Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Stealing the Club from Hercules: On Imitation in Latin Poetry

Stealing the Club from Hercules: On Imitation in Latin...

Author: Gian Biagio Conte
ISBN: 9783110472202
Format: Hardback
$128.61

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Redeeming Thucydides' Book VIII: Narrative Artistry in the Account of the Ionian War

Redeeming Thucydides' Book VIII: Narrative Artistry...

Author: Vasileios Liotsakis
ISBN: 9783110532074
Format: Hardback
$231.57

Questioning the traditional scholarly view that Book VIII of Thucydides’ History is less polished than the rest...  Read More >>

Das Dritte Jahrhundert: Kontinuitaten, Bruche, Ubergange

Das Dritte Jahrhundert: Kontinuitaten, Bruche, Ubergange...

Author: Armin Eich ,  Stefan Freund
ISBN: 9783515118415
Format: Hardback
$245.52

Die Epoche zwischen Mark Aurel und Konstantin gilt gemeinhin als eine Zeit krisenhaften Umbruchs und tiefgreifender...  Read More >>

Parthika. Greek and Roman Authors' Views of the Arsacid Empire / Griechisch-Romische Bilder Des Arsakidenreiches

Parthika. Greek and Roman Authors' Views of the Arsacid...

Author: Josef Wiesehofer ,  Sabine Muller
ISBN: 9783447107648
Format: Hardback
$264.00

Established in the third century BC, the multi-cultural and multi-lingual Arsacid Empire became Rome's major opponent...  Read More >>

The Daughter Zion Allegory in Medieval German Religious Writing

The Daughter Zion Allegory in Medieval German Religious...

Author: Annette Volfing
ISBN: 9781472469755
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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A History of Classical Greek Literature: Vol. II. Part I.

A History of Classical Greek Literature: Vol. II. Part...

Author: J P Mahaffy
ISBN: 9783337179793
Format: Paperback
$64.43

A History of Classical Greek Literature - Vol. II. Part I. is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original...  Read More >>

Ubertragung. Bedeutungspraxis Und 'Bildlichkeit' in Literatur Und Kunst Des Mittelalters

Ubertragung. Bedeutungspraxis Und 'Bildlichkeit' in...

Author: Franziska Wenzel ,  Pia Selmayr
ISBN: 9783954902064
Format: Hardback
$388.08

Fragen nach der 'Bildlichkeit' von Illustrationen, sprachlich erzeugter Anschaulichkeit oder konkretisierten Begriffen...  Read More >>

Rewriting the Ancient World: Greeks, Romans, Jews and Christians in Modern Popular Fiction

Rewriting the Ancient World: Greeks, Romans, Jews and...

Author: Lisa Maurice
ISBN: 9789004340145
Format: Hardback
$366.96

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Raconter En Prose: Xive-Xvie Siecle

Raconter En Prose: Xive-Xvie Siecle

Author: Paola Cifarelli ,  Maria Colombo Timelli
ISBN: 9782406059899
Format: Paperback
$139.92

This collection adopts a threefold approach to the phenomenon of rendering texts into prose: the work of David Aubert...  Read More >>

Fragmenta Comica

Fragmenta Comica

Author: Nicola Comentale
ISBN: 9783946317067
Format: Hardback
$196.62

"Die Reihe Fragmenta Comica wird die vollständige Kommentierung der Fragmente der griechischen Komödie bieten.Ziel...  Read More >>

King of Tyre

King of Tyre

Author: James Mathis (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
ISBN: 9781981596553
Format: Paperback
$128.15

It is the variation among the Latin versions and the numerous vernacular adaptations that make this story especially...  Read More >>

Hethitische Texte in Transkription Bo 8264-Bo 8485: Autographien

Hethitische Texte in Transkription Bo 8264-Bo 8485:...

Author: Ilknur Tas
ISBN: 9783447108782
Format: Paperback
$132.00

2014 veroffentlichte Ilknur Tas die Transkriptionen von 171 Fragmenten der Keilschriftentafeln, die Anfang des 20....  Read More >>

Fragmenta Comica

Fragmenta Comica

Author: Andreas Bagordo
ISBN: 9783946317074
Format: Hardback
$219.91

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Poems

Poems

Author: Venantius Fortunatus ,  Michael Roberts
ISBN: 9780674974920
Format: Hardback
$61.95

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Albert’s Anthology

Albert’s Anthology

Author: Kathleen M. Coleman
ISBN: 9780674980549
Format: Hardback
$52.80

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Tristan and Isolde: Medieval Illustrations of the Verse Romances

Tristan and Isolde: Medieval Illustrations of the Verse...

Author: Stephanie C Van D'Elden
ISBN: 9782503530987
Format: Hardback
$382.80

The story of Tristan and Isolde was one of the most popular in the Middle Ages. Resonances of it appear in other...  Read More >>

Victorian Horace: Classics and Class

Victorian Horace: Classics and Class

Author: Stephen Harrison (Professor of Latin Literature, University of Oxford, UK)
ISBN: 9781472583918
Format: Hardback
$240.00

The poetry of Horace was central to Victorian male elite education and the ancient poet himself, suitably refashioned,...  Read More >>

The Shaping of English Poetry – Volume IV: Essays on 'The Battle of Maldon', Chrétien de Troyes, Dante, 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and Chaucer

The Shaping of English Poetry – Volume IV: Essays on...

Author: Gerald Morgan
ISBN: 9783034317245
Format: Paperback
$140.37

This fourth volume of essays under the title The Shaping of English Poetry consolidates the work of the previous...  Read More >>

""Every Valley Shall Be Exalted"": The Discourse of Opposites in Twelfth-Century Thought

""Every Valley Shall Be Exalted"": The Discourse of...

Author: Constance Brittain Bouchard
ISBN: 9781501713644
Format: Paperback
$59.49

In high medieval France, men and women saw the world around them as the product of tensions between opposites. Imbued...  Read More >>

Subjectivity in ʿAttār, Persian Sufism, and European Mysticism

Subjectivity in ʿAttār, Persian Sufism, and European...

Author: Claudia Yaghoobi
ISBN: 9781557537836
Format: Paperback
$72.60

Adopting an empirical and systematic approach, this interdisciplinary study of medieval Persian Sufi tradition and...  Read More >>

Rhetorical Strategies in Late Antique Literature: Images, Metatexts and Interpretation

Rhetorical Strategies in Late Antique Literature: Images,...

Author: Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas
ISBN: 9789004340091
Format: Hardback
$327.36

Rhetorical Strategies in Late Antique Literature: Images, Metatexts and Interpretation offers new and penetrating...  Read More >>

Equine Poetics

Equine Poetics

Author: Ryan Platte
ISBN: 9780674975705
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Dante's The Divine Comedy

A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Dante's The Divine Comedy...

Author: David Dean Brockman
ISBN: 9781138206717
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Brockman connects spirituality with psychoanalysis throughout this book as he looks at Dante’s early writings, his...  Read More >>

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