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  • Herodotus: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Emily Baragwanath, Mathieu de Bakker ...
    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

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  • The Mabinogion

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Celtic mythology, Arthurian romance, and an intriguing interpretation of British history - these are just some of the themes embraced by the anonymous authors of the eleven tales that make up the Welsh medieval masterpiece known as the Mabinogion. They tell of Gwydion the shape-shifter, who can create a woman out of flowers; of Math the magician whose feet must lie in the lap of a virgin; of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Shakespeare Beyond Doubt

    Evidence, Argument, Controversy

    Edited by Paul Edmondson, Stanley Wells ...
    Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare? The authorship question has been much treated in works of fiction, film and television, provoking interest all over the world. Sceptics have proposed many candidates as the author of Shakespeare's works, including Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe and Edward De Vere, the seventeenth Earl of Oxford. But why and how did the authorship question arise and what does ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds

    Ways of Telling the Self

    by Marina Warner ...
    Series series Clarendon Lectures in English
    Metamorphosis is a dynamic principle of creation, vital to natural processes of generation and evolution, growth and decay, yet it also threatens personal identity if human beings are subject to a continual process of bodily transformation. Shape-shifting also belongs in the landscape of magic, witchcraft, and wonder, and enlivens classical mythology, early modern fairy tales and uncanny fictions ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • The Thebaid

    Seven against Thebes

    by Publius Papinius Statius ...
    Translated by Charles Stanley Ross ...
    Series series Johns Hopkins New Translations from Antiquity
    A classical epic of fratricide and war, the Thebaid retells the legendary conflict between the sons of Oedipus—Polynices and Eteocles—for control of the city of Thebes. The Latin poet Statius reworks a familiar story from Greek myth, dramatized long before by Aeschylus in his tragedy Seven against Thebes. Statius chose his subject well: the Rome of his day, ruled by the emperor Domitian, was not ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Twentieth-Century Chaucer Criticism

    Reading Audiences

    by Kathy Cawsey ...
    Shifting ideas about Geoffrey Chaucer's audience have produced radically different readings of Chaucer's work over the course of the past century. Kathy Cawsey, in her book on the changing relationship among Chaucer, critics, and theories of audience, draws on Michel Foucault's concept of the 'author-function' to propose the idea of an 'audience function' which shows the ways critics' concepts of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Genealogy of the Tragic

    Greek Tragedy and German Philosophy

    by Joshua Billings ...
    Why did Greek tragedy and "the tragic" come to be seen as essential to conceptions of modernity? And how has this belief affected modern understandings of Greek drama? In Genealogy of the Tragic, Joshua Billings answers these and related questions by tracing the emergence of the modern theory of the tragic, which was first developed around 1800 by thinkers associated with German Idealism. The book ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • The Comedies

    by Terence, Peter Brown ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'I thought you'd do what the common run of slaves normally do, cheating and tricking me because my son's having an affair.' Terence's comedies have provided plots and characters for comic drama from classical times to the present; the outstanding comic playwright of his generation at Rome, he has influenced authors from Molière and Wycherley to P. G. Wodehouse. Scheming slaves, parasites, ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Looking at Lysistrata

    Eight Essays and a New Version of Aristophanes' Provocative Comedy

    by David Stuttard ...
    In Aristophanes' Lysistrata, the women of Athens, fed up with the war against Sparta, go on a sex strike and barricade themselves into the acropolis to persuade their husbands to vote against the war. It is the most often performed of all Aristophanes' comedies. It is also, perhaps, the most misunderstood. This collection of essays by eight leading academics - written for sixth-form students and ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • From the Socratics to the Socratic Schools

    Classical Ethics, Metaphysics and Epistemology

    by Ugo Zilioli ...
    In the two golden centuries that followed the death of Socrates, ancient philosophy underwent a tremendous transformation that culminated in the philosophical systematizations of Plato, Aristotle and the Hellenistic schools. Fundamental figures other than Plato were active after the death of Socrates; his immediate pupils, the Socratics, took over his legacy and developed it in a variety of ways. ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The Epistemological Perspective of the Pearl-Poet

    by Piotr Spyra ...
    Original and engaging, this study presents the four anonymous poems found in the Cotton Nero MS - Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - as a composite text with a continuous narrative. While it is widely accepted that the poems attributed to the Pearl-Poet ought to be read together, this book demonstrates that instead of being analyzed as four distinct, though ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • The South in the German Imaginary

    The Italian Journeys of Goethe and Heine

    by Lukas Bauer ...
    Series Book 21 - German Studies in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand
    The division between North and South in Europe represents a geographical as well as a cultural boundary that has influenced the way many European nations think about their history and identity. This divide is particularly prominent in the cultural dialogue between Germany and Italy and has played an important role in the construction of German identity. This study explores German representations ... Read more

    $79.99 USD