Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. His books include Homer on Life and Death.
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Under the Volcano
March 11, 2010
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found
by Mary Beard
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Virgil Lives!
June 26, 2008
The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years
edited by Jan M. Ziolkowski and Michael C.J. Putnam
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Mad About the Boy
June 12, 2008
Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend
by Richard Stoneman
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East vs. West: The First Round
December 6, 2007
Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World
by Paul Cartledge
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The Hero’s Wife Speaks
September 21, 2006
The Penelopiad
by Margaret Atwood
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‘The True Epic Vision’
March 9, 2006
Gilgamesh: A New English Version
by Stephen Mitchell
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The Myth of the Olympics
October 21, 2004
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
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It’s All Greek!
December 18, 2003
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
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That Old Black Magic
May 1, 2003
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
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The Comedy Murder Case
July 18, 2002
The Death of Comedy
by Erich Segal
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The Unkindest Cut
November 1, 2001
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
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From Abakainon to Zygris
April 26, 2001
The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World edited by Richard J.A. Talbert
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The Invented Man
September 21, 2000
Pontius Pilate
by Ann Wroe
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Bizarre New World
June 15, 2000
Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World
edited by G.W. Bowersock, by Peter Brown, by Oleg Grabar
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Castelives
June 15, 2000
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The Virtuous East
January 20, 2000
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The Myth of Myths
November 4, 1999
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
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Plato’s Grand Design
May 6, 1999
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
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Chopping Off the Golden Bough
October 8, 1998
Magic in the Ancient World
by Fritz Graf, translated by Franklin Philip
The Great God Pan: The Survival of an Image
by John Boardman
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Fun City
June 25, 1998
Athens from Alexander to Antony
by Christian Habicht
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Their Jewish Problem
December 18, 1997
Judeophobia: Attitudes toward the Jews in the Ancient World by Peter Schäfer
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Show Us You Care, Ma’am
October 9, 1997
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Bringing Homer Home
November 28, 1996
The Odyssey of Homer translated by Robert Fagles, introduction and notes by Bernard Knox
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Gifts of the Greeks
November 14, 1996
Dinner with Persephone by Patricia Storace
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‘Black Athena’ Revisited
July 11, 1996
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Anxieties of Influence
June 20, 1996
Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History
by Mary R. Lefkowitz
Black Athena Revisited edited by Mary R. Lefkowitz, edited by Guy MacLean Rogers
The Western Greeks edited by Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli. Catalog of the exhibition. an exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, through December 8.
The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity a Bollingen Series XXXV by John Boardman
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Vases or Pots?
June 8, 1995
Artful Crafts: Ancient Greek Silverware and Pottery
by Michael Vickers and David Gill
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Cosmic Leg-Pull
April 20, 1995
Ovid: The Poems of Exile translated with introduction, notes, and glossary by Peter Green
After Ovid: New Metamorphoses edited by Michael Hofmann, edited by James Lasdun
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New Heaven, New Earth
December 22, 1994
Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith by Norman Cohn
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The Long Latin Line
October 6, 1994
Latin Literature: A History by Gian Biagio Conte, translated by Joseph B. Solodow, by revised by Don Fowler and Glenn W. Most
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In Love with Love
October 7, 1993
Love and Friendship by Allan Bloom
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Ancient Hearts on Fire
June 24, 1993
In and Out of the Mind: Greek Images of the Tragic Self by Ruth Padel
Classical and Modern Interactions: Postmodern Architecture, Multiculturism, Decline, and other Issues by Karl Galinsky
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Bisexuality in the Ancient World
May 27, 1993
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Alive in Myth
April 22, 1993
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony by Roberto Calasso, translated by Tim Parks
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The Love that Dared to Speak its Name
October 22, 1992
Bisexuality in the Ancient World
by Eva Cantarella, translated by Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin
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Decadence Revisited
May 16, 1991
Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age by Peter Green
The Hellenistic Aesthetic by Barbara Hughes Fowler
Hellenistic Poetry: An Anthology selected and translated by Barbara Hughes Fowler
Hellenism in Late Antiquity by G.W. Bowersock
Greek Sculpture by Andrew Stewart
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Ancient Kids
October 25, 1990
Children and Childhood in Classical Athens
by Mark Golden
Adults and Children in the Roman Empire
by Thomas Wiedemann
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Greek Love: An Exchange
April 26, 1990
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Love and Sex in Greece
March 29, 1990
One Hundred Years of Homosexuality and Other Essays on Greek Love by David M. Halperin
The Constraints of Desire: The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece by John J. Winkler
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A Front-Line Classicist
October 26, 1989
Essays Ancient and Modern by Bernard Knox
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‘Black Athena’
September 28, 1989
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‘Black Athena’
September 28, 1989
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Precious Stones
July 20, 1989
Imperial Spoils: The Curious Case of the Elgin Marbles by Christopher Hitchens, with essays by Robert Browning, by Graham Binns
The Elgins, 17661917: A Tale of Aristocrats, Proconsuls and Their Wives by Sydney Checkland
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Who Are These Coming to the Sacrifice?
June 15, 1989
Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Volume 1: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece, 17851985 by Martin Bernal
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Greeks, Romans, Jews & Others
March 16, 1989
Corruption and the Decline of Rome
by Ramsay MacMullen
Greeks, Romans and Barbarians: Spheres of Interaction
by Barry Cunliffe
The Jews in the Greek Age by Elias J. Bickerman
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Playing to Win
September 29, 1988
The Archaeology of the Olympics: The Olympics and Other Festivals in Antiquity edited by Wendy J. Raschke
Greek Athletics and the Genesis of Sport
by David Sansone
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O Mighty Caesar!
June 16, 1988
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‘Here was a Caesar!’
May 12, 1988
The Education of Julius Caesar: A Biography, A Reconstruction by Arthur D. Kahn
Caesar by Christian Meier
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The Father of It All
April 9, 1987
The History by Herodotus, translated by David Grene
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From Killer to Thinker
June 27, 1985
Greek Religion by Walter Burkert, translated by John Raffan