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Books by Mary Lefkowitz
  | | Women's Life in Greece and Rome(4th Edition) A Source Book in Translation by Professor Maureen B. Fant, Mary R. Lefkowitz Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 2016 by Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4214-2113-1, ISBN: 1-4214-2113-5 "The essential collection of source materials on the lives of women in the ancient world.Now in its fourth edition, this highly acclaimed sourcebook examines the public and private lives and legal status of Greek and Roman women. The texts represent women of all social classes, from public figures remembered for their deeds (or misdeeds), to priestesses, poets, and intellectuals, to working women, such as musicians, wet nurses, and prost ..." |
 | | The Lives of the Greek Poets, second edition(2nd Edition) by Mary R. Lefkowitz Pasta Dura, 220 Pages, Published 2012 by Johns Hopkins Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-1-4214-0463-9, ISBN: 1-4214-0463-X "Renowned scholar Mary R. Lefkowitz has extensively revised and rewritten her 1981 classic to introduce a new generation of students to the lives of the Greek poets. Thoroughly updated with references to the most recent scholarship, this second edition includes new material and fresh analysis of the ancient biographies of Greece's most famous poets. With little or no independent historical information to draw on, ancient writers searched ..." |
 | | Greek Gods, Human Lives(3rd Edition) What We Can Learn from Myths by Mary R. Lefkowitz, Professor Mary Lefkowitz Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2005 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-10769-2, ISBN: 0-300-10769-2 "The mythology of ancient Greece has fascinated readers for two millennia and has formed the basis of Western civilization. The Greek gods are a perennial source of delight because they seem so much like us: in their rages, their love affairs, and their obsession with honor, the gods often appear all too human. In Greek Gods, Human Lives, preeminent classicist Mary Lefkowitz reintroduces readers to the literature of ancient Greece. Lefko ..." |
 | | Greek Gods, Human Lives(1st Edition) What We Can Learn from Myths by Mary R. Lefkowitz, Professor Mary Lefkowitz Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2003 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-10145-4, ISBN: 0-300-10145-7 "`The myths, as the ancient authors related them, do not offer hope so much as a means of understanding.' Greek and Roman narratives are full of discussion and descriptions of the actions of the gods and their influence over human lives and, in this study, Mary Lefkowitz explores the role of gods and divine action in some of these texts. Essentially, she aims to show what writers were trying to tell their audience about the gods, writing ..." |
 | | History Lesson(1st Edition) A Race Odyssey by Mary R. Lefkowitz, Professor Mary Lefkowitz Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2008 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-12659-4, ISBN: 0-300-12659-X "In the early 1990s, Classics professor Mary Lefkowitz discovered that one of her faculty colleagues at Wellesley College was teaching his students that Greek culture had been stolen from Africa and that Jews were responsible for the slave trade. This book tells the disturbing story of what happened when she spoke out. Lefkowitz quickly learned that to investigate the origin and meaning of myths composed by people who have for centuries ..." |
 | | Women in Greek Myth(2nd Edition) by Professor Mary R. Lefkowitz, Mary Rosenthal Lefkowitz Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 2007 by Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-8650-8, ISBN: 0-8018-8650-3 "In the first edition of Women in Greek Myth, Mary R. Lefkowitz convincingly challenged narrow, ideological interpretations of the roles of female characters in Greek mythology. Where some scholars saw the Amazons as the last remnant of a forgotten matriarchy, Clytemnestra as a frustrated individualist, and Antigone as an oppressed revolutionary, Lefkowitz argued that such views were justified neither by the myths themselves nor by the r ..." |
 | | The Lives of the Greek Poets(2nd Edition) by Mary R. Lefkowitz Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2012 by Bristol Classical Press ISBN-13: 978-1-78093-089-3, ISBN: 1-78093-089-5 "Mary R. Lefkowitz has extensively revised and rewritten her classic study to introduce a new generation of students to the lives of the Greek poets. Thoroughly updated with references to the most recent scholarship, this second edition includes new material and fresh analysis of the ancient biographies of Greece's most famous poets.With little or no independent historical information to draw on, ancient writers searched for biographical ..." |
 | | The Lives of the Greek Poets(2nd Edition) by Mary R. Lefkowitz Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2012 by Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4214-0464-6, ISBN: 1-4214-0464-8 "Renowned scholar Mary R. Lefkowitz has extensively revised and rewritten her 1981 classic to introduce a new generation of students to the lives of the Greek poets. Thoroughly updated with references to the most recent scholarship, this second edition includes new material and fresh analysis of the ancient biographies of Greece's most famous poets. With little or no independent historical information to draw on, ancient writers searched ..." |
 | | Women's Life in Greece and Rome(4th Edition) A Source Book in Translation by Mary R. Lefkowitz, Maureen B. Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 2016 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-1-4725-7847-1, ISBN: 1-4725-7847-3 "This highly acclaimed collection, the first sourcebook on ancient women and now in its fourth edition, provides a unique look into the public and private lives and legal status of Greek and Roman women. The texts represent women of all social classes, from public figures remembered for their deeds (or misdeeds), to priestesses, poets, and intellectuals, to working women, such as musicians, wet nurses, and prostitutes, to homemakers. The ..." |
