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Book SynopsisAn eloquent call to draw on the lessons of the past to address current threats to international orderTrade Review“A brilliant new book.”—Philip Bobbitt, Wall Street Journal "In this spare, almost mathematical primer, Hal Brands and Charles Edel deliver a rebuke to complacency and a defense of constructive pessimism in the service of America’s engagement with the world."—Robert D. Kaplan, author of The Return of Marco Polo’s World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century"Hal Brands and Charles Edel have written a crucial reminder that being so safe for so long has dulled our imagination of how dangerous and destructive the alternatives are to the ‘flawed masterpiece’ of post-World War II order the U.S. created. Read this to relish two fine minds expertly marshaling 5,000 years of western culture to motivate our communal resolve to preserve the liberal international order. What an education!"—Kori Schake, author of Safe Passage: The Transition from British to American Hegemony"Brands and Edel show that the tragedy of international relations is not, as some would argue, that nations are doomed to war—but rather that war comes when leaders and the public fail to learn from the past how to preserve the peace. This is a compelling account of the dangers of “historical amnesia” at time when many question the need for sustained U.S. global leadership. The Lessons of Tragedy does more than warn of the dangers; it draws on the demonstrable achievements of past U.S. statecraft to chart a more hopeful course for the future."—James B. Steinberg, Professor at Syracuse University and former Deputy Secretary of State“This powerful book by two of America's most brilliant historians and theorists of grand strategy writing at the top of their game provides a timely reminder that the history of international relations has been replete with catastrophes and costly disasters."—Eric Edelman, former Ambassador to Turkey, Finland and Under Secretary of Defense for Policy 2005-2009“This compact, engaging, and evocative volume packs a sharp, lasting punch. Brands and Edel argue persuasively for a return to the “tragic sensibility” that spurred the creation of all previous international orders. Reading The Lessons of Tragedy would benefit politicians, national security professionals, and civilians alike—in the same way that the great theatrical tragedies benefited ancient Greek society. I cannot recommend it highly enough.”—Robert Work, 32nd United States Deputy Secretary of Defense

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Book SynopsisThe comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences ca. 205–184 BC, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespeare and Molière to modern times. Twenty-one of his plays are extant.

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Book SynopsisVolume VIII of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the so-called sophists Protagoras, Gorgias, Prodicus, Thrasymachus, and Hippias, along with testimonia relating to the life, views, and argumentative style of Socrates.Trade ReviewIn brief, André Laks and Glenn Most give us a brilliant and beautiful reference work that can, at the same time, be easily enough read straight through. And spending a few months doing so gives the reader almost all that she needs (perhaps along with Loeb #258, Greek Elegiac Poetry) to reconstruct for herself the origins of the discipline of philosophy. I should want any graduate student or colleague in ancient philosophy or intellectual history to acquire and make their way through it. -- Christopher Moore * Classical Journal *The publication of the Loeb Classical Library’s nine-volume set, Early Greek Philosophy, gives us a new edition of the original texts, with fresh translations. It is a monumental achievement—the result of many years of dedicated work on the part of the two editors/translators André Laks and Glenn W. Most… We owe a profound debt of gratitude to the editors/translators for their thorough and impeccable scholarship, and to the publishers for their usual high standards of production. If you can afford them, don’t hesitate: you will be all the richer for having these volumes on your shelves. -- Jeremy Naydler * Minerva *André Laks and Glenn W. Most have made available to the world of scholarship in early Greek philosophy a resource of immense value. Every study of a thinker or of an issue within the thematic ambit of Early Greek Philosophy must henceforth start by canvassing and taking into account the appropriate selections in the Loeb set. -- Alexander P. D. Mourelatos * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *The publication of a Loeb Classical Library edition of the evidence for early Greek philosophy is a major event in classical scholarship…The editors and their assistants are to be commended for their exemplary execution of such a vast and difficult task. They have succeeded in producing what is far and away the best available edition of the texts of the early Greek philosophers with accompanying English translation…More than that, their edition effectively supersedes Hermann Diels and Walter Kranz’s Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, which has long held sway as the standard edition of the Presocratics, but it only does so because Laks and Most have respectfully taken Diels-Kranz as their model…Laks and Most have set such a high standard with this work that it is hard to imagine that we will see a better general collection on early Greek philosophy in our lifetimes…Laks and Most’s philological acumen, judiciousness as editors, and excellence as translators is evident on every page. -- John Palmer * Arion *

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Book SynopsisIn letters to his friend Atticus, Cicero (106–43 BC) reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except perhaps his brother, and vividly depicts a momentous period in Roman history, marked by the rise of Julius Caesar and the downfall of the Republic.

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Book Synopsis''I will do as the Senate decrees.''These words from one of Rome''s opponents encapsulate the authority Rome achieved by its subjugation of the Mediterranean. The Third Macedonian War, recounted in this volume, ended the kingdom created by Philip II and Alexander the Great and was a crucial step in Rome''s eventual dominance. For Livy, the story is also a fascinating moral study of the vices and virtues that hampered and promoted Rome''s efforts in the conflict. He presents the war not so much as a battle against Perseus, Alexander''s last and unworthy successor, than as a struggle within the Roman national character. Only traditional moral strength, embodied in Lucius Aemilius Paullus, the general who ultimately defeats Perseus, ensures the Roman victory.This edition also includes the Periochae, later summaries of Livy''s entire original 142-book history of Rome from its founding to the age of Augustus (of which only 35 books survive).The complete Livy in English, available in five volumes from Oxford World''s Classics. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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Book SynopsisThis excellent and accessible work includes many major texts in translation: Aristotle's Poetics, Longinus' On Sublimity, Horace's Art of Poetry, Tacitus' Dialogues, and extracts from Plato and Plutarch.Trade Review'A very useful selection.' Dr M. S. Silk, King's College, London'A very useful collection.' Anne Sheppard, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College'An excellent collection.' M. J. Blumenthal, University of Liverpool'A fine selection at an attractive price. It is good to see some less well known texts of ancient criticism included.' Dr Alison Sharrock, University of Keele'I welcome this book particularly for the less familiar authors not easily accessible to students.' Dr M. A. Bromley, St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill'extremely useful to students' P. E. Easterling, University College, London'An excellent anthology' Dr A. P. Baldwin, Cambridge UniversityTable of ContentsPlato: Ion: Republic 2-3; Republic 10; Aristotle: Poetics; Horace: A Letter to Augustus; The Art of Poetry; Tacitus: Dialogue on Orators; `Longinus': On Sublimity; Dio of Prusa: Philoctetes in the Tragedians; Plutarch: On the Study of Poetry

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Book SynopsisLivy (Titus Livius, 64 or 59 BC–AD 12 or 17), the great Roman historian, presents a vivid narrative of Rome’s rise from the traditional foundation of the city in 753 or 751 BC to 9 BC and illustrates the collective and individual virtues necessary to maintain such greatness. The third decad (21–30) chronicles the Second Punic War of 220–205 BC.

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Book SynopsisIn his history, Polybius (ca. 200–118 BC) is centrally concerned with how and why Roman power spread. The main part of the work, a vital achievement despite the incomplete state in which all but the first five books of an original forty survive, describes the rise of Rome, its destruction of Carthage, and its eventual domination of the Greek world.Trade ReviewPolybius found a brilliant subject for his history in the Roman drive to supremacy in the Mediterranean. As an experienced Greek politician who lived as a hostage among the elite in Rome from 167 to 159 BC, he was ideally positioned to write it. He had formidable organizational powers, and he really did know what he was talking about. Without him, our understanding of the whole period and of the dynamics of Roman imperialism would be inconceivably impoverished. -- Denis Feeney * Times Literary Supplement *These are the first two volumes of a revised text and translation of the Histories of Polybius. Polybius was the Greek historian who wrote of the rise of Rome to Mediterranean power, and who is usually ranked as one of the ancient world’s great historians. This edition is based on that of W. R. Paton (1922), which has long served scholars but has been in sore need of updating and correction. This new version comes thanks to Frank W. Walbank (1909–2008), the great Polybius scholar of the modern world, whose monumental three-volume A Historical Commentary on Polybius (1957–79) is the starting point for all modern studies of the historian and the era he chronicled. While writing his commentary, Walbank systematically corrected Paton’s edition in hundreds of places, and these changes have now been incorporated by Christian Habicht, himself one of the great historians of the Hellenistic age. Habicht has provided a new introduction, bibliography, and notes, and the result is a splendid, reliable, and up-to-date edition of Polybius that will be accessible to students and scholars alike. One looks forward eagerly to the remaining volumes that are to appear over the next year. -- J. M. Marincola * Choice *

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Book SynopsisHorace exposes the vices and follies of his Roman contemporaries in his Satires, and the Epistles include the famous Art of Poetry, whose advice on poetic style influenced many later writers and dramatists. John Davie's new prose translations perfectly capture the ribald style of the original.

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Book SynopsisThis Norton Critical Edition of the world’s first major work of literary criticism is based on James Hutton’s acclaimed translation. The text and explanatory and glossarial notes represent the work of the accomplished Hellenists James Hutton and Michelle

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Book SynopsisIn this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey take a different approach to Dante, by examining the main themes and issues that run through all of his work, ranging from autobiography, to understanding God and the order of the universe. In doing so, they highlight what has made Dante a vital point of reference for modern writers and readers, both inside and outside Italy. They emphasize the distinctive and dynamic interplay in Dante''s writing between argument, ideas, and analysis on the one hand, and poetic imagination on the other. Dante was highly concerned with the political and intellectual issues of his time, demonstrated most powerfully in his notorious work, The Divine Comedy. Tracing the tension between the medieval and modern aspects, Hainsworth and Robey provide a clear insight into the meaning of this masterpiece of world literature. They highlight key figures and episodes in the poem, bringing out the originality and power of Dante''s writing to help readers understand the problems that Dante wanted his audience to confront but often left up to the reader to resolve. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Trade ReviewThe authors are much to be praised for not allowing the brevity of their volume to undermine or unjustly foreclose what Dante's text leaves to his reader'a judgement and sensibilities. * Fortean Times, Heather Webb *Swift-moving, decisive, sensitive and suggestive * The Manchester Review *The authors are much to be praised for not allowing the brevity of their volume to overdetermine or unjustly foreclose what Dante's text leaves to his reader's judgement and sensibilties. * Heather Webb, The Times Literary Supplement *There is something almost uncanny about how this book makes the work of a long-dead poet from another culture come alive... this book imparts knowledge as well as encouraging us to find it ourselves. * Guardian, Nicholas Lezard *this work deftly explores aspects of Dante that were variously enlightened * Independent, Christopher Hirst *Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. Autobiography ; 3. Truth ; 4. Writing ; 5. Humanity ; 6. Politics ; 7. God ; Further reading ; Index

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Book SynopsisThe Greek Anthology contains some 4,500 Greek poems in the sparkling, diverse genre of epigram, written by more than a hundred composers, collected over centuries, and arranged by subject. This Loeb edition replaces the earlier edition by W. R. Paton, with a Greek text and ample notes reflecting current scholarship.Trade ReviewUnder the auspices of the Loeb Classical Library, Michael A. Tueller has published the first volume (books one to five of sixteen) of a projected complete edition of the whole gigantic thing—a fully updated revision of W.R. Paton’s five-volume Loeb from a hundred years ago. It is an ambitious and worthy enterprise. -- Hayden N. Pelliccia * New York Review of Books *

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Book SynopsisVolume V of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the western Greek thinkers Parmenides, Zeno, Melissus, Empedocles, Alcmaeon, and Hippo.Trade ReviewIn brief, André Laks and Glenn Most give us a brilliant and beautiful reference work that can, at the same time, be easily enough read straight through. And spending a few months doing so gives the reader almost all that she needs (perhaps along with Loeb #258, Greek Elegiac Poetry) to reconstruct for herself the origins of the discipline of philosophy. I should want any graduate student or colleague in ancient philosophy or intellectual history to acquire and make their way through it. -- Christopher Moore * Classical Journal *The publication of the Loeb Classical Library’s nine-volume set, Early Greek Philosophy, gives us a new edition of the original texts, with fresh translations. It is a monumental achievement—the result of many years of dedicated work on the part of the two editors/translators André Laks and Glenn W. Most… We owe a profound debt of gratitude to the editors/translators for their thorough and impeccable scholarship, and to the publishers for their usual high standards of production. If you can afford them, don’t hesitate: you will be all the richer for having these volumes on your shelves. -- Jeremy Naydler * Minerva *André Laks and Glenn W. Most have made available to the world of scholarship in early Greek philosophy a resource of immense value. Every study of a thinker or of an issue within the thematic ambit of Early Greek Philosophy must henceforth start by canvassing and taking into account the appropriate selections in the Loeb set. -- Alexander P. D. Mourelatos * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *The publication of a Loeb Classical Library edition of the evidence for early Greek philosophy is a major event in classical scholarship…The editors and their assistants are to be commended for their exemplary execution of such a vast and difficult task. They have succeeded in producing what is far and away the best available edition of the texts of the early Greek philosophers with accompanying English translation…More than that, their edition effectively supersedes Hermann Diels and Walter Kranz’s Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, which has long held sway as the standard edition of the Presocratics, but it only does so because Laks and Most have respectfully taken Diels-Kranz as their model…Laks and Most have set such a high standard with this work that it is hard to imagine that we will see a better general collection on early Greek philosophy in our lifetimes…Laks and Most’s philological acumen, judiciousness as editors, and excellence as translators is evident on every page. -- John Palmer * Arion *

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Book SynopsisIn his Life of Apollonius Philostratus (second to third century AD) chronicles the miracles of first-century AD teacher, religious reformer, and perceived rival to Jesus of Nazareth, Apollonius of Tyana.Trade ReviewJones has produced a superlative edition. Loebs are hard to get right. A good Loeb should (if we are honest) be easily usable as a clandestine crib for the (lazy, hurried, or linguistically challenged) reader who wants to translate the Greek with an eye on the English; at the same time, it should meet exacting standards of scholarship. Jones's is accessible and erudite. His discussion of how he has established his text is fuller and clearer than most, and allows the non-specialist to take some pleasure in the detective work involved in the process; in tracing, for example, Richard Bentley's marginalia preserved in his copy of a previous edition. The text is judicious and the translation stylishly capture's the sophist's rhetorical range. It is based on, but betters, Christopher Jones's abridged translation for Penguin Classics, published in 1970. It is a good read in its own right: no mean feat. Excellent introductory material and maps help chart Apollonius's imaginary journey. He may no longer be worshipped (except in the wackier corners of cyberspace), but nonetheless we can rightly say: Apollonius Lives! -- Helen Morales * Times Literary Supplement *

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Book Synopsis* A accessible one--volume survey of the literature of Greece and Rome. * Covers the period between Homer around 700 BC and Augustine around AD 410. * Highlights what is important historically and of continuing interest and value in classical literature.Trade Review"The book is a tour de force ... Rutherford speaks directly to his readers, telling them what they need to know to set a work into its historical and social context ... Even scholars who are completely familiar with all the texts Rutherford discusses will profit from consulting this book." Times Literary Supplement 'Rutherford's book provides an accessible, affordable, and concise introduction to its topic.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review "As well as Rutherford's broader constituency, this book should make particularly invaluable reading for undergraduates, sixth-formers who are looking to pursue Classics at university (and it should be a must for school libraries)." Greece and RomeTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. Maps. Introduction. 1. Epic. 2. Drama. 3. Rhetoric. 4. History, Biography, Fiction. 5. Erotic Literature. 6. Literature and Power. 7. Aspects of Wit. 8. Thinkers. 9. Believers. Appendix 1 Translations of Four Longer Passages. Appendix 2 Timeline. Appendix 3 List of Roman Emperors. Appendix 4 Major Greek and Roman Gods. Notes. Further Reading. Index

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Book SynopsisA new expanded edition of the classic study of translation, finally back in printTrade Review"Essential reading for anyone interested in translation." -- M. A. Orthofer - Complete Review"There is a great profusion of Chinese poetry in English, and this fact is significant. It suggests that, despite all the barriers, this poetry does communicate, even urgently, to modern Western readers. Both the difficulty and the urgency are elegantly demonstrated in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei. Weinberger collates and comments on a series of translations of Wang Wei’s famous poem ‘Deer Park,’ allowing the reader to see how even this brief poem—twenty characters, in four lines—contains endless shades of meaning and implication." -- Adam Kirsch - The New Republic"Weinberger’s sensitivity to words and gift for clear thinking underlie nearly every page in Nineteen Ways...and he writes with erudition and charm. He sees lines of Wang Wei’s poems as 'both universal and immediate,' and he sees much else in human cultures in that same spirit, which I think is wonderful." -- Perry Link - The New York Review of Books"Nineteen cheers to New Directions for reissuing Eliot Weinberger's Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, first published in 1987 and hard to find since then. In this tiny volume, Weinberger examines nineteen different translations of a classic four-line poem by the eighth-century poet Wang Wei. The result is the best primer on translation...also the funniest and most impatient." -- Lorin Stein - The Paris Review"Weinberger is like an ancient Chinese zither player, tuning lonely in the mountain overlooking the world." -- Bei Dao

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Book SynopsisThe capstone volume in Penguin Classics’ celebrated series of Icelandic sagas Comic Sagas and Tales from Iceland brings together the very finest Icelandic stories from the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries, a time of civil unrest and social upheaval. With feuding families and moments of grotesque violence, the sagas see such classic mythological figures as murdered fathers, disguised beggars, corrupt chieftains, and avenging sons who do battle with axes, words, and cunning. The tales, meanwhile, follow heroes and comical fools through dreams, voyages, and religious conversions in medieval Iceland and beyond. Shaped by Iceland’s oral culture and its people’s conversion to Christianity, these stories are works of ironic humor and stylistic innovation. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents Trade ReviewThis collection of strange and difficult-to-categorize pieces is comic not in the usual sense, but rather, as Viðar explains in his excellent introduction, in the sense of reading counter to the Icelandic family sagas, whose narratives he terms tragic. The stories here are edgy, subversive and often grim little narratives, in striking contrast to the humane, wise and sometimes uplifting family sagas * The Times Literary Supplement *

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Book SynopsisFrom the middle of the eighth century to the tenth century, almost all non-literary and non-historical secular Greek books, including such diverse topics as astrology, alchemy, physics, botany and medicine, that were not available throughout the eastern Byzantine Empire and the Near East, were translated into Arabic.Greek Thought, Arabic Culture explores the major social, political and ideological factors that occasioned the unprecedented translation movement from Greek into Arabic in Baghdad, the newly founded capital of the Arab dynasty of the ''Abbasids'', during the first two centuries of their rule. Dimitri Gutas draws upon the preceding historical and philological scholarship in Greco-Arabic studies and the study of medieval translations of secular Greek works into Arabic and analyses the social and historical reasons for this phenomenon.Dimitri Gutas provides a stimulating, erudite and well-documented survey of this key movement in the transmission of ancient GrTrade Review'important for any classicist interested in the legacy and transmission of Greek culture and provides excellent comparative material for those working on the interaction of all ancient cultures, including especially the development of greek thought at Rome.' - Simon Swain, The Classicla Review'A remarkable work. It has all the makings of a classic.' - Remke Kruk, Boekbesprekingen'Gutas' book is a most welcome tool for classicists and oreintalists...Gutas' informative book arouses the curiosity of specialists as well as of a broader public.' - Hans Daiber, Classical World, Winter 2001.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part 1 Translation and Empire; Chapter 1 The Background of the Translation Movement; Chapter 2 Al-Man??r; Chapter 3 Al-Mahd? and his Sons; Chapter 4 Al-Ma’m?n; Part 2 Translation and Society; Chapter 5 Translation in the Service of Applied and Theoretical Knowledge; Chapter 6 Patrons, Translators, Translations; Chapter 7 Translation and History; Chapter 8 Epilogue;

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Book SynopsisPolybius’ theme is how and why the Romans spread their power as they did. The main part of his history covers the years 264–146 BC, describing the rise of Rome, the destruction of Carthage, and the eventual domination of the Greek world. It is a vital achievement despite the incomplete survival of all but the first five of forty books.Trade ReviewThe numerous explanatory notes of the revised edition offer the reader a good assistance in orienting themselves within the fragmentary tradition of Polybius’ books 16 to 27 by contextualizing the events mentioned historically, referring to recent research and clarifying special terms, persons, places, etc.… Fully recommended. -- Michael Kleu * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Polybius found a brilliant subject for his history in the Roman drive to supremacy in the Mediterranean. As an experienced Greek politician who lived as a hostage among the elite in Rome from 167 to 159 BC, he was ideally positioned to write it. He had formidable organizational powers, and he really did know what he was talking about. Without him, our understanding of the whole period and of the dynamics of Roman imperialism would be inconceivably impoverished. -- Denis Feeney * Times Literary Supplement *

