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On Friendship or Laelius
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Paperback - $26.95
18. Now what is the quality to look out for as a warrant for the stability and permanence of friendship? It is loyalty. Nothing that lacks this can be stable. We should also in making our selection look out for simplicity, a social disposition, and a ...
On Old Age
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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What then is the purpose of such a long disquisition on Maximus? It is because you now see that an old age like his cannot conscientiously be called unhappy. Yet it is after all true that everybody cannot be a Scipio or a Maximus, with stormings of c ...
Flesh and Spirt in the Songs of Homer
Michael Clarke
Hardcover - $460.95
This book offers a newly integrated interpretation of Homeric man. The author starts with the working hypothesis that, in this poetry, the human being is not divided into two parts - inner and outer; body and soul; flesh and spirit - but stands as an ...
de Raptu Prosperpinae
Claudian
Hardcover - $626.95
Claudian was one of the last great Latin poets of the classical tradition, writing in the fourth century A.D. This simplified text of his poem, De Raptu Prosperpinae, has a facing-page translation to make the work more accessible to non-specialists. ...
The Politics of Olympus : Form and Meaning in the Major Homeric Hymns
Jenny Strauss Clay
Paperback - $60.95
'This important and ground-breaking book provides a systematic and convincing reading of these four fascinating poems as a group, and in relation to the epics of Homer and the Theogony of Hesiod. Clay's expert and highly original analysis of the poem ...
The Exhortation to the Greeks. the Rich Man's Salvation. to the Newly Baptized (Fragment)
Clement of Alexandria
Hardcover - $52.95
Clement of Alexandria, famous Father of the Church, is known chiefly from his own works. He was born, perhaps at Athens, about AD 150, son of non-Christian parents; he converted to Christianity probably in early manhood. He became a presbyter in the ...
Inventing the Barbarian : Greek Self-Definition Through Tragedy
Nancy Coffelt
Paperback - $222.95
Incest, polygamy, murder, sacrilege, impalement, castration, female power, and despotism are some of the images used by Athenian tragedians to define the non-Greek, "barbarian" world. This book explains for the first time the reasons behind their sin ...
The Distaff Side : Representing the Female in Homer's Odyssey
Beth Cohen
Paperback - $113.95
Feminine in orientation, but not narrowly feminist in approach, this interdisciplinary work on the Odyssey's female characters will have a broad audience among scholars and students working in classical studies, iconography and art history, women's s ...
Dialect in Aristophanes : The Politics of Language in Ancient Greek Literature
Stephen Colvin
Hardcover - $411.95
Did the Greeks find it amusing, irritating, or threatening when they heard another Greek speaking in a different dialect? This book exploits the evidence of ancient Greek comedy in an attempt to answer some of the questions about ancient language att ...
