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Cambridge University Press Writing in Bronze Age Crete
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Archaeopress Epigraphy in the Digital Age: Opportunities and
Book SynopsisEpigraphy in the Digital Age: Opportunities and Challenges in the Recording, Analysis and Dissemination of Inscriptions originates from the International Conference El patrimonio epigráfico en la era digital: Documentación, análisis y socialización (Madrid, 20–21 June 2019), organized by the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Santiago de Compostela. Taking the results of the conference as a starting point, the book presents epigraphic research using digital and computational tools, bringing together and comparing the outcomes of both well-established projects and newer ones, so as to establish a comprehensive view according to the most innovative trends in investigation. 21 contributions have been gathered together, involving 38 scholars, which address issues related to open-access databases, SfM Photogrammetry and Digital Image Modelling applied to textual restoration, EpiDoc (TEI-XML edition), and Linked Open Data. In this manner, the book offers a dialogue based on very different perspectives and previous experiences to generate common research questions, methodologies, practical solutions, and significant results. The outcome is intended more a starting point and platform for future research than as a definitive point of arrival in terms of so-called ‘digital epigraphy’.Table of ContentsForeword – Isabel Velázquez Soriano and David Espinosa Espinosa ; Part 1: Preliminary Issues ; Chapter 1: Digital Projects in Epigraphy: Research Needs, Technical Possibilities, and Funding Problems – Silvia Orlandi ; Chapter 2: The Need for an Innovative Approach to the Study of Latin Epigraphic Poetry – Concepción Fernández-Martínez ; Chapter 3: The Role Played by Epigraphy in Archaeological Divulgation – Rosario Cebrián Fernández ; Part 2: Digital Recording and Analysis Techniques in Epigraphy ; Chapter 4: Virtual Epigraphy: Virtual Museums and 3D Epigraphy – Javier Andreu Pintado and Pablo Serrano Basterra ; Chapter 5: Digital Epigraphy: New Technologies and 3D Modelling – Aroa Gutiérrez Alonso, Mercedes Farjas Abadía and Rocío Gutiérrez González ; Chapter 6: Reconstructing the Texts of Funerary Inscriptions from Augusta Emerita for the CIL II2 Mérida Project with the Aid of New Technologies – Jonathan Edmondson ; Chapter 7: Tools Integration for Understanding and Deciphering Inscriptions in the PETRAE Database – Florent Comte, Hernán González Bordas, Milagros Navarro Caballero and Nathalie Prévôt ; Chapter 8: A Sample of the Application of Digital Photogrammetry to Latin Epigraphy: The Epitaphs of the Vadinienses in 3D – David Martino García and Luis Coya Aláez ; Chapter 9: The ‘Toros de Guisando’ in the Digital Age – J. Francisco Fabián, Helena Gimeno Pascual, María del Rosario Hernando Sobrino and Hugo Pires ; Chapter 10: ‘Rough-and-Ready’: 3D Models Rescuing some Roman Inscriptions from Lusitania – Joaquín L. Gómez-Pantoja and Ignacio Triguero ; Part 3: Computational Epigraphy and Digital Dissemination ; Chapter 11: Where Can Our Inscriptions Take Us? Harnessing the Potential of Linked Open Data for Epigraphy – Charlotte Tupman ; Chapter 12: Linguistic Markup and Dialectal Variants. The Perspective of the Digital Corpus Supplementum Epigraphicum Creticum (e-SEC) – Alcorac Alonso Déniz ; Chapter 13: Digital Publication of Texts in Palaeo-European Languages and Script. The State-of-the-Art – María José Estarán Tolosa ; Chapter 14: Philology and Technology in the Hesperia and AEHTAM Databanks – Eduardo Orduña, Eugenio R. Luján and Isabel Velázquez ; Chapter 15: The Epigraphica 3.0 Project: Making Accessible and More Readable the Roman Epigraphy from Ourense Province (Galicia, Spain) – David Espinosa Espinosa, Borja Paz Rodríguez and Miguel Carrero Pazos ; Chapter 16: Roman Open Data. CEIPAC’s Amphora Epigraphy Database – José Remesal Rodríguez and Guillem Rull Fort ; Chapter 17: From CIL XV to the CEIPAC Database: Some Results of Dissemination Data – Juan Manuel Bermúdez Lorenzo ; Chapter 18: M(agistratus) H(ispaniae) R(omanae): A Database of Magistrates from Roman Iberia – Silvia Gazzoli ; Chapter 19: Doing Epigraphy with Digital Support: Tools for the Study of Lapidary Epigraphy – The Case of Roman Goldsmiths – Jordi Pérez González ; Chapter 20: Inscriptions by Christians in Late Antique Rome. Some Issues and Perspectives for the Epigraphic Database Bari (EDB) – Antonio E. Felle ; Chapter 21: EPIHUM, a Database for Renaissance Epigraphy from Portugal and Spain – Manuel Blázquez-Ochando and Manuel Ramírez-Sánchez
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Saqi Books The Sultans Feast
Book SynopsisThe Arabic culinary tradition burst onto the scene in the middle of the tenth century, when al-Warraq compiled a culinary treatise titled al-Kitab al-Tabikh (The Book of Dishes), containing over 600 recipes. However, it would take another three centuries for cookery books to be produced in the European continent. For centuries to come, gastronomic writing would remain the sole preserve of the Arab-Muslim world, with cooking manuals and recipe books being produced from Baghdad, Aleppo and Egypt in the East, to Muslim Spain, Morocco and Tunisia in the West. A total of nine complete cookery books have survived from this time, containing a total of nearly four thousand recipes. The Sultan''s Feast by the Egyptian Ibn Mubarak Shah in the fifteenth century is one such book. Reflecting the importance of gastronomy in Arab culture, this culinary treatise features more than 330 recipes - from bread-making and omelettes, to sweets, pickling and aromatics - and tips on a range of topics, from ess
