Aristophanes: Lysistrata
By Aristophanes, translated, with introduction, notes, and commentaries, by Sarah Ruden Abstract: This rollicking new translation of Aristophanes’ comic masterpiece is rendered in blank verse for dialogue and in lyric…
By Aristophanes, translated, with introduction, notes, and commentaries, by Sarah Ruden Abstract: This rollicking new translation of Aristophanes’ comic masterpiece is rendered in blank verse for dialogue and in lyric…
By Sappho, translated and with an introduction by Josephine Balmer Abstract: This second, expanded edition of Josephine Balmer’s classic translation of the Greek poet Sappho has new, recently-discovered fragments,…
By Lilah Grace Canevaro Abstract: This book argues that the structure of Hesiod’s Works and Days and the modes of reading the poem which it encourages reflect the interplay between self-sufficiency – Hesiod2019s Iron…
By Ilaria Andolfi Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the origins of early Greek mythography, exemplarily represented by Hecataeus of Miletus and Acusilaus of Argos. The paucity of verbatim quotations…
By Sonya Nevin Abstract: The animation depicts key aspects of the hoplite experience: training, sacrifice and departing, the build up to battle, battle, and the aftermath of battle. Posted by Panoply Vase Animation…
By Grace Starry West Abstract: This article considers how Virgil uses Andromache to characterise and contrast Dido. Article in The American Journal of Philology Vol. 104, No. 3, p257-267. The Johns Hopkins University…
by Yiqun Zhou Abstract: Ancient China and Greece are two classical civilisations that have exerted far-reaching influence in numerous areas of human experience and are often invoked as the paradigms in East-West…
Abstract: A history podcast that covers the period of Eurasian and North African History known as the Hellenistic Age, which roughly stretches from the death of Alexander the Great to the Battle of Actium (~336 – 30…
By Sara Forsdyke Abstract: Most studies of ancient Greek politics focus on formal institutions such as the political assembly and the law courts, and overlook the role that informal social practices played in the…
By Virginia J. Hunter Abstract: From household gossip to public beatings, this social history explores the many channels through which Athenian maintained public order. Virginia Hunter draws mostly on Attic court…