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  • Communication, Love, and Death in Homer and Virgil

    An Introduction

    by Stephen Ridd ...
    Series series Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture
    Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey and Virgil’s Aeneid are three of the most important—and influential—works of Western classical literature. Although they differ in subject matter and authorship, these epic poems share a common purpose: to tell the “deeds both of men and of the gods.” Written in an accessible style and ideally suited for classroom use, Communication, Love, and Death in Homer and Virgil ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

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  • Greek Marseille and Mediterranean Celtic Region

    Edited by Sophie Bouffier, Dominique Garcia ...
    Series Book 20 - Lang Classical Studies
    This unique collection of essays contains a synthesis of recent works by distinguished archaeologists and historians in their field, illuminating extensive research in the Southern Gaul and on the territory of the Greek city of Marseille.Investigating the occupation of Massalia territory before the foundation of the Greek city to the Roman period, these findings provide an overview of the diverse ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Occupying Space in Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Ireland

    Edited by Gregory Hulsman, Caoimhe Whelan ...
    Series Book 4 - Court Cultures of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
    This collection offers a range of interdisciplinary viewpoints on the occupation of space and theories of place in Britain and Ireland throughout the medieval and early modern periods. It considers space in both its physical and abstract sense, exploring literature, history, art, manuscript studies, religion, geography and archaeology. The buildings and ruins still occupying our urban and rural ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Monstrous World

    Corporeal Discourses in Phlegon of Tralles’ «Mirabilia»

    by Julia Doroszewska ...
    Series Book 4 - Studies in Classical Literature and Culture
    Revenants, oracular heads, hermaphrodites, sex-changers, human-animal children, multiple pregnancies, births, body features … This is just a sample of subjects that Phlegon of Tralles explored in the 2nd century AD in his "Mirabilia". This study identifies the common motifs of Phlegon’s text and determines his criterion of selection: using the cultural category of "monster", it argues that Phlegon ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • The Shaping of English Poetry – Volume IV

    Essays on 'The Battle of Maldon', Chrétien de Troyes, Dante, 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and Chaucer

    by Gerald Morgan ...
    This fourth volume of essays under the title The Shaping of English Poetry consolidates the work of the previous three volumes on the great subjects of English literature in the Medieval and Renaissance periods. The Norman Conquest of England built upon the rich foundation of Anglo-Saxon England but did not destroy it; thus the present volume begins with the commemoration of English heroism in The ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Greece in British Women's Literary Imagination, 1913–2013

    Edited by Eleni Papargyriou, Semele Assinder, David Holton ...
    Series Book 19 - Lang Classical Studies
    Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913–2013 offers a comprehensive overview of British female writing on Greece in the twentieth century and beyond. Contributors cover a vast array of authors: Rose Macaulay, Jane Ellen Harrison, Virginia Woolf, Ann Quin, Dorothy Una Ratcliffe, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Olivia Manning, Mary Stewart, Victoria Hislop, Loretta Proctor and Sofka ... Read more

    $102.49 USD

  • Seneca (Routledge Revivals)

    by Costa C.D.N. ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This volume, first published in 1974, offers a selection of modern perspectives on Seneca, covering his prose treatises, his letters and his tragedies.For centuries literary and philosophical circles had to take Seneca seriously, even if they could not always respect him, and although his reputation has fluctuated, there has been a revival of interest in his achievements. Accordingly, a large part ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Latin Stories

    A GCSE Reader

    by Henry Cullen, Michael Dormandy, Dr John Taylor ...
    Latin Stories is an ideal first reader for students of Latin. It offers 100 self-contained passages of manageable length, chosen for their intrinsic interest and adapted from a wide range of ancient authors. Generous help is given, with a short introduction to each story and glossing of all proper names and non-GCSE vocabulary. The collection will also be attractive to older students beginning or ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • The Manuscript Tradition of Propertius

    by James Butrica ...
    Series Book 17 - Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
    The elegist Sextus Propertius (ca 50–ca 16 BC) is generally reckoned among the most difficult of Latin authors. At the root of this difficulty lies a deeply corrupt text and uncertainty over the manuscript transmission; moreover, the manuscripts used in the standard editions of today have been selected without a comprehensive examination of the surviving copies. This study, the fullest survey of ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Patterns of Patronage in Renaissance Rome

    Francesco Sperulo: Poet, Prelate, Soldier, Spy - Volume I

    by Paul Gwynne ...
    Series Book 2 - Court Cultures of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
    This book is also available as a set, together with Volume II.Please visit www.peterlang.com/view/product/84550Patterns of Patronage in Renaissance Rome is the first full-length study of the life and works of Francesco Sperulo of Camerino (1463–1531). In a remarkable career during which the poet progressed from serving as a soldier of fortune in the service of Cesare Borgia to an Italian bishopric ... Read more

    $111.29 USD

  • The Latin Poetry of English Poets (Routledge Revivals)

    by J. Binns ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Thomas Campion, Milton, Crashaw, Herbert, Bourne, Walter Savage Landor – all these poets, between them spanning the period from the Elizabethan to the Victorian age, wrote a substantial body of Latin verse in addition to their better-known English poetry, representing part of the vast and almost unexplored body of Neo-Latin literature which appealed to an international reading public throughout ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Ovid (Routledge Revivals)

    by J. Binns ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Ovid, Rome’s most cynical and worldly love poet, has not until recently been highly regarded among Latin poets. Now, however, his reputation is growing, and this volume is an important contribution to the re-establishment of Ovid’s claims to critical attention.This collection of essays ranges over a wide variety of themes and works: Ovid’s development of the Elegiac tradition handed down to him ... Read more

    $57.99 USD