Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Callimachus: The Hymns

Callimachus: The Hymns

Author: Susan A. Stephens (Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics, Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics, Stanford University)
ISBN: 9780199783045
Format: Paperback
$61.95

This volume offers a text and commentary of all six of Callimachus' hymns, as well as interpretive essays on each...  Read More >>

Pliny the Younger: A Life in Roman Letters

Pliny the Younger: A Life in Roman Letters

Author: Rex Winsbury
ISBN: 9781474237123
Format: Paperback
$76.99

Pliny the Younger who lived c. 100 AD, left a large collection of letters, thanks to which we know him better than...  Read More >>

Super Ierarchiam Beati Dionysii

Super Ierarchiam Beati Dionysii

Author: Brepols Publishers
ISBN: 9782503047812
Format: Hardback
$1404.48

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Greek Tragedy

Greek Tragedy

Author: H.D.F. Kitto ,  Edith Hall
ISBN: 9781138834781
Format: Hardback
$200.00

H.D.F Kitto's acclaimed study of Greek tragedy, first published in 1936 is now available for the first time in Routledge...  Read More >>

Callimachus: The Hymns

Callimachus: The Hymns

Author: Susan A. Stephens (Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics, Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics, Stanford University)
ISBN: 9780199783076
Format: Hardback
$261.95

This volume offers a text and commentary of all six of Callimachus' hymns, as well as interpretive essays on each...  Read More >>

Brothers and Sisters in Medieval European Literature

Brothers and Sisters in Medieval European Literature...

Author: Carolyne Larrington
ISBN: 9781903153628
Format: Hardback
$207.00

A wideranging and groundbreaking investigation of the sibling relationship as shown in European literature, from...  Read More >>

Reconsidering Gender, Time and Memory in Medieval Culture

Reconsidering Gender, Time and Memory in Medieval Culture...

Author: Elizabeth Cox ,  Liz Herbert McAvoy
ISBN: 9781843844037
Format: Hardback
$207.00

A consideration of the ways in which the past was framed and remembered in the pre-modern world.  Read More >>

Vergil´s Political Commentary: in the Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid

Vergil´s Political Commentary: in the Eclogues, Georgics...

Author: Leendert Weeda
ISBN: 9783110426410
Format: Hardback
$164.31

Vergil’s commentary on political issues is discussed after analyzing the whole of the poet’s work. His political...  Read More >>

Prenostica Socratis Basilei: Etude, Edition Critique Et Traduction

Prenostica Socratis Basilei: Etude, Edition Critique...

Author: Alberto Alonso Guardo ,  Nicolas Negrilic
ISBN: 9782812435669
Format: Paperback
$126.72

This book is at once a study, critical edition, and French translation of the Prenostica Socratis Basilei, a text...  Read More >>

Tractado de Viçios E Virtudes

Tractado de Viçios E Virtudes

Author: Cleveland Johnson
ISBN: 9780916379506
Format: Hardback
$155.76

This represents the first critical edition of a fourteenth-century Castilian version of Iacobo de Benavento's thirteenth-century...  Read More >>

Livy's Political Philosophy: Power and Personality in Early Rome

Livy's Political Philosophy: Power and Personality in...

Author: Ann Vasaly (Boston University)
ISBN: 9781107065673
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Challenging the common perception of Livy as an apolitical moralist, this book explores the political implications...  Read More >>

Covenant and Election in Exilic and Post-Exilic Judaism: Studies of the Sofja Kovalevskaja Research Group on Early Jewish Monotheism Vol. V

Covenant and Election in Exilic and Post-Exilic Judaism:...

Author: Nathan MacDonald
ISBN: 9783161532672
Format: Paperback
$182.16

Covenant and election are two theological concepts that dominate the landscape of the Hebrew Bible. If they became...  Read More >>

The Liturgical Context of Early European Drama

The Liturgical Context of Early European Drama

Author: Salvatore Paterno
ISBN: 9780916379629
Format: Hardback
$141.24

This book can be read not only by an academic audience but also by a general public for an understanding and appreciation...  Read More >>

Patterns of Redemption in Virgil's Georgics

Patterns of Redemption in Virgil's Georgics

Author: Llewelyn Morgan (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780511549410
Format: Undefined
$435.60

This is a 1999 study of one of the most famous poems of Roman literature. By close reading of selected passages...  Read More >>

T. Macci Plauti Comoediae: Volume 3

T. Macci Plauti Comoediae: Volume 3

Author: Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl ,  Titus Maccius Plautus
ISBN: 9780511710612
Format: Undefined
$224.40

The works of Latin comedic playwright Titus Maccius Plautus owe their modern reputation to this monumental four-volume...  Read More >>

T. Macci Plauti Comoediae: Volume 4

T. Macci Plauti Comoediae: Volume 4

Author: Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl ,  Titus Maccius Plautus
ISBN: 9780511710629
Format: Undefined
$224.40

The works of Latin comedic playwright Titus Maccius Plautus owe their modern reputation to this monumental four-volume...  Read More >>

Saul: Israels König in Tradition, Redaktion und früher Rezeption

Saul: Israels König in Tradition, Redaktion und früher...

Author: Hannes Bezzel
ISBN: 9783161536847
Format: Hardback
$300.15

"In dieser Studie fragt Hannes Bezzel nach Saul, dem ersten König Israels, nicht als einer historischen Gestalt...  Read More >>

Lucian, True Stories: An Intermediate Ancient Greek Reader

Lucian, True Stories: An Intermediate Ancient Greek...

Author: C T Hadavas
ISBN: 9781514147122
Format: Paperback
$38.68

"Lucian's True Stories is an excellent text for students who have completed the first year of college-level Ancient...  Read More >>

Chaucer, Gower, and the Vernacular Rising: Poetry and the Problem of the Populace After 1381

Chaucer, Gower, and the Vernacular Rising: Poetry and...

Author: Lynn Arner (Brock University)
ISBN: 9780271058948
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Examines the transmission of Greco-Roman and European literature into English in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth...  Read More >>

Paul's Viewpoint on God, Israel, and the Gentiles in Romans 9-11: An Intertextual Thematic Analysis

Paul's Viewpoint on God, Israel, and the Gentiles in...

Author: Xiaxia Xue
ISBN: 9781783680474
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Most discussions of intertextual studies on Romans 9-11 fail to adequately address Paul's discourse patterns and...  Read More >>

Performing Oaths in Classical Greek Drama

Performing Oaths in Classical Greek Drama

Author: Judith Fletcher (Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario)
ISBN: 9781107525832
Format: Paperback
$80.19

This book demonstrates how oaths influence dramatic plots by compelling characters to behave in certain ways, how...  Read More >>

Aristophanes and the Poetics of Competition

Aristophanes and the Poetics of Competition

Author: Zachary P. Biles (Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781107525948
Format: Paperback
$80.19

Athenian comedy was written for performance in competitions at religious festivals. This book applies traditional...  Read More >>

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