Böcker i Center for Hellenic Studies and the Foundation of the Hellenic World (HUP)-serien

This book, the first study dedicated exclusively to the art, practice, and charismatic persona of the citharode, traverses a range of poetic and prose texts, iconography, and inscriptions. Power offers a nuanced account of aesthetic and sociocultural complexities of citharodic song and examines the role of the songmakers in the popular imagination.

Explores the superficially minor role of Thetis in the Iliad. This volume features six additional essays, which cover a range of topics in the study of the Greek Epic: the workings of genre in Hesiod and Homer; the poetics of exchange; and the nature of enmity and friendship. It also includes a study of the Hesiodic Catalog of Women.