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  • 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

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  • The Canterbury Tales

    by Geoffrey Chaucer, Christopher Cannon ...
    Translated by David Wright ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Whoever best acquits himself, and tells The most amusing and instructive tale, Shall have a dinner, paid for by us all...' In Chaucer's most ambitious poem, The Canterbury Tales (c. 1387), a group of pilgrims assembles in an inn just outside London and agree to entertain each other on the way to Canterbury by telling stories. The pilgrims come from all ranks of society, from the crusading Knight ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Njal's Saga

    Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's Saga is a story that explores perennial human problems-from failed marriages to divided loyalties, from the law's inability to curb human passions to the terrible consequences when decent men and women are swept up in a tide of violence beyond their control. It is populated by memorable and complex characters like Gunnar of Hlidarendi, a powerful warrior ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Theater outside Athens

    Drama in Greek Sicily and South Italy

    Edited by Kathryn Bosher ...
    This volume brings together archeologists, art historians, philologists, literary scholars, political scientists, and historians to articulate the ways in which western Greek theater was distinct from that of the Greek mainland and, at the same time, to investigate how the two traditions interacted. The chapters intersect and build on each other in their pursuit of a number of shared questions and ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Horace: Satires Book I

    by Horace ...
    Series Book 1 - Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
    Horace's first book of Satires is his debut work, a document of one man's self-fashioning on the cusp between republic and empire, and a pivotal text in the history of Roman satire. It wrestles with the problem of how to define and assimilate satire and justifies the poet's own position in a suspicious society. The commentary gives full weight to the dense texture of these poems while helping ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Homer: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by R. B. Rutherford ...
    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

  • Medieval Invasions in Modern Irish Literature

    by J. Ulin ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Medieval Invasions in Modern Irish Literature offers the first book-length treatment of the literary return to and reinterpretation of Giraldus Cambrensis's twelfth century The History of the Conquest of Ireland. Writers studied include W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, James Joyce, Sean O'Faoláin, Micheál Mac Liammóir, Brendan Behan and Jamie O'Neill. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • 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

  • Greek Comedy and the Discourse of Genres

    Edited by Emmanuela Bakola, Lucia Prauscello, Mario Telò ...
    Recent scholarship has acknowledged that the intertextual discourse of ancient comedy with previous and contemporary literary traditions is not limited to tragedy. This book is a timely response to the more sophisticated and theory-grounded way of viewing comedy's interactions with its cultural and intellectual context. It shows that in the process of its self-definition, comedy emerges as ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Seneca: Hercules Furens

    by Professor Neil Bernstein ...
    Series series Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy
    Hercules is the best-known character from classical mythology. Seneca's play Hercules Furens presents the hero at a moment of triumph turned to tragedy. Hercules returns from his final labor, his journey to the Underworld, and then slaughters his family in an episode of madness. This play exerted great influence on Shakespeare and other Renaissance tragedians, and also inspired contemporary ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • The State of Speech

    Rhetoric and Political Thought in Ancient Rome

    by Joy Connolly ...
    Rhetorical theory, the core of Roman education, taught rules of public speaking that are still influential today. But Roman rhetoric has long been regarded as having little important to say about political ideas. The State of Speech presents a forceful challenge to this view. The first book to read Roman rhetorical writing as a mode of political thought, it focuses on Rome's greatest practitioner ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Greek Tragic Style

    Form, Language and Interpretation

    by R. B. Rutherford ...
    Greek tragedy is widely read and performed, but outside the commentary tradition detailed study of the poetic style and language of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides has been relatively neglected. This book seeks to fill that gap by providing an account of the poetics of the tragic genre. The author describes the varied handling of spoken dialogue and of lyric song; major topics such as ... Read more

    $47.59 USD