This persuasive book analyses the complex, often violent connections between body and voice in Ovid's Metamorphoses and narrative, lyric and dramatic works by P

In the chaos that followed the death of Alexander the Great his distinguished marshal Seleucus was reduced to a fugitive, with only a horse to his name. But by

Annotation This collection challenges the tendency among scholars of ancient Greece to see magical and religious ritual as mutually exclusive and to ignore "mag

A study of heroism in the myths of the world - an exploration of all the elements common to the great stories that have helped people make sense of their lives

This generous selection of published essays by the distinguished classicist Charles Segal represents over twenty years of critical inquiry into the questions of