Plutarch’s Cities is the first comprehensive attempt to assess the significance of the polis in Plut... more

, Athanassakis shows how twentieth- and twenty-first-century US writers have sought to rethink traditional understandings of how the...... more

. Athanassakis and Benjamin M. Wolkow have produced an accurate and elegant translation accompanied by rich commentary....... more

This book addresses the many interlocking problems in understanding the modes of performance, dissem... more

Apostolos N. Athanassakis) and Words to Live By: Journeys in Ancient and Modern Egyptian Monasticism, both published by...... more

Give me a word, Father. From the time of Saint Antony ’at least ’younger monks would ask older, expe... more

An Encomium on Saint Anthony by John of Schmun A letter to the Disciples of Antony by Serapion of Th... more

. Athanassakis positions the philosopher-poet as heir to a long tradition of Hellenic poetry. Hesiod’s poems demonstrate the author’s...... more

celebrated translations of these two poems and of the Shield, a very ancient poem of disputed authorship, Apostolos Athanassakis...... more

Athanassakis preserves the essential simplicity of the original Greek, offering a straightforward, line-by-line translation that...... more

of his acclaimed translations of the hymns, Apostolos Athanassakis preserves the vigor and the magic of the ancient text...... more