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Reset in Stone
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Reset in Stone
Memory and Reuse in Ancient Athens
Sarah A. Rous
Spring 2021

Lysistrata
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Lysistrata
A New Verse Translation
Aristophanes, Translated by David Mulroy, with introduction and notes
Fall 2020

Silenced Voices
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Silenced Voices
The Poetics of Speech in Ovid
Bartolo A. Natoli
Fall 2020

The Discourse of Marriage in the Greco-Roman World
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The Discourse of Marriage in the Greco-Roman World
Edited by Jeffrey Beneker and Georgia Tsouvala
Spring 2020

Insults in Classical Athens
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Insults in Classical Athens
Deborah Kamen
Spring 2020

A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases
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A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases
John H. Oakley
Spring 2020

Spear-Won Land
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Spear-Won Land
Sardis from the King's Peace to the Peace of Apamea
Edited by Andrea M. Berlin and Paul J. Kosmin
Spring 2019

Language and Authority in De Lingua Latina
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Language and Authority in De Lingua Latina
Varro’s Guide to Being Roman
Diana Spencer
Spring 2019

In the Flesh
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In the Flesh
Embodied Identities in Roman Elegy
Erika Zimmermann Damer
Fall 2018

The Athenian Adonia in Context
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The Athenian Adonia in Context
The Adonis Festival as Cultural Practice
Laurialan Reitzammer
Spring 2018

The Oresteia
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The Oresteia
Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, and The Holy Goddesses
Aeschylus, A verse translation by David Mulroy, with introduction and notes
Spring 2018

Tragic Rites
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Tragic Rites
Narrative and Ritual in Sophoclean Drama
Adriana E. Brook
Fall 2017

Virgil and Joyce
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Virgil and Joyce
Nationalism and Imperialism in the Aeneid and Ulysses
Randall J. Pogorzelski
Spring 2016

Repeat Performances
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Repeat Performances
Ovidian Repetition and the Metamorphoses
Edited By Laurel Fulkerson and Tim Stover
Spring 2016

Agamemnon
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Agamemnon
Aeschylus
A verse translation by David Mulroy, with introduction and notes

Spring 2016

Trojan Women, Helen, Hecuba
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Trojan Women, Helen, Hecuba
Three Plays about Women and the Trojan War
Euripides
Verse translations by Francis Blessington, with introductions and notes

Fall 2015

Echoing Hylas
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Echoing Hylas
A Study in Hellenistic and Roman Metapoetics
Mark Heerink
Fall 2015

Horace between Freedom and Slavery
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Horace between Freedom and Slavery
The First Book of Epistles
Stephanie McCarter
Fall 2015

The Play of Allusion in the <i>Historia Augusta</i>
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The Play of Allusion in the Historia Augusta
David Rohrbacher
Fall 2015

Women in Roman Republican Drama
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Women in Roman Republican Drama
Edited by Dorota Dutsch, Sharon L. James, and David Konstan
Spring 2015

Dream, Fantasy, and Visual Art in Roman Elegy
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Dream, Fantasy, and Visual Art in Roman Elegy
Emma Scioli
Spring 2015

Shaping Ceremony
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Shaping Ceremony
Monumental Steps and Greek Architecture
Mary B. Hollinshead
Fall 2014

Selected Epigrams
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Selected Epigrams
Martial, Translated with notes by Susan McLean, Introduction by Marc Kleijwegt
Fall 2014

The Offense of Love
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The Offense of Love
Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris, and Tristia 2
Ovid, A verse translation by Julia D. Hejduk, with introduction and notes
Fall 2014

Oedipus at Colonus
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Oedipus at Colonus
Sophocles, A verse translation by David Mulroy, with introduction and notes
Fall 2014

Odes
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Odes
Horace, Translated with commentary by David R. Slavitt
Spring 2014

Silence in Catullus
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Silence in Catullus
Benjamin Eldon Stevens
Fall 2013

Aeschylus’s Suppliant Women
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Aeschylus’s Suppliant Women
The Tragedy of Immigration
Geoffrey W. Bakewell
Spring 2013

Couched in Death
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Couched in Death
Klinai and Identity in Anatolia and Beyond
Elizabeth P. Baughan
Spring 2013

Trickster and Hero
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Trickster and Hero
Two Characters in the Oral and Written Traditions of the World
Harold Scheub
Fall 2012

Antigone
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Antigone
Sophocles, A verse translation by David Mulroy, with introduction and notes
Fall 2012

Perfidy and Passion
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Perfidy and Passion
Reintroducing the Iliad
Mark Buchan
Spring 2012

Oedipus Rex
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Oedipus Rex
A Dramatized Audiobook
Sophocles, A verse translation by David Mulroy
Spring 2012

The Gift of Correspondence in Classical Rome
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The Gift of Correspondence in Classical Rome
Friendship in Cicero’s Ad Familiares and Seneca’s Moral Epistles
Amanda Wilcox
Spring 2012

The Slave in Greece and Rome
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The Slave in Greece and Rome
Jean Andreau and Raymond Descat
Fall 2011

Oedipus Rex
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Oedipus Rex
Sophocles, A verse translation by David Mulroy, with introduction and notes
Spring 2011

The Codrus Painter
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The Codrus Painter
Iconography and Reception of Athenian Vases in the Age of Pericles
Amalia Avramidou
Fall 2010

The Matter of the Page
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The Matter of the Page
Essays in Search of Ancient and Medieval Authors
Shane Butler
Fall 2010

Greek Prostitutes in the Ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE–200 CE
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Greek Prostitutes in the Ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE–200 CE
Edited by Allison Glazebrook and Madeleine M. Henry
Fall 2010

Responses to Oliver Stone’s Alexander
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Responses to Oliver Stone’s Alexander
Film, History, and Cultural Studies
Edited by Paul Cartledge and Fiona Rose Greenland
Fall 2009

New Perspectives on Etruria and Early Rome
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New Perspectives on Etruria and Early Rome
Edited by Sinclair Bell and Helen Nagy
Spring 2009

The Image of the Poet in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
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The Image of the Poet in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Barbara Pavlock
Spring 2009

Russia’s Rome
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Russia’s Rome
Imperial Visions, Messianic Dreams, 1890–1940
Judith E. Kalb
Fall 2008

Of God and Gods
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Of God and Gods
Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism
Jan Assmann
Spring 2008

Ovid before Exile
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Ovid before Exile
Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses
Patricia J. Johnson
Fall 2007

Pandora’s Senses
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Pandora’s Senses
The Feminine Character of the Ancient Text
Vered Lev Kenaan
Fall 2007

Asinaria
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Asinaria
The One about the Asses
Plautus, Translated and with commentary by John Henderson
Fall 2006

Ulysses in Black
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Ulysses in Black
Ralph Ellison, Classicism, and African American Literature
Patrice D. Rankine
Fall 2006

Imperium and Cosmos
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Imperium and Cosmos
Augustus and the Northern Campus Martius
Paul Rehak, Edited by John G. Younger
Fall 2006

Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World
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Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World
Edited by Christopher A. Faraone and Laura K. McClure
Fall 2005

Religion in Ancient Etruria
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Religion in Ancient Etruria
Jean-René Jannot, Translated by Jane K. Whitehead
Spring 2005

A Symposion of Praise
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A Symposion of Praise
Horace Returns to Lyric in Odes IV
Timothy Johnson
Spring 2005

Satire and the Threat of Speech
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Satire and the Threat of Speech
Horace’s Satires, Book 1
Catherine M. Schlegel
Spring 2005

Festive Feasts Cookbook
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Festive Feasts Cookbook
Michelle Berriedale-Johnson
Spring 2004

Mail and Female
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Mail and Female
Epistolary Narrative and Desire in Ovid’s Heroides
Sara H. Lindheim
Fall 2003

Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art
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Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art
Graham Zanker
Fall 2003

Ancient Etruscan and Greek Vases in the Elvehjem Museum of Art
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Ancient Etruscan and Greek Vases in the Elvehjem Museum of Art
Jeffrey M. Hurwitt with Patricia C. Powell
Fall 2002

The Complete Poetry of Catullus
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The Complete Poetry of Catullus
Catullus, Translated and with commentary by David Mulroy
Spring 2002

Personal Styles in Early Cycladic Sculpture
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Personal Styles in Early Cycladic Sculpture
Pat Getz-Gentle, With a chapter by Jack de Vries
Spring 2001

Grafting Helen
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Grafting Helen
The Abduction of the Classical Past
Matthew Gumpert
Spring 2001

Hellenistic Sculpture II
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Hellenistic Sculpture II
The Styles of ca. 200–100 B.C.
Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway
Spring 2000

Fearful Hope
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Fearful Hope
Approaching the New Millennium
Edited by Christopher Kleinhenz and Fannie J. LeMoine
Fall 1999

Fourth-Century Styles in Greek Sculpture
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Fourth-Century Styles in Greek Sculpture
Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway
Spring 1997

Worshipping Athena
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Worshipping Athena
Panathenaia and Parthenon
Edited by Jenifer Neils
Fall 1996

Hellenistic Architectural Sculpture
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Hellenistic Architectural Sculpture
Figural Motifs in Western Anatolia and the Aegean Islands
Pamela A. Webb
Fall 1996

The Masada Myth
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The Masada Myth
Collective Memory and Mythmaking in Israel
Nachman Ben-Yehuda
Fall 1995

Oedipus
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Oedipus
A Folklore Casebook
Edited by Lowell Edmunds and Alan Dundes
Fall 1995

Flinders Petrie
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Flinders Petrie
A Life in Archaeology
Margaret S. Drower
Spring 1995

The Game of Death in Ancient Rome
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The Game of Death in Ancient Rome
Arena Sport and Political Suicide
Paul Plass
Spring 1995

The World of Roman Costume
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The World of Roman Costume
Edited by Judith Lynn Sebesta and Larissa Bonfante
Fall 1993

Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity
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Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity
Towards a Christian Empire
Peter Brown
Fall 1992

Myth, Ethos, and Actuality
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Myth, Ethos, and Actuality
Official Art in Fifth Century B.C. Athens
David Castriota
Fall 1992

Archaic Greek Poetry
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Archaic Greek Poetry
An Anthology
Edited by Barbara Hughes Fowler, Works selected and translated by Barbara Hughes Fowler
Fall 1992

Magical Arrows
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Magical Arrows
The Maori, the Greeks, and the Folklore of the Universe
Gregory Schrempp, With a Foreword by Marshall Sahlins
Spring 1992

Kallimachos
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Kallimachos
The Alexandrian Library and the Origins of Bibliography
Rudolf Blum, Translated by Hans H. Wellisch
Fall 1991

Hellenistic Poetry
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Hellenistic Poetry
An Anthology
Edited and translated by Barbara Hughes Fowler
Fall 1990

The Hellenistic Aesthetic
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The Hellenistic Aesthetic
Barbara Hughes Fowler
Fall 1989

Hellenistic Sculpture I
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Hellenistic Sculpture I
The Styles of ca. 331–200 B.C.
Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway
Fall 1989

Constantinople and the West
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Constantinople and the West
Essays on the Late Byzantine (Palaeologan) and Italian Renaissances and the Byzantine and Roman Churches
Deno John Geanakoplos
Spring 1989

The Archaeology of the Olympics
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The Archaeology of the Olympics
The Olympics and Other Festivals in Antiquity
Edited by Wendy J. Raschke
Fall 1988

Euripides and the Tragic Tradition
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Euripides and the Tragic Tradition
Ann Norris Michelini
Spring 1987

The Classical Epic Tradition
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The Classical Epic Tradition
John Kevin Newman
Spring 1986

Roman Cities
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Roman Cities
Les villes romaines by Pierre Grimal
Edited and translated by G. Michael Woloch
Fall 1982

A History of Education in Antiquity
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A History of Education in Antiquity
H. I. Marrou, Translated from the French by George Lamb
Fall 1982

Festivals of Attica
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Festivals of Attica
An Archaeological Commentary
Erika Simon
Fall 1982

Romans and Barbarians
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Romans and Barbarians
The Decline of the Western Empire
E. A. Thompson
Fall 1981

Classics in Translation, Volume I
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Classics in Translation, Volume I
Greek Literature
Edited by Paul L. MacKendrick and Herbert M. Howe
1952

Classics in Translation, Volume II
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Classics in Translation, Volume II
Latin Literature
Edited by Paul L. MacKendrick and Herbert M. Howe
1952

De Rerum Natura
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De Rerum Natura
The Latin Text of Lucretius
Edited by William Ellery Leonard and Stanley Barney Smith
1942