The Victor's Crown brings to vivid life the signal role of sport in the classical world. Ranging over a dozen centuries--from Archaic Greece through to the late Roman and early Byzantine empires--David Potter's lively narrative shows how sport, to the ancients, was not just a dim reflection of relig[...]

Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilleus and its devastation. For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the "Iliad" in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation - the gold standard for generations of students and general readers. This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's "I[...]

Logue chooses to retell some of the most evocative episodes in the Iliad, including the death of Patrochus and the fateful return of Achilles to the fight, which sealed the doom of Troy.[...]

Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilisation. Today's converging energy, environmental, economic and political stresses could cause a breakdown of national and global order. Yet, perhaps breakdown can create opportunities for the bold reform of our society and open up a way for the renewa[...]

Focuses on Homer Page's New York photographs taken while he was a Guggenheim Fellow during the late '40s.[...]

A revelatory exploration of Winslow Homer's engagement with photography, shedding new light on his celebrated paintings and works on paper One of the greatest American painters of the 19th century, Winslow Homer (1836-1910) also maintained a deep engagement with photography throughout his career. Fo[...]

Provides background information on the history and mythology of Homer's "Odyssey" and presents discussions on each of the twenty-four books of the work.[...]

"Picture the east Aegean sea by night, "
"And on a beach aslant its shimmering "
"Upwards of 50,000 men"
"Asleep like spoons beside their lethal Fleet. "For more than forty years, the English poet, wit, and troublemaker Christopher Logue (1926-2011) was at work on what came to be regarded a[...]

"Setting down her topaz saucer heaped with nectarine jelly, "
"Emptying her blood-red mouth--set in her ice-white face--"
"Teenaged Athena jumped up and shrieked: "
""Kill Kill for me "
"Better to die than live without killing ""
"Who says prayer does no good?"
Christopher Logu[...]

Despite all of society?s advances, our problems proliferate. Wars abound, environmental degradation accelerates, economies topple overnight, and pandemics such as AIDS and tuberculosis continue to spread. The Internet and other media help to disseminate knowledge, but they?ve also created an ?info-g[...]

"Until I began to build and launch rockets, I didn't know my home town was at war with itself over its children, and that my parents were locked in a kind of bloodless combat over how my brother and I would live our lives. I didn't know that if a girl broke your heart, another girl, virtuous at leas[...]

An accurate text of Shamela (Fielding s satire of Samuel Richardson s Pamela, the most popular epistolary novel of the eighteenth century) as well as An Essay on the Knowledge of the Characters of Men, selections from The Champion, and the Preface to The Adventures of David Simple are also included.[...]