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  • Ancient Greek Athletics

    Primary Sources in Translation

    by Charles H. Stocking, Susan A. Stephens ...
    The Sourcebook of Ancient Greek Athletics offers the most comprehensive collection to date of primary sources in translation for the study of ancient Greek athletics. Because Greek athletics was such an essential feature of both Greek and Roman culture, there is an especially strong need for proper treatment and understanding of the texts and other media used to reconstruct practices and ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Homer's Iliad and the Problem of Force

    by Charles H. Stocking ...
    Series series Classics in Theory Series
    The topic of force has long remained a problem of interpretation for readers of Homer's Iliad, ever since Simone Weil famously proclaimed it as the poem's main subject. This book seeks to address that problem through a full-scale treatment of the language of force in the Iliad from both philological and philosophical perspectives. Each chapter explores the different types of Iliadic force in ... Read more

    $92.29 CAD

  • The Politics of Sacrifice in Early Greek Myth and Poetry

    by Charles H. Stocking ...
    This book offers a new interpretation of ancient Greek sacrifice from a cultural poetic perspective. Through close readings of the Theogony, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, and the Odyssey in conjunction with evidence from material culture, it demonstrates how sacrifice narratives in early Greek hexameter poetry are intimately connected to a mythic-poetic discourse ... Read more

    $122.39 CAD

  • Carmen Ariza Book-1

    by Charles Francis Stocking ...
    The novel explores themes of love, identity, and the clash of cultures, offering readers a vivid portrayal of life in the Caribbean during the late 19th century. Stocking's writing is praised for its rich descriptive language and detailed character development, providing a compelling narrative that captures the complexities of Caribbean society at the time."Carman Ariza" remains a significant work ... Read more

    $1.33 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Cultural History of Sport in Antiquity

    Edited by Paul Christesen, Charles H. Stocking ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    A Cultural History of Sport in Antiquity covers the period 800 BCE to 600 CE. From the founding of the Olympics and Rome's celebratory games, sport permeated the cultural life of Greco-Roman antiquity almost as it does our own. Gymnasiums, public baths, monumental arenas, and circuses for chariot racing were constructed, and athletic contests proliferated. Sports-themed household objects were very ... Read more

    $38.89 CAD

  • Carmen Ariza

    by Charles Francis Stocking ...
    Popular novel, first published in 1916. The book begins: " The tropical sun mounted the rim of the golden Caribbean, quivered for a moment like a fledgeling preening its wings for flight, then launched forth boldly into the vault of heaven, shattering the lowering vapors of night into a myriad fleecy clouds of every form and color, and driving them before it into the abysmal blue above. Leaping ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fate and The Lady

    by Andrew Charles Vincent ...
    Fate and the Lady follows the modern day story of district nurse Christina Wise and her chance meeting with enigmatic ex-quarryman Mercy Slaughter and his friend FJ. Christina will be tested in her feelings for this man and his obsessive need to right a wrong committed against himself and his friends during a medieval battle re-enactment only a couple of years previously. His compulsion risks ... Read more

    $6.16 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Glow in the Dark: Living in God's Creative Energy and Supernatural Joy

    by Charles Stock ...
    'Charles Stock’s incredible real-life stories told in Glow in the Dark are marked by the miraculous. You will be encouraged and inspired to live in the supernatural power of the never-ending fullness of the Father’s love after reading how to master staying “present in the moment of His Presence.” Through a simple grid of concepts, you can master: • Turning on the Love Light. • Living a life of ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Melodies of the Heart

    The Life and Happenings of Charles J. Stock in Poetic Verse

    by Charles J. Stock ...
    Love Story: A fascinating story how family friends, who had not seen each other in fourteen years and only four times in forty-five years, began courting via email. In ten days with hearts aglow, she set their wedding day twenty-nine days hence. Every e-mail and phone conversation Is a glowing portrait of love. A captivating story of love, in poetic verse. ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

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    Edited by Peter Burian, Alan Shapiro ...
    Series series Greek Tragedy in New Translations
    Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. The tragedies collected here were originally available as single ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to Greek Tragedy

    by Ruth Scodel ...
    This book provides an accessible introduction for students and anyone interested in increasing their enjoyment of Greek tragic plays. Whether readers are studying Greek culture, performing a Greek tragedy, or simply interested in reading a Greek play, this book will help them to understand and enjoy this challenging and rewarding genre. An Introduction to Greek Tragedy provides background ... Read more

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    by W. Somerset Maugham ...
    Crippled sixteen-year-old Catalina is the one person unable to join in the festivities of the Feast of the Assumption. But then she has a vision of the Virgin, and is miraculously cured. In the dark days of the Spanish Inquisition, such a claim to blessedness has serious consequences, especially when Catalina seems more inclined to obey her heart than the demands of the Church.The last of Maugham ... Read more

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