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  • Beowulf Unlocked

    New Evidence from Lexomic Analysis

    by Allison Dennett, Yvette Kisor, Michael D.C. Drout, Leah Smith, Natasha Piirainen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The most original and ground-breaking work on Beowulf in several decades, this book uses “lexomic” methods that blend computer-assisted statistical analysis with traditional approaches to reveal new and surprising information about the construction and sources of the greatest surviving Old English poem. Techniques of cluster analysis identify patterns of vocabulary distribution that indicate ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

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  • Sir Gawain and The Green Knight

    Edited by Helen Cooper ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'The finest translation in and for our time' (Kevin Crossley-Holland) Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, with its intricate plot of enchantment and betrayal is probably the most skilfully told story in the whole of the English Arthurian cycle. Originating from the north-west midlands of England, it is based on two separate and very ancient Celtic motifs of the Beheading and the Exchange of Winnings, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Icelandic Stories

    by Penguin Books Ltd ...
    Written around the thirteenth century AD by Icelandic monks, the seven tales collected here offer a combination of pagan elements tightly woven into the pattern of Christian ethics. They take as their subjects figures who are heroic, but do not fit into the mould of traditional heroes. Some stories concern characters in Iceland - among them Hrafknel's Saga, in which a poor man's son is murdered by ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Gisli Sursson's Saga and the Saga of the People of Eyri

    by Penguin Books Ltd ...
    These sagas recount fierce feuds in which honour is fought for, sacrifice is demanded, and blood is shed. The fate of the characters at the centre of each saga, however, is very different. Gisli is a traditional Viking-age hero who is determined to exact revenge at any cost and whose death is tragic when it comes. In contrast his nephew, Snorri, represents a new generation and acts to strengthen ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Greek Religion: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Angelos Chaniotis ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks

    Studies in Aristotle and Classical Literature

    by David Konstan ...
    It is generally assumed that whatever else has changed about the human condition since the dawn of civilization, basic human emotions - love, fear, anger, envy, shame - have remained constant. David Konstan, however, argues that the emotions of the ancient Greeks were in some significant respects different from our own, and that recognizing these differences is important to understanding ancient ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

  • A Linguistic History of Ancient Cyprus

    The Non-Greek Languages, and their Relations with Greek, c.1600–300 BC

    by Philippa M. Steele ...
    Series series Cambridge Classical Studies
    This pioneering volume approaches the languages and scripts of ancient Cyprus from an interdisciplinary point of view, with a primarily linguistic and epigraphic approach supplemented by a consideration of their historical and cultural context. The focus is on furthering our knowledge of the non-Greek languages/scripts, as well as appreciating their place in relation to the much better understood ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • Homer

    The Resonance of Epic

    by Barbara Graziosi, Johannes Haubold ...
    Series series Classical Literature and Society
    This book offers a new approach to the study of Homeric epic by combining ancient Greek perceptions of Homer with up-to-date scholarship on traditional poetry. Part I argues that, in the archaic period, the Greeks saw the lliad and Odyssey neither as literary works in the modern sense nor as the products of oral poetry. Instead, they regarded them as belonging to a much wider history of the divine ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • The Challenge of Periodization

    Old Paradigms and New Perspectives

    Edited by Lawrence Besserman ...
    Series series Garland Reference Library of the Humanities
    In these essays some of today's leading literary scholars and cultural critics re-examine major writers, genres, and themes in relation to their traditional period affiliations. The essays cover a broad range of writers and periods from the Middle Ages to the present, grouped in two main areas: Chaucer and Medieval and Renaissance studies (Larry D. Benson, Heiko A. Oberman, Lee Patterson, and Aldo ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Lucretius: De Rerum NaturaBook III

    by Lucretius ...
    Series series Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
    The third book of Lucretius' great poem on the workings of the universe is devoted entirely to expounding the implications of Epicurus' dictum that death does not matter, 'is nothing to us'. The soul is not immortal: it no more exists after the dissolution of the body than it had done before its birth. Only if this fact is accepted can men rid themselves of irrational fears and achieve the state ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity

    by Paul Christesen, Donald G. Kyle ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
    A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity presents a series of essays that apply a socio-historical perspective to myriad aspects of ancient sport and spectacle.Covers the Bronze Age to the Byzantine EmpireIncludes contributions from a range of international scholars with various Classical antiquity specialtiesGoes beyond the usual concentrations on Olympia and Rome to ... Read more

    $191.00 USD

  • Literature - A Friend in the Library

    Volume XI - A Practical Guide to the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes

    by Eva March Tappan ...
    Series Book 11 - A Friend in the Library
    This is volume eleven of Eva March Tappan's “A Friend in the Library” series, being a comprehensive guide to the writings of six seminal American poets including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. This volume deals specifically with the concept of literature, exploring its etymology and ... Read more

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