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Penguin Books Ltd On the Good Life Penguin Classics
Book SynopsisFor the great Roman orator and statesman Cicero, 'the good life' was at once a life of contentment and one of moral virtue - and the two were inescapably intertwined. This volume brings together a wide range of his reflections upon the importance of moral integrity in the search for happiness. In essays that are articulate, meditative and inspirational, Cicero presents his views upon the significance of friendship and duty to state and family, and outlines a clear system of practical ethics that is at once simple and universal. These works offer a timeless reflection upon the human condition, and a fascinating insight into the mind of one of the greatest thinkers of Ancient Rome.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provideTable of ContentsIntroductionList of Greek and Latin Terms1. Discussions at Tusculum (V)2. On Duties (II)3. Laelius: On Friendship4. On the Orator (I)5. The Dream of ScipioAppendicesI. The Philosophical Works of CiceroII. The Rhetorical Works of CiceroIII. Principal DatesIV. Some Books about CiceroGenealogical TablesMapsIndex
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Harvard University Press Lysis. Symposium. Phaedrus
Book SynopsisWorks in this volume explore the relationship between two people known as love (erōs) or friendship (philia). In Lysis, Socrates meets two young men at a wrestling school; in Symposium, he joins a company of accomplished men at a drinking party; and in Phaedrus, experimental speeches about love lead to a discussion of rhetoric.
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Liverpool University Press Longus Daphnis and Chloe Aris Phillips Classical
Book SynopsisThis edition of Daphnis and Chloe , the best known of the Greek romances, provides the first modern commentary in English on this intriguing work. This is the story of two young people growing up as goatherd and shepherdess, and their discovery of love, sex and their true selves.Trade ReviewI warmly recommend this volume to those interested in ancient fiction and Greek literature in the Roman empire...it will be difficult to supersede the wealth of information and ideas offered in this elegantly produced book.'Table of ContentsPreface INTRODUCTION DAPHNIS AND CHLOE Book one Book two Book three Book four COMMENTARY Book one Book two Book three Book four
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HarperCollins Publishers The Canterbury Tales
Book SynopsisHarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.
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Penguin Books Ltd Frogs and Other Plays
Book SynopsisThree plays from Aristophanes, the master of Ancient Greek comedyMarrying deft social commentary to a rich, earthy comedy, the three comedies collected in Aristophanes' The Frogs and Other Plays offers a unique insight into one of the most turbulent periods in Ancient Greek history. The master of ancient Greek comic drama, Aristophanes combined slapstick, humour and cheerful vulgarity with acute political observations. In The Frogs, written during the Peloponnesian War, Dionysus descends to the Underworld to bring back a poet who can help Athens in its darkest hour, and stages a great debate to help him decide between the traditional wisdom of Aeschylus and the brilliant modernity of Euripides. The clash of generations and values is also the object of Aristophanes' satire in Wasps, in which an old-fashioned father and his loose-living son come to blows and end up in court. And in Women at the Thesmophoria, the famous Greek tragedian Euripides,
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Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale 300000 Kisses
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Pan Macmillan Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
Book SynopsisIn Divine Might Natalie Haynes, author of the bestselling Pandora’s Jar, returns to the world of Greek myth and this time she examines the role of the goddesses.We meet Athene, who sprang fully formed from her father’s head: goddess of war and wisdom, guardian of Athens. We run with Artemis, goddess of hunting and protector of young girls (apart from those she decides she wants as a sacrifice). Here is Aphrodite, goddess of sex and desire – there is no deity more determined and able to make you miserable if you annoy her. And then there’s the queen of all the Olympian gods: Hera, Zeus’s long-suffering wife, whose jealousy of his dalliances with mortals, nymphs and goddesses lead her to wreak elaborate, vicious revenge on those who have wronged her.We also meet Demeter, goddess of agriculture and mother of the kidnapped Persephone, we sing the immortal song of the Muses and we warm ourselves with Hestia, goddess of the hearth and sacrificial fire. The Furies carry flames of another kind – black fires of vengeance for those who incur their wrath.These goddesses are as mighty, revered and destructive as their male counterparts. Isn’t it time we looked beyond the columns of a ruined temple to the awesome power within?
