Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Alan of Lille and Dante: Divine Predication from the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Century

Alan of Lille and Dante: Divine Predication from the...

Author: Gabriella Addivinola
ISBN: 9781839542206
Format: Hardback
$343.20

Divine predication is a central concern of two key authors of Western medieval culture: the theologian and poet...  Read More >>

Walking the Porch: A Stoic's Guide for the Curious Traveler

Walking the Porch: A Stoic's Guide for the Curious Traveler...

Author: William J Striker
ISBN: 9798999519214
Format: Paperback
$26.37

Walking the Porch: A Stoic's Guide for the Curious Traveler is a concise, thematic field guide to Stoic philosophy....  Read More >>

Last Thoughts on Euripides: A Companion to the Revised Edition of the Second Volume of the Oxford Classical Text

Last Thoughts on Euripides: A Companion to the Revised...

Author: James Diggle
ISBN: 9780198932901
Format: Hardback
$308.95

Last Thoughts on Euripides is a companion to the second edition of volume II of the Oxford Classical Text edition...  Read More >>

Euripides: Fabulae Vol. II (Euripidis Fabulae Tomus II, Supplices, Electra, Hercules, Troades, Iphigenia in Tauris, Ion)

Euripides: Fabulae Vol. II (Euripidis Fabulae Tomus...

Author: James Diggle
ISBN: 9780198865612
Format: Hardback
$94.95

This is a second edition of the second volume of James Diggle's Oxford Classical Text of Euripides (1981). This...  Read More >>

Sulpicia: A Woman’s Voice from Ancient Rome

Sulpicia: A Woman’s Voice from Ancient Rome

Author: Giulio Celotto (University of Virginia) ,  Laurel Fulkerson (Florida State University)
ISBN: 9780198972662
Format: Hardback
$199.95

This volume aims to explore and highlight aspects of the work of Roman elegiac poet Sulpicia. Topics include Sulpicia's...  Read More >>

Homer in Performance: Rhapsodes, Narrators, and Characters

Homer in Performance: Rhapsodes, Narrators, and Characters...

Author: Jonathan L. Ready ,  Christos C. Tsagalis
ISBN: 9781477333617
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Taking a holistic approach to performances of the Iliad and the Odyssey, this multidisciplinary volume examines...  Read More >>

Entertaining Ambiguities: Sexuality, Humanism, and Ephemeral Performances in Fifteenth-Century Italy

Entertaining Ambiguities: Sexuality, Humanism, and Ephemeral...

Author: Ralph J. Hexter
ISBN: 9781512828542
Format: Hardback
$173.00

Entertaining Ambiguities explores the intersections of male-male sexual activities, subcultures, and coded language...  Read More >>

Greek and Latin Literature: A Comparative Study

Greek and Latin Literature: A Comparative Study

Author: John Higginbotham
ISBN: 9781032774046
Format: Paperback
$62.99

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The Roman Stage: A Short History of Latin Drama in the Time of the Republic

The Roman Stage: A Short History of Latin Drama in the...

Author: W. Beare
ISBN: 9781032772776
Format: Paperback
$62.99

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Atlas's Bones: The African Foundations of Europe

Atlas's Bones: The African Foundations of Europe

Author: D. Vance Smith
ISBN: 9780226830308
Format: Hardback
$61.95

A major new look at Africa's influence on European culture and how colonization remade Africa in the image of a...  Read More >>

Ancient Greek Oracular Texts: Form, Content, Context

Ancient Greek Oracular Texts: Form, Content, Context...

Author: Michael Lipka
ISBN: 9781032892269
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book offers a comprehensive and systematic – rather than historical – approach to ancient Greek oracular texts,...  Read More >>

Timaeus in Paradise: Metaphors and Beauty from Plato to Dante and Beyond

Timaeus in Paradise: Metaphors and Beauty from Plato...

Author: Piero Boitani
ISBN: 9780691276144
Format: Hardback
$79.99

Tracing the influence and impact of Plato's Timaeus-and its major themes, creation and beauty-through the centuries...  Read More >>

The Lost History of Roman Theatre

The Lost History of Roman Theatre

Author: T.P. Wiseman
ISBN: 9780691273235
Format: Hardback
$79.99

Investigating the origins of theatre in archaic Rome Theatre was an integral part of Roman civic, religious and...  Read More >>

After Transformation: Rewriting Time, Christian Late Antiquity, and the Present

After Transformation: Rewriting Time, Christian Late...

Author: Maia Kotrosits
ISBN: 9781478032762
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Modeling a new way of writing the past while experiencing ourselves more fully in time, Maia Kotrosits offers a...  Read More >>

After Transformation: Rewriting Time, Christian Late Antiquity, and the Present

After Transformation: Rewriting Time, Christian Late...

Author: Maia Kotrosits
ISBN: 9781478029328
Format: Hardback
$240.00

Modeling a new way of writing the past while experiencing ourselves more fully in time, Maia Kotrosits offers a...  Read More >>

Constructing the Human in the Hebrew Bible

Constructing the Human in the Hebrew Bible

Author: Tanner E. Walker
ISBN: 9781646023271
Format: Hardback
$249.00

""Examines how biblical texts construct boundaries between human and nonhuman entities. Using critical theories...  Read More >>

Beowulf in Prose & in Verse (Grand Type Collector's Edition) (Laminated Hardback with Jacket) Large Print: Kirtlan (Prose) & Hall (Verse)

Beowulf in Prose & in Verse (Grand Type Collector's...

Author: Anonymous ,  Ernest J B Kirtlan
ISBN: 9781834122076
Format: Hardback
$145.17

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Middle Assyrian Texts, Seals, and Seal Impressions

Middle Assyrian Texts, Seals, and Seal Impressions

Author: Jacob Jan de Ridder ,  Agnete W. Lassen
ISBN: 9780300272994
Format: Hardback
$217.95

The latest entry in the Yale Oriental Series presents descriptions, translations, and commentary for tablets and...  Read More >>

Osbern Bokenham, Lives of the Saints, Volume III

Osbern Bokenham, Lives of the Saints, Volume III

Author: Simon Horobin (Professor English Language and Literature, Professor English Language and Literature, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198934073
Format: Hardback
$138.95

This third volume completes the text of this hagiographic collection by the fifteenth-century writer Osbern Bokenham....  Read More >>

Encounters with the Plague in Homer, Sophocles, and Thucydides

Encounters with the Plague in Homer, Sophocles, and...

Author: Pantelis Michelakis (Associate Professor of Classical Reception and Fellow of St Hilda's College, Associate Professor of Classical Reception and Fellow of St Hilda's College, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198844105
Format: Hardback
$234.95

Encounters with the Plague in Homer, Sophocles, and Thucydides explores three of the earliest, and most influential,...  Read More >>

Looking at Hippolytus

Looking at Hippolytus

Author: David Stuttard (Independent Scholar, UK)
ISBN: 9781350429024
Format: Hardback
$170.00

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