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Hugh Lloyd-Jones is the Regius Professor of Greek Emeritus at Oxford University. His many books include The Justice of Zeus, the Oxford Text of Sophocles, and three volumes of Sophocles for the Loeb Classical Library. (December 2000)
Becoming Homer
Epic Singers and Oral Tradition
by Albert Bates Lord
Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet
by Barry B. Powell
Cadmean Letters: The Transmission of the Alphabet to the Aegean and Further West Before 1400 B.C.
by Martin Bernal
March 5, 1992 issue
Welcome Homer!
Homer: The Iliad
translated by Robert Fagles, introduction and notes by Bernard Knox
The Iliad for Speaking Steingrabenstrasse 20, 8036 Briebrunntam Ammersee, Germany)
translated by Michael Reck
The Odyssey of Homer
a new verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum
February 14, 1991 issue
Life Styles of the Rich and Famous
Caligula: The Corruption of Power
by Anthony A. Barrett
Claudius
by Barbara Levick
December 6, 1990 issue
Lost History of the Lost Library
The Vanished Library: A Wonder of the Ancient World
by Luciano Canfora, translated by Martin Ryle
June 14, 1990 issue
Roman Grand Guignol
Lucan's 'Civil War'
translated into English verse by P.F. Widdows
January 18, 1990 issue
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Priapea: Poems for a Phallic God
translated and edited by W.H. Parker
November 10, 1988 issue
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