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  • Rime of the Modern Mariner: an American Odyssey

    The philosophical tension between faith and reason is explored in this poetic fantasy. Is the Greater Good a worthy principle? Can a criminal be guiltless? Is Nietzsche not dead? Learn from the Mariner, a yachtsman who admits he is a “skeptic quizzing every cause.”  He and his crew, including his lusty busty mate Priscilla, sail across the Great Lakes to places real and imagined. Follow them on ... Leer más

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  • The Canterbury Tales

    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

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  • Njal's Saga

    Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's Saga is a story that explores perennial human problems-from failed marriages to divided loyalties, from the law's inability to curb human passions to the terrible consequences when decent men and women are swept up in a tide of violence beyond their control. It is populated by memorable and complex characters like Gunnar of Hlidarendi, a powerful warrior ... Leer más

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  • Theater outside Athens

    Drama in Greek Sicily and South Italy

    Edición de Kathryn Bosher ...
    This volume brings together archeologists, art historians, philologists, literary scholars, political scientists, and historians to articulate the ways in which western Greek theater was distinct from that of the Greek mainland and, at the same time, to investigate how the two traditions interacted. The chapters intersect and build on each other in their pursuit of a number of shared questions and ... Leer más

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  • Horace: Satires Book I

    de Horace ...
    Series Libro 1 - Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
    Horace's first book of Satires is his debut work, a document of one man's self-fashioning on the cusp between republic and empire, and a pivotal text in the history of Roman satire. It wrestles with the problem of how to define and assimilate satire and justifies the poet's own position in a suspicious society. The commentary gives full weight to the dense texture of these poems while helping ... Leer más

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  • Homer: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    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

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  • Medieval Invasions in Modern Irish Literature

    de J. Ulin ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Medieval Invasions in Modern Irish Literature offers the first book-length treatment of the literary return to and reinterpretation of Giraldus Cambrensis's twelfth century The History of the Conquest of Ireland. Writers studied include W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, James Joyce, Sean O'Faoláin, Micheál Mac Liammóir, Brendan Behan and Jamie O'Neill. ... Leer más

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  • Combat Trauma and the Ancient Greeks

    Edición de P. Meineck, D. Konstan ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This ground-breaking book applies trauma studies to the drama and literature of the ancient Greeks. Diverse essays explore how the Greeks responded to war and if what we now term "combat trauma," "post-traumatic stress," or "combat stress injury" can be discerned in ancient Greek culture. ... Leer más

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  • Greek Comedy and the Discourse of Genres

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  • Seneca: Hercules Furens

    Series series Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy
    Hercules is the best-known character from classical mythology. Seneca's play Hercules Furens presents the hero at a moment of triumph turned to tragedy. Hercules returns from his final labor, his journey to the Underworld, and then slaughters his family in an episode of madness. This play exerted great influence on Shakespeare and other Renaissance tragedians, and also inspired contemporary ... Leer más

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  • The State of Speech

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    Rhetorical theory, the core of Roman education, taught rules of public speaking that are still influential today. But Roman rhetoric has long been regarded as having little important to say about political ideas. The State of Speech presents a forceful challenge to this view. The first book to read Roman rhetorical writing as a mode of political thought, it focuses on Rome's greatest practitioner ... Leer más

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  • Greek Tragic Style

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    Greek tragedy is widely read and performed, but outside the commentary tradition detailed study of the poetic style and language of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides has been relatively neglected. This book seeks to fill that gap by providing an account of the poetics of the tragic genre. The author describes the varied handling of spoken dialogue and of lyric song; major topics such as ... Leer más

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