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Greek Myth
This volume provides a guide to research in the field of Greek Myth, introducing the main questions, theories and methods related to the study of Greek Myth today. The author …
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. …
The New Sappho on Old Age
The world has long wished for more of Sappho’s poetry, which exists mostly in tantalizing fragments. So the apparent recovery in 2004 of a virtually intact poem by Sappho, only the …
Stealing Helen
It's a familiar story: a beautiful woman is abducted and her husband journeys to recover her. This story's best-known incarnation is also a central Greek myth-the abduction of …
Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry
How can we explain the process by which a literary text refers to another text? For the past decade and a half, intertextuality has been a central concern of scholars and readers …
Poet, Public, and Performance in Ancient Greece
Poetry in archaic and classical Greece was a practical art that arose from specific social or political circumstances. The interpretation of a poem or dramatic work must therefore …
Chance and Intelligence in Thucydides
From a Sabine Jar
This book is a detailed study of a single poem -- Horace, Odes 1.9 -- often called 'The Soracte Ode' after the mountain named in its second line. Although more than seventy …
Iambic Ideas
Iambic Ideas, explores the concept of the 'iambic' as a genre. In a set of detailed studies, the contributors examine, across time, the idea of iambic through a wide variety of …