Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

29102 books were found.

Epic Lessons: An Introduction to Ancient Didactic Poetry

Epic Lessons: An Introduction to Ancient Didactic Poetry...

Author: Professor Peter Toohey
ISBN: 9781299480070
Format: Electronic book text
$396.00

Didactic Epic was enormously popular in the ancient world. It was used to teach Greeks and Romans technical and...  Read More >>

Mythos Demokratie: Antike Herrschaftsmodelle Im Spannungsfeld Von Egalitatsprinzip Und Eliteprinzip

Mythos Demokratie: Antike Herrschaftsmodelle Im Spannungsfeld...

Author: Harald Haarmann
ISBN: 9781299552326
Format: Electronic book text
$129.23

Demokratie ist das am weitesten verbreitete gesellschaftspolitische Modell in der Welt, und es wird lebhaft daruber...  Read More >>

Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages

Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages

Author: Automobile Association
ISBN: 9781299585287
Format: Electronic book text
$261.36

Castration and castrati have always been facets of western culture, from myth and legend to law and theology, from...  Read More >>

Antiquity and the Meanings of Time: A Philosophy of Ancient and Modern Literature

Antiquity and the Meanings of Time: A Philosophy of...

Author: Duncan F Kennedy (University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9781299664081
Format: Electronic book text
$261.36

Society and contemporary culture seem forever fascinated by the topic of time. In modern fiction, Ian McEwan (The...  Read More >>

Epistolary Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature

Epistolary Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature

Author: Owen Hodkinson (University of Wales, Lampeter, UK) ,  Patricia Rosenmeyer
ISBN: 9781299665477
Format: Electronic book text
$509.52

Epistolary Narratives presents detailed literary readings of a wide range of Greek literary letter collections across...  Read More >>

Herodots Wege Des Erzahlens: Logos Und Topos in Den Historien

Herodots Wege Des Erzahlens: Logos Und Topos in Den...

Author: Klaus Geus ,  Elisabeth Irwin
ISBN: 9781299676251
Format: Electronic book text
$226.91

Der griechische Geschichtsschreiber Herodot (5. Jh. v. Chr.) hat sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten aus einem Protohistoriker,...  Read More >>

Refrain and the Rise of the Vernacular in Medieval French Music and Poetry

Refrain and the Rise of the Vernacular in Medieval French...

Author: Jennifer Saltzstein
ISBN: 9781299679269
Format: Electronic book text
$261.36

The relationship between song quotation and the elevation of French as a literary language that could challenge...  Read More >>

Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece

Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece

Author: Claude Calame (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) ,  Janet Lloyd (The University of Salford, UK)
ISBN: 9781299783355
Format: Electronic book text
$248.03

The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece offers the first comprehensive inquiry into the deity of sexual love, a power...  Read More >>

D. Magnus Ausonius,  Mosella

D. Magnus Ausonius, Mosella

Author: Dr Joachim Gruber
ISBN: 9781299723658
Format: Electronic book text
$406.56

Since the 1926 edition of C. Hosius s critical commentary on Mosella by Ausonius, no comparable German-language...  Read More >>

Die Suasorien Des Alteren Seneca

Die Suasorien Des Alteren Seneca

Author: Stefan Feddern
ISBN: 9781299723726
Format: Electronic book text
$480.48

This new edition of The Suasoriae of Seneca the Elder contains, in addition to the original text, its first-ever...  Read More >>

Novellino or One Hundred Ancient Tales, The: An Edition and Translation Based on the 1525 Gualteruzzi Editio Princeps

Novellino or One Hundred Ancient Tales, The: An Edition...

Author: Joseph P Consoli
ISBN: 9781299727502
Format: Electronic book text
$303.60

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Virgo to Virago: Medea in the Silver Age

Virgo to Virago: Medea in the Silver Age

Author: Kirsty Corrigan
ISBN: 9781299765573
Format: Electronic book text
$238.15

The infamous and formidable mythological figure of Medea has deservedly held an enduring appeal throughout the ages....  Read More >>

Like Man, Like Woman: Roman Women, Gender Qualities and Conjugal Relationships at the Turn of the First Century

Like Man, Like Woman: Roman Women, Gender Qualities...

Author: Claude-Emmanuelle Centlivres Challet
ISBN: 9781299877788
Format: Electronic book text
$176.75

Modern scholarship often discusses Roman women in terms of their difference from their male counterparts, frequently...  Read More >>

A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Republic

A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Republic...

Author: Jane DeRose Evans (Temple University, USA)
ISBN: 9781299448889
Format: Electronic book text
$524.04

A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Republic offers a diversity of perspectives to explore how differing...  Read More >>

The Anglo Saxon Literature Handbook

The Anglo Saxon Literature Handbook

Author: Mark C Amodio (Vassar College, USA)
ISBN: 9781299464704
Format: Electronic book text
$237.47

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History of Greek Literature

History of Greek Literature

Author: Albrecht Dihle
ISBN: 9781299478619
Format: Electronic book text
$443.52

The most up-to-date history of Greek literature from its Homeric origins to the age of Augustus. Greek literary...  Read More >>

Epic Trickster in American Literatue, The: From Sunjata to So(u)L

Epic Trickster in American Literatue, The: From Sunjata...

Author: Gregory E Rutledge (University of Nebraska, USA)
ISBN: 9781299539983
Format: Electronic book text
$369.60

Just as Africa and the West have traditionally fit into binaries of Darkness/Enlightenment, Savage/Modern, Ugly/Beautiful,...  Read More >>

'The Dream' of Bernat Metge / del Somni D'En Bernat Metge

'The Dream' of Bernat Metge / del Somni D'En Bernat...

Author: Bernat Metge
ISBN: 9781299540644
Format: Electronic book text
$356.40

Lo Somni (The Dream) is a dream allegory divided into four chapters or books. It was written ca. 1399 and is considered...  Read More >>

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

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

Author: Margherita Laera
ISBN: 9781299551534
Format: Electronic book text
$192.59

Why do revivals and adaptations of Greek tragedy still abound in European national theatres, fringe stages and international...  Read More >>

Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages

Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages

Author: Eleanor Johnson
ISBN: 9781299560963
Format: Undefined
$118.80

Literary scholars often avoid the category of the aesthetic in discussions of ethics, believing that purely aesthetic...  Read More >>

Dissidence and Literature Under Nero

Dissidence and Literature Under Nero

Author: Vasily Rudich (Yale University, USA)
ISBN: 9781299613584
Format: Electronic book text
$382.80

This work inquires into the impact of dissident sensibilities on the writings of the major Neronian authors. It...  Read More >>

Essays on the Art of Chaucer's Verse

Essays on the Art of Chaucer's Verse

Author: Alan T Gaylord
ISBN: 9781299622821
Format: Electronic book text
$369.60

These fifteen essays, four of them commissioned for this volume, along with a discursive introduction which sets...  Read More >>

Guibert of Nogent: Portrait of a Medieval Mind

Guibert of Nogent: Portrait of a Medieval Mind

Author: Jay Rubenstein
ISBN: 9781299626935
Format: Electronic book text
$290.40

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