Rowman & Littlefield

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Rowman and Littlefield | Becoming Achilles: Child-sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the lliad and Beyond

Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches Foreword by Gregory Nagy, General Editor Becoming Achilles: Child-Sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the Iliad and Beyond, by Richard Holway, applies perspectives learned from the discipline of psychology to the figure of Achilles in the Homeric Iliad. His reading transcends not only the conventional views of Achilles that are current in our time but even the conventions… Read more

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Rowman and Littlefield | Becoming Achilles: Child-sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the lliad and Beyond

Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches Foreword by Gregory Nagy, General Editor Becoming Achilles: Child-Sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the Iliad and Beyond, by Richard Holway, applies perspectives learned from the discipline of psychology to the figure of Achilles in the Homeric Iliad. His reading transcends not only the conventional views of Achilles that are current in our time but even the conventions… Read more

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Rowman and Littlefield | Nine Essays on Homer, edited by Miriam Carlisle and Olga Levaniouk

Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches Foreword by Gregory Nagy, General Editor Nine Essays on Homer, edited by Miriam Carlisle and Olga Levaniouk, is a volume that evolved out of a 1997 Homer Seminar in Harvard University’s Classics Department. That year, the seminar was conducted jointly by Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermeule and myself, and it was attended regularly by Charles Segal (traces of whose helpful advice are evident… Read more

Publications

Rowman and Littlefield | Nine Essays on Homer, edited by Miriam Carlisle and Olga Levaniouk

Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches Foreword by Gregory Nagy, General Editor Nine Essays on Homer, edited by Miriam Carlisle and Olga Levaniouk, is a volume that evolved out of a 1997 Homer Seminar in Harvard University’s Classics Department. That year, the seminar was conducted jointly by Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermeule and myself, and it was attended regularly by Charles Segal (traces of whose helpful advice are evident… Read more

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Rowman and Littlefield | The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition­, by Margaret Alexiou

Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches Foreword by Gregory Nagy, General Editor The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition­, by Margaret Alexiou, was originally published in 1974 by Cambridge University Press. For over a quarter of a century, this pathfinding book has been consistently consulted and cited as the most authoritative work on the tradition of singing laments in the prehistory and history of… Read more

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Rowman and Littlefield | The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition­, by Margaret Alexiou

Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches Foreword by Gregory Nagy, General Editor The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition­, by Margaret Alexiou, was originally published in 1974 by Cambridge University Press. For over a quarter of a century, this pathfinding book has been consistently consulted and cited as the most authoritative work on the tradition of singing laments in the prehistory and history of… Read more