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  • Polybius' Histories

    by Brian C. McGing ...
    Series series Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature
    Polybius' Histories is one of classical antiquity's great political narratives. Written in 40 books (of which only the first five are preserved in full), it originally set out to explain the dramatic rise of Rome in the half century from the war against Hannibal to the defeat and abolishment of the Macedonian kingdom in 167 BC. At a later stage, Polybius extended his coverage down to the Roman ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • The Hammer of Witches

    A Complete Translation of the Malleus Maleficarum

    by Christopher S. Mackay ...
    The Malleus Maleficarum, first published in 1486–7, is the standard medieval text on witchcraft and it remained in print throughout the early modern period. Its descriptions of the evil acts of witches and the ways to exterminate them continue to contribute to our knowledge of early modern law, religion and society. Mackay's highly acclaimed translation, based on his extensive research and ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Homeric Moments

    Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad

    by Eva Brann ...
    Fifty years of reading Homer—both alone and with students—prepared Eva Brann to bring theOdyssey and the Iliad back to life for today's readers. InHomeric Moments, she brilliantly conveys the unique delights of Homer's epics as she focuses on the crucial scenes, or moments, that mark the high points of the narratives: Penelope and Odysseus, faithful wife and returning husband, sit face to face at ... Read more

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  • Medieval Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Elaine Treharne ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This Very Short Introduction provides a compelling account of the emergence of the earliest literature in Britain and Ireland, including English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Norman. Introducing the reader to some of the greatest poetry, prose and drama ever written, Elaine Treharne discusses the historical and intellectual background to these works, and considers the physical ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Travelling Heroes

    by Robin Lane Fox ...
    The myths of the ancient Greeks have inspired us for thousands of years. Where did the famous stories of the battles of their gods develop and spread across the world? The celebrated classicist Robin Lane Fox draws on a lifetime’s knowledge of the ancient world, and on his own travels, answering this question by pursuing it through the age of Homer. His acclaimed history explores how the intrepid ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre

    Edited by Richard Beadle, Alan J. Fletcher ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The drama of the English Middle Ages is perennially popular with students and theatre audiences alike, and this is an updated edition of a book which has established itself as a standard guide to the field. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre, second edition continues to provide an authoritative introduction and an up-to-date, illustrated guide to the mystery cycles, morality drama ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Sex

    Vice and Love from Antiquity to Modernity

    by Alastair J. L. Blanshard ...
    Series series Classical Receptions
    Sex: Vice and Love from Antiquity to Modernity examines the impact that sexual fantasies about the classical world have had on modern Western culture.Offers a wealth of information on sex in the Greek and Roman worldCorrelates the study of classical sexuality with modern Western culturesIdentifies key influential themes in the evolution of erotic discourse from antiquity to modernityPresents a ... Read more

    $30.00 USD

  • Aristophanes: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by David Konstan ...
    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 Trojan War

    Literature and Legends from the Bronze Age to the Present, 2d ed.

    by Diane P. Thompson ...
    The Trojan War occurred more than 3,000 years ago. Since then, starting with Homer's epics, people have been writing, painting, sculpting and creating music about this event and its participants. This book starts with an overview of the Bronze Age when the Trojan War occurred, and then follows a selection of the major literature about this war from Homer down through the ages and on to the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Plato and the Stoics

    Edited by A. G. Long ...
    Plato was central both to the genesis of Stoic theory and to subsequent debates within the Stoa. These essays provide new and detailed explorations of the complex relationship between Plato and the Greek and Roman Stoic traditions, and together they show the directness and independence with which Stoics examined Plato's writing. What were the philosophical incentives to consulting and then ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Rime of the Modern Mariner: an American Odyssey

    by Stephen Kryska ...
    The philosophical tension between faith and reason is explored in this poetic fantasy. Is the Greater Good a worthy principle? Can a criminal be guiltless? Is Nietzsche not dead? Learn from the Mariner, a yachtsman who admits he is a “skeptic quizzing every cause.”  He and his crew, including his lusty busty mate Priscilla, sail across the Great Lakes to places real and imagined. Follow them on ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Barbarian North in Medieval Imagination

    Ethnicity, Legend, and Literature

    by Robert Rix ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture
    This bookexamines the sustained interest in legends of the pagan and peripheral North, tracing and analyzing the use of an ‘out-of-Scandinavia’ legend (Scandinavia as an ancestral homeland) in a wide range of medieval texts from all over Europe, with a focus on the Anglo-Saxon tradition. The pagan North was an imaginative region, which attracted a number of conflicting interpretations. To ... Read more

    $64.99 USD