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The First Poets: Lives of the Ancient Greek Poets by Michael Schmidt Publisher Comments When Michael Schmidt's last book, Lives of the Poets, was published, Mark Strand called it "a tour de force, an astonishing view of the whole of poetry in English, a superb read." Now Schmidt brings the same erudition, insight, and élan to The... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Interpreting a Classic by Craig A. Gibson Publisher Comments Craig Gibson's Interpreting a Classic, starting from the papyrus fragments of Didymus on Demosthenes' Fourth Philippie, shows just how rewarding such recondite material can be. In Gibson's hands old-fashioned philological Wissenschaft becomes the high... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $53.25 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Compromising Traditions: The Personal Voice in Classical Scholarship by Judith P Hallett Publisher Comments Scholars in modern languages and literatures have enthusiastically embraced the use of the "personal voice," the explicitly autobiographical performance within the act of criticism. However on both sides of the Atlantic, venerable traditions of Classical... (read more) List Price $51.25 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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History of Greek Literature: From Homer to the Hellenistic Period by Albrecht Dihle Publisher Comments Albrecht Dihle presents the most up-to-date history of Greek literature from its Homeric origins to the age of Augustus. Greek literary production throughout this period is embedded in its historical and social context. Dihle sees this literature as an... (read more) List Price $188.50 Your price: $40.00 Used - Hardcover
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Canons of Style in the Antonine Age: Idea-Theory and Its Literary Context (Oxford Classical Monographs) by Ian Rutherford Publisher Comments This is a study of the relationship between Greek prose literature of the Antonine Age in the second century AD (the Second Sophistic) and idea-theory, a type of literary stylistics best known from the Peri Ideon of Hermogenes of Tarsus. The author... (read more) List Price $172.50 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Exchange and the Maiden: Marriage in Sophoclean Tragedy by Kirk Ormand Publisher Comments Marriage is a central concern in five of the seven extant plays of the Greek tragedian Sophocles. In this pathfinding study, Kirk Ormand delves into the ways in which these plays represent and problematize marriage, thus offering insights into how... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $2.25 Used - Trade Paper
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Classical Bearings by Peter Green Publisher Comments In this collection of sixteen literary and historical essays, Peter Green informs, entertains, and stimulates. He covers a wide range of subjects, from Greek attitudes toward death to the mysteries of the Delphic Oracle, from Tutankhamun and the gold of... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $3.48 Used - Trade Paper
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Bonfire of the Humanities: Rescuing the Classics in an Impoverished Age by Victor Davis Hanson Publisher Comments With humor, lucidity, and unflinching rigor, the acclaimed authors of Who Killed Homer? and Plagues of the Mind unsparingly document the degeneration of a central if beleagured discipline -- classics -- and reveal the root causes of its decline. Hanson... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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A History of Greek Literature by Moses Hadas Publisher Comments Carefully surveys the Greek literary experience of fifteen hundred... (read more) Your price: $71.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Novel in Antiquity by Tomas Hagg Publisher Comments Tracing the development of Greek romances from 200 B.C. through twelfth-century Byzantium, Tomas Hägg analyses the content, plot and narrative techniques of the ancient novel, and explores the social and literary milieu in which the genre... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Woman and the Lyre: Women Writers in Classical Greece and Rome (Ad Feminam: Women and Literature) by Jane Mcintos Snyder Publisher Comments "Faint though the voices of the women of Greek and Roman antiquity may be in some cases, their sound, if we listen carefully enough, can fill many of the gaps and silences of women’s past."—from the Conclusion Beginning with Sappho in the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sexual Ambivalence by Luc Brisson Publisher Comments Brisson relates the extant ancient narratives about two-sexed creatures, and discusses the significant roles they played in myth and philosophy.... (read more) List Price $33.75 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Short Introduction to the Ancient Greek Theater by Graham Ley Publisher Comments Contemporary productions on stage and film, and the development of theater studies, have created a new audience for ancient Greek drama. This volume fills the need for a clear, concise statement of what is known about the original conditions of... (read more) List Price $8.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Oxford Readings in Greek Tragedy by Erich Segal Publisher Comments Greek tragedy, the fountainhead of all western drama, is widely read by students in a variety of disciplines. Segal here presents twenty-nine of the finest modern essays on the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. All Greek has been translated... (read more) List Price $77.00 Your price: $27.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Olive-Tree Bed & Other Quests by M Owen Lee Book News Annotation Six lectures that Owen (classics. U. of Toronto) delivered at Victoria College in October 1995. He discusses what he finds beautiful in the Odyssey, the Aeneid, Wagner's Parsifal, Goethe's Faust, and draws obliquely from Don Quixote and Gilgamesh. He... (read more) Your price: $2.75 Used - Hardcover
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Helping Friends & Harming Enemies: A Study in Sophocles & Greek Ethics by Mary Whitl Blundell Publisher Comments This book is the first detailed study of the plays of Sophocles through examination of a single ethical principle--the traditional Greek popular moral code of "helping friends and harming enemies." Five of the extant plays are discussed in detail from... (read more) Your price: $30.00 Used - Hardcover
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The singer of tales by Albert B Lord About the Author Gregory Nagy is Jones Professor of Classical Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University, and the Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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First Poets Lives of the Ancient Greek by Michael Schmidt Synopsis Michael Schmidt traces the lives and works of the great Classical and Biblical poets, showing their legacy in English poetry today... (read more) Your price: $3.48 Used - Hardcover
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Hellenistic poetry by G O Hutchinson Publisher Comments This broad study of the Hellenistic poets of the 3rd century B.C. provides a much needed picture of the poetry of the period while demonstrating its quality and vitality. Hutchinson explores the work of such writers as Theocritus, Callimachus, and... (read more) List Price $79.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Gilbert Murray Reassessed: Hellenism, Theatre, and International Politics by Christopher Stray Publisher Comments This is the first comprehensive account of the life and work of the distinguished scholar and public figure Gilbert Murray (1866-1957). Sixteen contributors survey his childhood, his work in the theatre and in international relations, his Greek... (read more) List Price $65.25 Your price: $18.50 Used - Trade Paper
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