Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Theocritus and Things: Material Agency in the Idylls

Theocritus and Things: Material Agency in the Idylls...

Author: Lilah Canevaro
ISBN: 9781399517492
Format: Hardback
$219.94

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Courtly Love Revisited in the Age of Feminism

Courtly Love Revisited in the Age of Feminism

Author: Antonia Southern
ISBN: 9781680537215
Format: Hardback
$169.40

Courtly love and feminism are strange bedfellows, the one a controversial literary concept, and the other a continuing...  Read More >>

The Deeds of the Neapolitan Bishops: A Critical Edition and Translation of the ‘Gesta Episcoporum Neapolitanorum’

The Deeds of the Neapolitan Bishops: A Critical Edition...

Author: Luigi Andrea Berto
ISBN: 9781032042398
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The Deeds of the Neapolitan Bishops not only reports the biographies of the Neapolitan bishops during those centuries,...  Read More >>

The Wisdom of Solomon and the Byzantine Reception of Origen

The Wisdom of Solomon and the Byzantine Reception of...

Author: Panayiotis Tzamalikos
ISBN: 9781433194696
Format: Hardback
$171.47

This book marks a major contribution to the field of Greek and Byzantine philosophical exegesis, and will be valuable...  Read More >>

Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus

Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus...

Author: Arum Park
ISBN: 9780472133420
Format: Hardback
$184.80

Explores the notoriously difficult ancient Greek poetry of Aeschylus and Pindar and seeks to articulate the complex...  Read More >>

The Problem of Literary Value

The Problem of Literary Value

Author: Robert J. Meyer-Lee (Margaret W. Pepperdene Distinguished Scholar in Residence)
ISBN: 9781526167941
Format: Hardback
$195.00

This book addresses the vexed status of literary value, focusing on everyday scholarly and pedagogical activities,...  Read More >>

Wiener Studien - Zeitschrift Fur Klassische Philologie, Patristik Und Lateinische Tradition, Band 136/2023

Wiener Studien - Zeitschrift Fur Klassische Philologie,...

Author: Kurt Smolak
ISBN: 9783700194125
Format: Paperback
$285.12

"Die ""Wiener Studien"", gegrundet 1879, sind eine internationale wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift fur Klassische Philologie,...  Read More >>

The Door of the Caliph: Concepts of the Court in the Umayyad Caliphate of al-Andalus

The Door of the Caliph: Concepts of the Court in the...

Author: Elsa Cardoso
ISBN: 9781032207155
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book focuses on the conceptualization of the court, palace and ruler of the Umayyad Caliphate of al-Andalus....  Read More >>

La Version Z de l'Ovide Moralise

La Version Z de l'Ovide Moralise

Author: Prunelle Deleville
ISBN: 9782406149095
Format: Paperback
$364.32

"At the end of the fourteenth century, the Ovide moralise was ""demoralized"" in a few manuscripts, those of the...  Read More >>

Markers of Allusion in Archaic Greek Poetry

Markers of Allusion in Archaic Greek Poetry

Author: Thomas J. Nelson (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781009078191
Format: Paperback
$103.47

Challenging established narratives of literary history, this book explores how the earliest known Greek poets signposted...  Read More >>

The New Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance

The New Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance

Author: Roberta L. Krueger (Hamilton College, New York)
ISBN: 9781108749589
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Courtly romance was the most important vernacular literary genre during the Middle Ages in Europe. This new Companion...  Read More >>

La Version Z de l'Ovide Moralise

La Version Z de l'Ovide Moralise

Author: Prunelle Deleville
ISBN: 9782406149101
Format: Hardback
$514.80

"At the end of the fourteenth century, the Ovide moralise was ""demoralized"" in a few manuscripts, those of the...  Read More >>

Lucretius and the End of Masculinity

Lucretius and the End of Masculinity

Author: Michael Pope (Brigham Young University, Utah)
ISBN: 9781009242318
Format: Hardback
$219.94

The first book-length study of sexuality and gender in De rerum natura. Argues that the understanding of the universe...  Read More >>

Markers of Allusion in Archaic Greek Poetry

Markers of Allusion in Archaic Greek Poetry

Author: Thomas J. Nelson (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781316514375
Format: Hardback
$271.69

Challenging established narratives of literary history, this book explores how the earliest known Greek poets signposted...  Read More >>

Theodoros Prodromos: Miscellaneous Poems: An Edition and Literary Study

Theodoros Prodromos: Miscellaneous Poems: An Edition...

