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  • Relation of Virginia

    A Boy's Memoir of Life with the Powhatans and the Patawomecks

    by Henry Spelman ...
    A memoir of one of America’s first adventurers, a young boy who acted as a link between the Jamestown colonists and the Patawomecks and Powhatans.“Being in displeasure of my friends, and desirous to see other countries, after three months sail we come with prosperouswinds in sight of Virginia.” So begins the fascinating tale of Henry Spelman, a 14 year-old boy sent to Virginia in 1609. One of ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Pindar and the Poetics of Permanence

    by Henry Spelman ...
    Series series Oxford Classical Monographs
    Recent scholarship on early Greek lyric has been primarily concerned with the immediate contexts of its first performance. This volume instead turns its attention to the rhetoric and realities of poetic permanence. Taking Pindar and archaic Greek literary culture as its focus, it offers a new reading of Pindar's victory odes which explores not only how they were received by those who first ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Pindar

    Edited by Henry Spelman ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Pindar was the single most important, canonical and influential lyric poet in the ancient Greek world, and he remains one of the most demanding and rewarding poets whose work has come down to us from antiquity. This volume represents the most comprehensive introduction to the poet and his reception yet published. Eighteen leading contemporary scholars contribute individual chapters that together ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Writing Literary History in the Greek and Roman World

    Edited by Giacomo Fedeli, Henry Spelman ...
    Covering a wide variety of Greek and Latin texts that span from the Archaic period down to Late Antiquity, this volume represents the first concerted attempt to understand ancient literary history in its full complexity and on its own terms. Abandoning long-standing misconceptions derived from the misleading application of modern assumptions and standards, the volume rehabilitates an often ... Read more

    $106.59 USD

  • Texts and Intertexts in Archaic and Classical Greece

    Edited by Adrian Kelly, Henry Spelman ...
    Encompassing the period from the earliest archaic epics down through classical Athenian drama, this is the first concerted, step-by-step examination of the development of allusive poetics in the early Greek world. Recent decades have seen a marked rise in intertextual approaches to early Greek literature; as scholars increasingly agree on the need to read these texts in a comparative way, this ... Read more

    $110.69 USD