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This book offers a new English translation of Musaeus' poem Hero and Leander, with the original Greek on the facing page, a substantial introductio...

This book offers a new English translation of Musaeus' poem Hero and Leander, with the original Greek on the facing page, a substantial introductio...

In ancient Greece, the spoken word connoted power, whether in the free speech accorded to citizens or in the voice of the poet, whose song was thou...

Praise for Silvia Montiglio"[A] brilliant and important book. . . . " ---Journal of Religion, on Silence in the Land of Logos"[A]n invigorating ree...

From the Odyssey and King Lear to modern novels by Umberto Eco and John le Carré, the recognition scene has enjoyed a long life in western literatu...

Sleep was viewed as a boon by the ancient Greeks: sweet, soft, honeyed, balmy, care-loosening, as the Iliad has it. But neither was sleep straightf...

Sleep was viewed as a boon by the ancient Greeks: sweet, soft, honeyed, balmy, care-loosening, as the Iliad has it. But neither was sleep straightf...