Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Essays on Four Plays of Euripides: Andromache Helen Heracles Orestes

Essays on Four Plays of Euripides: Andromache Helen...

Author: A. W. Verrall
ISBN: 9781107683129
Format: Paperback
$67.25

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Demosthenes on the Crown

Demosthenes on the Crown

Author: William Watson Goodwin
ISBN: 9781107651616
Format: Paperback
$69.84

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Juvenal: Satire 6

Juvenal: Satire 6

Author: Juvenal ,  Lindsay Watson (University of Sydney)
ISBN: 9780521854917
Format: Hardback
$170.75

Aimed at senior undergraduate Latin students and professional scholars, this edition provides help with the linguistic...  Read More >>

Becoming Human: The Matter of the Medieval Child

Becoming Human: The Matter of the Medieval Child

Author: J. Allan Mitchell
ISBN: 9780816689972
Format: Paperback
$44.95

""Becoming Human"" argues that human identity was articulated and extended across a wide range of textual, visual,...  Read More >>

Xenophon the Socratic Prince: The Argument of the Anabasis of Cyrus

Xenophon the Socratic Prince: The Argument of the Anabasis...

Author: E. Buzzetti
ISBN: 9781137333308
Format: Hardback
$215.95

An interpretation of Xenophon's Anabasis of Cyrus, paralleling the text to Machiavelli's The Prince, and focusing...  Read More >>

How the Beowulf Poet Employs Biblical Typology: His Christian Portrayal of Heroism

How the Beowulf Poet Employs Biblical Typology: His...

Author: William Helder
ISBN: 9780773442412
Format: Hardback
$284.50

Looks at Beowulf in its literary context. This work intends to show how the typological perspective manifests itself...  Read More >>

Fidus: "Latein entdecken: Ein Comic fÃ""r Einsteiger"

Fidus: "Latein entdecken: Ein Comic fÃ""r Einsteiger"...

Author: Thomas Kurth ,  Susanne Pels
ISBN: 9783525710036
Format: Paperback
$66.00

"Mit dem Hund ""Fidus"" lernen die SchÃ""lerinnen und SchÃ""ler das Köln der frÃ""hen Kaiserzeit kennen.Die Comics...  Read More >>

Envisaging Heaven in the Middle Ages

Envisaging Heaven in the Middle Ages

Author: Carolyn Muessig (University of Bristol, UK) ,  Ad Putter
ISBN: 9780415759359
Format: Paperback
$114.00

With contributions from A.C. Spearing, Peter Meredith and Robin Kirkpatrick, this collection deals with medieval...  Read More >>

Judges 1-12: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary

Judges 1-12: A New Translation with Introduction and...

Author: Jack M. Sasson ,  John Collins
ISBN: 9780300190335
Format: Hardback
$119.95

Informed by the literature and language of the ancient Near East, this commentary to Chapters 1 to 12 of the biblical...  Read More >>

Rhetoric in Classical Historiography: Four Studies

Rhetoric in Classical Historiography: Four Studies

Author: A.J. Woodman
ISBN: 9780415760041
Format: Paperback
$105.00

This radical study argues against the view that the historian's craft has remained largely unchanged since classical...  Read More >>

Dickens Novels as Verse

Dickens Novels as Verse

Author: Joseph P. Jordan
ISBN: 9781611477283
Format: Paperback
$119.00

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La Vie d’Edouard le Confesseur by a Nun of Barking Abbey

La Vie d’Edouard le Confesseur by a Nun of Barking Abbey...

Author: Jane Bliss
ISBN: 9781846319518
Format: Hardback
$219.94

The twelfth-century Anglo-Norman verse Life of King Edward the Confessor is presented here in modern English for...  Read More >>

Das Geheimnis der Gegenwart Gottes: Zur Schechina-Vorstellung in Judentum und Christentum

Das Geheimnis der Gegenwart Gottes: Zur Schechina-Vorstellung...

