Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Aristotle and The Philosophy of Law: Theory, Practice and Justice

Aristotle and The Philosophy of Law: Theory, Practice...

Author: Liesbeth Huppes-Cluysenaer ,  Nuno M.M.S. Coelho
ISBN: 9789400792920
Format: Paperback
$284.60

The book presents a new focus on the legal philosophical texts of Aristotle, which offers a much richer frame for...  Read More >>

The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians

The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians

Author: E a Wallis Budge
ISBN: 9781511598620
Format: Paperback
$23.73

The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians is intended to serve as an elementary introduction to the study of Egyptian...  Read More >>

Fastorum libri sex: Volume 5, Indices, Illustrations, Plans: The Fasti of Ovid

Fastorum libri sex: Volume 5, Indices, Illustrations,...

Author: Ovid ,  James George Frazer
ISBN: 9781108083232
Format: Paperback
$72.42

Frazer published this five-volume edition of Ovid's poem on the Roman calendar in 1929. It contains the text and...  Read More >>

Fastorum libri sex: The Fasti of Ovid

Fastorum libri sex: The Fasti of Ovid

Author: Ovid ,  James George Frazer
ISBN: 9781108082464
Format: Paperback
$80.19

Sir James Frazer published this five-volume edition of Ovid's poem on the Roman calendar in 1929. It contains the...  Read More >>

Fastorum libri sex: The Fasti of Ovid

Fastorum libri sex: The Fasti of Ovid

Author: Ovid ,  James George Frazer
ISBN: 9781108082495
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Frazer published this five-volume edition of Ovid's poem on the Roman calendar in 1929. It contains the text and...  Read More >>

Fastorum libri sex: The Fasti of Ovid

Fastorum libri sex: The Fasti of Ovid

Author: Ovid ,  James George Frazer
ISBN: 9781108082471
Format: Paperback
$98.30

Frazer published this five-volume edition of Ovid's poem on the Roman calendar in 1929. It contains the text and...  Read More >>

Fastorum libri sex: The Fasti of Ovid

Fastorum libri sex: The Fasti of Ovid

Author: Ovid ,  James George Frazer
ISBN: 9781108082488
Format: Paperback
$87.95

Frazer published this five-volume edition of Ovid's poem on the Roman calendar in 1929. It contains the text and...  Read More >>

The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes

The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes...

Author: Jackson Crawford
ISBN: 9781624663567
Format: Paperback
$24.95

These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological and literary importance, containing...  Read More >>

The Hagiographies of Anantadas: The Bhakti Poets of North India

The Hagiographies of Anantadas: The Bhakti Poets of...

Author: Winnand Callewaert ,  Swapna Sharma
ISBN: 9781138862463
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This critical study of Anantadas 'biographies' of 15th and 16th century bhakti poets gives a broad spectrum of the...  Read More >>

Pindar and the Construction of Syracusan Monarchy in the Fifth Century B.C.

Pindar and the Construction of Syracusan Monarchy in...

Author: Kathryn A. Morgan
ISBN: 9780199366859
Format: Hardback
$317.00

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Psychoanalytic Scholia on the Homeric Epics

Psychoanalytic Scholia on the Homeric Epics

Author: Konstantinos I. Arvanitakis
ISBN: 9789042039278
Format: Paperback
$118.80

This work attempts a psychoanalytic listening to the ‘oral’ Homeric epics in an effort to extract, as it were, from...  Read More >>

The Complete Harley 2253 Manuscript: Volume 1

The Complete Harley 2253 Manuscript: Volume 1

Author: Susanna Fein ,  David Raybin
ISBN: 9781580442053
Format: Paperback
$105.47

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How to Correct the Sacra Scriptura? Textual Criticism of the Latin Bible between the Twelfth and Fifteenth Century

How to Correct the Sacra Scriptura? Textual Criticism...

Author: Research Fellow Cornelia Linde (German Historical Institute London)
ISBN: 9780907570448
Format: Paperback
$51.72

This study deals with Latin texts from the twelfth to the fifteenth century that discuss the emendation of the Latin...  Read More >>

The Bright Rose: Early German Verse 800-1250

The Bright Rose: Early German Verse 800-1250

Author: Philip Wilson ,  Philip Wilson
ISBN: 9781908376718
Format: Paperback
$25.85

A beautiful, lyrical journey through the passions and fears of pre-Medieval German life, told by some of its finest...  Read More >>

The Grail: A Casebook

The Grail: A Casebook

Author: Dhira B. Mahoney
ISBN: 9781138868953
Format: Paperback
$114.00

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Reading Fabliaux

Reading Fabliaux

Author: Norris J. Lacy
ISBN: 9781138864207
Format: Paperback
$27.99

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Marriage Fictions in Old French Secular Narratives, 1170-1250: A Critical Re-evaluation of the Courtly Love Debate

Marriage Fictions in Old French Secular Narratives,...

Author: Keith Nickolaus
ISBN: 9781138868601
Format: Paperback
$69.99

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'A Great Effusion of Blood'?: Interpreting Medieval Violence

'A Great Effusion of Blood'?: Interpreting Medieval...

Author: Mark D. Meyerson ,  Daniel Thiery
ISBN: 9781442628816
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Exploring the issue from both historical and literary perspectives, the contributors examine violence in a broad...  Read More >>

Late Sophocles: The Hero’s Evolution in Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus

Late Sophocles: The Hero’s Evolution in Electra, Philoctetes,...

Author: Thomas Van Nortwick
ISBN: 9780472119561
Format: Hardback
$131.87

Only a few plays by Sophocles have survived, and each of them dramatizes events from the rich store of myths that...  Read More >>

Sophocles and the Politics of Tragedy: Cities and Transcendence

Sophocles and the Politics of Tragedy: Cities and Transcendence...

Author: Jonathan N. Badger (St. John's College, Annapolis, USA)
ISBN: 9781138903111
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Focuses on Sophocles' dramatization of fundamental political impasses and applies these to the competing political...  Read More >>

Dramatic Action in Greek Tragedy and Noh: Reading with and beyond Aristotle

Dramatic Action in Greek Tragedy and Noh: Reading with...

Author: Mae J. Smethurst
ISBN: 9781498511247
Format: Paperback
$111.00

By looking at 15th/16th realistic noh and Greek tragedies through the lens of Aristotle and of each other, this...  Read More >>

The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters

The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters

Author: Adam Nicolson
ISBN: 9780007335534
Format: Paperback
$22.99

Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (now the Bailie Gifford) ‘A...  Read More >>

Dante: A Very Short Introduction

Dante: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Peter Hainsworth (Emeritus Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall Oxford) ,  David Robey (Emeritus Professor, University of Reading, and Emeritus Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford)
ISBN: 9780199684779
Format: Paperback
$21.95

This Very Short Introduction examines all the major aspects of Dante's work, emphasizing the features that have...  Read More >>

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