Research Guides
Classics: Books and Theses
Research guide to Classics.
Faculty Books/Book Chapters
Routledge Companion to Strabo by
Chapter by Catherine Connors: "A River Runs Through It: Waterways and Narrative in Strabo."
Call Number: G87.S95 R68 2017 Suzzallo & Allen StacksISBN: 9781138904330Publication Date: 2017-03-27
Helen of Troy by
Three millennia after the myth of Helen, our relationship to female beauty remains deeply ambivalent, fraught with both desire and danger. We worship and fear it, advertise it everywhere yet try desperately to control and contain it.In Helen of Troy Ruby Blondell investigates the origins of our persistent anxiety about female beauty, focusing on this key figure from ancient Greek culture in a way that both extends our understanding of that culture and provides a useful perspective on our own. Moving from Homer and Hesiod toSappho, Aeschylus, Euripides, and others, Blondell offers a fresh examination of the paradoxes and ambiguities that Helen embodies. Other mythic women may be more violent but none wreaks more havoc than Helen. She is simultaneously the most desirable and most destructive. She causes the greatest war of all time when she elopes with the Trojan prince Paris, bringing her Greek husband, Menelaus, and thousands of Greek warriors inhot pursuit. Blondell shows that this is Helen's mythic essence: the beauty is inalienable, the destruction inevitable. For ancient Greeks, female beauty is an awe-inspiring, supremely desirable gift from the gods, essential to the perpetuation of a man's name through reproduction; yet it alsogrants women terrifying power over men, posing a threat inseparable from its allure. Three thousand years later, contemporary culture remains almost obsessively preoccupied with all the power and danger of female beauty and sexuality that Helen represents.Considering all aspects of the Helen myth - including the archaeological record, which contains evidence of her status as a cult figure, worshipped by maidens and newlyweds alike - Helen of Troy holds up a fascinating mirror to our own time.
Call Number: PA3015.R5 H3725 2013 Suzzallo & Allen StacksISBN: 9780199731602Publication Date: 2013-05-07
The Reception of the Homeric Hymns by
Chapter by James Clauss: "The Hercules and Cacus Episode in Augustan Literature: Engaging the Homeric Hymn to Hermes in Light of Callimachus' and Apollonius' Reception."
Call Number: PA4023.Z5 R43 2016 Suzzallo & Allen StacksISBN: 9780198728788Publication Date: 2017-01-24
Repeat Performances: Ovidian Repetition and the Metamorphoses by
Chapter by Stephen Hinds: "Return to Enna: Ovid and Ovidianism in Claudian's De Raptu Proserpinae"
Call Number: E-BookISBN: 9780299307509Publication Date: 2016-07-31
The Gods of Greek Hexameter Poetry by
Chapter by James Clauss: "Heldendämmerung Anticipated: The Gods in Apollonius' Argonautica."
Call Number: PA3015.G6 G63 2016 Suzzallo & Allen StacksISBN: 9783515115230Publication Date: 2017-01-19
The Collection of Antiquities of the American Academy in Rome by
Chapter by Lawrence Bliquez and Alain Gowing : 'Miscellaneous Minor Objects."
Call Number: On orderISBN: 9780472119899Publication Date: 2016-01-04
Memory in Ancient Rome and Early Christianity by
Chapter by Alain Gowing Aspects of Memory as Motive in Tacitus."
Call Number: E-bookISBN: 9780198744764Publication Date: 2016-02-17
Ancient Obscenities by
Chapter by Sarah Levin-Richardson: "Bodily Waste and Boundaries in Pompeian Graffiti."
Call Number: PA3003 .A44 2015 Suzzallo & Allen StacksISBN: 9780472119646Publication Date: 2015-11-18
Ancient Sex by
Includes chapter by Sarah Levin-Richardson and Deborah Kamen: "Lusty Ladies in the Roman Imaginary."
Call Number: PA3015.G6 G63 2016 Suzzallo & Allen StacksISBN: 9780814212837Publication Date: 2015-07-20
Ancient Rome and the Construction of Modern Homosexual Identities by
Chapter by Sarah Levin-Richardson. “‘Gay’ Pompeii: Pompeian Art and Homosexuality in the Early Twentieth Century.”
Call Number: HQ76.2.R6 A53 2015 Suzzallo & Allen StacksISBN: 9780199689729Publication Date: 2015-12-08
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