 | | Pandora's Daughters The Role and Status of Women in Greek and Roman Antiquity (Ancient Society and History) by Professor Eva Cantarella, Professor Maureen B. Fant, Maureen B. Fant, Mary R. Leifkowitz, Mary R. Lefkowitz Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 1986 by Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-3385-4, ISBN: 0-8018-3385-X "Expanded and updated for this English-language translation, this book offers the first history of women in ancient Greece and Rome to be written from a legal perspective. Cantarella demonstrates how literary, anecdotal. and judicial sources can and cannot be used to discover that Greek and Roman men thought about women." |
 | | Women in Greek Myth(Reprint) by Professor Mary R. Lefkowitz Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 1986 by The Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-3367-0, ISBN: 0-8018-3367-1 "Modern critics often interpret ancient literature according to their own standards ad preoccupations, as if they were reading the works of a contemporary author. Most recently, feminists have applied their own criteria to the rich variety of female characters in Greek mythology. The Amazons are seen as representatives of an original matriarchy, Clytemnestra as a frustrated individualist, Antigone an oppressed revolutionary. The Greek my ..." |
 | | Women's Life in Greece and Rome by Professor Mary R. Lefkowitz, Maureen B. Fant Hardcover, 294 Pages, Published 1982 by The Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-2865-2, ISBN: 0-8018-2865-1 "This highly acclaimed collection provides a rare look into the private lives and legal status of Greek and Roman women of all social classes -- wet nurses, prostitutes, poets, gladiators, musicians, intellectuals, priestesses, and housewives. The third edition offers new texts in nearly every section, vividly describing women's sentiments and circumstances through readings on love, bereavement, and friendship, but also on property right ..." |
 | | Euripides and the Gods(1st Edition) (Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture) by Mary R. Lefkowitz Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2015 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-975205-8, ISBN: 0-19-975205-2 "Many modern readers believe that, in his dramas, Euripides was questioning the nature and sometimes even the existence of the gods. In Euripides and the Gods, eminent classicist Mary K. Lefkowitz shows that the tragedian is not undermining ancient religion, but rather describing with a brutal realism what the gods are like, reminding his mortal audience of the limitations of human understanding. Although some scholars have begun to expr ..." |
 | | Black Athena Revisited by Mary R. Lefkowitz, Guy Maclean Rogers 544 Pages, Published 2014 by Unc Press Books ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-2032-9, ISBN: 1-4696-2032-4 "Let me begin by quoting two summary evaluations, the first by Richard Parker, the second by Otto Neugebauer. (The two are joint editors of the fundamental edition of ancient Egyptian astronomical texts.) More than any other ancient people, the Egyptians seem to have occupied themselves with the reckoning of time. They were the first to come to an approximation of the true length of the natural year and to devise a calendar based on ..." |
 | | The Lives of the Greek Poets by Mary R. Lefkowitz 240 Pages, Published 2013 by Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-4725-0308-4, ISBN: 1-4725-0308-2 "As an ancient commentator on Hipp. 612 observes ... The story that the fourthcentury comic poet Hermippus (T 2 KA, PCG V, 561) charged Aspasia with impiety (Plut., Per. 32.1) appears ... 2007, 145–46. Lucian's remarks about being torn apart by Cynics (kynikoi) inspired the story that he was torn apart by dogs ( kynes) ..." |
 | | History Lesson A Race Odyssey by Mary R. Lefkowitz 209 Pages, Published 2008 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-14519-9, ISBN: 0-300-14519-5 "I was still sitting in my place in the Academic Council chamber when two colleagues came up, Robin Akert in psychology and Julie Drucker in political science. They were horrified by what had happened and asked what they could do to help. I was still so shaken that I asked them to walk back with me to my office, and then to my car in the parking lot (it was now after sunset). On our way to the car we ran into Marcellus Andrews, an e ..." |
 | | Women in Greek Myth(2nd Edition) by Mary R. Lefkowitz Paperback, 278 Pages, Published 2007 by Bristol Classical Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7156-3565-0, ISBN: 0-7156-3565-4 "In the first edition of "Women in Greek Myth", published in 1986, Mary R. Lefkowitz convincingly challenged narrow, ideological interpretations of the roles of female characters in Greek mythology. Where some scholars saw the Amazons as the last remnant of a forgotten matriarchy, Clytemnestra as a frustrated individualist, and Antigone as an oppressed revolutionary, Lefkowitz argued that such views were justified neither by the myths th ..." |
 | | Women's Life in Greece and Rome. Bristol Classical Press. 2005.(3rd Edition) by Mary R. Lefkowitz, Maureen B. Fant Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2005 by Duckworth G ISBN-13: 978-0-7156-3433-2, ISBN: 0-7156-3433-X "A source book for courses in women in antiquity. This third edition touchs on such topics of interest as ageing, clitoridectomy, Late Antiquity, and many more. A four-page plate section supplements the texts with archaeological documents of women's lives." |
 | | Women's Life in Greece and Rome(2nd Edition) by Mary R. Lefkowitz, Maureen B. Fant Paperback, 294 Pages, Published 1997 by Duckworth Pub ISBN-13: 978-0-7156-1641-3, ISBN: 0-7156-1641-2 ". 1992 2nd ed, 387pp" |
 | | First-Person Fictions(1st Edition) Pindar's Poetic "I" by Mary Rosenthal Lefkowitz Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 1991 by Clarendon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-814686-5, ISBN: 0-19-814686-8 |
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