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  • Classical Greek Rhetorical Theory and the Disciplining of Discourse

    by David M. Timmerman, Edward Schiappa ...
    This book contributes to the history of classical rhetoric by focusing on how key terms helped to conceptualize and organize the study and teaching of oratory. David Timmerman and Edward Schiappa demonstrate that the intellectual and political history of Greek rhetorical theory can be enhanced by a better understanding of the emergence of 'terms of art' in texts about persuasive speaking and ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

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  • Classical Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by William Allan ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    From popular histories through to reworkings of classical subject matter by contemporary poets, dramatists, and novelists, the classical world and the masterpieces of its literature continue to fascinate readers and audiences in a huge variety of media. In this Very Short Introduction, William Allan explores what the 'classics' are and why they continue to shape our Western concepts of literature. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Catullus

    by Julia Haig Gaisser ...
    Series Book 36 - Wiley Introductions to the Classical World
    Catullus is one of the liveliest and most appealing Roman poets. His emotion, charm, and apparent spontaneity resonate with readers as strongly today as in antiquity. This sophisticated literary and historical introduction brings Catullus to life for the modern reader and presents his poetry in all its variety of emotions, subjects, and styles.Places Catullus in a social, historical, and literary ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Selections from Tacitus Annals I

    An Edition for Intermediate Students

    Series series Bloomsbury Classical Languages
    This is the first intermediate-student edition of a selection from Tacitus' Annals I. Sections 3–7, 11–14, 16–30 and 46–49 are included as Latin text with an accompanying commentary and vocabulary. Focusing on a deliberately concise extract from the original, this edition is designed to be manageable for students reading the text for the first time while also perfectly encapsulating the interest ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England

    by Emily V. Thornbury ...
    Series Book 88 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    Combining historical, literary and linguistic evidence from Old English and Latin, Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England creates a new, more complete picture of who and what pre-Conquest English poets really were. It includes a study of Anglo-Saxon words for 'poet' and the first list of named poets in Anglo-Saxon England. Its survey of known poets identifies four social roles that poets often ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Plato and the Traditions of Ancient Literature

    The Silent Stream

    by Richard Hunter ...
    Exploring both how Plato engaged with existing literary forms and how later literature then created 'classics' out of some of Plato's richest works, this book includes chapters on such subjects as rewritings of the Apology and re-imaginings of Socrates' defence, Plato's high style and the criticisms it attracted, and how Petronius and Apuleius threaded Plato into their wonderfully comic texts. The ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Knights of the Round Table

    by Daniel Mersey ...
    Series series Myths and Legends
    The Knights of the Round Table were the original knights in shining armour, and this book is for anyone who is interested in fantastical tales of bravery or the actual history behind the stories. In medieval Arthurian tradition, Arthur often takes a back seat in the most exciting stories, appearing at the beginning and end of each to set the scene and conclude the tale. The central character is ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints

    Theater, Gender, and Religion in Late Medieval England

    by Theresa Coletti ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    A sinner-saint who embraced then renounced sexual and worldly pleasures; a woman who, through her attachment to Jesus, embodied both erotic and sacred power; a symbol of penance and an exemplar of contemplative and passionate devotion: perhaps no figure stood closer to the center of late medieval debates about the sources of spiritual authority and women's contribution to salvation history than ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Ovid

    by Katharina Volk ...
    Series Book 31 - Wiley Introductions to the Classical World
    This book provides a unique and accessible introduction to the complete works of Ovid. Using a thematic approach, Volk lays out what we know about Ovid's life, presents the author's works within their poetic genres, and discusses central Ovidian themes.The first general introduction to Ovid written in English in over 20 years, offering the very latest Ovidian scholarshipDiscusses the complete ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Archaeology and State Theory

    Subjects and Objects of Power

    by Bruce Routledge ...
    Series series Debates in Archaeology
    After neo-evolutionism, how does one talk about the pre-modern state? Over the past two decades archaeological research has shifted decisively from check-list identifications of the state as an evolutionary type to studies of how power and authority were constituted in specific polities. Developing Gramsci's concept of hegemony, this book provides an accessible discussion of general principles ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Animal Languages in the Middle Ages

    Representations of Interspecies Communication

    Edited by Alison Langdon ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation of the boundaries of human and nonhuman animals in the Middle Ages. Uniting a diverse set of emerging and established scholars, Animal Languages questions the assumed medieval distinction between humans and other animals. The chapters point to the wealth of non-human ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD

  • The Mind of Thucydides

    by Jacqueline de Romilly ...
    Translated by Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings ...
    Series Book 62 - Cornell Studies in Classical Philology
    The publication of Jacqueline de Romilly's Histoire et raison chez Thucydide in 1956 virtually transformed scholarship on Thucydides. Rather than mining The Peloponnesian War to speculate on its layers of composition or second-guess its accuracy, it treated it as a work of art deserving rhetorical and aesthetic analysis. Ahead of its time in its sophisticated focus upon the verbal texture of ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD