Pindar''s Pythian Eleven is a miniature masterpiece: a poem praising a young athlete which presen...

Sophocles'' Ajax describes the fall of a mighty warrior denied the honour which he believed was h...

Martin West is widely recognized as one of the most significant classicists of all time. Over nea...

The sixth-century BC Greek poet Stesichorus was highly esteemed in antiquity; but by about AD 400...

Stesichorus'' lyric poetry vividly recreates the most dramatic episodes of Greek myth: the labour...

Sophocles' Ajax describes the fall of a mighty warrior denied the honour which he believed was hi...

The sixth-century BC Greek poet Stesichorus was highly esteemed in antiquity; but by about AD 400...

For centuries the myth of Oedipus, the man who unwittingly killed his father and married his moth...

For centuries the myth of Oedipus, the man who unwittingly killed his father and married his moth...

This book contains a collection of twenty-one essays in honour of Professor Franco Montanari by e...

No ancient poet has a wider following today than Sappho; her status as the most famous woman poet...

No ancient poet has a wider following today than Sappho; her status as the most famous woman poet...