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    Classical Myth

    Barry B. Powell

    An overview of the history, theory, and stories of myths

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    Greek Poems to the Gods: Hymns from Homer to Proclus

    Barry B. Powell

    Arranged…according to each individual deity. All the hymns of Callimachus and Proclus are included and 28 of the Homeric Hymns (out of 34) and 32 of the Orphic Hymns (out…

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    The Odyssey: Translation, Introduction, and Notes by Barry B. Powell

    Barry B. Powell

    Poet and Homeric scholar Barry B. Powell offers a major new translation of this enduring epic poem.

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    Einfuhrung in die klassische Mythologie

    Barry B. Powell

    Antike Mythen verstehen. Die griechischen und roemischen Mythen von Homer, Ovid, Vergil u. a. gehoeren zum Kernbestand der europaischen Kultur. Die fundierte Einfuhrung liefert den historischen und theoretischen Hintergrund, beschreibt…

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    Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey: The Essential Books

    Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey combines into one volume the most important passages from the Iliad and the Odyssey into one handy volume. Accessible, poetic, and accurate, Barry Powell’s translations are…

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    The Aeneid

    Barry Powell, acclaimed translator of the Iliad (OUP, 2013) and the Odyssey (OUP, 2014) now delivers a graceful, lucid, free-verse translation of the Aeneid in a pleasant modern idiom. On-page…

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    Vergil’s Aeneid: The Essential Books

    Barry Powell, acclaimed translator of the Iliad (OUP, 2013) and the Odyssey (OUP, 2014) now delivers a graceful, lucid, free-verse translation of the most important books and passages of the…

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    The Odyssey

    Poet and Homeric scholar Barry B. Powell offers a major new translation of this enduring epic poem.

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    Homer

    Barry B. Powell

    This concise book is a complete and contemporary introduction to Homer and his two master-works, the Iliad and the Odyssey. It explains the Homeric Question, illuminating its current status, and…

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    Homer

    Barry B. Powell

    This concise book is a complete and contemporary introduction to Homer and his two master-works, the Iliad and the Odyssey.

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    Greek Poems to the Gods: Hymns from Homer to Proclus

    Barry B. Powell

    Arranged…according to each individual deity. All the hymns of Callimachus and Proclus are included and 28 of the Homeric Hymns (out of 34) and 32 of the Orphic Hymns (out…

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    Homer

    Barry B. Powell

    Assuming no prior knowledge of Greek, this book supplies all the background information necessary to understand the earliest and greatest works of Greek literature - Homer’s great epic poems, The…

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    Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization

    Barry B. Powell

    This is an excellent, accessible introduction to writing’s origins and development; Powell’s jargon-free exposition clarifies many important issues in a way that specialist discussions have rarely achieved to date.

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    Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization

    Barry B. Powell

    Traces the origins of writing tied to speech from ancient Sumer through the Greek alphabet and beyond. This book examines the earliest evidence for writing in Mesopotamia in the fourth…

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    Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet

    Barry B. Powell (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

    Who invented the Greek alphabet and why? This book inquires systematically into the historical causes that underlay the radical shift from earlier and less efficient writing systems to the use…

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    Writing and the Origins of Greek Literature

    Barry B. Powell (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

    Through a full examination of the nature and history of writing, its use in the ancient Near East, and especially in Greece, and its relationship to Homer, this book illuminates…

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    Writing and the Origins of Greek Literature

    Barry B. Powell (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

    Through an examination of the nature and history of writing, its use in the ancient Near East, and especially in Greece, and its relationship to Homer, this book illuminates the…

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    The Iliad

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    Powell’s translation renders the Homeric Greek with a simplicity and dignity reminiscent of the original. Lucid and fast, the text immediately engrosses the reader, with a tight and balanced rhythm…

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    The Poems of Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, and The Shield of Herakles

    Hesiod

    In this new translation of Hesiod, Barry B. Powell gives an accessible, modern verse rendering of these vibrant texts, essential to an understanding of early Greek myth and society. With…

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    The Poems of Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, and the Shield of Herakles

    Hesiod

    In this new translation of Hesiod, Barry B. Powell gives an accessible, modern verse rendering of these vibrant texts, essential to an understanding of early Greek myth and society. With…

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    A New Companion to Homer

    Ian Morris,Barry B. Powell

    This volume is an English-language survey of Homeric studies. Thirty scholars from Europe and America provide overviews of the state of knowledge and current controversies in specialist divisions in Homeric…

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    A New Companion to Homer

    Ian Morris,Barry B. Powell

    Now available in paperback for the very first time, this classic volume remains the standard handbook for Homer studies.

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    The Greeks: History, Culture, and Society

    Ian Morris (Stanford University),Barry B. Powell (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

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    The Iliad

    Homer,Ian Morris (author of Why the West has Won-for Now )

    Poet and Homeric scholar Barry B. Powell offers a major new translation of this timeless epic poem

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