Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Author Unknown: The Power of Anonymity in Ancient Rome

Author Unknown: The Power of Anonymity in Ancient Rome...

Author: Tom Geue
ISBN: 9780674988200
Format: Hardback
$84.95

Classical scholarship tends to treat anonymous authorship as a problem or game—a defect to be repaired or mystery...  Read More >>

Introducing the Medieval Dragon

Introducing the Medieval Dragon

Author: Thomas Honegger
ISBN: 9781786834683
Format: Paperback
$26.95

This book is an introduction written for both the scholar and the interested lay reader. It presents a fascinating...  Read More >>

Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients

Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients

Author: Francis Bacon
ISBN: 9781692570446
Format: Paperback
$105.57

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The Praise of Folly

The Praise of Folly

Author: Erasmus
ISBN: 9791029907715
Format: Hardback
$31.02

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Myth, Locality, and Identity in Pindar's Sicilian Odes

Myth, Locality, and Identity in Pindar's Sicilian Odes...

Author: Virginia M. Lewis (Assistant Professor of Classics, Assistant Professor of Classics, Florida State University)
ISBN: 9780190910310
Format: Hardback
$330.00

This book argues that Pindar engages in a striking, innovative style of mythmaking that represents and shapes Sicilian...  Read More >>

The English Renaissance and the Far East: Cross-Cultural Encounters

The English Renaissance and the Far East: Cross-Cultural...

Author: Adele Lee
ISBN: 9781683931249
Format: Paperback
$105.00

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Le Texte Medieval Dans Le Processus de Communication

Le Texte Medieval Dans Le Processus de Communication...

Author: Ludmilla Evdokimova ,  Alain Marchandisse
ISBN: 9782406093145
Format: Paperback
$176.88

The papers written for the colloquium Social aspects of medieval literatures: text and communicative situation in...  Read More >>

Aeschylus: Suppliants

Aeschylus: Suppliants

Author: Alan H. Sommerstein (University of Nottingham)
ISBN: 9781107686717
Format: Paperback
$75.01

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Homer: Iliad Book III

Homer: Iliad Book III

Author: Homer ,  A. M. Bowie (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781107698024
Format: Paperback
$67.25

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The Ocean of Mirth: Reading Hāsyārṇava-Prahasanaṁ of Jagadēśvara Bhaṭṭāchārya, A Political Satire for All Times

The Ocean of Mirth: Reading Hāsyārṇava-Prahasanaṁ of...

Author: Jyotirmaya Sharma (Department of Political Science, Hyderabad, India)
ISBN: 9780367278274
Format: Paperback
$79.99

The Ocean of Mirth brings together an English translation and an analytical interpretation of a singularly crucial,...  Read More >>

Modell + Risiko: Historische Miniaturen Zu Dynamischen Epistemologien

Modell + Risiko: Historische Miniaturen Zu Dynamischen...

Author: Anna Laqua ,  Peter Loffelbein
ISBN: 9783447112642
Format: Hardback
$219.12

Der interdisziplinar angelegte Sammelband diskutiert die materiellen und historischen Verfasst- und Bedingtheiten...  Read More >>

Reading Literary Animals: Medieval to Modern

Reading Literary Animals: Medieval to Modern

Author: Karen L. Edwards ,  Derek Ryan
ISBN: 9781138093850
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This book explores the status and representation of animals in literature from the Middle Ages to the present day....  Read More >>

Friendship and Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: The Linguistic Performance of Intimacy from Cicero to Aelred

Friendship and Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: The Linguistic...

Author: R. Jacob McDonie
ISBN: 9780367275006
Format: Hardback
$284.00

"Friendship and Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: The Linguistic Performance of Intimacy from Cicero to Aelred covers...  Read More >>

Thresholds and Boundaries: Liminality in Netherlandish Art (1385-1530)

Thresholds and Boundaries: Liminality in Netherlandish...

Author: Lynn F. Jacobs
ISBN: 9780367432805
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Building on literary and anthropological interpretations of liminality, this book demonstrates how the exploration...  Read More >>

The Vocabulary of the Septuagint and its Hellenistic Background

The Vocabulary of the Septuagint and its Hellenistic...

Author: Eberhard Bons ,  Patrick Pouchelle
ISBN: 9783161530203
Format: Paperback
$194.32

This volume precedes the projected Historical and Theological Dictionary of the Septuagint which is to offer historical...  Read More >>

Aeschylus: Suppliants

Aeschylus: Suppliants

Author: Alan H. Sommerstein (University of Nottingham)
ISBN: 9781107058330
Format: Hardback
$206.97

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Homer: Iliad Book III

Homer: Iliad Book III

Author: Homer ,  A. M. Bowie (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781107063013
Format: Hardback
$188.86

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Kautilya's Arthashastra: Philosophy of Strategy

Kautilya's Arthashastra: Philosophy of Strategy

Author: Medha Bisht (Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations, South Asian University)
ISBN: 9781138553071
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book examines in detail the strategic relevance of the Arthashastra, a classical treatise on state and statecraft...  Read More >>

Duanaire na Sracaire: Songbook of the Pillagers: Anthology of Scotland's Gaelic Verse to 1600

Duanaire na Sracaire: Songbook of the Pillagers: Anthology...

Author: Wilson McLeod ,  Meg Bateman
ISBN: 9781912476787
Format: Paperback
$64.69

Duanaire na Sracaire is the first anthology to bring together Scotland's Gaelic poetry from the millenium c.600-1600...  Read More >>

The Ocean of Mirth: Reading Hāsyārṇava-Prahasanaṁ of Jagadēśvara Bhaṭṭāchārya, A Political Satire for All Times

The Ocean of Mirth: Reading Hāsyārṇava-Prahasanaṁ of...

Author: Jyotirmaya Sharma (Department of Political Science, Hyderabad, India)
ISBN: 9780367276829
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The Ocean of Mirth brings together an English translation and an analytical interpretation of a singularly crucial,...  Read More >>

Über Die Welt: Griechisch - Lateinisch - Deutsch

Über Die Welt: Griechisch - Lateinisch - Deutsch

Author: Aristoteles ,  Apuleius
ISBN: 9783110627688
Format: Hardback
$92.37

Als Werk des großen Aristoteles ist eine Schrift Peri Kosmou (De mundo) überliefert, die das Wissen der klassischen...  Read More >>

Fides in Flavian Literature

Fides in Flavian Literature

Author: Antony Augoustakis ,  Emma Buckley
ISBN: 9781487505530
Format: Hardback
$135.00

This book investigates the presence of Fides (""good faith"") in Flavian literature, exploring its ideological significance...  Read More >>

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