Books published by Harvard University Press

The prolific scholar-poet Callimachus of Cyrene spent his career at the royal court and great Library at Alexandria. Creatively reworking the language and generic properties of his predecessors, Callimachus developed a distinctive style, learned and elegant, that became an important model for subsequent poets both Greek and Roman.

The prolific scholar-poet Callimachus of Cyrene spent his career at the royal court and great Library at Alexandria. Creatively reworking the language and generic properties of his predecessors, Callimachus developed a distinctive style, learned and elegant, that became an important model for subsequent poets both Greek and Roman.

The Epic of Ram by Tulsidas has become the most beloved retelling of the ancient Ramayana story across northern India and an influential literary masterpiece. This volume presents the poet's grand introduction to Ram, setting the stage for his advent and divine mission.

Formulaic phraseology presents the epitome of words worn and weathered by trial and the tests of time. Weathered Words concentrates on verbal art, which makes Oral-Formulaic Theory (OFT) a major point of reference. Each of the eighteen essays gathered here brings particular aspects of formulaic language into focus.

In Lineages Embedded in Temple Networks, Richard Wang explores the key role played by elite Daoists in social and cultural life in Ming China, notably by mediating between local networks and the state through their clerical lineages-empire-wide networks channeling knowledge and resources-and by controlling central temples.

Commercial aviation took shape in Hong Kong as the city developed into a powerful economy. In Hong Kong Takes Flight, John Wong argues that Hong Kong's development into a regional and global airline hub was not preordained and views the city's globalization through the prism of its airline industry.

Giovanni Gioviano Pontano was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance as well as a leading statesman. Eclogues and Garden of the Hesperides, both broadly inspired by Virgil, might be considered Pontano's love songs to the landscapes of Naples. This volume features the first published translations of both works into English.

The second James Loeb Biennial Conference focused on his multifaceted engagement with the material culture of the ancient world as a scholar, connoisseur, collector, and curator. The resulting essays also reflect on Loeb's contemporary significance, as his collections continue to be curated and studied in today's rapidly evolving arts environment.

A Monument More Lasting than Bronze analyzes the motives for establishing a Department of Classics at the University of Malawi and the political goals it served, and examines it in the context of Classics worldwide. A balanced team of authors, some Malawian, some foreign with Malawian connections, brings varied perspectives to this reflection.

Ilarion, Klim Smoljatic, and Kirill of Turov are remarkable for their personal and literary achievements. Franklin prefaces their work with a substantial introduction that places each of the authors in historical context and examines the literary qualities, as well as the textual complexities, of these outstanding examples of Rus' literature.

David Frick's biography-the first major English-language work on Smotryc'kyj-examines the ways in which established cultures were altered by cross-cultural understandings and misunderstandings, resulting from the confrontation and mutual adaptation of two or more diverse cultures.

Professor Oleh Ilnytzkyj seeks to rectify the misinterpretations surrounding the Futurists and their leader Mykhail Semenko by providing the first major English-language monograph on this vibrant literary movement and its charismatic leader.

Emerson's journals of 1847-1848 deal primarily with his second visit to Europe, occasioned by a British lecture tour. The journals, notebooks, and letters of these years recorded materials for lectures that Emerson composed abroad and shortly after his return to Concord, and ultimately for English Traits, which he was to publish in 1856.

Grounded in the legacies of two pioneering scholars of oral literature, Milman Parry and Albert Lord, Singers and Tales in the Twenty-First Century gathers essays on what the study of oral poetry means today across diverse traditions, especially in light of transformations that have dramatically reshaped and destabilized the notion of tradition.

In Poetry and the Polis in Euripidean Tragedy, Jonah Radding contends that political issues addressed in Euripides¿s tragedies are inextricably related to his use of choral lyric genres such as paean and epinician, and to his engagement with canonical texts such as the Iliad and Aeschylus¿s Agamemnon. Poetry and politics each illuminate the other.

Imagined Geographies in the Mediterranean, Middle East, and Beyond is a collaborative volume focusing on imagined geography and the relationships among power, knowledge, and space¿including connections within this region and with Iran, Inner Asia, and the Indian Ocean. It is a sequel to Imperial Geographies in Byzantine and Ottoman Space.

College still looks like it did a century ago, with instructors delivering lectures to silent rows of students. Yet research shows unambiguously that active learning is more effective and inclusive. The New College Classroom translates the evidence into hands-on guidance for teachers in every discipline and institution, so all students can excel.