Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Perspectives on «Dante Politico»: At the Crossroads of Arts and Sciences

Perspectives on «Dante Politico»: At the Crossroads...

Author: Donatella Stocchi-Perucchio
ISBN: 9783110790863
Format: Hardback
$327.33

This book argues that political concerns, inseparable from Dante's biography, permeate his entire corpus, emerging...  Read More >>

Magic in the Literature of the Neronian Period: Realism and Criticism

Magic in the Literature of the Neronian Period: Realism...

Author: Konstantinos Arampapaslis
ISBN: 9783111429403
Format: Hardback
$279.81

This book foregrounds realism as the salient feature in Neronian depictions of witchcraft. It argues that such unprecedented...  Read More >>

Coptica Lipsiensia: Koptische Texte Aus Der Papyrus- Und Ostrakasammlung Der Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig (P.Lips.Copt. I)

Coptica Lipsiensia: Koptische Texte Aus Der Papyrus-...

Author: Anne Boud'hors ,  Frederic Krueger
ISBN: 9783111423944
Format: Hardback
$319.41

Mit diesem Band koptischer Texte aus der Papyrus- und Ostrakasammlung der Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig tritt ein...  Read More >>

The Art of Greek Comedy

The Art of Greek Comedy

Author: Katherine Lever
ISBN: 9781032225807
Format: Paperback
$60.99

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Aeschylus' Oresteia: Translation and Theatrical Commentary

Aeschylus' Oresteia: Translation and Theatrical Commentary...

Author: Michael Ewans
ISBN: 9781032646961
Format: Paperback
$54.99

This is a fully revised new edition of Michael Ewans’ 1995 English translation of the Oresteia, taking into account...  Read More >>

Narrating Medicine in Middle English Poetry: Poets, Practitioners, and the Plague

Narrating Medicine in Middle English Poetry: Poets,...

Author: Eve Salisbury
ISBN: 9781350249837
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Exploring medical writing in England in the 100+ years after the advent of the “Great Mortality”, this book examines...  Read More >>

Aeschylus' Oresteia: Translation and Theatrical Commentary

Aeschylus' Oresteia: Translation and Theatrical Commentary...

Author: Michael Ewans
ISBN: 9781032646985
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 49: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture: New Series

Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 49: Studies in Medieval...

Author: Reinhold F. Glei ,  Maik Goth
ISBN: 9781538191743
Format: Hardback
$166.00

Volume 49 contains four articles ranging from medieval literature (discovery of the Self in the twelfth century)...  Read More >>

Die 'Konstanzer Weltchronik': Modulare Textpraxis in Der Spatmittelalterlichen Schriftlichkeit. Edition Und Untersuchungen

Die 'Konstanzer Weltchronik': Modulare Textpraxis in...

Author: Sarah Hutterer
ISBN: 9783777634050
Format: Hardback
$293.04

Die anonyme 'Konstanzer Weltchronik' aus dem 14. Jahrhundert bietet einen komplexen Uberlieferungsfall: Der je nach...  Read More >>

Women's Genealogies in the Medieval Literary Imagination: Matrilineal Legacies in the High Middle Ages

Women's Genealogies in the Medieval Literary Imagination:...

Author: Emma O. Bérat
ISBN: 9781009434751
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Emma O. Bérat uncovers the striking array of female alternatives to patrilineal narratives in medieval texts and...  Read More >>

Words for the Heart: A Treasury of Emotions from Classical India

Words for the Heart: A Treasury of Emotions from Classical...

Author: Maria Heim
ISBN: 9780691222936
Format: Paperback
$44.99

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Judentum und Hellenismus

Judentum und Hellenismus

Author: Maren R. Niehoff ,  Birgit Weyel
ISBN: 9783161635366
Format: Hardback
$72.71

Die Preisträgerin des Dr. Leopold Lucas-Preises des Jahres 2022 Maren Niehoff gibt in dieser Preisrede exemplarischen...  Read More >>

Massekhet Gittin Chapters 4-5: Volume III/6/d-e. Text, Translation, and Commentary

Massekhet Gittin Chapters 4-5: Volume III/6/d-e. Text,...

