Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Simonides the Poet: Intertextuality and Reception

Simonides the Poet: Intertextuality and Reception

Author: Richard Rawles (University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9781107141704
Format: Hardback
$232.88

The first study in English for a generation of the ancient Greek poet Simonides, approaching his work both through...  Read More >>

Composite Citations in Antiquity: Volume 2: New Testament Uses

Composite Citations in Antiquity: Volume 2: New Testament...

Author: Dr Sean A. Adams (University of Glasgow, UK) ,  Prof Seth M. Ehorn (Wheaton College, USA)
ISBN: 9780567665058
Format: Hardback
$240.00

This is the second of two volumes that investigate the phenomenon of composite citations. The first collection...  Read More >>

Heirs of the Vikings: History and Identity in Normandy and England, c.950-c.1015

Heirs of the Vikings: History and Identity in Normandy...

Author: Katherine Cross
ISBN: 9781903153796
Format: Hardback
$207.00

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How the Anglo-Saxons Read Their Poems

How the Anglo-Saxons Read Their Poems

Author: Daniel Donoghue ,  Ruth Mazo Karras
ISBN: 9780812249941
Format: Hardback
$197.87

Daniel Donoghue shows how the earliest readers of Old English poems deployed a unique set of skills that enabled...  Read More >>

Treatises on Friendship and Old Age

Treatises on Friendship and Old Age

Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero ,  E S Shuckburgh
ISBN: 9781719167598
Format: Paperback
$14.92

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and...  Read More >>

Martin Le Franc. Agreste Otium Und de Bono Mortis

Martin Le Franc. Agreste Otium Und de Bono Mortis

Author: Martin Le Franc ,  Raphael Schwitter
ISBN: 9783447107501
Format: Hardback
$264.00

Das lateinische Werk des franzosischen Fruhhumanisten Martin Le Franc (1408-1461) gehort zu den jungsten Entdeckungen...  Read More >>

Nemesis: Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens

Nemesis: Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens

Author: David Stuttard
ISBN: 9780674660441
Format: Hardback
$51.95

Alcibiades was one of the most dazzling figures of Athens's Golden Age. A friend of Socrates, he was spectacularly...  Read More >>

Myths in Disguise

Myths in Disguise

Author: Jan Burzynski ,  Ryszard Nycz
ISBN: 9783631674307
Format: Hardback
$124.98

This book presents a collection of essays discussing the history of the five myths of Dionysus, Narcissus, Prometheus,...  Read More >>

Reading Drama in Tudor England

Reading Drama in Tudor England

Author: Tamara Atkin
ISBN: 9781472476265
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Taking as its focus a neglected and scattered archive of plays printed in English before the establishment of successful...  Read More >>

Communal Creativity in the Making of the 'Beowulf' Manuscript: Towards a History of Reception for the Nowell Codex

Communal Creativity in the Making of the 'Beowulf' Manuscript:...

Author: Simon C. Thomson
ISBN: 9789004360853
Format: Hardback
$580.80

In Communal Creativity in the Making of the 'Beowulf' Manuscript, Simon Thomson analyses details of scribal activity...  Read More >>

Hieratic, Demotic and Greek Studies and Text Editions: Of Making Many Books There Is No End: Festschrift in Honour of Sven P. Vleeming

Hieratic, Demotic and Greek Studies and Text Editions:...

Author: Cary J. Martin ,  Francisca A.J. Hoogendijk
ISBN: 9789004345713
Format: Hardback
$689.04

This volume is a Festschrift in honour of Sven Vleeming containing the contributions of thirty-eight friends and...  Read More >>

Claudien, Oeuvres: Tome IV: Petits Poemes

Claudien, Oeuvres: Tome IV: Petits Poemes

Author: Jean-Louis Charlet ,  Jean-Louis Charlet
ISBN: 9782251014814
Format: Paperback
$118.80

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The Oresteia: A Norton Critical Edition

The Oresteia: A Norton Critical Edition

Author: Aeschylus ,  Joshua Billings
ISBN: 9780393923285
Format: Paperback
$28.95

“This critical edition provides a lavish and fulsome picture of ancient Greek tragedy’s most significant surviving...  Read More >>

The Weather in the Icelandic Sagas: The Enemy Without

The Weather in the Icelandic Sagas: The Enemy Without...

Author: Bernadine McCreesh
ISBN: 9781527508132
Format: Hardback
$152.64

The descriptions of the weather in medieval Icelandic sagas have long been considered unimportant, mere adjuncts...  Read More >>

The Authoress of the Odyssey: Where and When She Wrote, Who She Was, the Use She Made of the Iliad, and How the Poem Grew Under Her Hands

The Authoress of the Odyssey: Where and When She Wrote,...

Author: Samuel Butler
ISBN: 9781719105576
Format: Paperback
$31.65

In The Authoress of the Odyssey Butler advocated two theories: one that the Odyssey was the work of a woman, the...  Read More >>

Properzens 'Vertumnus'-Elegie (4,2) Und Das Dichtungsprogramm Des Vierten Buches: Ein Intertextueller Kommentar

Properzens 'Vertumnus'-Elegie (4,2) Und Das Dichtungsprogramm...

Author: Robert Karacsony
ISBN: 9783515118811
Format: Paperback
$221.76

"Der antike romische Dichter Properz (ca. 50-15 v. Chr.) zahlt neben Vergil, Horaz, Tibull und Ovid zu den renommierten...  Read More >>

Medea: Special Edition

Medea: Special Edition

Author: Euripides
ISBN: 9781718746589
Format: Paperback
$21.09

One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medea centers on the myth of Jason, leader of the Argonauts,...  Read More >>

The Sexual World of the Arabian Nights

The Sexual World of the Arabian Nights

Author: David Ghanim
ISBN: 9781108442251
Format: Paperback
$51.72

The Arabian Nights is an outstanding piece of world literature that can offer deep insights into the way we think...  Read More >>

From Biology to Linguistics: The Definition of Arthron in Aristotle's Poetics

From Biology to Linguistics: The Definition of Arthron...

Author: Patrizia Laspia
ISBN: 9783319773254
Format: Hardback
$181.10

This book attempts to solve Aristotle's definition of arthron in the XX chapter of the Poetics by seeing it in a...  Read More >>

Margaret Capel, V. 1

Margaret Capel, V. 1

Author: Ellen Wallace
ISBN: 9781718990913
Format: Paperback
$21.33

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The Sexual World of the Arabian Nights

The Sexual World of the Arabian Nights

Author: David Ghanim
ISBN: 9781108425360
Format: Hardback
$194.06

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Gods and Humans in Medieval Scandinavia: Retying the Bonds

Gods and Humans in Medieval Scandinavia: Retying the...

Author: Jonas Wellendorf (University of California, Berkeley)
ISBN: 9781108424974
Format: Hardback
$232.88

The first monograph in English on the medieval Scandinavian reception and re-interpretation of pre-Christian Scandinavian...  Read More >>

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