Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Divine Providence: A History: The Bible, Virgil, Orosius, Augustine, and Dante

Divine Providence: A History: The Bible, Virgil, Orosius,...

Author: Brenda Deen Schildgen
ISBN: 9781628920604
Format: Paperback
$76.99

Looks at the influence of Orosius and Augustine, as well as of the Bible and Virgil, on Dante's view of the notion...  Read More >>

Greek Heroes in and out of Hades

Greek Heroes in and out of Hades

Author: Stamatia Dova, Hellenic College
ISBN: 9780739192856
Format: Paperback
$70.95

Greek Heroes in and out of Hades is a study on heroism and mortality from Homer to Plato. Through systematic readings...  Read More >>

Classical Literature: A Very Short Introduction

Classical Literature: A Very Short Introduction

Author: William Allan (Fellow in Classics, University College, Oxford)
ISBN: 9780199665457
Format: Paperback
$21.95

William Allan's Very Short Introduction provides a concise and lively guide to the major authors, genres, and periods...  Read More >>

Olympiques

Olympiques

Author: Pindare ,  A Puech
ISBN: 9782251240015
Format: Paperback
$84.48

Le meilleur, c'est l'eau, et l'or, comme un feu brulant, resplendit, la nuit, au-dela de la richesse orgueilleuse....  Read More >>

'Troilus and Criseyde': A Reader's Guide

'Troilus and Criseyde': A Reader's Guide

Author: Jennifer Anne Nuttall
ISBN: 9781139518192
Format: Electronic book text
$198.00

A scene-by-scene reader's guide to Geoffrey Chaucer's Trojan War poem specifically designed for student readers....  Read More >>

The Epic Gaze: Vision, Gender and Narrative in Ancient Epic

The Epic Gaze: Vision, Gender and Narrative in Ancient...

Author: Dr Helen Lovatt (University of Nottingham)
ISBN: 9781107278400
Format: Electronic book text
$330.00

Re-envisions epic from Homer to Nonnus through theories of the gaze.  Read More >>

Symphosius The Aenigmata: An Introduction, Text and Commentary

Symphosius The Aenigmata: An Introduction, Text and...

Author: T. J. Leary (Hampton School, UK)
ISBN: 9781472511027
Format: Hardback
$260.00

The post-classical compilation known to modern scholarship as the Latin Anthology contains a collection of a hundred...  Read More >>

Jason and the Argonauts through the Ages

Jason and the Argonauts through the Ages

Author: Jason Colavito
ISBN: 9780786479726
Format: Paperback
$60.50

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The Textualization of the Greek Alphabet

The Textualization of the Greek Alphabet

Author: Roger D. Woodard (State University of New York, Buffalo)
ISBN: 9781107028111
Format: Hardback
$282.04

This book demonstrates that the earliest Greek users of the alphabet conceived of themselves as participants in...  Read More >>

Medievalia Et Humanistica, No. 36: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture

Medievalia Et Humanistica, No. 36: Studies in Medieval...

Author: Paul Maurice Clogan
ISBN: 9781282977105
Format: Electronic book text
$475.15

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Crying in the Middle Ages: Tears of History

Crying in the Middle Ages: Tears of History

Author: Elina Gertsman (Case Western Reserve University, USA)
ISBN: 9781283462655
Format: Electronic book text
$660.00

Sacred and profane, public and private, emotive and ritualistic, internal and embodied, medieval weeping served...  Read More >>

Optique Du Discours Au 17e Siecle L'

Optique Du Discours Au 17e Siecle L'

Author: Blanchard Jean-Vincent 1967- Auteur ,  Blanchard Jean-Vincent
ISBN: 9782763702087
Format: Electronic book text
$102.96

A la croisee de l'histoire de la rhetorique et de celle des manieres de voir, cette etude porte sur le probabilisme...  Read More >>

Ethics of Reading in Manuscript Culture

Ethics of Reading in Manuscript Culture

Author: John Dagenais
ISBN: 9781282751811
Format: Electronic book text
$198.00

Reexamining the roles played by author, reader, scribe, and text in medieval literary practice, John Dagenais argues...  Read More >>

Beyond the Pillars of Hercules: Atlantis and Tyrus in Plato's Writings, Biblical Verses, and the Works of Helena Blavatsky, Edgar Cayce, and Ruth Mont

Beyond the Pillars of Hercules: Atlantis and Tyrus in...

Author: David Hershiser ,  David Hershiser
ISBN: 9781883378646
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Among the records lost forever to civilization in the destruction of the library at Alexandria, there may have been...  Read More >>

Linguistic Archaeology: Unearthing the Secrets of Genesis using SCAN Analysis

Linguistic Archaeology: Unearthing the Secrets of Genesis...

Author: Avinoam Sapir
ISBN: 9789655558081
Format: Paperback
$66.00

Avinoam Sapir is the developer of the SCAN technique ( Scientific Content Analysis ), a method for analyzing statements...  Read More >>

Alcman and the Cosmos of Sparta

Alcman and the Cosmos of Sparta

Author: Gloria Ferrari
ISBN: 9780226668680
Format: Paperback
$67.95

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Ovid: Epistulae ex Ponto Book I

Ovid: Epistulae ex Ponto Book I

Author: Ovid ,  Garth Tissol (Emory University, Atlanta)
ISBN: 9780521525626
Format: Paperback
$67.25

Edition and commentary providing both students and scholars with the background and guidance needed to understand...  Read More >>

The Defective Art of Poetry: Sappho to Yeats

The Defective Art of Poetry: Sappho to Yeats

Author: B. Bennett
ISBN: 9781349479764
Format: Paperback
$162.95

Treating the work of Sappho, Goethe, Blake, Hölderlin, Verlaine, George, Mörike, and Yeats in detail, Bennett makes...  Read More >>

The Argonautica

The Argonautica

Author: Rhodius Apollonius
ISBN: 9781499173840
Format: Paperback
$18.45

The Argonautica (1889). This book, The Argonautica, by Rhodius Apollonius, Edward Philip Coleridge, is a replication...  Read More >>

The Roman Paratext: Frame, Texts, Readers

The Roman Paratext: Frame, Texts, Readers

Author: Laura Jansen (University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9781107024366
Format: Hardback
$232.88

This volume explores the role paratexts (e.g. indices, prefaces, inter-titles, end-statements) play in our reading...  Read More >>

Ovid: Epistulae ex Ponto Book I

Ovid: Epistulae ex Ponto Book I

Author: Ovid ,  Garth Tissol (Emory University, Atlanta)
ISBN: 9780521819589
Format: Hardback
$160.40

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Imagining Heaven in the Middle Ages: A Book of Essays

Imagining Heaven in the Middle Ages: A Book of Essays...

Author: Jan S. Emerson ,  Jan S. Emerson
ISBN: 9781138012066
Format: Paperback
$114.00

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

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