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Book SynopsisVolume VII of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the atomists Leucippus and Democritus.Trade ReviewIn brief, André Laks and Glenn Most give us a brilliant and beautiful reference work that can, at the same time, be easily enough read straight through. And spending a few months doing so gives the reader almost all that she needs (perhaps along with Loeb #258, Greek Elegiac Poetry) to reconstruct for herself the origins of the discipline of philosophy. I should want any graduate student or colleague in ancient philosophy or intellectual history to acquire and make their way through it. -- Christopher Moore * Classical Journal *The publication of the Loeb Classical Library’s nine-volume set, Early Greek Philosophy, gives us a new edition of the original texts, with fresh translations. It is a monumental achievement—the result of many years of dedicated work on the part of the two editors/translators André Laks and Glenn W. Most… We owe a profound debt of gratitude to the editors/translators for their thorough and impeccable scholarship, and to the publishers for their usual high standards of production. If you can afford them, don’t hesitate: you will be all the richer for having these volumes on your shelves. -- Jeremy Naydler * Minerva *André Laks and Glenn W. Most have made available to the world of scholarship in early Greek philosophy a resource of immense value. Every study of a thinker or of an issue within the thematic ambit of Early Greek Philosophy must henceforth start by canvassing and taking into account the appropriate selections in the Loeb set. -- Alexander P. D. Mourelatos * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *The publication of a Loeb Classical Library edition of the evidence for early Greek philosophy is a major event in classical scholarship…The editors and their assistants are to be commended for their exemplary execution of such a vast and difficult task. They have succeeded in producing what is far and away the best available edition of the texts of the early Greek philosophers with accompanying English translation…More than that, their edition effectively supersedes Hermann Diels and Walter Kranz’s Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, which has long held sway as the standard edition of the Presocratics, but it only does so because Laks and Most have respectfully taken Diels-Kranz as their model…Laks and Most have set such a high standard with this work that it is hard to imagine that we will see a better general collection on early Greek philosophy in our lifetimes…Laks and Most’s philological acumen, judiciousness as editors, and excellence as translators is evident on every page. -- John Palmer * Arion *

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Book SynopsisWinner • Modern Language Association’s Scaglione Prize for Translation Bawdier than The Canterbury Tales, The Fabliaux is the first major English translation of the most scandalous and irreverent poetry in Western literature.Trade Review"Like Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf,…Dubin reproduces the world and the feeling of the medieval tale…that travel joyfully from the Middle Ages to the present." -- R. Howard Bloch, from the introduction to The Fabliaux"Devilishly bawdy and irreverent…The 69 fabliaux presented here in their original French and translated into rascally, buoyant English by Nathaniel E. Dubin, are relentlessly scabrous, egregiously misogynistic, and exuberantly oppositional to ‘bourgeois respectability’ and the church…. Vivid, funny, robustly grotesque, and drolly outrageous, these satirical tales of lust, revenge, and folly feature lecherous peasants, fornicating priests, scoundrels, fools, and women wily and tough, castigated and abused…. An historic literary achievement bound to arouse vociferous discussion." -- Booklist"Pure, unadulterated fun…. A golden bough of erotic imagination and folk humor, peopled by randy wives, cuckolded husbands, fornicating priests, and priapic knights…. Ultimately, what’s so potent and profound about these risqué yarns is not their unbridled expressions of sexuality and vulgarity per se, but their unusual ability to provoke a carnivalesque laughter in all. Through denuding, debauchery, and bodily degradation, the fabliaux create a common denominator for humanity, an earthy, holistic world in which, to quote Bakhtin again, ‘he who is laughing also belongs to it.’ Flaunting unabashed obscenity in delightful verse, The Fabliaux is a book that would entertain the fans of Dr. Freud and Dr. Seuss alike." -- Yunte Huang - The Daily Beast"Fabliaux are comic tales, in verse, composed between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries…. The words used…have not been adjusted to conform to modern immodesty; the translation is literal…[This is the] first substantial collection of fabliaux, in any language, for today’s general reader." -- Joan Acocella - The New Yorker"The fabliaux, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a reveling in humiliations that are good unclean fun. A popular venture that is keen to paste—épater—everybody (not just the bourgeoisie), it is the art of the single entendre. Highly staged low life, it guffaws at the pious, the prudish, and the priggish. High cockalorum versus high decorum…. The introduction here, like the translator’s note, tells well the story of the comic tales, anonymous for the most part, usually two or three hundred lines long, of which about 160 exist." -- Christopher Ricks - New York Review of Books"The fabliaux are important not only for their approach to humor, but for their focus on sex, class and wealth, and bodily functions like eating and defecating—all elements quite absent from more highbrow, courtly, or Church-sanctioned religious texts. Liveright’s edition serves as the largest and most complete collection of fabliaux, in English or French, ever published “for the general reader…" The Fabliaux is a reminder that medieval texts can remain engaging, lively, and, above all, funny." -- Charlotte Bhaskar - Zyzzyva

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Book SynopsisSeneca (ca. AD 4 65) authored verse tragedies that strongly influenced Shakespeare and other Renaissance dramatists. Plots are based on myth, but themes reflect imperial Roman politics. John G. Fitch has thoroughly revised his two-volume edition to take account of scholarship that has appeared since its initial publication.Trade ReviewThis second volume of the new Loeb tragedies (the first volume, also by John Fitch, appeared in 2002) is very much in the new style and admirably suited to the new standard. Fitch has long been a major player in Senecan studies, and the vast range of his experience is here put at the service of all comers. They will be very glad of it. The translations are deft, accurate, and extremely readable, while the introductions to each play are significant essays in their own right. Bibliographies are well and fairly compiled, so that even their privileging of work in English seems unexceptionable. Classicists working with Seneca will want to have this edition at hand, while readers with little or no Latin will also soon discover that this is the edition of Seneca to use. -- Sander M. Goldberg * University of Toronto Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisConfessions is a spiritual autobiography of Augustine's early life, family, associations, and explorations of alternative religious and theological viewpoints as he moved toward his conversion. Cast as a prayer addressed to God, it offers a gripping personal story and a philosophical exploration destined to have broad and lasting impact.Trade ReviewHammond’s translation, while always elegant and lucid, stays close enough to the Latin to give us invaluable assistance… An accessible and scholarly introduction provides a way into many aspects of Augustine’s thought which will reward both those who are new to Augustine and more experienced students. -- Edward Dowler * Church Times *

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Book SynopsisIn On Temperaments, Galen of Pergamum sets out his concept of the combination of the four elemental qualities (hot, cold, wet, and dry), which is fundamental to his account of the structure and function of human, animal, and plant bodies. Two related works explore disturbances in this combination and their consequences.

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Book SynopsisAn accessibly-written survey of the origins and growth of the discipline of medievalism studies. The field known as "medievalism studies" concerns the life of the Middle Ages after the Middle Ages. Originating some thirty years ago, it examines reinventions and reworkings of the medieval from the Reformation to postmodernity,from Bale and Leland to HBO's Game of Thrones. But what exactly is it? An offshoot of medieval studies? A version of reception studies? Or a new form of cultural studies? Can such a diverse field claim coherence? Should it be housed in departments of English, or History, or should it always be interdisciplinary? In responding to such questions, the author traces the history of medievalism from its earliest appearances in the sixteenth century to the present day, across a range of examples drawn from the spheres of literature, art, architecture, music and more. He identifies two major modes, the grotesque and the romantic, and focuses on key phases of the development of medievalism in Europe: the Reformation, the late eighteenth century, and above all the period between 1815 and 1850, which, he argues, represents the zenith of medievalist cultural production. He also contends that the 1840s were medievalism's one moment of canonicity in several European cultures at once. After that, medievalism became a minority form, rarely marked with cultural prestige, though always pervasive and influential. Medievalism: a Critical History scrutinises several key categories - space, time, and selfhood - and traces the impact of medievalism on each. It will be the essential guide to a complex and still evolving field of inquiry. David Matthews is Professor of Medieval and Medievalism Studies at the University of Manchester.Trade ReviewA major new work on medievalism, it deserves to be studied by students or scholars interested in this latest period of a medieval revival. * PARERGON *This book is a highly informative, accessible, and occasionally humorous guide for anyone interested in learning about medievalism on a macro-scale. * TOEBI *Matthews' account of the history and contemporary status of medievalism is both highly readable (he is an elegant stylist) and frequently provocative. . . . [He] offers a fresh overview and compelling meta-commentary on the history and practice of medievalism, focusing on its uneasy relationship with medieval studies. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *In his well-researched book, Medievalism: A Critical History, David Matthews provides a foundational study for the multidisciplinary field of medievalism studies. * MEDIEVALLY SPEAKING *Tracing the history of medievalism from the 16th century to today, the author closely examines significant phases in the development of medievalism studies, paying special attention to the period between 1815 and 1850, which he cogently argues was the apogee of medievalism in European popular culture, and provides the foundation for the relationship between medievalism and medieval studies. Recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction How Many Middle Ages? "Welcome to the Current Middle Ages": Asynchronous Medievalism This Way to the Middle Ages: The Spaces of Medievalism On Being Medieval: Medievalist Selves and Societies Wemmick's Castle: The Limits of Medievalism Realism in the Crypt: The Reach of Medievalism Conclusion: Against a Synthesis: Medievalism, Cultural Studies, and Antidisciplinarity Afterword Appendix I: The Survey of Reenactors Appendix II: Key Moments in Medievalism Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging study offers a new understanding of Old Norse kinship in which the individual self was expanded to encompass its kin. Family interactions in Old Norse myth and legend were often fraught, competitive, even violent as well as loving, protective and supportive. Focusing particularly on intergenerational relationships in the legendary sagas, the Poetic Edda and Snorra Edda, this book reveals not only why ambivalence was so characteristic of mythic-heroic kinship relations but how they were able to endure, even thrive, in spite of such pressures. Close attention is paid to the way gender inflects the dynamic between parents and their children and to the patronymic naming system which prevailed in Old Norse society, while outdated assumptions about the existence of a special relationship between a man and his sister's son inherited from earlier Germanic society are reassessed for the first time in decades. What emerges from this wide-ranging study is a new understanding of Old Norse kinship as a dynamic transpersonal process rather than a presocial fact, in which the individual self was expanded to encompass its kin. Taking the lead from recent anthropological research into kinship and with exciting implications for our understanding of Old Norse personhood, emotions, and the life course, this book challenges its readers to rethink many of the basic ontological assumptions which they bring to their interpretations of Old Norse myth and legend.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements A Note on Conventions List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Fathers and Sons 2. Fathers and Daughters 3. Mothers and their Children 4. Uncles and Aunts 5. The Patronymic System 6. Kinship and Narrative Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA rigorously and imaginatively researched anthology of classical literature, bringing together one hundred stories from the rich diversity of the literary canon of ancient Greece and Rome. Striking a balance between the 'classic classic' (such as Dryden's translation of the Aeneid) and the less familiar or expected, Of Gods and Men ranges from the epic poetry of Homer to the histories of Arrian and Diodorus Siculus and the sprawling Theogony of Hesiod; from the tragedies of Aeschylus and Euripides to the biographies of Suetonius and Plutarch and the pen portraits of Theophrastus; and from the comedies of Plautus to the fictions of Petronius and Apuleius. Of Gods and Men is embellished by translations from writers as diverse as Queen Elizabeth I (Boethius), Percy Bysshe Shelley (Plato), Walter Pater (Apuleius's Golden Ass), Lawrence of Arabia (Homer's Odyssey), Louis MacNeice (Aeschylus's Agamemnon) and Ted Hughes (Ovid's Pygmalion), as well as a number of accomplished translations by Daisy Dunn herself.Trade ReviewThis book is a big and wonderful read for anyone who loves classical literature... Each story is a truly fascinating tale of wars, endless fighting, heroes, deaths, beautiful women – Helen features, of course – gods and goddesses, cruelty, pain and love * Pennant Magazine *This is an excellent collection. Everyone needs to know the Classics, and this volume is a good place not just to start but also to continue and depend one's love for the Ancients * Catholic Herald *The book is perfect gift material but really, you should treat yourself to it first * Minerva *This anthology is hard to beat for big names * BBC History Magazine *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Hindley paints a picture of magic’s place in medieval England, producing an eye-opening study of ‘words at their most powerful’ . . . that promise[s] to change the way we think about magic in the medieval world.” -- Mary Flannery * Times Literary Supplement *"A thought-provoking look at the distinctive ways medieval English people viewed language [that] intrigues. It’s an enlightening deep dive." * Publishers Weekly *“Hindley carefully and fruitfully rethinks what charms tell us about written and oral aspects of culture, drawing on a wonderfully abundant collection of source material from a period in which charms proliferated but were often kept secret. A valuable contribution to the history of magic, her book sheds light on both an impressively diverse archive and the implications of their textuality.” -- Richard Kieckhefer, Northwestern University“Hindley guides readers through the complete history of spoken and written charms in medieval England with seasoned ease. Through close readings and the latest archaeological insights, Textual Magic offers an indispensable introduction to medieval English charms, packed with examples in both their original language and modern English translation.” -- Lea Olsan, University of Louisiana at Monroe“Textual Magic is a significant new work in medieval studies, generously illustrated with images and transcriptions of charm texts. In particular, Hindley’s focus on the instructions accompanying charms and her awareness of their multilingual contexts are welcome additions to the literature on verbal charms.” -- Jonathan Roper, University of TartuTable of ContentsList of Boxes Note on Translation and Transcription Abbreviations Introduction Reading, Writing, and Charming Chapter 1 The Powers of Charm-Words and Relics Chapter 2 Before 1100: “Textual Magic” in Pre-Conquest England Chapter 3 1100 to 1350: Charm Language and the Boundaries of Text Chapter 4 1350 to 1500: “A Fayre Charme on Englysh” Conclusion The Changing Power of Words Acknowledgments Manuscripts Cited Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisAs this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ideas of Roman decline and renewal have had a long and violent history.The decline of Rome has been a constant source of discussion for more than 2200 years. Everyone from American journalists in the twenty-first century AD to Roman politicians at the turn of the third century BC have used it as a tool to illustrate the negative consequences of changes in their world. Because Roman history is so long, it provides a buffet of ready-made stories of decline that can help develop the context around any snapshot. And Rome did, in fact, decline and, eventually, fall. An empire that once controlled all or part of more than 40 modern European, Asian, and African countries no longer exists. Roman prophets of decline were, ultimately, proven correct-a fact that makes their modern invocations all the more powerful. If it happened then, it could happen now.The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome tells the stories of the people who built their political and literary careers around promises of Roman renewal as well as those of the victims they blamed for causing Rome''s decline. Each chapter offers the historical context necessary to understand a moment or a series of moments in which Romans, aspiring Romans, and non--Romans used ideas of Roman decline and restoration to seize power and remake the world around them. The story begins during the Roman Republic just after 200 BC. It proceeds through the empire of Augustus and his successors, traces the Roman loss of much of western Europe in the fifth century AD, and then follows Roman history as it runs through the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium) until its fall in 1453. The final two chapters look at ideas of Roman decline and renewal from the fifteenth century until today. If Rome illustrates the profound danger of the rhetoric of decline, it also demonstrates the rehabilitative potential of a rhetoric that focuses on collaborative restoration, a lesson of great relevance to our world today.

