Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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“Paradise Lost: A Poem Written in Ten Books”: An Authoritative Text of the 1667 First Edition

“Paradise Lost: A Poem Written in Ten Books”: An Authoritative...

Author: John T. Shawcross ,  Michael Lieb
ISBN: 9780271095455
Format: Paperback
$86.99

This authoritative text of the first edition of John Milton’s Paradise Lost transcribes the original 10-book poem,...  Read More >>

Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic: Volume 6

Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic: Volume 6

Author: Jonathan Ready ,  Christos Tsagalis
ISBN: 9789004547117
Format: Hardback
$393.36

This sixth volume of the Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic comprises five articles, each of which explores issues of...  Read More >>

Theocritus: Space, Absence, and Desire

Theocritus: Space, Absence, and Desire

Author: William G. Thalmann (Professor Emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature, Professor Emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature, University of Southern California)
ISBN: 9780197636558
Format: Hardback
$190.95

Theocritus: Space, Absence, and Desire discusses many of Theocritus's Idylls with emphasis on how these poems construct...  Read More >>

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism: Criticism of the Works of World Authors from Classical Antiquity Through the Fourteenth Century, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism: Criticism...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9780028672205
Format: Hardback
$1356.96

Classical and Medieval Literature CriticismM assembles and contextualizes critical responses to the works of writers...  Read More >>

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism: Criticism of the Works of World Authors from Classical Antiquity Through the Fourteenth Century, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism: Criticism...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9780028672212
Format: Hardback
$1356.96

Classical and Medieval Literature CriticismM assembles and contextualizes critical responses to the works of writers...  Read More >>

Ovid, Death and Transfiguration

Ovid, Death and Transfiguration

Author: Joseph Farrell ,  John F. Miller
ISBN: 9789004528819
Format: Hardback
$432.96

These essays explore death as a Leitmotiv of Ovid’s career, revealing a unity in diversity that is typical of this...  Read More >>

The Wounded Body: Memory, Language and the Self from Petrarch to Shakespeare

The Wounded Body: Memory, Language and the Self from...

Author: Fabrizio Bondi ,  Massimo Stella
ISBN: 9783030919061
Format: Paperback
$336.35

This edited collection explores the image of the wound as a ‘cultural symptom’ and a literary-visual trope at the...  Read More >>

Beowulf in Comic Books and Graphic Novels

Beowulf in Comic Books and Graphic Novels

Author: Richard Scott Nokes
ISBN: 9781476687780
Format: Paperback
$84.70

Modern comic book and graphic novel artists have created visual interpretations of Beowulf for decades, both illustrating...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides

The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides

Author: Polly Low (University of Durham)
ISBN: 9781107514607
Format: Paperback
$77.60

A wide-ranging and accessible introduction to one of the earliest and most influential works in the western historical...  Read More >>

Ethos, Logos, and Perspective: Studies in Late Byzantine Rhetoric

Ethos, Logos, and Perspective: Studies in Late Byzantine...

Author: Florin Leonte
ISBN: 9781032343365
Format: Hardback
$263.00

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Dissimulatio Artis

Dissimulatio Artis

Author: Thomas Schmeller
ISBN: 9783451398018
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Bei Paulus findet sich eine programmatische Ablehnung der Rhetorik, die Teil einer dissimulatio artis (Verheimlichung...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides

The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides

Author: Polly Low (University of Durham)
ISBN: 9781107107052
Format: Hardback
$232.88

A wide-ranging and accessible introduction to one of the earliest and most influential works in the western historical...  Read More >>

Transtextuelle Technik in den Aristophanischen Komodien

Transtextuelle Technik in den Aristophanischen Komodien...

Author: Claudia Michel
ISBN: 9783949189692
Format: Hardback
$248.37

The old Attic comedy of Aristophanes reflects the political, social and cultural life in Athens of the 5th century...  Read More >>

Gregory of Nyssa: On the Human Image of God

Gregory of Nyssa: On the Human Image of God

Author: John Behr (, UNITED KINGDOM)
ISBN: 9780192843975
Format: Hardback
$392.95

This book presents the first modern critical edition of the work of Gregory of Nyssa, On the Human Image of God...  Read More >>

Studies in Medievalism XXXII: Medievalism in Play

Studies in Medievalism XXXII: Medievalism in Play

Author: Karl Fugelso (Author) ,  Dr Michel Aaij
ISBN: 9781843846482
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Though manifestations of play represent a burgeoning subject area in the study of post-medieval responses to the...  Read More >>

Old English Scholarship in the Seventeenth Century: Medievalism and National Crisis

Old English Scholarship in the Seventeenth Century:...

Author: Rebecca Brackmann (Author)
ISBN: 9781843846529
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Old English scholars of the mid-seventeenth century lived through some of the most turbulent times in English history,...  Read More >>

Intervisuality: New Approaches to Greek Literature

Intervisuality: New Approaches to Greek Literature

Author: Andrea Capra ,  Lucia Floridi
ISBN: 9783110795240
Format: Hardback
$214.41

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A Companion to Anticlassicisms in the Cinquecento

A Companion to Anticlassicisms in the Cinquecento

Author: Marc Föcking ,  Susanne A. Friede
ISBN: 9783110783339
Format: Hardback
$197.25

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Greek Comedy and Embodied Scholarly Discourse

Greek Comedy and Embodied Scholarly Discourse

Author: Anna Novokhatko
ISBN: 9783111080932
Format: Hardback
$171.51

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A Judeo-Arabic Parody of the Life of Jesus: The Toledot Yeshu Helene Narrative

A Judeo-Arabic Parody of the Life of Jesus: The Toledot...

Author: Miriam Goldstein
ISBN: 9783161618864
Format: Hardback
$313.09

Miriam Goldstein demonstrates that Toledot Yeshu , the notorious parody of the life of Jesus, was popular and long-lived...  Read More >>

Sextus Empiricus’ Neo-Pyrrhonism: Skepticism as a Rationally Ordered Experience

Sextus Empiricus’ Neo-Pyrrhonism: Skepticism as a Rationally...

Author: Plínio Junqueira Smith
ISBN: 9783030945206
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book offers a comprehensive interpretation of Sextus Empiricus based on his own view of what he calls the distinctive...  Read More >>

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