Author: Dr Nikos Zagklas (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, University of Vienna)
ISBN: 9780192886927
Format: Hardback
$236.00

This book comprises the first critical edition and study of a group of poems by Theodoros Prodromos, a leading poet...  Read More >>

The New Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance

The New Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance

Author: Roberta L. Krueger (Hamilton College, New York)
ISBN: 9781108479301
Format: Hardback
$181.13

Courtly romance was the most important vernacular literary genre during the Middle Ages in Europe. This new Companion...  Read More >>

Ancient Greek Texts and Modern Narrative Theory: Towards a Critical Dialogue

Ancient Greek Texts and Modern Narrative Theory: Towards...

Author: Jonas Grethlein (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany)
ISBN: 9781009339599
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Demonstrates the limits of narratology in understanding ancient texts and forges a new approach that investigates...  Read More >>

[Set Verwandlungsgeschichten, 2 Bände, Tusculum]

[Set Verwandlungsgeschichten, 2 Bände, Tusculum]

Author: Publius Ovidius Naso ,  Apuleius
ISBN: 9783111314303
Format: Hardback
$348.45

Sowohl Ovids Verwandlungsgeschichten als auch Der goldene Esel des Apuleius haben bereits in der Antike ihre Leserschaft...  Read More >>

Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World's First Author

Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World's First Author...

Author: Sophus Helle
ISBN: 9780300264173
Format: Hardback
$79.20

The complete poems of the priestess Enheduana, the world’s first known author, newly translated from the original...  Read More >>

Roman Love Elegy and the Eros of Empire

Roman Love Elegy and the Eros of Empire

Author: Phebe Lowell Bowditch
ISBN: 9783031147999
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book explores Roman love elegy from postcolonial perspectives, arguing that the tropes, conventions, and discourses...  Read More >>

Trattati greci sui tropi: Introduzione ed edizione critica

Trattati greci sui tropi: Introduzione ed edizione critica...

Author: Maria Giovanna Sandri
ISBN: 9783111072142
Format: Hardback
$205.83

In Greek and Latin, tropes are generally defined as variations from a linguistic and stylistic norm, and are in...  Read More >>

Ulisse: Rifrangenze Poetiche

Ulisse: Rifrangenze Poetiche

Author: Lorenzo Braccesi
ISBN: 9788891328489
Format: Paperback
$335.28

Eugamone nella perduta Telegonia, Euripide 'satiresco' nel Ciclope, Licofrone nell'oscura Alessandra, Cicerone poeta...  Read More >>

Translating Ancient Greek Drama in Early Modern Europe: Theory and Practice (15th–16th Centuries)

Translating Ancient Greek Drama in Early Modern Europe:...

Author: Malika Bastin-Hammou ,  Giovanna Di Martino
ISBN: 9783110718652
Format: Hardback
$222.99

This book brings together insights from Classics, Reception and Translation Studies to outline the European dimension...  Read More >>

Europaeische Avantgarde, Experimentalfilm und US-amerikanischer Spielfilm: Inszenierungen des Koerpers im Film der 1920er, -40er und -50er Jahre

Europaeische Avantgarde, Experimentalfilm und US-amerikanischer...

Author: Matthias Bauer ,  Sophie Jürgens-Tatje
ISBN: 9783631892534
Format: Hardback
$178.54

Der Körper steht in den 1920er Jahren häufig im Zentrum der Filmproduktion. Im europäischen Avantgardefilm bildet...  Read More >>

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