Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Phoenix: A Father, a Son, and the Rise of Athens

Phoenix: A Father, a Son, and the Rise of Athens

Author: David Stuttard
ISBN: 9780674988279
Format: Hardback
$63.95

Fifty years before its golden age, Athens was just another city-state in Sparta’s shadow. David Stuttard tells the...  Read More >>

Die Niedrigkeit Jesu und seiner Jüngerschaft: Eine Studie zur Korrelation von Ethik und Christologie in Mt 16,21-20,34

Die Niedrigkeit Jesu und seiner Jüngerschaft: Eine Studie...

Author: Tina Jabbarian
ISBN: 9783161599040
Format: Paperback
$259.79

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Inferno

Inferno

Author: Dante ,  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
ISBN: 9781789432558
Format: Paperback
$15.50

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Beowulf and Beyond: Classic Anglo-Saxon Poems, Stories, Sayings, Spells, and Riddles

Beowulf and Beyond: Classic Anglo-Saxon Poems, Stories,...

Author: Dan Veach
ISBN: 9781948488617
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Beowulf & Beyond is the first and only set of poetic translations to include not only Beowulf but all of the best-known...  Read More >>

Of Knyghthode and Bataile

Of Knyghthode and Bataile

Author: Trevor Russell Smith ,  Michael Livingston
ISBN: 9781580444750
Format: Hardback
$225.11

Composed for King Henry VI in the middle of the Wars of the Roses, Of Knyghthode and Bataile adapts the most widely...  Read More >>

Le Tombeau de la Cigale: Figures de l'Ecriture Et de la Lecture En Grece Ancienne

Le Tombeau de la Cigale: Figures de l'Ecriture Et de...

Author: Jesper Svenbro
ISBN: 9782251451176
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Je suis ton ticket de caisse. Garde-moi , lisait-on sur les recus des magasins IKEA. Si cette formule fait appel...  Read More >>

La Parole Et Le Marbre: Aux Origines de la Poetique Grecque

La Parole Et Le Marbre: Aux Origines de la Poetique...

Author: Jesper Svenbro
ISBN: 9782251451275
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Un professeur de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, ayant acces aux rayons de la Bibliotheque de la Sorbonne, garde...  Read More >>

Inferno

Inferno

Author: Dante ,  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
ISBN: 9781789432565
Format: Hardback
$33.61

The Divine Comedy was appreciated as a masterpiece soon after its completion, andhas captivated readers and the...  Read More >>

The Tale of Livistros and Rodamne: A Byzantine Love Romance of the 13th Century

The Tale of Livistros and Rodamne: A Byzantine Love...

Author: Panagiotis A. Agapitos
ISBN: 9781800856035
Format: Paperback
$130.68

This volume offers the first fully scholarly translation into English of the Tale of Livistros and Rodamne, a love...  Read More >>

The Tale of Livistros and Rodamne: A Byzantine Love Romance of the 13th Century

The Tale of Livistros and Rodamne: A Byzantine Love...

Author: Panagiotis A. Agapitos
ISBN: 9781789622164
Format: Hardback
$245.81

This volume offers the first fully scholarly translation into English of the Tale of Livistros and Rodamne, a love...  Read More >>

Parva Naturalia: with On the Motion of Animals

Parva Naturalia: with On the Motion of Animals

Author: Aristotle ,  David Bolotin
ISBN: 9780881467840
Format: Paperback
$33.00

David Bolotin's translation of Aristotle's Parva Naturalia aims above all at fidelity to the Greek. It treats Aristotle...  Read More >>

The Body in Arabic Love Poetry: The 'Udhri Tradition

The Body in Arabic Love Poetry: The 'Udhri Tradition...

Author: Jokha Alharthi
ISBN: 9781474486330
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Jokha Alharthi re-appraises the relationship between love, poetry and Arab society in the 8th to 11th centuries....  Read More >>

The Fifteen Oes and Other Prayers: Edited from the Text Published by William Caxton (1491)

The Fifteen Oes and Other Prayers: Edited from the Text...

Author: Alexandra Barratt ,  Susan Powell
ISBN: 9783825348519
Format: Paperback
$147.84

In 1491, at the command of two royal ladies - Elizabeth of York, wife of Henry VII, and Lady Margaret Beaufort,...  Read More >>

The Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy

Author: Dante ,  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
ISBN: 9781789432589
Format: Hardback
$46.55

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Classical Mythology: A Very Short Introduction

Classical Mythology: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Helen Morales ,  Julia Whelan
ISBN: 9798200776351
Format: Audio
$79.17

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Classical Mythology: A Very Short Introduction

Classical Mythology: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Helen Morales ,  Julia Whelan
ISBN: 9798200776368
Format: Audio
$105.57

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The Ethics of the Stoic Epictetus: An English Translation, Revised Edition

The Ethics of the Stoic Epictetus: An English Translation,...

Author: David Appelbaum ,  William O. Stephens
ISBN: 9781433176166
Format: Hardback
$352.31

Originally published in 1894 by the German scholar Adolf Bonhöffer and here translated into English for the first...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Sappho

The Cambridge Companion to Sappho

Author: P. J. Finglass (University of Bristol) ,  Adrian Kelly (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781107189058
Format: Hardback
$258.72

A detailed up-to-date survey of the most important woman writer from Greco-Roman antiquity. Examines the nature...  Read More >>

Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: Cultures and conncetions

Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: Cultures and...

Author: Claire Breay ,  Joanna Story
ISBN: 9781846828669
Format: Hardback
$142.31

A collection of essays, written by leading scholars in relation to manuscripts written in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms...  Read More >>

Bodily Fluids in Antiquity

Bodily Fluids in Antiquity

Author: Mark Bradley (University of Nottingham, UK) ,  Victoria Leonard
ISBN: 9781138343726
Format: Hardback
$284.00

From ancient Egypt to Imperial Rome, from Greek medicine to early Christianity, this volume examines how human bodily...  Read More >>

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