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Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece by Barbara Kowalzig

Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece

Barbara Kowalzig

508 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

5.0puddlejumper's review
history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Rape in Antiquity: Sexual Violence in the Greek and Roman Worlds by Susan Deacy, Karen F. Pierce

Rape in Antiquity: Sexual Violence in the Greek and Roman Worlds

Susan Deacy, Karen F. Pierce

274 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

5.0puddlejumper's review
nonfiction essays history sociology true crime challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Sexual Symmetry: Love in the Ancient Novel and Related Genres by David Konstan

Sexual Symmetry: Love in the Ancient Novel and Related Genres

David Konstan

286 pages • missing pub info (editions)

5.0puddlejumper's review
nonfiction classics history literary reflective medium-paced
Lives of the Twelve Caesars by Suetonius

Lives of the Twelve Caesars

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars #1-12

Suetonius

384 pages • first pub 121 (editions)

5.0puddlejumper's review
nonfiction biography classics history challenging informative slow-paced
The Library of Greek Mythology by Apollodorus

The Library of Greek Mythology

Apollodorus

291 pages • first pub 200 (editions)

5.0puddlejumper's review
nonfiction classics history adventurous informative slow-paced
Sophocles: Ajax by Sophocles

Sophocles: Ajax

Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama

Sophocles

122 pages • missing pub info (editions)

5.0puddlejumper's review
fiction art classics dark fast-paced
Lysistrata and Other Plays by Aristophanes

Lysistrata and Other Plays

Aristophanes

241 pages • missing pub info (editions)

5.0puddlejumper's review
fiction classics play challenging reflective medium-paced
The Bones of Avalon by Phil Rickman

The Bones of Avalon

John Dee Papers #1

Phil Rickman

missing duration info • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0puddlejumper's review
fiction crime historical mystery adventurous mysterious medium-paced
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo

War Horse

War Horse #1

Michael Morpurgo

192 pages • first pub 1982 (editions)

5.0puddlejumper's review
fiction historical middle grade adventurous emotional medium-paced
The Unquiet Bones by Mel Starr

The Unquiet Bones

The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #1

Mel Starr

252 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

5.0puddlejumper's review
fiction historical mystery mysterious medium-paced