Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Medievalia Et Humanistica, No. 39

Medievalia Et Humanistica, No. 39

Author: Nina Tomaszewski ,  Reinhold F Glei
ISBN: 9781306171243
Format: Electronic book text
$258.69

Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication...  Read More >>

Genres of Rhetorical Speeches in Greek and Roman Antiquity

Genres of Rhetorical Speeches in Greek and Roman Antiquity...

Author: Cristina Pepe
ISBN: 9781299975910
Format: Electronic book text
$633.60

In The Genres of Rhetorical Speeches in Greek and Roman Antiquity Cristina Pepe offers a complete overview of...  Read More >>

A Companion to Roman Architecture

A Companion to Roman Architecture

Author: Roger B Ulrich (Dartmouth College) ,  Caroline K Quenemoen (Rice University)
ISBN: 9781299988521
Format: Electronic book text
$514.80

A Companion to Roman Architecture presents a comprehensive review of the critical issues and approaches that have...  Read More >>

Durable Goods: Pleasure, Wealth and Power in the Virtuous Life

Durable Goods: Pleasure, Wealth and Power in the Virtuous...

Author: Gerol Petruzella
ISBN: 9781306146890
Format: Electronic book text
$203.15

Ancient Greek philosophers generally accept the claim that e?da?u a is within our power to achieve, regardless of...  Read More >>

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

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

Author: John Charles Arnold
ISBN: 9781306178839
Format: Electronic book text
$250.80

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Die Zweite Philippica ALS Flugschrift in Der Spaten Republik

Die Zweite Philippica ALS Flugschrift in Der Spaten...

Author: Frank-Thomas Ott
ISBN: 9781306429993
Format: Electronic book text
$480.48

In the Roman republic, pamphlets were pieces of fictional propaganda that had a considerable impact. This studyargues...  Read More >>

Greece and Mesopotamia

Greece and Mesopotamia

Author: Johannes Haubold (University of Durham)
ISBN: 9781299706576
Format: Undefined
$330.00

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Geography, Topography, Landscape

Geography, Topography, Landscape

Author: Marios Skempis ,  Lecturer in Classics Ioannis Ziogas (Australian National University, Canberra)
ISBN: 9781306462556
Format: Electronic book text
$443.52

This collection of essays explores how epic narratives negotiate, define, and transform genre-specific geographical...  Read More >>

Pausanias

Pausanias

Author: Maria Pretzler
ISBN: 9781306719360
Format: Electronic book text
$253.44

In this book, Maria Pretzler combines a thorough introduction to Pausanias with exciting new perspectives. She considers...  Read More >>

Sappho

Sappho

Author: Marguerite Johnson (The University of Newcastle, Australia)
ISBN: 9781306722063
Format: Electronic book text
$190.08

This series of short incisive books introduces major figures of the ancient world to the modern general reader,...  Read More >>

Virgil's Garden

Virgil's Garden

Author: Frederick Jones, C.SS.R.
ISBN: 9781306722025
Format: Electronic book text
$253.44

Virgil's book of bucolic verse, the Eclogues, defines a green space separate from the outside worlds both of other...  Read More >>

Myth of Paganism

Myth of Paganism

Author: Robert Shorrock
ISBN: 9781306722087
Format: Electronic book text
$253.44

Traditional and still prevalent accounts of late antique literature draw a clear distinction between 'pagan' and...  Read More >>

Classics and South African Identities

Classics and South African Identities

Author: Michael Lambert (Finance Director)
ISBN: 9781306722490
Format: Electronic book text
$253.44

The teaching and research of the Classics in South Africa are deeply rooted in the racial, political and educational...  Read More >>

Bucolic Ecology

Bucolic Ecology

Author: Lecturer in English Timothy Saunders (Volda University College)
ISBN: 9781306722179
Format: Electronic book text
$253.44

Beginning in outer space and ending up among the atoms, Bucolic Ecology illustrates how these poems repeatedly...  Read More >>

Metamorphoses III

Metamorphoses III

Author: John Godwin (shrewsbury School)
ISBN: 9781306723299
Format: Electronic book text
$153.12

Metamorphoses is an epic poem but is very different from what we expect in an epic. Original, inventive and charming,...  Read More >>

Literature and Culture in Late Byzantine Thessalonica

Literature and Culture in Late Byzantine Thessalonica...

Author: Visiting Lecturer Eugenia Russell (Royal Holloway, University of London)
ISBN: 9781306725354
Format: Electronic book text
$316.80

The 'long' fourteenth century perhaps can be seen as Thessalonica's heyday. Alongside its growing commercial prowess,...  Read More >>

Rewriting the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon Verse

Rewriting the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon Verse

Author: Samantha Zacher
ISBN: 9781306726238
Format: Electronic book text
$242.88

The Bible played a crucial role in shaping Anglo-Saxon national and cultural identity. However, access to Biblical...  Read More >>

Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus

Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus

Author: Adrian Kelly (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781306721844
Format: Electronic book text
$190.08

In his final play, Sophocles returns to the ever-popular character of Oedipus, the blind outcast of Thebes, the...  Read More >>

Art of Living

Art of Living

Author: John Sellars (King's College London University of Oxford, UK Birkbeck, University of London, UK Birkbeck, University of London, UK Birkbeck, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781306721929
Format: Electronic book text
$242.88

Ancient philosophy was conceived as a way of life or an art of living, but if ancient philosophers did think that...  Read More >>

Euripides: Trojan Women

Euripides: Trojan Women

Author: Barbara Goff
ISBN: 9781306721998
Format: Electronic book text
$190.08

Set at the end of the Trojan war, this book depicts the women of Troy as they wait to be taken into slavery. It...  Read More >>

Challenges to the Power of Zeus in Early Greek Poetry

Challenges to the Power of Zeus in Early Greek Poetry...

Author: Noriko Yasumura
ISBN: 9781306721899
Format: Electronic book text
$293.04

In the earliest extant works of Greek literature, Zeus reigns supreme in the Olympian hierarchy. However, scattered...  Read More >>

Ten Gifts of the Demiurge

Ten Gifts of the Demiurge

Author: Emilie Kutash
ISBN: 9781306721882
Format: Electronic book text
$889.68

Proclus' commentary on Plato's Timaeus is perhaps the most important surviving Neoplatonic commentary. In it Proclus...  Read More >>

Italy and the Classical Tradition

Italy and the Classical Tradition

Author: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9781306721875
Format: Electronic book text
$889.68

Italy's original fascination with its cultural origins in Greece and Rome first created what is now known as 'the...  Read More >>

Aeschylus: Eumenides

Aeschylus: Eumenides

Author: Robin Mitchell-Boyask (Temple University, Philadelphia)
ISBN: 9781306722612
Format: Electronic book text
$190.08

The Eumenides, the concluding drama in Aeschylus' sole surviving trilogy, the Oresteia, is not only one of the...  Read More >>

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