Editor: Laura McClure This volume provides essays that represent a range of perspectives on women, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, tracing the debates from the late 1960s to the late 1990s. View publisher’s …
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Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World
Editors: Christopher A. Faraone and Laura McClure Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World explores the implications of sex-for-pay across a broad span of time, from ancient Mesopotamia to the early Christian period. In ancient times, …
A Companion to Euripides
Editor: Laura McClure A Companion to Euripides is an up-to-date, centralized assessment of Euripides and his work, drawing from the most recently published texts, commentaries, and scholarship, and offering detailed discussions and provocative interpretations of his …
Epigraphy, Philology, and the Hebrew Bible
Editors: Jeremy Hutton and Aaron D. Rubin Colleagues and former students honor Professor Jo Ann Hackett in this collection of essays focused on her interests in Northwest Semitic languages, epigraphy, and Canaanite religions of the …
Levites and Priests in Biblical History and Tradition
Editors: Mark Leuchter and Jeremy Hutton Priestly functionaries occupy a paramount position in the study of the Hebrew Bible. Despite more than a century of critical research, questions still abound regarding social location and definitions …
Excavations at Zeugma
Editor: William Aylward This work presents results of rescue excavations by The Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) at Zeugma on the Euphrates in southeastern Turkey. Fieldwork was designed to salvage parts of the ancient city that …
Learning Latin and Greek from Antiquity to the Present
Editors: Elizabeth P. Archibald, William Brockliss, Jonathan Gnoza This volume provides a unique overview of the broad historical, geographical and social range of Latin and Greek assecond languages. It elucidates the techniques of Latin and …
Reception and the Classics: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Classical Tradition
Editors: William Brockliss, Pramit Chaudhuri, Ayelet Haimson Lushkov, and Katherine Wasdin This collection brings together leading experts in a number of fields of the humanities to offer a new perspective on the classical tradition. Drawing …
Personification and the Feminine in Roman Philosophy
Author: Alex Dressler While the central ideal of Roman philosophy exemplified by Lucretius, Cicero and Seneca appears to be the masculinevalues of self-sufficiency and domination, this book argues, through close attention to metaphor and figures, …
Lucius Annaeus Seneca: The Complete Tragedies, Volume I
Translators: Shadi Bartsch, Susanna Braund, Alex Dressler, and Elaine FanthamEditor: Shadi Bartsch This first volume contains Medea, The Phoenician Women, Phaedra, The Trojan Women, and Octavia, the last of which was written in emulation of …