Ancient, classical and medieval texts Books
The University of Chicago Press Complete Tragedies Volume 2 Oedipus Hercules Mad
Book SynopsisEdited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, the Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca offers authoritative, modern English translations of the writings of the Stoic philosopher and playwright (4 BCE 65 CE). The two volumes of The Complete Tragedies presents all of his dramas, expertly rendered by preeminent scholars and translators. The first volume contains Medea, The Phoenician Women, Phaedra, The Trojan Women, and Octavia, the last of which was written in emulation of Senecan tragedies and serves as a unique example of political tragedy. This second volume includes Oedipus, Hercules Mad, Hercules on Oeta, Thyestes, and Agamemnon. High standards of accuracy, clarity, and style are maintained throughout the translations, which render Seneca into verse with as close a correspondence, line for line, to the original as possible, and with special attention paid to meter and overall flow. In addition, each tragedy is prefaced by an origina
£37.05
The University of Chicago Press Aristotles Nicomachean Ethics
Book Synopsis"The Nicomachean Ethics", along with its sequel, "the Politics", is Aristotle's most widely read and influential work. Ideas central to ethics found their most powerful proponent in the person medieval scholars simply called 'the Philosopher'. This title presents a translation of the Ethics.Trade Review"This translation will easily be the best available English version of the Nicomachean Ethics." (Michael Davis, Sarah Lawrence College) "The translators have achieved their goal of providing a translation that is very readable while remaining faithful to Aristotle's Greek. This will be a real service to scholars and students." (Gerald Mara, Georgetown University)"
£36.10
The University of Chicago Press Greek Tragedies 2
Book SynopsisOffers translations of Euripides' "Medea", "The Children of Heracles", "Andromache", and "Iphigenia among the Taurians", fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles' "The Trackers". In this title, introductions for each play offer information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond.
£14.87
The University of Chicago Press Greek Tragedies 3
Book SynopsisOffers translations of Euripides' "Medea", "The Children of Heracles", "Andromache", and "Iphigenia among the Taurians", fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles' "The Trackers". In this title, introductions for each play offer information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond.
£14.87
The University of Chicago Press Medea
Book SynopsisFeatures a story of the wronged wife who avenges herself upon her unfaithful husband by murdering their children is lodged securely in the popular imagination, a touchstone for politics, law, and psychoanalysis and the subject of constant retellings and reinterpretations.Trade Review"Taplin's eminently readable version of this harrowing tragedy justifies his reputation as one of our foremost experts in dramatic criticism, whose pioneering efforts in illuminating ancient stagecraft remain indispensable today." -Froma Zeitlin, Princeton University "Euripides's influential and provocative Medea continues to be read, performed, adapted, and reinterpreted in multiple contexts across the globe. Taplin's accessible and performable, yet vivid and poetic translation makes the play available to a modern audience while doing justice to both its complexities and its horrific power." -Helene P. Foley, Barnard College, Columbia University "Taplin translates Medea into clear and contemporary English while reflecting well the different registers and tones that create the subtle texture of Greek tragedy. His version is eminently speakable, but also highly faithful to the original Greek, making it ideal for instructors and readers who want to study closely the specific metaphors and terms that carry the classic themes of this influential drama." -Donald J. Mastronarde, University of California, Berkeley
£11.17
The University of Chicago Press Euripides II
Book SynopsisOffers translations of Euripides' Medea, The Children of Heracles, Andromache, and Iphigenia among the Taurians, fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles' The Trackers. In this title, introductions for each play offer information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond.
£31.00
The University of Chicago Press Euripides IV
Book SynopsisOffers translations of Euripides' Medea, The Children of Heracles, Andromache, and Iphigenia among the Taurians, fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles' The Trackers. In this title, introductions for each play offer information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond.
£31.00
The University of Chicago Press Euripides V
Book SynopsisOffers translations of Euripides' Medea, The Children of Heracles, Andromache, and Iphigenia among the Taurians, fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles' The Trackers. In this title, introductions for each play offer information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond.
£31.00
The University of Chicago Press Sophocles I
Book SynopsisOffers translations of Euripides' Medea, The Children of Heracles, Andromache, and Iphigenia among the Taurians, fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles' The Trackers. In this title, introductions for each play offer information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond.
£31.00
The University of Chicago Press Sophocles II
Book SynopsisOffers translations of Euripides' "Medea", "The Children of Heracles", "Andromache", and "Iphigenia among the Taurians", fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles' "The Trackers". In this title, introductions for each play offer information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond.
£14.87
The University of Chicago Press Dangerous Counsel Accountability and Advice in
Book Synopsis
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Homer
Book SynopsisThe story of our ongoing fascination with Homer, the man and the myth. Trade Review"Porter is an exceptional scholar. Clear, intelligent, and filled with fascinating examples, this book is contemporary while reaching beyond the fashionable, and it will arouse a good deal of discussion."--Simon Goldhill, author of Preposterous Poetics "This book is a reckoning with who or what we understand Homer to be and how we have reinvented him for our own ends. Porter makes clear the impossibility of Homer both as a concept and as a person, revealing him as the illusion of a perfectly formed whole that has been kept alive for millennia, a ghost in the machine, a phantom both alive and dead. As a leading scholar in dismantling assumptions about the classical past, Porter has written an original, compelling, and eye-opening book that will generate excitement and admiration."--Alex C. Purves, author of Homer and the Poetics of GestureTable of ContentsNote on Translations and Abbreviations List of Illustrations Timeline 1. Why Homer? 2. Who Was Homer? 3. Apotheosis or Apostasy? 4. What Did Homer See? 5. Why War? Acknowledgments Notes Further Reading Works Cited Index
£22.80
Columbia University Press Neopoetics
