Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Iambic Poetics in the Roman Empire

Iambic Poetics in the Roman Empire

Author: Tom Hawkins (Ohio State University)
ISBN: 9781107012080
Format: Hardback
$232.88

The first book to study the impact of archaic iambic poetry on imperial authors. Recognizable elements of the iambic...  Read More >>

Plato: Meno and Phaedo

Plato: Meno and Phaedo

Author: David Sedley (University of Cambridge) ,  Alex Long (University of St Andrews, Scotland)
ISBN: 9780511780653
Format: Undefined
$594.00

Plato's Meno and Phaedo are two of the most important works of ancient western philosophy and continue to be studied...  Read More >>

Strategies of Argument: Essays in Ancient Ethics, Epistemology, and Logic

Strategies of Argument: Essays in Ancient Ethics, Epistemology,...

Author: Mi-Kyoung Lee (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado)
ISBN: 9780199890477
Format: Hardback
$345.00

This volume features new papers by an international group of scholars in ancient philosophy, with a particular focus...  Read More >>

Russian Tales of Demonic Possession: Translations of Savva Grudtsyn and Solomonia

Russian Tales of Demonic Possession: Translations of...

Author: Marcia A. Morris, professor emerita, Georgetown University
ISBN: 9780739188606
Format: Hardback
$141.95

Russian Tales of Demonic Possession: Translations of Savva Grudtsyn and Solomonia provides detailed introductions...  Read More >>

Machaut and the Medieval Apprenticeship Tradition: Truth, Fiction and Poetic Craft

Machaut and the Medieval Apprenticeship Tradition: Truth,...

Author: Douglas Kelly (Customer)
ISBN: 9781843843726
Format: Hardback
$343.20

A close examination of an important theme in Machaut's works.  Read More >>

Robert Thornton and his Books: Essays on the Lincoln and London Thornton Manuscripts

Robert Thornton and his Books: Essays on the Lincoln...

Author: Susanna Fein (Customer) ,  Michael Johnston (Customer)
ISBN: 9781903153512
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Essays examining the compiler and contents of two of the most important and significant extant late medieval manuscript...  Read More >>

Mythical Monsters in Classical Literature

Mythical Monsters in Classical Literature

Author: Professor of Classics Paul Murgatroyd (McMaster University, Ontario McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario)
ISBN: 9781306845830
Format: Electronic book text
$88.68

This engaging, readable yet impeccably scholarly investigation of monsters in Classical literature will entertain...  Read More >>

The Columbia Anthology of Yuan Drama

The Columbia Anthology of Yuan Drama

Author: C. T. Hsia ,  Wai-yee Li (Harvard University)
ISBN: 9780231122672
Format: Paperback
$69.95

This anthology features translations of ten seminal plays written during the Yuan dynasty (1279–1368), a period...  Read More >>

Llên yr Uchelwyr: Hanes Beirniadol Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg 1300-1525

Llên yr Uchelwyr: Hanes Beirniadol Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg...

Author: Dafydd Johnston
ISBN: 9781783160525
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Gwaith Beirdd yr Uchelwyr yn y bedwaredd ganrif ar ddeg a'r bymthegfed oedd uchafbwynt traddodiad barddol Cymraeg...  Read More >>

The Decameron Third Day in Perspective

The Decameron Third Day in Perspective

Author: Francesco Ciabattoni ,  Pier Massimo Forni
ISBN: 9781442648241
Format: Hardback
$140.00

The second of the University of Toronto Press's interpretive guides to Boccaccio's Decameron, this collection forms...  Read More >>

The Columbia Anthology of Yuan Drama

The Columbia Anthology of Yuan Drama

Author: C. T. Hsia ,  Wai-yee Li (Harvard University)
ISBN: 9780231122665
Format: Hardback
$223.95

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The Arthur of the Italians: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval Italian Literature and Culture

The Arthur of the Italians: The Arthurian Legend in...

Author: F. Regina Psaki ,  Gloria Allaire
ISBN: 9781783160501
Format: Hardback
$215.95

The Arthurian legend in medieval and Renaissance Italy is the focus of this new collaborative history.  Read More >>

Old English Literature and the Old Testament

Old English Literature and the Old Testament

Author: Michael Fox ,  Manish Sharma
ISBN: 9781442626805
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Old English Literature and the Old Testament considers the importance of the Old Testament from a variety of disciplinary...  Read More >>

Black Queer Identity Matrix: Towards An Integrated Queer of Color Framework

Black Queer Identity Matrix: Towards An Integrated Queer...

Author: Rochelle Brock ,  Richard Greggory Johnson III
ISBN: 9781433122330
Format: Hardback
$500.28

This volume launches the first sustained discussion of the need for a queer of color conceptual framework around...  Read More >>

From Mycenae to Homer: A Study in Early Greek Literature and Art

From Mycenae to Homer: A Study in Early Greek Literature...

Author: T. Webster
ISBN: 9781138021396
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This book, first published in 1958, aims to describe Greek art and poetry within this ambiguous period of ancient...  Read More >>

People and Themes in Homer's Odyssey

People and Themes in Homer's Odyssey

Author: Agathe Thornton
ISBN: 9781138021372
Format: Hardback
$231.00

Published in 1970, this important work interprets the poem with a focus on the idiosyncrasies of its originally...  Read More >>

Homer and His Critics

Homer and His Critics

Author: John Myres ,  Dorothea Gray
ISBN: 9781138021334
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Poetische Vergegenwärtigung, historische Distanz: Johann Gustav Droysens Aristophanes-Übersetzung (1835/38)

Poetische Vergegenwärtigung, historische Distanz: Johann...

Author: Josefine Kitzbichler
ISBN: 9783110258158
Format: Hardback
$137.19

Although Antiquity itself has been intensively researched, together with its reception, to date this has largely...  Read More >>

Ancient Ethics

Ancient Ethics

Author: Jorg Hardy ,  George Rudebusch
ISBN: 9783899716290
Format: Hardback
$165.57

This volume presents essays on Ancient ethics from Homer to Plotinus with a focus on the significance of Ancient...  Read More >>

The Most Precious Possession: The Ring of Polycrates in Ancient Religious Narratives

The Most Precious Possession: The Ring of Polycrates...

Author: Eliezer Segal
ISBN: 9781433126147
Format: Hardback
$286.84

The Most Precious Possession: The Ring of Polycrates in Ancient Religious Narratives examines variations on this...  Read More >>

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