Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Poetika

Poetika

Author: Aristotle
ISBN: 9785424126512
Format: Paperback
$51.62

Velikogo drevnegrecheskogo filosofa Aristotelya F.Engel's nazval samoj universal'noj golovoj sredi myslitelej antichnosti....  Read More >>

Poetics

Poetics

Author: Aristotle ,  Anthony Kenny (Emeritus Fellow of St John's College, Oxford; former Master of Balliol College.)
ISBN: 9780199608362
Format: Paperback
$17.95

A founding text of European aestheticism and literary criticism, Poetics underpins our moden understanding of imaginative...  Read More >>

Mythos Demokratie: Antike Herrschaftsmodelle im Spannungsfeld von Egalitaetsprinzip und Eliteprinzip

Mythos Demokratie: Antike Herrschaftsmodelle im Spannungsfeld...

Author: Harald Haarmann
ISBN: 9783631625996
Format: Paperback
$105.44

Demokratie ist das am weitesten verbreitete gesellschaftspolitische Modell in der Welt. Wir glauben zu wissen, dass...  Read More >>

Handbuch Minnereden

Handbuch Minnereden

Author: Jacob Klingner ,  Ludger Lieb
ISBN: 9783110283389
Format: Mixed media product
$1771.44

Late medieval German literature is crucial in the development of modern discourse about love, eroticism, and sexuality....  Read More >>

Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris: A Cultural History of Euripides' Black Sea Tragedy

Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris: A Cultural History...

Author: Edith Hall (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, Kings College London)
ISBN: 9780195392890
Format: Hardback
$264.00

Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris provides a rich narrative of the cultural history and influence of an oft-overlooked...  Read More >>

Forgery and Counter-forgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics

Forgery and Counter-forgery: The Use of Literary Deceit...

Author: Bart D. Ehrman (, James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
ISBN: 9780199928033
Format: Hardback
$101.95

Forgery and Counter-forgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics is the first major contemporary...  Read More >>

Mde protiforme

Mde protiforme

Author: Marie Carrire
ISBN: 9782760307865
Format: Paperback
$44.99

L'analyse comparée de huit textes de femmes de divers horizons tente de cerner les enjeux de cette figure irréductible...  Read More >>

Convergent Approaches to Mediaeval English Language and Literature: Selected Papers from the 22nd Conference of SELIM

Convergent Approaches to Mediaeval English Language...

Author: Andres Canga Alonso ,  Roberto Torre Alonso
ISBN: 9781443838771
Format: Hardback
$116.41

The present volume is intended as a scientific conversation between pioneering research and the traditionally leading...  Read More >>

Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve and the Commercial Practices of Late Fourteenth-Century London

Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve and the Commercial Practices...

Author: Craig E. Bertolet
ISBN: 9781409448426
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Examining archival documents and literary texts, this book focuses on the practices of buying and selling in medieval...  Read More >>

The Last of the Rephaim: Conquest and Cataclysm in the Heroic Ages of Ancient Israel

The Last of the Rephaim: Conquest and Cataclysm in the...

Author: Brian R. Doak
ISBN: 9780674066731
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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Inheritance Law and Political Theology in Shakespeare and Milton: Election and Grace as Constitutional in Early Modern Literature and Beyond

Inheritance Law and Political Theology in Shakespeare...

Author: Joseph S. Jenkins
ISBN: 9781409454847
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Reading God's will and a man's Last Will as ideas that reinforce one another, this study shows the relevance of...  Read More >>

Die Wolken: (Nephelai)

Die Wolken: (Nephelai)

Author: Aristophanes
ISBN: 9781482363753
Format: Paperback
$15.58

Aristophanes: Die Wolken. (Nephelai) Aristophanes hielt die Wolken für sein gelungenstes Werk und war entsprechend...  Read More >>

Aksum and Nubia: Warfare, Commerce, and Political Fictions in Ancient Northeast Africa

Aksum and Nubia: Warfare, Commerce, and Political Fictions...

