Classics

This volume gathers Robert L. Fowler's key texts on Greek mythology, mythography, and historiography - work that has reshaped views of mythography as a vital strand of Greco-Roman literary and intellectual history and sharpened our reading of Herodotus' revolutionary Histories. The collection is rounded out by two brand-new, previously unpublished essays by the author.

Cyril of Alexandria's theology rewards close reading from unexpected angles. Jonathan Morgan takes one such angle - Cyril's interpretation of circumcision - and uses it to illuminate a rich, multifaceted doctrine of salvation and a distinctive way of reading Scripture in the light of Christ.

Jacob A. Lollar provides a complete text and reception analysis of the earliest extant copies of the Acts of Thekla, disciple of the apostle Paul and the most famous female saint in Christian history. He offers new insights into the earliest attestations of her story from West Asia to North Africa.

Twenty-five essays - some newly published - by one of the leading voices in the study of early Greek theology. Ranging across Homer, Hesiod, and the lyric poets, Jenny Strauss Clay examines how the archaic Greeks thought about their gods, about the place of mortals in a world ordered by Zeus, and about the poet's authority to speak of either.