This 1995 book takes as its starting point Plato's incorporation of specific genres of poetry
and rhetoric into his dialogues. The author argues that Plato's' dialogues' with traditional …

As the Ottoman Empire advanced westward from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries,
humanists responded on a grand scale, leaving behind a large body of fascinating yet …

This 1999 book re-examines traditional assumptions about the nature of social relationships
in Greek households during the Classical and Hellenistic periods. Through detailed …

The Hidden Chorus investigates the relationship between the chorus of Greek tragedy and
other types of choral song in Greek society. Choruses performed on a range of occasions in …

In this new edition of Sophocles' tragedy Antigone, Mark Griffith combines sophisticated
literary and cultural interpretation with close attention to language, meter, and issues of …

In this pioneering study Edith Hall explores the numerous different ways in which we can
understand the relationship between the real, social world in which the Athenians lived and …

Ancient Greeks remembered their past before the rise of historiography and after it poetry
and oratory continued to serve commemorative functions. This book explores the field of …

This book, first published in 2000, is a full-length study of the representation of deceit and
lies in classical Athens. Dr Hesk traces the ways in which Athenian drama, democratic …

The Delphic Oracle was where, according to Greek tradition, Apollo would speak through his
priestesses. This work explores the importance placed on consultations at Delphi by …

1. Stallybrass and White 1986: 87. 2. See Straub 2007 on the abolishment of the footman's
gallery in 1759 by turning it into regular paying seats and dispersing footmen throughout the …