Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid

Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid

Author: Maggie Kilgour (Molson Professor of English Language and Literature, Molson Professor of English Language and Literature, McGill University)
ISBN: 9780198717126
Format: Paperback
$106.95

Contributing to our understanding of Ovid, Milton, and more broadly the transmission and transformation of classical...  Read More >>

Horace

Horace

Author: S. J. Harrison (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781107444447
Format: Paperback
$36.20

This book gives a full and authoritative survey of the scholarly literature on the Roman poet Horace. It covers...  Read More >>

Stag of Love: The Chase in Medieval Literature

Stag of Love: The Chase in Medieval Literature

Author: Marcelle Thiébaux
ISBN: 9780801479694
Format: Paperback
$69.84

The Stag of Love explores the body of erotic metaphor that developed in medieval literature and art from the hunt...  Read More >>

Forbidden Oracles?: The Gospel of the Lots of Mary

Forbidden Oracles?: The Gospel of the Lots of Mary

Author: AnneMarie Luijendijk
ISBN: 9783161528590
Format: Paperback
$218.90

In this volume, AnneMarie Luijendijk analyzes a previously unknown text preserved in a fifth- or sixth-century Coptic...  Read More >>

Galen's De indolentia: Essays on a Newly Discovered Letter

Galen's De indolentia: Essays on a Newly Discovered...

Author: Clare K. Rothschild ,  Trevor W. Thompson
ISBN: 9783161532153
Format: Paperback
$268.32

"In 2005 a French doctoral student discovered the long-lost treatise, De indolentia (Περὶ ἀλυπησίας/ἀλυπίας) or...  Read More >>

Suetonius the Biographer: Studies in Roman Lives

Suetonius the Biographer: Studies in Roman Lives

Author: Tristan Power (Lecturer in Classics, Lecturer in Classics, Columbia University) ,  Roy K. Gibson (Professor of Latin, Professor of Latin, University of Manchester)
ISBN: 9780199697106
Format: Hardback
$236.95

The biographer Suetonius is one of the most fascinating writers of ancient Rome, but he is rarely afforded serious...  Read More >>

Family and Friends: Generation in Medieval Romance

Family and Friends: Generation in Medieval Romance

Author: Annick Sperlich
ISBN: 9783825361389
Format: Hardback
$200.64

This volume analyses the generational relationships in the so-called 'ancestral romances', narratives in verse form...  Read More >>

No Tapping Around Philology: A Festschrift in Honor of Wheeler McIntosh Thackston Jr.'s 70th Birthday

No Tapping Around Philology: A Festschrift in Honor...

Author: Alireza Korangy ,  Daniel J Sheffield
ISBN: 9783447102155
Format: Hardback
$264.00

This volume is a collection of twenty-three articles dedicated to one of the most distinguished philologists and...  Read More >>

Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution

Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution...

Author: Justice John Paul Stevens ,  Philippe Remi
ISBN: 9780316373722
Format: Hardback
$89.76

For the first time ever, a retired Supreme Court Justice offers a manifesto on how the Constitution needs to change....  Read More >>

Mapping Malory: Regional Identities and National Geographies in Le Morte Darthur

Mapping Malory: Regional Identities and National Geographies...

Author: D. Armstrong ,  K. Hodges
ISBN: 9781349442010
Format: Paperback
$160.95

Medievalists are increasingly grappling with spatial studies. This timely book argues that geography is a crucial...  Read More >>

Syntactic Dislocation in English Congregational Song between 1500 and 1900: A Corpus-based Study

Syntactic Dislocation in English Congregational Song...

Author: Kirsten Gather
ISBN: 9783631645901
Format: Hardback
$150.46

This study analyses syntactic dislocation in congregational song between 1500 and 1900. Two distinct dislocation...  Read More >>

Aspectual Prefixes in Early English

Aspectual Prefixes in Early English

Author: Vlatko Broz
ISBN: 9783631645291
Format: Hardback
$133.64

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Strategie und Philosophie bei Seneca: "Untersuchungen zur therapeutischen Technik in den ""Epistulae morales"""

Strategie und Philosophie bei Seneca: "Untersuchungen...

Author: Uwe Dietsche
ISBN: 9783110349047
Format: Hardback
$188.67

Die bisherigen Erklärungen der philosophischen Dimension der Epistulae morales lassen sich im großen Ganzen zwei...  Read More >>

Charakterfokalisation bei Lucan: Eine narratologische Analyse

Charakterfokalisation bei Lucan: Eine narratologische...

Author: Kathrin Ludwig
ISBN: 9783110336412
Format: Hardback
$188.67

The Göttinger Forum was founded in 1998 as a free, electronic publication and alternative to conventional journals....  Read More >>

Defining Greek Narrative

Defining Greek Narrative

Author: Douglas Cairns ,  Ruth Scodel
ISBN: 9780748680108
Format: Hardback
$284.63

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Geschichte als Element antiker Kultur

Geschichte als Element antiker Kultur

Author: Hans-Joachim Gehrke
ISBN: 9783110350500
Format: Hardback
$102.87

The relationship between conceptions of history and forms of political organization has been almost completely neglected...  Read More >>

Rules and Violence / Regeln und Gewalt

Rules and Violence / Regeln und Gewalt

Author: Cora Dietl ,  Titus Knäpper
ISBN: 9783110364569
Format: Hardback
$197.25

Even though violence often functions irrationally, recent research has suggested that, as a form of nonverbal communication,...  Read More >>

Collected Studies in Greek and Latin Scholarship

Collected Studies in Greek and Latin Scholarship

Author: A W Verrall ,  M a Bayfield
ISBN: 9781500672812
Format: Paperback
$39.57

THIS collection of his minor papers includes about twenty short articles already published, and five papers (though...  Read More >>

Studies about the Sanskrit Buddhist Literature

Studies about the Sanskrit Buddhist Literature

Author: Andrzej Gawronski
ISBN: 9781500664305
Format: Paperback
$15.81

An excerpt from the second chapter: Buddhacarita and Ramayana II. ALREADY the first editor of the Buddhacarita,...  Read More >>

Panini: His Place in Sanskrit Literature

Panini: His Place in Sanskrit Literature

Author: Theodor Goldstucker
ISBN: 9781500759414
Format: Paperback
$31.65

<i>Panini: His Place In Sanskrit Literature</i>. An Investigation of some Literary and Chronological Questions which...  Read More >>

Dreaming in Byzantium and Beyond

Dreaming in Byzantium and Beyond

Author: George T. Calofonos ,  Christine Angelidi
ISBN: 9781409400554
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book - the first collection of studies on Byzantine dreams to be published - aims to demonstrate the importance...  Read More >>

Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage

Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage

Author: Helene P. Foley
ISBN: 9780520283879
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance

The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance

Author: Michael Wyatt
ISBN: 9780521699464
Format: Paperback
$80.19

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