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  • Oxford Classics

    Teaching and Learning 1800-2000

    by Dr. Christopher Stray ...
    Oxford, the home of lost causes, the epitome of the world of medieval and renaissance learning in Britain, has always fascinated at a variety of levels: social, institutional, cultural. Its rival, Cambridge, was long dominated by mathematics, while Oxford's leading study was Classics. In this pioneering book, 16 leading authorities explore a variety of aspects of Oxford Classics in the last two ... Read more

    $210.59 CAD

  • Liddell and Scott

    The History, Methodology, and Languages of the World's Leading Lexicon of Ancient Greek

    Edited by Christopher Stray, Michael Clarke, Joshua T. Katz ...
    The Greek-English Lexicon of Liddell and Scott is one of the most famous dictionaries in the world, and for the past century-and-a-half has been a constant and indispensable presence in teaching, learning, and research on ancient Greek throughout the English-speaking world and beyond. Despite continuous modification and updating, it is still recognizably a Victorian creation; at the same time, ... Read more

    $92.69 CAD

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    Return of the Mountain Man [Dramatized Adaptation]

    Smoke Jensen: The Mountain Man 2

    by William W. Johnstone ...
    Narrated by A Full Cast, Mort Shelby, James Lewis, Elizabeth Jernigan, Terence Aselford, Richard Rohan, Tim Getman, Steven Carpenter, David Coyne, Tim Carlin, Thomas Penny, Lily Beacon, Peter Stray, Christopher Graybill, James Konicek, Eric Messner, Dylan Lynch, Nanette Savard, Michael John Casey, Ken Jackson, Scott McCormick, M.B. Van Dorn ...
    Series series Last Mountain Man

    Unabridged

    3 hours 40 min

    The town of Bury took up a piece of Idaho Territory that was still raw, untamed frontier. It was no place for the cowardly or faint-hearted, but Smoke Jensen was neither. Nor were Stratton, Potter and Richards, the three bloodthirsty outlaws who came there to live. Or, if Smoke had his way...to die!It had been years since hired gunhands had murdered Smoke's wife and son, but the pain was as fresh ... Read more

    $21.97 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Student Life in Nineteenth-Century Cambridge

    John Wright’s Alma Mater

    Edited by Dr. Christopher Stray ...
    John Wright's Alma Mater was the first book-length student memoir to be published in Britain. Yet this trailblazing and revealing work has never been reprinted since its appearance in 1827. Full of fascinating detail about college life, it discusses teaching, examinations and student socialising, including sport, hunting and recourse to prostitutes. A remarkable story of success and failure, it ... Read more

    $116.59 CAD

  • Scholarship and Controversy

    Centenary Essays on the Life and Work of Sir Kenneth Dover

    Edited by Stephen Halliwell, Dr. Christopher Stray ...
    The essays collected in this volume were written to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kenneth Dover, one of the twentieth century's most influential classical scholars. Between them, they explore the two major sides of his career: his groundbreaking scholarship on Greek language, literature and history, and the more public-facing roles he assumed in universities and at the British Academy ... Read more

    $42.19 CAD

  • Rediscovering E. R. Dodds

    Scholarship, Education, Poetry, and the Paranormal

    Edited by Christopher Stray, Christopher Pelling, Stephen Harrison ...
    Rediscovering E. R. Dodds offers the first comprehensive assessment of a remarkable classical scholar, who was also a poet with extensive links to twentieth-century English and Irish literary culture, the friend of Auden and MacNeice. Dodds was born in Northern Ireland, but made his name as Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford from 1936 to 1960, succeeding Gilbert Murray. Before this he taught at ... Read more

    $67.69 CAD

  • A Companion to Classical Receptions

    Edited by Lorna Hardwick, Christopher Stray ...
    Examining the profusion of ways in which the arts, culture, and thought of Greece and Rome have been transmitted, interpreted, adapted and used, A Companion to Classical Receptions explores the impact of this phenomenon on both ancient and later societies.Provides a comprehensive introduction and overview of classical reception - the interpretation of classical art, culture, and thought in later ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • Classics in 19th and 20th Century Cambridge

    Curriculum, Culture and Community

    Edited by Christopher Stray ...
    Series Book 24 - Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Volume
    Eight essays in which Classicists examine the history of their own subject as taught and practised at Cambridge University in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when the foundations were laid for the modern contours of the subject. ... Read more

    $33.09 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Owl of Minerva: the Cambridge Praelections of 1906

    Reassessments of Richard Jebb, James Adam, Walter Headlam, Henry Jackson, William Ridgeway and Arthur Verrall

    Edited by Christopher Stray ...
    Series Book 28 - Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Volume
    This volume studies Sir Richard Jebb, Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge until his death in 1905, and the public competition ("praelections") in which five scholars - James Adam, Walter Headlam, Henry Jackson, William Ridgeway and Arthur Verrall - competed to become his successor. Eight essays are followed by Wilamowitz's entertaining review of the five candidates' orations, with a new ... Read more

    $33.09 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Sweep of the Blade [Dramatized Adaptation]

    Innkeeper Chronicles 4

    by Ilona Andrews ...
    Narrated by Megan Dominy, Alex Hill-Knight, Julie-Ann Elliott, Elena Anderson, Alyssa Keegan, Peter Holdway, Christopher Walker, Lucy Symons, Peter Stray, Andrew James Spooner, Samantha Turret ...
    Series series Innkeeper Chronicles

    Unabridged

    7 hours 51 min

    Maud Demille is a daughter of Innkeepers—a special group who provide ‘lodging’ to other-planetary visitors—so she knows that a simple life isn't in the cards. But even Maud could never have anticipated what Fate would throw at her. Once a wife to a powerful vampire knight, Maud and her young daughter, Helen, were exiled with him for his treachery to the desolate, savage planet of Karhari.Karhari ... Read more

    $31.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Engaging the Enemy (2 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]

    Vatta's War 3

    by Elizabeth Moon ...
    Narrated by A Full Cast, Nanette Savard, Colleen Delany, Elisabeth Demery, Michael Glenn, Terence Aselford, Jeff Baker, James Konicek, Barbara Pinolini, Lily Beacon, Joe Brack, Ken Jackson, Tom Simpson, Dylan Lynch, David Coyne, Mort Shelby, Sherri Simpson, Elizabeth Jernigan, Andy Clemence, Kate Foster, Eric Messner, Yasmin Tuazon, Tim Getman, Peter Stray, Christopher Graybill, Jonathan Watkins, Nathanial Perry ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - Vatta's War

    Unabridged

    6 hours 8 min

    In the aftermath of the cold-blooded assassinations that killed her parents and shattered the Vatta intersteller shipping empire, Kylara Vatta sets out to avenge the killings and salvage the family business. Ky soon discovers a conspiracy of terrifying scope, breathtaking audacity, and utter ruthlessness. The only hope against such powerful evil is for all the space merchants to band together. ... Read more

    $30.22 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A.E. Housman

    Classical Scholar

    by David Butterfield, Dr. Christopher Stray ...
    A.E. Housman (1859-1936) was a man of many apparent contradictions, most of which remain unresolved 150 years after his birth. At once a deeply emotive lyric poet and a precise and dedicated classical scholar, he achieved fame in both of these diverse disciplines. Although his poetic legacy has received much scholarly analysis, and yet more attention has been devoted to reconstructing his private ... Read more

    $49.69 CAD