Classical Studies

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Tales of Dionysus

The Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis

By William Levitan & Stanley Lombardo
Subjects: Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

The first English verse translation of the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis

Listening to Homer

Tradition, Narrative, and Audience

By Ruth Scodel
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, European Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

A discussion of how ancient Greek bards ensured that their poetry would reach audiences of various backgrounds

The Iliad

Translated by Rodney Merrill
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

A new translation of Homer's classic follows Merrill's successful earlier version of the Odyssey in capturing the feel of the original Greek

The Scroll and the Marble

Studies in Reading and Reception in Hellenistic Poetry

By Peter Bing
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

Seminal essays from one of the most prominent scholars of Hellenistic poetry

The Humblest Sparrow

The Poetry of Venantius Fortunatus

By Michael Roberts
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

A long-awaited study of the poetry of Venantius Fortunatus

Homer and the Dual Model of the Tragic

By Yoav Rinon
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

A probing and much needed examination of "the tragic" as a concept distinct from tragedy as a genre

Theogony and Works and Days

Edited by Henry Michael Weinfield & Catherine McKee Schlegel
By Hesiod
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Classical Studies, Greek

A new verse-translation celebrating the poetry of Hesiod's great works, Theogony and Works and Days

Vergil's Aeneid and the Roman Self

Subject and Nation in Literary Discourse

By Yasmin Syed
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Literary Studies, European Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

Reading the Aeneid as the central text of Roman literary education, Yasmin Syed investigates the poem’s power to shape Roman notions of self and cultural identity

Graceful Errors

Pindar and the Performance of Praise

By Hilary Mackie
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Theater and Performance

Reveals Pindar's competing motives without oversimplifying his work

Roman Propertius and the Reinvention of Elegy

By Jeri Blair DeBrohun
Subjects: Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Studies how Propertius transformed the elegiac form, using Callimachean style as a starting point

The Taste for Nothingness

A Study of Virtus and Related Themes in Lucan's Bellum Civile

By Robert John Sklenar
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

The author explores the nihilistic view of the cosmos expressed by the poet and relates this perspective to the philosophical system of the Stoics

Early Greek Lyric Poetry

Translated by David Mulroy
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

New approach to translating the Greek lyric poets

Poems from the Greek Anthology

Expanded Edition

Translated by Kenneth Rexroth
Introduction by David Mulroy
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

Classic Greek poetry with a touch of the Beat

The Heart of Achilles

Characterization and Personal Ethics in the Iliad

By Graham Zanker
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

Explores the moral choices and values Homer offers in his Iliad

The Stranger's Welcome

Oral Theory and the Aesthetics of the Homeric Hospitality Scene

By Steve Reece
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

The Play of Fictions

Studies in Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 2

By A. M. Keith
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

Poetics

By Aristotle
Translated by Gerald Else
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Philosophy
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

A work of transcendent importance, both for the history of literary criticism and in its own right

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