Book SynopsisIn Neopoetics, Collins turns his attention to the cognitive evolution of the writing-ready brain. Further integrating neuroscience into the popular field of cognitive poetics, he adds empirical depth to our study of literary texts and verbal imagination and offers a whole new way to look at reading, writing, and creative expression.Trade ReviewProfessor Collins has shown, with his unique combination of interests, just how complex and unpredictably intricate the cognitive web of human culture has become. Of course, this is not the last word on the subject of how culture shapes and modifies our collective cognitive process; we have just begun the task of mapping out the territory to be explored. But exploration is inherently exciting in itself, and this book has significantly widened the scope of the project. -- Merlin Donald, author of "Origins of the Modern Mind" Neopoetics brings ideas from ancient Greece and modern literary and psychological theory together in describing the "writing-ready" brain. It is a work of impressive scholarship, though the literary extracts and occasionally anecdotal style make the book a pleasure to read. I think it will make a distinctive mark in fields of human understanding, including history, psychology, anthropology, literary criticism, musicology. -- Michael Corballis, author of From Hand to Mouth: The Origins of Language Christopher Collins weaves the strands of cognitive poetics - neuroscience, cognitive psychology, anthropology, linguistics and semiotics - into a masterful work of scholarship on literacy, language, memory and the mind that itself reads as beautifully as a novel. This book calls out to be picked up and read carefully by anyone interested in how writing transformed the traditionally oral cultures of ancient Greece and Rome into literate and literary ones, and indeed helped define our own cultural evolution as human beings -- William Short, University of Texas, San Antonio The word poetics is rooted in the Greek poiein, to 'build' or 'create.' In his 2013 book, Paleopoetics, Christopher Collins assessed how evolution gave rise to the "language-ready" brain and its ability to create tools that extends our thoughts. Neopoetics carries his story forward to illuminate how writing has transformed the way that language supports 'mindsharing,' performance and narrative. His exposition fruitfully augments the tools of literary analysis with well-judged perspectives from cognitive neuroscience in ways that extend to dance, music and emotion. -- Michael Arbib, University of Southern California Collins breathes new life into the constructionist premise that language shapes how humans think. Using the literary traditions of ancient Greece and Rome to examine the constraints that oral and written media, respectively, impose on narrative representation, Neopoetics suggests new ways of thinking about the cognitive mechanisms that shape cultural transmission. -- Michelle Scalise Sugiyama, University of Oregon Recommended. -- A. Kind CHOICETable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Innovating Ourselves 2. Narrative Memory 3. The Dancing, Singing Daughters of Memory 4. Visual Instruments of Memory 5. Poets' Play and Plato's Poetics 6. Writing for the Voice 7. Writing and the Reading Mind Epilogue: Poetics and the Making of the Modern Self Appendix: Three Horatian Texts Notes Bibliography Index
£46.75
Columbia University Press Hidden and Visible Realms
Book SynopsisHidden and Visible Realms is one of the most significant medieval Chinese collections of stories of the fantastic and otherworldly phenomena, distinguished by its varied contents, elegant writing style, and Buddhist influence. This annotated first complete English translation explains the key themes and textual history of the work.Trade ReviewThis book is an important contribution to the growing canon of translated primary source materials of medieval China. * Choice *The nearly three hundred miracle tales that survive of Liu Yiqing’s compilation offer fascinating insights into China’s society and imagination of the late third to early fifth centuries. This complete translation will be eagerly welcomed by all students and scholars of Chinese literature, religion, and thought, as it was precisely in this period that Buddhism had become part of Chinese life. -- Wilt L. Idema, Harvard UniversityHidden and Visible Realms is the most complete and critically annotated translation of the seminal collection of zhiguai (‘tales of anomalies’), Liu Yiqing’s Youming lu, in any language, one that will be enthusiastically welcomed by all who are interested in the history of Chinese fiction and religion. -- Victor H. Mair, University of PennsylvaniaThe fields of early Chinese studies will enthusiastically welcome this excellent work by Zhenjun Zhang that combines a skillfully rendered translation of Liu Yiqing’s Youminglu with an extensive treatise, providing the most comprehensive review of the long history of zhiguai studies we have to date. -- Kenneth J. DeWoskin, University of MichiganHidden and Visible Realms makes a valuable contribution to the study of Chinese zhiguai “Records of the Strange” literature. For the first time, Zhang’s translation of the Youming lu gives English readers a sense of the marvelous richness of the text’s contents and its diverse themes. -- Keith Knapp, The CitadelThis is a substantial study and translation that can serve as a model for future translations of zhiguai texts. Accurate and carefully annotated, Hidden and Visible Realms is in effect a new recension of the Youming lu. It is a valuable contribution to our growing understanding of early xiaoshuo. -- Daniel Hsieh, Purdue UniversityThis book is an appropriate work for Western students or non-native readers. For the beginner of zhiguai study, this work, and especially the “Introduction” is to be recommended. * Monumenta Serica *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsTerms Regarding Weights and MeasuresChronologyIntroduction1. The Wonder of Love2. A Garden of Marvels3. The Spectacle of Monsters4. The Realm of Ghosts5. The Netherworld and This World6. Animals and Men7. Anecdotes of Notable Figures8. Local LegendsAppendixTales Appearing in Other RenditionsWorks CitedIndex
£46.75
Columbia University Press Antagonistic Cooperation
Book SynopsisFrom the collages of Romare Bearden and paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat to the fiction of Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison to the music of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, Robert G. O’Meally explores how the worlds of African American jazz, art, and literature have informed one another.Trade ReviewA "Best Books of Summer 2022" Pick * Boston Globe *A masterpiece—from the Angela Davis moment at the beginning to the incredible and inimitable readings of Paris Blues at the end! O'Meally has given the world (with all of your unruly Black cosmopolitanism!) the definitive takes on Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray, Toni Morrison and Romare Bearden of and for our generation! -- Cornel WestEmbrace disturbs. Accompaniment unsettles. Musically, Robert O’Meally tells us that black visual and literary art always tell us that black music always tells us this with love. O’Meally’s generously receptive perception is attuned to collage’s rich austerities. In showing that antagonistic cooperation is our program, Antagonistic Cooperation is a wonder! -- Fred MotenRobert O'Meally's interdisciplinary brilliance shines throughout the pages of Antagonistic Cooperation. Here he brings a lifetime of reading, listening, looking, learning, and leading to bear upon extraordinary works by America’s most innovative artists, among them Romare Bearden, Louis Armstrong, Toni Morrison, and Ralph Ellison. His luminous prose and clear analysis make this book itself a contribution to the body of work under consideration. An extraordinary accomplishment. -- Farah Jasmine Griffin, author of Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and LiteratureEver lively and cautiously optimistic, Antagonistic Cooperation is a moving revival of jazz-democracy discourse in downbeat times. O’Meally passes on a lifetime of tales and insights, vivid and learned, revealing rhymes among Black music, African American writing, and American political thought. -- William J. Maxwell, author of F. B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American LiteratureIn a masterful manner befitting his decades at the helm of the New Jazz Studies, Robert O’Meally in Antagonistic Cooperation narrates the contrapuntal encounters that have provided the dynamic tension driving African American arts forward. What O’Meally makes profoundly clear is that artistic energy is uncontainable, that great artists are uncategorizable, and that conflict is not something to fear; when understood in its highest aspect, it is the key to evolution and transcendence within the polyphony and polyrhythm of human life. -- Michael E. Veal, Henry L. and Lucy G Moses Professor of Music, Yale UniversityHighly recommended. * Choice Reviews *A rich and rewarding read that provides a new understanding of Black cultural expression and hope for fulfilling the broken promises of American democracy. * Journal of Jazz Studies *Antagonistic Cooperation puts three of the most influential African American artists of the twentieth century – Louis Armstrong, Ralph Ellison and Romare Bearden – in conversation in an accessibly interdisciplinary text. * U.S. Studies Online *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. This Music Demanded Action: Ellison, Armstrong, and the Imperatives of Jazz2. We Are All a Collage: Armstrong’s Operatic Blues, Bearden’s Black Odyssey, and Morrison’s Jazz3. The “Open Corner” of Black Community and Creativity: From Romare Bearden to Duke Ellington and Toni Morrison4. Hare and Bear: The Racial Politics of Satchmo’s Smile5. The White Trombone and the Unruly Black Cosmopolitan Trumpet, or How Paris Blues Came to Be UnfinishedCodaNotesIndex
£85.00
Columbia University Press Antagonistic Cooperation
Book SynopsisFrom the collages of Romare Bearden and paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat to the fiction of Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison to the music of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, Robert G. O'Meally explores how the worlds of African American jazz, art, and literature have informed one another.Trade ReviewA "Best Books of Summer 2022" Pick * Boston Globe *A masterpiece—from the Angela Davis moment at the beginning to the incredible and inimitable readings of Paris Blues at the end! O'Meally has given the world (with all of your unruly Black cosmopolitanism!) the definitive takes on Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray, Toni Morrison and Romare Bearden of and for our generation! -- Cornel WestEmbrace disturbs. Accompaniment unsettles. Musically, Robert O’Meally tells us that black visual and literary art always tell us that black music always tells us this with love. O’Meally’s generously receptive perception is attuned to collage’s rich austerities. In showing that antagonistic cooperation is our program, Antagonistic Cooperation is a wonder! -- Fred MotenRobert O'Meally's interdisciplinary brilliance shines throughout the pages of Antagonistic Cooperation. Here he brings a lifetime of reading, listening, looking, learning, and leading to bear upon extraordinary works by America’s most innovative artists, among them Romare Bearden, Louis Armstrong, Toni Morrison, and Ralph Ellison. His luminous prose and clear analysis make this book itself a contribution to the body of work under consideration. An extraordinary accomplishment. -- Farah Jasmine Griffin, author of Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and LiteratureEver lively and cautiously optimistic, Antagonistic Cooperation is a moving revival of jazz-democracy discourse in downbeat times. O’Meally passes on a lifetime of tales and insights, vivid and learned, revealing rhymes among Black music, African American writing, and American political thought. -- William J. Maxwell, author of F. B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American LiteratureIn a masterful manner befitting his decades at the helm of the New Jazz Studies, Robert O’Meally in Antagonistic Cooperation narrates the contrapuntal encounters that have provided the dynamic tension driving African American arts forward. What O’Meally makes profoundly clear is that artistic energy is uncontainable, that great artists are uncategorizable, and that conflict is not something to fear; when understood in its highest aspect, it is the key to evolution and transcendence within the polyphony and polyrhythm of human life. -- Michael E. Veal, Henry L. and Lucy G Moses Professor of Music, Yale UniversityHighly recommended. * Choice Reviews *A rich and rewarding read that provides a new understanding of Black cultural expression and hope for fulfilling the broken promises of American democracy. * Journal of Jazz Studies *Antagonistic Cooperation puts three of the most influential African American artists of the twentieth century – Louis Armstrong, Ralph Ellison and Romare Bearden – in conversation in an accessibly interdisciplinary text. * U.S. Studies Online *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. This Music Demanded Action: Ellison, Armstrong, and the Imperatives of Jazz2. We Are All a Collage: Armstrong’s Operatic Blues, Bearden’s Black Odyssey, and Morrison’s Jazz3. The “Open Corner” of Black Community and Creativity: From Romare Bearden to Duke Ellington and Toni Morrison4. Hare and Bear: The Racial Politics of Satchmo’s Smile5. The White Trombone and the Unruly Black Cosmopolitan Trumpet, or How Paris Blues Came to Be UnfinishedCodaNotesIndex
£23.75
MO - University of Illinois Press Aesopica A Series of Texts Relating to Aesop or Ascribed to Him
Trade Review"Nothing approaching this in magnitude has existed before and it is safe to say that all future study of the Aesopic tradition will rest on this vast collection and careful sifting of the basic texts." --American Journal of Philology"'Monumental' is the only appropriate word to describe this work."--Journal of Oriental Languages
£90.95
Indiana University Press The Art of Love
Book Synopsis. . . Humphries has rendered (Ovid's) love poetry with conspicuous success into English which is neither obtrusively colloquial nor awkwardly antique. Virginia Quarterly ReviewTrade Review" ... Humphries has rendered (Ovid's) love poetry with conspicuous success into English which is neither obtrusively colloquial nor awkwardly antique." - Virginia Quarterly ReviewTable of ContentsThe LovesThe Art of BeautyThe Art of LoveThe Remedies for Love