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Book SynopsisThe Major Declamations, attributed to Quintilian in antiquity, exemplify the final stage of Greco-Roman rhetorical training, in which students delivered speeches for the prosecution and defense at imaginary trials. A wide variety of fascinating ethical, social, and legal details animate the fictional world conjured up by these oratorical exercises.

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Book SynopsisThe Major Declamations, attributed to Quintilian in antiquity, exemplify the final stage of Greco-Roman rhetorical training, in which students delivered speeches for the prosecution and defense at imaginary trials. A wide variety of fascinating ethical, social, and legal details animate the fictional world conjured up by these oratorical exercises.

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Book SynopsisA TLS Book of the Year. 'Erudite and urgent, Ian Thomson's Dante's Divine Comedy is another book that everyone ought to read' Spectator. 'Succinct but wide-ranging, Ian Thomson's richly illustrated exploration of Dante's masterpiece is... fun... ingenious... fascinating' Observer. 'A book worth savouring as a chunky, chatty, richly illustrated guide that brings Dante and his world within our reach' Evening Standard. A lively and wide-ranging exploration of a literary masterwork and its influence on writers, poets, artists and film-makers up to our own time. Dante has no equal as he sings of other-worldly horror and celestial beatitude alike. Yet for all our distance from medieval theology, the Florentine poet's allegorical journey through hell, purgatory and paradise remains one of the essential works of world literature. At least fifty English language versions of the Inferno – the first part of Dante's poem – appeared in the twentieth century alone. If Dante's Divine Comedy speaks to our present condition, it is because it tells the story of Everyman who sets out in search of salvation in this world. Dante composed his great poem in the spoken Italian of his time. He wrote about suffering bodies and human weakness, and about divine ecstasy, in words that have resonated with readers and writers for the last seven hundred years.Trade ReviewErudite and urgent, Ian Thomson's Dante's Divine Comedy is another book that everyone ought to read * Spectator *[A] book worth savouring as a chunky, chatty, richly illustrated guide that brings Dante and his world within our reach * Evening Standard *Succinct but wide-ranging, Ian Thomson's richly illustrated exploration of Dante's masterpiece [is] fun... ingenious... Fascinating' * Observer *This book is an object of great beauty... Thomson's aim, triumphantly realised, is to remind us why Dante's great poem is a 'landmark' * Tablet *[A] lively new book... It has become a cliché to refer to critics as Virgil, but it would be hard to think of any more appropriate way to describe what Ian Thomson offers here' * Catholic Herald *Thomson teases readers into wanting to find out their own answers. He'll lead you back to that neglected copy on your book shelf. And this time you'll pick it up * Financial Times *Encapsulates everything we need for the ultimate poetic voyage from Hell to Paradise by way of Purgatory * TLS, Books of the Year *Thomson's elegant, intelligent guide views the epic poem as a kind of recovery programme for those who have lost their way, and in turn leads you back to that neglected original on your bookshelf * Financial Times, Books of the Year *Ian Thomson is a travel writer, and here he attempts the most ambitious journey of all in the company of Dante – "to hell and back", as he puts it * Church Times. *

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Book SynopsisWas the experience of poetry--or a cultural practice we now call poetry--continuously available across the two-and-a-half millennia from the composition of the Homeric epics to the publication of Ben Jonson''s Works and the death of Shakespeare in 1616? How did the pleasure afforded by the crafting of language into memorable and moving rhythmic forms play a part in the lives of hearers and readers in Ancient Greece and Rome, Europe during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and Britain during the Renaissance? In tackling these questions, this book first examines the evidence for the performance of the Iliad and the Odyssey and of Ancient Greek lyric poetry, the impact of the invention of writing on Alexandrian verse, the performances of poetry that characterized Ancient Rome, and the private and public venues for poetic experience in Late Antiquity. It moves on to deal with medieval verse, exploring the oral traditions that spread across Europe in the vernacular languages, the place of manuscript transmission, the shift from roll to codex and from papyrus to parchment, and the changing audiences for poetry. A final part investigates the experience of poetry in the English Renaissance, from the manuscript verse of Henry VIII''s court to the anthologies and collections of the late Elizabethan era. Among the topics considered in this part are the importance of the printed page, the continuing significance of manuscript circulation, the performance of poetry in pageants and progresses, and the appearance of poets on the Elizabethan stage. In tracking both continuity and change across these many centuries, the book throws fresh light on the role and importance of poetry in western culture.Trade ReviewIt is bracing to follow a prominent senior scholar in his exploration of so many centuries—millennia encountered not with any ex cathedra jadedness but with open enthusiasm that should immediately engage readers at every academic level. * Stephen Hinds, University of Washington, Modern Language Quarterly *There are many ways to write a history (or a "pre-history") of poetry; despite the gravitational pull of the English Renaissance, this one turns into an inventory of impressive and meticulously curated literary-historical epiphanies, each encountered in its own present ... It is bracing to follow a prominent senior scholar in his exploration of somany centuries—millennia—encountered not with any ex cathedra jadedness but with open enthusiasm that should immediately engage readers at every academic level. * Stephen Hinds, University of Washington, Modern Language Quarterly *Attridge's exploration is detailed and extensive as he considers how the demands of social norms and the changes in production technologies influenced the ways in which poetry might be experienced by readers and listeners. In turn, the volume will be of interest to those studying any of the time frames that it discusses as well as those interested in questions regarding the reception and transmission of literature. * John S. Garrison, Renaissance Studies *...[the volume] is of significant value to classical scholarship, encouraging as it does a contextualising of ancient engagements with this literary form, and our own study of such engagements, within a much broader cultural history of poetry...this book offers an invaluable opportunity to consider the material with which we are most familiar as set within the wider evolution of poetry as a cultural phenomenon. But perhaps more significantly, we can become aware of how our perceptions of poetry by the ancient Greeks and Romans have likely been shaped by the different forms that poetry took in subsequent centuries... it should also encourage us to approach any poetry belonging to antiquity as part of a broader cultural activity than is often acknowledged. * Emily Patterson, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *A spectacularly rich and vast storehouse of poetic history, both convincingly homogeneous as a longue durée and absorbing in its smaller diverse details. * Esther Osorio Whewell, Cambridge Quarterly 49.2 (June, 2020) *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction PART ONE: Ancient Greece 1: Homeric Greece: Courts and Singers 2: Archaic to Classical Greece: Festivals and Rhapsodes 3: Classical Greece to Ptolemaic Alexandria: Writers and Readers PART TWO: Ancient Rome and Late Antiquity 4: Ancient Rome: The Republic and the Augustan Age 5: Ancient Rome: The Empire after Augustus 6: Late Antiquity: Latin and Greek, Private, Public, Popular PART THREE: The Middle Ages 7: Early Medieval Poetry: Vernacular Versifying 8: The Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Performing Genres 9: Lyric, Romance, and Alliterative Verse in Fourteenth-Century England 10: Chaucer, Gower, and Fifteenth-Century Poetry in English PART FOUR: The English Renaissance 11: Early Tudor Poetry: Courtliness and Print 12: Late Elizabethan and Early Jacobean Poetry: The Circulation of Verse 13: Late Elizabethan and Early Jacobean Poetry: The Idea of the Poet Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAhuvia Kahane is Regius Chair of Greek and A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He is the author of several books, including A Companion to the Prologue of Apuleius' Metamorphoses (2000).

