Nella tradizione occidentale, Tiresia nasce con il celebre passo del Libro XI dell'Odissea, nel quale Odisseo consulta il profeta tebano per avere notizie del suo ritorno a Itaca. Grazie ai misteri...

Selections from various books with notes and vocabulary.

Dem homerischen S#65533;nger waren die Ereignisse, die er berichtete nicht Sage, sondern gewisse Wirklichkeit. Die Hauptz#65533;ge des Hergangs standen fest, und insbesondere die Katastrophen;...

West's complete edition of the "Iliad, the first part of which came out at the end of 1998 containing a preface and Homer's first twelve books, has now been completed with the remaining books (13-24)...

No detailed description available for "Rhapsodiae XIII-XXIV. Indices".

Homeri Ilias. Recensuit / testimonia congessit. Volumen prius, rhapsodias I-XII continensHomer., West, M. L. (Martin Litchfield), 1937-2015., Homeri Ilias. Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et...

The most famous conspiracy of silence in the history of antiquity is examined here by one of the three archaeologists entrusted by the Archaeological Society of Athens with the final excavations of...

The ancient hero's quest for glory offers metaphors for our own struggles to reach personal integrity and wholeness. In this compelling book, Van Nortwick traces the heroic journeys in three seminal...

Since the early-modern encounter between African and European merchants on the Guinea Coast, European social critics have invoked African gods as metaphors for misplaced value and agency, using the...

La Consultation, tenue en quatre sessions au Sige de la FAO Rome, a t runie par le Directeur gnral de l'Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture conformment la...

This edition is part of a new series of commentaries on the Aeneid. Each volume is edited by a scholar of Roman epic and designed with the needs of today's college Latin students in mind. A...

"In the threatening situation of the world today, when people are beginning to see that everything is at stake, the projection-creating fantasy soars beyond the realm of earthly organizations and...

The Golden Ass is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel - the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived in its entirety.It tells the story of Lucius, whose curiosity and...

Sophocles' innovative plays transformed Greek myths into dramas with complex human characters, through which he explored profound moral issues. Electraportrays the grief of a young woman for her...

The only work of its kind to survive from classical antiquity, the Library of Apollodorus is a unique guide to Greek mythology, from the origins of the universe to the Trojan War. Apollodorus'...