Edited by F. Edward Cranz (NHC Fellow, 1981–82), Paul Oskar Kristeller, Virginia Brown, and Robert A. Kaster The Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum has become an indispensable research tool for scholars interested in the history of the classical tradition in the West during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Edited by F. S. Naiden (NHC Fellow, 2010–11) and Christopher A. Faraone The interpretation of animal sacrifice, now considered the most important ancient Greek and Roman religious ritual, has long been dominated by the views of Walter Burkert, the late J.-P. Vernant, and Marcel Detienne. No penetrating and general critique of their views has appeared … Continued
By PhilodemusEdited and translated by Richard Janko (NHC Fellow, 1990–91) This edition of On Poems by Philodemus (c. 110-35 BC) reconstitutes the original sequence of the 200 existing fragments, according to a new method, while exploiting previously unknown manuscript sources and new techniques for reading the extant pieces. In thus restoring this important aesthetic treatise from antiquity, … Continued
By Todd W. Reeser (NHC Fellow, 2003–04) When we talk of platonic love or relationships today, we mean something very different from what Plato meant. For this, we have fifteenth and sixteenth-century European humanists to thank. As these scholars—most of them Catholic—read, digested, and translated Plato, they found themselves faced with a fundamental problem: how … Continued
Edited by Richard Lim (NHC Fellow, 2002–03) and Carole Ellen Straw
By Mark Golden (NHC Fellow, 1987–88) First published in 1990, Children and Childhood in Classical Athens was the first book in English to explore the lives of children in ancient Athens. Drawing on literary, artistic, and archaeological sources as well as on comparative studies of family history, Mark Golden offers a vivid portrait of the public and … Continued
By David Konstan (NHC Fellow, 1994–95) In comedy, happy endings resolve real-world conflicts. These conflicts, in turn, leave their mark on the texts in the form of gaps in plot and inconsistencies of characterization. Greek Comedy and Ideology analyzes how the structure of ancient Greek comedy betrays and responds to cultural tensions in the society of the … Continued
By David M. Halperin (NHC Fellow, 1985–86) 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 … Continued
By Charles Segal (NHC Fellow, 1993–94) One of the special charms of the Odyssey, according to Charles Segal, is the way it transports readers to fascinating places. Yet despite the appeal of its narrative, the Odyssey is fully understood only when its style, design, and mythical patterns are taken into account as well. Bringing a … Continued
By Marcia L. Colish (NHC Fellow, 1981–82)