The Victory Ode: An Introduction (Noyes Classical Studies)

by Mary R. Lefkowitz (Editor)

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, 1st Edition, Noyes 1976. Royal 8vo. 186pp. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, small discreet inscription, no further marks of any kind. Bound in bright gilt lettered green cloth, housed and protected in original colour illustrated dustwrapper with tiny chip to haed of upper and short (1cm) closed tear to head of lower wrapper. A seminal guide to six odes for Hieron of Syracuse, presuming no prior knowlege of either Pindar or Bacchylides. Invaluable for reader and scholar alike.

Hardcover

First published December 31, 1976

About the author

Mary R. Lefkowitz (born April 30, 1935), American scholar of Classics. She studied at Wellesley College before obtaining a Ph.D. in Classical Philology from Radcliffe College in 1961. Lefkowitz has published on subjects including mythology, women in antiquity, Pindar, and fiction in ancient biography.
She came to the attention of a wider audience through her criticism of the claims of Martin Bernal in Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization in her book Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth As History. In Black Athena Revisited (1996), which she edited with Guy MacLean Rogers, her colleague at Wellesley College, the ideas of Martin Bernal are further scrutinized.