Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Sophrosyne: Self-knowledge and Self-restraint in Greek Literature

Sophrosyne: Self-knowledge and Self-restraint in Greek...

Author: Helen North ,  Giles Laurén
ISBN: 9780999140192
Format: Paperback
$52.80

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The Virgilian Tradition: Book History and the History of Reading in Early Modern Europe

The Virgilian Tradition: Book History and the History...

Author: Craig Kallendorf
ISBN: 9781138375147
Format: Paperback
$105.00

Includes essays that approach the reception of the Roman poet Virgil in early modern Europe from the perspective...  Read More >>

Studies on Jews and Christians in the First and Second Centuries

Studies on Jews and Christians in the First and Second...

Author: Peter J. Tomson
ISBN: 9783161546198
Format: Hardback
$747.79

The present volume gathers up studies by Peter J. Tomson, written over thirty-odd years, that deal with ancient...  Read More >>

Letters, Literacy and Literature in Byzantium

Letters, Literacy and Literature in Byzantium

Author: Margaret Mullett
ISBN: 9781138375185
Format: Paperback
$105.00

Features essays that share a common concern with exploring maternity's cultural representation, performative aspects...  Read More >>

Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice: A Feel for the Text

Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice: A Feel...

Author: Stephen Ahern
ISBN: 9783319972671
Format: Hardback
$284.60

Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice develops new approaches to reading literature that are informed by...  Read More >>

Homer: Iliad Book XVIII

Homer: Iliad Book XVIII

Author: Homer ,  R. B. Rutherford (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781107643123
Format: Paperback
$69.84

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Aristophanes: Peace

Aristophanes: Peace

Author: Ian C. Storey (Trent University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781350020214
Format: Paperback
$46.99

This is the first volume dedicated to Aristophanes' comedy Peace that analyses the play for a student audience and...  Read More >>

Plautus: Casina

Plautus: Casina

Author: Professor David Christenson (Professor of Classics, University of Arizona, USA)
ISBN: 9781350020535
Format: Paperback
$46.99

A study of Casina in its social-historical and performance contexts, and of its themes and reception.  Read More >>

Terence: Andria

Terence: Andria

Author: Sander M. Goldberg (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
ISBN: 9781350020627
Format: Paperback
$46.99

Launching a much-needed new series discussing each comedy that survives from the ancient world, this volume is a...  Read More >>

Fruit of the Orchard: Reading Catherine of Siena in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

Fruit of the Orchard: Reading Catherine of Siena in...

Author: Jennifer N. Brown
ISBN: 9781487504076
Format: Hardback
$135.00

In Fruit of the Orchard, Jennifer N. Brown builds upon academic discourse about medieval readers, trans-Reformation...  Read More >>

Old English and Continental Germanic Literature in Comparative Perspectives

Old English and Continental Germanic Literature in Comparative...

Author: Larry J. Swain
ISBN: 9781433148842
Format: Hardback
$287.23

This volume compares key texts and practices of the Anglo-Saxons with their German counterparts.  Read More >>

Galen: Works on Human Nature: Volume 1, Mixtures (De Temperamentis)

Galen: Works on Human Nature: Volume 1, Mixtures (De...

Author: P. N. Singer (Birkbeck, University of London) ,  Philip J. van der Eijk (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
ISBN: 9781107023147
Format: Hardback
$274.28

In this book, the Graeco-Roman doctor Galen sets out his influential theory of the 'mixtures' of the human body...  Read More >>

Homer: Iliad Book XVIII

Homer: Iliad Book XVIII

Author: Homer ,  R. B. Rutherford (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781107067776
Format: Hardback
$181.10

Book 18 of the Iliad is an outstanding example of the range and power of Homeric epic. This edition provides an...  Read More >>

Aristophanes: Peace

Aristophanes: Peace

Author: Ian C. Storey (Trent University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781350020221
Format: Hardback
$140.00

This is the first volume dedicated to Aristophanes' comedy Peace that analyses the play for a student audience and...  Read More >>

Plautus: Casina

Plautus: Casina

Author: Professor David Christenson (Professor of Classics, University of Arizona, USA)
ISBN: 9781350020542
Format: Hardback
$140.00

A study of Casina in its social-historical and performance contexts, and of its themes and reception.  Read More >>

Terence: Andria

Terence: Andria

Author: Sander M. Goldberg (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
ISBN: 9781350020634
Format: Hardback
$140.00

Launching a much-needed new series discussing each comedy that survives from the ancient world, this volume is a...  Read More >>

The Art of Mystical Narrative: A Poetics of the Zohar

The Art of Mystical Narrative: A Poetics of the Zohar...

Author: Eitan Fishbane (Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought, Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought, The Jewish Theological Seminary)
ISBN: 9780199948635
Format: Hardback
$413.00

In the study of Judaism, the Zohar has captivated the minds of interpreters for over seven centuries, and continues...  Read More >>

Eusebius and Empire: Constructing Church and Rome in the Ecclesiastical History

Eusebius and Empire: Constructing Church and Rome in...

Author: James Corke-Webster (King's College London)
ISBN: 9781108474078
Format: Hardback
$274.28

Argues that our main narrative source for early Christianity, the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius of Caesarea,...  Read More >>

Pursuing a New Order I: Religious Education in Late Medieval Central and Eastern Central Europe

Pursuing a New Order I: Religious Education in Late...

Author: Pavlina Rychterova
ISBN: 9782503581804
Format: Paperback
$250.80

Concentrating on the period of advance of the vernaculars in the context of religious text production in Central...  Read More >>

A Raven's Battle-cry: The Limits of Judgment in the Medieval Irish Legal Tract Anfuigell

A Raven's Battle-cry: The Limits of Judgment in the...

Author: Charlene M. Eska
ISBN: 9789004342644
Format: Hardback
$343.20

In A Raven's Battle-cry Charlene M. Eska presents a critical edition and translation of the previously unpublished...  Read More >>

On Dating Biblical Texts to the Persian Period: Discerning Criteria and Establishing Epochs

On Dating Biblical Texts to the Persian Period: Discerning...

Author: Richard J. Bautch ,  Mark Lackowski
ISBN: 9783161556500
Format: Paperback
$218.90

"In the last two decades, increasing numbers of texts have been suggested as coming from or edited during the Persian...  Read More >>

Alexander the Great: From His Death to the Present Day

Alexander the Great: From His Death to the Present Day...

Author: John Boardman
ISBN: 9780691181752
Format: Hardback
$54.99

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