Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Lykophron: Alexandra: Greek Text, Translation, Commentary, and Introduction

Lykophron: Alexandra: Greek Text, Translation, Commentary,...

Author: Simon Hornblower (Former Senior Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780199576708
Format: Hardback
$496.95

The Alexandra attributed to Lykophron is a minor poetic masterpiece, and one of the most important and notoriously...  Read More >>

Dream, Fantasy, and Visual Art in Roman Elegy

Dream, Fantasy, and Visual Art in Roman Elegy

Author: Emma Scioli
ISBN: 9780299303846
Format: Paperback
$145.20

The elegists, ancient Rome’s most introspective poets, filled their works with vivid, first-person accounts of dreams....  Read More >>

Greek Tragedy in Action

Greek Tragedy in Action

Author: Oliver Taplin
ISBN: 9781138834200
Format: Hardback
$284.00

A reissue of this seminal study which was revolutionary in drawing out the significance of stage action in Greek...  Read More >>

Reading Robin Hood: Content, Form and Reception in the Outlaw Myth

Reading Robin Hood: Content, Form and Reception in the...

Author: Stephen Knight ,  Anke Bernau
ISBN: 9780719095269
Format: Hardback
$183.99

Explores and explains stories about the mythic outlaw, who from the middle ages to the present stands up for the...  Read More >>

Greek Fiction

Greek Fiction

Author: ]. R. Morgan ,  Richard Stoneman
ISBN: 9781138834927
Format: Hardback
$284.00

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Huguccio: The Life, Works, and Thought of a Twelfth-Century Jurist

Huguccio: The Life, Works, and Thought of a Twelfth-Century...

Author: Wolfgang P. Müller
ISBN: 9780813228365
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Huguccio was an important lawyer of the medieval church, bishop of Ferrara, and one of the greatest representatives...  Read More >>

The English Aeneid: Translations of Virgil 1555-1646

The English Aeneid: Translations of Virgil 1555-1646...

Author: Sheldon Brammall
ISBN: 9780748699087
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Presents a study of the English Renaissance translations of Virgil's Aeneid. This volume covers the period from...  Read More >>

Homer’s Iliad

Homer’s Iliad

Author: Martha Krieter-Spiro ,  S. Douglas Olson
ISBN: 9781614517382
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This commentary on the 3rd book of the Iliad concentrates on the interpretation of the ceremonial single combat...  Read More >>

Euripides and the Politics of Form

Euripides and the Politics of Form

Author: Victoria Wohl
ISBN: 9780691166506
Format: Hardback
$74.99

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The Poetry of Chaucer: A Guide to Its Study and Appreciation

The Poetry of Chaucer: A Guide to Its Study and Appreciation...

Author: Robert Kilburn Root
ISBN: 9781515261629
Format: Paperback
$34.29

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.  Read More >>

Textual and Visual Representations of Power and Justice in Medieval France: Manuscripts and Early Printed Books

Textual and Visual Representations of Power and Justice...

Author: Rosalind Brown-Grant ,  Anne D. Hedeman
ISBN: 9781472415707
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Thoroughly interdisciplinary in approach, this volume examines how concepts such as the exercising of power, the...  Read More >>

Plinius und seine Klassiker

Plinius und seine Klassiker

Author: Katrin Schwerdtner
ISBN: 9783110414721
Format: Hardback
$205.83

This volume offers a systematic study of the use of literary quotations in Pliny's letters. By looking at exemplary...  Read More >>

The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature

The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences...

Author: Gilbert Highet ,  Harold Bloom
ISBN: 9780199377695
Format: Paperback
$69.95

A monumental work of literary scholarship, reissued with a legacy-establishing foreword by Harold Bloom.  Read More >>

Plotinus on the Soul

Plotinus on the Soul

Author: Damian Caluori (Trinity University, Texas)
ISBN: 9781107105959
Format: Hardback
$232.88

This is the first comprehensive study of Plotinus' theory of the soul for half a century. It shows how Plotinus...  Read More >>

Sheba's Daughters: Whitening and Demonizing the Saracen Woman in Medieval French Epic

Sheba's Daughters: Whitening and Demonizing the Saracen...

Author: Jacqueline de Weever
ISBN: 9781138879508
Format: Paperback
$114.00

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

The Oresteia

The Oresteia

Author: Aeschylus ,  E D a Morshead
ISBN: 9781515144489
Format: Paperback
$21.09

The Oresteia By Aeschylus The popular Greek author of ancient period tragedy trilogy whose only surviving work...  Read More >>

The Odyssey Retold: Vol. 2: with Commentary on the Homeric Art of Persuasion

The Odyssey Retold: Vol. 2: with Commentary on the Homeric...

Author: Daniel R Fredrick
ISBN: 9781515037484
Format: Paperback
$14.20

Daniel R. Fredrick's retelling of Homer's Odyssey will allow you to quickly and thoroughly understand one of the...  Read More >>

Ancient Sex: New Essays

Ancient Sex: New Essays

Author: Professor of Classics Ruby Blondell (University of Washington) ,  Kirk Ormand
ISBN: 9780814212837
Format: Hardback
$311.39

Elucidates some of the ways that ancient Greek and Roman texts and visual arts articulate a culturally specific...  Read More >>

Encomia: Bulletin Bibliographique de la Societe Internationale de Litterature Courtoise

Encomia: Bulletin Bibliographique de la Societe Internationale...

Author: Logan E Whalen
ISBN: 9782812446665
Format: Paperback
$250.80

Volume 34-35 of the Encomia is a bibliography of all critical work on medieval European courtly literature produced...  Read More >>

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