Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Opera From the Greek: Studies in the Poetics of Appropriation

Opera From the Greek: Studies in the Poetics of Appropriation...

Author: Michael Ewans
ISBN: 9781138249813
Format: Paperback
$114.00

"Explores how classical Greek tragedy and epic poetry have been appropriated in opera, through eight selected case...  Read More >>

Margery Kempe: and her world

Margery Kempe: and her world

Author: A.E. Goodman
ISBN: 9781138149380
Format: Hardback
$263.00

An autobiographical account of the life of a Norfolk lady belonging to King's Lynn's troubled stately but troubled...  Read More >>

Spanish and Portuguese Romances of Chivalry

Spanish and Portuguese Romances of Chivalry

Author: Henry Thomas
ISBN: 9781138982727
Format: Paperback
$92.99

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Lysistrate: (Lysistrata)

Lysistrate: (Lysistrata)

Author: Aristophanes
ISBN: 9783843020305
Format: Hardback
$69.60

Aristophanes: Lysistrate. (Lysistrata) Nach zwanzig Jahren Krieg mit Sparta treten die Athenerinnen unter Frührung...  Read More >>

Lysistrate: Ein Lustspiel

Lysistrate: Ein Lustspiel

Author: Aristophanes
ISBN: 9783861995005
Format: Hardback
$53.04

Aristophanes: Lysistrate. Ein Lustspiel Nach zwanzig Jahren Krieg mit Sparta treten die Athenerinnen unter Frührung...  Read More >>

Classical Rhetoric and Modern Public Relations: An Isocratean Model

Classical Rhetoric and Modern Public Relations: An Isocratean...

Author: Charles Marsh
ISBN: 9781138233829
Format: Paperback
$88.99

This book presents the value of Isocratean rhetoric as an instructive antecedent of modern public relations, showing...  Read More >>

The City and the Parish: Drama in York and Beyond: Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies

The City and the Parish: Drama in York and Beyond: Shifting...

Author: Alexandra F. Johnston ,  edited by David N. Klausner
ISBN: 9781472478887
Format: Hardback
$284.00

"Collected Studies CS1062 This volume brings together a selection of the major articles of Alexandra F. Johnston,...  Read More >>

T. Calpurnius Siculus: A Pastoral Poet in Neronian Rome

T. Calpurnius Siculus: A Pastoral Poet in Neronian Rome...

Author: Evangelos Karakasis
ISBN: 9783110468045
Format: Hardback
$231.57

This book, a comprehensive survey of T. Calpurnius Siculus' pastoral opus, focuses on the poet's seven eclogues,...  Read More >>

De arte magorum: Erklärung und Deutung ausgewählter Hexenszenen bei Theokrit, Vergil, Horaz, Ovid, Seneca und Lucan unter Berücksichtigung des Ritualaufbaus und der Relation zu den Zauberpapyri

De arte magorum: Erklärung und Deutung ausgewählter...

Author: Matthias Reif ,  akg-images gmbh Honorare und Lizenzen
ISBN: 9783525208731
Format: Hardback
$271.66

Der Untersuchung liegen Hexenszenen und magische Ritualschilderungen in Schlüsseltexten aus der hellenistisch-alexandrinischen...  Read More >>

Greek and Latin Compositions

Greek and Latin Compositions

Author: Richard Shilleto
ISBN: 9781316626092
Format: Paperback
$69.84

Originally published in 1901, this book presents a collection of Greek and Latin compositions by the British classicist...  Read More >>

The Agamemnon of Aeschylus: A Revised Text with Introduction, Verse Translation, and Critical Notes

The Agamemnon of Aeschylus: A Revised Text with Introduction,...

