Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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The Tears and Smiles of Things: Stories, Sketches, Meditations

The Tears and Smiles of Things: Stories, Sketches, Meditations...

Author: Andriy Sodomora ,  Roman Ivashkiv
ISBN: 9798887194387
Format: Paperback
$34.99

An evocative collection of vignettes and essays from Ukraine’s “voice” of classical antiquity, now available in...  Read More >>

The Tears and Smiles of Things: Stories, Sketches, Meditations

The Tears and Smiles of Things: Stories, Sketches, Meditations...

Author: Andriy Sodomora ,  Roman Ivashkiv
ISBN: 9798887194370
Format: Hardback
$270.00

An evocative collection of vignettes and essays from Ukraine’s “voice” of classical antiquity, now available in...  Read More >>

Derek Walcott's Encounter with Homer: Landscape, History, and Poetic Voice in Omeros

Derek Walcott's Encounter with Homer: Landscape, History,...

Author: Rachel D. Friedman (Professor of Greek and Roman Studies, Vassar College)
ISBN: 9780198802549
Format: Hardback
$230.95

Derek Walcott's Encounter with Homer puts Walcott's epic poem Omeros in conversation with Homer to show how reading...  Read More >>

Emotionale Sprache in Ciceros zweiter Philippika gegen Marc Anton: Einführung in die emotionslinguistische Textanalyse und Kommentar

Emotionale Sprache in Ciceros zweiter Philippika gegen...

Author: Ken Heuring
ISBN: 9783161613654
Format: Hardback
$298.32

In dieser Studie widmet sich Ken Heuring der zweiten Philippika Ciceros, einer leidenschaftlichen Schmährede gegen...  Read More >>

Frühchristliche Stoarezeption: Zur Rezeption einer philosophischen Schule in den apologetischen und antihäretischen Schriften des 2. und frühen 3. Jahrhunderts

Frühchristliche Stoarezeption: Zur Rezeption einer philosophischen...

Author: Charlotte Kirsch-Klingelhöffer
ISBN: 9783161633171
Format: Hardback
$393.36

"Die Auseinandersetzung mit und Rezeption von antiker Philosophie ist ein zentrales Anliegen frühchristlicher Theologie....  Read More >>

The Art of Greek Comedy

The Art of Greek Comedy

Author: Katherine Lever
ISBN: 9781032225807
Format: Paperback
$60.99

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Latin Elegiac Verse: A Theory of Very Free Word Order

Latin Elegiac Verse: A Theory of Very Free Word Order...

Author: A M Devine ,  Laurence D Stephens
ISBN: 9783111385914
Format: Hardback
$348.45

A striking feature of Latin elegiac verse is its very free word order. One gets the impression that the word order...  Read More >>

Off the Beaten Path: Ovidian Journeys in Valerius Flaccus' >Argonautica

Off the Beaten Path: Ovidian Journeys in Valerius Flaccus'...

Author: Raymond Marks
ISBN: 9783111403045
Format: Hardback
$319.41

In the Argonautica, Valerius Flaccus not only recounts a voyage, that of the Argonauts in their quest for the golden...  Read More >>

Ezra Pound and His Classical Sources: The Cantos and the Primal Matter of Troy

Ezra Pound and His Classical Sources: The Cantos and...

Author: Jonathan Ullyot ,  Matthew Feldman (University of York UK)
ISBN: 9781350260207
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This book uses Ezra Pound’s The Cantos as a lens to understand modernism’s ambition to revolutionize literature...  Read More >>

A Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages

A Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages...

Author: Dr Jonathan Hsy (George Washington University, USA) ,  Professor Tory V. Pearman (Miami University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350436756
Format: Paperback
$52.99

The Middle Ages was an era of dynamic social transformation, and notions of disability in medieval culture reflected...  Read More >>

Monstrosity, Bodies, and Knowledge in Early Modern England: Curiosity to See and Behold

Monstrosity, Bodies, and Knowledge in Early Modern England:...

Author: Whitney Dirks
ISBN: 9789462986671
Format: Hardback
$396.00

In 1680, the poor cottager Mary Herring gave birth to conjoined twins. At two weeks of age, they were kidnapped...  Read More >>

Truth Is Trickiest: The Case for Ambiguity in the Exeter Book Riddles

Truth Is Trickiest: The Case for Ambiguity in the Exeter...

Author: Jennifer Neville
ISBN: 9781487552527
Format: Hardback
$170.78

Truth Is Trickiest seeks to turn the study of Old English riddles away from reductive searches for single answers....  Read More >>

Digital Papyrology III: The digital critical edition of Greek papyri: issues, projects, and perspectives

Digital Papyrology III: The digital critical edition...

Author: Nicola Reggiani
ISBN: 9783111070131
Format: Hardback
$335.25

In the ever-growing and evolving field of Digital Papyrology – intending both the set of electronic tools for papyrological...  Read More >>

Handschrift - Texttypologie - Literaturgeschichte: Die Kleineren Mittelhochdeutschen Reimpaardichtungen Des 13. Jahrhunderts Und Der Wiener Stricker-Codex 2705

Handschrift - Texttypologie - Literaturgeschichte: Die...

Author: Franz-Josef Holznagel
ISBN: 9783110250701
Format: Hardback
$665.28

"Smaller Middle High German rhyming couplets (b�spel, speeches, verse narratives) represent significant innovations...  Read More >>

The Psalms

The Psalms

Author: Keith Bodner (Professor of Religious Studies, Professor of Religious Studies, Crandall University)
ISBN: 9780190916879
Format: Paperback
$43.95

Within the library of the world's classics, the book of Psalms occupies a unique place. Few books were composed...  Read More >>

The Psalms

The Psalms

Author: Keith Bodner (Professor of Religious Studies, Professor of Religious Studies, Crandall University)
ISBN: 9780190916862
Format: Hardback
$193.95

Within the library of the world's classics, the book of Psalms occupies a unique place. Few books were composed...  Read More >>

Wasps and Other Plays: A new verse translation, with introduction and notes

Wasps and Other Plays: A new verse translation, with...

Author: Aristophanes ,  Prof Stephen Halliwell (Emeritus Professor, Emeritus Professor, University of St Andrews)
ISBN: 9780198900221
Format: Paperback
$21.95

This is the third and final volume of a new verse translation of the complete plays of Aristophanes by Stephen Halliwell....  Read More >>

Style in Latin Poetry

Style in Latin Poetry

Author: Paolo Dainotti ,  Alexandre Pinheiro Hasegawa
ISBN: 9783111066141
Format: Hardback
$377.49

This volume assembles cutting-edge work on Latin poetic style from an international cast of scholars, both senior...  Read More >>

New Medieval Literatures 24

New Medieval Literatures 24

Author: Professor Wendy Scase ,  Laura Ashe
ISBN: 9781843846888
Format: Hardback
$168.19

This volume continues the series' engagement with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages, showcasing...  Read More >>

Portraying Authorship: Juan Manuel and the Rhetoric of Authority

Portraying Authorship: Juan Manuel and the Rhetoric...

Author: Anita Savo
ISBN: 9781487553234
Format: Hardback
$170.78

This book investigates how a noted fourteenth-century Castilian writer developed and disseminated a concept of individual...  Read More >>

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