Greece! Rome! Monsters!: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: Everybody's heard of a centaur, but not everyone has seen a blue centaur dressed to head out to a disco! He's one of the updated mythological creatures who populate Greece! Rome! Monsters!. This book presents twenty creepy creatures--from harpies to Medusa ... Details...

Greek Fictional Letters: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: This book explores a relatively unfamiliar and under-appreciated area of Greek literature: imaginary letters written between about 100 BC and 500 AD. Many of them are light-hearted and funny, and describe the lives of ordinary people--fisherman, farmers, co... Details...

Greek Fictional Letters: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: This book explores a relatively unfamiliar and under-appreciated area of Greek literature: imaginary letters written between about 100 BC and 500 AD. Many of them are light-hearted and funny, and describe the lives of ordinary people--fisherman, farmers, co... Details...

Greek Forms of Address: From Herodotus to Lucian (Oxford Classical Monographs): (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: How did an Athenian citizen address his wife, his children, his dog? How did they address him? The only evidence we have is in the form of written texts, but how close are these to spoken ancient Greek? Based on a corpus of 11,891 vocatives from 25 authors,... Details...

Greek Historiography: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: The ancient Greek achievement in the writing of history set the standard for all time. The nature of that achievement, though, looks increasingly problematic in the light of recent work on such topics as literacy, morality, rhetoric, narrative technique, an... Details...

Greek Law in Its Political Setting: Justifications Not Justice: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: This volume explores the ways in which law integrated with other aspects of life in ancient Greece. The papers collected here reveal a number of different pathways between legal and political, social, and economic life in Greek societies. Grounded in severa... Details...

Greek Literature and the Roman Empire: The Politics of Imitation: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: Greek Literature and the Roman Empire use up-to-date literary and cultural theory to explore the phenomenal rise of interest in literary writing in Greece under the Roman Empire. Greek identity cannot be properly understood without appreciating the brillian... Details...

Greek Literature and the Roman Empire: The Politics of Imitation: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: Greek Literature and the Roman Empire uses up-to-date literary and cultural theory to make a major and original contribution to the appreciation of Greek literature written under the Roman Empire during the second century CE (the so-called 'Second Sophistic... Details...

Greek Mythography in the Roman World (American Philological Association American Classical Studies): (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: By the Roman age the traditional stories of Greek myth had long since ceased to reflect popular culture. Mythology had become instead a central element in elite culture. If one did not know the stories one would not understand most of the allusions in the p... Details...

Greek Religion and Society: (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: This collection of essays considers many aspects of Greek civil life and reveals how religion manifested itself in institutions, art and literature. Clarifies the more puzzling and elusive elements by tracing the attitudes that lay behind the manifold cults... Details...