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From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Overall very good and clean. - CONTENTS: Abbreviations and Citations -- Chronology -- Introduction: Almost Impossible to Think Sanely about Greece -- I. PAST GREATNESS AND PRESENT DEBASEMENT (1770-1833) -- 1. Want to Revive Athens -- 2. Greeces of Byron and of Homer -- 3. On the Ruins of Missolonghi -- II. THE MAGIC FORCE OF LEGEND (1833-1913) -- 4. Dangerous Ground -- 5. Pet Balkan People -- 6. Politicized Pans -- III. THE END OF AMBROSIA AND BRIGANDS (1914-1939) -- 7. Constantinople, Our Star -- 8. On the Quai at Smyrna -- 9. A Hard Place to Write About -- Conclusion: A New Kind of Byronism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. - David Roessel holds a Ph.D. in English from Princeton University. He is the associate editor of The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes and the author of numerous essays on modem poetry. ISBN 9780195166620