Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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The Art of History: Literary Perspectives on Greek and Roman Historiography

The Art of History: Literary Perspectives on Greek and...

Author: Vasileios Liotsakis ,  Scott T. Farrington
ISBN: 9783110495263
Format: Hardback
$231.57

This book is a collective volume on classical historiography. Approaching the ancient Greek and Roman historical...  Read More >>

Centres and Peripheries in the Early Second Temple Period

Centres and Peripheries in the Early Second Temple Period...

Author: Christoph Levin ,  Ehud Ben Zvi
ISBN: 9783161542930
Format: Hardback
$378.81

"""Centre and periphery"" frameworks have been particularly helpful for research on systems whose dynamics are strongly...  Read More >>

Dante und die bildenden Künste: Dialoge – Spiegelungen – Transformationen

Dante und die bildenden Künste: Dialoge – Spiegelungen...

Author: Maria Antonietta Terzoli ,  Sebastian Schütze
ISBN: 9783110475999
Format: Hardback
$157.84

"Presents an inquiry into Dante and the visual arts, beginning from early portraits of Dante and the famous ekphrasis...  Read More >>

Social Variation and the Latin Language

Social Variation and the Latin Language

Author: J. N. Adams (All Souls College, Oxford)
ISBN: 9781316629499
Format: Paperback
$98.30

A major history of many of the developments undergone by the Latin language as it changed into Romance languages....  Read More >>

Epic Visions: Visuality in Greek and Latin Epic and its Reception

Epic Visions: Visuality in Greek and Latin Epic and...

Author: Helen Lovatt (University of Nottingham) ,  Caroline Vout (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781316629543
Format: Paperback
$80.19

This book explores visual readings and receptions of ancient epic. It provides a new perspective for readers of...  Read More >>

Martial XIV: The Apophoreta

Martial XIV: The Apophoreta

Author: T. J. Leary (Hampton School, UK) ,  T. J. Leary
ISBN: 9781350005402
Format: Paperback
$66.99

"Book XIV of Martial's epigrams, the ""Apophoreta"", comprising of poetic couplets, is a source of information about...  Read More >>

Martial XIII: The Xenia

Martial XIII: The Xenia

Author: T. J. Leary (Hampton School, UK)
ISBN: 9781350005297
Format: Paperback
$74.99

"Although both innovative and engaging, Book XIII of Martial's epigrams, the ""Xenia"", has generally been neglected....  Read More >>

Die Erfurter Historienbibel: (Historienbibel Gruppe VI)

Die Erfurter Historienbibel: (Historienbibel Gruppe...

Author: Rudolf Bentzinger
ISBN: 9783110516746
Format: Hardback
$686.40

The volume provides the text of the Erfurt Popular Bible (an expanded bible translation with commentary) in a parallel...  Read More >>

Homer

Homer

Author: Barbara Graziosi (Professor of Classics, Durham University)
ISBN: 9780198788300
Format: Hardback
$28.95

The Iliad and the Odyssey are the cornerstones of Western literature. Over the years they have inspired artists,...  Read More >>

Resemblance and Reality in Greek Thought: Essays in Honor of Peter M. Smith

Resemblance and Reality in Greek Thought: Essays in...

Author: Arum Park (University of Arizona, USA)
ISBN: 9781138955226
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Resemblance and Reality in Greek Thought follows the construction of reality from Homer into the Hellenistic era...  Read More >>

The Laws of Solon: A New Edition with Introduction, Translation and Commentary

The Laws of Solon: A New Edition with Introduction,...

Author: D F Leão ,  PJ Rhodes (University of Durham, UK)
ISBN: 9781784536688
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Solon (c 658-558 BC) is famous as both statesman and poet but also, and above all, as the paramount lawmaker of...  Read More >>

Early English Poetic Culture and Meter: The Influence of G. R. Russom

Early English Poetic Culture and Meter: The Influence...

Author: M. J. Toswell ,  Lindy Brady
ISBN: 9781580442428
Format: Hardback
$105.47

New approaches on early English poetic culture from the perspective of meter and poetic style.  Read More >>

Faszikel 1: Text Und Übersetzung, Faszikel 2: Kommentar

Faszikel 1: Text Und Übersetzung, Faszikel 2: Kommentar...

Author: Professor Joachim Latacz (University of Basel (Emeritus)) ,  Anton Bierl
ISBN: 9783110206548
Format: Hardback
$443.52

"Since Ameis-Hentze-Cauer (1868-1913) no comprehensive, scholarly commentary of Homer's Iliad has been published...  Read More >>

Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic

Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire,...

Author: Grant a Nelsestuen
ISBN: 9780814252215
Format: Paperback
$74.91

Argues that Varro's treatise provides his contemporaries with a model for governing the Roman state, anticipates...  Read More >>

Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Critical Discussion of the Works of 15th -16th-17th and 18th Century Novelist Poets Playwrights Philosophers and Other Creative Writers

Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Critical Discussion...

Author: Lawrence J Trudeau
ISBN: 9781410332547
Format: Hardback
$1275.12

Literature Criticism from 1400-1800 assembles critical responses to the literatures of the 15th through the 18th...  Read More >>

Von den Wächtern zu Adam: Frühjüdische Mythen über die Ursprünge des Bösen und ihre frühchristliche Rezeption

Von den Wächtern zu Adam: Frühjüdische Mythen über die...

Author: Monika Elisabeth Götte
ISBN: 9783161548475
Format: Paperback
$259.79

Die Frage nach den Ursprüngen des Bösen wird in der jüdisch-christlichen Überlieferung in verschiedenen mythologischen...  Read More >>

Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram

Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram

Author: Manuel Baumbach (Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Germany) ,  Andrej Petrovic (University of Durham)
ISBN: 9781107525924
Format: Paperback
$108.65

With contributions written by leading experts in the field, this volume explores the dialogue between Archaic and...  Read More >>

Music in Roman Comedy

Music in Roman Comedy

Author: Timothy J. Moore (University of Texas, Austin)
ISBN: 9781107535282
Format: Paperback
$108.65

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Colloquial and Literary Latin

Colloquial and Literary Latin

Author: Eleanor Dickey (University of Exeter) ,  Anna Chahoud (Trinity College, Dublin)
ISBN: 9781107684416
Format: Paperback
$108.65

How did the Latin of casual conversation differ from that of formal writing? How much colloquial Latin appears in...  Read More >>

Theater outside Athens: Drama in Greek Sicily and South Italy

Theater outside Athens: Drama in Greek Sicily and South...

Author: Kathryn Bosher (Northwestern University, Illinois)
ISBN: 9781107527508
Format: Paperback
$80.19

The first collection of essays on the development of Greek theater in ancient Sicily and South Italy, written by...  Read More >>

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