Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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The Iliad: Original Text

The Iliad: Original Text

Author: Homer
ISBN: 9798666140635
Format: Paperback
$43.96

In the war of Troy, the Greeks having sacked some of the neighbouring towns, and takenfrom thence two beautiful...  Read More >>

The Iliad: Large Print

The Iliad: Large Print

Author: Homer
ISBN: 9798666140598
Format: Paperback
$43.96

In the war of Troy, the Greeks having sacked some of the neighbouring towns, and takenfrom thence two beautiful...  Read More >>

Between the Text and the Page: Studies on the Transmission of Medieval Ideas in Honour of Frank T. Coulson

Between the Text and the Page: Studies on the Transmission...

Author: H Anderson ,  D T Gura
ISBN: 9780888448330
Format: Hardback
$353.76

"""This volume pays homage to manuscripts and early printed books as material witnesses in the middle ages. The...  Read More >>

Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations

Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations

Author: Marina Gerzic ,  Aidan Norrie
ISBN: 9780367256463
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Drawing on theories of play and adaptation, Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations demonstrates how the practices...  Read More >>

Richard Rolle: On Lamentations: A Critical Edition with Translation and Commentary

Richard Rolle: On Lamentations: A Critical Edition with...

Author: Michael Van Dussen
ISBN: 9781789621549
Format: Hardback
$396.00

The first study, critical edition, and translation of one of the earliest works by the hermit and mystic Richard...  Read More >>

FrC 10.8 Aristophanes fr. 487-589

FrC 10.8 Aristophanes fr. 487-589

Author: Andreas Bagordo
ISBN: 9783946317777
Format: Hardback
$235.44

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The Subjection of Women

The Subjection of Women

Author: John Stuart Mill
ISBN: 9781647995508
Format: Paperback
$28.33

An affordable edition of Mill's classic text.  Read More >>

Achilles Tatius: Leucippe and Clitophon Books I–II

Achilles Tatius: Leucippe and Clitophon Books I–II

Author: Tim Whitmarsh (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781316640593
Format: Paperback
$69.84

The first modern commentary in English on this most sophisticated and brilliant of ancient Greek novels. With its...  Read More >>

The Subjection of Women

The Subjection of Women

Author: John Stuart Mill
ISBN: 9781647995515
Format: Hardback
$51.62

An affordable edition of Mill's classic text.  Read More >>

Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw: Animals, Language, Sensation

Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw: Animals, Language, Sensation...

Author: Debra Hawhee
ISBN: 9780226706771
Format: Paperback
$52.95

We tend to think of rhetoric as a solely human art. After all, only humans can use language artfully to make a point,...  Read More >>

Dao Companion to Chinese Philosophy of Logic

Dao Companion to Chinese Philosophy of Logic

Author: Yiu-ming Fung
ISBN: 9783030290313
Format: Hardback
$413.97

This book is a companion to logical thought and logical thinking in China with a comparative and interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

Yahwistic Diversity and the Hebrew Bible: Tracing Perspectives of Group Identity from Judah, Samaria, and the Diaspora in Biblical Traditions

Yahwistic Diversity and the Hebrew Bible: Tracing Perspectives...

Author: Benedikt Hensel ,  Dany Nocquet
ISBN: 9783161583049
Format: Paperback
$268.32

The underlying perspective of the present volume contributes to the recent historical debate on Yahwistic diversity...  Read More >>

Medieval and Early Modern Portrayals of Julius Caesar: The Transmission of an Idea

Medieval and Early Modern Portrayals of Julius Caesar:...

Author: Nigel Mortimer (Eton College)
ISBN: 9780198847564
Format: Hardback
$317.95

Julius Caesar has been a subject of controversy for more than two centuries: over time almost every conceivable...  Read More >>

Euripides and the Politics of Form

Euripides and the Politics of Form

Author: Victoria Wohl
ISBN: 9780691202372
Format: Paperback
$54.99

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Meditating Death in Medieval and Early Modern Devotional Writing: From Bonaventure to Luther

Meditating Death in Medieval and Early Modern Devotional...

Author: Mark Chinca (Professor of Medieval German and Comparative Literature, Professor of Medieval German and Comparative Literature, University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780198861980
Format: Hardback
$198.95

The first book-length study of the practice of meditating on death and the afterlife in medieval and early modern...  Read More >>

Voices from Early China: The Odes Demystified

Voices from Early China: The Odes Demystified

Author: Geoffrey Sampson
ISBN: 9781527552128
Format: Paperback
$175.92

The Chinese “Book of Odes” (Shijing) is a collection of 305 poems dating from between 1000 and 600 B.C., and, thus,...  Read More >>

A Guide to Ancient Greek Literature, Language, Script, Imagination and Philosophy

A Guide to Ancient Greek Literature, Language, Script,...

Author: Frederic Will
ISBN: 9781527554993
Format: Hardback
$152.64

This book is a chronological survey of the major writers (or reciters, or performers, or orators) of Ancient Greece....  Read More >>

Kyklops

Kyklops

Author: Euripides ,  Bernd Seidensticker
ISBN: 9783110453386
Format: Hardback
$120.03

Euripides' Cyclops is presented here in a new prose translation that is faithful to the original text, accompanied...  Read More >>

Die Entstehung der Welt: Studien zum Straßburger Empedokles-Papyrus

Die Entstehung der Welt: Studien zum Straßburger Empedokles-Papyrus...

Author: Tom Wellmann ,  Empedokles
ISBN: 9783110633726
Format: Hardback
$205.83

The Strasbourg Empedocles papyrus published in 1999 added key passages to the fragmentary remains of Empedocles'...  Read More >>

Platonische Aufsätze

Platonische Aufsätze

Author: Rafael Ferber
ISBN: 9783110633344
Format: Hardback
$180.09

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Seneca the Elder and His Rediscovered ›Historiae ab initio bellorum civilium‹: New Perspectives on Early-Imperial Roman Historiography

Seneca the Elder and His Rediscovered ›Historiae ab...

Author: Maria Chiara Scappaticcio
ISBN: 9783110685855
Format: Hardback
$483.09

This is the first volume dedicated exclusively to the historiographical work by Seneca the Elder, after the recent...  Read More >>

The Journal of Medieval Latin 30/2020

The Journal of Medieval Latin 30/2020

Author: Brepols Publishers
ISBN: 9782503587363
Format: Paperback
$308.88

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European Medieval Drama 23 (2019)

European Medieval Drama 23 (2019)

Author: Brepols Publishers
ISBN: 9782503582610
Format: Paperback
$314.16

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