Greek Comedy and Ideology

By David Konstan

Comedy, with its happy endings, attempts to resolve conflicts that arise in the real world. These conflicts, however, leave their mark on the texts in the form of gaps in plot and inconsistencies i...

Before forgiveness

By David Konstan

"In this book, David Konstan argues that the modern concept of interpersonal forgiveness, in the full sense of the term, did not exist in ancient Greece and Rome. Even more startlingly, it is not f...

Friendship in the Classical World

By David Konstan

Homer s Iliad

By David Konstan, Stanley Brodwin, David Sider

Ancient Perceptions of Greek Ethnicity Hellenic Studies Series

By Rosalind Thomas, Dorothy J. Thompson, Catherine Morgan, David Konstan, Beth Cohen, Antony Spawforth, Jonathan M. Hall, Erich S. Gruen, Suzanne Said, Jeremy McInerney, Carla M. Antonaccio, Heleen Sancisi Weerdenburg

Sexual symmetry

By David Konstan

"In the Greek romances," writes David Konstan, "sighs, tears, and suicide attempts are as characteristic of the male as of the female in distress; ruses, disguises, and outright violence in defense...

On Aristotle s Physics 6

By David Konstan

Pity Transformed Classical Inter Faces Classical Inter Faces

By David Konstan

Envy Spite and Jealousy

By David Konstan

Roman comedy

By David Konstan