresteia, one of the most important and most influential of all Greek dramas. It discusses the Greek drama festival …
Foucault's Virginity
The sexy, witty and often bizarre novels, poetry and dialogues of the first centuries of this era (works such as Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe, Achilles Tatius’ Leukippe and Cleitophon …
Victorian Engagements with the Bible and Antiquity
Very Queer Family Indeed
"e;We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love story of anything like the usual kind."e;So begins A Very Queer Family …