Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Maximianus’ ‘Elegies’: Love Elegy Grew Old

Maximianus’ ‘Elegies’: Love Elegy Grew Old

Author: Vasileios Pappas
ISBN: 9783110770377
Format: Hardback
$197.25

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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: 9780028673707
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 >>

Decapitation in Sources on Alexander the Great

Decapitation in Sources on Alexander the Great

Author: Marc Mendoza
ISBN: 9783031191732
Format: Hardback
$103.47

This book explores cases of decapitation found in sources on the reign of Alexander the Great. Despite the enormous...  Read More >>

Empire of Letters: Writing in Roman Literature and Thought from Lucretius to Ovid

Empire of Letters: Writing in Roman Literature and Thought...

Author: Stephanie Ann Frampton (Associate Professor of Classical Literature, Associate Professor of Classical Literature, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
ISBN: 9780197651520
Format: Paperback
$93.95

Uniting close readings of major authors of the late Republic and early Empire with the careful analysis of the material...  Read More >>

Writing about Discovery in the Early Modern East Indies

Writing about Discovery in the Early Modern East Indies...

Author: Su Fang Ng (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
ISBN: 9781009045865
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element examines the impact of the 1511 Portuguese conquest of the port-kingdom of Melaka on early travel literature....  Read More >>

Studies in the Age of Chaucer: Volume 44

Studies in the Age of Chaucer: Volume 44

Author: Sebastian Sobecki ,  Michelle Karnes
ISBN: 9780933784468
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing...  Read More >>

The Greeks and Their Histories: Myth, History, and Society

The Greeks and Their Histories: Myth, History, and Society...

Author: Hans-Joachim Gehrke (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany) ,  Raymond Geuss (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781316519783
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Like every society, the Greek communities needed a unifying concept of their past, an 'intentional history'. In...  Read More >>

A History of English Georgic Writing

A History of English Georgic Writing

Author: Paddy Bullard (University of Reading)
ISBN: 9781316519875
Format: Hardback
$232.88

This volume surveys the literature of rural working lives and landscapes written in English between 1500 and the...  Read More >>

Sophocles

Sophocles

Author: Stephen Esposito
ISBN: 9781780769608
Format: Paperback
$43.96

Who can forget the tragic inevitability of Oedipus' fate, the implacable determination of bereaved Antigone, or...  Read More >>

Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend

Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend

Author: Richard Stoneman
ISBN: 9780300270068
Format: Paperback
$24.95

Alexander the Great conquered the ancient world. When he died in 323 BCE, his empire began to crumble. But his story...  Read More >>

FrC 19.1 Antiphanes frr. 1-100

FrC 19.1 Antiphanes frr. 1-100

Author: S Douglas Olson
ISBN: 9783949189630
Format: Hardback
$235.44

Antiphanes is one of the most important writers of the Middle Attic comedy. His plays deal with matters connected...  Read More >>

When a Gesture Was Expected: A Selection of Examples from Archaic and Classical Greek Literature

When a Gesture Was Expected: A Selection of Examples...

Author: Alan L. Boegehold
ISBN: 9780691242224
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Encourages an appreciation of ancient Greek poetry and prose by showing where a nod of the head or a wave of the...  Read More >>

Sophocles

Sophocles

Author: Stephen Esposito
ISBN: 9781780769592
Format: Hardback
$129.38

Who can forget the tragic inevitability of Oedipus' fate, the implacable determination of bereaved Antigone, or...  Read More >>

The Heat of Beowulf

The Heat of Beowulf

Author: Daniel C. Remein (Assistant Professor of English)
ISBN: 9781526150585
Format: Hardback
$195.00

The heat of Beowulf reexamines the aesthetics of the longest surviving Old English poem through the poetics of twentieth-century...  Read More >>

Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms

Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms

Author: Jessica Brantley
ISBN: 9780812253849
Format: Hardback
$171.60

In Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms, Jessica Brantley offers an innovative introduction to manuscript...  Read More >>

Charlemagne in the Norse and Celtic Worlds

Charlemagne in the Norse and Celtic Worlds

Author: Helen Fulton ,  Sif Rikhardsdottir
ISBN: 9781843846680
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Essays bringing out the richness of the hitherto neglected Charlemagne tradition in medieval Norway, Sweden, Denmark,...  Read More >>

Sacrament an Alter/The Sacrament of the Altar: A critical edition with translation

Sacrament an Alter/The Sacrament of the Altar: A critical...

Author: D. H. Frost
ISBN: 9781804130308
Format: Hardback
$207.00

This first ever critical edition of a pivotal Cornish-language text opens a new window onto a crucial example of...  Read More >>

Choral Constructions in Greek Culture: The Idea of the Chorus in the Poetry, Art and Social Practices of the Archaic and Early Classical Period

Choral Constructions in Greek Culture: The Idea of the...

Author: Deborah Tarn Steiner (Columbia University, New York)
ISBN: 9781107527577
Format: Paperback
$85.36

Wide-ranging exploration of representations of chorality in the poetry, art and material remains of early Greece...  Read More >>

The Art of War: A Practical Approach

The Art of War: A Practical Approach

Author: Mitch Horowitz ,  Mitch Horowitz
ISBN: 9798212928281
Format: Audio
$65.97

Mitch Horowitz provides a deep dive into the classic, The Art of War, in this fascinating discussion on its meaning...  Read More >>

The Art of War: A Practical Approach

The Art of War: A Practical Approach

Author: Mitch Horowitz ,  Mitch Horowitz
ISBN: 9798212928298
Format: Audio
$110.85

Mitch Horowitz provides a deep dive into the classic, The Art of War, in this fascinating discussion on its meaning...  Read More >>

Ovid: Amores. Text, Prolegomena and Commentary in four volumes. Volume IV.i. A Commentary on Book Three, Elegies 1 to 8

Ovid: Amores. Text, Prolegomena and Commentary in four...

Author: James C McKeown ,  R Joy Littlewood
ISBN: 9780995461239
Format: Hardback
$155.25

J.C. McKeown’s offers commentary on Ovid’s Amores, covering the first eight elegies of Book III.  Read More >>

Yearbook of Langland Studies 36 (2022)

Yearbook of Langland Studies 36 (2022)

Author: Brepols Publishers
ISBN: 9782503598581
Format: Hardback
$324.72

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Pascal: Un Grand Classique au Grand Siecle: Pascal et son oeuvre

Pascal: Un Grand Classique au Grand Siecle: Pascal et...

Author: Dr Laila Fares
ISBN: 9798372621015
Format: Paperback
$73.92

'Un Grand Classique au Grand Siecle: Pascal et son oeuvre' Cet essai sur Pascal comporte des perspectives diverses...  Read More >>

A Grammar of the Homeric Dialect, Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged

A Grammar of the Homeric Dialect, Second Edition, Revised...

Author: D B Monro
ISBN: 9781666764659
Format: Paperback
$126.72

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Solomon and Marcolf: Vernacular Traditions

Solomon and Marcolf: Vernacular Traditions

Author: Jan M. Ziolkowski ,  Edward Sanger
ISBN: 9780674271883
Format: Paperback
$43.95

Solomon and Marcolf: Vernacular Traditions offers an array of relevant texts, in English for the first time, that...  Read More >>

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