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Rowman and Littlefield | Nothing Is as It Seems: The Tragedy of the Implicit in Euripides’ Hippolytus

Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches Foreword by Gregory Nagy, General Editor Nothing Is as It Seems: The Tragedy of the Implicit in Euripides’ Hippolytus, by Hanna M. Roisman, is an insightful re-examination of a Classical masterpiece from the standpoint of drama as drama. In her reading of Euripides, the author of this book engages her own experience as a lifelong theater-goer and as a perceptive reader… Read more

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Read Online! | Literary History in the Parian Marble, by Andrea Rotstein

Andrea Rotstein’s Literary History in the Parian Marble, the 68th installment of the Hellenic Studies Series, is now available to read online on the CHS website. On the Parian Marble as Literary History Literary history is very prominent in the Parian Marble, as has long been noted. However, its uniqueness in this respect among ancient chronographic material has not been fully appreciated. Literary history is entirely… Read more

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Read Online! | Literary History in the Parian Marble, by Andrea Rotstein

Andrea Rotstein’s Literary History in the Parian Marble, the 68th installment of the Hellenic Studies Series, is now available to read online on the CHS website. On the Parian Marble as Literary History Literary history is very prominent in the Parian Marble, as has long been noted. However, its uniqueness in this respect among ancient chronographic material has not been fully appreciated. Literary history is entirely… Read more

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Rowman and Littlefield | Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece

Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches Foreword by Gregory Nagy, General Editor Les choeurs de jeunes filles en Grèce archaïque, by Claude Calame, was originally published in 1977. Over the succeeding years, it gradually became recognized as a major breakthrough in the study of ancient Greek society and literature. It awakened the world of Classical scholarship to something of central importance in the cultural life of ancient Greece. This is… Read more

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Rowman and Littlefield | Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece

Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches Foreword by Gregory Nagy, General Editor Les choeurs de jeunes filles en Grèce archaïque, by Claude Calame, was originally published in 1977. Over the succeeding years, it gradually became recognized as a major breakthrough in the study of ancient Greek society and literature. It awakened the world of Classical scholarship to something of central importance in the cultural life of ancient Greece. This is… Read more

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Read Online! | Homeric Nēpios, by Susan Edmunds

The CHS team is pleased to share the online publication of Homeric Nēpios, by Susan Edmunds on the CHS website. Susan Edmunds’ thesis is a word study on the Homeric use of nēpios. Nēpios has often been translated as “child, infant, childish” or even “blind,” in part because some scholars thought it was from the negative nē– and Greek epos (“word, speech”), thus semantically equivalent to Latin infans. But Edmunds shows that nēpios really points toward a… Read more

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Read Online! | Homeric Nēpios, by Susan Edmunds

The CHS team is pleased to share the online publication of Homeric Nēpios, by Susan Edmunds on the CHS website. Susan Edmunds’ thesis is a word study on the Homeric use of nēpios. Nēpios has often been translated as “child, infant, childish” or even “blind,” in part because some scholars thought it was from the negative nē– and Greek epos (“word, speech”), thus semantically equivalent to Latin infans. But Edmunds shows that nēpios really points toward a kind… Read more

News, Publications

Library: New Books, July 2016

Read these new titles at the CHS Library in Washington, DC: E-books Reimer, David. Count like an Egyptian : a hands-on introduction to ancient mathematics, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, [2014] The Routledge handbook of the Stoic tradition, New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016 Rüpke, Jörg. Religious deviance in the Roman world : superstition or individuality?, Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016… Read more