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  • Homer and the Poetics of Gesture

    by Alex C. Purves ...
    Homer and the Poetics of Gesture is the first book of its kind to consider the epic formula in terms that are gestural as well as verbal. Drawing on studies from multiple disciplines, including movement theory, dance studies, phenomenology, and early film, it suggests new approaches for interpreting the relationship between repetition and embodiment in Homer. Through a series of dynamic close ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Touch and the Ancient Senses

    Edited by Alex Purves ...
    Series series The Senses in Antiquity
    Unlike the other senses, touch ranges beyond a single sense organ, encompassing not only the skin but also the interior of the body. It mediates almost every aspect of interpersonal relations in antiquity, from the everyday to the erotic, just as it also provides a primary point of contact between the individual and the outside world. The essays in this volume explore the ways in which touch plays ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses

    Edited by Shane Butler, Alex Purves ...
    Series series The Senses in Antiquity
    Like us, the ancient Greeks and Romans came to know and understand the world through their senses. Yet sensory experience has rarely been considered in the study of antiquity and, when the senses are examined, sight is regularly privileged. 'Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses' presents a radical reappraisal of antiquity's textures, flavours, and aromas, sounds and sights. It offers both a fresh ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

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  • The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics

    by Arthur Schopenhauer ...
    Translated by David Cartwright, Edward E. Erdmann ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'my philosophy is like Thebes with a hundred gates: one can enter from all sides and through each gate arrive at the direct path to the centre' Schopenhauer's two essays On the Freedom of the Will and On the Basis of Morals form his complete system of ethics. Their doctrines, continuous with those in his major work The World as Will and Representation, are presented here in more accessible, self ... Read more

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  • The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks

    Studies in Aristotle and Classical Literature

    by David Konstan ...
    It is generally assumed that whatever else has changed about the human condition since the dawn of civilization, basic human emotions - love, fear, anger, envy, shame - have remained constant. David Konstan, however, argues that the emotions of the ancient Greeks were in some significant respects different from our own, and that recognizing these differences is important to understanding ancient ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Changing the Subject

    Philosophy from Socrates to Adorno

    by Raymond Geuss ...
    “A history of philosophy in twelve thinkers…The whole performance combines polyglot philological rigor with supple intellectual sympathy, and it is all presented…in a spirit of fun…This bracing and approachable book [shows] that there is life in philosophy yet.”—Times Literary Supplement“Exceptionally engaging…Geuss has a remarkable knack for putting even familiar thinkers in a new light.”—Notre ... Read more

    $24.89 CAD

  • Approaches to Greek Myth

    by Lowell Edmunds ...
    "A handy introduction to some of the more useful methodological approaches to and the previous scholarship on the subject of Greek myths." — PhoenixSince the first edition of Approaches to Greek Myth was published in 1990, interest in Greek mythology has surged. There was no simple agreement on the subject of "myth" in classical antiquity, and there remains none today. Is myth a narrative or a ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sight and the Ancient Senses

    Edited by Michael Squire ...
    Series series The Senses in Antiquity
    It is to Greek critical thinking about seeing that we owe our conceptual framework for theorizing the senses, and it is also to such thinking that we owe the lasting legacy of Greco-Roman imagery. Sight and the Ancient Senses is the first thorough introduction to the conceptualization of sight in the history, visual culture, literature and philosophy of classical antiquity. Examining how the ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Revels in Madness

    Insanity in Medicine and Literature

    by Allen Thiher ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    "Fascinating and important . . . a work of prodigious scholarship, covering the entire history of Western thought and treating both literary and medical discourses with subtlety and verve."---Louis Sass, author of Madness and Modernism"The scope of this book is daunting, ranging from madness in the ancient Greco-Roman world, to Christianized concepts of medieval folly, through the writings of ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Oedipus

    by Lowell Edmunds ...
    Series series Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World
    An indispensable guide to the myth of Oedipus this book is the first to analyze its long and varied history from ancient times to the modern day, and presented with an authoritative survey that considers Oedipus in art and music as well as in literature.Lowell Edmunds accepts this variation as the driving force in its longevity and popularity. Refraining from seeking for an original form of the ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Deep Classics

    Rethinking Classical Reception

    Edited by Professor Shane Butler ...
    Fragmented, buried, and largely lost, the classical past presents formidable obstacles to anyone who would seek to know it. 'Deep Classics' is the study of these obstacles and, in particular, of the way in which the contemplation of the classical past resembles – and has even provided a model for – other kinds of human endeavor. This volume offers a new way to understand the modalities and aims of ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Hermes Complex

    Philosophical Reflections on Translation

    by Charles Le Blanc ...
    Translated by Barbara Folkart ...
    Series series Perspectives on Translation
    When Hermes handed over to Apollo his finest invention, the lyre, in exchange for promotion to the status of messenger of the gods, he relinquished the creativity that gave life to his words.The trade-off proved frustrating: Hermes chafed under the obligation to deliver the ideas and words of others and resorted to all manner of ruses in order to assert his presence in the messages he transmitted. ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD