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Florence¿s iconic foundling home of the Innocenti is often taken as a symbol of Renaissance creativity, innovation, and humanity. The essays in Lost and Found explore new dimensions and contexts for foundling care at the Innocenti and use archival documents and digital tools to locate it architecturally, geographically, and socially.

Ancient Greek Heroes, Athletes, Poetry centers on masterpieces of ancient Greek literature, from the Iliad and Odyssey to tragedies from the Classical Age of Athens and beyond. With a focus on the Olympics, Gregory Nagy investigates how the heroes of ancient Greek poetry related to athletes, female as well as male.

In this updated and expanded second edition of Regarding Penelope, Nancy Felson explores the relationship between Homer¿s construction of Penelope and his more general approach to poetic production and reception. Felson considers Penelope as an object of male gazes and as a subject acting from her own desire.

Samantha Kelly tells the story of Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims in sixteenth-century Rome. The only African community in premodern Europe to leave extensive documentation in their own language, they negotiated religious pluralism amid rising Catholic conformity and collaborated with Latin Christians on scholarly projects of enduring interest.

Chinäs modern history has been marked by deep spatial inequalities between regions, between cities, and between rural and urban areas. Pivot of China tells this story through the city of Zhengzhou, a dramatic urbanization success and ¿National Central City¿ that, due to spatial politics, concentrates resources at the expense of its peripheries.

National security once was not limited to physical defense. FDR equated national security with safety from foreign attack and economic want; conservatives, fearful of costs and federal expansion, stripped out domestic policy. The Contest over National Security explains why the US developed separate, imbalanced national security and welfare states.

The Iberian Apollonius of Tyre includes the poem The Book of Apollonius, a creative and Christianized adaptation, and the prose Life and History of King Apollonius, a highly literal translation of the Latin Gesta Romanorum. This volume presents new editions and English translations of these two medieval Spanish versions of the ancient legend.

Songs about Women by Romanos the Melodist contains eighteen works related to the liturgical calendar that feature important female characters, many portrayed as models for Christian life. This edition presents a new translation of the Byzantine Greek texts into English.

Among the late nineteenth-century profusion of evolutionary ideas, Wilhelm Roux¿s theory of a struggle for existence within organisms¿between tissues, cells, and even subcellular components¿is one of the most important. Evolutionary biologist David Haig and Richard Bondi present the first-ever English translation of Roux¿s pioneering work.

A groundbreaking history of philosophy and punishment, The Prison before the Panopticon traces the influence of ancient political philosophy on the modern institution of the prison, showing how prevailing theories of carceral rehabilitation and common justifications for the denial of liberty developed in classical and early modern thought.

Anthony Gregory traces the origins of Americäs modern law-and-order politics to a surprising source: the New Deal, the crucible of modern liberalism. FDR¿s tough-on-crime agenda played a crucial role in the New Dealers¿ reform agenda, which greatly expanded the limits of federal power and fundamentally altered the future of the state.

Bargains are a fact of political life. But if bargaining inevitably involves asymmetric power, can it ever be just? Drawing on an analogy to the private law of contracts and on case studies across arenas of civic life, Democratic Deals shows that, subject to proper limits, bargaining can secure political equality and protect fundamental interests.

In the age of tenure-denial lawsuits and free speech battles, colleges and universities face more intense legal pressures than ever before. Louis Guard and Joyce Jacobsen, two longtime higher education leaders, provide both a comprehensive overview and practical guidance regarding current campus legal issues.

Philosophers have spent millennia accumulating knowledge about knowledge. But negative epistemological phenomena, such as ignorance, falsity, and delusion, are persistently overlooked. Markus Gabriel argues that being wrong is part and parcel of subjectivity itself, adding a novel perspective on epistemic failures to the work of New Realism.

Yakov Feygin argues that Soviet decline owes much to internal tensions over economic reform. Focused on socioeconomic competition with the West, Khrushchev and his successors sought to build a consumer society but had only Stalinist institutions of mass mobilization to work with, resulting in unresolvable contradiction and eventual sclerosis.

From Booker T. Washington to a neighbor who speaks up at a city council meeting, many of the people who represent us were never elected. Wendy Salkin provides the first systematic analysis of the ubiquitous phenomenon of informal political representation, a practice of immense political value that raises serious ethical concerns.

In Experimentalist Constitutions, the first book that systematically compares subnational experimentalism in different countries, Wang argues that ¿laboratories of democracy¿ are not exclusive to the American system; instead, similar concepts apply in China and India, with different center¿local structures and levels of political competition.

What was the representation of the Mongol invasions in Japan, and what role did it play as a repertoire of cultural identity before the rise of hyper-nationalism? The Historical Writing of the Mongol Invasions in Japan points to the continuities and ruptures that marked the emergence of a national culture after the Meiji Restoration of 1868.

Travelers have always experimented with disguise while observing the disguises of others. Each of the chapters in Mobility and Masks illustrates strategies of concealment in travel, from Jesuits in Asia to women traveling incognito to a Chinese opera star in Russia to the racial implications of masking in the West Indies.

Julia Rombough explores the regulation of sound in women¿s residential institutions in early modern Florence. Silence was tied to ideals of feminine purity and spiritual discipline, yet enclosed women still laughed, shouted, sang, and conversed. A Veil of Silence offers a revealing history of the political and spiritual meanings of the senses.

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 113 includes new essays on Greek and Roman Classics by Andrew Merritt, Georgios Kostopoulos, Christian Vassallo, Guy Westwood, Peter Osorio, James J. Clauss and Scott B. Noegel, Robert Cowan, Christoph Begass, and Chiara Meccariello.

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 41 features Natasha Summer on trespassing in the Otherworld as well as contributions that focus of Irish and Welsh poetry, women in poetry, medieval Irish religious beliefs, and Welsh dramatic translations of Shakespeare, among other topics.

Who were the Gnostics? And how did the Gnostic movement influence the development of Christianity in antiquity? Is it true that the Church rejected Gnosticism? This book offers an illuminating discussion of recent scholarly debates over the concept of "Gnosticism" and the nature of early Christian diversity. Acknowledging that the category "Gnosticism" is flawed and must be reformed, David Brakke argues for a more careful approach to gathering evidence for the ancient Christian movement known as the Gnostic school of thought. He shows how Gnostic myth and ritual addressed basic human concerns about alienation and meaning, offered a message of salvation in Jesus, and provided a way for people to regain knowledge of God, the ultimate source of their being.Rather than depicting the Gnostics as heretics or as the losers in the fight to define Christianity, Brakke argues that the Gnostics participated in an ongoing reinvention of Christianity, in which other Christians not only rejected their ideas but also adapted and transformed them. This book will challenge scholars to think in news ways, but it also provides an accessible introduction to the Gnostics and their fellow early Christians.

In this story about one of the 19th century's most famous Americans, Benjamin Reiss uses P.T. Barnum's Joice Heth hoax to examine the contours of race relations in the antebellum North. Barnum's first exhibit as a showman, Heth was an elderly enslaved woman who was said to be the 161-year-old former nurse of the infant George Washington. Seizing upon the novelty, the newly emerging commercial press turned her act - and especially her death - into one of the first media spectacles in American history.

In September 1755, the most famous Indian in the world--a Mohawk leader known in English as King Hendrick--died in the Battle of Lake George. He was fighting the French in defense of British claims to North America, and his death marked the end of an era in Anglo-Iroquois relations. He was not the first Mohawk of that name to attract international attention. Half a century earlier, another Hendrick worked with powerful leaders in the frontier town of Albany. He cemented his transatlantic fame when he traveled to London as one of the "four Indian kings."Until recently the two Hendricks were thought to be the same person. Eric Hinderaker sets the record straight, reconstructing the lives of these two men in a compelling narrative that reveals the complexities of the Anglo-Iroquois alliance, a cornerstone of Britain's imperial vision. The two Hendricks became famous because, as Mohawks, they were members of the Iroquois confederacy and colonial leaders believed the Iroquois held the balance of power in the Northeast. As warriors, the two Hendricks aided Britain against the French; as Christians, they adopted the trappings of civility; as sachems, they stressed cooperation rather than bloody confrontation with New York and Great Britain.Yet the alliance was never more than a mixed blessing for the two Hendricks and the Iroquois. Hinderaker offers a poignant personal story that restores the lost individuality of the two Hendricks while illuminating the tumultuous imperial struggle for North America.

Selected Stories by Franz Kafka offers new renderings of the author's finest work. Mark Harman's English translations convey the uniqueness of Kafka's German-the wit, irony, and cadence. Expert annotations illuminate Kafka's cultural allusions and wordplay, while a biographical introduction places the man and his work in historical context.

A successful business deal maximizes value for all parties. Drawing on diverse case studies and decades of experience, Michael Klausner and Guhan Subramanian show how contracting parties can reach that goal through rigorous attention to incentives, information asymmetries, exit terms, moral hazard, and opportunism.

The Sea of Separation, a new free verse translation of Tulsidas's beloved R¿mcaritm¿nas, presents renowned episodes from the Ramayana epic, including Ram's battles with demons, the kidnapping of his wife Sita, and the god Hanuman's heroic journey to Lanka to find her.