Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

29091 books were found.

Visions and Voice-Hearing in Medieval and Early Modern Contexts

Visions and Voice-Hearing in Medieval and Early Modern...

Author: Hilary Powell ,  Corinne Saunders
ISBN: 9783030526580
Format: Hardback
$206.97

This book examines how the experiences of hearing voices and seeing visions were understood within the cultural,...  Read More >>

Platon Citateur: La Reappropriation Des Savoirs Anterieurs

Platon Citateur: La Reappropriation Des Savoirs Anterieurs...

Author: Classiques Garnier
ISBN: 9782406104278
Format: Hardback
$287.76

From Platon's direct and indirect quotations not only to archaic and classical poets, but also to other non-philosophical...  Read More >>

Transfiguring Medievalism: Poetry, Attention, and the Mysteries of the Body

Transfiguring Medievalism: Poetry, Attention, and the...

Author: Cary Howie
ISBN: 9781526148650
Format: Hardback
$183.99

Transfiguring medievalism explores medieval literature, modern poetry and theologies both medieval and modern to...  Read More >>

Solo Dance in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature: Representing the Unruly Body

Solo Dance in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature:...

Author: Sarah Olsen (Williams College, Massachusetts)
ISBN: 9781108485036
Format: Hardback
$206.97

This is the first investigation of solo dancers in Archaic and Classical Greek literature. It demonstrates that...  Read More >>

The First Pagan Historian: The Fortunes of a Fraud from Antiquity to the Enlightenment

The First Pagan Historian: The Fortunes of a Fraud from...

Author: Frederic Clark (Assistant Professor of Classics, Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Southern California - Dornsife)
ISBN: 9780190492304
Format: Hardback
$194.95

In The History of the Destruction of Troy, Dares the Phrygian boldly claimed to be an eyewitness to the Trojan War,...  Read More >>

The Violent Hero: Heracles in the Greek Imagination

The Violent Hero: Heracles in the Greek Imagination...

Author: Professor Katherine Lu Hsu (Assistant Professor of Classics, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA)
ISBN: 9781350153714
Format: Hardback
$190.00

This book uses the mythological hero Heracles as a lens for investigating the nature of heroic violence in Archaic...  Read More >>

Sophrosune in the Greek Novel: Reading Reactions to Desire

Sophrosune in the Greek Novel: Reading Reactions to...

Author: Rachel Bird
ISBN: 9781350108646
Format: Hardback
$190.00

This book offers the first comprehensive evaluation of ethics in the ancient Greek novel, demonstrating how their...  Read More >>

Euripides: Electra

Euripides: Electra

Author: Professor Rush Rehm (Stanford University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350095670
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This new introduction to Euripides' fascinating interpretation of the story of Electra and her brother Orestes emphasizes...  Read More >>

Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens

Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic...

Author: Andreas Markantonatos ,  Eleni Volonaki
ISBN: 9783110736892
Format: Paperback
$51.39

By exploring the impact of formalized speech in particular and craftsmanship rhetoric in general upon Attic drama...  Read More >>

The ›Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi‹: A Commentary

The ›Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi‹: A Commentary

Author: Paola Bassino
ISBN: 9783110736878
Format: Paperback
$42.81

This book offers a comprehensive study of the Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi, an account of the legendary poetic contest...  Read More >>

Gesammelte Aufsätze zur altfranzösischen Epik

Gesammelte Aufsätze zur altfranzösischen Epik

Author: Gustav Adolf Beckmann
ISBN: 9783110736502
Format: Paperback
$51.39

Conceived as a companion volume to his Onomastics of the Song of Roland (2017), Beckmann's eighteen Collected Essays...  Read More >>

The Vidas of The Troubadours

The Vidas of The Troubadours

Author: Margarita Egan
ISBN: 9780367189440
Format: Paperback
$69.99

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The Romance of the Rose or of Guillaume de Dole

The Romance of the Rose or of Guillaume de Dole

Author: Regina Psaki
ISBN: 9780367147204
Format: Paperback
$69.99

"Published in 1995: The author of at least two noteworthy romances of the early thirteenth century, Le Roman de...  Read More >>

The Perilous Cemetery

The Perilous Cemetery

Author: Nancy Black
ISBN: 9780367186821
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Published in 1994: In The Perilous Cemetery adventure, Gawain is required to fight the devil himself. In repayment...  Read More >>

The Epyllion: From Theocritus to Ovid

The Epyllion: From Theocritus to Ovid

Author: M. Marjorie Crump
ISBN: 9780367192617
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Published in 1931: The Epyllion From Theocritus to Ovid discusses Greek Epics along with extracts of Poems.  Read More >>

A Middle French Vowing Poem: A Middle French Vowing Poem

A Middle French Vowing Poem: A Middle French Vowing...

Author: John L. Grigsby ,  Norris J. Lacy
ISBN: 9780367174101
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Published in 1992, this text discusses Les Voeux du Heron, a short text, comprising only 442 lines that was popular...  Read More >>

Three Medieval Greek Romances

Three Medieval Greek Romances

Author: Gavin Betts
ISBN: 9780367149956
Format: Paperback
$69.99

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The Devil and the Vice in the English Dramatic Literature Before Shakespeare

The Devil and the Vice in the English Dramatic Literature...

Author: L. W. Cushman
ISBN: 9780367142278
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Originally published in 1900, this book was the first investigation of the devil and the Vice as dramatic figures....  Read More >>

Literary Patronage in The Middle Ages

Literary Patronage in The Middle Ages

Author: Karl Julius Holznecht
ISBN: 9780367174569
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Published in 1966: The present study attempts in its fashion to supply a connected account of this somewhat neglected...  Read More >>

The Fool of Quality: Volume 1

The Fool of Quality: Volume 1

Author: Henry Brooke ,  E. A. Baker
ISBN: 9780367190286
Format: Paperback
$69.99

First published in 1906, this book is a picaresque and sentimental novel by the Irish writer Henry Brooke. It follows...  Read More >>

Walter Hawkesworth's Labyrinthus: An Edition with a Translation and Commentary Volume I

Walter Hawkesworth's Labyrinthus: An Edition with a...

Author: Walter Hawkesworth ,  Susan Brock
ISBN: 9780367190316
Format: Paperback
$27.99

Originally compiled and published in 1988, this vole contains the full text and translation of Walter Hawkesworth's...  Read More >>

The Three Literary Letters: Dionysius of Halicarnassus

The Three Literary Letters: Dionysius of Halicarnassus...

Author: W. Rhys Roberts
ISBN: 9780367194772
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Published in 1987: In this volume, the author presents the Three Literary Letters of Dionysius of Halicarnassus....  Read More >>

History and Drama: The Pan-European Tradition

History and Drama: The Pan-European Tradition

Author: Joachim Küpper ,  Jan Mosch
ISBN: 9783110736441
Format: Paperback
$42.81

Analyzing paradigmatic examples from Antiquity to the 19th century, this thirteen-essay collection explores the...  Read More >>

After 69 CE - Writing Civil War in Flavian Rome

After 69 CE - Writing Civil War in Flavian Rome

Author: Lauren Donovan Ginsberg ,  Darcy Anne Krasne
ISBN: 9783110736885
Format: Paperback
$68.55

Flavian Rome was inaugurated by brutal civil wars that left lasting scars, but despite current interest in both...  Read More >>

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