Leona Ascher

Biographic Data

ID5636173
NAMELeona Ascher
GIVEN NAMESLeona
FAMILY NAMEAscher
SIGNATUREASCHER L
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS28
TOTAL CITATIONS9
WORKS AS AUTHOR28
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1998
H-INDEX2

  • Gender and Immortality

    Leona Ascher, Deborah LyonsARTICLEThe Classical World1998

  • The Craft of Zeus

    Leona Ascher, John Scheid et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1998

  • Beyond Aristophanes

    Leona Ascher, Gregory W DobrowARTICLEThe Classical World1998

  • Medea

    Leona AscherREVIEWThe Classical World1998

    From the dawn of European literature, the figure of Medea--best known as the helpmate of Jason and murderer of her own children--has inspired artists in all fields throughout all centuries. Euripides, Seneca, Corneille, Delacroix, Anouilh, Pasolini, Maria Callas, Martha Graham, Samuel Barber, and Diana Rigg are among the many who have given Medea life on stage, film, and canvas, through music and dance, from ancient Greek drama to Broadway. In se…

  • Homer and the Indo-Europeans

    Leona Ascher, Julian BaldickARTICLEThe Classical World1998

  • Martial in English

    Leona Ascher, J P Sullivan et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1998

    Tudor England to the Restoration - 1540-1660 The Restoration to the Augustans - 1660-1700 The 18th century - Augustans and Neoclassicists The Romantics to Pound - 1800-c.1950 The modern world - the late 20th century

  • The "Odyssey" in Athens

    Leona Ascher, Erwin F CookARTICLEThe Classical World1998Cited by: 7

  • Greek Comedy and Ideology

    Leona AscherREVIEWThe Classical World1998

    The happy endings of comedy resolve conflicts that have their sources in the real world. These conflicts, in turn, leave their mark upon the texts in the form of gaps in the plot and inconsistencies of characterization. Greek Comedy and Ideology analyses how the structure of ancient Greek comedy betrays and responds to cultural tensions in the society of the classical city-state. Individual chapters treat Aristophanic and Menandrean comedies, wit…

  • Literacy and Paideia in Ancient Greece

    Leona Ascher, Kevin Robb et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1997

  • The Eye of the Beholder

    Leona Ascher, Robert Garland et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1997

  • The Heart of Achilles

    Leona Ascher, Graham ZankerARTICLEThe Classical World1996Cited by: 2

  • Martial

    Leona Ascher, J P SullivanARTICLEThe Classical World1995

  • The Psychoanalytic Theory of Greek Tragedy

    Leona Ascher, C F AlfordARTICLEThe Classical World1994

    Alford begins with the possibility that the insights into human needs and aspirations contained in Greek tragedy might be more profound than psychoanalytic theory. He offers his own psychoanalytic interpretation of the tragedies, one that reconstructs the dramatists' views of the world

  • Martial

    Leona Ascher, James P SullivanARTICLEThe Classical World1993

  • The Classical Epic

    Leona Ascher, Thomas J SienkewiczARTICLEThe Classical World1992

  • The Iliad

    Leona Ascher, Paolo VivanteARTICLEThe Classical World1992

  • Children and Childhood in Classical Athens

    Leona Ascher, Mark GoldenARTICLEThe Classical World1991

  • The Greek Way of Life

    Leona Ascher, Robert GarlandARTICLEThe Classical World1991

  • Romans and Blacks

    Leona Ascher, Lloyd A ThompsonARTICLEThe Classical World1991

  • Essays Ancient and Modern

    Leona Ascher, Bernard M W Knox et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1991

  • Music in Greek and Roman Culture

    Leona Ascher, Rosaria Vignolo Munson et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1991

  • Adults and Children in the Roman Empire

    Leona Ascher, Thomas WiedemannARTICLEThe Classical World1990

  • Beyond Anger

    Leona Ascher, S H BraundARTICLEThe Classical World1990

    Preface 1. Juvenal and anger 2. Satire 7: irony, a double-edged sword 3. Satire 8: moralist or nihilist? Appendix to chapter 3: the theme of true nobility 4. Satire 9: ironist and victim 5. Book III: beyond anger, irony Notes Bibliography Index

  • The Story of Lucretia

    Leona Ascher, Anthony BowenARTICLEThe Classical World1989

  • Bibliography of Greek Education and Related Topics

    Leona Ascher, Frederick A G Beck et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1989