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Homer in Performance
Rhapsodes, Narrators, and Characters
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781477316030
Pub Date: August 13th, 2018
Format: Hardcover
440 Pages
Taking a holistic approach to performances of the Iliad and the Odyssey, this multidisciplinary volume examines both the rhapsodes who performed the poems and the narrators and characters within them.
Classics from Papyrus to the Internet
An Introduction to Transmission and Reception
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781477313022
Pub Date: July 25th, 2017
Format: Paperback
360 Pages
This major overview of how classical texts were preserved across millennia addresses both the process of transmission and the issue of reception, as well as the key reference works and online professional tools for studying literary transmission.
Speech Presentation in Homeric Epic
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 9780292756793
Pub Date: November 1st, 2012
Format: Paperback
268 Pages
Drawing on narratology and linguistics, this first systematic examination of all the speeches in the Iliad and the Odyssey reveals a unified system of speech presentation in the Homeric epics that includes supposedly “modern” techniques such as free indir
City of Suppliants
Tragedy and the Athenian Empire
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 9780292754324
Pub Date: August 1st, 2012
Format: Paperback
222 Pages
With close readings of suppliant dramas by each of the major playwrights, this book explores how Greek tragedy used tales of foreign supplicants to promote, question, and negotiate the imperial ideology of Athens as a benevolent and moral ruling city.
Princess, Priestess, Poet
The Sumerian Temple Hymns of Enheduanna
Price: $32.95
ISBN: 9780292723535
Pub Date: August 1st, 2009
Format: Paperback
336 Pages
The first collection of original translations of all forty-two temple hymns of Enheduanna, the world’s earliest known writer.
The Captive Woman's Lament in Greek Tragedy
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 9780292722187
Pub Date: February 1st, 2006
Format: Paperback
199 Pages
A study of captive women's laments that shows how classical dramatists used empathy to pierce the barrier between the Greek and barbarian worlds.
The Primacy of Vision in Virgil's Aeneid
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 9780292726222
Pub Date: January 15th, 2006
Format: Paperback
271 Pages
A fresh look at one of the masterpieces of Latin literature and how it contributes to a new visual culture and a new mythology of imperial Rome.
Roman Tragedy
Theatre to Theatricality
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 9780292722200
Pub Date: July 1st, 2004
Format: Paperback
223 Pages
Mario Erasmo draws on all the available evidence to trace the evolution of Roman tragedy from the earliest tragedians to the dramatist Seneca and to explore the role played by Roman culture in shaping the perception of theatricality on and off the stage.
From Ikaria to the Stars
Classical Mythification, Ancient and Modern
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780292726031
Pub Date: July 1st, 2004
Format: Paperback
348 Pages
Using the need for myth as the starting point for exploring a number of topics in Greek mythology and history, Green advances new ideas about why the human urge to make myths persists across the millennia and why the borderland between mythology and histo
Vergil, Philodemus, and the Augustans
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 9780292722118
Pub Date: January 1st, 2004
Format: Paperback
375 Pages
The essays in this book offer a new baseline for understanding the effect of Philodemus and Epicureanism on both the thought and poetic practices of Vergil, Horace, and other Augustan writers.

Homer in Performance
Rhapsodes, Narrators, and Characters
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781477316030
Pub Date: August 13th, 2018
Format: Hardcover
440 Pages
Classics from Papyrus to the Internet
An Introduction to Transmission and Reception
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781477313022
Pub Date: July 25th, 2017
Format: Paperback
360 Pages
Speech Presentation in Homeric Epic
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 9780292756793
Pub Date: November 1st, 2012
Format: Paperback
268 Pages
City of Suppliants
Tragedy and the Athenian Empire
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 9780292754324
Pub Date: August 1st, 2012
Format: Paperback
222 Pages
Princess, Priestess, Poet
The Sumerian Temple Hymns of Enheduanna
Price: $32.95
ISBN: 9780292723535
Pub Date: August 1st, 2009
Format: Paperback
336 Pages
The Captive Woman's Lament in Greek Tragedy
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 9780292722187
Pub Date: February 1st, 2006
Format: Paperback
199 Pages
The Primacy of Vision in Virgil's Aeneid
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 9780292726222
Pub Date: January 15th, 2006
Format: Paperback
271 Pages
Roman Tragedy
Theatre to Theatricality
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 9780292722200
Pub Date: July 1st, 2004
Format: Paperback
223 Pages
From Ikaria to the Stars
Classical Mythification, Ancient and Modern
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780292726031
Pub Date: July 1st, 2004
Format: Paperback
348 Pages
Vergil, Philodemus, and the Augustans
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 9780292722118
Pub Date: January 1st, 2004
Format: Paperback
375 Pages