£12.34
Indiana University Press Lucian Satirical Sketches
Book SynopsisThough Lucian's tendency to debunk everything might well have made him depressing reading, his light-hearted fantasy and wit have always had the opposite effect. These sketches present him primarily as a humorous writer.Trade Review" ... welcome and timely. It is written in crisp, idiomatic, conversational English, not hobbled by slavish imitation of Lucians Greek syntax." The Key ReporterTable of ContentsIntroductionTalksThe DreamZeuxisSketchesConversations in Low SocietyMother Knows BestThe Language of True LoveThe Results of Shooting a LineConversations in High SocietyThe New Sleeping PartnerZeus is IndisposedThe Reluctant ParentA Beauty CompetitionConversations in the UnderworldNo Baggage AllowanceMenippus Gets Away With ItA Slight Change of SexHow To Enjoy Life After SeventyCharon Sees LifeMenippus Goes to HellIcaromenippusAn Interview with HesiodSome Awkward Questions for ZeusPhilosophies Going CheapFishing for PhoniesThe Pathological LiarStoriesAlexanderThe True HistoryNotesGlossary
£15.19
Indiana University Press The Complete Romances of Chr233tien de Troyes
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewChretien is where the literary tradition of the Arthurian romance can be seen to begin. . . . His poems are the earliest we have that portray knights errant questing through dangerous forests to challenge unknown opponents and to learn the meaning of love. . . . Staines [also] provides the first, and only, English translation of "Guillaume d'Angeleterre" [and] it is very good to have it available. * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionErec and EnideCligesThe Knight of the CartThe Knight With the LionThe Story of the GrailAppendix: William of EnglandVariant Readings of the ManuscriptA Bibliography of Texts and Critical StudiesAn Index of Proper Names
£17.09
Indiana University Press Ovids Fasti
Book SynopsisA new translation of Ovid's poetic calendar of the Roman religious year.Table of ContentsIntroductionBook 1Book 2Book 3Book 4Book 5Book 6Glossary of Proper Names Notes
£11.39
Indiana University Press Anthology of Ancient Greek Popular Literature
Book SynopsisA lively anthology of ancient Greek popular literature.Trade Review"... higly readable English translations of a wide variety of Greek texts ... a solid introduction to the general question of 'popular literature' in the ancient world." --Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction Part One: Popular Fiction1. Romantic NovelXenophon of Ephesus, an Ephesian Tale Translated by Moses Hadas2. Christian NovellaAnonymous, the Acts of Paul and Thecla Translated by R. Mcl. Wilson3. Wisdom LiteratureAnonymous, Secundus the Silent Philosopher Translated by Ben E. Perry4. Comic NovelPseudo-lucian, Lucius or the Ass Translated by Paul Turner5. Comic BiographyAnonymous, the Aesop Romance Translated by Lloyd W. Daly6. Historic NovelPseudo-callisthenes, the Alexander Romance Translated by Ken DowdenPart Two: Popular Compilations 7. WondersPhlegon of Tralles, Book of Marvels Translated by William Hansen8. FablesAnonymous, Collectio Augustana Translated by William Hansen9. JokesHierocles and Philagrius, the Laughter Lover Translated by William HansenPart Three: A Popular Handbook10. FortunetellingAnonymous, the Oracles of Astrampsychus Translated by Randall Stewart and Kenneth MorrellPart Four: Popular Literature in Public Places11. Popular Literature on StoneGravestone Verse Translated by William HansenWorks Cited
£18.04
Indiana University Press Morgante
Book SynopsisAn English translation of the Renaissance classic, "Il Morgante" by Luigi Pulci. A classic picaresque epic detailing the thrilling exploits of Orlando, this is a tale of war and of the calamities that befall the romantic hero, his fellow knights, and their sovereign, Charlemagne.Trade Review"A comic masterpiece ... An important scholarly contribution, this edition is also simply a plesure to read." - Library Journal "Tusiani's monumental labor of love has earned him a continuing debt of gratitude from all serious students of European literature." --Renaissance Quarterly " ... a reference work that no scholar of the Italian Renaissance can afford to ignore." --Italian Quarterly "One of the great Carolingian accounts produced in the Italian renaissance, Pulci's Morgante is a multilayered text composed in an opulent yet popular style so rich in witticisms, ribaldry, and word games that it has defied accurate rendering into English. Tusiani, an experienced and effective translator an d poet, has met the challenge with a fluid contemporary version, effectively conveying the tempo of the original as well as its comic verve." --Choice "Luigi Pulci, with Joseph Tusiani's translation and Edoardo A. Lubano's commentary, has entered the pantheon of Italian epic poetry translated into English thus far inhabited only by his three Italian followers: Matteo Maria Boiardo, Ludovico Ariosto, and Torquato Tasso." --Dino S. Cervigni, Italian Quarterly
£31.50
Indiana University Press The Subject of Violence The Song of Roland and
Book SynopsisProposes a provocative new reading of the medieval French Song of Roland and its role in changing a world of violent independent warriors into the more contemporary world of citizens subjugated to the state. A study of signal importance to literary and historical scholarship of the Song and of the birth of modern Europe.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionViolence: Modern Perspectives on the Medieval and the Modern1. The Semiotization of Death: Open Text or Closed?2. THe Gaze of the OtherThe Sociological Presentation of the SelfThe Intertextuality of the Peerage3. Excursus I: Aesthetics, Economics, PoliticsBeauty, Value, ViolenceThe Noble, the Knight, the PeasantThe Ideology of Knighthood4. The Subsystem of the Professional Warrior: Courage, Contradiction, IrascibilityIdeological Value (I): The Constitution and Destitution of SubjectsIdeological Value (II): From Subject to Traitor?Structure of Structures5. The Destinator's Multiple Roles: Syncretism or Contradiction?The Culpable GuarantorFrom Individual to Role6. Excursus II: The Play of Absence and Presence in Medieval KingshipCarles li reis,......nostre emperere magnesReis and Emperere Textualized7. Funerary RitualsThe Unreintegrated MournerThe Death of Aude, or the Refusal of ExchangeThe Transformative Performance8. Textual Coherence and the Dialectics of IdeologyTextual Coherence: The NarrativeNarrative ProgramsActants9. Ganelon's Trial, or the Monarch's RevolutionThe Actorial Level: Inexorable StructureThe Actantial Distribution10. ConclusionThe Chanson Ends with the Indeterminacy of Non-Exclusive DisjunctionThe Chanson Produces Limited and Specifiable SignificationsThe Subject of ViolenceNomadic Violence, Sedentary Economics, and the Birth of the StateNotesBibliography General IndexIndex of Proper NounsIndex of Foreign Terms and Phrases
£31.50
MH - Indiana University Press Dante Alighieris Divine Comedy Volume 3 and
Book SynopsisThis translation recreates Dante's vision of Purgatory. It aims to use the same flexible iambic verse, dignified understatement and elegant clarity that characterizes Dante's own sytle.
