Classical Studies

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A Commentary on Cicero, de natura deorum II

By Andrew R. Dyck
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Roman, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Michigan Classical Commentaries

First English commentary on Cicero’s examination of the gods in over fifty years
 

Specters of Cavafy

By Maria Boletsi
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Greek / Modern Intersections

Haunting the future through poetry

Constructing Communities in Vergil's Aeneid

Cultural Memory, Identity, and Ideology

By Tedd A. Wimperis
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

A new take on the Aeneid, drawing previously unexplored connections between Vergil’s fictional world and its political context

Antisthenes of Athens

Texts, Translations, and Commentary

By Susan Prince
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Philosophy, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

Antisthenes’ Homeric criticism is examined in depth for the first time

Finding Italy

Travel, Nation, and Colonization in Vergil's Aeneid

By Kristopher Fletcher
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, History

The Trojans' journey to Italy in Vergil’s Aeneid teaches them to love their new homeland and their new name—the Romans

Shipwrecked

Disaster and Transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the Modern World

By James Morrison
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, 19th Century Literature, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Media Studies, Cinema Studies

Four thousand years of shipwrecks in literature and film

The Limits of Heroism

Homer and the Ethics of Reading

By Mark Buchan
Subjects: Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Psychology
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Explores the relationship of desire to heroic ideology in both the Iliad and the Odyssey

The Hero and the City

An Interpretation of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus

By Joseph P. Wilson
Subjects: Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

Challenges many of the traditional views concerning Oedipus at Colonus

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

Rethinking Reality

Lucretius and the Textualization of Nature

By Duncan F. Kennedy
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literature and Science, Classical Studies, Roman, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Studies in Literature and Science

A clear, concise introduction to current debates on the relationship of representation and reality in science studies

Telling Wonders

Ethnographic and Political Discourse in the Work of Herodotus

By Rosaria Vignolo Munson
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, History, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

A sharp analysis of how Herodotus' narrative participates in the rhetoric of shaping public attitudes about the present

The Pedagogical Contract

The Economies of Teaching and Learning in the Ancient World

By Yun Lee Too
Subjects: Classical Studies, Education, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Rethinks the teacher-student relationship from its ancient roots to the present

Metamorphosis of Language in Apuleius

A Study of Allusion in the Novel

By Ellen D. Finkelpearl
Subjects: Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

A study of allusion in Apuleius' enigmatic novel

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

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