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Lang Classical Studies eBook Series

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  • 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

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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

  • 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 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

  • Ovid Unseens

    Practice Passages for Latin Verse Translation and Comprehension

    by Mathew Owen ...
    Ovid Unseens provides a bank of 80 practice passages of Latin verse, half elegiac and half hexameter.Taken from across Ovid's works, including the Metamorphoses, Fasti, Heroides, Amores and Tristia, the passages help build students' knowledge and confidence in a notoriously difficult element of Latin language learning.Every passage begins with an introduction, outlining the basic story and theme ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Chateaubriand

    The Paradox of Change

    by Malcolm Scott ...
    Series Book 25 - Romanticism and after in France / Le Romantisme et après en France
    This reassessment of Chateaubriand’s literary and political achievements, offered as an intellectual biography of the writer, is centred on the concept of change and Chateaubriand’s emotional suspicion of change, arising both from mistrust of his own inconstancy and from the personal and collective suffering of the French Revolution. His aversion to change spread beyond politics to religion and ... Read more

    $66.99 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

  • Social Variation and the Latin Language

    by J. N. Adams ...
    Languages show variations according to the social class of speakers and Latin was no exception, as readers of Petronius are aware. The Romance languages have traditionally been regarded as developing out of a 'language of the common people' (Vulgar Latin), but studies of modern languages demonstrate that linguistic change does not merely come, in the social sense, 'from below'. There is change ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • 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

  • John Berryman

    Centenary Essays

    Edited by Philip Coleman, Peter Campion ...
    Drawing on the proceedings of two conferences organized to celebrate the centenary of John Berryman’s birth in 2014, John Berryman: Centenary Essays provides new perspectives on a major US American poet’s work by critics from Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. In addition to new readings of important aspects of Berryman’s development – including his creative and scholarly ... Read more

    $94.69 USD