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  • The Gentle, Jealous God

    Reading Euripides' Bacchae in English

    de Simon Perris ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
    Euripides' Bacchae is the magnum opus of the ancient world's most popular dramatist and the most modern, perhaps postmodern, of Greek tragedies. Twentieth-century poets and playwrights have often turned their hand to Bacchae, leaving the play with an especially rich and varied translation history. It has also been subjected to several fashions of criticism and interpretation over the years, all ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

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  • The Gallic War

    Seven Commentaries on The Gallic War with an Eighth Commentary by Aulus Hirtius

    de Julius Caesar ...
    Traducido por Carolyn Hammond ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The Gallic War, published on the eve of the civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an autobiographical account written by one of the most famous figures of European history. On one level a straightforward narrative of the campaigns Caesar fought against the Gauls, Germans and Britons, it also serves a deeper political purpose, revealing him as a commander of breathtaking flair, ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • The Decipherment of Linear B

    de John Chadwick ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    The languages of the ancient world and the mysterious scripts, long undeciphered, in which they were encoded have represented one of the most intriguing problems of classical archaeology in modern times. This celebrated account of the decipherment of Linear B in the 1950s by Michael Ventris was written by his close collaborator in the momentous discovery. In revealing the secrets of Linear B it ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Classical Literary Criticism

    The works collected in this volume have profoundly shaped the history of criticism in the Western world: they created much of the terminology still in use today and formulated enduring questions about the nature and function of literature. In Ion, Plato examines the god-like power of poets to evoke feelings such as pleasure or fear, yet he went on to attack this manipulation of emotions and ... Leer más

    $10.99 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

  • Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece

    de Iain Ross ...
    Series Libro 82 - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
    From his boyhood Oscar Wilde was haunted by the literature and culture of ancient Greece, but until now no full-length study has considered in detail the texts, institutions and landscapes through which he imagined Greece. The archaeology of Celtic Ireland, explored by the young Wilde on excavations with his father, informed both his encounter with the archaeology of Greece and his conviction that ... Leer más

    $38.99 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 Challenge of Periodization

    Old Paradigms and New Perspectives

    Edición de Lawrence Besserman ...
    Series series Garland Reference Library of the Humanities
    In these essays some of today's leading literary scholars and cultural critics re-examine major writers, genres, and themes in relation to their traditional period affiliations. The essays cover a broad range of writers and periods from the Middle Ages to the present, grouped in two main areas: Chaucer and Medieval and Renaissance studies (Larry D. Benson, Heiko A. Oberman, Lee Patterson, and Aldo ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Hoplites at War

    A Comprehensive Analysis of Heavy Infantry Combat in the Greek World, 750-100 bce

    de Paul M. Bardunias, Fred Eugene Ray, Jr. ...
    It has been 2500 years since the Greek heavy infantry known as hoplites dominated the battlefield. Yet they still capture the imagination today, through a wave of successful action films, novels and documentaries. The mass-media popularity of these famed warriors has, however, helped spawn a number of misconceptions about them.Drawing on classical literature, archaeology and the latest data from ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • The Mimiambs of Herodas

    Translated into an English ‘Choliambic’ Metre with Literary-Historical Introductions and Notes

    de Mrs Anna Rist ...
    The third-century BC Greek poet Herodas had been all but forgotten until a papyrus of eight of his Mimiambs (plus fragments) turned up in the Egyptian desert at the end of the 19th century. They have since been translated into various modern languages and supplied with scholarly commentaries. This book is the first to attempt to reproduce in English Herodas' 'choliambic' or 'limping' metre (sic) - ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • Horace: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    de Randall McNeill ...
    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 ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Virgil's Ascanius

    Imagining the Future in the Aeneid

    de Anne Rogerson ...
    Series series Cambridge Classical Studies
    Ascanius is the most prominent child hero in Virgil's Aeneid. He accompanies his father from Troy to Italy and is present from the first book of the epic to the last; he is destined to found the city of Alba Longa and the Julian family to which Caesar and Augustus both belonged; and he hunts, fights, makes speeches, and even makes a joke. In this first book-length study of Virgil's Ascanius, Anne ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD