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Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. His books include Homer on Life and Death.
Virgil Lives!
The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years
edited by Jan M. Ziolkowski and Michael C.J. Putnam
June 26, 2008 issue
East vs. West: The First Round
Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World
by Paul Cartledge
December 6, 2007 issue
The Myth of the Olympics
What were those ancient Games, why were they important then, and why are they still alive now?
The Ancient Olympics: A History
by Nigel Spivey
Games and Sanctuaries in Ancient Greece: Olympia, Delphi, Isthmia, Nemea, Athens
by Panos Valavanis
Wrestling with the Ancients: Modern Greek Identity and the Olympics
by Alexander Kitroeff
Olympics in Athens, 1896: The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games
by Michael Llewellyn Smith
Ancient Greek Athletics
by Stephen G. Miller
October 21, 2004 issue
It’s All Greek!
The Peloponnesian War
by Donald Kagan
The Spartans: The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece, from Utopia to Crisis and Collapse
by Paul Cartledge
Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood from the Classical Past
by Jenifer Neils and John H. Oakley
Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths
by Mary Lefkowitz
December 18, 2003 issue
That Old Black Magic
Cicero on the Emotions: Tusculan Disputations 3 and 4
translated from the Latin and with commentary by Margaret Graver
Greek and Roman Necromancy
by Daniel Ogden
May 1, 2003 issue
The Unkindest Cut
Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom: A Russian Folktale
by Laura Engelstein
Eunuchs and Castrati
by Piotr O. Scholz
Castration: An Abbreviated History of Western Manhood
by Gary Taylor
November 1, 2001 issue
From Abakainon to Zygris
The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World
edited by Richard J.A. Talbert
April 26, 2001 issue
Bizarre New World
Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World
edited by G.W. Bowersock and Peter Brown and Oleg Grabar
June 15, 2000 issue
The Myth of Myths
Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India
by Wendy Doniger
The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth
by Wendy Doniger
November 4, 1999 issue
Plato’s Grand Design
The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault
by Alexander Nehamas
Plato and the Socratic Dialogue: The Philosophical Use of a Literary Form
by Charles H. Kahn
May 6, 1999 issue
Chopping Off the Golden Bough
Magic in the Ancient World
by Fritz Graf, translated by Franklin Philip
The Great God Pan: The Survival of an Image
by John Boardman
October 8, 1998 issue
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