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  • Combat Trauma and the Ancient Greeks

    Edited by P. Meineck, D. Konstan ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This ground-breaking book applies trauma studies to the drama and literature of the ancient Greeks. Diverse essays explore how the Greeks responded to war and if what we now term "combat trauma," "post-traumatic stress," or "combat stress injury" can be discerned in ancient Greek culture. ... Read more

    $116.99 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

  • The Cambridge Introduction to the Old Norse-Icelandic Saga

    by Margaret Clunies Ross ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    The medieval Norse-Icelandic saga is one of the most important European vernacular literary genres of the Middle Ages. This Introduction to the saga genre outlines its origins and development, its literary character, its material existence in manuscripts and printed editions, and its changing reception from the Middle Ages to the present time. Its multiple sub-genres - including family sagas, ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Harry Potter and the Classical World

    Greek and Roman Allusions in J.K. Rowling's Modern Epic

    by Richard A. Spencer ...
    J.K. Rowling has drawn deeply from classical sources to inform and color her Harry Potter novels, with allusions ranging from the obvious to the obscure. "Fluffy," the vicious three-headed dog in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, is clearly a repackaging of Cerberus, the hellhound of Greek and Roman mythology. But the significance of Rowling's quotation from Aeschylus at the front of Harry ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Cicero: 'Pro Sexto Roscio'

    Edited by Andrew R. Dyck ...
    Series series Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
    Sextus Roscius was murdered in Rome some months after the official end of the Sullan proscriptions on 1 June 81 BC. The case was tried early the following year with a young Cicero acting as defense counsel in his first criminal case for the accused son. Though a novice, Cicero was able to tap into the public anger over the uncontrolled killing and looting of the proscriptions and channel it ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • When Sundiata Keita Built the Mali Empire - Ancient History Illustrated Grade 4 | Children's Ancient History

    by Baby Professor ...
    Did you know that learning about ancient history brings a lot of benefits? It helps your fourth grader understand the past to appreciate the present and determine the future. Tracing his/her roots will help in boosting self-confidence and that unmistakable feeling of completeness. What will your child feel after reading this ancient history book? Find out soon! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland

    Allegories of Authority

    by Antony J. Hasler ...
    Series Book 80 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    This book explores the anxious and unstable relationship between court poetry and various forms of authority, political and cultural, in England and Scotland at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Through poems by Skelton, Dunbar, Douglas, Hawes, Lyndsay and Barclay, it examines the paths by which court poetry and its narrators seek multiple forms of legitimation: from royal and institutional ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Aeschylus: Eumenides

    by Robin Mitchell-Boyask ...
    Series series Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy
    The "Eumenides", the concluding drama in Aeschylus' sole surviving trilogy, the "Oresteia", is not only one of the most admired Greek tragedies, but also one of the most controversial and contested, both to specialist scholars and public intellectuals. It stands at the crux of the controversies over the relationship between the fledgling democracy of Athens and the dramas it produced during the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Approaches to Middle English

    Variation, Contact and Change

    Edited by Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre, Javier Calle-Martín ...
    Series Book 47 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
    This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 8th International Conference of Middle English, held in Spain at the University of Murcia in 2013. The contributions embrace a variety of research topics and approaches, with a particular interest in multilingualism, multidialectalism and language contact in medieval England, together with other more linguistically-oriented approaches on ... Read more

    $83.69 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

  • Latin Verse Satire

    An Anthology and Reader

    Edited by Paul Allen Miller ...
    A wide variety of texts by the Latin satirists are presented here in a fully loaded resource to provide an innovative reading of satire's relation to Roman ideology.Brimming with notes, commentaries, essays and texts in translation, this book succeeds in its mission to help the student understand the history of Latin's modern scholarly reception.Focusing on the linguistic difficulties and problems ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • A Companion to the Neronian Age

    Edited by Emma Buckley, Martin Dinter ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
    An authoritative overview and helpful resource for students and scholars of Roman history and Latin literature during the reign of Nero.The first book of its kind to treat this era, which has gained in popularity in recent yearsMakes much important research available in English for the first timeFeatures a balance of new research with established critical linesOffers an unusual breadth and range ... Read more

    $182.00 USD