Greek Literature

This study discusses the Greek novel through the ages, from the genre's flowering in late Antiquity to its learned revival in twelfth-century Byzantium. It provides important and original insights into the genre of ancient literature...

The contributors explore Euripides' treatement of sexuality, and the Greek ideals of female behaviour. A wide range of analytical techniques are used to shed new light both on Euripides' own views and those of his contemporaries...

The comedies of the Athenian dramatist Menander (c. 342-291 BC) were the ultimate source of a Western tradition of light drama that has continued to the present day. Thanks to a long and continuing series of papyrus discoveries, Menander has now been able to take his place among the major surviving ..

Gilbert Murray translated and made available to modern readers The Epitrepontes of Menander or The Arbitration for the first time in 1945. The Arbitration is among the most frequently quoted and most famous of Menander’s plays and – being less farcical than others - belongs to his mature style. With..

Gilbert Murray translated and made available to modern readers The Epitrepontes of Menander or The Arbitration for the first time in 1945. The Arbitration is among the most frequently quoted and most famous of Menander’s plays and – being less farcical than others - belongs to his mature style. With..

First published in 1909, in an era of receding interest in Classical authors, this volume aimed to encourage a renewed interest in the Classics through Theophrastos, Herodas, and the Thebes tablet with the hope that they would demonstrate how vividly changeless the nature of men and women can be...

First published in 1951, The People of Aristophanes provides a sociological account of Athens in the period of its greatest glory. Drawing upon Old Attic Comedy and the plays of Aristophanes, the author recreates, for the reader, the life of Athens at that time. He writes extensively about social st..

Theology and Existentialism in Aeschylus revivifies the complex question of fate and freedom in the tragedies of the famous Greek playwright. In this book, author Ric Rader demonstrates that few understood the importance of these questions better than the tragedians, whose literature dealt with a ce..

First published in 1907 and reissued in 1965, this is a fascinating study of Thucydides’s History. Thucydides set out to write a truthful account of the Pelopennesian war, but his work reflects his Athenian fourth-century B.C. context, which was of a particular interest to Cornford. In this fascinat..