Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

31228 books were found.

Shadows of the Enlightenment: Tragic Drama during Europe's Age of Reason

Shadows of the Enlightenment: Tragic Drama during Europe's...

Author: Blair Hoxby
ISBN: 9780814215005
Format: Hardback
$263.87

A broad exploration of the collision and coexistence of classical and modernizing forces within tragic drama during...  Read More >>

Enuma Elish

Enuma Elish

Author: Ken Goudsward
ISBN: 9781989940396
Format: Paperback
$36.93

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Tony Harrison and the Classics

Tony Harrison and the Classics

Author: Sandie Byrne (Associate Professor in English, Associate Professor in English, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198861072
Format: Hardback
$265.22

This volume presents fifteen chapters focusing on different aspects of the work of Tony Harrison, showing how his...  Read More >>

Empedocle. Sur Le Chemin Des Dieux

Empedocle. Sur Le Chemin Des Dieux

Author: Jean-Claude Picot
ISBN: 9782251452579
Format: Paperback
$234.96

Bien des ouvrages sont consacres a Empedocle d'Agrigente, poete et philosophe qui vecut dans la Sicile grecque du...  Read More >>

The Romance of the Rose and the Making of Fourteenth-Century English Literature

The Romance of the Rose and the Making of Fourteenth-Century...

Author: Philip Knox (University Lecturer in Medieval English, University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780192847171
Format: Hardback
$238.05

Provides a new account of the literary history of fourteenth-century England, arguing that many of this period's...  Read More >>

Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book VI

Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book VI

Author: Christopher Pelling (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781316630211
Format: Paperback
$69.86

Up-to-date edition of the former of the two dramatic books of Thucydides' Peloponnesian War to deal with the Sicilian...  Read More >>

Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book VII

Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book VII

Author: Christopher Pelling (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781316630228
Format: Paperback
$64.69

Up-to-date edition of the latter of the two dramatic books of Thucydides' Peloponnesian War to deal with the Sicilian...  Read More >>

Music and Liturgy in Medieval Britain and Ireland

Music and Liturgy in Medieval Britain and Ireland

Author: Ann Buckley (Trinity College Dublin) ,  Lisa Colton (University of Huddersfield)
ISBN: 9781108493222
Format: Hardback
$201.83

The book is for scholars and students from across the humanities who wish to understand the varieties of liturgical...  Read More >>

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 111

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 111

Author: Richard F. Thomas ,  Kathleen M. Coleman
ISBN: 9780674268999
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology Volume 111 includes Jessica H. Clark, “Adfirmare and Appeals to Authority...  Read More >>

David Jones and Rome: Reimagining the Decline of Western Civilisation

David Jones and Rome: Reimagining the Decline of Western...

Author: Jasmine Hunter Evans (Staff Tutor in Classical Studies, Staff Tutor in Classical Studies, The Open University)
ISBN: 9780198868194
Format: Hardback
$316.97

This volume examines the reception of ancient Rome in the work of David Jones (1895-1974). Hunter Evans demonstrates...  Read More >>

Greek Dialogue in Antiquity: Post-Platonic Transformations

Greek Dialogue in Antiquity: Post-Platonic Transformations...

Author: Katarzyna Jażdżewska (Associate Professor / AIAS-COFUND Fellow, Associate Professor / AIAS-COFUND Fellow, Aarhus University)
ISBN: 9780192893352
Format: Hardback
$265.22

This book examines the Greek genre of dialogue in the period after the death of Plato, between the mid-fourth century...  Read More >>

Revue de Philologie, de Litterature Et d'Histoire Anciennes Volume 94-1: Fascicule 1

Revue de Philologie, de Litterature Et d'Histoire Anciennes...

Author: Philippe Hoffmann ,  Philippe Moreau
ISBN: 9782252045503
Format: Paperback
$306.24

Sebastien Barbara. - Les phalanges de Socrate (X., Mem., I, 3, 11-13) Xenophon (Mem., I, 3, 11-13) attribue a Socrate...  Read More >>

In Search of the Culprit: Aspects of Medieval Authorship

In Search of the Culprit: Aspects of Medieval Authorship...

Author: Lukas Rösli ,  Stefanie Gropper
ISBN: 9783110692679
Format: Hardback
$213.81

Die Reihe Andere Ästhetik - Studien (AÄS) umfasst Sammelbände und Monographien, die sich vor allem in fachdisziplinärer...  Read More >>

Die Papyri Herkulaneums im Digitalen Zeitalter: Neue Texte durch neue Techniken – eine Kurzeinführung

Die Papyri Herkulaneums im Digitalen Zeitalter: Neue...

Author: Kilian Fleischer
ISBN: 9783110766233
Format: Paperback
$77.13

The Herculaneum Papyri comprise the only surviving library of antiquity. In recent years, innovative technologies...  Read More >>

Medieval Texts and Images: Studies of Manuscripts from the Middle Ages

Medieval Texts and Images: Studies of Manuscripts from...

Author: Margaret M. Manion ,  Bernard J. Muir
ISBN: 9780367187446
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Originally published in 1991, Medieval Texts and Images is a collection of essays looking critically at textual...  Read More >>

Aristophanic Humour: Theory and Practice

Aristophanic Humour: Theory and Practice

Author: Peter Swallow (King’s College London, UK) ,  Edith Hall (University of Durham, UK)
ISBN: 9781350194854
Format: Paperback
$61.99

""First published in Great Britain 2020""--Title page verso.  Read More >>

Illuminating Metalwork: Metal, Object, and Image in Medieval Manuscripts

Illuminating Metalwork: Metal, Object, and Image in...

Author: Joseph Salvatore Ackley ,  Shannon L. Wearing
ISBN: 9783110620153
Format: Hardback
$210.00

The sumptuous presence of gold and silver is by definition the characteristic that makes a manuscript ""illuminated""....  Read More >>

Biblical Text and Exegetical Culture: Collected Essays

Biblical Text and Exegetical Culture: Collected Essays...

Author: Michael Fishbane
ISBN: 9783161520495
Format: Hardback
$452.55

In this wide-ranging collection, Michael Fishbane investigates the complex and diverse relationships between the...  Read More >>

The Many Faces of King Gesar: Tibetan and Central Asian Studies in Homage to Rolf A. Stein

The Many Faces of King Gesar: Tibetan and Central Asian...

Author: Matthew T. Kapstein ,  Charles Ramble
ISBN: 9789004471658
Format: Hardback
$382.80

The Tibetan Gesar epic has known countless retellings, translations, and academic studies. The Many Faces of Ling...  Read More >>

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