Author: Anat Israeli ,  Tal Ilan
ISBN: 9783161635519
Format: Hardback
$559.68

"Tractate Gittin of the Mishnah is located in the Order of Women and discusses divorce proceedings. Chapters 4 and...  Read More >>

Le Roman de Edipus: Imprime a Paris Par Michel Le Noir (1519)

Le Roman de Edipus: Imprime a Paris Par Michel Le Noir...

Author: Luca Di Sabatino
ISBN: 9782406166092
Format: Paperback
$71.28

A re-telling of the legend of Thebes, first printed in 1519 by Michel Le Noir, this text was extracted from Histoire...  Read More >>

Encomia 2022,44

Encomia 2022,44

Author: Richard Trachsler ,  Emma Cayley
ISBN: 9782406167259
Format: Paperback
$211.20

Contributeurs: Genevieve Berendt, Coline Blaizeau, Emma Campbell, Shawn Phillip Cooper, Alain Corbellari, Laura...  Read More >>

Homeric Poetry and Neoanalysis

Homeric Poetry and Neoanalysis

Author: Antonios Rengakos
ISBN: 9783110664980
Format: Paperback
$79.17

Neoanalysis has established itself as one of the two leading schools of interpretation in Homeric studies (together...  Read More >>

Bound and Free: Voices of Mortal and Otherworld Women in Medieval Irish Literature

Bound and Free: Voices of Mortal and Otherworld Women...

Author: Joanne Findon
ISBN: 9780888442369
Format: Hardback
$237.60

Otherworld women feature in a number of medieval Irish tales, but they are not always powerful figures. Indeed,...  Read More >>

Le Roman de Edipus: Imprime a Paris Par Michel Le Noir (1519)

Le Roman de Edipus: Imprime a Paris Par Michel Le Noir...

Author: Luca Di Sabatino
ISBN: 9782406166108
Format: Hardback
$219.12

A re-telling of the legend of Thebes, first printed in 1519 by Michel Le Noir, this text was extracted from Histoire...  Read More >>

Grammar and Poetry in Late Medieval and Early Modern Wales: The Transmission and Reception of the Welsh Bardic Grammars

Grammar and Poetry in Late Medieval and Early Modern...

Author: Michaela Jacques
ISBN: 9781837720996
Format: Paperback
$95.95

The medieval Welsh bardic grammars were composed and transmitted during a period of intense social and political...  Read More >>

Classical Vertigo: Mythic Shapes and Contemporary Influences in Hitchcock’s Film

Classical Vertigo: Mythic Shapes and Contemporary Influences...

Author: Mark William Padilla
ISBN: 9781666915914
Format: Hardback
$211.00

In Classical Vertigo, Padilla analyzes narrative figures and themes of classical mythology within Hitchock’s Vertigo...  Read More >>

Wasps and Other Plays: A new verse translation, with introduction and notes

Wasps and Other Plays: A new verse translation, with...

Author: Aristophanes ,  Prof Stephen Halliwell (Emeritus Professor, Emeritus Professor, University of St Andrews)
ISBN: 9780198900221
Format: Paperback
$21.95

This is the third and final volume of a new verse translation of the complete plays of Aristophanes by Stephen Halliwell....  Read More >>

Horror in Classical Literature: ‘On a Profound and Elementary Principle'

Horror in Classical Literature: ‘On a Profound and Elementary...

Author: Edmund P. Cueva
ISBN: 9781837720934
Format: Hardback
$124.95

No in- or out-of-print book has the same goals, content, wide range, and scholarly approach as the present study....  Read More >>

Commentaire À La >Physique: Édition Critique Avec Introduction Et Traduction

Commentaire À La >Physique: Édition Critique Avec Introduction...

Author: Simplicius de Cilicie ,  Pantelis Golitsis
ISBN: 9783110786002
Format: Hardback
$345.81

New edition of the so-called Corollaria de loco et de tempore from Simplikios' commentary on Book IV of Aristotle's...  Read More >>

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