From Ikaria to the Stars

Peter Green is James R. Dougherty, Jr., Centennial Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin. Currently he serves as Adjunct Professor of Classics at the University of Iowa and Editor of Syllecta Classica.

"The essays in this volume supply sumptuous mezes to give you an appetite to fill your belly with the classics. All are informed by knoweldge not only of the canonical texts but, it seems, of almost every scrap of un-golden age scribble that might be useful to Green's unflagging purpose... a classical education in itself."--CULTURE supplement to the SUNDAY TIMES, 14 November 2004 "Green presents to historians, philosophers, and students of literature generally the reflections of a robust, generous, wonderfully learned, opinionated, personally involved, unfailingly interesting monitor of western civilization past and present." Alan L. Boegehold, Professor Emeritus of Classics, Brown University "... it is undeniable that few scholars have made such an effort to allow the Greeks and Romans to speak for themselves; even fewer have been blessed with such a good ear for the rhetoric of self-delusion... The enviable scholarly range Green demonstrates in this volume is representative of his enormously diverse oeuvre, which covers classical and Hellenistic history as well as translations of Apollonius, Ovid and Juvenal... What loosely connects the seventeen revised essays and reviews in this volume ... is a historically contextualizing but imaginative approach to ancient thought, especially mythology. Almost all the essays emphasize Green's conviction that myths are more significant than historical narratives."oEdith Hall, Times Literary Supplement, February 11 2005 "

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. "These Fragments Have I Shored against My Ruins": Apollonius Rhodius and the Social Revalidation of Myth for a New Age2. The Flight-Plan of Daedalus3. Works and Days 1-285: Hesiod's Invisible Audience4. Athenian History and Historians in the Fifth Century B.C.5. The Metamorphosis of the Barbarian: Athenian Panhellenism in a Changing World6. Text and Context in the Matter of Xenophon's Exile7. Rebooking the Flute-Girls: A Fresh Look at the Chronological Evidence for the Fall of Athens and the Eight-Month Rule of the Thirty8. A Variety of Greek Appetites9. Alexander's Alexandria10. The Muses' Birdcage, Then and Now11. How Political Was the Stoa?12. Ancient Ethics, Modern Therapy13. Getting to Be a Star: The Politics of Catasterism14. The Innocence of Procris: Ovid A.A. 3. 687-74615. Magic and the Principle of Apparent Causality in Pliny's Natural HistoryAppendix A. Tanglewood Tales for the YuppiesAppendix B. Homer for the KiddiesBibliographyIndex