Claude Calame is Director of Studies at the école des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and Honorary Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the Université de Lausanne. He is the author of nearly a dozen books, including The Craft of Poetic Speech in Ancient Greece (also from Cornell), Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece, The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece, and most recently Myth and History in Ancient Greece. Peter M. Burk is a professional translator and a doctoral candidate in Classics at Princeton University.

"This volume comprises articles first published between 1986 and 1997, most of which have not previously appeared in English. . . . Their juxtaposition here results in an unfailingly thought-provoking book . . . in a precise and elegant translation . . . . This collection, in all its formidable scope, should have a wide readership . . . . For the international community of classicists, this volume provides an accessible and inspiring cross-section of Calame's recent work."—Helen Van Noorden, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, September 2005

Claude Calame is Director of Studies at the école des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and Honorary Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the Université de Lausanne. He is the author of nearly a dozen books, including The Craft of Poetic Speech in Ancient Greece (also from Cornell), Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece, The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece, and most recently Myth and History in Ancient Greece. Peter M. Burk is a professional translator and a doctoral candidate in Classics at Princeton University.

"This volume comprises articles first published between 1986 and 1997, most of which have not previously appeared in English. . . . Their juxtaposition here results in an unfailingly thought-provoking book . . . in a precise and elegant translation . . . . This collection, in all its formidable scope, should have a wide readership . . . . For the international community of classicists, this volume provides an accessible and inspiring cross-section of Calame's recent work."—Helen Van Noorden, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, September 2005

Claude Calame is Director of Studies at the école des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and Honorary Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the Université de Lausanne. He is the author of nearly a dozen books, including The Craft of Poetic Speech in Ancient Greece (also from Cornell), Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece, The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece, and most recently Myth and History in Ancient Greece. Peter M. Burk is a professional translator and a doctoral candidate in Classics at Princeton University.

"This volume comprises articles first published between 1986 and 1997, most of which have not previously appeared in English. . . . Their juxtaposition here results in an unfailingly thought-provoking book . . . in a precise and elegant translation . . . . This collection, in all its formidable scope, should have a wide readership . . . . For the international community of classicists, this volume provides an accessible and inspiring cross-section of Calame's recent work."—Helen Van Noorden, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, September 2005