Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Paulus und der Nous: Eine Untersuchung zur paulinischen Anthropologie vor dem Hintergrund hellenistisch-jüdischer und griechisch-römischer Konzeptionen

Paulus und der Nous: Eine Untersuchung zur paulinischen...

Author: Manuel Nägele
ISBN: 9783161619557
Format: Paperback
$347.24

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Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, series 3, volume 17: Essays in Memory of Paul E. Szarmach

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, series...

Author: Joel T. Rosenthal (Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus, State University of New York, Stony Brook) ,  Virginia Blanton (Curators’ Distinguished Professor of English, University of Missouri)
ISBN: 9781802700527
Format: Hardback
$411.84

An annual publication of historiographical essays on the pre-modern world; this issue celebrating the life and work...  Read More >>

Sidonius: Letters Book 5, Part 1: Text, Translation and Commentary

Sidonius: Letters Book 5, Part 1: Text, Translation...

Author: Giulia Marolla
ISBN: 9781399510776
Format: Hardback
$323.44

Studies the first half of Sidonius' fifth book of letters from a philological, literary and historical perspective...  Read More >>

Psychic Mimesis From Bible and Homer to Now: Inner Lives Over Time

Psychic Mimesis From Bible and Homer to Now: Inner Lives...

Author: Nathan M. Szajnberg
ISBN: 9781666922554
Format: Hardback
$160.00

How did we develop our sense of inner life? This book follows Auerbach’s Mimesis, journeying over two millennia...  Read More >>

The Lost Texts of Confucius’ Grandson: Guodian, Zisi, and Beyond

The Lost Texts of Confucius’ Grandson: Guodian, Zisi,...

Author: Kuan-yun Huang
ISBN: 9789882372863
Format: Hardback
$145.20

The Guodian manuscripts are a cache of literary and philosophical texts from the fourth century BCE, discovered...  Read More >>

Lucian's Laughing Gods: Religion, Philosophy, and Popular Culture in the Roman East

Lucian's Laughing Gods: Religion, Philosophy, and Popular...

Author: Inger NI Kuin
ISBN: 9780472133345
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Contextualizes Lucian’s comedic performances in the intellectual life of the second century CE Roman East broadly,...  Read More >>

Comparing Roman Hellenisms in Italy

Comparing Roman Hellenisms in Italy

Author: Basil Dufallo ,  Riemer A. Faber
ISBN: 9780472133406
Format: Hardback
$237.60

As the first book to focus on the comparison of Roman Hellenisms per se, Comparing Roman Hellenisms in Italy shows...  Read More >>

Stalin’s Ghosts: Gothic Themes in Early Soviet Literature

Stalin’s Ghosts: Gothic Themes in Early Soviet Literature...

Author: Muireann Maguire
ISBN: 9781803742205
Format: Paperback
$142.31

Stalin’s Ghosts examines the impact of the Gothic-fantastic on Russian literature in the period 1920-1940. The volume...  Read More >>

Greek Poetry in the Age of Ephemerality

Greek Poetry in the Age of Ephemerality

Author: Sarah Nooter (University of Chicago)
ISBN: 9781009320351
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Greek poetry invented ephemerality as a mark of the human condition and introduced materials for confronting it....  Read More >>

The Oxford History of Poetry in English: Volume 3. Medieval Poetry: 1400-1500

The Oxford History of Poetry in English: Volume 3. Medieval...

Author: Julia Boffey (Professor Emerita, English Department at Queen Mary, University of LondonProfessor Emerita, English Department at Queen Mary, University of London) ,  A. S. G. Edwards
ISBN: 9780198839682
Format: Hardback
$283.00

This volume explores a range of English verse from 1400 to 1500. It studies specific genres and modes of fifteenth-century...  Read More >>

Homer’s Iliad

Homer’s Iliad

Author: Katharina Wesselmann ,  Benjamin Millis
ISBN: 9783110687637
Format: Hardback
$188.67

The renowned Basler Homer-Kommentar of the Iliad, edited by Anton Bierl and Joachim Latacz and originally published...  Read More >>

Knowledge Construction in Late Antiquity

Knowledge Construction in Late Antiquity

Author: Monika Amsler
ISBN: 9783110997637
Format: Hardback
$214.41

"In recent years, the focus in historical studies has moved away from asking what knowledge ancient people produced...  Read More >>

The Staying Power of Thetis: Allusion, Interaction, and Reception from Homer to the 21st Century

The Staying Power of Thetis: Allusion, Interaction,...

