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1	Greek Way more books like this by Edith Hamilton add to wishlist The aim of this work is not a history of events but an account of the achievement and spirit of Greece. Edith Hamilton is also the author of "The Roman Way". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Trojan War more books like this by Bernard Evslin add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.17! \| first editions \| SVS
3	A History of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus Christ more books like this by Emil Schurer add to wishlist This classic work includes extensive essays on the Roman political system and its leaders, the political and religious parties of Judaism, messianic movements, and pertinent Greek and Jewish literature?including the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha?from the centuries before and after Christ. This five-volume set is the original edition of Schurer?s ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $15.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Craft of Poetic Speech in Ancient Greece more books like this by Claude Calame add to wishlist In this subtle, learned, and daring book, Claude Calame challenges his readers to rethink the very principles of mythmaking in the poetry and art of the ancient Greeks. The Craft of Poetic Speech in Ancient Greece subverts common assumptions about the relationships between poet and audience and challenges readers to rethink the very principles of ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $6.95! \| first editions
5	The Oldest Dead White European Males and Other Reflections on the Classics: And Other Reflections on the Classics more books like this by Bernard MacGregor Walke Knox add to wishlist Should the ancient Greeks - "the oldest dead white European males" - and their legacy have any relevance to the way we live now? So much of what the ancients were and did may now appear positively racist and sexist in this era of multiculturalism. Yet for all their flaws, the Greeks gave us Homer Sappho, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles and Thucydides, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.77! \| first editions
6	Greek Classics more books like this by Mary Ellen Snodgrass add to wishlist This sweeping survey of ancient Greek culture covers the greatest works of Greek poets, dramatists, philosophers, writers, and historians. These writings are the foundation of the way we think and act and are important to the student of the human condition. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.39! \| SVS
7	A History of Greek Literature: From Homer to the Hellenistic Period more books like this by Albrecht Dihle, Dihle Albrecht add to wishlist The most up-to-date history of Greek literature from its Homeric origins to the age of Augustus. Greek literary production throughout this period of some eight centuries is embedded in its historical and social context, and Professor Dihle sees this literature as a historical phenomenon, a particular mode of linguistic communication, with its ... see all copies from $48.50! new only from $145.08! \| first editions \| SVS
8	7 Greeks: Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman, Anakreon, Herakleitos, Diogenes, Herondas more books like this by Professor Guy Davenport (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $5.50! new only from $10.57! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Poiesis; structure and thought more books like this by H. D. F. Kitto add to wishlist see all copies from $14.50!
10	Ancient Greek Literature more books like this by K J Dover (Editor), E L Bowie (Editor), Jasper Griffin (Editor) add to wishlist This historical survey of Greek literature from 700 BC to 550 AD 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, including Homer, Plato, Aristophanes, and Euripides. Attention is drawn both to the elements in Greek literature and attitudes ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $19.99! \| SVS
11	Thinker as Artist: From Homer to Plato & Aristotle more books like this by Professor George Anastaplo add to wishlist In an attempt to subject representative texts of a dozen ancient authors to a more or less Socratic inquiry, the noted scholar George Anastaplo suggests in The Thinker as Artist how one might usefully read as well as enjoy such texts, which illustrate the thinking done by the greatest artists and how they "talk" among themselves across the ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $30.95!
12	Aristotle, XXIII, Poetics. Longinus: On the Sublime. Demetrius: On Style more books like this by Aristotle, Longinus, Demetrius add to wishlist This volume brings together the three most influential ancient Greek treatises on literature. Aristotle's "Poetics" contains his treatment of Greek tragedy: its history, nature, and conventions, with details on poetic diction. Stephen Halliwell makes this seminal work newly accessible with a reliable text and a translation that is both accurate ... see all copies from $14.95! new only from $24.89! \| SVS
13	Greek Textual Criticism: A Reader more books like this by Robert Renehan add to wishlist see all copies from $40.00! first editions
14	The Portable Greek Reader more books like this by W. H. Auden add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.94! \| first editions \| SVS
15	Ancient Greek Literature and Society more books like this by Charles Rowan Beye add to wishlist see all copies from $2.28! new only from $3.79! \| first editions
16	Folk Tale, Fiction and Saga in the Homeric Epics more books like this by Rhys Carpenter add to wishlist see all copies from $6.50! first editions
17 view cover	Language & Thought in Early Greek Philosophy more books like this by Kevin Robb (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $39.90!
18	Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth: Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece more books like this by Peter W Rose add to wishlist In this ambitious and venturesome book, Peter W. Rose applies the insights of Marxist theory to a number of central Greek literary and philosophical texts. He explores major points in the trajectory from Homer to Plato where the ideology of inherited excellence-beliefs about descent from gods or heroes-is elaborated and challenged. Rose offers ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.70! \| first editions
19	The Mission of Greece: Some Greek Views of Life in the Roman World more books like this by Richard W. Livingstone (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $7.95! first editions
20 view cover	Poet, Public, and Performance in Ancient Greece more books like this by Professor Lowell Edmunds (Editor), Professor Robert W Wallace (Editor) add to wishlist Poetry in archaic and classical Greece was a practical art that arose from specific social or political circumstances. The interpretation of a poem or dramatic work must therefore be viewed in the context of its performance. In this volume, Lowell Edmunds and Robert W. Wallace bring together a group of contributors to reconstruct the performance ... see all copies from $10.39! new only from $23.88! \| SVS
21	Early Greek Poetry and Philosophy: A History of Greek Epic, Lyric, and Prose to the Middle of the Fifth Century more books like this by Hermann Ferdinand Frankel add to wishlist see all copies from $20.91!
22 view cover	Writing and the Origins of Greek Literature more books like this by Barry B Powell add to wishlist Professor Powell ties the origin and nature of archaic Greek literature to the special technology of Greek alphabetic writing. In building his model he presents chapters on specialized topics - text, orality, myth, literacy, tradition and memorization - and then shows how such special topics relate to larger issues of cultural transmission from ... see all copies from $30.40! new only from $42.53! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	H. D. and Hellenism: Classic Lines more books like this by Eileen Gregory add to wishlist H. D. and Hellenism: Classic Lines concerns a prominent aspect of the writing of the modern American poet H. D. (Hilda Doolittle): a lifelong engagement with hellenic literature, mythology and art. H. D.'s hellenic intertextuality is examined in the context of classical fictions operative at the turn of the century: the war of words among literary ... see all copies from $25.00! new only from $31.70! \| first editions \| SVS
24	The Poetics of Old Age in Greek Epic Lyric and Tragedy more books like this by Thomas M Falkner add to wishlist A striking feature of ancient Greek literature is its preoccupation with old age. Yet scholars have been slow to explore the subject, a possible reflection of the ageism that characterizes both ancient Greece and our times. This groundbreaking study by Thomas M. Falkner remedies the oversight by providing the most extensive treatment of old age in ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $4.98! \| first editions
25 view cover	Oldest Dead White European Males: And Other Reflections on the Classics more books like this by Bernard MacGregor Walke Knox add to wishlist Should the ancient Greeks - "the oldest dead white European males" - and their legacy have any relevance to the way we live now? So much of what the ancients were and did may now appear positively racist and sexist in this era of multiculturalism. Yet for all their flaws, the Greeks gave us Homer Sappho, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles and Thucydides, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.20! \| first editions \| SVS

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