Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

29091 books were found.

The Oedipus Casebook: Reading Sophocles' Oedipus the King

The Oedipus Casebook: Reading Sophocles' Oedipus the...

Author: Mark R. Anspach ,  Wm Blake Tyrrell
ISBN: 9781611863390
Format: Paperback
$50.60

Who killed Laius? Most readers assume Oedipus did. At the play’s end, he stands convicted of murdering his father,...  Read More >>

The Unknown Odysseus: Alternate Worlds in Homer's Odyssey

The Unknown Odysseus: Alternate Worlds in Homer's Odyssey...

Author: Thomas Van Nortwick
ISBN: 9780472037797
Format: Paperback
$65.87

A study of how Homer creates two versions of his hero, one who is the triumphant protagonist of the revenge plot...  Read More >>

Approaches to Teaching Dante's Divine Comedy

Approaches to Teaching Dante's Divine Comedy

Author: Christopher Kleinhenz ,  Kristina Olson
ISBN: 9781603294270
Format: Paperback
$61.60

Dante's Divine Comedy can compel and shock readers: it combines intense emotion and psychological insight with medieval...  Read More >>

Le Stupide XIXe siecle

Le Stupide XIXe siecle

Author: Leon Daudet
ISBN: 9798631556409
Format: Paperback
$32.31

Ne dans le dernier tiers du dix-neuvieme siecle et mele, par la celebrite paternelle, a l'erreur triomphante de...  Read More >>

Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy

Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy...

Author: Alison Sharrock ,  Alison Keith
ISBN: 9781487532017
Format: Hardback
$135.00

This book explores motherhood in Greek and Roman literature, focusing on images of mothers and their relationships...  Read More >>

Laughing Atoms, Laughing Matter: Lucretius' De Rerum Natura and Satire

Laughing Atoms, Laughing Matter: Lucretius' De Rerum...

Author: T. H. M. Gellar-Goad
ISBN: 9780472131808
Format: Hardback
$237.47

Offers the first comprehensive examination of Lucretius' engagement with satire. The author argues that what has...  Read More >>

Im Garten Der Gesundheit: Pflanzenbilder Zwischen Natur, Kunst Und Wissen in Gedruckten Krauterbuchern Des 15. Jahrhunderts

Im Garten Der Gesundheit: Pflanzenbilder Zwischen Natur,...

Author: Pia Rudolph
ISBN: 9783412517595
Format: Hardback
$240.24

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Enacting the Bible in Medieval and Early Modern Drama

Enacting the Bible in Medieval and Early Modern Drama...

Author: Eva von Contzen ,  Chanita Goodblatt
ISBN: 9781526131591
Format: Hardback
$183.99

The thirteen chapters in this collection open up new horizons for the study of biblical drama by putting special...  Read More >>

Galeni in Hippocratis Aphorismos VI Commentaria / Galeno, Commento Agli Aforismi Di Ippocrate Libro VI: Testo, Traduzione E Note Di Commento

Galeni in Hippocratis Aphorismos VI Commentaria / Galeno,...

Author: Christina Savino
ISBN: 9783110656350
Format: Hardback
$483.09

Die hippokratischen Aphorismen gehören zu den wirkungsmächtigsten Zeugnissen der antiken Medizin, und Galens Kommentar...  Read More >>

Naturheilkunde: Lateinisch - Deutsch

Naturheilkunde: Lateinisch - Deutsch

Author: Theodorus Priscianus ,  Kai Brodersen
ISBN: 9783110694079
Format: Hardback
$153.09

Nature is the ruler of everything and offers an alternative to traditional medicine. While professors continue debating...  Read More >>

Plato's Phaedo,: with Notes Critical and Exegetical, and an Analysis

Plato's Phaedo,: with Notes Critical and Exegetical,...

Author: Plato ,  Wagner Wilhelm
ISBN: 9785519702263
Format: Hardback
$77.60

Ninth edition. This book, Plato's Phaedo, with Notes Critical and Exegetical, and an Analysis , by Plato, Wagner...  Read More >>

The Early Reception and Appropriation of the Apostle Peter (60-800 CE): The Anchors of the Fisherman

The Early Reception and Appropriation of the Apostle...

Author: Roald Dijkstra
ISBN: 9789004425675
Format: Hardback
$403.92

The Early Reception and Appropriation of the Apostle Peter (60-800 CE) investigates the interdisciplinary history...  Read More >>

Debating Rhetorical Narratology: On the Synthetic, Mimetic, and Thematic Aspects of Narrative

Debating Rhetorical Narratology: On the Synthetic, Mimetic,...

Author: Matthew Clark ,  James Phelan
ISBN: 9780814255773
Format: Paperback
$74.91

A lively, wide-ranging debate about three core concepts of rhetorical narratology.  Read More >>

What Are the Gospels?: A Comparison with Graeco-Roman Biography

What Are the Gospels?: A Comparison with Graeco-Roman...

Author: Richard A. Burridge
ISBN: 9781481308755
Format: Paperback
$84.70

The publication of Richard Burridge's What Are the Gospels? in 1992 inaugurated a transformation in Gospel studies...  Read More >>

Gregory Palamas: The Hesychast Controversy and the Debate with Islam

Gregory Palamas: The Hesychast Controversy and the Debate...

Author: Norman Russell
ISBN: 9781789621532
Format: Hardback
$508.20

This book gives the first English translations of the contemporary Life of Gregory Palamas by Philotheos Kokkinos,...  Read More >>

Imagining Inheritance from Chaucer to Shakespeare

Imagining Inheritance from Chaucer to Shakespeare

Author: Alex Davis (Senior Lecturer, University of St Andrews)
ISBN: 9780198851424
Format: Hardback
$155.95

A study of the idea of inheritance in late medieval and early modern imaginative literature that shows continuities...  Read More >>

Debating Rhetorical Narratology: On the Synthetic, Mimetic, and Thematic Aspects of Narrative

Debating Rhetorical Narratology: On the Synthetic, Mimetic,...

Author: Matthew Clark ,  James Phelan
ISBN: 9780814214282
Format: Hardback
$256.03

A lively, wide-ranging debate about three core concepts of rhetorical narratology.  Read More >>

Paranormal Encounters in Iceland 1150–1400

Paranormal Encounters in Iceland 1150–1400

Author: Ármann Jakobsson ,  Miriam Mayburd
ISBN: 9781580443296
Format: Hardback
$451.41

Paranormal Encounters in Iceland 1150-1400 examines the various ways medieval Icelanders experienced the paranormal...  Read More >>

The Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure: A Translation

The Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure: A Translation...

Author: Glyn S. Burgess ,  Douglas Kelly (Customer)
ISBN: 9781843845430
Format: Paperback
$77.60

First English translation of an important twelfth-century romance, giving an account of the Trojan war and its consequences....  Read More >>

Medical Texts in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture

Medical Texts in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture

Author: Emily Kesling
ISBN: 9781843845492
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Winner of the Best First Monograph from the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England (ISSEME)...  Read More >>

Medievalism in English Canadian Literature: From Richardson to Atwood

Medievalism in English Canadian Literature: From Richardson...

Author: Professor M. J. Toswell ,  Anna Czarnowus
ISBN: 9781843845478
Format: Hardback
$207.00

First full-length investigation into Canadian literary medievalism as a discrete phenomenon.  Read More >>

Ausgewahlte Komoedien des Aristophanes: Volume 1-2

Ausgewahlte Komoedien des Aristophanes: Volume 1-2

Author: Aristophanis
ISBN: 9785519703925
Format: Hardback
$90.54

ERKLAERT VON THEODOR KOCK 1 BAENDCHEN: DIE WOLKEN. 2 BAENDCHEN: DIE RITTER. 3 AUFLAGE. Altgriechisch This...  Read More >>

Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture

Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture

Author: Reviel Netz (Stanford University, California)
ISBN: 9781108481472
Format: Hardback
$142.29

How many authors were there in antiquity? Where did they work? How was the 'canon' made? This book provides an account...  Read More >>

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