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Book Synopsis* Both a history of theories of myth and a practical 'how--to' guide to interpreting myth. * Introduces the major theories of myth from the nineteenth century to the present day. * Covers comparative approaches, psychoanalysis, ritual theories of myth, structuralism, and ideological analysis.Trade Review"I have rarely been in a position to recommend a book with more enthusiasm. It is an extremely lucid introduction to theories of myth and is accessible to those with no prior knowledge. The book is the most comprehensive of its kind - and the most useful." Robert L. Fowler, University of Bristol "An integrated, historical, broad-based, wide-ranging general study of the interpretation of myth that covers all the major schools and shows how they relate to one another, grow out of one another and are still interesting today. He enlightens his deep understanding with wit and delight and a clear, lucent style. A superb achievement." Barry Powell, University of Wisconsin-Madison "What Csapo has done is lucid, illuminating, refreshing and extremely informative. I recommend it to anyone looking for an intellectually engaging overview of theories of interpretation of myth." University of Toronto Quarterly "It should certainly be in all academic libraries." Journal of Classics Teaching "It is a pity that J.G. Frazer appropriated the title "The Golden Bough". This image is far better suited to Csapo's luminous guide through a forest difficult to see for the trees." PhoenixTable of ContentsList of Figures. Preface. 1. Introducing “Myth”. 2. Comparative Approaches:. The Rise of the Comparative Method. Max Müller and Solar Mythology. James Frazer. The World According to Frazer: Problems and Presuppositions. The Urmyth: A Study in and of Comparison. Comparison of the Greek and Hittite Myths of the Divine Succession. 3. Psychology:. Freud and the Discovery of the Unconscious. Psychoanalysis to Myth Analysis. Freud and Anthropology. Freud in his Social and Theoretical Context. 4. Ritual Theories:. Social Anthropology. Jane Harrison and Ritualism. Walter Burkert and Biosociology. Burkert’s Homo Necans. 5. Structuralism:. Saussure and Structural Linguistics. Syntagmatic Structuralism. A Critique of Syntagmatic Structuralism. Paradigmatic Structuralism. Mediation. Total Structure. Totalizing Structure. 6. Social Ideologies:. Structure and Ideology. Poststructualisms, Postmodernism, and Ideology. Decrypting Ideology. An Ideological Analysis of the Myth of Heracles. Epilogue. A Little Further Reading. Bibliography. Index

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Book Synopsis''In ancient tales many marvels are told us ... now you may hear such marvels told!''The greatest of the heroic epics to emerge from medieval Germany, the Nibelungenlied is a revenge saga of sweeping dimensions. It tells of the dragon-slayer Sivrit, and the mysterious kingdom of the Nibelungs with its priceless treasure-hoard guarded by dwarves and giants, of Prünhilt the Amazonian queen, fortune-telling water-sprites and a cloak of invisibility. Driven by the conflict between Kriemhilt, the innocent maiden turned she-devil, and her antagonist, the stoic, indomitable Hagen, the story is one of human tragedy, of love, jealousy, murder, and revenge, ending in slaughter on a horrific scale. The work of an anonymous poet of c.1200, since its rediscovery in the eighteenth century the Nibelungenlied has come to be regarded as the national epic of the Germans. It has inspired countless reworkings and adaptations, including two masterpieces: Fritz Lang''s two-part film, and Richard Wagner''s Ring cycle.This is the first prose translation for over forty years: accurate and compelling, it is accompanied by a wealth of useful background information. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Trade ReviewIt makes for glorious reading. * Yann Martell, 'What is Stephen Harper Reading?' *A new translation by Cyril Edwards, the most faithful to date to the Nibelungenlied. * Bettina Bildhauer, TLS *For a taste of the original style in English, Edwards's is now the best translation. * Bettina Bildhauer, TLS *This magnificent story...now brought to an English speaking audience in a new translation by Cyril Edwards, (is) the most faithful one to date... the Nibelung legend is still li ttle known in the anglophone world (except to Wagnerians). But a narrative of such splendour and importance deserves a wide audience outside the walls of the academy. * Bettina Bildhauer, Times Literary Supplement *The power and immediacy of this translation offers unparalleled insight into a forgotten world. * Editor's Choice, Good Book Guide *A gripping tale, packed with violent incident...the poem's history is fascinating. * Editor's Choice, The Good Book Guide *

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Book SynopsisRobin Lane Fox''s Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer proposes a new way of thinking about ancient Greeks, showing how real-life journeys shaped their mythical tales. The tales of the ancient Greeks have inspired us for thousands of years. But where did they originate? Esteemed classicist Robin Lane Fox draws on a lifetime''s knowledge of the ancient world, and on his own travels, to open up the age of Homer. His acclaimed history explores how the intrepid seafarers of eighth-century Greece sailed around the Mediterranean, encountering strange new sights - volcanic mountains, vaporous springs, huge prehistoric bones - and weaving them into the myths of gods, monsters and heroes that would become the cornerstone of Western civilization: the Odyssey and the Iliad. ''A beautiful evocation of a tantalizing world ... Travelling Heroes is a tour de force''  R

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Book SynopsisDante Alighieri was born in Florence in 1265. At about twenty he married Gemma Donati, with whom he has three children. He first met Beatrice Portinari in 1274, and when she died in 1290 he sought distraction by studying philosophy and theology and by writing the VITA NUOVA. During this time he became involved in the strife between the Guelfs and the Ghibelines; he became a prominent White Guelf and when the Black Guelfs came to power in 1302 Dante, during an absence from Florence, was condemned to exile. He took refuge first in Verona and after wandering from place to place, he settled in Ravenna. While there he completed THE DIVINE COMEDY, which he had begun in 1308. He died in Ravenna in 1321.Eric Griffiths is Fellow in English at Trinity College, Cambridge and works principally on English poetry from the Restoration to the present day; with an interest in comparative literature (French, German, and Italian) and in philosophical and theological aspects of writing (he

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Book SynopsisVolume two of Le Morte D''Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory''s powerful and elegaic version of the Arthurian legend, recounts the adventures of Sir Tristram de Liones and the treachery of Sir Mordred, and follows Sir Launcelot''s quest for The Holy Grail, his fatally divided loyalties, and his great, forbidden love for the beautiful Queen Guenever. Culminating in an account of Arthur''s final battle against the scheming, deceitful Mordred, this is the definitive re-telling of the Arthurian myth, weaving a story of adultery, treachery and ultimately - in its tragic finale - death. Edited and published by William Caxton in 1485, Malory''s moving prose romance looks back to an idealised Medieval age of chivalry, drawing on French and English verse sources to create an epic masterpiece of passion, enchantment, war and betrayal.

