Greek Laughter and Tears Antiquity and After

by Alexiou, Margaret; Cairns, Douglas

• ISBN13: 9781474403795
• ISBN10: 1474403794
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2017-07-01
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Author Biography

Margaret Alexiou is Professor Emerita of Modern Greek Studies and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University. She is the author of The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition (Cambridge University Press, 1974, Rowman & Littlefield second edition, 2002) and After Antiquity: Greek Language, Myth and Metaphor (Cornell University Press, 2002).
Douglas Cairns is Professor of Classics in the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Aidôs: The Psychology and Ethics of Honour and Shame in Ancient Greek Literature (1993), Bacchylides: Five Epinician Odes (2010), and Sophocles: Antigone (2014).