Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Faces from Dante's Inferno: Who They are, What They Say, and What it All Means

Faces from Dante's Inferno: Who They are, What They...

Author: Peter Celano ,  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
ISBN: 9781612614212
Format: Paperback
$17.95

This brief introduction to Dante's Inferno will introduce readers to 50 faces of those who appear in Dante's hell....  Read More >>

Approaches to Genre in the Ancient World

Approaches to Genre in the Ancient World

Author: Michelle Borg ,  Graeme Miles
ISBN: 9781443849807
Format: Hardback
$103.47

No less than their modern counterparts, ancient genres were contested, hybrid and ambiguous. This volume, the result...  Read More >>

Minnekommunikation: Sprechen Uber Minne ALS Sprechen Uber Dichtung in Epik Und Minnesang Um 1200

Minnekommunikation: Sprechen Uber Minne ALS Sprechen...

Author: Valeska Lembke
ISBN: 9783825362188
Format: Hardback
$195.36

English summary: What do lovers and poets have in common? Both face the challenge of finding words for the mysterious...  Read More >>

Pindari opera quae supersunt

Pindari opera quae supersunt

Author: August Böckh ,  Pindar
ISBN: 9781108063593
Format: Paperback
$144.87

This first part of the second volume of a classic edition of the surviving works of Pindar (c.522–c.443 BCE), edited...  Read More >>

Jami

Jami

Author: Hamid Algar (, Professor Emeritus of Persian and Islamic Studies, University of California)
ISBN: 9780198090441
Format: Paperback
$33.61

?Abd al-Rahman Jami (1414-1492) is a culminating figure in Perso-Islamic culture, whose reputation and influence...  Read More >>

Pindari opera quae supersunt

Pindari opera quae supersunt

Author: August Böckh ,  Pindar
ISBN: 9781108063609
Format: Paperback
$178.51

This second part of the second volume of a classic edition of the surviving works of Pindar (c.522–c.443 BCE), edited...  Read More >>

The Footprints of Michael the Archangel: The Formation and Diffusion of a Saintly Cult, c. 300-c. 800

The Footprints of Michael the Archangel: The Formation...

Author: J. Arnold
ISBN: 9781349467129
Format: Paperback
$199.00

Early Christians sought miracles from Michael the Archangel and this enigmatic ecumenical figure was the subject...  Read More >>

The Well-Laden Ship

The Well-Laden Ship

Author: Egbert of Liège ,  Robert Gary Babcock
ISBN: 9780674051270
Format: Hardback
$61.95

The Well-Laden Ship is an eleventh-century Latin poem composed of ancient and medieval proverbs, fables, and folktales....  Read More >>

Ysengrimus

Ysengrimus

Author: Jill Mann
ISBN: 9780674724822
Format: Hardback
$61.95

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Parrots and Nightingales: Troubadour Quotations and the Development of European Poetry

Parrots and Nightingales: Troubadour Quotations and...

Author: Sarah Kay ,  Ruth Mazo Karras
ISBN: 9780812245257
Format: Hardback
$264.00

Studying the medieval tradition of quoting verbatim from troubadour songs, Sarah Kay explores works produced along...  Read More >>

Pindari opera quae supersunt

Pindari opera quae supersunt

Author: August Böckh ,  Pindar
ISBN: 9781108063586
Format: Paperback
$178.51

Published in 1811, this is the first volume of a classic edition of the surviving works of Pindar (c.522–c.443 BCE)....  Read More >>

Fama and Fiction in Vergil's Aeneid

Fama and Fiction in Vergil's Aeneid

Author: Antonia Syson
ISBN: 9780814212349
Format: Hardback
$226.91

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Nature and Art in Dante

Nature and Art in Dante

Author: Daragh O'Connell ,  Jennifer Petrie
ISBN: 9781846824210
Format: Hardback
$129.38

"""Published for the UCD Foundation for Italian Studies.""--Title page."  Read More >>

Greek Epigram in Reception: J. A. Symonds, Oscar Wilde, and the Invention of Desire, 1805-1929

Greek Epigram in Reception: J. A. Symonds, Oscar Wilde,...

Author: Gideon Nisbet (Reader in Classics, University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9780199662494
Format: Hardback
$302.00

Tracing the evolution and reception history of a collection of ancient Greek epigrams from the early nineteenth...  Read More >>

The Footprints of Michael the Archangel: The Formation and Diffusion of a Saintly Cult, c. 300-c. 800

The Footprints of Michael the Archangel: The Formation...

Author: J. Arnold
ISBN: 9781137346810
Format: Hardback
$199.00

Early Christians sought miracles from Michael the Archangel and this enigmatic ecumenical figure was the subject...  Read More >>

Darogan: Prophecy, Lament and Absent Heroes in Medieval Welsh Literature

Darogan: Prophecy, Lament and Absent Heroes in Medieval...

Author: Aled Llion Jones
ISBN: 9780708326756
Format: Hardback
$65.95

This book focuses on the prophetic poetry and prose of the earliest Welsh-language manuscripts, exploring the complexity...  Read More >>

The Staff of Oedipus: Transforming Disability in Ancient Greece

The Staff of Oedipus: Transforming Disability in Ancient...

Author: Martha L. Rose
ISBN: 9780472035731
Format: Paperback
$81.71

Exposes centuries-old disability myths that still survive today  Read More >>

The Law of Ancient Athens

The Law of Ancient Athens

Author: David D. Phillips
ISBN: 9780472035915
Format: Paperback
$137.15

A topic fundamental to understanding the ancient world  Read More >>

Transformations of the Classics via Early Modern Commentaries

Transformations of the Classics via Early Modern Commentaries...

Author: Karl A. E.. Enenkel
ISBN: 9789004260771
Format: Hardback
$612.48

Early modern commentaries on the classics shaped not only school and university education, but cultural life in...  Read More >>

Being Different: More Neoplatonism after Derrida

Being Different: More Neoplatonism after Derrida

Author: Stephen E. Gersh
ISBN: 9789004261402
Format: Hardback
$435.60

Stephen Gersh's Being Different: More Neoplatonism after Derrida continues his earlier project (Neoplatonism after...  Read More >>

Histoire de l'analyse diophantienne classique: D’Abu Kamil à Fermat

Histoire de l'analyse diophantienne classique: D’Abu...

Author: Roshdi Rashed
ISBN: 9783110336856
Format: Hardback
$274.47

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Course Notes: Constitutional and Administrative Law

Course Notes: Constitutional and Administrative Law...

Author: John McGarry (Edge Hill University, UK)
ISBN: 9781444166910
Format: Paperback
$75.99

Course Notes supports revision of the essential modules of undergraduate and conversion GDL/CPE law degree courses...  Read More >>

The Law of Ancient Athens

The Law of Ancient Athens

Author: David D. Phillips
ISBN: 9780472118878
Format: Hardback
$277.07

A topic fundamental to understanding the ancient world  Read More >>

Triphiodorus, ""The Sack of Troy"": A General Study and a Commentary

Triphiodorus, ""The Sack of Troy"": A General Study...

Author: Laura Miguélez-Cavero
ISBN: 9783110285208
Format: Hardback
$274.47

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Les ""Arithmétiques"" de Diophante: Lecture historique et mathématique

Les ""Arithmétiques"" de Diophante: Lecture historique...

Author: Roshdi Rashed ,  Christian Houzel
ISBN: 9783110335934
Format: Hardback
$360.36

Until recently, only six of thirteen books comprising Diophantus’ Arithmetica were known to us. Four other books...  Read More >>

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