Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Roman Letters: An Anthology

Roman Letters: An Anthology

Author: Noelle Zeiner-Carmichael (College of Charleston, USA)
ISBN: 9781299775954
Format: Electronic book text
$79.07

Roman Letters offers a rich selection of original translations of ancient Roman letters spanning from the 1st century...  Read More >>

Wounded Heroes: Vulnerability as a Virtue in Ancient Greek Literature and Philosophy

Wounded Heroes: Vulnerability as a Virtue in Ancient...

Author: Associate Professor of Philosophy Marina Berzins McCoy (Boston College)
ISBN: 9781299832879
Format: Electronic book text
$633.60

A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.oup.com/uk as well as the OAPEN Library...  Read More >>

Rhetoric and Rhythm in Byzantium

Rhetoric and Rhythm in Byzantium

Author: Professor Vessela Valiavitcharska (University of Maryland, College Park)
ISBN: 9781299841857
Format: Undefined
$330.00

Rhetoric and Rhythm in Byzantium takes a fresh look at rhetorical rhythm and its theory and practice, highlighting...  Read More >>

Cultural Difference and Material Culture in Middle English Romance: Normans and Saxons

Cultural Difference and Material Culture in Middle English...

Author: Dominique Battles (Hanover College, USA)
ISBN: 9781299865785
Format: Electronic book text
$369.60

This book explores how the cultural distinctions and conflicts between Anglo-Saxons and Normans originating with...  Read More >>

Romance and Its Contexts in Fifteenth-Century England

Romance and Its Contexts in Fifteenth-Century England...

Author: Raluca L Radulescu
ISBN: 9781299872530
Format: Electronic book text
$261.36

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Introduction to Attic Greek

Introduction to Attic Greek

Author: Donald J Mastronarde (University of California, Berkeley)
ISBN: 9781283915595
Format: Electronic book text
$118.67

This booklet provides the answers to the exercises in Introduction to Attic Greek, 2nd Edition by Donald J. Mastronarde,...  Read More >>

Performance in Greek and Roman Theatre

Performance in Greek and Roman Theatre

Author: George Harrison ,  Associate Professor Vayos Liapis
ISBN: 9781299276765
Format: Electronic book text
$665.28

Drawing on insights from various disciplines (philology, archaeology, art) as well as from performance and reception...  Read More >>

Aliscans

Aliscans

Author: Fritz Peter Knapp ,  Fritz Peter Knapp
ISBN: 9781299725089
Format: Electronic book text
$110.88

For the first time, this volume presents a German translation of the Old French heroic epic Aliscans, which served...  Read More >>

Vernacular Theology

Vernacular Theology

Author: Eliana Corbari
ISBN: 9781299724495
Format: Electronic book text
$369.60

Examines the audiences and languages of Dominican sermons in late medieval Italy. This book analyses how Latinate...  Read More >>

Thucydides Between History and Literature

Thucydides Between History and Literature

Author: Antonis Tsakmakis ,  Melina Tamiolaki
ISBN: 9781299725027
Format: Electronic book text
$406.56

Papers in this volume explore Thucydides methods of research and representation (also contrasting the notions of...  Read More >>

Generic Interfaces in Latin Literature

Generic Interfaces in Latin Literature

Author: Theodore D Papanghelis ,  Stephen J Harrison
ISBN: 9781299721746
Format: Electronic book text
$480.48

This volume pursues a key topic in the current study of Latin literature - the way in which literary texts of all...  Read More >>

Bildungsvorstellungen Im 5. Jahrhundert N. Chr.

Bildungsvorstellungen Im 5. Jahrhundert N. Chr.

Author: Matthias Gerth
ISBN: 9781299723542
Format: Electronic book text
$406.56

This book provides insight into the ideas and practice of learning in late antiquity. In Macrobius s Saturnalia...  Read More >>

Plato's  Sophist  Revisited

Plato's Sophist Revisited

Author: Beatriz Bossi ,  Thomas M Robinson
ISBN: 9781299724655
Format: Electronic book text
$406.56

This book consists of a selection of papers which throw new light on old problems in one of Plato s most difficult...  Read More >>

Mark of the Beast, The: The Medieval Bestiary in Art, Life, and Literature

Mark of the Beast, The: The Medieval Bestiary in Art,...

Author: Debra Hassig
ISBN: 9781306047142
Format: Electronic book text
$401.28

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Chaucer and the Jews

Chaucer and the Jews

Author: Professor of English Sheila Delany (Simon Fraser University)
ISBN: 9781299998667
Format: Electronic book text
$343.20

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Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece

Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece

Author:
ISBN: 9781306072076
Format: Undefined
$330.00

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Giovenale,  Satira  V

Giovenale, Satira V

Author: Biagio Santorelli
ISBN: 9781306092012
Format: Electronic book text
$295.68

This new interpretation of V Satire is embedded in a broader analysis of a central topos in Juvenal's work: the...  Read More >>

Dall'elicona a Roma

Dall'elicona a Roma

Author: Elena Merli
ISBN: 9781306092272
Format: Electronic book text
$295.68

The motifs of fons inspirationis and labor limae lost their semantic force in Latin poetry after the Augustan age....  Read More >>

Shaping of Narrative in Polybius

Shaping of Narrative in Polybius

Author: Nikos Miltsios
ISBN: 9781306092142
Format: Electronic book text
$295.68

In his attempt to explain Rome s rise to world power, Polybius composed a carefully structured narrative. Yet, despite...  Read More >>

Uber Die Grenze

Uber Die Grenze

Author: Ute E Eisen
ISBN: 9781306092166
Format: Electronic book text
$369.60

There has been little previous research in ancient studies on the narratological notion of metalepses. The essays...  Read More >>

Euripides'  Alcestis

Euripides' Alcestis

Author: Andreas Markantonatos
ISBN: 9781306092135
Format: Electronic book text
$295.68

This unique volume is an accessible yet in-depth narratological study of Euripides Alcestis.It contextualizes the...  Read More >>

King's Bishops, The: The Politics of Patronage in England and Normandy, 1066-1216

King's Bishops, The: The Politics of Patronage in England...

Author: Everett U Crosby (University of Virginia)
ISBN: 9781306093477
Format: Electronic book text
$421.03

From the earliest days of the organized Christian community, the bishop was the most important local official, a...  Read More >>

Trade and Romance

Trade and Romance

Author: Michael Murrin ,  Irene A Estay
ISBN: 9781306129398
Format: Undefined
$118.80

In Trade and Romance, Michael Murrin examines the complex relations between the expansion of trade in Asia and...  Read More >>

Die Geographie  Des Ptolemaios Im Spiegel Der Griechischen Handschriften

Die Geographie Des Ptolemaios Im Spiegel Der Griechischen...

Author: Renate Burri
ISBN: 9781306091589
Format: Electronic book text
$406.56

The present volume taps into the heretofore scarcely leveraged potential offered by a codicological and paleographic...  Read More >>

Haec Figura Demonstrat

Haec Figura Demonstrat

Author: Jeffrey F Hamburger
ISBN: 9781306091701
Format: Electronic book text
$184.80

The diagrammatic mode is an important feature of medieval religious art. This book examines one of the most spectacular...  Read More >>

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