Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Pulmo - Pyxis

Pulmo - Pyxis

Author: Internationale Thesauruskommission
ISBN: 9783598770586
Format: Hardback
$221.76

The Thesaurus linguae Latinae is not only the largest Latin dictionary in the world, but also the first to cover...  Read More >>

Troy: The Epic Battle as Told in Homer’s Iliad

Troy: The Epic Battle as Told in Homer’s Iliad

Author: Homer ,  Samuel Butler
ISBN: 9780008275952
Format: Paperback
$9.99

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Troy: The Epic Battle as Told in Homer’s Iliad

Troy: The Epic Battle as Told in Homer’s Iliad

Author: Homer ,  Samuel Butler
ISBN: 9780008299392
Format: Paperback
$5.99

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Models from the Past in Roman Culture: A World of Exempla

Models from the Past in Roman Culture: A World of Exempla...

Author: Matthew B. Roller (The Johns Hopkins University)
ISBN: 9781107162594
Format: Hardback
$232.88

This book investigates historical examples in Ancient Roman culture, presenting a coherent model for understanding...  Read More >>

Claudian the Poet

Claudian the Poet

Author: Clare Coombe
ISBN: 9781107058347
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Reappraises this fourth-century Latin poet's use of story telling and poetics for political propaganda. Argues that...  Read More >>

Homer’s Iliad and the Trojan War: Dialogues on Tradition

Homer’s Iliad and the Trojan War: Dialogues on Tradition...

Author: Dr Jan Haywood (Teaching Fellow, University of Leicester, UK) ,  Dr Naoise Mac Sweeney (University of Leicester, UK)
ISBN: 9781350012684
Format: Hardback
$240.00

Explores the way that artists, poets, dramatists, historians and scientists have responded to the Iliad during this...  Read More >>

Grattius: Hunting an Augustan Poet

Grattius: Hunting an Augustan Poet

Author: Steven J. Green (Senior Lecturer in Humanities, Senior Lecturer in Humanities, Yale-NUS College Singapore, and Honorary Research Fellow, University College London)
ISBN: 9780198789017
Format: Hardback
$175.95

Grattius' Cynegetica is the author's only surviving work and can confidently be dated to the Augustan period, yet...  Read More >>

Homer and the Poetics of Hades

Homer and the Poetics of Hades

Author: George Alexander Gazis (Lecturer in Greek Literature, Lecturer in Greek Literature, Durham University)
ISBN: 9780198787266
Format: Hardback
$226.95

This unique approach to the Iliad and the Odyssey explores the role and function of Hades as a poetic environment...  Read More >>

Brill's Companion to Prequels, Sequels, and Retellings of Classical Epic

Brill's Companion to Prequels, Sequels, and Retellings...

Author: Robert Simms
ISBN: 9789004249356
Format: Hardback
$620.40

Brill’s Companion to Prequels, Sequels, and Retellings of Classical Epic explores the long tradition of continuing...  Read More >>

Khwadaynamag The Middle Persian Book of Kings

Khwadaynamag The Middle Persian Book of Kings

Author: Jaakko Hameen-Anttila
ISBN: 9789004365469
Format: Hardback
$440.88

In Khwadaynamag. The Middle Persian Book of Kings Jaakko Hameen-Anttila analyses the lost sixth-century historiographical...  Read More >>

Jewish Aramaic Poetry from Late Antiquity: Translations and Commentaries. Cambridge Genizah Studies Series, Volume 8

Jewish Aramaic Poetry from Late Antiquity: Translations...

Author: Laura Suzanne Lieber
ISBN: 9789004365889
Format: Hardback
$477.84

In Jewish Aramaic Poetry from Late Antiquity, Laura Suzanne Lieber offers annotated translations of sixty-nine poems...  Read More >>

Becoming Socrates: Political Philosophy in Plato's ""Parmenides""

Becoming Socrates: Political Philosophy in Plato's ""Parmenides""...

Author: Alex Priou (Customer)
ISBN: 9781580469197
Format: Hardback
$290.40

A rigorous investigation of Socrates' early education, pinpointing the thought that led Socrates to turn from natural...  Read More >>

Reading Philosophy, Writing Poetry: Intertextual Modes of Making Meaning in Early Medieval China

Reading Philosophy, Writing Poetry: Intertextual Modes...

Author: Wendy Swartz
ISBN: 9780674983823
Format: Hardback
$86.95

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A History of Western Appreciation of English-translated Tang Poetry

A History of Western Appreciation of English-translated...

Author: Lan Jiang
ISBN: 9783662563519
Format: Hardback
$116.41

This book examines the development of English-translated Tang poetry and its propagation to the Western world. It...  Read More >>

Die Präsenz der Antike in der Architektur

Die Präsenz der Antike in der Architektur

Author: Andreas Beyer
ISBN: 9783110371253
Format: Hardback
$231.57

The normative and formal presence of classical antiquity - as a mere figure of thought or a fully elaborated body...  Read More >>

Homer’s Iliad

Homer’s Iliad

Author: Martha Krieter-Spiro ,  Stuart Douglas Olson
ISBN: 9783110568868
Format: Hardback
$231.57

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Herodotus - narrator, scientist, historian

Herodotus - narrator, scientist, historian

Author: Ewen Bowie
ISBN: 9783110581539
Format: Hardback
$231.57

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Polybius and His Legacy

Polybius and His Legacy

Author: Nikos Miltsios ,  Melina Tamiolaki
ISBN: 9783110583977
Format: Hardback
$248.73

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