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Confessions
Book Synopsis"Williams's masterful translation satisfies (at last!) a long-standing need. There are lots of good translations of Augustine's great work, but until now we have been forced to choose between those that strive to replicate in English something of the majesty and beauty of Augustine's Latin style and those that opt instead to convey the careful precision of his philosophical terminology and argumentation. Finally, Williams has succeeded in capturing both sides of Augustine’s mind in a richly evocative, impeccably reliable, elegantly readable presentation of one of the most impressive achievements in Western thought—Augustine's Confessions." —Scott MacDonald, Professor of Philosophy and Norma K. Regan Professor in Christian Studies, Cornell UniversityTrade Review"A major new translation of what is no doubt Augustine's best known and most influential work. There are many good translations of the Confessions, but this is the first one to be carefully sensitive to the philosophical nuances of Augustine's text. The careful yet readable translation is accompanied by an informative and thoughtful Introduction, ample notes, and appendices." —Paul Vincent Spade, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Indiana University, Bloomington
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Harvard University Press Roman History Volume V
Book SynopsisAppian (ca. AD 95–161) is a principal source for the history of the Roman Republic. His theme is the process by which Rome achieved her contemporary prosperity, and his method is to trace in individual books the story of each nation’s wars with Rome up through her own civil wars. This Loeb edition replaces the original by Horace White (1912–13).Trade ReviewA superb, nuanced translation…It is not simply that McGing updates the translation to reflect contemporary idiom; he also breathes new life into Appian’s prose on almost every page…This exceptionally well executed Loeb is a welcome resource that will be deeply appreciated by all those interested in Appian and his remarkable Roman History as well as expand his appeal to a new generation of readers. -- Alain M. Gowing * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *I have not read any fictions that have more dramatic tension, philosophy, or narrative curiosities than this history of Appian’s. * Pennsylvania Literary Journal *
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Harvard University Press The Poems of Christopher of Mytilene and John
Book SynopsisPoems of Christopher of Mytilene and John Mauropous collects the varied Byzantine Greek verses of these witty and vibrant poets their epigrams, satires, encomia, polemics, and more in English for the first time.
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Viking Society for Northern Research Vilmundar saga vidutan. The Saga of Vilmundur the
Book SynopsisVilmundar saga viðutan is an entertaining romance composed in the late Middle Ages in Iceland, where it remained popular for another five centuries. It tells of the adventures of Vilmundur, the rustic son of a farmer, whose rise through society is characterised by a combination of unrefined social etiquette and raw athletic prowess. Influenced by narratives of both indigenous and foreign origin, the saga is a good example of the eclecticism that characterises medieval Icelands indigenous romances. It also holds a place of folkloric significance, as it is currently the earliest known variant of the Cinderella folktale (ATU 510A) which contains a cinder-name. Discussion of all this and other points of literary, textual and folkloric interest can be found in the introduction of this volume, which precedes a facing-page text and English translation of the saga.
