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“aaron m seider”

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  • Memory in Vergil's Aeneid

    Creating the Past

    by Aaron M. Seider ...
    Tracing the path from Troy's destruction to Rome's foundation, the Aeneid explores the transition between past and future. As the Trojans struggle to found a new city and the narrator sings of his audience's often-painful history, memory becomes intertwined with a crucial leitmotif: the challenge of being part of a group that survives violence and destruction only to face the daunting task of ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

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  • Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land

    by Herman Melville ...
    Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land is an American epic poem by Herman Melville, published in two volumes in 1876. Clarel is the longest poem in American literature, stretching to almost 18,000 lines (longer even than European classics such as the Iliad, Aeneid and Paradise Lost). As well its great length, Clarel is notable for being the major work of Melville's later years; in the ... Read more

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  • Ancient Epic

    by Katherine Callen King ...
    Series Book 35 - Wiley Introductions to the Classical World
    Ancient Epic offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to six of the greatest ancient epics – Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Vergil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Apollonius of Rhodes' Agonautica.Provides an accessible introduction to the ancient epicOffers interpretive analyses of poems within a comprehensive historical contextIncludes a detailed timeline, suggestions for further ... Read more

    $29.00 USD

  • A Handbook of Editing Early Modern Texts

    by Claire Loffman, Harriet Phillips ...
    Series series Material Readings in Early Modern Culture
    A Handbook of Editing Early Modern Texts provides a series of answers written by more than forty editors of diverse texts addressing the 'how-to's' of completing an excellent scholarly edition. The Handbook is primarily a practical guide rather than a theoretical forum; it airs common problems and offers a number of solutions to help a range of interested readers, from the lone editor of an ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Seneca (Routledge Revivals)

    by Costa C.D.N. ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This volume, first published in 1974, offers a selection of modern perspectives on Seneca, covering his prose treatises, his letters and his tragedies.For centuries literary and philosophical circles had to take Seneca seriously, even if they could not always respect him, and although his reputation has fluctuated, there has been a revival of interest in his achievements. Accordingly, a large part ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Lucan: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Susanna Braund ...
    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 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Chateaubriand

    The Paradox of Change

    by Malcolm Scott ...
    Series Book 25 - Romanticism and after in France / Le Romantisme et après en France
    This reassessment of Chateaubriand’s literary and political achievements, offered as an intellectual biography of the writer, is centred on the concept of change and Chateaubriand’s emotional suspicion of change, arising both from mistrust of his own inconstancy and from the personal and collective suffering of the French Revolution. His aversion to change spread beyond politics to religion and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Glossae – Scholia – Commentarii

    Studies on Commenting Texts in Antiquity and Middle Ages

    Edited by Mieczyslaw Mejor, Katarzyna Jazdzewska, Anna Zajchowska ...
    Series Book 2 - Studies in Classical Literature and Culture
    The role of commentary as a basic method of research used broadly in both Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages still awaits further analysis. Commentary as a research and didactic method becomes especially interesting in a multicultural perspective: were Buddhist and Arabic texts commented in the same way as it was done by late antique and medieval scholars? The extensive medieval commentary ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Menander in Antiquity

    The Contexts of Reception

    by Sebastiana Nervegna ...
    The comic playwright Menander was one of the most popular writers throughout antiquity. This book reconstructs his life and the legacy of his work until the end of antiquity employing a broad range of sources such as portraits, illustrations of his plays, papyri preserving their texts and inscriptions recording their public performances. These are placed within the context of the three social and ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • The Fall of Cities in the Mediterranean

    Commemoration in Literature, Folk-Song, and Liturgy

    Edited by Mary R. Bachvarova, Dorota Dutsch, Ann Suter ...
    A body of theory has developed about the role and function of memory in creating and maintaining cultural identity. Yet there has been no consideration of the rich Mediterranean and Near Eastern traditions of laments for fallen cities in commemorating or resolving communal trauma. This volume offers new insights into the trope of the fallen city in folk-song and a variety of literary genres. These ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Shakespeare and the Middle Ages

    Edited by Curtis Perry, John Watkins ...
    Shakespeare and the Middle Ages brings together a distinguished, multidisciplinary group of scholars to rethink the medieval origins of modernity. Shakespeare provides them with the perfect focus, since his works turn back to the Middle Ages as decisively as they anticipate the modern world: almost all of the histories depict events during the Hundred Years War, and King John glances even further ... Read more

    $140.39 USD

  • Roman Tragedy

    Theatre to Theatricality

    by Mario Erasmo ...
    Roman tragedies were written for over three hundred years, but only fragments remain of plays that predate the works of Seneca in the mid-first century C.E., making it difficult to define the role of tragedy in ancient Roman culture. Nevertheless, in this pioneering book, Mario Erasmo draws on all the available evidence to trace the evolution of Roman tragedy from the earliest tragedians to the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD