David Konstan Books
Greek Comedy And Ideology
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...
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Cyclops
By David Konstan, Heather McHugh, Euripides, With Introduction And Notes By David Konstan
Based On The Conviction That Only Translators Who Write Poetry Themselves Can Properly Re-create The Celebrated And Timeless Tragedies Of Aeschylus, Sophocles, And Euripides, The Greek Tragedy In N...
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Before Forgiveness: The Origins Of A Moral Idea
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 Fu...
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Friendship In The Classical World
David Konstan. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 177-198) And Index.
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Ancient Perceptions Of Greek Ethnicity
By Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg, Antony Spawforth, Erich S. Gruen, Beth Cohen, Suzanne Said, David Konstan, Irad Malkin, Jonathan M. Hall, Dorothy J. Thompson, Carla M. Antonaccio, Jeremy McInerney, Rosalind Thomas, Catherine Morgan
Introduction / Irad Malkin -- To Hellēnikon Ethnos: Ethnicity And The Construction Of Ancient Greek Identity / David Konstan -- Ethnos And Ethnicity In Early Greece / Jeremy Mcinerney -- Ethne, Eth...
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Sexual Symmetry: Love In The Ancient Novel And Related Genres
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 Of...
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Simplicius On Aristotle Physics 6
"Book Six of Aristotle's Physics, which concerns the continuum, shows Aristotle at his best. It contains his attack on atomism which forced subsequent Greek and Islamic atomists to reshape their vi...
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Pity Transformed
Pity Transformed Is The Only Full-length Discussion Of Pity In The Classical World In Any Language. In This Fascinating Examination Of How Pity Was Imagined And Expressed In Classical Antiquity, Da...
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