Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Essays on Medieval Rhetoric

Essays on Medieval Rhetoric

Author: Martin Camargo
ISBN: 9781409442196
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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John Gower, Poetry and Propaganda in Fourteenth-Century England

John Gower, Poetry and Propaganda in Fourteenth-Century...

Author: David R. Carlson (Customer)
ISBN: 9781843843153
Format: Hardback
$155.25

"John Gower's works examined as part of a tradition of ""official"" writings on behalf of the Crown."  Read More >>

Divining the Etruscan World: The Brontoscopic Calendar and Religious Practice

Divining the Etruscan World: The Brontoscopic Calendar...

Author: Jean MacIntosh Turfa
ISBN: 9780511920554
Format: Undefined
$435.60

The first complete English translation of the Brontoscopic Calendar, providing an understanding of Etruscan Iron...  Read More >>

Plato's Erotic World: From Cosmic Origins to Human Death

Plato's Erotic World: From Cosmic Origins to Human Death...

Author: Jill Gordon (Colby College, Maine)
ISBN: 9781139162265
Format: Undefined
$435.60

This book examines the fundamental importance of Eros in Plato's writing, arguing that he sees the world as erotic...  Read More >>

Saints and Symposiasts: The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture

Saints and Symposiasts: The Literature of Food and the...

Author: Jason König (University of St Andrews, Scotland)
ISBN: 9781139047180
Format: Undefined
$435.60

Explores the afterlife of the classical Greek symposium in the Greco-Roman and early Christian culture of the Roman...  Read More >>

Language Contact and Vocabulary Enrichment: Scandinavian Elements in Middle English

Language Contact and Vocabulary Enrichment: Scandinavian...

Author: Jacek Fisiak ,  Isabel Moskowich
ISBN: 9783631624142
Format: Hardback
$86.68

The Scandinavian presence all over Europe during the so-called Viking Age is well documented and England is not...  Read More >>

Romanische 'alba'- und 'somni'-Dichtungen

Romanische 'alba'- und 'somni'-Dichtungen

Author: Grazyna Maria Bosy
ISBN: 9783110259469
Format: Hardback
$308.79

Die Studie leistet einen Beitrag zur Beschreibung der Strukturen mittelalterlicher Lyrik und fokussiert dabei das...  Read More >>

Principles of Akkadian Textual Criticism

Principles of Akkadian Textual Criticism

Author: Martin Worthington
ISBN: 9781614510512
Format: Hardback
$633.60

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Unsterblichkeitsglaube in den griechischen Versinschriften

Unsterblichkeitsglaube in den griechischen Versinschriften...

Author: Matylda Obryk
ISBN: 9783110281774
Format: Hardback
$197.25

The author uses metrical funerary inscriptions to reconstruct the beliefs about immortality held by ancient Greeks....  Read More >>

Giovenale, ›Satira‹ IV: Introduzione, Traduzione e Commento

Giovenale, ›Satira‹ IV: Introduzione, Traduzione e Commento...

Author: Biagio Santorelli
ISBN: 9783110283945
Format: Hardback
$197.25

In der Reihe werden wichtige Neuausgaben und Kommentare zu Texten der griechisch-römischen Antike publiziert, insbesondere...  Read More >>

Euripide, Medee

Euripide, Medee

Author: Euripide ,  Louis Meridier
ISBN: 9782251800240
Format: Paperback
$39.60

English summary: Euripides reinvented the myth of Medea as a tragedy and self-imposed catastrophe, wherein the granddaughter...  Read More >>

The Rhetoric of Interruption: Speech-Making, Turn-Taking, and Rule-Breaking in Luke-Acts and Ancient Greek Narrative

The Rhetoric of Interruption: Speech-Making, Turn-Taking,...

Author: Daniel Lynwood Smith
ISBN: 9786613941145
Format: Electronic book text
$443.52

In the Gospel according to Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, speakers are often interrupted by emotional audiences...  Read More >>

Omero E I Suoi Oratori

Omero E I Suoi Oratori

Author: Stefano Dentice Di Accadia Ammone
ISBN: 9786613941046
Format: Electronic book text
$487.87

The birth of rhetoric istraced back to the 5th century B.C.E., when the first theoretical treatises on rhetoric...  Read More >>

The Versatile Needle: Hosidius Geta's Cento  Medea  and Its Tradition

The Versatile Needle: Hosidius Geta's Cento Medea and...

Author: Anke Rondholz
ISBN: 9786613940612
Format: Electronic book text
$354.82

Thecento-tragedy Medea usually attributed to Hosidius Geta was transmitted in the Codex Salmasianus (now Codex Parisinus...  Read More >>

Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire: A Study of Elite Communities

Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire:...

Author: William A. Johnson, Jr. (Professor of Classical Studies, Professor of Classical Studies, Duke University)
ISBN: 9780199926718
Format: Paperback
$93.95

Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire is a rich cultural history of individual reading communities...  Read More >>

Two Revisions of Rolle's English Psalter Commentary and the Related Canticles: Volume I

Two Revisions of Rolle's English Psalter Commentary...

Author: Anne Hudson (Emeritus Professor of Medieval English at the University of Oxford, and currently the Director of the E.E.T.S)
ISBN: 9780199669202
Format: Hardback
$164.95

Provides, for the first time, a full edition of the first Lollard revision of Richard Rolle's English commentary...  Read More >>

Four Byzantine Novels: Agapetus - Theodore Prodromos; Rhodanthe and Dosikles - Eumathios Makrembolites; Hysmine and Hysminias - Constantine Manasses; Aristandros and Kallithea - Niketas Eugenianos, Drosilla and Charikles

Four Byzantine Novels: Agapetus - Theodore Prodromos;...

Author: Theodore Prodromos ,  Eumathios Makrembolites
ISBN: 9781846318252
Format: Hardback
$194.06

English translations of four mid twelfth-century novels from Constantinople, with notes and commentary.  Read More >>

The Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of Homer's Odyssey

The Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of Homer's...

Author: Edith Hall (University of Durham, UK)
ISBN: 9781780762357
Format: Paperback
$46.99

The adventures of Ulysses/Odysseus are amongst the most durable in human culture. This title explains the Homer's...  Read More >>

Optical Allusions: Screens, Paintings, and Poetry in Classical Japan (ca. 800-1200)

Optical Allusions: Screens, Paintings, and Poetry in...

Author: Joseph T. Sorensen
ISBN: 9789004219311
Format: Hardback
$472.56

In Optical Allusions: Screens, Paintings, and Poetry in Classical Japan (ca. 800-1200), Joseph T. Sorensen illustrates...  Read More >>

The Aeneid

The Aeneid

Author: Virgil ,  Bernard Knox
ISBN: 9780143106296
Format: Paperback
$27.99

Tells the story of an epic voyage in which Aeneas crosses stormy seas, becomes entangled in a tragic love affair...  Read More >>

Orpheus: The Song of Life

Orpheus: The Song of Life

Author: Ann Wroe
ISBN: 9781845951689
Format: Paperback
$34.99

He may be myth, but his lyre still sounds, entrancing everything that hears it: animals, trees, water, stones, and...  Read More >>

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