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Editorial Alma Meditaciones
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Harvard University Press The Histories Volume IV
Book SynopsisIn his history, Polybius (ca. 200–118 BC) is centrally concerned with how and why Roman power spread. The main part of the work, a vital achievement despite the incomplete state in which all but the first five books of an original forty survive, describes the rise of Rome, its destruction of Carthage, and its eventual domination of the Greek world.Trade ReviewPolybius found a brilliant subject for his history in the Roman drive to supremacy in the Mediterranean. As an experienced Greek politician who lived as a hostage among the elite in Rome from 167 to 159 BC, he was ideally positioned to write it. He had formidable organizational powers, and he really did know what he was talking about. Without him, our understanding of the whole period and of the dynamics of Roman imperialism would be inconceivably impoverished. -- Denis Feeney * Times Literary Supplement *
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Harvard University Press History of Rome Volume Xi
Book SynopsisLivy (Titus Livius, 64 or 59 BC AD 12 or 17), the Roman historian, presents a vivid narrative of Rome's rise from the traditional foundation of the city in 753 or 751 BC to 9 BC and illustrates the collective and individual virtues necessary to maintain such greatness. The fourth decad (31 40) focuses on Rome's growing hegemony in the East.Trade ReviewThese new Loebs are superior to the old ones in almost every way…The true superiority of Yardley’s work lies, first of all, in the translation: he is an outstanding translator of Livy. -- Joseph B. Solodow * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
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HarperCollins Publishers THE POEMS OF CATULLUS
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Harvard University Press Problems Volume I
Book SynopsisAlthough Problems is an accretion of multiple authorship over several centuries, it offers a fascinating technical view of Peripatetic method and thought.Trade ReviewMayhew's new edition and translation are sure to draw more English-speaking readers to this fascinating text, whose present neglect is all the more startling given its former influence on Classical Arabic and Early Modern natural philosophy...Mayhew's new edition is extremely welcome, a huge advance on its predecessor, and the best value edition currently available in any language. -- Oliver Thomas * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
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Picador USA Why Homer Matters A History
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University of California Press The Iliad
Book SynopsisDealing with western literature, this poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and the gods. It captures the Iliad in all its surging thunder for a new generation of readers.Trade Review"A fine translation, accurate and energetic." -- Thomas L. Cooksey Library Journal "Taken as a whole this is the best line-for-line translation of the poem I know." -- Colin Burrow London Review of Books "By "preserving the strangeness" of Homer, [Peter Green] gives the reader the fullest possible access to the ancient mind, into Homer's distant universe of wine-faced seas, god-like men and bronze skies." -- Kate Havard The Washington Free Beacon "Translating Homer into English is almost a genre of its own... Is there still a gap in the market? Peter Green's new translation shows that there is... his particular merit lies in achieving a clarity and fluidity that carries the reader (or indeed the declaimer) forward... a notable achievement." -- Richard Jenkyns TLS "Readers will learn a great deal about the Iliad from Green's detailed introduction and from comprehensive synopses of each book. A list summarizing the roles of main characters (Achilles to Zeus) and an index of names will benefit new readers as well as pros... Summing Up: Highly recommended." -- R. Cormier CHOICE "Everything [in this book] is oriented towards helping us to understand the poem on its terms, and to appreciate its intricacy and subtlety, its grandeur and pathos, and its incomparable beauty." Claremont Review of Books "Green shows the wonderful things that can happen when Homeric rhythms are combined with a free-flowing and naturalistic English." ARGO "As reading Great Books migrates from the core of a college education to the margins, it's worth reflecting on just what students are missing and celebrating that there is a new addition to the Iliad family." National ReviewTable of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Introduction THE ILIAD Synopsis Glossary Select Bibliography
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Richard Schober D/B/A Tough Poets Press Sarpedon A Play by Gregory Corso
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Harvard University Press Fragments of Old Comedy Volume II Diopeithes to
Book SynopsisThe era of Old Comedy (ca. 485ca. 380 BC), when theatrical comedy was created and established, is best known through the extant plays of Aristophanes. But the work of many other poets, including Cratinus and Eupolis, the other members, with Aristophanes, of the canonical Old Comic Triad, survives in fragments.Trade ReviewThis edition of Old Comic fragments is a welcome addition to the world of classics...This is a comprehensive and all-encompassing work; the introductions, the bibliographies, the notes, the apparatuses, the treatment of the papyrus fragments, the vase-section, have all been conscientiously and assiduously composed; and so these volumes will serve as an immensely useful tool for both scholars and students for a considerable time. Storey is to be highly commended for bringing this intricate task to completion. -- Athina Papachrysostomou * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Norse Romance I: The Tristan Legend
