Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

The ancient Romans quite literally surrounded themselves with the dead: masks of the dead were in the atria of their...  Read More >>

Ovid's Heroides, a collection consisting mainly of poetic love letters sent by mythological heroines to their absent...  Read More >>

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One Day University presents a series of audio lectures recorded in real-time from some of the top minds in the United...  Read More >>

One Day University presents a series of audio lectures recorded in real-time from some of the top minds in the United...  Read More >>

One Day University presents a series of audio lectures recorded in real-time from some of the top minds in the United...  Read More >>

'All men must die': or 'Valar Morghulis', as the traditional Essos greeting is rendered into High Valyrian. And...  Read More >>

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Conventional approaches to the Synoptic gospels argue that the gospel authors acted as literate spokespersons for...  Read More >>

Examining Aelia Eudocia’s writings as a unified whole and in context, Brian P. Sowers reveals an exceptional author...  Read More >>

Der mehrsprachige Sammelband befasst sich mit Fragmenten der griechischen Literatur und deren Kontexten.  Read More >>

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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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Based on a major exhibition at Two Temple Place in London, A British Book Collector celebrates one of the finest...  Read More >>

The second volume of this two-volume edition brings together leading scholars to offer the first full-scale literary...  Read More >>

Archaic Greeks honored gods by offering dedications, often inscribed with epigrams. This book reconstructs ancient...  Read More >>

The first of this two-volume edition brings together leading scholars to offer the first full-scale literary history...  Read More >>

John Damon explores how medieval English writers followed Christian writers in the changing classical world who...  Read More >>

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This book focuses on a comparative reading of tragedy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to postcolonial examples...  Read More >>

Als aus dem Griechischen übersetzter Lehrdialog ist der lateinische Asclepius ein wichtiger Textzeuge des Hermetismus,...  Read More >>

Challenges the rigid distinction between the religious and literary in medieval Japan  Read More >>

Feeling History is a study of apostrophe (i.e., the rhetorical device in which the narrator talks directly to his...  Read More >>