Ancient Classical category: 1324 books

Cover of Isaeus
by
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009

This is the eleventh volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline. These translations are especially designed for...
Cover of Lysias
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

This is the second volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece series. Planned for publication over several years, the series will present all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries B.C. in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline....
Cover of Isocrates II
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

This is the seventh volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline. These translations are especially designed for the...
Cover of Demosthenes, Speeches 1–17
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011

This is the fourteenth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline. These translations are especially designed...
Cover of Antipodean Antiquities

Antipodean Antiquities

Classical Reception Down Under

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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019

Leading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the Australasian Classical Tradition. They interrogate the interactions between Mediterranean Antiquity and the antipodean worlds of New Zealand and Australia...
Cover of Demosthenes, Speeches 23-26
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Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018

This is the fifteenth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline. These translations are especially designed...
Cover of Enraged

Enraged

Why Violent Times Need Ancient Greek Myths

by Emily Katz Anhalt
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017

An examination of remedies for violent rage rediscovered in ancient Greek myths Millennia ago, Greek myths exposed the dangers of violent rage and the need for empathy and self-restraint. Homer’s Iliad, Euripides’ Hecuba, and Sophocles’ Ajax show that anger and vengeance destroy perpetrators and...
Cover of Harry Potter and the Classical World

Harry Potter and the Classical World

Greek and Roman Allusions in J.K. Rowling's Modern Epic

by Richard A. Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2015

J.K. Rowling has drawn deeply from classical sources to inform and color her Harry Potter novels, with allusions ranging from the obvious to the obscure. “Fluffy,” the vicious three-headed dog in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, is clearly a repackaging of Cerberus, the hellhound of Greek...
Cover of The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature
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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016

The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have stimulated responses and refashioning by English writers. Covering the full range of English...
Cover of The Idea of Iambos
by Andrea Rotstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009

The Idea of Iambos is a long overdue study of the genre of Greek iambic poetry from the perspective provided by ancient testimonies. Andrea Rotstein places research on iambos in the framework of a new methodological approach to ancient genres based on the cognitive sciences, offering an unprecedented...
Cover of The Odyssey
by Homer
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2005

"Tell us, Goddess, daughter of Zeus, start in your own place: when all the rest at Troy had fled from that steep doom and gone back home, away from war and the salt sea, only this man longed for his wife and a way home." Homer's Odyssey, at once an exciting epic...
Cover of Athena
by Susan Deacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008

In this definitive assessment of the various representations and approaches to Athena, Susan Deacy does what no other has done before and brings all the aspects of this legendary figure into one, outstanding study. A survey of one of the most enduringly popular of ancient deities, the book...
Cover of Cut These Words into My Stone

Cut These Words into My Stone

Ancient Greek Epitaphs

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Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013

Cut These Words into My Stone offers evidence that ancient Greek life was not only celebrated in great heroic epics, but was also commemorated in hundreds of artfully composed verse epitaphs. They have been preserved in anthologies and gleaned from weathered headstones. Three-year-old Archianax,...
Cover of The Politics of Youth in Greek Tragedy
by Dr Matthew Shipton
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018

This bold new set of interpretations of tragedy offers innovative analyses of the dynamic between politics and youth in the ancient world. By exploring how tragedy responded to the fluctuating attitudes to young people at a highly turbulent time in the history of Athens, Shipton sheds new light on...
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