Book SynopsisText with facing translation of the Scandinavian versions of the Tristan legend. This is the first in a set of three volumes making available for the first time critical editions and translations of important medieval Arthurian texts from Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Devoted to the Tristan legend. It contains Geitarlauf and Janual, Old Norse translations of the French lais Lanval and Chevrefeuil; Tristrams saga ok Isöndar, Brother Thomas's Old Norse translation of Thomas's Tristan, dated 1226 and commissioned by King Hákon Hákonarson the Old of Norway; "Tristrams kvædi", a fourteenth-century Icelandic "Tristan" ballad; and the Saga af Tristram ok Isodd, a fourteenth-century Icelandic version of the Old Norse Tristrams saga ok Isöndar. The translators are: ROBERT COOK, PETER JORGENSEN, JOYCE HILL, MARIANNE E. KALINKE. Professor MARIANNE KALINKE teaches in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Trade ReviewA welcome resource... Validates its texts as a significant corpus of Arthuriana and will appeal to a wide readership of medievalists. * SAGA-BOOK OF THE VIKING SOCIETY *A major contribution, not only to the Old Norse field, but to the broader world of medieval literature and culture... will endure for years to come. * SPECULUM *Those responsible for bringing out this series have performed a service to readers, showing how mediaeval Scandinavia dealt with the matter of Britain. * SCANDINAVICA *Provide access to some of the most important Norse versions of French Arthurian narrative ... a very valuable service... will make this corpus of Arthurian literature better known to a non-specialist readership. * SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES *
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University of Alberta Press Recognition and Modes of Knowledge Anagnorisis
Book SynopsisA comprehensive and comparative examination of the concept of recognition across history and disciplines.Trade Review".11 papers are presented here on such topics as recognition and identity in Euripides' Ion, ethical epiphany in the story of Judah and Tamar, Thomas Aquinas on Christian recognition in the case of Mary Magdalene, the interruption of traumatic doubling in the interpolated tale of Dorotea, Spenser's bad romance, and Plato and the contemporary politics of recognition." Book News Inc., 2013
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The University of Chicago Press Oedipus the King
Book SynopsisOver the years, Grene and Lattimore's "Complete Greek Tragedies" have been the preferred choice of millions of readers - for personal libraries, individual study, and classroom use. This title presents Sophocles' searing tale of jealousy, rage, and revenge.Trade Review"This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody." - Kenneth Rexroth, Nation "The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary.... They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase." - Times Education Supplement "Grene is one of the great translators." - Conor Cruise O'Brien, Sunday Times "These translations belong to our time. A keen poetic sensibility repeatedly quickens them; and without this inner fire the most academically flawless rendering is dead." - Warren D. Anderson, American Oxonian "The critical commentaries and the versions themselves... are fresh, unpretentious, and above all, functional." - Commonweal "These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket." - Robert Brustein, New Republic, on "David Grene and Richmond Lattimore's Complete Greek Tragedies"
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University of California Press The Aeneid of Virgil 35th Anniversary Edition
Book SynopsisRecounting the wanderings of Aeneas and his companions after the fall of Troy, this edition of Virgil's epic poems contains fourteen renderings created by Barry Moser to illustrate this volume.
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Scottish Text Society Older Scots: A Linguistic Reader
Book SynopsisA full introduction to Older Scots language and literature, with a wide selection of copiously annotated texts from the period. This book enables both students and more advanced scholars to develop a comprehensive understanding of Older Scots, the form of Scots which survives in records up to around 1700. It provides the means of understanding the language's essential characteristics, and enables readers to engage with the fascinating textual and linguistic problems which it presents. The volume contains an extensive set of annotated texts from the period, inviting closer engagement with the detail of the language, which are preceded by a comprehensive introduction to and discussion of the subject; it also looks at the linguistic detail (in the broadest sense) of the reception and afterlife of medieval andearly modern Scottish texts. Those interested in literary form in Older Scottish literature will find it a "kit" for stylistic analysis; book historians will appreciate the detailed studies of processes of production and reception, and be reminded of the importance of integrating disciplines such as textual criticism, codicology, paleography and philology; and for linguists, there is access to an unrivalled body of up-to-date textual information, previously hard to find in a single place. Jeremy J. Smith is Professor of English Philology, University of Glasgow.Trade ReviewMakes a vital contribution to Older Scots studies. [It] will be much appreciated by scholars and students alike.... The combination of high calibre scholarship, carefully selected texts, and a lucid, engaging written style, ensures that Smith's Linguistic Reader makes the Older Scots language come alive for students and researchers alike. * INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SCOTTISH STUDIES *An important tool and reference work for students and teachers who wish to study and teach this corpus. it is lucid, intelligent, and authoritative. * MEDIEVAL REVIEW *A great step forward in the sheer availability of representative texts from the Older Scots period. [...] It will become the standard textbook for these matters in the foreseeable future, not only for students but also academics. * JOURNAL OF IRISH & SCOTTISH STUDIES *[W]elcomed for presenting a linguistically and stylistically wide range of Older Scots texts in accessible form [...] this book will be welcomed by all teachers and researchers in the field. * SCOTTISH LANGUAGE *Table of ContentsPreface About Older Scots Transmission Grammar and Lexicon Style in Older Scottish Texts List of Texts Editorial Principles Texts 1: Documents Texts 2: Letters Texts 3: On language and literature Texts 4: Poetry Texts 5: Prose Texts 6: Bible translation Appendix: Older Scots: the first hundred words Bibliography and references
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Harvard University Press Problems Volume II
Book SynopsisAlthough Problems is an accretion of multiple authorship over several centuries, it offers a fascinating technical view of Peripatetic method and thought. Rhetoric to Alexander provides practical advice to orators and was likely composed while Aristotle (384–322 BC) was tutor to Alexander, perhaps by another tutor.
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Princeton University Press The Ancient Near East
Book SynopsisWith more than 130 reading selections and 300 photographs of ancient art, architecture, and artifacts, this title provides an introduction to some of the most significant and widely studied texts of the ancient Near East, including the "Epic of Gilgamesh", "the Creation Epic (Enuma elish)", "the Code of Hammurabi", and "the Baal Cycle".Trade Review"Pritchard enlisted some of the best scholars of his day to translate myths from Mesopotamia, novellas from Egypt, and calendars from Palestine. They provide an amazing backdrop to reread, and in some cases reinterpret, the Bible. Furthermore, the translations themselves are works of art... These translations have staying power. Not only do they convey the cultural environment of the biblical world but they do so with elegance and timeliness. The translators achieved an admirable balance of fidelity to the original compositions and imaginative creativity."--Books & Culture "While there are other collections of texts published more recently with some more current translations, there is no extant, modestly priced volume that includes both texts and pictures tor the many cultures this one includes... [T]his volume can serve well in personal, public, school, and small college libraries with its modest price and collected materials. It provides a wealth of material useful for understanding the ancient Near East."--Susan Tower Hollis, American Reference Books Annual "I recommend the new edition to all academic libraries in light of the quantity of primary source material... [I]t would make an excellent classroom resource."--Tyler Mayfield, Religious Studies ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations xi Foreword ? Daniel E. Fleming xxiii Preface to the 1975 Edition xxvii Preface to the 1958 Edition xxix Chapter I: Egyptian Myths and Tales by John A. Wilson The Memphite Theology of Creation 1 Deliverance of Mankind from Destruction 3 The Story of Si-nuhe 5 The Story of Two Brothers 11 The Journey of Wen-Amon to Phoenicia 14 The Tradition of Seven Lean Years in Egypt 21 Chapter II: Myths and Epics from Mesopotamia A Sumerian Myth by S. N. Kramer The Deluge 25 Akkadian Myths and Epics The Creation Epic (Enuma elish) E. A. Speiser 28 Additions to Tablet V by A. K. Grayson 36 The Epic of Gilgamesh by E. A. Speiser 39 A Cosmological Incantation: The Worm and the Toothache by E. A. Speiser 72 Adapa by E. A. Speiser 73 Descent of Ishtar to the Nether World by E. A. Speiser 77 The Legend of Sargon by E. A. Speiser 82 Nergal and Ereshkigal by A. K. Grayson 83 Pritchard. The Myth of Zu (Anzu) by A. K. Grayson 92 A Babylonian Theogony by A. K. Grayson 99 Chapter III: Hittite Myths by Albrecht Goetze The Telepinus Myth 101 El, Ashertu, and the Storm-god (Elkunirsha and Ashertu) 105 Chapter IV: Ugaritic Myths and Epics by H. L. Ginsberg Poems about Baal and Anath (The Baal Cycle) 107 The Tale of Aqhat 134 Chapter V: Legal Texts Collections of Laws from Mesopotamia The Laws of Eshnunna by Albrecht Goetze 150 The Code of Hammurabi by by Theophile J. Meek 155 The Laws of Ur-Nammu by by J. J. Finkelstein 179 Sumerian Laws by J. J. Finkelstein 182 The Edict of Ammisaduqa by J. J. Finkelstein 183 Documents from the Practice of Law Mesopotamian Legal Documents by Theophile J. Meek, J. J. Finkelstein 187 Aramaic Papyri from Elephantine by H. L. Ginsberg 200 Chapter VI: Treaties Hittite Treaty by Albrecht Goetze Treaty of Suppiluliumas of Aziras of Amurru 205 Akkadian Treaties from Syria and Assyria by Erica Reiner Treaty between Niqmepa of Alalakh and Ir-dim of Tunip 208 Treaty between Idrimi and Pilliya 210 Treaty between Ashurnirari V of Assyria and Mati'ilu of Arpad 210 Treaty of Esarhaddon with Baal of Tyre 212 The Vassal-Treaties of Esarhaddon 213 Chapter VII: Egyptian Historical Texts by John A. Wilson The Expulsion of the Hyksos 226 The Asiatic Campaign of Thut-mose III 228 A Campaign of Seti I in Northern Palestine 234 The Report of a Frontier Official 235 A Syrian Interregnum 236 The War against the Peoples of the Sea 237 The Megiddo Ivories 239 The Campaign of Sheshonk I 239 Asiatics in Egyptian Household Service 240 The War against the Hyksos 242 Chapter VIII: Assyrian and Babylonian Historical Texts A. Leo Oppenheim The Dedication of the Shamash Temple by Yahdun-Lim 246 The Story of