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 …
Publications
The Transjordanian Palimpsest: The Overwritten Texts of Personal Exile and Transformation in Deuteronomistic History
Author: Jeremy Hutton This study analyzes several passages in the Former Prophets (2 Sam 19:12-44; 2 Kgs 2:1-18; Judg 8:4-28) from a literary perspective, and argues that the text presents Transjordan as liminal in Israel’s …
Courtesans at Table: Gender and Greek Literary Culture in Athenaeus
Author: Laura McClure Witty nicknames, crude jokes, public nudity and lavish monuments – all of these things distinguished Greek courtesans from respectable citizen women in ancient Greece. Although prostitutes appear as early as archaic Greek …
Spoken Like a Woman: Speech and Gender in Athenian Drama
Author: Laura McClure In ancient Athens, where freedom of speech derived from the power of male citizenship, women’s voices were seldom heard in public. Female speech was more often represented in theatrical productions through women …
A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities
Author: J.C. McKeown There are few disciplines as exciting and forward-looking as medicine. Unfortunately, however, many modern practitioners have lost sight of the origins of their discipline. A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities aspires to …
Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic
Author: Grant A. Nelsestuen Some six years after his narrow escape from proscription in 43 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, the “most learned” of the Romans, wrote a technical treatise on farming in the form of …
Performing Drama/Dramatizing Performance
Author: Michael Vanden Heuvel Performing Drama/Dramatizing Performance examines the interaction between avant-garde performance and mainstream text-oriented drama. The author begins with a historical survey of American alternative theater, from its origins in the1960s avant-garde through …
Elmer Rice: A Research and Production Sourcebook
Author: Michael Vanden Heuvel As one of the most outstanding and innovative playwrights of the 20th century, Elmer Rice made and sustained his reputation with a series of hit plays and provocative experimental work which, …
The Passionate Statesman
Author: Jeffrey Beneker The Passionate Statesman explores the intersection of passion and politics in Plutarch’s Parallel Lives, with special emphasis on how he represents the influence of eros, or erotic desire, on the careers of some of the …
The Rhetorical Exercises of Nikephoros Basilakes
Editors: Jeffrey Beneker and Craig A. Gibson Progymnasmata, preliminary exercises in the study of declamation, were the cornerstone of elite education from Hellenistic through Byzantine times. Using material from Greek literary, mythological, and historical traditions, …