Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Feeling Like Lovers: Affect in Medieval Sufism

Feeling Like Lovers: Affect in Medieval Sufism
Author: Matthew Thomas Miller ISBN: 9780520426344 Format: Paperback	$57.95
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing... Read More >>

Mythica: A New History of Homer’s World, Through the Women Written Out of It

Mythica: A New History of Homer’s World, Through the...
Author: Emily Hauser ISBN: 9781804992791 Format: Paperback	$29.99
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A Narratological Commentary on Herodotus' Histories

A Narratological Commentary on Herodotus' Histories...
Author: Irene J. F. de Jong (Universiteit van Amsterdam) ISBN: 9781108470988 Format: Hardback	$388.12
This commentary offers a close reading of one of the most famous ancient texts, Herodotus' Histories. It focuses... Read More >>

Epicurus’ Human Beings: Beyond Person and Self

Epicurus’ Human Beings: Beyond Person and Self
Author: Solmeng-Jonas Hirschi (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Philosophy, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna) ISBN: 9780192874962 Format: Hardback	$246.95
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Commentary on Plotinus

Commentary on Plotinus
Author: Marsilio Ficino , Stephen Gersh ISBN: 9780674303218 Format: Hardback	$61.95
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Aristotle and Black Drama: A Theater of Civil Disobedience

Aristotle and Black Drama: A Theater of Civil Disobedience...
Author: Patrice D. Rankine ISBN: 9781602584532 Format: Paperback	$104.00
Modern parallels to Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil disobedience can be found in black theater, where the black body... Read More >>

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
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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
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Barbarians as the Religious Other in the Late Roman World

Barbarians as the Religious Other in the Late Roman...
Author: Maijastina Kahlos (Senior Research Fellow, University of Helsinki) ISBN: 9781399514446 Format: Hardback	$219.00
In a world of religious rivalries and state collapse, how did the looming spectre of the barbarian show what it... 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 >>

Euripides and Quotation Culture

Euripides and Quotation Culture
Author: Dr Matthew Wright (University of Exeter, UK) , David Taylor ISBN: 9781350441217 Format: Paperback	$59.99
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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
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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
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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 >>

Renaut de Bâgé, 'Le Bel Inconnu': ('Li Biaus Descouneüs'; 'The Fair Unknown')

Renaut de Bâgé, 'Le Bel Inconnu': ('Li Biaus Descouneüs';...
Author: Karen L Fresco ISBN: 9780367529307 Format: Paperback	$87.95
Originally published in 1992, Le Bel Inconnu edited and with an introduction by Karen Fresco, presents on facing... 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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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 >>

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
By demonstrating the importance of horrific motifs in Greek and Roman epic, this book challenges existing conceptions... Read More >>

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