Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Reading Homer’s Odyssey

Reading Homer’s Odyssey

Author: Kostas Myrsiades
ISBN: 9781684481316
Format: Hardback
$166.19

Homer's Odyssey, the first great travel narrative in Western culture, is a compelling tale about the consequences...  Read More >>

Papers on Quintilian and Ancient Declamation

Papers on Quintilian and Ancient Declamation

Author: Michael Winterbottom (University of Oxford) ,  Antonio Stramaglia (University of Bari Aldo Moro)
ISBN: 9780191873423
Format: Undefined
$303.60

Declamation - the practice of training young men to speak in public by setting them to compose and deliver speeches...  Read More >>

Philosophy in Late Antiquity: Boundaries of Being

Philosophy in Late Antiquity: Boundaries of Being

Author: Charles Vergeer
ISBN: 9781527532847
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Late Antiquity seems to retreat in silence. However, Nietzsche drew attention to the fact that what we know about...  Read More >>

Narratology

Narratology

Author: Genevieve Liveley (Senior Lecturer in Classics, Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9780199687701
Format: Hardback
$179.95

The extraordinary contribution that classical poetics has made to twentieth and twenty-first century theories of...  Read More >>

Joseph the Hymnographer: Kanones on Saints According to the Eight Modes. Critical Edition Volume 12

Joseph the Hymnographer: Kanones on Saints According...

Author: Paraskevi Toma
ISBN: 9783643909954
Format: Paperback
$237.47

Joseph the Hymnographer (c. AD 816 - 886) belonged to the Constantinopolitan intellectual elite and was a prominent...  Read More >>

The Poetry of Sappho: An Expanded Edition, Featuring Newly Discovered Poems

The Poetry of Sappho: An Expanded Edition, Featuring...

Author: Jim Powell ,  Jim Powell
ISBN: 9780190937379
Format: Hardback
$213.84

"""The Sapphic impression of emotion poured out in unpremeditated speech is the product of sophisticated art. Such...  Read More >>

Guillaume de Machaut, The Complete Poetry and Music: Volume 2: The Boethian Poems, Le Remede de Fortune and Le Confort d'Ami

Guillaume de Machaut, The Complete Poetry and Music:...

Author: Uri Smilansky ,  R. Barton Palmer
ISBN: 9781580443746
Format: Paperback
$105.47

The second volume of thirteen in preparation offering the first complete scholarly edition of the poetry and music...  Read More >>

Dissonant Neighbours: Narrative Progress in Early Welsh and English Poetry

Dissonant Neighbours: Narrative Progress in Early Welsh...

Author: David Callander
ISBN: 9781786833983
Format: Paperback
$99.95

Dissonant Neighbours offers a new insight into the medieval literatures of Britain.  Read More >>

Gregorius

Gregorius

Author: Hermann Paul ,  Hartmann Von Aue
ISBN: 9783110482560
Format: Paperback
$34.23

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für ""Gregorius"" verfügbar.  Read More >>

Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium

Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium

Author: Anthony Kaldellis
ISBN: 9780674986510
Format: Hardback
$86.95

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Acusilaus of Argos’ Rhapsody in Prose: Introduction, Text, and Commentary

Acusilaus of Argos’ Rhapsody in Prose: Introduction,...

Author: Ilaria Andolfi
ISBN: 9783110616958
Format: Hardback
$231.57

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De la nature des choses

De la nature des choses

Author: Lucrèce
ISBN: 9782379760761
Format: Paperback
$36.83

De rerum natura (De la nature des choses), plus souvent appelé De natura rerum, est un grand poème en langue latine...  Read More >>

Studies in the Word-Play of Plautus: I. The Name-Play, II. The Use of Single Words in a Double Meaning

Studies in the Word-Play of Plautus: I. The Name-Play,...

Author: Charles Jastrow Mendelsohn
ISBN: 9781097417032
Format: Paperback
$28.91

Word-play has long been recognized as one of Plautus' principal methods for arousing laughter, and every commentator...  Read More >>

A summary of the literatures of modern Europe (England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain) from the origins to 1400,

A summary of the literatures of modern Europe (England,...

Author: Marian Edwardes
ISBN: 9789353606954
Format: Paperback
$37.36

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms...  Read More >>

Medieval Crime Fiction: A Critical Overview

Medieval Crime Fiction: A Critical Overview

Author: Anne McKendry
ISBN: 9781476666716
Format: Paperback
$105.47

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God's Exiles and English Verse: On The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry

God's Exiles and English Verse: On The Exeter Anthology...

Author: John D. Niles
ISBN: 9781905816095
Format: Hardback
$194.06

This is the first integrative, historically grounded book to be written about the Exeter Book of Old English poetry....  Read More >>

Die ptolemäische Organisationsform politeuma: Ein Herrschaftsinstrument zugunsten jüdischer und anderer hellenischer Gemeinschaften

Die ptolemäische Organisationsform politeuma: Ein Herrschaftsinstrument...

Author: Patrick Sänger
ISBN: 9783161568831
Format: Hardback
$401.06

Welche Strategien entwickelten die Ptolemäer, um ihre Herrschaft abzusichern, als sich ihr Reich ab dem Ende des...  Read More >>

Drama: Antiquity and Its Legacy

Drama: Antiquity and Its Legacy

Author: David Rosenbloom
ISBN: 9781848851009
Format: Hardback
$232.88

The drama of antiquity transcends the most intransigent cultural, ethnic and national boundaries. This concise and...  Read More >>

Portrait of Beatrice: Dante, D. G. Rossetti, and the Imaginary Lady

Portrait of Beatrice: Dante, D. G. Rossetti, and the...

Author: Fabio Camilletti
ISBN: 9780268103972
Format: Hardback
$132.00

The Portrait of Beatrice examines how Dante Alighieri and D. G. Rossetti explore the tension between word and image...  Read More >>

Pepysian Meditations on the Passion of Christ: Edited from Cambridge, Magdalene College, MS Pepys 2125

Pepysian Meditations on the Passion of Christ: Edited...

Author: Mayumi Taguchi ,  Yoko Iyeiri
ISBN: 9783825346300
Format: Paperback
$155.76

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Homer: A Very Short Introduction

Homer: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Barbara Graziosi (Professor of Classics, Durham University)
ISBN: 9780199589944
Format: Paperback
$21.95

The Iliad and the Odyssey are the cornerstones of Western literature, inspiring artists, writers, philosophers,...  Read More >>

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