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Book SynopsisSince its publication in 1990, Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek has helped tens of thousands of students learn classical Greek. Building on the bestselling tradition of previous editions, the long-awaited third edition combines the best features of traditional and modern teaching methods. It provides a unique course of instruction that allows students to read connected Greek narrative right from the beginning and guides them to the point where they can begin reading complete classical texts. James Morwood, editor of the Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek and the Pocket Oxford Classical Greek Dictionary, brings his expertise and years of teaching experience to this revision. Carefully designed to hold students'' interest, the course begins in Book I with a fictional narrative about an Attic farmer''s family placed in a precise historical context (432-431 B.C.). This narrative, interwoven with tales from mythology and the Persian Wars, gradually gives way in Book II to adapted passages from Thucydides, Plato, and Herodotus and ultimately to excerpts of the original Greek of Bacchylides, Thucydides, and Aristophanes'' Acharnians. Essays on relevant aspects of ancient Greek culture and history are also woven throughout.Trade ReviewAthenaze, Books I and II, presents a thoughtful, reading-based approach to learning ancient Greek. Both books are interspersed with superbly written cultural and historical essays that introduce readers to the signature characteristics of Greek culture. * Stephen Esposito, Boston University *I have found Athenaze's methodology successful with today's broad range of student learning styles and varied levels of language sophistication. * Elizabeth A. Fisher, George Washington University *Athenaze is an excellent adaptation of the reading approach for ancient Greek, with excellent Greek readings. * Nicholas Rynearson, University of Georgia *The approach is student friendly, the readings are varied and interesting, and the grammatical explanations are clear. * Laurie Cosgriff, Portland State University *Athenaze is the best text for learning ancient Greek. Period. * George Rudebusch, Northern Arizona University *The storyline and characters of the text readily draw students into the language and culture of the Greeks. Athenaze is arguably the best first-year Greek text on the market. * Richard L. Phillips, Virginia Tech University *Table of ContentsBook 1: INTRODUCTION ix Readings Grammar 1 ? ??????????? (?) 2 1. Verb Forms: Stems and Endings 4 2. Nouns: Genders, Stems, Endings, Cases, and Agreement 4 3. Labeling Functions of Words in Sentences 6 The Athenian Farmer 6 4. Use of the Definite Article 6 ? ??????????? (?) 8 5. Accents 9 ? ?????? 10 Classical Greek: Heraclitus 11 New Testament Greek: Title of the Gospel of Luke 11 2 ? ??????? (?) 12 1. Verb Forms: Indicative Mood; 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Persons Singular 13 2. Proclitics 14 3. The Imperative 15 Slavery 15 Greek Wisdom: Cleobulus of Lindos 16 ? ??????? (?) 18 4. Articles, Adjectives, and Nouns; Singular, All Cases 20 5. Uses of the Cases 20 6. Persistent Accent of Nouns and Adjectives 20 7. Recessive Accent of Verbs 21 ? ?????? 22 Classical Greek: Callimachus 23 New Testament Greek: Luke 3.22 23 3 ? ?????? (?) 24 1.Verb Forms: 3rd Person Plural, Imperatives, and Infinitives 26 file:///Q|/Higher-Ed/firm/9780199363247.FIRM.Balme.Athenaze-Book-I.3rd-ed.html[10/28/2014 9:49:06 AM] The Deme and the Polis 28 ? ?????? (?) 30 2. Articles, Adjectives, and Nouns; Singular and Plural, All Cases 31 3. Accent Shifting 32 ?? ???? 34 Classical Greek: Menander 35 New Testament Greek: Luke 6.46 35 4 ???? ??? ?????? (?) 36 1. Verb Forms: All Persons, Singular and Plural 38 2. Declensions of Nouns and Adjectives 40 3. Feminine Nouns and Adjectives of the 1st Declension 40 Women 43 Greek Wisdom: Pittacus of Mitylene 45 ???? ??? ?????? (?) 46 4. Masculine Nouns of the 1st Declension 47 5. Feminine Nouns of the 2nd Declension 48 6. 1st and 2nd Declension Adjectives 48 7. Formation of Adverbs 50 8. The Definite Article as Case Indicator 50 ?? ???????? ???? ?????? ????????? 51 Classical Greek: Callimachus 53 New Testament Greek: Luke 6.45 53 5 ? ????? (?) 54 1. Contract Verbs in -?- 56 2. Recessive Accent of Finite Verbs 56 3. Article at the Beginning of a Clause 58 4. Elision 58 Gods and Men 59 Greek Wisdom: Chilon of Sparta 61 ? ????? (?) 62 5. Agreement of Subject and Verb 64 6. Personal Pronouns 64 7. Attributive and Predicate Position 66 8. Possessives 66 9. The Adjective ?????, -?, -? 68 ? ????? ?? ??????? ?????? 69 Greek Wisdom: The Seven Wise Men 70 Classical Greek: Anacreon 71 New Testament Greek: Luke 4.22 and 24 71 6 ? ????? (?) 72 1. Verb Forms: ???? 74 2. Verbs: Voice 75 3. Verb Forms: Middle Voice 76 4. Deponent Verbs 78 Myth 81 ? ????? (?) 84 5. Middle Voice: Meaning 86 6. Some Uses of the Dative Case 88 7. Prepositions 89 ? ?????? ??? ???????? ?????????? 91 Classical Greek: Marriage 93 New Testament Greek: Luke 13.10-16 93 7 ? ?????? (?) 94 1. Substantive Use of Adjectives 96 2. Nouns: Declensions 97 3. 3rd Declension Consonant Stem Nouns: Velar and Dental Stems 97 4. Reflexive Pronouns 100 Homer 102 ? ?????? (?) 104 5. 3rd Declension Consonant Stem Nouns: Nasal Stems 106 6. 3rd Declension Consonant Stem Nouns: Labial and Liquid Stems 107 7. A 3rd Declension Adjective: ??????, ??????, of sound mind; prudent; self-controlled 107 8. The Interrogative Pronoun and Adjective 108 9. The Indefinite Pronoun and Adjective 109 ? ??? ?????? ????? ??????????? 110 Classical Greek: Sophocles 111 Greek Wisdom: Thales of Miletus 111 8 ???? ?? ???? (?) 112 1. Participles: "Present" or Progressive: Middle Voice 114 Athens: A Historical Outline 117 file:///Q|/Higher-Ed/firm/9780199363247.FIRM.Balme.Athenaze-Book-I.3rd-ed.html[10/28/2014 9:49:06 AM] Classical Greek: Archilochus 121 New Testament Greek: Luke 5.20-21 121 ???? ?? ???? (?) 122 2. 3rd Declension Consonant Stem Nouns: Stems in -?- 124 3. Two Important Irregular Nouns: ? ????, ??? ????????, woman; wife, and ? ????, ??? ??????, hand 125 4. 1st/3rd Declension Adjective ???, ????, ???, all; every; whole 126 Greek Wisdom: Periander of Corinth 127 5. Numbers 128 6. Expressions of Time When, Duration of Time, and Time within Which 128 ? ???????? ??? ? ?????? 130 Classical Greek: Sappho: The Deserted Lover: A Girl's Lament 131 9 ? ????????? (?) 132 1. Participles: Present or Progressive: Active Voice 135 The City of Athens 139 ? ????????? (?) 142 2. 3rd Declension Nouns with Stems Ending in -??- 145 3. 3rd Declension Nouns with Stems Ending in a Vowel: ? ????? and ?? ???? 145 4. 3rd Declension Nouns with Stems Ending in Diphthongs or Vowels: ? ???????? and the Irregular Nouns ? ???? and ? ???? 146 5. Uses of the Genitive Cases 147 6. Some Uses of the Article 148 ? ???????? ??? ? ????? 149 Classical Greek: Simonides 151 New Testament Greek: Luke 6.31-33: The Sermon on the Mount 151 REVIEW OF VERB FORMS 152 PREVIEW OF NEW VERB FORMS 154 10 ? ??????? (?) 156 1.Verb Forms: Verbs with sigmatic Futures 158 2. Verb Forms: The Asigmatic Contract Future of Verbs in ???? 159 3. Verb Forms: The Sigmatic Future of Contract Verbs 159 4. Verb Forms: Verbs with Deponent Futures 159 Festivals 162 Classical Greek: Theognis 163 New Testament Greek: Luke 6.35-36: The Sermon on the Mount 163 ? ??????? (?) 164 5. Verb Forms: The Asigmatic Contract Future of Verbs with Liquid and Nasal Stems 166 6.The Irregular Verb ???? 168 7. Future Participle to Express Purpose 170 8. Impersonal Verbs 170 9. Review of Questions 171 ? ???????? ???? ???????? ????????? 171 Classical Greek: Menander 173 New Testament Greek: Luke 5.30-32 173 11 ? ?????? (?) 174 1. Verb Forms: Past Tense: The Aorist 176 2. Verb Forms: The Thematic 2nd Aorist 177 3. Aspect 178 4. Thematic 2nd Aorist Active and Middle Participles 180 5. Verb Forms: Common Verbs with Thematic 2nd Aorists 180 Greek Science and Medicine 183 Classical Greek: Theognis 185 New Testament Greek: Luke 6.20-21: The Beatitudes 185 ? ?????? (?) 186 6. Verbs with Thematic 2nd Aorists from Unrelated Stems 189 7. Accents on Thematic 2nd Aorist Active Imperatives 189 8. Augment 190 ? ????????? ??? ??????? ???????? 192 New Testament Greek: Luke 6.27-29: The Sermon on the Mount 193 12 ???? ??? ??????? (?) 194 1. Verb Forms: Past Tense: The Sigmatic 1st Aorist 196 2. Sigmatic 1st Aorist Active and Middle Participles 199 Trade and Travel 200 Classical Greek: Scolion: The Four Best Things in Life 203 New Testament Greek: Luke 15.3-7: The Parable of the Lost Sheep 203 ???? ??? ??????? (?) 204 3. Verb Forms: The Asigmatic 1st Aorist of Verbs with Liquid and Nasal Stems 207 4. Irregular Sigmatic 1st Aorists 208 5. Verb Forms: Augment of Compound Verbs 209 ? ??????? ??? ????????? ???????? 210 Greek Wisdom: Bias of Priene 211 file:///Q|/Higher-Ed/firm/9780199363247.FIRM.Balme.Athenaze-Book-I.3rd-ed.html[10/28/2014 9:49:06 AM] 13 ???? ??? ???????? (?) 212 1. Verb Forms: The Imperfect or Past Progressive Tense 213 2. Aspect 216 The Rise of Persia 218 ???? ??? ???????? (?) 222 3. Relative Clauses 224 4. 3rd Declension Nouns and Adjectives with Stems in -??- 226 5. 1st/3rd Declension Adjective with 3rd Declension Stems in -?- and -?- 227 ? ?????? ??? ??????????? ????????? 228 Greek Wisdom: Solon of Athens 230 Classical Greek: Archilochus 231 CONTENTS Introduction, iii Chapter 1, ? ???????????, 1 Reading: ? ?????, 3 Chapter 2, ? ???????, 4 Reading: ???? ??????????, 7 Chapter 3, ? ??????, 8 Reading: ? ???????? ??? ??? ??????? ??????, 11 Chapter 4, ???? ??? ??????, 12 Reading: ? ???????? ??? ? ?????, 17 Chapter 5, ? ?????, 18 Grammar: Clauses of Result with ????, 20 Reading: ? ?????? ??? ???? ?? ?????, 24 Vocabulary: Chapters 1-5, 25 Chapter 6, ? ?????, 28 Reading: ? ??????????? ?????????, 32 Chapter 7, ? ??????, 34 Reading: ?? ??? ????? ?????, 37 Chapter 8, ???? ?? ????, 39 Reading: ?? ???? ???? ???????????? ????????, 40 Reading: ? ?????????? ??? ?? ??????, 46 Chapter 9, ? ?????????, 49 Reading: ?? ??? ???????? ????, 53 Vocabulary: Chapters 6-9, 55 Chapter 10, ? ???????, 59 Reading: ?? ?????? ???????, 61 Grammar: ??????? and ????, 63 Reading: ? ???????? ?????? ?????, 66 Chapter 11, ? ??????, 68 Grammar: Some Common Verbs with Thematic 2nd Aorists, 68 Grammar: Some Common Verbs with Thematic 2nd Aorists from Unrelated Stems, 72 Reading: ?? ??? ??????, 74 Chapter 12, ???? ??? ???????, 78 Grammar: Some Irregular Sigmatic 1st Aorists, 81 Reading: ? ???? ????? ?????, 83 Chapter 13, ???? ??? ????????, 85 Reading: ? ????? ??? ??? ????? ?????, 91 Vocabulary: Chapters 10-13, 93 Chapter 14, ? ?? ???? ??????????? ????, 97 Grammar: Review of Uses of the Cases, 99 Reading: ??? ???????? ?????????, 104 Chapter 15, ? ?? ??? ???????? ????, 109 Reading: ?? ???? ??? ?????? ????????, 114 Chapter 16, ???? ??? ?? ??? ???????? ?????, 117 Reading: ? ???????? ??? ??? ???????? ?????????, 118 Grammar: Review of Prepositions, 120 Reading: ? ???????? ??? ??? ????????? ????????, 125 Vocabulary: Chapters 14-16, 130 Answer Key, 134 Book 2 CONTENTS Introduction, v Chapter 17, ? ????????? (?), 1 Reading: ??????? ????? I, 5 Chapter 17, ? ????????? (?), 6 Reading: ??????? ????? II, 9 Chapter 18, ? ????????? (?), 10 Reading: ??????? ????? III, 13 Chapter 18, ? ????????? (?), 14 Reading: ??????? ????? III, 17 Chapter 19, ? ?????? (?), 19 Reading: ??????? ????? IV, 23 Chapter 19, ? ?????? (?), 24 Reading: ??????? ????? V, 29 Chapter 20, ? ?????? (?), 30 Reading: ??????? ????? VI, 33 Chapter 20, ? ?????? (?), 35 Reading: ??????? ????? VII, 39 Vocabulary: Chapters 17-20, 40 Chapter 21, ? ???????? (?), 44 Reading: ??????? ????? VIII, 49 Chapter 21, ? ???????? (?), 50 Reading: ??????? ????? IX, 53 Chapter 22, ? ????????? (?), 55 Reading: ??????? ????? X, 59 Chapter 22, ? ????????? (?), 60 Reading: ??????? ????? XI, 63 Chapter 23, ? ?????? (?), 64 Reading: ??????? ????? XII, 67 Chapter 23, ? ?????? (?), 69 Reading: ??????? ????? XIII, 73 Chapter 24, ?? ?????????? (?), 74 Reading: ??????? ????? XIV, 77 Chapter 24, ?? ?????????? (?), 78 Reading: ??????? ????? XV, 81 Vocabulary: Chapters 21-24, 82 Chapter 25, ? ??????? ??? ?????? ??????? (?), 87 Reading: ??????? ????? XVI, 91 Chapter 25, ? ??????? ??? ?????? ??????? (?), 92 Reading: ??????? ????? XVII, 95 Chapter 26, ? ??????? ??? ????? ????????? (?), 96 Reading: ??????? ????? XVIII, 99 Chapter 26, ? ??????? ??? ????? ????????? (?), 101 Reading: ??????? ????? XIX, 103 Chapter 27, ? ??????? ??? ??? ????? ??????????? (?), 105 Reading: ??????? ????? XX, 109 Chapter 27, ? ??????? ??? ??? ????? ??????????? (?), 110 Reading: ??????? ????? XXI, 113 Chapter 28, ? ??????? ??? ??????? ?????? (?), 114 Reading: ??????? ????? XXII, 119 Chapter 28, ? ??????? ??? ??????? ?????? (?), 120 Reading: ??????? ????? XXIII, 123 Vocabulary: Chapters 25-28, 124 Chapter 29, ???? ?? ??? ???????? ?????? (?), 128 Reading: ??????? ????? XXIV, 129 Chapter 29, ???? ?? ??? ???????? ?????? (?), 131 Reading: ??????? ????? XXV, 133 Chapter 29, ???? ?? ??? ???????? ?????? (?), 134 Reading: ??????? ????? XXVI, 135 Chapter 29, ???? ?? ??? ???????? ?????? (?), 136 Reading: ??????? ????? XXVII, 137 Chapter 29, ???? ?? ??? ???????? ?????? (?), 138 Reading: ??????? ????? XXVIII, 139 Chapter 30, ??????? (?), 141 Reading: ??????? ????? XXIX, 143 Chapter 30, ??????? (?), 144 Reading: ??????? ????? XXX, 145 Chapter 30, ??????? (?), 146 Reading: ??????? ????? XXXI, 147 Chapter 30, ??????? (?), 148 Reading: ??????? ????? XXXII, 149 Vocabulary: Chapters 29-30, 152 Supplementary Grammar, 156 Aspect, Time, and Tense, 156 Articles, 162 Uses of the Cases, 166 Correlatives: Interrogative, Indefinite, Demonstrative, and Relative Pronouns and Adjectives, 172 Uses of ????, 175 Uses of ??, 176 Uses of the Negative, 178 Uses of the Participle, 181 Third Person Imperatives, 184 Review of Prepositions, 186 Answer Key, 189 Chapters 17-30, 189 Supplementary Grammar, 213 The Tablet of Cebes XXXIII-XLI, 217

