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  • Saint Aldhelm's Riddles

    de Saint Aldhelm ...
    Traducido por Juster A.M. ...
    The first and one of the finest Latin poets of Anglo-Saxon England, the seventh-century bishop Saint Aldhelm can justly be called “Britain’s first man of letters.” Among his many influential poetic texts were the hundred riddles that made up his Aenigmata. In Saint Aldhelm’s Riddles, A.M. Juster offers the first verse translation of this text in almost a century, capturing the wit, warmth, and ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

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  • The Canterbury Tales

    de Geoffrey Chaucer, Christopher Cannon ...
    Traducido por David Wright ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Whoever best acquits himself, and tells The most amusing and instructive tale, Shall have a dinner, paid for by us all...' In Chaucer's most ambitious poem, The Canterbury Tales (c. 1387), a group of pilgrims assembles in an inn just outside London and agree to entertain each other on the way to Canterbury by telling stories. The pilgrims come from all ranks of society, from the crusading Knight ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

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  • Dialogues and Essays

    de Seneca, Tobias Reinhardt ...
    Traducido por John Davie ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity.' In these dialogues and essays the Stoic philosopher Seneca outlines his thoughts on how to live in a troubled world. Tutor to the young emperor Nero, Seneca wrote exercises in practical philosophy that draw upon contemporary Roman life and illuminate the intellectual concerns of the day. They also have much to say ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Complete Letters

    de Pliny the Younger ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Pliny's letters provide a fascinating insight into Roman life in the period 97 to 112 AD. They document politics, social life, religion, the educational system, the treatment of slaves and include a vivid description of the eruption of Vesuvius. This is a lively and sympathetic new translation. - ;'Gaius Pliny sends greetings to his friend Septicius Clarus...' In these letters to his friends and ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Greek Lives

    de Plutarch ...
    Traducido por Robin Waterfield ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The nine lives in this selection include those of Lycurgus, Pericles, Solon, Nicias, Themistocles, Alcibiades, Cimon, Agesilaus, and Alexander. Portraying virtues to be emulated and vices to be avoided, Plutarch explores with great insight the interplay of character and political action. This new translation is accompanied by a lucid introduction, explanatory notes, bibliographies, maps and ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Medusa

    Solving the Mystery of the Gorgon

    de Stephen R. Wilk ...
    Medusa, the Gorgon, who turns those who gaze upon her to stone, is one of the most popular and enduring figures of Greek mythology. Long after many other figures from Greek myth have been forgotten, she continues to live in popular culture. In this fascinating study of the legend of Medusa, Stephen R. Wilk begins by refamiliarizing readers with the story through ancient authors and classical ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • «My Name is Freida Sima»

    The American-Jewish Women’s Immigrant Experience Through the Eyes of a Young Girl from the Bukovina

    de Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz ...
    Freida Sima (Bertha) Eisenberg Kraus was among the two million Jewish men, women and children who emigrated from Europe to the United States during the Great Wave of Immigration (1881–1914). This book tells her story and that of her family, from her birth in the Bukovina to her immigration to New York City alone at age fifteen in 1911, her immigrant work life, her marriage to a widower with four ... Leer más

    $63.99 USD

  • Twentieth-Century Chaucer Criticism

    Reading Audiences

    de Kathy Cawsey ...
    Shifting ideas about Geoffrey Chaucer's audience have produced radically different readings of Chaucer's work over the course of the past century. Kathy Cawsey, in her book on the changing relationship among Chaucer, critics, and theories of audience, draws on Michel Foucault's concept of the 'author-function' to propose the idea of an 'audience function' which shows the ways critics' concepts of ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • The Mummy Stays in Egypt! History Stories for Children | Children's Ancient History

    de Baby Professor ...
    The story of the mummy has traveled far and wide. Mummies from other cultures were also discovered but those from Ancient Egypt continue to be the most popular and subject of comprehensive studies. But who are the mummies? What links do they have to ancient Egyptian culture and tradition? You’ll know the answer in the pages of this book. ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • Poetic Interplay

    Catullus and Horace

    de Michael C.J. Putnam ...
    Series series Martin Classical Lectures
    The lives of Catullus and Horace overlap by a dozen years in the first century BC. Yet, though they are the undisputed masters of the lyric voice in Roman poetry, Horace directly mentions his great predecessor, Catullus, only once, and this reference has often been taken as mocking. In fact, Horace's allusion, far from disparaging Catullus, pays him a discreet compliment by suggesting the ... Leer más

    $61.19 USD

  • Ancient Epic

    de Katherine Callen King ...
    Series Libro 35 - Blackwell 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 ... Leer más

    $29.00 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Andrew Marvell

    Edición de Derek Hirst, Steven N. Zwicker ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Andrew Marvell is one of the greatest English lyric poets of the seventeenth century and one of its leading polemicists. This Companion brings a set of fresh questions and perspectives to bear on the varied career and diverse writings of a remarkable writer and elusive man. Drawing on important new editions of Marvell's poetry and of his prose, scholars of both history and literature examine ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD