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Writing Doubt in Montaigne's Essais: Thinking Relationally with Seneca and Plutarch

Writing Doubt in Montaigne's Essais: Thinking Relationally...
Author: Luke O'Sullivan (Career Development Fellow in Early Modern French, St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford) ISBN: 9781399522977 Format: Paperback	$44.99
Offers a new understanding of doubt in Montaigne's Essais and early modern intellectual culture Read More >>

Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death

Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death
Author: Jessica Barr ISBN: 9780268210946 Format: Hardback	$150.00
Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death investigates the tension between death as necessary for bringing about... Read More >>

Euripides and Quotation Culture

Euripides and Quotation Culture
Author: Dr Matthew Wright (University of Exeter, UK) , David Taylor ISBN: 9781350441217 Format: Paperback	$59.99
Presenting a new approach to Euripides’ plays, this book explores the playwright’s ancient tragedies in relation... Read More >>

Poetic Desire and Literary Thievery: Economies of Intertextuality in Arabic Literature

Poetic Desire and Literary Thievery: Economies of Intertextuality...
Author: Muhsin J. al-Musawi (Columbia University, New York) ISBN: 9781009584562 Format: Paperback	$72.45
How do we define plagiarism in literature? In this wide-ranging study, Muhsin J. al-Musawi examines debates surrounding... Read More >>

The Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture: Volume 1: Medieval Arthurian Literatures and Cultures

The Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture:...
Author: Raluca L. Radulescu (Bangor University, Wales) , Andrew Lynch (The University of Western Australia) ISBN: 9781316516003 Format: Hardback	$362.25
The authoritative source for those wanting to explore the flourishing medieval world of Arthur from its very beginnings,... Read More >>

The Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture: Volume 2: Arthurian Literatures and Cultures: 1500 to the Present

The Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture:...
Author: Raluca L. Radulescu (Bangor University, Wales) , Andrew Lynch (The University of Western Australia) ISBN: 9781316516010 Format: Hardback	$362.25
Charting the global spread of Arthuriana up to the present day, the second volume of this history foregrounds non-English... Read More >>

Poetic Desire and Literary Thievery: Economies of Intertextuality in Arabic Literature

Poetic Desire and Literary Thievery: Economies of Intertextuality...
Author: Muhsin J. al-Musawi (Columbia University, New York) ISBN: 9781009584579 Format: Hardback	$232.88
How do we define plagiarism in literature? In this wide-ranging study, Muhsin J. al-Musawi examines debates surrounding... Read More >>

Lucian, Volume II: The Downward Journey. Zeus Refuted. The Tragic Zeus. The Rooster. Prometheus. Icaromenippus. Timon. Charon. Sale of Lives

Lucian, Volume II: The Downward Journey. Zeus Refuted....
Author: Lucian , Professor Peter Thonemann ISBN: 9780674997714 Format: Hardback	$51.95
Antiquity's satirist supreme. Lucian of Samosata on the Euphrates (fl. AD 160-190) ranks among the most dazzlingly... Read More >>

Lucian, Volume I: Phalaris I–II. Hippias. Dionysus. Heracles. On Amber. The Fly. Nigrinus. Demonax. On the Hall. Encomium of the Fatherland. The Long-Lived. True Stories I–II. Slander. Lawsuit of the Consonants. Symposium

Lucian, Volume I: Phalaris I–II. Hippias. Dionysus....
Author: Lucian , Professor Peter Thonemann ISBN: 9780674997707 Format: Hardback	$51.95
Antiquity's satirist supreme. Lucian of Samosata on the Euphrates (fl. AD 160-190) ranks among the most dazzlingly... Read More >>

The Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature: Volume 1

The Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature: Volume...
Author: Gavin Kelly (University of Edinburgh) , Aaron Pelttari (University of Edinburgh) ISBN: 9781108476379 Format: Hardback	$388.12
The most comprehensive and detailed history of Latin literature from the second to the seventh centuries, which... Read More >>

Euripides: Electra: Edited with Introduction and Commentary

Euripides: Electra: Edited with Introduction and Commentary...
Author: David Kovacs (Hugh H. Obear Professor of Classics (Emeritus),, Hugh H. Obear Professor of Classics (Emeritus), University of Virginia) ISBN: 9780192867131 Format: Hardback	$339.95
This volume presents a newly edited text of Euripides' Electra with a scene-by-scene and line-by-line commentary.... Read More >>

