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Abusive Mouths In Classical Athens

Product Description: This study of the language of insult charts abuse in classical Athenian literature that centres on the mouth and its appetites, especially talking, eating, drinking, and sexual activities. Attic comedy, Platonic dialogue, and fourth-century oratory often deploy insulting depictions of the mouth and its excesses in order to deride professional speakers as sophists, demagogues, and women...read more

By Nancy Worman

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9780521857871 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 30, 2008, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: This study of the language of insult charts abuse in classical Athenian literature that centres on the mouth and its appetites, especially talking, eating, drinking, and sexual activities.

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9780521182560 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 17, 2011, cover price $54.99 | About this edition: This study of the language of insult charts abuse in classical Athenian literature that centres on the mouth and its appetites, especially talking, eating, drinking, and sexual activities.

The Aesthetics of Darkness: A Study of Hellenistic Romanticism in Apollonius, Lycophron and Nicander

By Evina Sistakou

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9789042926547 | Peeters Bvba, October 4, 2012, cover price $79.00

Aidos: The Psychology and Ethics of Honour and Shame in Ancient Greek Literature

By Douglas L. Cairns

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9780198146841 | Clarendon Pr, February 11, 1993, cover price $220.00

Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece

Product Description: Ancestral fault is a core idea of Greek literature. 'The guiltless will pay for the deeds later: either the man's children, or his descendants thereafter', said Solon in the sixth century BC, a statement echoed throughout the rest of antiquity...read more

By Renaud Gagne

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9781107039803 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 27, 2014, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: Ancestral fault is a core idea of Greek literature.

Ancient Epistolary Fictions: The Letter in Greek Literature

Product Description: This book offers the first comprehensive look at the use of imaginary letters in Greek literature from Homer to Philostratus. By imaginary letters, it means letters written in the voice of another, and either inserted into a narrative (epic, historiography, tragedy, the novel), or comprising a free-standing collection (e...read more

By Patricia A. Rosenmeyer

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9780521800044 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 2001, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: This book offers the first comprehensive look at the use of imaginary letters in Greek literature from Homer to Philostratus.

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9780521028943 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, November 2, 2006), cover price $54.99 | About this edition: This book offers the first comprehensive look at the use of imaginary letters in Greek literature from Homer to Philostratus.

Ancient Greek Dialects and Early Authors: Introduction to the Dialect Mixture in Homer, with Notes on Lyric and Herodotus

Product Description: This volume provides linguistic background to the ancient authors and commentary on both epigraphic and literary dialect texts. By means of dialectally and chronologically arranged texts, translated and provided with running commentary, Gary Miller compares early authors against epigraphic records to facilitate an understanding of Homer, choral lyric, and authors from different dialect areas...read more

By D. Gary Miller

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9781614514930 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, July 30, 2014, cover price $196.00 | About this edition: This volume provides linguistic background to the ancient authors and commentary on both epigraphic and literary dialect texts.

The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours

By Gregory Nagy

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9780674073401 | 1 edition (Belknap Pr, July 15, 2013), cover price $37.00

Ancient Greek Literature

Product Description: K.J. Dover and three other classical scholars have collaborated in writing this new historical survey of Greek literature from 700 B.C. to 550 A.D. The book concentrates on the principal authors and quotes many passages from their work in translation, to allow the reader to form his own impression of its quality...read more

By Kenneth Dover

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9780192191373 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 9, 1980, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: K.

Ancient Greek Literature

Surveys classical Greek poetry, drama, and prose from Homer to Lucian and Procopius

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9780192891242 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 19, 1980, cover price $17.95 | also contains Implementing a National Export Strategy | About this edition: Surveys classical Greek poetry, drama, and prose from Homer to Lucian and Procopius

Ancient Greek Literature

Product Description: This historical survey covers the period from 700 BC to AD 550, tracing the development of Greek literature by concentrating on the works of the principal authors of each period--including Homer, Plato, Aristophanes, and Euripides--and illustrating general points with passages from their work in translation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By E. L. Bowie (editor), K. J. Dover (editor), Jasper Griffin (editor) and M. L. West (editor)

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9780192892942 | 2 sub edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, December 18, 1997), cover price $59.95 | About this edition: This historical survey covers the period from 700 BC to AD 550, tracing the development of Greek literature by concentrating on the works of the principal authors of each period--including Homer, Plato, Aristophanes, and Euripides--and illustrating general points with passages from their work in translation.

Ancient Greek Literature

Product Description: In this book, Tim Whitmarsh offers an innovative new introduction to ancient Greek literature. The volume integrates cutting-edge cultural theory with the latest research in classical scholarship, providing a comprehensive, sophisticated and accessible account of literature from Homer to late antiquity...read more

By Tim Whitmarsh

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9780745627915 | Polity Pr, August 13, 2004, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: In this book, Tim Whitmarsh offers an innovative new introduction to ancient Greek literature.

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9780745627922 | Polity Pr, August 13, 2004, cover price $29.95

Ancient Greek Literature and Society

Product Description: Book by Beye, Charles Rowan

By Charles Rowan Beye

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9780801418747 | 2 rev sub edition (Cornell Univ Pr, June 1, 1987), cover price $60.00

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9780801494444 | 2 revised edition (Cornell Univ Pr, August 1, 1987), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Book by Beye, Charles Rowan

Ancient Obscenities: Their Nature and Use in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds

By Ann Suter (editor)

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9780472119646 | Univ of Michigan Pr, November 18, 2015, cover price $90.00

The Antiatticist: Introduction and Critical Edition

Product Description: The so-called Antiatticista is a Greek Atticistic lexicon (2nd cent. CE), rich in quotations from classical writers, many from works now lost. The author approved a broader idea of Attic language in contrast to the most rigorous Atticists...read more

By Stefano Valente

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9783110401479 | Critical edition (Walter De Gruyter Inc, September 25, 2015), cover price $140.00 | About this edition: The so-called Antiatticista is a Greek Atticistic lexicon (2nd cent.

The Argument of the Action: Essays on Greek Poetry and Philosophy

Product Description: This volume brings together Seth Benardete's studies of Hesiod's Theogony, Homer's Iliad, and Greek tragedy, of eleven Platonic dialogues, and Aristotle's Metaphysics. These essays, some never before published, others difficult to find, span four decades of his work and document its impressive range...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Seth Benardete, Ronna Burger (editor) and Michael Davis (editor)

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9780226042510 | Univ of Chicago Pr, August 15, 2000, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: This volume brings together Seth Benardete's studies of Hesiod's Theogony, Homer's Iliad, and Greek tragedy, of eleven Platonic dialogues, and Aristotle's Metaphysics.

Aristotle's Psychology of Signification: A Commentary on De Interpretatione 16a 3-18

Product Description: This book reconstructs the theory of signification implicit in Aristotle's De Interpretatione and its psychological background in hisDe Anima. The study develops in three steps that correspond to the three elements involved in every notion of signification: (1) the phonetic element or significans, called phone by Aristotle, (2) the significatum, i...read more

By Simon Noriega-olmos

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9783110287653 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, November 30, 2012, cover price $126.00 | About this edition: This book reconstructs the theory of signification implicit in Aristotle's De Interpretatione and its psychological background in hisDe Anima.

Arktouros: Hellenic Studies Presented to Bernard M.W. Knox on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday

By G. W. Bowersock, Walter Burkert (editor), Bernard MacGregor Walker Knox (editor) and Michael C. J. Putnam (editor)

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9783110077988 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, June 1, 1979, cover price $266.00

Athens: A University City

Product Description: The citizens of ancient Athens were directly responsible for the development and power of its democracy; but how did they learn about politics and what their roles were within it? In this volume Livingstone argues that learning about political praxis (how to be a citizen) was an integral part of the everyday life of ancient Athenians...read more

By Nia Livingstone

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9780415212960 | Routledge, July 29, 2016, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: The citizens of ancient Athens were directly responsible for the development and power of its democracy; but how did they learn about politics and what their roles were within it?

The Author's Voice in Classical and Late Antiquity

By Jonathan Hill (editor)

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9780199670567 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 15, 2013, cover price $185.00

Authorship and Cultural Identity in Early Greece and China: Patterns of Literary Circulation

Product Description: In this book, Alexander Beecroft explores how the earliest poetry in Greece (Homeric epic and lyric) and China (the Canon of Songs) evolved from being local, oral, and anonymous to being textualized, interpreted, and circulated over increasingly wider areas...read more

By Alexander Beecroft

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9780521194310 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 25, 2010), cover price $99.99

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9781107435483 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 21, 2014, cover price $44.99 | About this edition: In this book, Alexander Beecroft explores how the earliest poetry in Greece (Homeric epic and lyric) and China (the Canon of Songs) evolved from being local, oral, and anonymous to being textualized, interpreted, and circulated over increasingly wider areas.

Belted Heroes and Bound Women: The Myth of the Homeric Warrior-King

Product Description: This clearly written, beautifully illustrated book introduces a previously unrecognized Homeric theme, the "belted hero," and argues for its lasting historical, literary, and archaeological significance. The belted hero fuses king, warrior, charioteer, and athlete into a supreme image of political power...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Michael J. Bennett

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9780822630609 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, May 1, 1997, cover price $81.50 | About this edition: This clearly written, beautifully illustrated book introduces a previously unrecognized Homeric theme, the "belted hero," and argues for its lasting historical, literary, and archaeological significance.

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9780822630616, titled "Belted Heroes and Bound Women: The Myth of the Homeric Warrior King" | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, May 1, 1997, cover price $44.00

Between Ecstasy and Truth: Interpretations of Greek Poetics from Homer to Longinus

Product Description: As well as producing one of the finest of all poetic traditions, ancient Greek culture produced a major tradition of poetic theory and criticism. Halliwell's volume offers a series of detailed and challenging interpretations of some of the defining authors and texts in the history of ancient Greek poetics: the Homeric epics, Aristophanes' Frogs, Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Poetics, Gorgias's Helen, Isocrates' treatises, Philodemus' On Poems, and Longinus' On the Sublime...read more

By Stephen Halliwell

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9780199570560 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, February 20, 2012, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: As well as producing one of the finest of all poetic traditions, ancient Greek culture produced a major tradition of poetic theory and criticism.

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9780198707011 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, September 9, 2015), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: As well as producing one of the finest of all poetic traditions, ancient Greek culture produced a major tradition of poetic theory and criticism.

The Bookfinder 4: When Kids Need Books : Annotation of Books Published 1983 Through 1986

By Sharon Spredemann Dreyer

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9780913476512 | Ags Pub, August 1, 1989, cover price $44.95

The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Greek Literature

By P. E. Easterling (editor)

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9780521210423 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 1985, cover price $241.99

The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Part 1, Early Greek Poetry

By P. E. Easterling and Bernard MacGregor Walker Knox (editor)

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9780521359818 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 1989), cover price $59.99

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