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Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece
Valued for their sensual and social intensity, Greek dance-events are often also problematical for participants, giving rise to struggles over position, prestige, and reputation. …
Theatrical Space and Historical Place in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus
While Greek tragedies are often studied as works of literature, they are less frequently examined as products of the social and political environment in which they were created. …
When Worlds Elide
For better or worse, the ancient Greeks retain their cultural, political, and philosophical authority for contemporary educators and actors. Maureen Dowd has talked about the …
The Poetry of Homer
Samuel Eliot Bassett's classic work The Poetry of Homer investigates the rhetorical techniques that have made the Iliad and the Odyssey speak to audiences throughout the ages. …
The Scepter and the Spear
The Scepter and the Spear is a wide-ranging reassessment of the study of Homer as literature in the wake of Milman Parry and Albert Lord's discoveries about the nature of oral …
Balkan Currents
The Pity of Achilles
In The Pity of Achilleus, Jinyo Kim examines how the major themes of the Iliad—Achilleus' 'wrath,' heroic values such as honor and glory, and human mortality and suffering, to …
Greek Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
Our Greek colleagues, in Greece and abroad, must know (indeed they do know) how pleasant it is to recognize the renaissance of the philosophy of science among them with this fine …
Imagining Illegitimacy in Classical Greek Literature
In Imagining Illegitimacy, Mary Ebbott investigates metaphors of illegitimacy in classical Greek literature, concentrating in particular on the way in which the illegitimate child …
Greek Modernism and Beyond
Although it is one of the most dynamic and controversial areas of Greek culture, Greek modernism has received little scholarly attention as a literary and cultural phenomenon. A …