Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Landscape and the Spaces of Metaphor in Ancient Literary Theory and Criticism

Landscape and the Spaces of Metaphor in Ancient Literary...

Author: Nancy Worman (Barnard College, Columbia University)
ISBN: 9781108814478
Format: Paperback
$95.71

Explores a previously uncharted area of ancient literary theory and criticism by examining how metaphors of place...  Read More >>

Magistracy and the Historiography of the Roman Republic: Politics in Prose

Magistracy and the Historiography of the Roman Republic:...

Author: Ayelet Haimson Lushkov (University of Texas, Austin)
ISBN: 9781108820097
Format: Paperback
$80.19

The first study of the literary representation of Roman republican magistracy. Applying current literary critical...  Read More >>

Expressions of Time in Ancient Greek

Expressions of Time in Ancient Greek

Author: Coulter H. George (University of Virginia)
ISBN: 9781108820257
Format: Paperback
$80.19

English speakers find it hard to explain why they say something happens at a particular time, but on a certain day,...  Read More >>

Lucan and the Sublime: Power, Representation and Aesthetic Experience

Lucan and the Sublime: Power, Representation and Aesthetic...

Author: Henry J. M. Day
ISBN: 9781108816427
Format: Paperback
$80.19

The first comprehensive study of the sublime in Lucan, integrating theorisations from Longinus to Lyotard to explore...  Read More >>

The Annals of Tacitus: Book 11

The Annals of Tacitus: Book 11

Author: Tacitus ,  S. J. V. Malloch (University of Nottingham)
ISBN: 9781108820165
Format: Paperback
$100.89

This edition of Annals 11, the first scholarly edition in English in over a hundred years, contains a full and detailed...  Read More >>

Tyranny from Ancient Greece to Renaissance France

Tyranny from Ancient Greece to Renaissance France

Author: Orest Ranum
ISBN: 9783030431846
Format: Hardback
$142.29

This Palgrave Pivot examines how prominent thinkers throughout history, from ancient Greece to sixteenth-century...  Read More >>

The Life of Texts: Evidence in Textual Production, Transmission and Reception

The Life of Texts: Evidence in Textual Production, Transmission...

Author: Carlo Caruso (Professor of Italian, University of Siena, Italy)
ISBN: 9781350166011
Format: Paperback
$66.99

The textual foundations of works of great cultural significance are often less stable than one would wish them to...  Read More >>

Fellini’s Eternal Rome: Paganism and Christianity in the Films of Federico Fellini

Fellini’s Eternal Rome: Paganism and Christianity in...

Author: Professor Alessandro Carrera (Professor of Italian Studies & World Cultures & Literatures, University of Houston, USA)
ISBN: 9781350166257
Format: Paperback
$66.99

*** Winner of the2019 Flaiano Prize in the category Italian Studies *** In Fellini’s Eternal Rome, Alessandro Carrera...  Read More >>

Classics in Extremis: The Edges of Classical Reception

Classics in Extremis: The Edges of Classical Reception...

Author: Dr Edmund Richardson (Lecturer in Classics, Durham University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350166264
Format: Paperback
$66.99

Classics in Extremis reimagines classical reception. Its contributors explore some of the most remarkable, hard-fought...  Read More >>

Virginia Woolf's Greek Tragedy

Virginia Woolf's Greek Tragedy

Author: Professor Nancy Worman
ISBN: 9781350166271
Format: Paperback
$66.99

"In Woolf's writings Greece and Greek tragedy in particular shape an exoticized aesthetic space that both emerges...  Read More >>

Confronting Crisis in the Carolingian Empire: Paschasius Radbertus' Funeral Oration for Wala of Corbie

Confronting Crisis in the Carolingian Empire: Paschasius...

Author: Mayke de Jong (Professor emerita of Medieval History) ,  Justin Lake (Associate Professor of Classics)
ISBN: 9781526134844
Format: Paperback
$45.99

This is the translation of an extraordinary and enigmatic narrative of Carolingian history, which should interest...  Read More >>

The Devil's Historians: How Modern Extremists Abuse the Medieval Past

The Devil's Historians: How Modern Extremists Abuse...

Author: Amy Kaufman ,  Paul Sturtevant
ISBN: 9781487587840
Format: Paperback
$39.99

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Holz Vom Helikon: Die Musen Und Ihre Landschaft in Kult, Mythos Und Literatur

Holz Vom Helikon: Die Musen Und Ihre Landschaft in Kult,...

Author: Kleoniki Rizou
ISBN: 9783825346751
Format: Hardback
$293.04

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Confronting Crisis in the Carolingian Empire: Paschasius Radbertus' Funeral Oration for Wala of Corbie

Confronting Crisis in the Carolingian Empire: Paschasius...

Author: Mayke de Jong (Professor emerita of Medieval History) ,  Justin Lake (Associate Professor of Classics)
ISBN: 9781526134820
Format: Hardback
$183.99

This is the translation of an extraordinary and enigmatic narrative of Carolingian history, which should interest...  Read More >>

Aristotle on the Concept of Shared Life

Aristotle on the Concept of Shared Life

Author: Sara Brill (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Fairfield University)
ISBN: 9780198839583
Format: Hardback
$193.95

According to the terms of Aristotle's Politics, to be alive is to instantiate an operation of power. This volume...  Read More >>

Band Viii,1: S-Sn. 2.-3. Lieferung (Saharahi Bis Satulgiskirri)

Band Viii,1: S-Sn. 2.-3. Lieferung (Saharahi Bis Satulgiskirri)...

Author: Hans Ulrich Schmid
ISBN: 9783110690385
Format: Paperback
$121.41

The Dictionary of Old High German aims to comprehensively trace and compile all of the extant vocabulary from this...  Read More >>

Historical Background of Wang Yang-ming's Philosophy of Mind: From the Perspective of his Life Story

Historical Background of Wang Yang-ming's Philosophy...

Author: Ping Dong ,  Xiaolu Wang
ISBN: 9789811530357
Format: Hardback
$116.41

This open access book offers comprehensive information on Wang Yang-ming's life, helping readers identify and grasp...  Read More >>

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