Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Plato and the Invention of Life

Plato and the Invention of Life

Author: Michael Naas
ISBN: 9780823279685
Format: Paperback
$62.95

Beginning with a reading of Plato’s Statesman, this work interrogates the relationship between life and being in...  Read More >>

Aspects of Knowledge: Preserving and Reinventing Traditions of Learning in the Middle Ages

Aspects of Knowledge: Preserving and Reinventing Traditions...

Author: Marilina Cesario ,  Hugh Magennis
ISBN: 9780719097843
Format: Hardback
$195.00

This book investigates the role of 'texts' including books, maps, stones and caskets in the conveyance and transformation...  Read More >>

Medieval Literature: The Basics

Medieval Literature: The Basics

Author: Angela Jane Weisl (Seton Hall University, USA) ,  Anthony Joseph Cunder
ISBN: 9781138669048
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Medieval Literature is an engaging introduction to ideologies and theories in areas such as religion, politics and...  Read More >>

Plato and the Invention of Life

Plato and the Invention of Life

Author: Michael Naas
ISBN: 9780823279678
Format: Hardback
$220.95

Beginning with a reading of Plato’s Statesman, this work interrogates the relationship between life and being in...  Read More >>

Infinitivische Konstruktionen Im Rgveda Und Bei Homer

Infinitivische Konstruktionen Im Rgveda Und Bei Homer...

Author: Heinrich Hettrich ,  Karin Stuber
ISBN: 9783515120975
Format: Paperback
$71.28

Heinrich Hettrich und Karin Stuber befassen sich in diesem Band mit der Syntax infinitivischer Formen im Rgveda...  Read More >>

Guillaume de Machaut, The Complete Poetry and Music, Volume 9: The Motets

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

Author: Jacques Boogaart (Utrecht University, Amsterdam University) ,  R. Barton Palmer (Professor of Literature, Clemson University)
ISBN: 9781580442879
Format: Paperback
$105.47

A new edition of Machaut's twenty-three motets, based on manuscript Paris, Bibliothèque nationale fonds français...  Read More >>

La Question homérique au début du XXe siècle

La Question homérique au début du XXe siècle

Author: Maurice Croiset
ISBN: 9781717477057
Format: Paperback
$24.29

... La question homérique a été liée longtemps à la discussion des témoignages anciens qui s'y rapportent directement....  Read More >>

Guillaume de Machaut, The Complete Poetry and Music, Volume 9: The Motets

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

Author: Jacques Boogaart (Utrecht University, Amsterdam University) ,  R. Barton Palmer (Professor of Literature, Clemson University)
ISBN: 9781580443029
Format: Hardback
$261.36

A new edition of Machaut's twenty-three motets, based on manuscript Paris, Bibliothèque nationale fonds français...  Read More >>

Childhood & Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture

Childhood & Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture...

Author: Susan Irvine ,  Winfried Rudolf
ISBN: 9781487502027
Format: Hardback
$170.00

After decades of study dominated by adult gender studies, Childhood & Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture...  Read More >>

Manichaische Handschriften, Bd. 1: Kephalaia I, 2. Halfte, 17.+ 18.Lfg. Mit Einbanddecke

Manichaische Handschriften, Bd. 1: Kephalaia I, 2. Halfte,...

Author: Wolf-Peter Funk
ISBN: 9783170178526
Format: Paperback
$435.60

Manichaische Handschriften der Staatlichen Museen Berlin. Der Fund von Medinet Madi (1929) - sieben Papyrusbucher...  Read More >>

The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, and The Holy Goddesses

The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, and The Holy...

Author: Aeschylus ,  David Mulroy
ISBN: 9780299315641
Format: Paperback
$52.67

First presented in the spring of 458 BCE at the festival of Dionysus in Athens, Aeschylus' trilogy Oresteia won...  Read More >>

Dante's «Convivio»: Or How to Restart a Career in Exile

Dante's «Convivio»: Or How to Restart a Career in Exile...

Author: Claire E. Honess ,  Matthew Treherne
ISBN: 9783034318358
Format: Paperback
$138.04

Dante’s unfinished work Il Convivio is often overlooked. In this volume, it is reconsidered in a different light,...  Read More >>

Livy's Political Philosophy: Power and Personality in Early Rome

Livy's Political Philosophy: Power and Personality in...

Author: Ann Vasaly (Boston University)
ISBN: 9781107667945
Format: Paperback
$80.19

Challenging the common perception of Livy as an apolitical moralist, this book explores the political implications...  Read More >>

Transforming Gender and Emotion: The Butterfly Lovers Story in China and Korea

Transforming Gender and Emotion: The Butterfly Lovers...

Author: Sookja Cho
ISBN: 9780472130634
Format: Hardback
$158.27

The Butterfly Lovers Story, sometimes called the Chinese Romeo and Juliet, has been enduringly popular in China...  Read More >>

History of English Literature, Volume 1: Medieval and Renaissance Literature to 1625

History of English Literature, Volume 1: Medieval and...

Author: Franco Marucci
ISBN: 9783034322287
Format: Hardback
$340.39

History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of English literature from the Middle Ages...  Read More >>

Compelling God: Theories of Prayer in Anglo-Saxon England

Compelling God: Theories of Prayer in Anglo-Saxon England...

Author: Stephanie Clark
ISBN: 9781487501983
Format: Hardback
$160.00

In Compelling God, Stephanie Clark examines the relationship between prayer, gift giving, the self, and community...  Read More >>

Antiphon and Andocides: Speeches (Antiphontis et Andocidis Orationes)

Antiphon and Andocides: Speeches (Antiphontis et Andocidis...

Author: Mervin R. Dilts (Emeritus Professor, Emeritus Professor, New York University) ,  David J. Murphy (Emeritus, Emeritus, the Nightingale-Bamford School)
ISBN: 9780199605477
Format: Hardback
$108.95

This first Oxford Classical Text of the speeches of Antiphon and Andocides aims to set the standard for a definitive...  Read More >>

The Odyssey: A New Translation by Peter Green

The Odyssey: A New Translation by Peter Green

Author: Homer ,  Peter Green
ISBN: 9780520293632
Format: Hardback
$49.95

"""This is a translation of the epic Greek poem by Homer.""--Provided by publisher."  Read More >>

Lectures tragiques I

Lectures tragiques I

Author: Bernadette Morin
ISBN: 9781986155199
Format: Paperback
$76.56

Bernadette Morin a consacre sa carriere de Professeur des Universites a l'etude des tragiques grecs. Elle nous livre...  Read More >>

Jacob of Serugh's Hexaemeron

Jacob of Serugh's Hexaemeron

Author: T. Muraoka
ISBN: 9789042934917
Format: Hardback
$324.72

A fifth-sixth century clergyman-cum-theologian, Jacob of Serugh (also spelled Sarug), was an extremely prolific...  Read More >>

The Little Man Who Wasn't Quite

The Little Man Who Wasn't Quite

Author: William W Stuart
ISBN: 9781717288011
Format: Paperback
$17.29

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Gods & Heroes: On the Trail of the Iliad and the Odyssey

Gods & Heroes: On the Trail of the Iliad and the Odyssey...

Author: Jill Dudley
ISBN: 9780955383472
Format: Paperback
$20.67

Author & stalwart husband Harry follow in the footsteps of the heroes of the Trojan War. They travel to Turkey,...  Read More >>

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