Idrimi, King of Alalakh 248 Ashurnasirpal II (883-859): Expedition to the Lebanon 250 The Banquet of Ashurnasirpal II 250 Shalmaneser III (858-824): The Fight against the Aramean Coalition 255 Adad-nirari III (810-783): Expedition to Palestine 258 The Assyrian King List 259 Tiglath-pileser III (744-727): Campaigns against Syria and Palestine 264 Sargon II (721-705): The Fall of Samaria 266 Sennacherib (704-681): The Siege of Jerusalem 269 Esarhaddon (680-669): The Syro-Palestinian Campaign 271 Receipt of Tribute from Palestine 272 The Fall of Nineveh 272 The Fall of Jerusalem 273 The Conquest of Jerusalem 273 Nebuchadnezzar II (605-562) 274 The Mother of Nabonidus 275 Nabonidus and His God 278 The Fall of Babylon 281 Cyrus (557-529) 282 The Uruk King List from Kandalanu to Seleucus II 284 A Seleucid King List 285 Chapter IX: Palestinian Inscriptions by W. F. Albright The Gezer Calendar 287 The Moabite Stone 287 The Ostraca of Samaria 289 The Siloam Inscription 290 A Letter from the Time of Josiah (Mesad Hashavyahu Ostracon) 290 Three Ostraca from Arad 291 The Lachish Ostraca 292 Chapter X: Canaanite and Aramaic Inscriptions Franz Rosenthal Building Inscriptions Yehimilk of Byblos 294 Azitawadda of Adan 294 Kilamuwa of Y'dy-Sam'al 296 Barrakab of Y'dy-Sam'al 297 Cultic Inscriptions Ben-Hadad of Damascus 298 Kilamuwa of Y'dy-Sam'al 298 Zakir of Hamat and Lu'ath 298 Yehawmilk of Byblos 299 The Marseilles Tariff 300 The Carthage Tariff 302 Other Inscriptions The King of Kedar 303 Punic Ex-voto Inscriptions 303 The Amulet from Arslan Tash 304 The Uruk Incantation 305 The Treaty between KTK and Arpad 305 Ahiram of Byblos 310 Agbar, Priest of the Moon-god in Nerab 310 Tabnit of Sidon 310 Eshmun'azar of Sidon 311 Chapter XI: South-Arabian Inscriptions by A. Jamme Sabaean Inscriptions 313 Minaean Inscriptions 315 Qatabanian Inscriptions 318 Hadrami Inscriptions 320 Chapter XII: Egyptian Execration Texts by John A. Wilson The Execration of Asiatic Princes 322 Chapter XIII: Egyptian Hymns by John A. Wilson The Hymn to the Aton 324 Hymn of Victory of Mer-ne-Ptah ("The Israel Stela") 328 Chapter XIV: Mesopotamian Hymns Sumerian Hymns by S. N. Kramer Hymn to Ninurta as God of Vegetation 330 Hymn to Ninurta as God of Wrath 331 Hymnal Prayer of Enheduanna: The Adoration of Inanna of Ur 332 The King of the Road: A Self-Laudatory Shulgi Hymn 337 An Akkadian Hymn by Ferris J. Stephens Hymn to Ishtar 341 Chapter XV: Didactic and Wisdom Literature Egyptian Instructions by John A. Wilson The Instruction of the Vizier Ptah-hotep 343 The Instruction of Amen-em-Opet 346 Sumerian Didactic and Wisdom Literature Man and His God: A Sumerian Variation of the "Job" Motif by S. N. Kramer 352 Proverbs from Mesopotamia by Robert H. Pfeiffer 357 Akkadian Didactic and Wisdom Literature Observations on Life: A Pessimistic Dialogue between Master and Servant by Robert H. Pfeiffer 358 An Akkadian Fable by Robert D. Biggs 360 Counsels of Wisdom by Robert D. Biggs 362 Ludlul Bel Nemeqi, "I Will Praise the Lord of Wisdom" by Robert D. Biggs 365 The Babylonian Theodicy by Robert D. Biggs 374 Aramaic Proverbs and Precepts The Words of Ahiqar by H. L. Ginsberg 379 Chapter XVI: Oracles and Prophecies The Egyptian Prophecy of Nefer-rohu by John A. Wilson 384 Akkadian Oracles and Prophecies Divine Revelations in Letters from Mari and Ashur by William L. Moran 388 Oracles concerning Esarhaddon by Robert D. Biggs 398 A Letter to Ashurbanipal by Robert D. Biggs 399 An Oracular Dream concerning Ashurbanipal by Robert D. Biggs 400 Prophecies by Robert D. Biggs 400 Chapter XVII: Love Poetry Egyptian Love Songs by John A. Wilson 403 Sumerian Love Poetry by S. N. Kramer Dumuzi and Inanna: Love in the Gipar 404 Dumuzi and Inanna: The Ecstasy of Love 406 Inanna and the King: Blessing on the Wedding Night 408 "The Honey-man": Love-song to a King 410 "Set Me Free, My Sister": The Sated Lover 411 Chapter XVIII: Other Literary Texts An Egyptian Poem In Praise of the City Ramses by John A. Wilson 413 Sumerian Literature by S. N. Kramer The Curse of Agade: The Ekur Avenged 414 Ua-aua: A Sumerian Lullaby 423 Chapter XIX: Letters Akkadian Letters The Mari Letters by W. F. Albright 427 The Amarna Letters by W. F. Albright 429 The Substitute King by William L. Moran 443 A Happy Reign by William L. Moran 444 A Royal Decree of Equity by William L. Moran 444 A Letter to a God by William L. Moran 445 Punishment by Fire by William L. Moran 445 Treaties and Coalitions by William L. Moran 445 "The God of My Father" by William L. Moran 446 A Loan between Gentlemen by William L. Moran 447 A Boy to His Mother by William L. Moran 447 Aramaic Letters by H. L. Ginsberg Letters of the Jews in Elephantine 448 Assignment to a New Lessor of Land Abandoned in the Egyptian Rebellion of 410 B.C. 452 Illustration Credits 455 Index to Biblical References 457 Index 461
