Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Lexique Des Divinites Grecques Et Romaines

Lexique Des Divinites Grecques Et Romaines

Author: Michel Mathieu-Colas
ISBN: 9782251454986
Format: Paperback
$240.24

Des milliers de pages ne suffiraient pas a elaborer un Bottin divin, a recenser les personnages de cette ronde hallucinante...  Read More >>

Codici B.I.1-23

Codici B.I.1-23

Author: Paolo Eleuteri ,  Erika Elia
ISBN: 9783111321233
Format: Hardback
$232.29

The National University Library of Turin holds more than 300 Greek manuscripts (9th -16th century), most of them...  Read More >>

The Chobanids of Kastamonu: Politics, Patronage and Religion in Thirteenth-Century Anatolia

The Chobanids of Kastamonu: Politics, Patronage and...

Author: Bruno De Nicola
ISBN: 9781138494763
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Greek Novel: Between Representation and Resistance

Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Greek Novel: Between Representation...

Author: Robert Cioffi (Assistant Professor of Classics, Assistant Professor of Classics, Bard College)
ISBN: 9780192870537
Format: Hardback
$212.00

In this richly detailed study, Robert Cioffi explores the signficance of the Nile River Valley as the geographic...  Read More >>

Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up

Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking...

Author: Mary Beard ,  Jennifer M Dixon
ISBN: 9798874766306
Format: Audio
$121.31

"What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was...  Read More >>

Discourses on Dante

Discourses on Dante

Author: Charles H Grandgent ,  Charles H Grandgent
ISBN: 9780674281127
Format: Hardback
$102.96

"No detailed description available for ""Discourses on Dante""."  Read More >>

William Blake. La Divina Comedia de Dante. Los Dibujos Completos. 40th Ed.

William Blake. La Divina Comedia de Dante. Los Dibujos...

Author: Maria Antonietta Terzoli ,  Sebastian Sch�tze
ISBN: 9783836589123
Format: Hardback
$66.00

Discover William Blake's complete 102 illustrations for The Divine Comedy, with excerpts from Dante's epic poem....  Read More >>

Navigating Narratives: Tsurayuki’s Tosa Diary as History and Fiction

Navigating Narratives: Tsurayuki’s Tosa Diary as History...

Author: Gustav Heldt
ISBN: 9780674295827
Format: Hardback
$103.95

Drawing on both contemporaneous historical sources and modern literary criticism, Navigating Narratives offers unique...  Read More >>

Onomantic Divination in Late Medieval Britain: Questioning Life, Predicting Death

Onomantic Divination in Late Medieval Britain: Questioning...

Author: Joanne Edge (Person)
ISBN: 9781914049248
Format: Hardback
$194.06

Demonstrates the wide prevalence of supposedly impermissible divination techniques found in a wide range of manuscripts...  Read More >>

Ideas of Authorship in the English and Scottish Dream Vision: Skelton, Dunbar, Hawes, Douglas

Ideas of Authorship in the English and Scottish Dream...

Author: Dr Laurie Atkinson
ISBN: 9781843846925
Format: Hardback
$168.19

"An investigation of English and Scottish dream visions written on the cusp of the ""Renaissance"", teasing out...  Read More >>

Female Devotion and Textile Imagery in Medieval English Literature

Female Devotion and Textile Imagery in Medieval English...

Author: Dr Anna McKay
ISBN: 9781843847137
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Uncovers the female voices, lived experiences, and spiritual insights encoded by the imagery of textiles in the...  Read More >>

Form and Power in Medieval and Early Modern Literature: A Book for James Simpson

Form and Power in Medieval and Early Modern Literature:...

Author: Professor Daniel G. Donoghue (Customer) ,  Sebastian Sobecki
ISBN: 9781843847113
Format: Hardback
$232.88

New and exciting scholarship on medieval and early modern English culture in all its diversity.  Read More >>

The Old Testament in Medieval Icelandic Texts: Translation, Exegesis and Storytelling

The Old Testament in Medieval Icelandic Texts: Translation,...

Author: Professor Siân E. Grønlie
ISBN: 9781843847120
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Demonstrates the essential nature of biblical translation and adaptation to Old-Norse-Icelandic literature.  Read More >>

Mitteilungen Aus Der W�rzburger Papyrussammlung II (P.W�rzb. II)

Mitteilungen Aus Der W�rzburger Papyrussammlung II (P.W�rzb....

Author: Holger Essler
ISBN: 9783111384528
Format: Hardback
$319.41

This volume presents thirty-five papyri from the W�rzburg Papyrus Collection, spanning the Ptolemaic era to the...  Read More >>

Soundings in Context: Poetry's Embodiments

Soundings in Context: Poetry's Embodiments

Author: Judith Goldman ,  James Maynard
ISBN: 9781438497563
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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The Jerusalem Temple and the Temple Mount: Collected Essays

The Jerusalem Temple and the Temple Mount: Collected...

Author: Joseph Patrich
ISBN: 9783161632693
Format: Hardback
$462.00

The Temple eclipsed in its splendor and importance all other institutions of the Jews, both in the Land of Israel...  Read More >>

Soundings in Context: Poetry's Embodiments

Soundings in Context: Poetry's Embodiments

Author: Judith Goldman ,  James Maynard
ISBN: 9781438497556
Format: Hardback
$261.36

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The Athenian Funeral Oration: After Nicole Loraux

The Athenian Funeral Oration: After Nicole Loraux

Author: David M. Pritchard (University of Queensland) ,  Paul Cartledge (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781009413084
Format: Hardback
$297.56

A funeral speech was delivered almost every year in classical Athens. Forty years ago, Loraux showed how important...  Read More >>

Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature

Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature...

Author: George Alexander Gazis ,  Anthony Hooper (Lecturer, University of Wollongong (Australia))
ISBN: 9781802074802
Format: Paperback
$64.66

The concept of the afterlife has always been prominent in both Greek literature and modern scholarship alike. The...  Read More >>

The Poetics of Grief and Melancholy in East-West Conflicts and Reconciliations

The Poetics of Grief and Melancholy in East-West Conflicts...

Author: Chi Sum Garfield Lau ,  Kelly Kar Yue Chan
ISBN: 9789819998203
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This book is a collection of academic essays that examines the representation, esthetics and dichotomy of the notions...  Read More >>

A Noble Ruin: Mark Antony, Civil War, and the Collapse of the Roman Republic

A Noble Ruin: Mark Antony, Civil War, and the Collapse...

Author: W. Jeffrey Tatum (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
ISBN: 9780197694909
Format: Hardback
$64.95

The fullest biography of Mark Antony in English, A Noble Ruin provides a fresh account of Antony's personal life...  Read More >>

Old Norse Poetry in Performance

Old Norse Poetry in Performance

Author: Brian McMahon ,  Annemari Ferreira
ISBN: 9781032252315
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This book presents a range of approaches to the study of Old Norse poetry in performance. This book will be of great...  Read More >>

Fantasies of Music in Nostalgic Medievalism

Fantasies of Music in Nostalgic Medievalism

Author: Helen Dell
ISBN: 9781526173959
Format: Hardback
$195.00

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