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  • Virgil's Ascanius

    Imagining the Future in the Aeneid

    by Anne Rogerson ...
    Series series Cambridge Classical Studies
    Ascanius is the most prominent child hero in Virgil's Aeneid. He accompanies his father from Troy to Italy and is present from the first book of the epic to the last; he is destined to found the city of Alba Longa and the Julian family to which Caesar and Augustus both belonged; and he hunts, fights, makes speeches, and even makes a joke. In this first book-length study of Virgil's Ascanius, Anne ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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  • A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

    by Bartolome Las Casas ...
    Bartolomé de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on one of Columbus's voyages, Las Casas was so horrified by the wholesale massacre he witnessed that he dedicated his life to protecting the Indian community. He wrote A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies in 1542, a shocking catalogue of mass ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Greek Tragedies III

    Aeschylus: The Eumenides; Sophocles: Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus; Euripides: The Bacchae, Alcestis

    by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides ...
    Series series The Complete Greek Tragedies
    This anthology collects some of the most important plays by Ancient Greek tragedians, in updated translations with new introductions.Greek Tragedies, Volume III presents some of the finest and most fundamental works of Western dramatic literature. It draws together plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides from Chicago's acclaimed nine-volume series, Complete Greek Tragedies. This third edition ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Complete Fables

    by Aesop ...
    Translated by Robert Temple, Olivia Temple ...
    Aesop was probably a prisoner of war, sold into slavery in the early sixth century BC, who represented his masters in court and negotiations, and relied on animal stories to put across his key points. All these fables, full of humour, insight and savage wit, as well as many fascinating glimpses of ordinary life, have now been brought together for the first time in this definitive and fully ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Classical Literary Criticism

    The works collected in this volume have profoundly shaped the history of criticism in the Western world: they created much of the terminology still in use today and formulated enduring questions about the nature and function of literature. In Ion, Plato examines the god-like power of poets to evoke feelings such as pleasure or fear, yet he went on to attack this manipulation of emotions and ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Piers Plowman

    The A Version

    Edited by Míċeál F. Vaughan ...
    The fourteenth-century Piers Plowman is one of the most influential poems from the Age of Chaucer. Following the character Will on his quest for the true Christian life, the three dream narratives that make up this work address a number of pressing political, social, moral, and educational issues of the late Middle Ages. Míċeál F. Vaughan presents a fresh edition of the A version, an earlier and ... Read more

    $21.29 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire

    Edited by Kirk Freudenburg ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Satire as a distinct genre of writing was first developed by the Romans in the second century BCE. Regarded by them as uniquely 'their own', satire held a special place in the Roman imagination as the one genre that could address the problems of city life from the perspective of a 'real Roman'. In this Cambridge Companion an international team of scholars provides a stimulating introduction to ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Plato: Meno and Phaedo

    Edited by David Sedley ...
    Series series Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
    Plato's Meno and Phaedo are two of the most important works of ancient western philosophy and continue to be studied around the world. The Meno is a seminal work of epistemology. The Phaedo is a key source for Platonic metaphysics and for Plato's conception of the human soul. Together they illustrate the birth of Platonic philosophy from Plato's reflections on Socrates' life and doctrines. This ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons

    by Liu Hsieh, Vincent Yu-chung Shih ...
    Translated by Vincent Yu-chung Shih ...
    The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons is the first comprehensive work of literary criticism in Chinese, and one that has been considered essential reading for writers and scholars since it was written some 1,500 years ago. A vast compendium of all that was known about Chinese literature at the time, it is simultaneously a taxonomy and history of genres and styles and a manual for good ... Read more

    $11.99 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 Art of War by Sun Tzu (Book Analysis)

    Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

    by Bright Summaries ...
    Series series BrightSummaries.com
    Unlock the more straightforward side of The Art of War with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Art of War by Sun Tzu, a centuries-old and still vastly influential treatise on military strategy, which undoubtedly remains applicable to modern warfare, psychology and business strategy. Although its first translation into a European ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus, Part 2, Proclus on the World Soul

    by Proclus, Dirk Baltzly ...
    Series Book 2 - Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus
    In the present volume Proclus describes the 'creation' of the soul that animates the entire universe. This is not a literal creation, for Proclus argues that Plato means only to convey the eternal dependence of the World Soul upon higher causes. In his exegesis of Plato's text, Proclus addresses a range of issues in Pythagorean harmonic theory, as well as questions about the way in which the World ... Read more

    $39.39 USD