Author: Maciej Paprocki ,  Gary Patrick Vos
ISBN: 9783110678352
Format: Hardback
$257.31

In her seminal study The Power of Thetis (1991), Laura Slatkin masterfully read Thetis, divine mother to the hero...  Read More >>

Dynamics Of Marginality: Liminal Characters and Marginal Groups in Neronian and Flavian Literature

Dynamics Of Marginality: Liminal Characters and Marginal...

Author: Konstantinos Arampapaslis ,  Antony Augoustakis
ISBN: 9783111061580
Format: Hardback
$154.35

This volume illuminates the identification of marginalized individuals and groups in Neronian and Flavian Rome,...  Read More >>

Epistolary Fiction in Ancient Greek Literature

Epistolary Fiction in Ancient Greek Literature

Author: Émeline Marquis
ISBN: 9783110996241
Format: Hardback
$214.41

Ancient epistolary fiction is still largely under-explored. This book ventures into its various landscapes, its...  Read More >>

Alexandreis: Lateinisch - Deutsch

Alexandreis: Lateinisch - Deutsch

Author: Walter Von Châtillon ,  Martin Lehmann
ISBN: 9783110795721
Format: Hardback
$290.37

Although Walter of Châtillon's Alexandreis is undisputedly one of the most important Latin epics of the Middle Ages,...  Read More >>

The Political Economy of Indo-European Polytheism: How to Deal with Too Many Gods

The Political Economy of Indo-European Polytheism: How...

Author: Mario Ferrero
ISBN: 9783030979454
Format: Paperback
$194.04

Presenting case studies on the transformation and demise of various polytheistic religions, it highlights the pivotal...  Read More >>

Historians on John Gower

Historians on John Gower

Author: Stephen H Rigby ,  Sian Echard (Royalty Account)
ISBN: 9781843847014
Format: Paperback
$95.71

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Women of Trachis

Women of Trachis

Author: Sophocles ,  Viveca Smith
ISBN: 9781732756823
Format: Paperback
$34.29

Sophocles' Women of Trachis resonates with the complexity of life, expressing happiness entwined with despair and...  Read More >>

Reading Gender: Studies on Medieval Manuscripts and Medievalist Movies

Reading Gender: Studies on Medieval Manuscripts and...

Author: Felice Lifshitz
ISBN: 9781032392431
Format: Hardback
$263.00

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Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19

Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black...

Author: Alfred Thomas
ISBN: 9783030948528
Format: Paperback
$258.72

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Abandoned Women and Boudoir Resentment: The Construction of the Feminine Voice in Early Medieval Chinese Literature

Abandoned Women and Boudoir Resentment: The Construction...

Author: Qiulei Hu
ISBN: 9789004541009
Format: Hardback
$279.84

The image and voice of abandoned women are a familiar topic to students of classical Chinese poetry. This book explores...  Read More >>

La Litterature de l'Egypte Ancienne. Volume III: Moyen Empire Et Deuxieme Periode Intermediaire

La Litterature de l'Egypte Ancienne. Volume III: Moyen...

Author: Bernard Mathieu
ISBN: 9782251454320
Format: Paperback
$113.52

L'Egypte des pharaons n'est pas que pyramides monumentales, temples majestueux ou tombes inviolees. Elle nous a...  Read More >>

Fontes Antiqui Sabinorum: I Sabini E La Sabina Nelle Fonti Letteraie Grecche E Latine

Fontes Antiqui Sabinorum: I Sabini E La Sabina Nelle...

Author: Daniele F Maras ,  Laura Maria Michetti
ISBN: 9788891327437
Format: Paperback
$1488.96

"The knowledge of ancient Sabina, in its various aspects, territorial, institutional, cultural and socio-economic,...  Read More >>

Social Groups behind Biblical Traditions: Identity Perspectives from Egypt, Transjordan, Mesopotamia, and Israel in the Second Temple Period

Social Groups behind Biblical Traditions: Identity Perspectives...

Author: Benedikt Hensel ,  Bartosz Adamczewski
ISBN: 9783161618871
Format: Hardback
$427.68

Is the Hebrew Bible purely a product of Jerusalem or were there various social groups who each played a role in...  Read More >>

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