Classical Language & Literature Books

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41. Classical Myths and Legends in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

    A Dictionary of Allegorical Meanings

    By H. David Brumble

    While numerous classical dictionaries identify the figures and tales of Greek and Roman mythology, this reference book explains the allegorical significance attached to the myths by Medieval and Renaissance authors. Included are several hundred alphabetically arranged entries for the gods,...

    Published January 31st 1998 by Routledge
42. Dangerous Voices

    Women's Laments and Greek Literature

    By Gail Holst-Warhaft

    In Dangerous Voices Holst-Warhaft investigates the power and meaning of the ancient lament, especially women's mourning of the dead, and sets out to discover why legislation was introduced to curb these laments in antiquity. An investigation of laments ranging from New Guinea to Greece suggests...

    Published June 14th 1995 by Routledge
43. Xenophon And The History Of His Times

    By John Dillery

    Xenophon and the History of his Times examines Xenophon's longer historical works, the Hellenica and the Anabasis. Dillery considers how far these texts reflect the Greek intellectual world of the fourth and fifth centuries B.C., rather than focusing on the traditional question of how accurate they...

    Published March 29th 1995 by Routledge
44. Public and Performance in the Greek Theatre

    By Peter D. Arnott

    Peter Arnott discusses Greek drama not as an antiquarian study but as a living art form. He removes the plays from the library and places them firmly in the theatre that gave them being. Invoking the practical realities of stagecraft, he illuminates the literary patterns of the plays, the...

    Published May 29th 1991 by Routledge