Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help
Rakuten Kobo
Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Understanding Classics eBook Series

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results
Skip side bar filters

  • Latin Love Poetry

    by Denise Eileen McCoskey, Zara Martirosova Torlone ...
    Series series Understanding Classics
    I hate and I love.' The Roman poet Catullus expressed the disorienting experience of being in love in a stark contradiction that has resonated across the centuries. While his description might seem to modern readers natural and spontaneous, it is actually a response planned with great care and artistry. It is that artistry, and the way in which Roman love poetry works, that this book explores. ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • The Nibelungenlied: The Lay of the Nibelungs

    The Lay of the Nibelungs

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'In ancient tales many marvels are told us ... now you may hear such marvels told!' The greatest of the heroic epics to emerge from medieval Germany, the Nibelungenlied is a revenge saga of sweeping dimensions. It tells of the dragon-slayer Sivrit, and the mysterious kingdom of the Nibelungs with its priceless treasure-hoard guarded by dwarves and giants, of Pr�nhilt the Amazonian queen, fortune ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Introduction to the Bible

    by Christine Hayes ...

    $12.99 USD

  • 6th Grade History: First Civilizations

    Ancient Civilizations for Kids Sixth Grade Books

    by Baby Professor ...
    Series series Children's Ancient History Books
    Going back to the past is both scary and exciting, with it being mysterious and all. But this picture book provides just the right sneak peek into forgotten times. Here, you get to see for yourself how ancient civilizations lived and how their lives are so tightly knitted with ours. This is an exciting book to keep, so make sure you get a copy now! ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Torture and Truth (Routledge Revivals)

    by Page duBois ...
    First published in 1991, this book — through the examination of ancient Greek literary, philosophical and legal texts — analyses how the Athenian torture of slaves emerged from and reinforced the concept of truth as something hidden in the human body. It discusses the tradition of understanding truth as something that is generally concealed and the ideas of ‘secret space’ in both the female body ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Ancient Philosophical Poetics

    by Malcolm Heath ...
    Series series Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy
    What is poetry? Why do human beings produce and consume it? What effects does it have on them? Can it give them insight into truth, or is it dangerously misleading? This book is a wide-ranging study of the very varied answers which ancient philosophers gave to such questions. An extended discussion of Plato's Republic shows how the two discussions of poetry are integrated with each other and with ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Aristotle's Politics

    A Critical Guide

    Edited by Thornton Lockwood, Thanassis Samaras ...
    Series series Cambridge Critical Guides
    Arguably the foundational text of Western political theory, Aristotle's Politics has become one of the most widely and carefully studied works in ethical and political philosophy. This volume of essays offers fresh interpretations of Aristotle's key work and opens new paths for students and scholars to explore. The contributors embrace a variety of methodological approaches that range across the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Middle English Romances of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (Routledge Revivals)

    by Mehl Dieter ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in English in 1968, this book provides a critical guide to the wide field of the Middle English Romances and gives a helpful survey of the contemporary state of scholarship. Dr Mehl traces the development of Middle English Romances from thee thirteenth to the end of the fourteenth century, and interprets a number of these romances. The emphasis is literary, on their form and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus: Volume 5, Book 4

    by Proclus, Dirk Baltzly ...
    Series Book 4 - Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus
    Proclus' commentary on Plato's dialogue Timaeus is arguably the most important commentary on a text of Plato, offering unparalleled insights into eight centuries of Platonic interpretation. It has had an enormous influence on subsequent Plato scholarship. This edition offers the first new English translation of the work for nearly two centuries, building on significant recent advances in ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Passing of Arthur

    New Essays in Arthurian Tradition

    Edited by Christopher Baswell, William Sharpe ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Arthurian Literature
    Originally published in 1988, this volume contains papers from, and commissioned after, "The Passing of Arthur", a conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies in November 1986. No Arthurian story is experienced without some foreknowledge of its end, which the text acknowledges through a complex range of methods. This collection takes this as its point of origin, suggesting that all such ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Gender, Otherness, and Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Art

    Edited by Michelle Moseley-Christian, Carlee A. Bradbury ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection examines gender and Otherness as tools to understand medieval and early modern art as products of their social environments. The essays, uniting up-and-coming and established scholars, explore both iconographic and stylistic similarities deployed to construct gender identity. The text analyzes a vast array of medieval artworks, including Dieric Bouts’s Justice of Otto III, ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Rewriting the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon Verse

    Becoming the Chosen People

    by Professor Samantha Zacher ...
    Series series New Directions in Religion and Literature
    The Bible played a crucial role in shaping Anglo-Saxon national and cultural identity. However, access to Biblical texts was necessarily limited to very few individuals in Medieval England. In this book, Samantha Zacher explores how the very earliest English Biblical poetry creatively adapted, commented on and spread Biblical narratives and traditions to the wider population. Systematically ... Read more

    $32.99 USD