£62.90
Indiana University Press The Modern Construction of Myth
Book SynopsisOffers an integrated critical account of the career of myth in modernity. This book examines the work of five theorists who attempt to come to terms with the lessons of the ideological critique and yet regard myth as a constructive phenomenon.Trade ReviewVon Hendy (English, Boston College) begins his study with the 18th—century re—creation of the concept of myth and traces its development through three subsequent classes of theories, all deriving from the romantic or transcendental theory: the ideological, the folkloric, and the constitutive, each of which persists today. The book's organization is basically chronological, but, because of the complex interdisciplinarity of writings on myth, it is also partly taxonomic and partly evaluative. Whereas other mythographers tend to concentrate on the mature theories of the writers, Von Hendy explores the development of the theories and the influences on them. His grasp of the subject is masterful; his elucidation of the genealogy of the theories and his evaluation of them are exceptional in their comprehensiveness. His style, however, is unusually dense and laborious. Although there is some overlap with William Doty's Mythography: The Study of Myths and Rituals, (1986; 2nd ed., 2000), Jan de Vries' Forschungsgeschichte der Mythologie (1961), and The Rise of Modern Mythology 1680—1860, compiled by Burton Feldman and Robert Richardson (CH, Oct'72), Von Hendy's work is sui generis. More than a study of myth, it is an exploration of modern human cultural and intellectual history. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. -- S. M. Most * Choice *Whereas other mythographers tend to concentrate on the mature theories of the writers, Von Hendy explores the development of the theories and the influences on them. His grasp of the subject is masterful; his elucidation of the genealogy of the theories and his evaluation of them are exceptional in their comprehensiveness. . . .July 2002 * Choice *Table of ContentsPreliminary Table of Contents:AcknowledgmentsIntroductionOne. From Fable to MythTwo. The Invention of MythThree. The Contest Between Myth and "Suspicion"Four. Myth As an Aspect of "Primitive" ReligionFive. The Role of Depth-Psychology in the Construction of MythSix. The Modernist Contribution to the Construction of MythSeven. Neo-Romantic Theories of the Mid-Century I: Myth As Mode of Thought and LanguageEight. Neo-Romantic Theories of the Mid-Century II: Myth and Ritual in Quotidian Western LifeNine. Folkloristic Myth in Social Anthropology I: Malinowski, Boas, and Their Sphere of InfluenceTen. Folkloristic Myth in Social Anthropology II: From Levi-Strauss to Withdrawal from Grand TheoryEleven. No Two-Headed Greeks: The Folkloristic Consensus in Classical StudiesTwelve. Myth and IdeologyThirteen. Myth As Necessary FictionNotesWorks CitedIndex
£31.50
University of Notre Dame Press Michael Psellos on Literature and Art
Book SynopsisMichael Psellos has long been known as a key figure in the history of Byzantine literary and intellectual culture, but his theoretical and critical reflections on literature and art are little known. The aim of this volume is to illustrate an important chapter in the history of Greek literary and art criticism and introduce precisely this aspect of Psellian writing to a wider public.Trade Review“This book is a major contribution not only to the field of Psellian studies in particular, but also the major field of Byzantine aesthetics in general. To my knowledge, it is the first effort to bring together a host of particular texts (all by the pen of Michael Psellos) that touch upon literary theory, visual aesthetics, and aesthetics in a wider sense.”—Alexander Alexakis, University of Ioannina"Michael Psellos has been a neglected gem—until now. This authoritative selection of Psellos’ rhetorical and aesthetic writings, with its expert introductory essays and detailed annotations, will make him widely available and accessible at last. Thanks to the splendid efforts of this team of leading Byzantinists, Psellos will find his rightful place on the syllabus and in the classroom, and he will soon become a household name among students of Classics and of later periods.Michael Psellos on Literature and Art augurs a new era in the study of antiquity’s cultural heritage at the boundaries of art, religion, and philosophy." —James I. Porter, Chancellor’s Professor of Rhetoric and Classics, University of California, Berkeley“Building upon two earlier volumes on Psellos that focused primarily on his orations and letters, this third volume from the University of Notre Dame Press offers English translations and commentaries from a collaboration of scholars on a wide array of his writings on literary theory, visual ethics, and art criticism.” —Parergon"[This book] aims to establish the literary and historical value of the letters of Michael Psellos, and some of his other writings about literature and art. As the writer of a colourful history of the virtues and failings of the Byzantine emperors under whom he served as a civil servant and court philosopher, Psellos is a promising choice as a writer for reading with pleasure." —Times Literary Supplement"Modern histories of aesthetic theory in the West have resolutely ignored the contributions of Byzantine thinkers. Thanks to this splendid collection of translations, this will now change. The editors, both eminent scholars of Byzantine culture, together with a distinguished team of experts, have produced elegant versions of a wide variety of works by the brilliant polymath, Michael Psellos, accompanied with rich notes and introductions. The book is indispensable to anyone interested in Byzantine perspectives on art and literature." —David Konstan, New York University"This important volume offers a nuanced and compelling justification for Psellos' traditional designation as 'the best Byzantine author'—the translated texts help contextualize and illuminate not only Byzantine ideas of literature and art, but also those central to Psellos' own philosophy. It is thus essential for Byzantinists as well as scholars working on any part of the Greco-Roman cultural tradition." —Ingela Nilsson, Uppsala University
£105.40
University of Texas Press Demosthenes Speeches 18 and 19
Book SynopsisTwo of the most famous and influential speeches by the greatest orator of classical antiquity.Trade ReviewHarvey Yunis' new translations of Demosthenes 18 and 19 stand as the most successful modern translations of these two great speeches. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of Contents Series Editor's Preface (Michael Gagarin) Translator's Acknowledgments (Harvey Yunis) Map of Greece, Macedon, and the Aegean Series Introduction (Michael Gagarin) Oratory in Classical Athens The Orators The Works of the Orators Government and Law in Classical Athens The Translation of Greek Oratory Abbreviations Note on Currency Bibliography of Works Cited Introduction to Demosthenes (Michael Gagarin) Life Works Style Significance Introduction to This Volume (Harvey Yunis) The Predicament of Demosthenes' Generation and the Speeches against Aeschines The Hallmarks of Demosthenes' Career and Legacy Discovering Demosthenes' Art Note on the Text Demosthenes (Harvey Yunis) 18. On the Crown 19. On the Dishonest Embassy Appendix 1. The Spurious Documents from the Speech On the Crown Appendix 2. Timeline Bibliography for This Volume Index
£17.99
University of Texas Press Aeschines
Book SynopsisThe three surviving speeches of this ancient Greek orator, including Against Timarchus, a speech that gives insight into Greek views of homosexual acts.Table of Contents Series Editor's Preface (Michael Gagarin) Translator's Preface (Chris Carey) Series Introduction (Michael Gagarin) Oratory in Classical Athens The Orators The Works of the Orators Government and Law in Classical Athens The Translation of Greek Oratory Abbreviations Note on Currency Bibliography of Works Cited Aeschines (Chris Carey) Introduction: The Life and Times of Aeschines The Times Aeschines' Life Note on the Text Further Reading 1. Against Timarchus 2. On the Embassy 3. Against Ctesiphon Index
£21.59
University of Texas Press Demosthenes Speeches 60 and 61 Prologues Letters
Book SynopsisWorks by or attributed to the greatest orator of classical antiquity, which illuminate Athenian culture and politics in the 330s and 320s BC.Table of Contents Series Editor's Preface (Michael Gagarin) Translator's Acknowledgments (Ian Worthington) Speech Numbers and Titles Series Introduction (Michael Gagarin) Oratory in Classical Athens The Orators The Works of the Orators Government and Law in Classical Athens The Translation of Greek Oratory Abbreviations Note on Currency Bibliography of Works Cited Introduction to Demosthenes (Michael Gagarin) Life Works Style Significance Introduction to This Volume (Ian Worthington) The Works in This Volume Historical Background to the Funeral Oration and Letters The Prologues and the Erotic Essay Note on the Text Demosthenes (Ian Worthington) 60. Funeral Oration 61. Erotic Essay Prologues Letters 1-6 Bibliography for This Volume Index
£15.19
University of Texas Press Isaeus
Book Synopsis 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 the needs and interests of today''s undergraduates, Greekless scholars in other disciplines, and the general public. Classical oratory is an invaluable resource for the study of ancient Greek life and culture. The speeches offer evidence on Greek moral views, social and economic conditions, political and social ideology, law and legal procedure, and other aspects of Athenian culture that have recently been attracting particular interest: women and family life, slavery, and religion, to name just a few. The orator Isaeus lived during the fourth century BC and was said to be the teacher of Demosthenes, Athens'' most famous orator. Of the fifty or more speeches he is believTrade ReviewOverall, this is an excellent translation, equipped with very useful notes. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of Contents Series Editor's Preface (Michael Gagarin) Translator's Preface (Michael Edwards) Series Introduction (Michael Gagarin) Oratory in Classical Athens The Orators The Works of the Orators Government and Law in Classical Athens The Translation of Greek Oratory Abbreviations Note on Currency Bibliography of Works Cited ISAEUS (Michael Edwards) Introduction Life Works Style and Method Isaeus' Modern Reputation The Family, Property, and Athenian Inheritance Law The Text Further Reading 1. On the Estate of Cleonymus 2. On the Estate of Menecles 3. On the Estate of Pyrrhus 4. On the Estate of Nicostratus: Supplementary Speech 5. On the Estate of Dicaeogenes 6. On the Estate of Philoctemon 7. On the Estate of Apollodorus 8. On the Estate of Ciron 9. On the Estate of Astyphilus 10. Against Xenaenetus on the Estate of Aristarchus 11. On the Estate of Hagnias 12. On Behalf of Euphiletus Lost Speeches and Fragments Appendix Index
£17.09
University of Texas Press The Captive Womans Lament in Greek Tragedy
Book SynopsisA study of captive women's laments that shows how classical dramatists used empathy to pierce the barrier between the Greek and barbarian worlds.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Men's Songs and Women's Songs Chapter 2. Identifying with the Enemy: Love, Loss, and Longing in the Persians of Aeschylus Chapter 3. Athenians and Trojans Chapter 4. The Captive Woman's Lament and Her Revenge in Euripides' Hecuba Chapter 5. A River Shouting with Tears: Euripides' Trojan Women Chapter 6. The Captive Woman in the House: Euripides' Andromache Conclusion: The Tears of Pity Notes Bibliography Index
£999.99
University of Texas Press Roman Tragedy
Book SynopsisMario 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.Trade Review"This book is bold and original. I know of no other work in which the evolution of the tragic form is treated as a form, within its context, over time." oGuy MacLean Rogers, Professor of Classics and History, Wellesley CollegeTable of Contents Preface Introduction: Theatre to Theatricality Chapter 1: Creating Tragedy Livius Andronicus Naevius Ennius The Audience Chapter 2: Theatricalizing Tragedy Pacuvius Accius Chapter 3: Dramatizing History Theatricality of History Staging History Chapter 4: Creating Metatragedy Pompey's Theatre Opening Staging Brutus Thyestes on the Roman Stage Nero: Imperator Scaenicus Chapter 5: Metatragedy Seneca's Actor-Audience From Tragedy to Metatragedy Appendix Bibliography Index
£17.99
University of Texas Press The Primacy of Vision in Virgils Aeneid
Book SynopsisA 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.Trade ReviewIn sum, this book makes an important contribution to the analysis of the Aeneid.... It deserves the close attention and lively interest of all scholars of the Aeneid. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Text and Art Acknowledgments Abbreviations Chapter 1. Prophaenomena ad Vergilium Theory Theoria Ante ora patrum The Scope of the Argument Chapter 2. Ruse and Revelation: Visions of the Divine and the Telos of Narrative Seen/Unseen Gods Revealed A God in the Midst Chapter 3. Vision Past and Future Hector and the Penates Hindsight to Foresight: Andromache and Aeneas Imago Creusae Vision and Temporal Modality in Aeneas' Katabasis Site/Sight of Rome Conclusion Chapter 4. Hic amor: Love, Vision, and Destiny Aliud genus officii: Vision and the Second Favor Viewpoints of Departure: Deception, Vision, and the Separation of Dido and Aeneas Fixos Oculos Lauiniaque uenit Conclusion Chapter 5. Vision's Victory and the Telos of Narrative Failure of Rhetoric (Part 1): Effete oratores Drances and Turnus: Opposing Visions Hercules and Cacus: Light, Darkness, and Diction Failure of Rhetoric (Part 2): The Futility of Battlefield Entreaty in Books 10-12 Failure of Rhetoric (Part 3): Sight Makes Right and the Aeneid's Finale Chapter 6. Conclusion Notes Bibliography
£17.99
University of Texas Press Demosthenes Speeches 3949
Book SynopsisA collection of eleven legal speeches relating to estates and inheritances that are ascribed to the most renowned of the ancient Greek orators.Table of Contents Series Editor's Preface (Michael Gagarin) Translator's Preface (Adele C. Scafuro) Series Introduction (Michael Gagarin) Oratory in Classical Athens The Orators The Works of the Orators Government and Law in Classical Athens The Translation of Greek Oratory Abbreviations Note on Currency Bibliography of Works Cited Introduction to Demosthenes (Michael Gagarin) Life Works Style Significance Introduction to This Volume (Adele C. Scafuro) The Range of Speeches, Authorship, and the Authenticity of Inserted Documents I. Marriage, Legitimacy, and Natural Children II. Adoption III. Paternal Acknowledgment and Introduction to Phratry and Deme IV. Claiming an Estate V. The Law of Intestate Succession Texts and Commentaries Demosthenes (Adele C. Scafuro) 39. Against Boeotus I 40. Against Boeotus II 41. Against Spudias 42. Against Phaenippus 43. Against Macartatus 44. Against Leochares 45. Against Stephanus I 46. Against Stephanus II 47. Against Evergus and Mnesibulus 48. Against Olympiodorus 49. Against Timotheus Bibliography for This Volume Index
£25.19
University of Texas Press Demosthenes Speeches 117
Book SynopsisThis collection of oratory by or ascribed to the most renowned of the ancient Greek orators presents the Philippic and Olynthiac speeches—deliberative speeches denouncing Philip of Macedon—plus a letter from Philip to the Athenians.Table of Contents Series Editor's Preface (Michael Gagarin) Translator's Preface (Jeremy Trevett) Series Introduction (Michael Gagarin) Oratory in Classical Athens The Orators The Works of the Orators Government and Law in Classical Athens The Translation of Greek Oratory Abbreviations Note on Currency Bibliography of Works Cited Introduction to Demosthenes (Michael Gagarin) Life Works Style Significance Introduction to This Volume (Jeremy Trevett) Political Life in Fourth-Century Athens Athens in the Middle of the Fourth Century Philip of Macedon Demosthenes' Policies Composition, Delivery and Publication Ancient Commentators on Demosthenes List of Works in This Volume Chronology DEMOSTHENES (Jeremy Trevett) 1. First Olynthiac 2. Second Olynthiac 3. Third Olynthiac 4. First Philippic 5. On the Peace 6. Second Philippic 7. On Halonnesus 8. On the Chersonese 9. Third Philippic 10. Fourth Philippic 11. Response to the Letter of Philip 12. Letter of Philip 13. On Organization 14. On the Symmories 15. On the Freedom of the Rhodians 16. For the Megalopolitans 17. On the Agreement with Alexander Bibliography for This Volume Index
£25.19
University of Texas Press The Theater of Plautus
Book SynopsisMoore examines Plautus's metatheatrical techniques, such as actors' asides and monologues to the audience.Trade Review"This is a good book. Moore gives a careful, judicious analysis of Plautine theater. He does not dazzle with flamboyant new interpretations of the plays; rather, he provides a sound overview of Plautine theatricality and intelligent readings of individual plays. This book can be recommended to anyone engaged in the study of Plautus, from beginner to advanced scholar " - Bryn Mawr. Classical ReviewTable of Contents Preface Introduction Part I 1. Actors and Spectators 2. Characters and Spectators 3. Greece or Rome? 4. Metatheater and Morality Part II 5. Audience and Occasion: Pseudolus 6. Gods and Mortals: Amphitruo 7. Bankers and Pimps: Curculio 8. Prostitutes and Lovers: Truculentus 9. Husbands and Wives: Casina 10. Slaves and Masters: Captivi Conclusion Notes Works Cited Abbreviations Index of Passages Cited Index
£19.79
University of Texas Press Isocrates I
Book SynopsisSpeeches from a classical orator who considered himself first an educator.Table of Contents The Works of Isocrates Acknowledgments Series Introduction Oratory in Classical Athens The Orators The Works of the Orators Government and Law in Classical Athens The Translation of Greek Oratory Abbreviations Note on Currency Bibliography of Works Cited Introduction to Isocrates Life and Career Philosophia, Education, and Politics Style A Note on Terminology Text The Works of Isocrates Part One (David Mirhady) Introduction 1. To Demonicus 10. Encomium of Helen 11. Busiris 13. Against the Sophists 16. On the Team of Horses 17. Trapeziticus 18. Special Plea against Callimachus 19. Aegineticus 20. Against Lochites 21. Against Euthynus, without Witnesses Part Two (Yun Lee Too) Introduction 9. Evagoras 2. To Nicocles 3. Nicocles 7. Areopagiticus 15. Antidosis Glossary Bibliography Index
£21.59
University of Texas Press Homeric Questions
Book SynopsisIn this innovative investigation, Gregory Nagy applies the insights of comparative linguistics and anthropology to offer a new historical model for understanding how, when, where, and why the Iliad and the Odyssey were ultimately preserved as written textTrade Review. . . the latest in [Nagy’s] series of brilliant and provocative works that open up new vistas in Homeric studies. . . . Informed and creative, wide-ranging and profound, this book stands at the cutting edge of Homeric scholarship and reminds readers why its author is one of the foremost classical scholars in the world today. * Choice *Nagy performs a valuable service, in the current climate of Homeric studies, simply by reminding us once again, and forcefully, that the relationship between our written texts of Greek epic and their oral origins is a problematic one. * Southern Humanities Review *Table of Contents Preface Introduction Chapter 1: Homer and Questions of Oral Poetry Chapter 2: An Evolutionary Model for the Making of Homeric Poetry Chapter 3: Homer and the Evolution of a Homeric Text Chapter 4: Myth as Exemplum in Homer Epilogue Bibliography Index
£15.19
University of Texas Press Speech Presentation in Homeric Epic
Book SynopsisDrawing 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 indirTrade Review"The book offers an abundance of technical observations...and will interest students of Homeric narrative technique and of speech theory generally."--Choice "The book offers an abundance of technical observations...and will interest students of Homeric narrative technique and of speech theory generally."--P. Nieto, Brown UniversityTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Direct Quotation Chapter 2: Free Indirect Speech Chapter 3: Indirect Speech Chapter 4: Speech Mention Chapter 5: Speech Presentation in the Odyssey Chapter 6: Speech Presentation in the Iliad Conclusion Notes Bibliography General Index Index Locorum
£999.99
University of Texas Press Exchange and the Maiden Marriage in Sophoclean
Book SynopsisInsights into how Athenians thought about the institution of marriage, gleaned from the plays of Sophocles.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Journals and Their Abbreviations Introduction. Marriage and Tragedy Chapter 1. The Semantics of Greek Marriage Chapter 2. Male Homosocial Desire in the Trachiniae Chapter 3. Electra, Never a Bride Chapter 4. Family Matters in the Antigone Chapter 5. The Ajax, or Marriage by Default Chapter 6. Nature and Its Discontents in the Oedipus Tyrannus Epilogue. Exit to Silence Notes Bibliography General Index Index of Passages Cited
£17.99
University of Texas Press Epideictic Rhetoric
Book SynopsisSpeeches of praise and blame constituted a form of oratory put to brilliant and creative use in the classical Greek period (fifth to fourth century BC) and the Roman imperial period (first to fourth century AD), and they have influenced public speakers through all the succeeding ages. Yet unlike the other classical genres of rhetoric, epideictic rhetoric remains something of a mystery. It was the least important genre at the start of Greek oratory, but its role grew exponentially in subsequent periods, even though epideictic orations were not meant to elicit any action on the part of the listener, as judicial and deliberative speeches attempted to do. So why did the ancients value the oratory of praise so highly?In Epideictic Rhetoric, Laurent Pernot offers an authoritative overview of the genre that surveys its history in ancient Greece and Rome, its technical aspects, and its social function. He begins by defining epideictic rhetoric and tracing its evolution from itTrade Review"[Pernot's] familiarity with a vast amount of material allows him to summarise, succinctly and elegantly, the evolution of epideictic rhetoric in theory and practice from its Athenian origins to the fall of Empire...[Pernot's] authority in the field of epideixis and his intimate knowledge of the texts make this short monograph a very useful addition to current scholarship." * Journal of Roman Studies *The master has now written an excellent introduction to ancient epideictic, and I thoroughly recommend it. * Revue de Philologie *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsA Note on Sources1. The Unstoppable Rise of Epideictic2. The Grammar of Praise3. Why Epideictic Rhetoric?4. New Approaches in EpideicticEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex
