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  • Homer

    A Beginner's Guide

    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Widely revered as the father of Western literature, Homer was the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, the epic poems which immortalised such names as Achilles, Cyclops, Menelaus, and Helen of Troy. In this vivid introduction, Elton Barker and Joel Christensen celebrate the complexity, innovation, and sheer excitement of Homer’s two great works. Investigating the controversy surrounding the man ... Leer más

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  • Egil's Saga

    Egil's Saga tells the story of the long and brutal life of tenth-century warrior-poet and farmer Egil Skallagrimsson: a morally ambiguous character who was at once the composer of intricately beautiful poetry, and a physical grotesque capable of staggering brutality. The saga recounts Egil's progression from youthful savagery to mature wisdom as he struggles to avenge his father's exile from ... Leer más

    $10.69 USD

  • Sex

    Vice and Love from Antiquity to Modernity

    Series series Classical Receptions
    Sex: Vice and Love from Antiquity to Modernity examines the impact that sexual fantasies about the classical world have had on modern Western culture.Offers a wealth of information on sex in the Greek and Roman worldCorrelates the study of classical sexuality with modern Western culturesIdentifies key influential themes in the evolution of erotic discourse from antiquity to modernityPresents a ... Leer más

    $30.00 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Homer

    Edición de Robert Fowler ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Homer is a guide to the essential aspects of Homeric criticism and scholarship, including the reception of the poems in ancient and modern times. Written by an international team of scholars, it is intended to be the first port of call for students at all levels, with introductions to important subjects and suggestions for further exploration. Alongside traditional ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • Contemporary Adaptations of Greek Tragedy

    Auteurship and Directorial Visions

    Edición de George Rodosthenous ...
    Contemporary Adaptations of Greek Tragedy: Auteurship and Directorial Visions provides a wide-ranging analysis of the role of the director in shaping adaptations for the stage today. Through its focus on a wide range of international productions by Katie Mitchell, Theodoros Terzopoulos, Peter Sellars, Jan Fabre, Ariane Mnouchkine, Tadashi Suzuki, Yukio Ninagawa, Andrei Serban, Nikos Charalambous, ... Leer más

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  • Roman Homosexuality

    Second Edition

    Ten years after its original publication, Roman Homosexuality remains the definitive statement of this interesting but often misunderstood aspect of Roman culture. Learned yet accessible, the book has reached both students and general readers with an interest in ancient sexuality. This second edition features a new foreword by Martha Nussbaum, a completely rewritten introduction that takes account ... Leer más

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  • Cosmology and the Polis

    The Social Construction of Space and Time in the Tragedies of Aeschylus

    This book further develops Professor Seaford's innovative work on the study of ritual and money in the developing Greek polis. It employs the concept of the chronotope, which refers to the phenomenon whereby the spatial and temporal frameworks explicit or implicit in a text have the same structure, and uncovers various such chronotopes in Homer, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Presocratic philosophy ... Leer más

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  • Arena Spectacles: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland

    Allegories of Authority

    Series Libro 80 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    This book explores the anxious and unstable relationship between court poetry and various forms of authority, political and cultural, in England and Scotland at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Through poems by Skelton, Dunbar, Douglas, Hawes, Lyndsay and Barclay, it examines the paths by which court poetry and its narrators seek multiple forms of legitimation: from royal and institutional ... Leer más

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  • Ovid, Amores (Book 1)

    Series Libro 2 - Dickinson College commentaries
    From Catullus to Horace, the tradition of Latin erotic poetry produced works of literature which are still read throughout the world. Ovid’s Amores, written in the first century BC, is arguably the best-known and most popular collection in this tradition.Born in 43 BC, Ovid was educated in Rome in preparation for a career in public services before finding his calling as a poet. He may have begun ... Leer más

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Literature

    1485-1603

    Edición de Mike Pincombe, Cathy Shrank ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This is the first major collection of essays to look at the literature of the entire Tudor period, from the reign of Henry VII to death of Elizabeth I. It pays particularly attention to the years before 1580. Those decades saw, amongst other things, the establishment of print culture and growth of a reading public; the various phases of the English Reformation and process of political ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Death and Dynasty in Early Imperial Rome

    Key Sources, with Text, Translation, and Commentary

    de J. Bert Lott ...
    The founding of the Roman Principate was a time of great turmoil. This book brings together a set of important Latin inscriptions, including the recently discovered documents concerning the death of Germanicus and trial of Cn. Piso, in order to illustrate the developing sense of dynasty that underpinned the new monarchy of Augustus. Each inscription is supplied with its original text, a new ... Leer más

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