Author: Vayos Liapis

Douglas Cairns is Professor of Classics in the University of Edinburgh. His publications on Greek literature and thought include the monograph Aidos: The psychology and ethics of honour and shame in ancient Greek literature (OUP, 1993). He has edited Oxford Readings in Homer”s Iliad (OUP, 2001), and Body Language in the Greek and Roman Worlds (Classical Press of Wales, 2005). Vayos Liapis is associate professor of Greek at the Universite de Montreal. His publications include a commentary on “Menander”s” Monostichoi and a monograph entitled The Unknown God: Limits of human knowledge in the Presocratics and in Oedipus Tyrannus. He has also published papers on Greek tragedy and Hellenistic poetry. He is currently preparing a commentary on [Euripides”] Rhesus.