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She is a woman, but also an aristocrat; a Greek, but one turned toward Asia; a poet who writes as a philosopher before philosophy; a writer who speaks...
Page duBois, a classicist known for her daring and originality, turns in this new book to one of the most troubling subjects in the study of antiquity...
Ancient Comedy and the Politics of the People
Considers how ancient Greek comedy offers a model for present-day politics. With Democratic Swarms, Page duBois revisits the role of Greek comedy in a...
Saving the Classics from Conservatives
DuBois (classics and cultural studies, U. of California, San Diego) has written a passionate account of the Greek classics, the richness of which come...
The Persistence of Polytheism
As A Million and One Gods shows, polytheism is considered a scandalous presence in societies oriented to Jewish, Christian, and Muslim beliefs. Yet it...
Psychoanalysis and Ancient Representations of Women
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Women and the Pre-History of the Great Chain of Being
DIVTraces the development of the Greek hierarchical view of life that continues to permeate Western society /div...
Antiquity and Its Legacy
"Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" is perhaps the most famous phrase of all in the American Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson's ...
First published in 1991, this book — through the examination of ancient Greek literary, philosophical and legal texts — analyses how the Athenian ...
Examining ancient Greek literary, philosophical, and legal texts, Page duBois analyzes how the Athenian torture of slaves emerged from and reinforced ...
Sappho has been constructed as many things: proto-feminist, lesbian icon and even - by the Victorians - chaste headmistress of a girls' finishing scho...
The New Ancient Greeks
Out of Athens sets ancient Greek culture next to the global ancient world of Vedic India, the Han dynasty in China, and the empires that survived Alex...
First published in 1991, this book -- through the examination of ancient Greek literary, philosophical and legal texts -- analyses how the Athenian to...