The Wild Women of Greece
Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays
by Daniel Mendelsohn
May 15, 2003 issue
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Bernard Knox (1914–2010) was an English classicist. He was the first director of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Among his many books are The Heroic Temper, The Oldest Dead White European Males, and Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal. He is the editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature and wrote the introductions and notes for Robert Fagles’s translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
The Wild Women of Greece
Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays
by Daniel Mendelsohn
May 15, 2003 issue
Love in Hell
Inferno
by Dante Alighieri, a verse translation from the Italianby Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander
Dante: A Life in Works
by Robert Hollander
Dante
by R.W.B. Lewis
November 15, 2001 issue
Liberating a Masterpiece
Jerusalem Delivered (Gerusalemme liberata)
Torquato Tasso, edited and translated from the Italian by Anthony M. Esolen
May 17, 2001 issue
Stairway to Heaven
Purgatorio
by Dante Alighieri, translated by W.S. Merwin
September 21, 2000 issue
Virgil the Great
Virgil's Epic Designs: Ekphrasis in the Aeneid
by Michael C.J. Putnam
Virgil: His Life and Times
by Peter Levi
Virgil's Experience: Nature and History; Times, Names, and Places
by Richard Jenkyns
November 18, 1999 issue
Genius Con Brio
The Charterhouse of Parma
by Stendhal, translated by Richard Howard
September 23, 1999 issue
Horace, Our Contemporary
Horace in English
edited by D.S. Carne-Ross and Kenneth Haynes, with an introduction by D.S. Carne-Ross
The Odes of Horace
bilingual edition, translation by Ferry David
June 11, 1998 issue
Playboy of the Roman World
The Poet and the Prince: Ovid and Augustan Discourse
by Alessandro Barchiesi
After Ovid: New Metamorphoses
edited by Michael Hoffman and James Lasdun
Tales from Ovid
by Ted Hughes
The Metamorphoses of Ovid
translated freely into verse by David R. Slavitt
January 15, 1998 issue
The Crack in the Teacup
W.H. Auden: Prose and Travel Books in Prose and Verse, Volume I, 1926-1938
edited by Edward Mendelson
April 10, 1997 issue
Victims and Executioners
The Jews: History, Memory and the Present
by Pierre Vidal-Naquet, translated and edited by David Ames Curtis
October 31, 1996 issue
Our Dante
The Inferno of Dante
A New Verse Translation by Robert Pinsky, bilingual edition, illustrated by Michael Mazur, with notes by Nicole Pinsky, foreword by John Freccero
October 19, 1995 issue
Poets of the Spanish Tragedy
Edwin Rolfe: Collected Poems
edited by Cary Nelson, edited by Jefferson Hendricks, introduction and notes by Cary Nelson
Edwin Rolfe: A Biographical Essay and Guide to the Rolfe Archive at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
by Cary Nelson and Jefferson Hendricks
A Moment of War: A Memoir of the Spanish Civil War
by Laurie Lee
December 22, 1994 issue
In Another Country
Fallen Sparrows: The International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War
by Michael Jackson
The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
by Peter N. Carroll
Prisoners of the Good Fight: The Spanish Civil War, 1936–1938
by Carl Geiser, preface by Robert G. Colodny
Remembering Spain: Hemingway's Civil War Eulogy and the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
edited by Cary Nelson, essays by Milton Wolff and Cary Nelson. includes a tape of Hemingway's recording of the eulogy
Another Hill: An Autobiographical Novel
by Milton Wolff
December 1, 1994 issue
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