Classical Studies

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Commerce with the Classics

Ancient Books and Renaissance Readers

By Anthony Grafton
Subjects: Classical Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, History
Series: Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures

A distinctive history of the traditions of reading and life in the Renaissance library, as seen in the texts of Renaissance intellectuals

Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece

Kid pro quo?

By Gonda Van Steen
Subjects: American Studies, History, American History, European History, Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, European Literature

Reveals the history of how 3,000 Greek children were shipped to the United States for adoption in the postwar period

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

Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage

From Plautus to Chaucer

Edited by Warren S. Smith
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Gender Studies, Classical Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature

Traces satiric themes on women, sex, and marriage through ancient Latin literature and the Middle Ages into Chaucer

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

The Myths of Fiction

Studies in the Canonical Greek Novels

By Edmund Cueva
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Foreign Language, Ancient Greek, Literary Studies, European Literature

A revolutionary account of the emergence of myth over history as the defining feature of the Greek novel

Death by Philosophy

The Biographical Tradition in the Life and Death of the Archaic Philosophers Empedocles, Heraclitus, and Democritus

By Ava Chitwood
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, European Literature, Philosophy

Brings to vivid life the connections between philosophy and biography by examining the spectacular—and often wildly implausible—biographies of famous pre-Socratic thinkers

Alexander the Great

The Unique History of Quintus Curtius

By Elizabeth Baynham
Subjects: Classical Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, History, Medieval and Renaissance Studies

The history of the world's first multicultural king

The Narcissus and the Pomegranate

An Archaeology of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter

By Ann Suter
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, European Literature, Religion

Examines in detail the two myths in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter and the relation of the hymn to historic cult activities at Eleusis

The Odyssey

Translated by Rodney Merrill
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, European Literature

Translated into dactylic hexameter, this edition of the Odyssey recaptures the oral-formulaic experience as never before

Iliad, Book 1

Edited by Pamela Ann Draper
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Foreign Language, Ancient Greek, Literary Studies, European Literature

A user-friendly edition for the student reading Homer in the original Greek

Magnus Felix Ennodius

A Gentleman of the Church

By Stefanie A.H. Kennell
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, Classical Studies

The first comprehensive study of Magnus Felix Ennodius as both Latin literary figure and historical personality

Thomas Heywood's Art of Love

The First Complete English Translation of Ovid's Ars Amatoria

By Michael L. Stapleton
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, Classical Studies, Editorial Theory

The English Art of Love

Acting Like Men

Gender, Drama, and Nostalgia in Ancient Greece

By Karen Bassi
Subjects: Classical Studies, Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, European Literature

Examines the concept of gender in relation to Greek drama

Sardonic Smile

Nonverbal Behavior in Homeric Epic

By Donald Lateiner
Subjects: Literary Studies, European Literature, Classical Studies, Anthropology

Homeric posturing, Homeric expression

Actium and Augustus

The Politics and Emotions of Civil War

By Robert Alan Gurval
Subjects: History, Archaeology, Literary Studies, European Literature, Classical Studies, Roman

What does it feel like when brother fights brother?

Ovid's Literary Loves

Influence and Innovation in the Amores

By Barbara Weiden Boyd
Subjects: Classical Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature

Brings the Amores into the forefront of scholarly discussion

The Knotted Thong

Structures of Mimesis in Persius

By Daniel M. Hooley
Subjects: Classical Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature

A much-needed study of allusion in the complex works of Persius

Plot and Point of View in the Iliad

By Robert J. Rabel
Subjects: Classical Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature

Argues that Homer, the poet of the Iliad, may be fully distinguished from the narrator of Homeric poetry

The Whole Book

Cultural Perspectives on the Medieval Miscellany

Edited by Stephen G Nichols & Siegfried Wenzel
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, Classical Studies

An investigation of the fascinating, not-so-miscellaneous miscellanies

Explaining an Eclipse

Aristotle's Posterior Analytics 2.1-10

By Owen Goldin
Subjects: Classical Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, Philosophy

An excellent analysis of Aristotle's philosophy of science, logic, and metaphysics

Crisis and Conversion in Apuleius' Metamorphoses

By Nancy Shumate
Subjects: Classical Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, Philosophy

A literary reflection of a real-life experience

Siren Songs

Gender, Audiences, and Narrators in the Odyssey

By Lillian Doherty
Subjects: Classical Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, Gender Studies

A feminist critique of the Odyssey

The Aeneid of Virgil

Translated by Edward McCrorie
Subjects: Literary Studies, European Literature, Classical Studies, History, Medieval and Renaissance Studies

A bold new translation of the Aeneid

Writing Ravenna

The Liber Pontificalis of Andreas Agnellus

By Joaquin Martinez Pizarro
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Classical Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature

A thoughtful consideration of medieval narrative method

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