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Book SynopsisCombining the best features of traditional and modern methods, Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek, Revised Third Edition, provides a unique course of instruction that allows students to read connected Greek narrative right from the beginning and guides them to the point where they can begin reading complete classical texts. This student workbook includes self-correcting exercises, cumulative vocabulary lists, periodic grammatical reviews, and additional readings for the material covered by Athenaze, Book I, Revised Third Edition.Table of ContentsPreface List of Historical Essays List of Maps List of Color Plates About the Authors Introduction Map of Greece and the Aegean Sea 1. O *DIKAIO*PO*LI*S (a) Grammar 1. Verb Forms: Stems and Endings 2. Nouns: Genders, Stems, Endings, Cases, and Agreement 3. U se of the Definite Article Reading The Athenian Farmer O *DIKAIO*PO*LI*S (*b) Grammar 4. Accents Readings O K*LHPO*S Classical Greek: Heraclitus New Testament Greek: Title page of the Gospel of Luke 2. O *XAN*CIA*S (a) Grammar 1. Verb Forms: Indicative Mood; 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Persons Singular 2. Proclitics 3. The Imperative Readings Slavery Greek Wisdom: Cleobulus of Lindos O *XAN*CIA*S (*b) Grammar 4. Articles, Adjectives, and Nouns; Singular, All Cases 5. U ses of the Cases 6. Persistent Accent of Nouns and Adjectives 7. Recessive Accent of Verbs Readings O *DO*U*LO*S Classical Greek: Callimachus New Testament Greek: Luke 3.22 3. O APOTO*S (a) Grammar 1. Verb Forms: 3rd Person Plural, Imperatives, and Infinitives Reading The Deme and the Polis O APOTO*S (*b) Grammar 2. Articles, Adjectives, and Nouns; Singular and Plural, All Cases 3. Accent Shifting Readings OI *bOE*S Classical Greek: Menander New Testament Greek: Luke 6.46 4. *PPO*S THI KPHNHI (a) Grammar 1. Verb Forms: All Persons, Singular and Plural 2. Declensions of Nouns and Adjectives 3. Feminine Nouns and Adjectives of the 1st Declension Readings Women Greek Wisdom: Pittacus (of Mitylene) *PPO*S THI KPHNHI (*b) Grammar 4. Masculine Nouns of the 1st Declension 5. Feminine Nouns of the 2nd Declension 6. 1st and 2nd Declension Adjectives 7. Two Irregular Adjectives 8. Formation of Adverbs 9. The Definite Article as Case Indicator Readings AI *G*UNAIKE*S TO*U*S AN*DPA*S *PEI*CO*U*SIN Classical Greek: Callimachus New Testament Greek: Luke 6.45 5. O *L*UKO*S (a) Grammar 1. Contract Verbs in -a- 2. Recessive Accent of Finite Verbs 3. Article at the Beginning of a Clause 4. Elision Readings Gods and Men Greek Wisdom: Chilon of Sparta O *L*UKO*S (*b) Grammar 5. Agreement of Subject and Verb 6. Personal Pronouns 7. Attributive and Predicate Position 8. Possessives 9. The Adjective a)u*t)o*S, -)n, -)o Readings O AP*GO*S TA *PPO*bATA *S*WIZEI Greek Wisdom: The Seven Wise Men Classical Greek: Anacreon New Testament Greek: Luke 4.22 and 24 6. O M*U*CO*S (a) Grammar 1. Verb Forms: *P*L)e*W 2. Verbs: Voice 3. Verb Forms: Middle Voice 4. Deponent Verbs Reading Myth O M*U*CO*S (*b) Grammar 5. Middle Voice: Meaning 6. Some Uses of the Dative Case 7. Prepositions Readings O *CH*SE*U*S THN APIA*DNHN KATA*LEI*PEI Classical Greek: Marriage New Testament Greek: Luke 13.10-16 7. O K*UK*L*W*V (a) Grammar 1. Substantive Use of Adjectives 2. Nouns: Declensions 3. 3rd Declension Consonant Stem Nouns: Velar and Dental Stems 4. Reflexive Pronouns Reading Homer O K*UK*L*W*V (*b) Grammar 5. 3rd Declension Consonant Stem Nouns: Nasal Stems 6. 3rd Declension Consonant Stem Nouns: *b, *P, *Q (Labial) and *L, p (Liquid) Stems 7. A 3rd Declension Adjective: *S)w*Qp*Wv, *S*W.*Qpov, of sound mind; prudent; self-controlled 8. The Interrogative Pronoun and Adjective 9. The Indefinite Pronoun and Adjective Readings O TO*U *CH*SE*W*S *PATHP A*PO*CNHI*SKEI Classical Greek: Sophocles Greek Wisdom: Thales of Miletus 8. *PPO*S TO A*ST*U (a) Grammar 1. Participles: "Present" or Progressive: Middle Voice Readings Athens: A Historical Outline Classical Greek: Archilochus New Testament Greek: Luke 5.20-21 *PPO*S TO A*ST*U (*b) Grammar 2. 3rd Declension Consonant Stem Nouns: Stems in -p- 3. Two Important Irregular Nouns: )N *G*Uv)n, *tH.*S *G*Uva*iK)o*S, woman; wife, and )N *Y*e)Ip, *tH.*S *Y*e*ip)o*S, hand 4. 1st/3rd Declension Adjective: *Pa.*S, *Pa.*Sa, *Pa.v, all; every; whole Reading Greek Wisdom: Periander of Corinth Grammar 5. Numbers 6. Expressions of Time When, Duration of Time, and Time Within Which Readings O O*D*U*S*SE*U*S KAI O AIO*LO*S Classical Greek: Sappho: The Deserted Lover: A Girl's Lament 9. H *PANH*G)yPI*S (a) Grammar 1. Participles: Present or Progressive: Active Voice Reading The City of Athens H *PANH*G*UPI*S (*b) Grammar 2. 3rd Declension Nouns with Stems Ending in -v*t- 3. 3rd Declension Nouns with Stems Ending in a Vowel: )N *P)o*L*i*S and *t)O )a*S*t*U 4. 3rd Declension Nouns with Stems Ending in Diphthongs or Vowels: (o *ba*S*i*L*e)y*S and the Irregular Nouns )N va*U.*S and (o *bo*U.*S 5. U ses of the Genitive Case 6. Some Uses of the Article Readings O O*D*U*S*SE*U*S KAI H KIPKH Classical Greek: Simonides New Testament Greek: Luke 6.31-33: The Sermon on the Mount REVIEW OF VERB FORMS PREVIEW OF NEW VERB FORMS 10. H *S*UM*QOPA (a) Grammar 1. Verb Forms: Verbs with Sigmatic Futures 2. Verb Forms: The Asigmatic Contract Future of Verbs in -)I*z*W 3. Verb Forms: The Sigmatic Future of Contract Verbs 4. Verb Forms: Verbs with Deponent Futures Readings Festivals Classical Greek: Theognis New Testament Greek: Luke 6.35-36: The Sermon on the Mount H *S*UM*QOPA (*b) Grammar 5. Verb Forms: The Asigmatic Contract Future of Verbs with Liquid and Nasal Stems 6. The Irregular Verb *e(I)Yµ*i 7. Future Participle to Express Purpose 8. Impersonal Verbs 9. Review of Questions Readings O O*D*U*S*SE*U*S TO*U*S ETAIPO*U*S A*PO*L*L*U*SIN Classical Greek: Menander and Archilochus New Testament Greek: Luke 5.30-32 11. O IATPO*S (a) Grammar 1. Verb Forms: Past Tense: The Aorist 2. Verb Forms: The Thematic 2nd Aorist 3. Aspect 4. Thematic 2nd Aorist Active and Middle Participles 5. Verb Forms: Common Verbs with Thematic 2nd Aorists Readings Greek Science and Medicine Classical Greek: Theognis New Testament Greek: Luke 6.20-21: The Beatitudes O IATPO*S (*b) Grammar 6. Verbs with Thematic 2nd Aorists from Unrelated Stems 7. Accents on Thematic 2nd Aorist Active Imperatives 8. Augment Readings O *DHMOKH*DH*S TON *bA*SI*LEA IATPE*UEI New Testament Greek: Luke 6.27-29: The Sermon on the Mount 12. *PPO*S TON *PEIPAIA (a) Grammar 1. Verb Forms: Past Tense: The Sigmatic 1st Aorist 2. Sigmatic 1st Aorist Active and Middle Participles Readings Trade and Travel Classical Greek: Scolion: The Four Best Things in Life New Testament Greek: Luke 15.3-7: The Parable of the Lost Sheep *PPO*S TON *PEIPAIA (*b) Grammar 3. Verb Forms: The Asigmatic 1st Aorist of Verbs with Liquid and Nasal Stems 4. Irregular Sigmatic 1st Aorists 5. Verb Forms: Augment of Compound Verbs Readings O K*W*LAIO*S TON TAPTH*S*SON E*UPI*SKEI Greek Wisdom: Bias of Priene 13. *PPO*S THN *SA*LAMINA (a) Grammar 1. Verb Forms: The Imperfect or Past Progressive Tense 2. Aspect Reading The Rise of Persia *PPO*S THN *SA*LAMINA (*b) Grammar 3. Relative Clauses 4. 3rd Declension Nouns and Adjectives with Stems in -*e*S- 5. 1st/3rd Declension Adjective with 3rd Declension Stems in -*U- and -*e- Readings O *XEP*XH*S TON E*L*LH*S*PONTON *DIA*bAINEI Greek Wisdom: Solon of Athens Classical Greek: Archilochus New Testament Greek: Luke 21.1-4: The Widow's Mite 14. H EN TAI*S *CEPMO*P*U*LAI*S MA*YH (a) Grammar 1. Comparison of Adjectives 2. Irregular Comparison of Adjectives 3. Comparison of Adverbs 4. U ses of Comparatives and Superlatives Readings The Rise of Athens Classical Greek: Archilochus New Testament Greek: Luke 10.25-29: The Good Samaritan (concluded 14 (B)) H EN TAI*S *CEPMO*P*U*LAI*S MA*YH (*b) Grammar 5. Demonstrative Adjectives 6. Interrogative and Indefinite Pronouns, Adjectives, and Adverbs Readings OI *PEP*SAI TA *U*PEP *CEPMO*P*U*L*WN *STENA AIPO*U*SIN Classical Greek: Theognis New Testament Greek: Luke 10.30-37: The Good Samaritan (concluded) 15. H EN THI *SA*LAMINI MA*YH (a) Grammar 1. Athematic 2nd Aorists 2. More 3rd Declension Nouns with Stems in -*e*S- Readings Aeschylus's Persae New Testament Greek: Luke 2.1-14: The Birth of Jesus H EN THI *SA*LAMINI MA*YH (*b) Grammar 3. Contract Verbs in -o- 4. Contract Nouns of the 2nd Declension 5. More Numbers 6. U ses of )W*S and Its Compounds Reading OI *PEP*SAI TA*S A*CHNA*S AIPO*U*SIN 16. META THN EN THI *SA*LAMINI MA*YHN (a) Grammar 1. The Passive Voice Reading The Athenian Empire META THN EN THI *SA*LAMINI MA*YHN (*b) Grammar 2. Verbs with Athematic Presents and Imperfects: *D)yvaµa*i, K*e*i.µa*i, and )E*P)I*S*taµa*i Readings O *XEP*XH*S *PPO*S THN A*SIAN ANA*Y*WPEI Classical Greek: Sappho: Love's Power Classical Greek: Simonides New Testament Greek: Luke 2.15-20: The Birth of Jesus (concluded) Verb Charts Syllables and Accents Enclitics and Proclitics Forms Forms of Definite Article, Nouns, Adjectives, and Pronouns Laid Out in Case Order N, V, A, G, D Index of Language and Grammar Greek to English Vocabulary English to Greek Vocabulary General Index Acknowledgments Credits

