Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Diodore the Theologian: Pronoia in His Commentary of Psalms 1-50

Diodore the Theologian: Pronoia in His Commentary of...

Author: Benjamin Wayman
ISBN: 9782503550503
Format: Paperback
$282.48

This study examines the role of theology in the biblical commentary of a fourth-century pastor and teacher. The...  Read More >>

Histoire Critique de la Litterature Latine: de Virgile a Huysmans

Histoire Critique de la Litterature Latine: de Virgile...

Author: Pierre Laurens
ISBN: 9782251444819
Format: Hardback
$137.28

"English summary: What we know about Latin literature, and which is presented to us in this flawless chronological...  Read More >>

Augustinus von Hippo: "Predigten zu den alttestamentlichen Propheten (""Sermones"" 42-50)- Einleitung, Text, Uebersetzung und Anmerkungen"

Augustinus von Hippo: "Predigten zu den alttestamentlichen...

Author: Hubertus Drobner ,  Augustine
ISBN: 9783631643631
Format: Hardback
$184.49

Dieser Band ist die erste lateinisch-deutsche Ausgabe der Sermones ad populum 42-50 Augustins zu den Propheten des...  Read More >>

Re-Imagining Nature: Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics

Re-Imagining Nature: Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics...

Author: Alfred Kentigern Siewers ,  John Carey
ISBN: 9781611485240
Format: Hardback
$228.00

Re-Imagining Nature: Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics explores new horizons in environmental studies, drawing...  Read More >>

After Virgil: The Poetry, Politics and Perversion of Roman Epic

After Virgil: The Poetry, Politics and Perversion of...

Author: Robert Cowan
ISBN: 9781904675624
Format: Paperback
$63.36

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Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths

Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse...

Author: Nancy Marie Brown
ISBN: 9781137278876
Format: Paperback
$25.85

A journey into the heart of the ancient North to witness the Vikings, Chieftains, and Epic Sagas, and meet the man...  Read More >>

Aquinas's Philosophy of Religion

Aquinas's Philosophy of Religion

Author: P. O'Grady
ISBN: 9781349330300
Format: Paperback
$171.95

This is an exploration and analysis of Aquinas's contribution to the philosophy of religion. It examines Aquinas's...  Read More >>

After Virgil: The Poetry, Politics and Perversion of Roman Epic

After Virgil: The Poetry, Politics and Perversion of...

Author: Robert Cowan
ISBN: 9781904675617
Format: Hardback
$198.00

What is epic? Is it all kings and battles with no women? Is it about glorifying and validating the victors? With...  Read More >>

Dante and the Limits of the Law

Dante and the Limits of the Law

Author: Justin Steinberg
ISBN: 9780226071091
Format: Hardback
$163.95

Offers the study of the legal structure crucial to Dante's Divine Comedy. This title makes the compelling case that...  Read More >>

Wordmongers: Manuscript Culture in the Age of Print and the Case of Nineteenth-Century Iceland

Wordmongers: Manuscript Culture in the Age of Print...

Author: David Olafsson
ISBN: 9780935995114
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Taking its title from Marshall William Fishwick's description of ""wordmongers"" as those whose principal vocation...  Read More >>

Horace Odes and Epodes: A Study in Poetic Word-Order

Horace Odes and Epodes: A Study in Poetic Word-Order...

Author: H. Darnley Naylor
ISBN: 9781107635074
Format: Paperback
$69.84

Originally published in 1922, this book presents a study in poetic word order with illustrations from Horace's Odes,...  Read More >>

Clio Enthroned: A Study of Prose-Form in Thucydides

Clio Enthroned: A Study of Prose-Form in Thucydides...

Author: Walter R. M. Lamb
ISBN: 9781107634572
Format: Paperback
$69.84

Originally published in 1914, this book examines Thucydides' prose style and the literary influences affecting him...  Read More >>

Greek Lyric Metre

Greek Lyric Metre

Author: George Thomson
ISBN: 9781107690141
Format: Paperback
$62.07

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The Challenge of the Greek and Other Essays

The Challenge of the Greek and Other Essays

Author: T. R. Glover
ISBN: 9781107643154
Format: Paperback
$93.12

Terrot Reaveley Glover (1869–1943) was a renowned Cambridge classicist and historian. Originally published in 1942,...  Read More >>

Character, Narrator, and Simile in the Iliad

Character, Narrator, and Simile in the Iliad

Author: Jonathan L. Ready (Indiana University)
ISBN: 9781107687332
Format: Paperback
$103.47

Jonathan L. Ready demonstrates that Homer uses similes in the Iliad as arenas of heroic competition. In addition...  Read More >>

De Imperio: An Extract 27-45

De Imperio: An Extract 27-45

Author: Cicero ,  Katharine Radice
ISBN: 9781472511171
Format: Paperback
$39.99

De Imperio Cn. Pompeii (in support of Pompey), or Pro Lege Manilia, (in favour of the Manilian law) was Cicero’s...  Read More >>

Metamorphoses III: An Extract 511-733

Metamorphoses III: An Extract 511-733

Author: Ovid ,  Dr John Godwin
ISBN: 9781472508508
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Metamorphoses is an epic poem but is very different from what we expect in an epic. Original, inventive and charming,...  Read More >>

The Lily and the Thistle: The French Tradition and the Older Literature of Scotland

The Lily and the Thistle: The French Tradition and the...

Author: William Calin
ISBN: 9781442646650
Format: Hardback
$145.00

In The Lily and the Thistle, William Calin argues for a reconsideration of the French impact on medieval and renaissance...  Read More >>

"Studien zu den pseudoquintilianischen ""Declamationes maiores"""

"Studien zu den pseudoquintilianischen ""Declamationes...

Author: Biagio Santorelli ,  Biagio Santorelli
ISBN: 9783110331257
Format: Hardback
$180.09

Der Band enthält vier Aufsätze, die von Lennart Håkanson zwischen 1976 und 1982 verfasst, aber aufgrund seines Todes...  Read More >>

Ancient Comedy and Reception: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Henderson

Ancient Comedy and Reception: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey...

Author: S. Douglas Olson
ISBN: 9781614511663
Format: Hardback
$686.40

Provides an overview of the reception history of a major literary genre from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present...  Read More >>

Two Ælfric Texts: ""The Twelve Abuses"" and ""The Vices and Virtues"": An Edition and Translation of Ælfric's Old English Versions of De duodecim abusivis and De octo vitiis et de duodecim abusivis

Two Ælfric Texts: ""The Twelve Abuses"" and ""The Vices...

Author: Mary Clayton ,  Mary Clayton
ISBN: 9781843843603
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Text with facing translation of two important Old English texts.  Read More >>

Milton Studies: Volume 54

Milton Studies: Volume 54

Author: Laura L. Knoppers
ISBN: 9780820704708
Format: Hardback
$152.00

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Arthurian Literature XXX

Arthurian Literature XXX

Author: Elizabeth Archibald ,  David F. Johnson (Royalty Account)
ISBN: 9781843843627
Format: Hardback
$290.40

Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian...  Read More >>

Eusebius

Eusebius

Author: Aaron P. Johnson
ISBN: 9781780765563
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Placing Eusebius in the context of his age the author provides a full account his life, including the period when...  Read More >>

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