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CONTENTS
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Peter Green
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS vi
- Acknowledgments ix
- Abbreviations x
- Introduction 1
- 1 ‘‘These Fragments Have I Shored against My Ruins’’: Apollonius Rhodius and the Social Revalidation of Myth for a New Age 5
- 2 The Flight-Plan of Daedalus 40
- 3 Works and Days 1–285: Hesiod’s Invisible Audience 47
- 4 Athenian History and Historians in the Fifth Century B.C. 67
- 5 The Metamorphosis of the Barbarian: Athenian Panhellenism in a Changing World 104
- 6 Text and Context in the Matter of Xenophon’s Exile 133
- 7 Rebooking the Flute-Girls: A Fresh Look at the Chronological Evidence for the Fall of Athens and the Eight-Month Rule of the Thirty 144
- 8 A Variety of Greek Appetites 160
- 9 Alexander’s Alexandria 172
- 10 The Muses’ Birdcage, Then and Now 197
- 11 How Political Was the Stoa? 210
- 12 Ancient Ethics, Modern Therapy 222
- 13 Getting to Be a Star: The Politics of Catasterism 234
- 14 The Innocence of Procris: Ovid AA 3.687–746 250
- 15 Magic and the Principle of Apparent Causality in Pliny’s Natural History 264
- Appendix A. Tanglewood Tales for the Yuppies 281
- Appendix B. Homer for the Kiddies 288
- Bibliography 297
- Index 307
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS vi
- Acknowledgments ix
- Abbreviations x
- Introduction 1
- 1 ‘‘These Fragments Have I Shored against My Ruins’’: Apollonius Rhodius and the Social Revalidation of Myth for a New Age 5
- 2 The Flight-Plan of Daedalus 40
- 3 Works and Days 1–285: Hesiod’s Invisible Audience 47
- 4 Athenian History and Historians in the Fifth Century B.C. 67
- 5 The Metamorphosis of the Barbarian: Athenian Panhellenism in a Changing World 104
- 6 Text and Context in the Matter of Xenophon’s Exile 133
- 7 Rebooking the Flute-Girls: A Fresh Look at the Chronological Evidence for the Fall of Athens and the Eight-Month Rule of the Thirty 144
- 8 A Variety of Greek Appetites 160
- 9 Alexander’s Alexandria 172
- 10 The Muses’ Birdcage, Then and Now 197
- 11 How Political Was the Stoa? 210
- 12 Ancient Ethics, Modern Therapy 222
- 13 Getting to Be a Star: The Politics of Catasterism 234
- 14 The Innocence of Procris: Ovid AA 3.687–746 250
- 15 Magic and the Principle of Apparent Causality in Pliny’s Natural History 264
- Appendix A. Tanglewood Tales for the Yuppies 281
- Appendix B. Homer for the Kiddies 288
- Bibliography 297
- Index 307
