"This book makes the case that the plot of the Odyssey is represented within the narrative as a plan of Zeus, a Dios boule, that serves as a guide for the performing poet and as a hermeneutic for the audience. Through occasional participation in events and pervasive influence, t…
The Jupiter-Saturn conference lectures
by Greene, Liz, Arroyo, Stephen
fromLectures on modern astrology
In tracing the emergence of the Macedonian kingdom from its origins as a Balkan backwater to a major European and Asian power, Eugene Borza offers to specialists and lay readers alike a revealing account of a relatively unexplored segment of ancient history. He draws from recent…
"This book is a study of the ways in which Kallimachos used hymns praising the Olympian gods to shape a political discourse on kingship emerging in the Hellenistic world. In it, I investigate how the poet crafts compelling new portrayals of the gods that refigure the politics of…
Percy and his friends battle to save Camp Half-Blood, which is on the verge of being overrun by mythological monsters.