Author: J. C. Lawson
ISBN: 9781316626115
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Originally published in 1932, this book presents the complete Greek text of Agamemnon with an English verse translation....  Read More >>

Translations into Greek Verse and Prose

Translations into Greek Verse and Prose

Author: R. D. Archer-Hind
ISBN: 9781316626078
Format: Paperback
$69.84

Originally published in 1905, this book presents a series of translations from English into Greek verse and prose,...  Read More >>

Greek Tragedy: Themes and Contexts

Greek Tragedy: Themes and Contexts

Author: Laura Swift (The Open University, UK)
ISBN: 9781474236836
Format: Paperback
$34.99

The latest volume in the Classical World series, this book offers a much-needed up-to-date introduction to Greek...  Read More >>

The Plays of Euripides

The Plays of Euripides

Author: James Morwood (University of Oxford, UK)
ISBN: 9781474233590
Format: Paperback
$36.99

Over the past decades there has been something of a revolution in the way we view classical drama generally and...  Read More >>

Seneca

Seneca

Author: Marcus Wilson
ISBN: 9781472523068
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Little is known about Seneca's life before his dramatic exile in old age, when he was banished by the mad emperor...  Read More >>

The Plays of Sophocles

The Plays of Sophocles

Author: Professor A. F. Garvie (University of Glasgow, UK)
ISBN: 9781474233354
Format: Paperback
$36.99

The emphasis throughout this book, ideal for sixth form and early university students, is on Sophocles' tragic...  Read More >>

The Plays of Aeschylus

The Plays of Aeschylus

Author: Professor A. F. Garvie (University of Glasgow, UK)
ISBN: 9781474233279
Format: Paperback
$36.99

This excellent introduction to the six extant plays of Aeschylus is fully revised and updated, with additional further...  Read More >>

The Gentle, Jealous God: Reading Euripides' Bacchae in English

The Gentle, Jealous God: Reading Euripides' Bacchae...

Author: Simon Perris (University of Wellington, New Zealand)
ISBN: 9781472513533
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Euripides’ Bacchae is the magnum opus of the ancient world’s most popular dramatist and the most modern, perhaps...  Read More >>

The Mimiambs of Herodas: Translated into an English ‘Choliambic’ Metre with Literary-Historical Introductions and Notes

The Mimiambs of Herodas: Translated into an English...

Author: Anna Rist (Independent Scholar, UK)
ISBN: 9781350004207
Format: Hardback
$260.00

The third-century BC Greek poet Herodas had been all but forgotten until a papyrus of eight of his Mimiambs (plus...  Read More >>

God is great 3

God is great 3

Author: Patti Chiappa
ISBN: 9781539897613
Format: Paperback
$313.95

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A Treasury of Virtues: Sayings, Sermons, and Teachings of 'Ali, with the One Hundred Proverbs attributed to al-Jahiz

A Treasury of Virtues: Sayings, Sermons, and Teachings...

Author: al-Qāḍī al-Quḍāʿī ,  Tahera Qutbuddin
ISBN: 9781479896530
Format: Paperback
$32.99

A collection of sayings, sermons, and teachings attributed to 'Ali ibn Abi Talib (d. 40H/661AD), cousin and son-in-law...  Read More >>

Holy Mary Magdalene: Old and New

Holy Mary Magdalene: Old and New

Author: Zacharias P Thundy
ISBN: 9781539893899
Format: Paperback
$26.37

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Ekphrasis, Imagination and Persuasion in Ancient Rhetorical Theory and Practice

Ekphrasis, Imagination and Persuasion in Ancient Rhetorical...

Author: Ruth Webb
ISBN: 9781138247819
Format: Paperback
$114.00

A study of ekphrasis, the art of making listeners and readers 'see' in their imagination through words alone, as...  Read More >>

Hemiole: Le Roman de Pythagore

Hemiole: Le Roman de Pythagore

Author: Pierre Squara
ISBN: 9782251446745
Format: Paperback
$66.00

Hemiole est le roman d'un siecle, le ve avant notre ere; de l'apogee d'une ville, Crotone, et d'une assemblee d'hommes...  Read More >>

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