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Marginal Comment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 369

Marginal Comment

Marginal Comment, which attracted keen and widespread interest on its original publication in 1994, is the remarkable memoir of one of the most distinguished classical scholars of the modern era. Its author, Sir Kenneth Dover, whose academic publications included the pathbreaking book Greek Homosexuality (1978, reissued by Bloomsbury in 2016), conceived of it as an 'experimental' autobiography – ruthlessly candid in retracing the full range of the author's experiences, both private and public, and unflinching in its attempt to analyse the entanglements between the life of the mind and the life of the body. Dover's distinguished career involved not only an influential series of writings abo...

Greek Homosexuality
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 316

Greek Homosexuality

To what extent and in what ways was homosexuality approved by the ancient Greeks? An eminent classicist examines the evidence--vase paintings, archaic and classical poetry, the dialogues of Plato, speeches in the law courts, the comedies of Aristophanes--and reaches provocative conclusions. A discussion of female homosexuality is included.

The Greeks
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 176

The Greeks

An overview of ancient Greek civilization is provided with discussions of Greek philosophy, art, and literature

Greek Homosexuality
  • Language: en

Greek Homosexuality

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Ancient Greek Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 218

Ancient Greek Literature

Four experts have come together to write this exciting new historical survey of Greek literature from 700 B.C. to 550 A.D. The book concentrates on the principal authors of poetry, tragedy, comedy, history, science, philosophy, and oratory and quotes many passages from their work in translatin, to allow the reader to form his own impression of the quality of the authors discussed. The authors draw attention both to the elements in Greek literature and attitudes toward life which are unfamiliar to us and which give it its powerful appeal to succeeding generations.

Owls to Athens
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 440

Owls to Athens

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1990
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  • Publisher: Unknown

In this seventieth-birthday tribute to renowned Greek scholar Sir Kenneth Dover, a diverse group of his former pupils and colleagues contribute a selection of essays, on topics ranging from drama and poetry to history, society, art, language, metre, rhythm, texts, and scholars. The contributors include Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, D.A. Russell, R.G.M. Nisbet, D.M. Lewis, A. Andrews, I. Kidd, M.L. West, and D.M. MacDowell, among others.

Greek Popular Morality in the Time of Plato and Aristotle
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 358

Greek Popular Morality in the Time of Plato and Aristotle

In ancient Greece, as today, popular moral attitudes differed importantly from the theories of moral philosophers. While for the latter we have Plato and Aristotle, this insightful work explores the everyday moral conceptions to which orators appealed in court and political assemblies, and which were reflected in non-philosophical literature. Oratory and comedy provide the primary testimony, and reference is also made to Sophocles, Euripides, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and other sources. The selection of topics, the contrasts and comparisons with modern religious, social and legal principles, and accessibility to the non-specialist ensure the work's appeal to all readers with an interest in ancient Greek culture and social life.

Greek Homosexuality
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 335

Greek Homosexuality

Previously published: Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989. 2nd edition. Updated with new forewords and postscript.

One Hundred Years of Homosexuality
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 235

One Hundred Years of Homosexuality

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-07-26
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Halperin's subject is the erotics of male culture in ancient Greece. Arguing that the modern concept of "homosexuality" is an inadequate tool for the interpretation of these features of sexual life in antiquity, Halperin offers an alternative account that accords greater prominence to the indigenous terms in which sexual experiences were constituted in the ancient Mediterranean world. Wittily and provocatively written, Halperin's meticulously drawn windows onto ancient sexuality give us a new meaning to the concept of "Greek love."

Existence Theorems for Ordinary Differential Equations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 178

Existence Theorems for Ordinary Differential Equations

This text examines fundamental and general existence theorems, along with uniqueness theorems and Picard iterants, and applies them to properties of solutions and linear differential equations. 1954 edition.