The emphasis of this volume is on Greek literature produced in the period between the foundation of Alexandria late in the fourth century B.C. and the end of th

This volume ranges in time over a very long period and covers the Greeks' most original contributions to intellectual history. It begins and ends with philosoph

The period from the eighth to the fifth centuries B.C. was one of extraordinary creativity in the Greek-speaking world. Poetry was a public and popular medium,

The poetry of archaic Greece gives voice to the history and politics of the culture of that age. This book explores the types of history that have been, and can

This book contains a selection of pagan Greek poetic texts ranging in date from the first to the sixth century AD. It makes easily accessible for the first time