Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Ensayos sobre la imagen medieval del mundo

Ensayos sobre la imagen medieval del mundo

Author: Cesar Gonzalez
ISBN: 9781499394351
Format: Paperback
$26.40

En este libro se analizan algunos temas que se podrian considerar como componentes de la imagen del mundo de los...  Read More >>

Fabulous Ireland- «Ibernia Fabulosa»: Imagining Ireland in Renaissance Italy

Fabulous Ireland- «Ibernia Fabulosa»: Imagining Ireland...

Author: Eric Haywood
ISBN: 9783034317580
Format: Paperback
$150.46

This book examines Italian descriptions of Ireland in the context of the Renaissance discovery of ancient culture...  Read More >>

Vision and Stagecraft in Sophocles

Vision and Stagecraft in Sophocles

Author: David Seale
ISBN: 9780226181745
Format: Paperback
$60.80

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of London, 1973.  Read More >>

Women Pilgrims in Late Medieval England

Women Pilgrims in Late Medieval England

Author: Susan S. Morrison
ISBN: 9781138007468
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This thought-provoking book explores medieval perceptions of pilgrimage, gender and space. It examines real life...  Read More >>

Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle On Sense Perception

Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle On Sense Perception...

Author: A. Towey
ISBN: 9781780938851
Format: Paperback
$76.99

The 15,000 pages of the ancient Greek commentators on Aristotle, written mainly between 200 and 600 AD, constitute...  Read More >>

Porphyry: On Abstinence from Killing Animals

Porphyry: On Abstinence from Killing Animals

Author: Gillian Clark (Professor Emerita, University of Bristol) ,  Gillian Clark (Professor Emerita, University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9781780938899
Format: Paperback
$76.99

The ancient Greek commentators on Aristotle constitute a large body of Greek philosophical writings, not previously...  Read More >>

Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 3

Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 3

Author: Peter Lautner ,  Simplicius
ISBN: 9781472557353
Format: Paperback
$76.99

"Aristotle's ""Physics Book 3"" covers two subjects: the definition of change and the finitude of the universe....  Read More >>

Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Topics 1

Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Topics 1

Author: Johannes M.Van Ophuijsen
ISBN: 9781780938738
Format: Paperback
$76.99

This series translates the 15,000 pages of philosophical writings by the ancient Greek commentators on Aristotle,...  Read More >>

Simplicius: On Epictetus Handbook 27-53

Simplicius: On Epictetus Handbook 27-53

Author: Charles Brittain ,  Tad Brennan
ISBN: 9781472557360
Format: Paperback
$76.99

"The ""Enchiridion"" or ""Handbook"" of the first-century AD Stoic Epictetus was used as an ethical treatise both...  Read More >>

Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 1.5-9

Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 1.5-9

Author: Simplicius ,  R.J. Hankinson
ISBN: 9781472557421
Format: Paperback
$76.99

A discourse between Simplicius and Aristotle on whether there is more than one physical world and whether the universe...  Read More >>

Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 1.10-12

Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 1.10-12

Author: Simplicius ,  R.J. Hankinson
ISBN: 9781472557438
Format: Paperback
$76.99

"Here is a battle royal between the Neoplatonist Simplicius and the Aristotelian Alexander on the origins, if any,...  Read More >>

Philoponus: Against Proclus On the Eternity of the World 6-8

Philoponus: Against Proclus On the Eternity of the World...

Author: Philoponus ,  Michael Share (University of Tasmania, Australia)
ISBN: 9781472557711
Format: Paperback
$76.99

Philoponus was a brilliant Christian philosopher who turned the ideas of the pagans of the Neoplatonist school against...  Read More >>

Reviewing Dante's Theology

Reviewing Dante's Theology

Author: Claire E. Honess ,  Matthew Treherne
ISBN: 9783034318020
Format: Paperback
$194.06

Brings together work by a range of Dante scholars to assess the research on Dante's theology and to suggest future...  Read More >>

Dreams, Medicine, and Literary Practice: Exploring the Western Literary Tradition Through Chaucer

Dreams, Medicine, and Literary Practice: Exploring the...

Author: Tanya S Lenz
ISBN: 9782503534817
Format: Hardback
$153.96

This groundbreaking volume explores the intersection of dreams, medicine, and literary practice in the poetry of...  Read More >>

The Reception of Septuagint Words in Jewish-Hellenistic and Christian Literature

The Reception of Septuagint Words in Jewish-Hellenistic...

Author: Eberhard Bons ,  Ralph Brucker
ISBN: 9783161529535
Format: Paperback
$194.32

"The projected Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint will offer historical studies of Septuagint...  Read More >>

Prometheus Bound

Prometheus Bound

Author: Aeschylus
ISBN: 9781458958358
Format: Paperback
$16.90

Featuring an insightful introduction, comprehensive commentary on plot, characters, structure, and other elements...  Read More >>

Routledge Library Editions: Homer

Routledge Library Editions: Homer

Author: Various
ISBN: 9781138023086
Format: Mixed media product
$252.00

The books in this set help to situate this immense artistic achievement in its historical and cultural context,...  Read More >>

Ancient Germanic Literatures, 458

Ancient Germanic Literatures, 458

Author: Jorge Luis Borges (New Directions) ,  M J Toswell
ISBN: 9780866985093
Format: Paperback
$92.40

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Chaucer, Gower, and the Vernacular Rising: Poetry and the Problem of the Populace After 1381

Chaucer, Gower, and the Vernacular Rising: Poetry and...

Author: Lynn Arner
ISBN: 9780271062037
Format: Book
$342.94

Examines the transmission of Greco-Roman and European literature into English in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth...  Read More >>

The King's Body: Burial and Succession in Late Anglo-Saxon England

The King's Body: Burial and Succession in Late Anglo-Saxon...

Author: Nicole Marafioti
ISBN: 9781442647589
Format: Hardback
$130.00

The King's Body investigates the role of royal bodies, funerals, and graves in English succession debates from the...  Read More >>

Change Me: Stories of Sexual Transformation from Ovid

Change Me: Stories of Sexual Transformation from Ovid...

Author: Jane Alison (, University of Virginia) ,  Elaine Fantham
ISBN: 9780199941650
Format: Paperback
$83.95

Jane Alison, the critically acclaimed author of The Love Artist, now takes on an equally demanding and in some ways...  Read More >>

Sophistical Practice: Toward a Consistent Relativism

Sophistical Practice: Toward a Consistent Relativism...

Author: Barbara Cassin
ISBN: 9780823256396
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Sophistics is the paradigm of a discourse that does things with words. It is not pure rhetoric, as Plato want us...  Read More >>

Philosophical Life in Cicero's Letters

Philosophical Life in Cicero's Letters

Author: Sean McConnell (University of East Anglia)
ISBN: 9781107040816
Format: Hardback
$232.88

This first book in English dedicated to philosophy in Cicero's letters addresses classicists, philosophers, political...  Read More >>

Metamorphoses

Metamorphoses

Author: Ovid ,  David Raeburn
ISBN: 9780141394619
Format: Hardback
$50.00

Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, this book interweaves many...  Read More >>

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