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Appreciation of these poems is enhanced by individual biographical accounts for each of the sixty-five nun-poets and an Introduction to the historical, religious, and literary context of these poems, including a concise discussion of Chinese Buddhism and Chinese Buddhist poetry.The nuns in this anthology come from a range of backgrounds: some were placed in convents when very young; others were former palace ladies or courtesans who found refuge in the religious life; others were women left widowed or destitute in the wake of the various political and social upheavals of the times, especially the violent transition beTable of ContentsIntroduction The Poems Wulian After the Rain An Autumn Night: Written in the Moment Jieshi Early Morning Qingming Miaoni Spring Night The Girl Nun from Yan Gatha Xingkong Reflecting on Myself Mojing Going by Way of Tiger Hill Jueqing Poem Inscribed on a Convent Wall Wuwei Deathbed Gatha Jiyin Dharma Hall Gatha Deyin Early Autumn: A Distant Evening View 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from the Inner Chambers Comes to Visit: Remembering Old Times Heartfelt Recollections Wugou Writing of My Feelings (Version 1) Writing of My Feelings (Version 2) Climbing the Mountain after the Snow Chaoyi Deathbed Gatha Mingxuan Wuzhen Autumn Night Falling Leaves Inscribed on a Ying Stone Weiji Xingzhi Ode to the Honeybees Living in the Mountains Listening to the Geese Jingnuo Chaoyue Song of the Ancient Plum Trees Passing by Yongqing Monastery, I Came Upon Its Peonies and Wrote These For Lady Yang A Celebration in Verse of the Autumn Orchid Chaoyan Miyin Self-Encomium Yizhen Mid-Autumn Younger Sister Yuying and I Planned to Meet on the Ninth Day, But She Didn't Arrive Living in the Mountains Among Falling Leaves Matching the Rhymes of "Cloud Hermitage" Shangxin Ice Yuanduan Yufu My Study: An Impromptu Verse Miaohui Dawn Sitting at Bo're Convent Shiyan Recalling a Dream Swallows Rising at Dawn: An Expression of Feelings A Reply to Sixth Elder Sister Ruixian Wanxian Inside the Convent: Reflections Lianhua Kedu Gatha Yinyue Xinglin In the MountainsThe Three Blows Gatha When Sansheng Saw People He Came Out, When Xinghua Saw People He Did Not Ansheng Ode to the Silkworm Mourning Zhanna Zhuanzheng Deathbed Gatha Zhisheng Ode to the Snow The Chrysanthemum Deri Early Autumn Feelings by a Rainy Window Deyue On an Autumn Night Listening to the Crickets Zhiyuan A Lament for Peng E Qiyuan Xinggang The First Month of Summer Retreat: A Song of Leisure Dharma Instructions for Mingyuan Dharma Instructions for Person of the Way Xu Chaogu Addressing the Congregation on My Birthday Matching Jiang Yundu's "Autumn Pavilion Song" Ode to the Plum Blossom Yigong Chaoke Grieving for My Master Climbing up to a Thatched Hut on Lingyin and Gazing at Feilai Peak: An Impromptu Poem Yikui Chaochen Five Gathas: Sitting in Meditation (To a Previous Tune) To a Previous Tune Just Before Parting from My Elder Brothers Bidding Farewell to the Lay Dharma-Protectors of Meixi Of My Feelings after Visiting the Nun Weiji from Xiongsheng and Not Finding Her In Hymn: The Honeycomb In Praise of the Venerable Bamboo (To a Previous Tune) On the Fifteenth of the Twelfth Lunar Month After the Snow, Returning Home by Boat I Improvised This Poem Presented to Chan Master Zhuying Inside my Boat on My Return Home to Dongting: An Impromptu Poem Deathbed Gatha Zukui Xuanfu An Ode to Honeybees An Ode to Fireworks Breaking off a Plum Branch to Offer to the Buddha To Myself A Leisurely Visit to an Ancient Temple Returning to the Mountain, I Cross the Lake Returning to the Mountains, I Laugh at Myself A Leisurely Stroll on a Moonlit Night Traveling by Boat on a Winter Day In Search of Plum Blossoms Dharma Instructions for Practitioner Keren Taking up Residence in a Hermitage Living in the Mountains: An Impromptu Poem Reading the Recorded Sayings of Layman Pang Leaving My Old Retreat on Dongting The Moon in the Water: A Gatha My Aspirations Dharma Instructions for Person of the Way Xunji To Layman Zhao Fengchu (second of two verses) The Road is Hard (To the Tune "Immortals by the River") Summer Rest on East Mountain Song of the Twelve Hours of the Day Living in the Mountains: Miscellaneous Gathas Thoughts Baochi Xuanzong Matching the Ten Verses of Chan Master Cishou Huaiyin's "Cloud Dispelling Terrace" Silk-embroidered Peonies Harmonizing with Temple Manager Teacher Shao's "Mastering Yangqi's Primary Strategy": Four Verses Watching the Snow from Nanzhou's Phoenix Rising Tower Dharma Instructions for Person of the Way Liyan Jizong Xingche Living the Nanyue Mountains: Miscellaneous Verses Mist and Clouds Peak Gods and Immortals Grotto Heavenly Terrace Temple Mount Zhong's Great Illumination Temple The Great Yang Spring The Second Month of Autumn: A Parting Poem Enjoying the Snow on New Year's Day My Aspirations Written to Rhymes by the Layman of Zhoukui Hermitage Visiting the Monk of Nanyue on His Sickbed: Two Poems To Chan Elder Dharma Brother Zaisheng on Her Fiftieth Birthday At the Zhixi Cloister on Hidden Lake, Presented to Chan Master Daoming Presented to Layman Xu Jingke Having Borrowed a Meditation Hut from Chan Practitioner Zhubing, I Wrote a Poem to Present to Her A Farewell Poem for Person of the Way Yan Duoli New Year's Eve of the Year Wuxu (1658) Composed for Layman Gu Mengdiao on His Sixtieth Birthday On an Autumn Day, Thinking of My Mother Dharma Instructions to the Lay Assembly: Four Gathas Ziyong Chengru A Bell Shattered After Being Struck and I Was Moved to Compose a Gatha Upon Hearing the Sound of Wood Being Chopped Ode to the Snow Two Verses: Living in the Mountains Thoughts in the Bingzi Year (1696) An Excursion to the Western Hills Gatha: Boarding My Boat Early Autumn Sentiments To My Elder Dharma Brother Ruru Asking Questions of the Masters: Four Gathas A Miscellaneous Chant Walking Through the Rice Paddies, I Casually Composed This Gatha Eight Miscellaneous Gathas (selection of three) Entrusting Head Student Zhi with Robes and Whisk, I Composed This Gatha Mingxiu Seeing Off Relatives, Bowing to My Master, and Taking the Vows My Inscription for a Painting of West Lake Requested While Staying at My Convent in Jingzhou Shuxia In Deep Autumn, Returning to My Hometown; in Sixth Uncle's Garden Pavilion, Standing in Front of the Chrysanthemums To the Tune "Immortal by the River" Composed While on a Boat To the Tune "Bodhisattva Barbarian": A Parting Poem Wuqing Feelings Huiji Reply to Lady Gioro Heseri Lianghai Ru'de Poems of the Pure Land Untitled Verses Written in Imitation of an Ancient Style: The Filial Girl Lu of Pinghu Buddha-Recitation (Selections from a Series of Forty-Eight Poems) Abbreviations Bibliography Index of Sources

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