Author: George Hatke
ISBN: 9780814760666
Format: Hardback
$109.00

Critically examines the extent to which relations between two ancient African states were influenced by warfare,...  Read More >>

Sexualmoral Und Politische Stabilitat: Zum Vorstellungszusammenhang in Der Romischen Literatur Von Lucilius Bis Ovid

Sexualmoral Und Politische Stabilitat: Zum Vorstellungszusammenhang...

Author: Maike Steenblock
ISBN: 9783110306477
Format: Mixed media product
$554.40

In the literature of the late Roman Republic, political change was accompanied by a loosening of tradition concepts...  Read More >>

Lucain, La Guerre Civile. La Pharsale: Tome I: Livres I-V

Lucain, La Guerre Civile. La Pharsale: Tome I: Livres...

Author: Abel Bourgery ,  Abel Bourgery
ISBN: 9782251011042
Format: Paperback
$118.80

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Phthonos: Missgunst, Neid Und Eifersucht in Der Byzantinischen Literatur

Phthonos: Missgunst, Neid Und Eifersucht in Der Byzantinischen...

Author: Martin Hinterberger
ISBN: 9783895009143
Format: Hardback
$506.88

English Summary: The emotion phthonos (the spirit of envy or jealousy) ) played a very important role in Byzantium:...  Read More >>

Reaching Athens: Community, Democracy and Other Mythologies in Adaptations of Greek Tragedy

Reaching Athens: Community, Democracy and Other Mythologies...

Author: Florian Mussgnug ,  Margherita Laera
ISBN: 9783034308076
Format: Paperback
$159.91

This book analyses discourses around community, democracy, origin and Western identity in stage adaptations of Greek...  Read More >>

Aeneid 16

Aeneid 16

Author: Vergil ,  Randall T. Ganiban
ISBN: 9781585102143
Format: Paperback
$51.00

The first of a two-volume edition of Vergil's Aeneid, Aeneid 1–6 is part of a new series of Vergil commentaries...  Read More >>

Greek and Roman Consolations: Eight Studies of a Tradition and Its Afterlife

Greek and Roman Consolations: Eight Studies of a Tradition...

Author: Han Baltussen
ISBN: 9781905125562
Format: Hardback
$155.25

Ancient consolatory writings offer us a window onto alien forms of loss and grief, as experienced in a world where...  Read More >>

Die Gestalt Des Unsichtbaren: Narrative Konzeptionen Des Inneren in Der Hofischen Erzahlliteratur

Die Gestalt Des Unsichtbaren: Narrative Konzeptionen...

Author: Katharina Silke Philipowski
ISBN: 9783110302646
Format: Mixed media product
$517.44

How can one narrate intangible aspects of a character, such as a person's inner life, remembrances, and reflections?...  Read More >>

National Life and Character in the Mirror of Early English Literature

National Life and Character in the Mirror of Early English...

Author: Edmund Dale
ISBN: 9781107680180
Format: Paperback
$72.42

Originally published in 1907, this title constructs a historical account of life in medieval England through the...  Read More >>

Moral Awareness in Greek Tragedy

Moral Awareness in Greek Tragedy

Author: Stuart Lawrence (Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies, Massey University)
ISBN: 9780199659760
Format: Paperback
$108.95

Lawrence's volume provides a detailed discussion and analyses of the moral awareness of major characters in Greek...  Read More >>

Ba-Bringer Und Schattenabschneider: Untersuchungen Zum So Genannten Totenbuchkapitel 191 Auf Totenbuchpapyri

Ba-Bringer Und Schattenabschneider: Untersuchungen Zum...

Author: Annik Wuthrich ,  Simone Stohr
ISBN: 9783447068659
Format: Paperback
$105.60

"English summary: Around thirty proverbs from the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead are not part of the major new...  Read More >>

Menander: Eleven Plays

Menander: Eleven Plays

Author: Colin Austin
ISBN: 9780956838124
Format: Paperback
$90.56

Colin Austin, Professor of Greek at Cambridge University 1998–2008, was one of the world’s foremost experts in the...  Read More >>

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