Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Dante's ""Vita Nova"": A Collaborative Reading

Dante's ""Vita Nova"": A Collaborative Reading

Author: Zygmunt G. Baranski ,  Heather Webb
ISBN: 9780268207397
Format: Hardback
$396.00

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The Retrospective Muse: Pathways through Ancient Greek Literature and Culture

The Retrospective Muse: Pathways through Ancient Greek...

Author: Froma I. Zeitlin ,  Simon Goldhill
ISBN: 9781501772962
Format: Hardback
$150.35

""A collection of the author's previously published essays, inquiries into gender, cult, the city, erotics, and...  Read More >>

Machiavelli on War

Machiavelli on War

Author: Christopher Lynch
ISBN: 9781501773020
Format: Hardback
$131.87

""An interpretation of war and foreign affairs in Machiavelli's writings""--  Read More >>

Strange Instances of Time and Space in the Odyssey

Strange Instances of Time and Space in the Odyssey

Author: Menelaos Christopoulos
ISBN: 9781666920390
Format: Hardback
$156.00

Menelaos Christopoulos offers a detailed, original, and thought-provoking analysis of the major thematic questions...  Read More >>

Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres: Towards New Ways of Looking and Looking Back

Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres:...

Author: Marchella Ward (The Open University, Milton Keynes)
ISBN: 9781009372770
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Debunks stereotypes about blindness, in which readers, receivers and spectators from antiquity to the present have...  Read More >>

Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century

Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth...

Author: Thomas Matthew Vozar (Excellence Strategy Postdoctoral Fellow, Excellence Strategy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Hamburg)
ISBN: 9780198875949
Format: Hardback
$178.95

In this wide-ranging study in classical reception and the history of ideas, Thomas Matthew Vozar shows how Milton's...  Read More >>

The Lover's Confession: A Translation of John Gower's 'Confessio Amantis'

The Lover's Confession: A Translation of John Gower's...

Author: Brian Gastle ,  Catherine Carter
ISBN: 9781580446785
Format: Paperback
$126.59

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Confronting Identities in the Roman Empire: Assumptions about the Other in Literary Evidence

Confronting Identities in the Roman Empire: Assumptions...

Author: José Luís Brandão (University of Coimbra, Portugal) ,  Cláudia Teixeira (University of Évora, Portugal)
ISBN: 9781350353985
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Drawing together new research from emerging and senior scholars, this open-access volume presents an up-to-date...  Read More >>

Fragmenta Comica 25.2 Diphilos Frr. 59-85

Fragmenta Comica 25.2 Diphilos Frr. 59-85

Author: Ioanna Karamanou
ISBN: 9783911065009
Format: Hardback
$274.56

This volume forms the second part of the three-volume commentary on the fragments of Diphilus, who belongs to the...  Read More >>

Laughing at Domestica Facta: Identity Construction in Mid-Republican Rome Through the Lens of the Togata

Laughing at Domestica Facta: Identity Construction in...

Author: Giuseppe Eugenio Rallo
ISBN: 9783949189968
Format: Hardback
$242.88

In this monograph, the author embarks on a captivating journey to shed fresh light on the togata, a mid-Republican...  Read More >>

Jahrbuch Literatur Und Medizin: Band XIV: Words of Illness, Words of Healing in Graeco-Roman Antiquity

Jahrbuch Literatur Und Medizin: Band XIV: Words of Illness,...

Author: Vincenzo Damiani ,  Florian Steger
ISBN: 9783825395537
Format: Hardback
$108.24

The fourteenth volume of the 'Jahrbuch', edited by Vincenzo Damiani and Florian Steger, focuses on a historically...  Read More >>

Intercultural Explorations and the Court of Henry VIII

Intercultural Explorations and the Court of Henry VIII...

Author: Nadia T. van Pelt (Lecturer, Lecturer, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9780192863454
Format: Paperback
$40.95

In this new addition to the Oxford Textual Perspectives series, Nadia van Pelt takes the reader along to the dazzling...  Read More >>

Philosophical Orations, Volume II

Philosophical Orations, Volume II

Author: Maximus of Tyre ,  William H. Race
ISBN: 9780674997578
Format: Hardback
$51.95

Maximus of Tyre’s forty-one Philosophical Orations offer a Platonic elucidation of the philosophical life of virtue,...  Read More >>

Placita

Placita

Author: Aetius ,  Jaap Mansfeld
ISBN: 9780674997592
Format: Hardback
$51.95

Aëtius’ Placita (ca. AD 100) is a reconstructed compendium summarizing the principal doctrines and opinions of the...  Read More >>

Philosophical Orations, Volume I: Orations 1–21

Philosophical Orations, Volume I: Orations 1–21

Author: Maximus of Tyre ,  William H. Race
ISBN: 9780674997561
Format: Hardback
$51.95

Maximus of Tyre’s forty-one Philosophical Orations offer a Platonic elucidation of the philosophical life of virtue,...  Read More >>

Epic Ambition: Hercules and the Politics of Emulation in Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica

Epic Ambition: Hercules and the Politics of Emulation...

Author: Jessica Blum-Sorensen
ISBN: 9780299344603
Format: Hardback
$263.87

By the time the Roman poet Valerius Flaccus wrote in the first century CE, the tale of Jason and his famous ship...  Read More >>

Cavafy's Hellenistic Antiquities: History, Archaeology, Empire

Cavafy's Hellenistic Antiquities: History, Archaeology,...

Author: Takis Kayalis
ISBN: 9783031349010
Format: Hardback
$343.17

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Intercultural Explorations and the Court of Henry VIII

Intercultural Explorations and the Court of Henry VIII...

Author: Nadia T. van Pelt (Lecturer, Lecturer, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9780192863447
Format: Hardback
$149.95

In this new addition to the Oxford Textual Perspectives series, Nadia van Pelt takes the reader along to the dazzling...  Read More >>

Hippocrates, Volume II: Prognostic. Regimen in Acute Diseases. The Sacred Disease. The Art. Breaths. Law. Decorum. Dentition

Hippocrates, Volume II: Prognostic. Regimen in Acute...

Author: Hippocrates ,  Paul Potter
ISBN: 9780674997585
Format: Hardback
$51.95

Volume II of the Loeb Hippocrates presents eight works by or attributed to the “Father of Medicine” that illustrate...  Read More >>

Gewalt und virtuelle Raeume in mittelhochdeutscher Heldenepik: Rezeptionsaesthetische Untersuchungen

Gewalt und virtuelle Raeume in mittelhochdeutscher Heldenepik:...

Author: Thomas Bein ,  Tamara Elsner
ISBN: 9783631908655
Format: Hardback
$139.73

Mittelhochdeutsche Heldenepik erzählt häufig von körperlicher Gewalt. Über das Konzept des virtuellen Raumes wird...  Read More >>

Le Cheval Volant En Bois: Edition Des Deux Mises En Prose Du Cleomades d'Apres Le Manuscrit Paris, Bnf Fr. 12561 Et l'Imprime de Guillaume Leroy (Lyon, Ca. 1480)

Le Cheval Volant En Bois: Edition Des Deux Mises En...

Author: Fanny Maillet ,  Richard Trachsler
ISBN: 9782812436291
Format: Paperback
$39.60

Printed here are the two prose editions of Adenet le Roi's Cleomades that were published in the fifteenth century....  Read More >>

O Alienista

O Alienista

Author: Machado De Assis
ISBN: 9786554700061
Format: Paperback
$39.57

"O Alienista"" é um conto clássico escrito por Machado de Assis e publicado em 1882. A história satiriza a sociedade...  Read More >>

Os Contos de Belazarte

Os Contos de Belazarte

Author: Mário de Andrade
ISBN: 9786554700177
Format: Paperback
$39.57

"""Os Contos de Belazarte"" é uma coletânea de contos escrita por Mário de Andrade, um dos grandes nomes do modernismo...  Read More >>

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