Innovations of Antiquity

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Summary

A collection of essays representing the cutting edge of critical thinking in Greek and Roman literature in America today.

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Preface: "More Difficult Reading" Editors
Literariness Introduction
Lollianos and the Desperadoes
Simonides Painter
Figures Introduction
Augustine's Region of Unlikeness: the Crossing of Exile and Language Margaret Ferguson
Narrative in Plato's Symposium
Variance Introduction
Anodos Drama: Euripides' Alcestis and Helen "
The First Roman Marriage and the Theft of the Sabine Women
Gender Introduction
The Politics of Eros
Architecture Gender Philosophy
Absence Introduction
Mythological Exemplum in Homer Gregory Nagy
Sidonian
Context Introduction
The Rhetoric of Dismemberment in Neronian Poetry
Signs, Magic and Letters in Euripides' Hippolytus
Persuasion Introduction
Ceveat lector : Catullus and the Rhetoric of Performance
Human Sacrifice in the
Traditions Introduction
A Look at Theocritus
through Virgil's Eyes
The Apocalypse of Islam
Notes on Contributors
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