Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Finding Arcadia: Wisdom, Truth, and Love in the Classics

Finding Arcadia: Wisdom, Truth, and Love in the Classics...

Author: Paul Krause
ISBN: 9781680537147
Format: Hardback
$160.60

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Against Reproduction: Where Renaissance Texts Come From

Against Reproduction: Where Renaissance Texts Come From...

Author: Stephen Guy-Bray
ISBN: 9781487554248
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Offering fresh perspectives on well-known texts, Against Reproduction is an accessible and compelling book that...  Read More >>

IN THIS MODERN AGE: MEDIEVAL STUDIES IN HONOR OF PAUL EDWARD DUTTON

IN THIS MODERN AGE: MEDIEVAL STUDIES IN HONOR OF PAUL...

Author: Courtney M. Booker ,  Anne A. Latowsky
ISBN: 9786156405685
Format: Hardback
$234.30

A collection of fourteen essays by scholars of the Carolingian era specializing in history, art history, and literature....  Read More >>

Mystery Cults, Theatre and Athenian Politics: A Reading of Euripides' Bacchae and Aristophanes' Frogs

Mystery Cults, Theatre and Athenian Politics: A Reading...

Author: Luigi Barzini (Independent Scholar, UK)
ISBN: 9781350187399
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This new comparative reading of Euripides’ Bacchae and Aristophanes’ Frogs sets the two plays squarely in their...  Read More >>

Repressio - Resilio

Repressio - Resilio

Author: Internationale Thesauruskommission
ISBN: 9783110728484
Format: Paperback
$213.81

Der Thesaurus linguae Latinae ist nicht nur das größte lateinische Wörterbuch der Welt, sondern zugleich das erste,...  Read More >>

Lyric Tactics: Poetry, Genre, and Practice in Later Medieval England

Lyric Tactics: Poetry, Genre, and Practice in Later...

Author: Ingrid Nelson
ISBN: 9781512824803
Format: Paperback
$65.87

In Lyric Tactics, Ingrid Nelson argues that the lyric poetry of later medieval England is a distinct genre defined...  Read More >>

MS Junius 11 and its Poetry

MS Junius 11 and its Poetry

Author: Carl Kears (Person)
ISBN: 9781914049132
Format: Hardback
$207.00

A fresh close reading of the texts of one of the four surviving major manuscripts of Old English poetry, reappraising...  Read More >>

The Ass of the Gods: Apuleius' Golden Ass, the Onos Attributed to Lucian, and Graeco-Roman Metamorphosis Literature

The Ass of the Gods: Apuleius' Golden Ass, the Onos...

Author: Kristopher F.B. Fletcher
ISBN: 9789004537163
Format: Hardback
$345.84

The Ass of the Gods rereads Apuleius’ Golden Ass and the Lucianic Onos through the patterns of ancient metamorphosis...  Read More >>

Frammenti Delle Orazioni Di Cassiodoro: Edizione, Traduzione, Commento

Frammenti Delle Orazioni Di Cassiodoro: Edizione, Traduzione,...

Author: Simona Rota
ISBN: 9788891327376
Format: Hardback
$607.20

The panegyric activity of Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus for the Ostrogoth rulers is exemplified only by a...  Read More >>

On Pseudo-Cyprian’s Heptateuchos: Biblical Rewriting between 'narratio probabilis' and Allusive Intertextuality

On Pseudo-Cyprian’s Heptateuchos: Biblical Rewriting...

Author: Ps.-Cyprianus Gallus ,  Michele Cutino
ISBN: 9783111019529
Format: Hardback
$137.19

Among all the biblical epics the poem Heptateuchos by Ps. Cyprian most urgently needs a reliable critical edition...  Read More >>

Résumés en quelques mots,: Mes classiques de la littérature...

Résumés en quelques mots,: Mes classiques de la littérature......

Author: Ericson M
ISBN: 9798387751653
Format: Paperback
$17.85

Un livre incontournable pour les amateurs de littérature classique. Regroupant des résumés de plusieurs romans,...  Read More >>

Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Critical Discussion of the Works of Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth-Century Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Philosophers, and Other Creative Writers

Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Critical Discussion...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9780028673721
Format: Hardback
$1356.96

Presents literary criticism on the works of writers of the period 1400-1800. Critical essays are selected from leading...  Read More >>

Die Antike Literatur Und Die Wissenschaftliche Revolution: Pontes Band X

Die Antike Literatur Und Die Wissenschaftliche Revolution:...

Author: Martin Korenjak ,  Irina Tautschnig
ISBN: 9783968219387
Format: Paperback
$198.00

In the early modern period, authors drew extensively on ancient forms and models to introduce their readership to...  Read More >>

Introducing the Medieval Fox

Introducing the Medieval Fox

Author: Paul Wackers
ISBN: 9781786839886
Format: Paperback
$26.95

This is a short cultural history of the fox in the Middle Ages, outlining medieval views on foxes and illustrating...  Read More >>

Philip V of Macedon in Polybius' Histories: Politics, History, and Fiction

Philip V of Macedon in Polybius' Histories: Politics,...

Author: Emma Nicholson (Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9780192866769
Format: Hardback
$271.95

Philip V of Macedon in Polybius' Histories offers a historiographical and literary study of Polybius' portrait...  Read More >>

Pour qu'on lise Platon

Pour qu'on lise Platon

Author: Emile Faguet
ISBN: 9791041943425
Format: Paperback
$50.16

Car on ne le lit plus du tout et il est de ceux que l'on ne conna�t que par ce que les professeurs de philosophie...  Read More >>

On Parchment: Animals, Archives, and the Making of Culture from Herodotus to the Digital Age

On Parchment: Animals, Archives, and the Making of Culture...

Author: Bruce Holsinger
ISBN: 9780300260212
Format: Hardback
$61.95

A sweeping exploration of the shaping role of animal skins in written culture and human imagination over three millennia...  Read More >>

Symbole des Christentums: Berliner Dogmatikvorlesung

Symbole des Christentums: Berliner Dogmatikvorlesung...

Author: Ulrich Barth ,  Friedemann Steck
ISBN: 9783161623158
Format: Paperback
$121.61

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International Medievalisms: From Nationalism to Activism

International Medievalisms: From Nationalism to Activism...

Author: Mary Boyle (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow) ,  Mary Boyle (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow)
ISBN: 9781843846062
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Identifies and investigates international medievalism through three distinct strands: ""Internationally Nationalist"",...  Read More >>

Plutarch's Moon: A New Approach to De facie quae in orbe lunae apparet

Plutarch's Moon: A New Approach to De facie quae in...

Author: Luisa Lesage Gárriga
ISBN: 9789004544161
Format: Hardback
$316.80

In Plutarch’s Moon Luisa Lesage Gárriga offers a new approach on Plutarch’s views on cosmos, the afterlife and salvation,...  Read More >>

Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family

Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation...

Author: Darja Šterbenc Erker
ISBN: 9789004527034
Format: Hardback
$406.56

Ovid’s Fasti comments on Augustan religion by means of ambivalent aetiologies, elegiac jokes and subtle allusions...  Read More >>

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