Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Honour, Exchange and Violence in Beowulf

Honour, Exchange and Violence in Beowulf

Author: Peter Stuart Baker (Customer)
ISBN: 9781843843467
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Argues for a new reading of Beowulf in its contemporary context, where honour and violence are intimately linked....  Read More >>

Greek Tragedies 2: Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers; Sophocles: Electra; Euripides: Iphigenia among the Taurians, Electra, The Trojan Women

Greek Tragedies 2: Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers;...

Author: Mark Griffith ,  Glenn W. Most
ISBN: 9780226035451
Format: Hardback
$65.95

Offers translations of Euripides' ""Medea"", ""The Children of Heracles"", ""Andromache"", and ""Iphigenia among...  Read More >>

Greek Tragedies 3: Aeschylus: The Eumenides; Sophocles: Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus; Euripides: The Bacchae, Alcestis

Greek Tragedies 3: Aeschylus: The Eumenides; Sophocles:...

Author: Mark Griffith ,  Glenn W. Most
ISBN: 9780226035765
Format: Hardback
$65.95

Offers translations of Euripides' ""Medea"", ""The Children of Heracles"", ""Andromache"", and ""Iphigenia among...  Read More >>

The Meaning of Meat and the Structure of the Odyssey

The Meaning of Meat and the Structure of the Odyssey...

Author: Egbert J. Bakker (Yale University, Connecticut)
ISBN: 9780521111201
Format: Hardback
$232.88

This book uses the motif of 'meat' and of 'food' as a productive key for exploring some of the major issues surrounding...  Read More >>

Producing Women's Poetry, 1600–1730: Text and Paratext, Manuscript and Print

Producing Women's Poetry, 1600–1730: Text and Paratext,...

Author: Gillian Wright (University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9781107037922
Format: Hardback
$232.88

In the first specialist study to consider English-language poetry by women across the seventeenth and early eighteenth...  Read More >>

Greek Comedy and the Discourse of Genres

Greek Comedy and the Discourse of Genres

Author: Emmanuela Bakola (King's College London) ,  Lucia Prauscello (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781107033313
Format: Hardback
$178.54

Innovative treatment of Greek comedy, showing that an essential characteristic at the heart of its identity is its...  Read More >>

The Historia Iherosolimitana of Robert the Monk

The Historia Iherosolimitana of Robert the Monk

Author: D. Kempf ,  M.G. Bull
ISBN: 9781843838081
Format: Hardback
$207.00

First modern critical edition of one of the most important and popular texts on the Crusades to survive.  Read More >>

Reimagining History in Anglo-Norman Prose Chronicles

Reimagining History in Anglo-Norman Prose Chronicles...

Author: John Spence
ISBN: 9781903153451
Format: Hardback
$290.40

First collective study of the Anglo-Norman prose chronicles, bringing out their essential characteristics, setting...  Read More >>

Tragedy in Ovid: Theater, Metatheater, and the Transformation of a Genre

Tragedy in Ovid: Theater, Metatheater, and the Transformation...

Author: Dan Curley (Professor, Skidmore College, New York)
ISBN: 9780511841811
Format: Undefined
$435.60

A comprehensive study of Ovid's career as a tragedian. Important for scholars of Latin poetry and especially Ovid's...  Read More >>

Greece and Mesopotamia: Dialogues in Literature

Greece and Mesopotamia: Dialogues in Literature

Author: Johannes Haubold (University of Durham)
ISBN: 9780511863240
Format: Undefined
$435.60

Proposes a new approach to the study of ancient Greek and Mesopotamian literature. Ranging from Homer and Gilgamesh...  Read More >>

Performance and Culture in Plato's Laws

Performance and Culture in Plato's Laws

Author: Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi (Dr, Stanford University, California)
ISBN: 9781139061674
Format: Undefined
$435.60

This volume illuminates one underexplored aspect of Plato's Laws: its uniquely rich discussion of cultural matters....  Read More >>

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Volume 154: Criticism of the Works of World Authors from Classical Antiquity Through the Fourteenth Century, from the First Appraisals to Current Evaluations

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Volume...

Author: Lawrence J Trudeau
ISBN: 9781414489179
Format: Hardback
$1275.12

Classical And Medieval Literature Criticism assembles and contextualizes critical responses to the works of writers...  Read More >>

"D. Magnus Ausonius, ""Mosella""": Kritische Ausgabe, Übersetzung, Kommentar

"D. Magnus Ausonius, ""Mosella""": Kritische Ausgabe,...

Author: Joachim Gruber
ISBN: 9783110307214
Format: Hardback
$274.47

The series publishes important new editions of and commentaries on texts from Greco-Roman antiquity, especially...  Read More >>

Authorities in the Middle Ages: Influence, Legitimacy, and Power in Medieval Society

Authorities in the Middle Ages: Influence, Legitimacy,...

Author: Sini Kangas ,  Mia Korpiola
ISBN: 9783110294491
Format: Hardback
$205.83

Authorities in the Middle Ages investigates the definition, establishment, and collapse of medieval authority from...  Read More >>

The ""Sacred History"" of Euhemerus of Messene

The ""Sacred History"" of Euhemerus of Messene

Author: Marek Winiarczyk
ISBN: 9783110278880
Format: Hardback
$274.47

This is a comprehensive study of the life and work of Euhemerus. According to Euhemerus, in the temple of Zeus Triphylius...  Read More >>

Savoring Power, Consuming the Times: The Metaphors of Food in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature

Savoring Power, Consuming the Times: The Metaphors of...

Author: Pina Palma
ISBN: 9780268038397
Format: Paperback
$110.88

Pina Palma uses the central metaphor of food to uncover unexpectedly fresh dimensions of Renaissance intellectual...  Read More >>

CCT 12 Metalogicon, John of Salisbury, Hall

CCT 12 Metalogicon, John of Salisbury, Hall

Author: Jb Hall ,  Julian P Haseldine
ISBN: 9782503533988
Format: Paperback
$198.00

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A Companion to the Neronian Age

A Companion to the Neronian Age

Author: Emma Buckley (University of St Andrews, UK) ,  Martin Dinter (King's College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781444332728
Format: Hardback
$305.95

A Companion to the Neronian Age is an up-to-date, interdisciplinary and comprehensive collection of essays on the...  Read More >>

NML 14 New Medieval Literatures 14 (2012)

NML 14 New Medieval Literatures 14 (2012)

Author: Brepols Publishers
ISBN: 9782503542997
Format: Hardback
$250.80

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VTT 04 Writings on the Spiritual Life, Evans: A Selection of Works of Hugh, Adam, Achard, Richard, Walter, and Godfrey of St Victor

VTT 04 Writings on the Spiritual Life, Evans: A Selection...

Author: Christopher P Evans
ISBN: 9782503548487
Format: Hardback
$316.80

The Canons following the Rule of St Augustine at St Victor in Paris were some of the most influential religious...  Read More >>

The Poetics

The Poetics

Author: Aristotle
ISBN: 9781484951569
Format: Paperback
$18.48

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