Catullus: Volume 51

Catullus: Volume 51
Author: Monica R. Gale (Trinity College Dublin) ISBN: 9781009709798 Format: Paperback	$46.55
This volume examines Catullus' invective and homoerotic verse and the carmina maiora or 'longer poems', alongside... Read More >>

Linguistic Representations of Women in Old English Prose: A Corpus-Based Phraseological Study

Linguistic Representations of Women in Old English Prose:...
Author: Anna Cichosz (University of Lodz) , Tomasz Dobrogoszcz (University of Lodz) ISBN: 9781009625760 Format: Paperback	$46.58
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Horror in Ancient Greek and Roman Epic

Horror in Ancient Greek and Roman Epic
Author: Associate Professor Will Brockliss (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) ISBN: 9781350466784 Format: Hardback	$170.00
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The Path from Aulis: A Study of Aeschylus’ Oresteia

The Path from Aulis: A Study of Aeschylus’ Oresteia...
Author: Professor Richard Jenkyns ISBN: 9781350534483 Format: Hardback	$170.00
A thought-provoking new assessment of this important Greek dramatic text by a major scholar. Read More >>

Linguistic Representations of Women in Old English Prose: A Corpus-Based Phraseological Study

Linguistic Representations of Women in Old English Prose:...
Author: Anna Cichosz (University of Lodz) , Tomasz Dobrogoszcz (University of Lodz) ISBN: 9781009625807 Format: Hardback	$142.31
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Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity

Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity
Author: Isabelle Torrance (Assistant Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark) ISBN: 9781350430426 Format: Hardback	$180.00
This intersectional study demonstrates for the first time how the lens of Graeco-Roman antiquity has informed Irish... Read More >>

Exemplarity and Allusion in Macrobius' Saturnalia

Exemplarity and Allusion in Macrobius' Saturnalia
Author: Katherine Krauss (Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Kalamazoo College) ISBN: 9780198926672 Format: Hardback	$234.95
This volume offers a new reading of Macrobius' place in late antique literary history with an exploration of the... Read More >>

Greek New Comedy Beyond Menander

Greek New Comedy Beyond Menander
Author: Virginia Mastellari ISBN: 9783119144285 Format: Hardback	$92.92
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The Spirit of Aristophanes

The Spirit of Aristophanes
Author: Mary C English (Professor of Classics and General Humanities, Montclair State University_x000D_) , Dustin W Dixon (Assistant Professor of Classics, Grinnell College) ISBN: 9781399511988 Format: Paperback	$44.99
Explores Aristophanic comedy and traces key features through Greek and Latin literature Read More >>

Causeries sur les origines et sur le moyen âge littéraires de la France: Analyse historique et linguistique des fondations celtiques, romaines et chrétiennes du génie français, de l'Antiquité au XIIe siècle

Causeries sur les origines et sur le moyen âge littéraires...
Author: L Garreaud ISBN: 9791043128318 Format: Paperback	$102.96
Cet ouvrage, présenté sous la forme de Causeries, propose une lecture historique et critique des conditions de formation... Read More >>

A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 BC: Volume 1, The Theatre Festivals of Athens: Documents with Translation and Commentary

A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300...
Author: Eric Csapo (University of Warwick) , Peter Wilson (University of Sydney) ISBN: 9780521765527 Format: Hardback	$439.87
The first fully comprehensive historical study of the festivals of Dionysus in the city of Athens that hosted performances... Read More >>

Catullus: Selected Poems

Catullus: Selected Poems
Author: Gaius Valerius Catullus , Stephen Mitchell ISBN: 9780300285475 Format: Paperback	$26.95
A vivid and musical rendering of the poetry of Catullus, whose passionate verses have captivated readers for centuries... Read More >>

Fashioning Sixth-Century Constantinople: Text, Translation and Commentary of Book I of the Buildings by Prokopios of Kaisareia

Fashioning Sixth-Century Constantinople: Text, Translation...
Author: Max Ritter , Elodie Turquois ISBN: 9781032407067 Format: Hardback	$401.06
Fashioning Sixth-Century Constantinople presents an all-new English translation of Book I paired with a revised... Read More >>

Jacopo Passavanti: The Mirror of True Penitence

Jacopo Passavanti: The Mirror of True Penitence
Author: Michael Sherberg ISBN: 9781487563134 Format: Hardback	$170.00
Jacopo Passavanti is a complete English translation of Jacopo Passavanti's summa on penitence that explores sin,... Read More >>

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