Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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The treatise On Principles and Matter preserved in Syriac derives most probably from Porphyry of Tyre. This text...  Read More >>

The volume examines the features and functions of comic invective in ancient Greek and Roman oratory. Thereby the...  Read More >>

Do you believe in love at first sight? The Greeks and the Romans certainly did. But far from enjoying this romantic...  Read More >>

This New Companion brings together preeminent scholars from around the world: each chapter explores a single word...  Read More >>

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S. T. Joshi is acknowledged as a leading authority on supernatural fiction; he has also published books on atheism,...  Read More >>

The ME 'Mirror', a fourteenth-century prose translation of the thirteenth-century AN 'Miroir' by Robert de Gretham,...  Read More >>

A 21st century modernization of the classic Arthurian tale, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Also including illustrations,...  Read More >>

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

The Birth of the Author argues that the images devised to accompany medieval commentaries, whether on the Bible...  Read More >>

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Selected revised papers presented at a conference, Greeks and Romans on the Latin American stage, in June, 2014,...  Read More >>

This book is an accessible guide through the many twists and turns of Euripides’ Children of Heracles, providing...  Read More >>

How is the medieval world depicted today? Two German museums serve as case studies for a vibrant, imaginative, and...  Read More >>

In the early Islamic world, Arabic erotic compendia and sex manuals were a popular literary genre. Although primarily...  Read More >>

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

The Dictionary of Old High German aims to comprehensively trace and compile all of the extant vocabulary from this...  Read More >>

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This book examines Plato's most puzzling dialogue, Hippias Minor, in detail, treating Socrates' engagement with...  Read More >>

Facsimile of the prince edition of 1508, with historical introduction, critical transcription of the Latin text...  Read More >>

Der Fastenhymnus des Prudentius zeigt das Fasten als ein Mittel, mit dem Christen die heilsnotwendige Reinheit erreichen,...  Read More >>

by Dante Alighieri ^DFacsimile of the edition of the Divina Commedia published by Aldus Manutius in 1502.  Read More >>