Assembled here for the first time in the English language, is a selection from the whole spectrum of erotic poetry from ancient Greece and Rome, from Sappho through Ovid. Recreating in English the full range of styles and tones present in the original Greek and Latin, the translators capture the gamut of amorous situations portrayed in these poems ...
Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This question is examined in Walter Burkert's famous study.
We often think of classical Greek society as a model of rationality and order. Yet as Walter Burkert demonstrates in these essays on the history of Greek religion, there were archaic, savage forces surging beneath the outwardly calm face of classical Greece, whose potentially violent and destructive energies, Burkert argues, were harnessed to ...
Assembled here for the first time in the English language, is the whole spectrum of erotic poetry from ancient Greece and Rome, from Sappho through Ovid. Attempting to recreate in English the full range of styles and tones present in the original Greek and Latin, the translators aim to capture gamut of amorous situations portrayed in these poems. ...
Important research in recent decades, along with the publication of "P.Mil.Vogl. VIII 309" ("the Milan Posidippus papyrus") in 2001, have reinvigorated the study of Hellenistic epigram. Yet, scholarship on this genre often remains fragmented according to disciplinary sub-specialty and approach: some scholars focus on poets of Meleager's "Garland", ...
'Tradition and originality, the interplay of present and past, are a concern of poets in any age'. Peter Bing's seminal monograph, "The Well-Read Muse: Past and Present in Callimachus and the Hellenistic Poets", chases this idea through the thickets of Hellenistic poetry and particularly among the lines of Callimachus' "Hymn to Delos". In this ...
While people of previous ages relied on public performance as their chief means of experiencing poetry, the Hellenistic age developed what one may term a culture of reading. This was the first era in which poets consciously shaped their works with an eye toward publication and reception not just on the civic stage, but in several media - in ...
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