Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Egypt as a Monster in the Book of Ezekiel

Egypt as a Monster in the Book of Ezekiel

Author: Safwat Marzouk
ISBN: 9783161532450
Format: Paperback
$255.90

"Appealing to Monster Theory and the ancient Near Eastern motif of ""Chaoskampf,"" Safwat Marzouk argues that the...  Read More >>

Reading the Liver: Papyrological Texts on Ancient Greek Extispicy

Reading the Liver: Papyrological Texts on Ancient Greek...

Author: William Furley ,  Victor Gysembergh
ISBN: 9783161538902
Format: Paperback
$96.00

William Furley and Victor Gysembergh bring together in a new edition the papyrus fragments of ancient Greek manuals...  Read More >>

Jews and Christians in Thirteenth-Century France

Jews and Christians in Thirteenth-Century France

Author: E. Baumgarten ,  J. Galinsky
ISBN: 9781349449606
Format: Paperback
$181.95

A period of great change for Europe, the thirteenth-century was a time of both animosity and intimacy for Jewish...  Read More >>

A Companion to Alain Chartier (c.1385-1430): Father of French Eloquence

A Companion to Alain Chartier (c.1385-1430): Father...

Author: Daisy Delogu ,  Emma Cayley
ISBN: 9789004272187
Format: Hardback
$673.20

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Specimens of Greek Tragedy

Specimens of Greek Tragedy

Author: Goldwin Smith
ISBN: 9781514211830
Format: Paperback
$21.09

Greek drama, forerunner of ours, had its origin in the festival of Dionysus, god of wine, which was celebrated with...  Read More >>

Stagecraft in Euripides (Routledge Revivals)

Stagecraft in Euripides (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Michael Halleran
ISBN: 9780415744430
Format: Paperback
$105.00

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A New Companion to Greek Tragedy (Routledge Revivals)

A New Companion to Greek Tragedy (Routledge Revivals)...

Author: Andrew Brown
ISBN: 9780415740449
Format: Paperback
$92.99

That the works of the ancient tragedians still have an immediate and profound appeal surely needs no demonstration,...  Read More >>

Horace (Routledge Revivals)

Horace (Routledge Revivals)

Author: C.D.N. Costa
ISBN: 9780415743624
Format: Paperback
$105.00

Two thousand years after his death Horace is still recognised as a unique poet, having exerted marked influence...  Read More >>

Jews and Christians in Thirteenth-Century France

Jews and Christians in Thirteenth-Century France

Author: E. Baumgarten ,  J. Galinsky
ISBN: 9781137287199
Format: Hardback
$170.95

A period of great change for Europe, the thirteenth-century was a time of both animosity and intimacy for Jewish...  Read More >>

Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer

Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer

Author: Charles Sotheran
ISBN: 9781514203651
Format: Paperback
$15.81

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books...  Read More >>

The Delicious Vice

The Delicious Vice

Author: Young E Allison
ISBN: 9781514169087
Format: Paperback
$15.71

Pipe Dreams and Fond Adventures of an Habitual Novel-Reader Among Some Great Books and Their People  Read More >>

Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies: Volume 2: 2015

Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies: Volume 2: 2015...

Author: Angelika Jakobi ,  Giovanni Ruffini
ISBN: 9780692458433
Format: Paperback
$55.44

Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies offers a multi-disciplinary, diachronic view of all aspects of Nubian civilization....  Read More >>

König Ödipus

König Ödipus

Author: Sophokles
ISBN: 9783843021272
Format: Hardback
$86.86

The new series, Griechische Dramen [Greek Dramas], explores the classical Greek tragedies from Athens by providing...  Read More >>

Eumelo. Un Poeta Per Corinto: Con Ulteriori Divagazioni Epiche

Eumelo. Un Poeta Per Corinto: Con Ulteriori Divagazioni...

Author: Andrea Debiasi
ISBN: 9788891308887
Format: Paperback
$509.52

Il volume raccoglie una serie di studi dedicati all'epopea arcaica di Eumelo, autore di un corpus poetico tanto...  Read More >>

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism

Author: Lawrence J Trudeau
ISBN: 9781569955376
Format: Hardback
$1275.12

As a convenient source of wide-ranging critical opinion on early literature, this series contains excerpts from...  Read More >>

Women in Roman Republican Drama

Women in Roman Republican Drama

Author: Dorota Dutsch ,  Sharon L. James
ISBN: 9780299303143
Format: Paperback
$145.20

Latin plays were written for audiences whose gender perspectives and expectations were shaped by life in Rome, and...  Read More >>

Commentary on The Song of Awakening

Commentary on The Song of Awakening

Author: Yōka Daishi ,  Janine Coursin
ISBN: 9781937385620
Format: Hardback
$198.00

A twentieth-century Japanese Zen Master’s Commentary on Shdöka (Cheng tao ke), the famous poem by the great seventh-century...  Read More >>

Clio's Other Sons: Berossus & Manetho

Clio's Other Sons: Berossus & Manetho

Author: John D. Dillery
ISBN: 9780472052271
Format: Paperback
$134.51

A discussion of the first written histories of Babylon and Egypt  Read More >>

Monsters and Monstrosity in Augustan Poetry

Monsters and Monstrosity in Augustan Poetry

Author: Dunstan Lowe
ISBN: 9780472119516
Format: Hardback
$211.07

An important contribution to the growing interdisciplinary field of monster studies  Read More >>

The South in the German Imaginary: The Italian Journeys of Goethe and Heine

The South in the German Imaginary: The Italian Journeys...

Author: Tim Mehigan ,  Gerhard Schulz
ISBN: 9783034319201
Format: Paperback
$146.97

The North–South divide in Europe represents a geographical and cultural boundary that has influenced how European...  Read More >>

Clio's Other Sons: Berossus & Manetho

Clio's Other Sons: Berossus & Manetho

Author: John D. Dillery
ISBN: 9780472072279
Format: Hardback
$263.87

A discussion of the first written histories of Babylon and Egypt  Read More >>

On the Boundaries of Talmudic Prayer

On the Boundaries of Talmudic Prayer

Author: Yehuda Septimus
ISBN: 9783161534218
Format: Hardback
$440.39

"In this work, Yehuda Septimus investigates a boundary phenomenon of talmudic prayer: ritual speech with addressees...  Read More >>

Costume in the Comedies of Aristophanes

Costume in the Comedies of Aristophanes

Author: Gwendolyn Compton-Engle
ISBN: 9781107083790
Format: Hardback
$248.37

This book interprets the handling of costume in the plays of the ancient Greek comic playwright Aristophanes, using...  Read More >>

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