Author: Stefanie Hertel ,  Bernd Janowski
ISBN: 9783161529917
Format: Hardback
$439.87

In den biblischen Traditionen begegnen uns verschiedene Vorstellungen von der Gegenwart Gottes. Eine bedeutende...  Read More >>

Tod und Sterben im Krieg bei Josephus: Die Intentionen von Bellum und Antiquitates im Kontext griechisch-römischer Historiographie

Tod und Sterben im Krieg bei Josephus: Die Intentionen...

Author: Sören Swoboda
ISBN: 9783161528286
Format: Hardback
$551.14

"Zunehmend rückt Josephus als Autor in den Fokus der Erforschung seiner Werke. Eine Monographie, die sich als Hauptgegenstand...  Read More >>

Entre Stabilite Et Itinerance: Livres Et Culture Des Ordres Mendiants, 13e-15e Siecle

Entre Stabilite Et Itinerance: Livres Et Culture Des...

Author: Donatella Nebbiai Dalla Guarda ,  Nicole Beriou
ISBN: 9782503550190
Format: Paperback
$316.80

Les travaux de ces dernieres annees confirment que les livres tiennent une place centrale dans l'organisation des...  Read More >>

The History of Animals

The History of Animals

Author: Theodorus Gaza ,  Aristotle
ISBN: 9781500210069
Format: Paperback
$29.01

Aristotle is best known along with Plato and Socrates as a philosopher responsible for the establishment of Western...  Read More >>

Religion, Learning and Science in the 'Abbasid Period

Religion, Learning and Science in the 'Abbasid Period...

Author: M. J. L. Young ,  J. D. Latham
ISBN: 9781139424912
Format: Undefined
$1372.80

This volume of The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature deals with writings on learned subjects from the 'Abbasid...  Read More >>

Thomas Betterton: The Greatest Actor of the Restoration Stage

Thomas Betterton: The Greatest Actor of the Restoration...

Author: David Roberts (Head of English, Birmingham City University)
ISBN: 9780511762055
Format: Undefined
$435.60

Described by Samuel Pepys as 'the best actor in the world', Thomas Betterton was the most respected actor and manager...  Read More >>

The Oresteia

The Oresteia

Author: Aeschylus ,  Hugh Lloyd-Jones
ISBN: 9780520282100
Format: Paperback
$28.50

"""The Oresteia"" by Aeschylus, a trilogy among the Greek tragedies, is considered to be one of the great foundational...  Read More >>

Saffo Nella Tradizione Poetica Italiana Dal SEI All'ottocento

Saffo Nella Tradizione Poetica Italiana Dal SEI All'ottocento...

Author: Salvatore Puggioni
ISBN: 9788891306548
Format: Paperback
$200.64

English summary: The legend of Sappho and her leap from the Leucadian cliffs has inspired countless artistic works....  Read More >>

Catullus: Reprint Edition

Catullus: Reprint Edition

Author: Elmer Truesdell Merrill ,  Elmer Truesdell Merrill
ISBN: 9780674732254
Format: Hardback
$102.96

"No detailed description available for ""Catullus""."  Read More >>

The Decipherment of Linear B

The Decipherment of Linear B

Author: John Chadwick (Downing College, Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781107691766
Format: Paperback
$41.37

The languages of the ancient world and the mysterious scripts, long undeciphered, in which they were encoded have...  Read More >>

The Expeditions: An Early Biography of Muḥammad

The Expeditions: An Early Biography of Muḥammad

Author: Maʿmar ibn Rāshid ,  Sean W. Anthony
ISBN: 9780814769638
Format: Hardback
$86.99

Represents an important testimony to the earliest Muslims' memory of the lives of Muhammad and his companions, and...  Read More >>

La Litterature Latine Inconnue: Tome I: l'Epoque Republicaine. Tome II: l'Epoque Imperiale

La Litterature Latine Inconnue: Tome I: l'Epoque Republicaine....

Author: Henry Bardon ,  Henry Bardon
ISBN: 9782252039182
Format: Paperback
$300.96

English summary: This classic of Latin literary studies offers a vast and original summary of lost literature,...  Read More >>

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