H. I. Marrou's A History of Education in Antiquity has been an invaluable contribution in the fields of classical studies and history ever since its original publication in French in 1948. French historian H. I. Marrou traces the roots of classical education, from the warrior cultures of Homer, to the increasing importance of rhetoric and philosophy, to the adaptation of Hellenistic ideals within the Roman education system, and ending with the rise of Christian schools and churches in the early medieval period. Marrou shows how education, once formed as a way to train young warriors,...
H. I. Marrou's A History of Education in Antiquity has been an invaluable contribution in the fields of classical studies and history ever sinc...
"Roman Cities" combines G. Michael Woloch's translation of Les villes romaines, Pierre Grimal's noted French work on Roman city planning, archeology, and urban history, with Woloch's additional notes and descriptions of the cities mentioned by Grimal, as well as other important Roman cities. The book provides a brief history and description of more than a hundred Roman cities, an extensive master bibliography, and a comprehensive glossary. "Roman Cities" will interest both scholars and students of Roman history and archeology, city planning, urban geography, and the social sciences. The...
"Roman Cities" combines G. Michael Woloch's translation of Les villes romaines, Pierre Grimal's noted French work on Roman city planning, archeology, ...
The festivals of the Athenian sacred calendar constitute a vital key to classical Greek culture and religion. Erika Simon marshals evidence from literary, historical and archaeological sources to offer a comprehensive classification of the origins and meanings of the Attic cults.
The festivals of the Athenian sacred calendar constitute a vital key to classical Greek culture and religion. Erika Simon marshals evidence from liter...
In John Kevin Newman's revisionist critique, the literary epic and critical theories about the epic tradition are traced from Aristotle and Callimachus through Apollonius, Virgil and their successors such as Chaucer and Milton to Eisenstein, Tolstoy and Thomas Mann.
In John Kevin Newman's revisionist critique, the literary epic and critical theories about the epic tradition are traced from Aristotle and Callimachu...
"The most extensive scholarship to appear on this Greek dramatist in many years, Michelini's work will be important to specialists and students of classical literature, literary theory, and both English and comparative literature."--"Modern Greek Studies"
"The most extensive scholarship to appear on this Greek dramatist in many years, Michelini's work will be important to specialists and students of cla...
"Fowler's . . . own insights are apparent throughout, and they seem to distill the personal appreciation and understanding of a scholar who has devoted much of her career to both contemplating and enjoying Hellenistic poetry. . . . This book] would make an excellent background text for courses in later Greek and Roman art, and it can be read with profit by anyone interested in exploring the character of Hellenistic culture."-J. J. Pollitt, American Journal of Archaeology
"Outstanding is the range of examples discussed both in poetry and art. Theocritus, Callimachus,...
"Fowler's . . . own insights are apparent throughout, and they seem to distill the personal appreciation and understanding of a scholar who has dev...
An accomplished poet and classical scholar, Barbara Hughes Fowler brings Hellenistic poetry to life for the contemporary reader. Her selections engage us with the full range of Hellenistic poetic genres, styles, themes, and moods. The anthology includes Fowler's new translation of the entire Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes, and eight of Theocritus' Idylls, including the beautiful, sensuous description of late summer in Idyll VII and the shrewdly comical description of two young matrons venturing into the noisy streets of Alexandria in Idyll XV. There are...
An accomplished poet and classical scholar, Barbara Hughes Fowler brings Hellenistic poetry to life for the contemporary reader. Her selections eng...
Rudolf Blum argues that Kallimachos of Kyrene was not only the second director of the Alexandrian library but also the inventor of two essential scholarly tools in use to this day: the library catalogue & the biobibliographical reference work.
Rudolf Blum argues that Kallimachos of Kyrene was not only the second director of the Alexandrian library but also the inventor of two essential schol...
Using material remains, as well as the evidence of contemporary Greek history, rhetoric, and poetry, David Castriota interprets the Athenian monuments as vehicles of an official ideology intended to celebrate and justify the present in terms of the past.
Castriota focuses on the strategy of ethical antithesis that asserted Greek moral superiority over the barbaric Persians, whose invasion had been repelled a generation earlier. He examines how, in major public programs of painting and sculpture, the leading artists of the period recast the Persians in the guise of wild and...
Using material remains, as well as the evidence of contemporary Greek history, rhetoric, and poetry, David Castriota interprets the Athenian monume...
With this anthology, Barbara Hughes Fowler presents the most comprehensive selection of Greek poetry of the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. ever published in English. Fowler s brilliant translations provide access to six Homeric Hymns, eight selections from Bakchylides, twelve odes of Pindar, selections from the iambicists and elegists, virtually all of Archilochos and of the surviving lyricists, including Sappho, and a number of anonymous poems about work, play, and politics. Archaic poets delighted in all that was radiant and delicate, and their poems should be read for their narrative...
With this anthology, Barbara Hughes Fowler presents the most comprehensive selection of Greek poetry of the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. ever publ...
