fourteen critical essays.

This landmark volume captures three millennia of Greek poetry - more than 1,000 poems and 200 poets. From the epics of Homeric Greece to the historical and erotic ironies of Cavafy, from the romances, hymns and bawdy rhymes of Byzantium to the innovative voices of the twentieth century, this essential companion to the Western literary tradition brings together the diverse stran...(展开全部)

安傑羅．查尼歐提斯Angelos Chaniotis 普林斯頓大學高等研究院歷史研究學院教授，也是牛津大學萬靈學院（All Souls）的前院士。他曾撰寫多部著作與文章，並擔任《希臘銘文補充調查報告》（Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum）的資深編輯，以及古典研究期刊《謨涅摩敘涅》（Mnemosyne）的編輯。 譯者簡介 黃楷君 政大阿拉伯語文學系、廣播電視學系畢業，曾任出版社編輯，現為文字工作者、譯者、內容力有限公司特約譯者。譯有《手寫時代》、《穆罕默德：宣揚謙卑、寬容與和平的先知》、《福爾摩沙．美麗之島》（合譯）、《時光出土：考古學的故事》、《原始富足：布希曼族的生存之道，以及他們能教給我們什麼？》等書，及合著《吹過島嶼的歌》。

The world that Alexander remade in his lifetime was transformed once more by his death in 323 BCE. His successors reorganized Persian lands to create a new empire stretching from the eastern Mediterranean as far as present-day Afghanistan, while in Greece and Macedonia a fragile balance of power repeatedly dissolved into war. Then, from the late third century BCE to the end of ...(展开全部)

大卫·波特，密歇根大学历史教授，主要研究领域为古希腊与罗马时代，著述众多，并多次在电视节目上为观众讲述相关古代历史。近年来的著作主要关注古希腊罗马时期与现代共通的娱乐、体育项目等，试图用较新的视角来审视古代历史。著有：《古罗马：一段新的历史》《君士坦丁大帝》《胜者王冠：从荷马到拜占庭时代的竞技史》《罗马诸王》等。

As well as producing one of the finest of all poetic traditions, ancient Greek culture produced a major tradition of poetic theory and criticism. Halliwell's volume offers a series of detailed and challenging interpretations of some of the defining authors and texts in the history of ancient Greek poetics: the Homeric epics, Aristophanes' Frogs, Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Po...(展开全部)

In this book, Eric Havelock presents a challenging account of the development of the idea of justice in early Greece, and particularly of the way justice changed as Greek oral tradition gradually gave way to the written word in a literate society. He begins by examining the educational functions of poets in preliterate Greece, showing how they conserved and transmitted the trad...(展开全部)

Review “David Harvey provoked a revolution in his field and has inspired a generation of radical intellectuals.” (Naomi Klein ) “Harvey is a scholarly radical; his writing is free of journalistic clichés, full of facts and carefully thought-through ideas.” (Richard Sennett ) “Whose streets? Our streets! In Rebel Cities David Harvey shows us how we might turn this slogan into a ...(展开全部)

TALES FROM THE INNER CITY is a collection of incredibly original stories, rich with feeling, strangely moving, almost numinous. And when the reader comes to the artwork, it's like walking into an amazing room, and then throwing open a curtain to see a brilliant scene that makes you understand and appreciate everything you've encountered in a deeper way.