£35.10
University of Texas Press Lysias
Book SynopsisThis volume contains all the complete works and eleven of the largest fragments attributed to Lysias, the leading speechwriter of the generation (403–380 B.C.) after the Peloponnesian War.Trade Review"A highly readable and nicely produced translation of the corpus of Lysias ...Todd's translation possesses many of the virtues of Lysias' own style. It is consistently lucid in its language, appealing in its tone, and persuasive by the apparent effortlessness of its art. He provides a reliable and readable translation of the whole corpus of Lysias, with the necessary minimum of explanatory notes and introductions, for Greekless readers. Readers already familiar with these speeches may not find too much that is new, but they still gain a worthy modern translation which includes the most substantial fragments, some recent bibliography, and a wonderful tool with which to introduce others to Lysias. For all students of Greek history and oratory, this volume, as well as this whole series, is a most welcome and well conceived project." Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of Contents Series Editor's Preface (Michael Gagarin) Translator's Preface (S. C. Todd) Series Introduction (Michael Gagarin) Oratory in Classical Athens The Orators The Works of the Orators Government and Law in Classical Athens The Translation of Greek Oratory Abbreviations Note on Currency Bibliography of Works Cited Supplementary Bibliography for Volume 2 Modern Editions of Lysias Lysias (S. C. Todd) Introduction Chronology Career Style Survival and Authenticity Fragments Further Reading 1. On the Death of Eratosthenes 2. Funeral Speech 3. Against Simon 4. On a Premeditated Wounding 5. For Callias 6. Against Andocides 7. Concerning the Sekos 8. Against the Members of a Sunousia 9. For the Soldier 10-11. Against Theomnestus for Defamation 12. Against Eratosthenes 13. Against Agoratus 14-15. Against Alcibiades 16. For Mantitheus 17. On the Property of Eraton 18. On the Property of Nicias' Brother 19. On the Property of Aristophanes 20. For Polystratus 21. On a Charge of Accepting Bribes 22. Against the Retailers of Grain 23. Against Pancleon 24. For the Disabled Man 25. On a Charge of Overthrowing the Democracy 26. Against Euandrus 27. Against Epicrates 28-29. Against Ergocles and Against Philocrates 30. Against Nicomachus 31. Against Philon 32. Against Diogeiton 33. Olympic Speech 34. Preserving the Ancestral Constitution Fragment 1. Against Aeschines the Socratic Fragment 2. Against Teisis Fragment 3. For Pherenicus Fragment 4. Against Cinesias Fragment 5. Against Archebiades Fragment 6. Against the Sons of Hippocrates Fragment 7. Against Hippotherses Fragment 8. Against Theomnestus Fragment 9. For Eryximachus Fragment 10. Against Theozotides Fragment 11. Concerning Antiphon's Daughter Index
£27.90
University of Texas Press Intimate Commerce
Book SynopsisAn illuminating analysis of the exchange of women in Sophocles’ Trachiniae, Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, and Euripides’ Alcestis.Trade Review"An important new work from the perspective of gender (rather than exclusively feminist) theory, this volume should appeal to professors and graduate students in the classics."- ChoiceTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction. Exchange, Gender, and Subjectivity The Tragic Exchange Reaffirmation, Resistance, Negotiation The Social Economy of Exchange The Subject of Exchange Part One. Sovereign Father and Female Subject in Sophocles’ Trachiniae One. “The Noblest Law”: The Paternal Symbolic and Its Reluctant Subject The Final Exchange Heracles: Subject under Siege Hyllus: The Reluctant Ephebe Two. The Foreclosed Female Subject Iole, Deianira, and the Triangle of Exchange Anti dōrōn dōta: Deianira’s Gift-Giving Status and Gender A Woman’s kleos Three. Alterity and Intersubjectivity Interpellation of the Other, Creation of the Self Spatial Models of Self and Other: Pandora and kalokagathia The Virgin in the Garden Part Two. The Violence of kharis In Aeschylus’s Agamemnon Four. The Commodity Fetish and the Agalmatization of the Virgin Daughter Marx and the Fetishized Economy The Occluded Exchange The Agalmatization of the Virgin Daughter Five. Agalma ploutou: Accounting for Helen The Disenchantment of the agalma Khrusamoibos sōmatōn: The Commodification of the Male Subject Six. Fear and Pity: Clytemnestra and Cassandra Androboulon kear: Clytemnestra’s Transgressive Identity A Lament for the Father Part Three. Mourning and Matricide in Euripides’ Alcestis Seven. The Shadow of the Object: Loss, Mourning, and Reparation Eight. Agonistic Identity and the Superlative Subject The Matriarch of the oikos and Alcestis’s Domestic Politics The Superlative Subject and Her Husband From Tragedy to the Symposium Nine. The Mirror of xenia and the Paternal Symbolic From Impossible kharis to the agalma Economy From physis to praxis Heracles and the Mirror of xenia The Final Exchange Conclusion. Too Intimate Commerce Notes Bibliography General Index Index Locorum
£23.39
University of Texas Press Dinarchus Hyperides and Lycurgus
Book SynopsisThe surviving speeches of three orators from the end of the classical period.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Series Introduction Oratory in Classical Athens The Orators The Works of the Orators Government and Law in Classical Athens The Translation of Greek Oratory Abbreviations Note on Currency Bibliography of Works Cited Supplementary Bibliography for Volume 5 DINARCHUS (Ian Worthington) Introduction to Dinarchus Bibliography 1. Against Demosthenes 2. Against Aristogeiton 3. Against Philocles HYPERIDES (Craig R. Cooper) Introduction to Hyperides 1. In Defense of Lycophron 2. Against Philippides 3. Against Athenogenes 4. On Behalf of Euxenippus 5. Against Demosthenes 6. The Funeral Oration Fragments LYCURGUS (Edward M. Harris) Introduction to Lycurgus 1. Against Leocrates Fragments Index
£999.99
University of Wisconsin Press Eclogues and Georgics
Book SynopsisJames Bradley Wells shares his poet’s soul and scholar’s eye in this thought-provoking new translation of two of Vergil’s early works, the Eclogues and Georgics. With its emphasis on a natural rather than stylized rhythm, Eclogues and Georgics honours the original spirit of ancient Roman poetry.Table of Contents Preface Chronology Statement on Translation Pronunciation Guide General Introduction to Vergil and His Poetry Vergil’s Eclogues Introduction to Vergil’s Eclogues Eclogue 1 Eclogue 2 Eclogue 3 Eclogue 4 Eclogue 5 Eclogue 6 Eclogue 7 Eclogue 8 Eclogue 9 Eclogue 10 Vergil’s Georgics Introduction to Vergil’s Georgics Book 1 Book 2 Book 3 Book 4 Glossary Notes Bibliography
£23.96
WW Norton & Co Medea
Book Synopsis
£9.67
The University of Michigan Press Vergils Aeneid and the Roman Self
Book SynopsisAs the most widely read Roman poem in antiquity, the Aeneid was indelibly burned into the memories of generations of Roman school children. In her new book, Yasmin Syed analyses the formative influence the poem exerted on its broad audience of educated Romans.
£24.65