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Princeton University Press The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius
Book SynopsisThe Roman poet Propertius is best known as the writer who perfected the Latin love elegy. A contemporary of Virgil and Horace, Propertius has influenced scores of poets - from Ovid to Housman to Pound. This work contains poems that pay tribute to Cynthia, Propertius's romantic obsession, but the scope of these 107 elegies is broad.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2005 National Translation Award, American Literary Translators Association "One very particular modern American poet was famously taken with the Umbrian's lively, pompous, eloquent, pedantic, subtle and comic qualities--what Katz calls his "willful strangeness" and "rough beauty"--namely Ezra Pound. It is a fascinating exercise to compare Katz's sturdily faithful version [to Pound's]."--Paul Cartledge, Sunday TelegraphTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xiii Preserving the Metaphor: Translating Propertius by Vincent Katz xv BOOK ONE 1.1 "Cynthia was the first. She caught me with her eyes" 3 1.2 "nude Love doesn't love artifice in beauty" 7 1.3 "although a pair commanded me, gripped with lust" 11 1.4 "Cynthia is tried by no curse more gravely / than when grace abandons her" 15 1.5 "she comes with a price" 19 1.6 "I wasn't born to praise or fighting" 23 1.7 "This is how my life's used up" 27 1.8 A "Can your tender feet brave the frosts?" 29 1.8 B "Rare Cynthia is mine!" 31 1.9 "I told you how love would be, and you laughed" 33 1.10 "not light is the medicine in my words" 37 1.11 "in the Bay of Naples no love is safe" 41 1.12 "Cynthia was the first, Cynthia will be the last" 45 1.13 "She will be punishment for the despised pain of all of them" 47 1.14 "I'll despise Alcinous' gifts" 51 1.15 "be whatever you want, just not alien" 53 1.16 "Once I was opened to great triumphs" 57 1.17 "God damn him! who first prepared ship and sail" 61 1.18 "let the rocks be full of your name" 65 1.19 "There, whatever I'll be, I'll always be called your image" 69 1.20 "You've been warned, Gallus: protect your love" 71 1.21 "Gallus ... / tried to escape unknown hands-but was not able" 75 1.22 "What class I am and from where" 77 BOOK TWO 2.1 "The girl alone erects my genius" 81 2.2 "Love got the better of me" 87 2.3 "You are the first Roman girl to recline at Jove's table" 89 2.4 "Let him like boys, if he will be my friend" 95 2.5 "this verse, Cynthia, will be your pallor" 97 2.6 "A wife never, never will a friend lead me astray" 101 2.7 "conquered nations are worth nothing in love" 105 2.8 "Are you going to die then, Propertius, still so young?" 107 2.9 A "My blood will be your greatest triumph" 111 2.9 B "I ... / would not shrink from death, as long as you too die" 115 2.10 "it's time to refresh Helicon with other choruses" 117 2.11 "Let others write about you, or you will be unknown" 121 2.12 "He was the first to see that lovers live without logic" 123 2.13 A "may it please me to have recited in the arms of an educated girl" 125 2.13 B "My procession will be grand enough if it contains my three chapbooks" 127 2.14 "one more night like that, and I'll be immortal" 131 2.15 "With such varied embrace we exchange positions!" 135 2.16 "Can just anyone purchase love with gifts?" 141 2.17 "Nothing on earth is harder than the life of the lover" 147 2.18 A "If you've seen something, always deny you've seen it!" 149 2.18 B "Aurora did not despise Tithonus' aging" 151 2.18 C "Have you gone nuts? You imitate the painted Britons?" 153 2.19 "without me you'll experience only bleak fields" 155 2.20 "I desist not easily, nor rashly do I begin" 159 2.21 "that pretty boyfriend of yours has a wife!" 163 2.22 A "Everywhere I go, I get lucky" 165 2.22 B "If you're tough, say no: if not, come on!" 169 2.23 "To hell with them who keep their portals shut!" 171 2.24 A "it should be no wonder to you I seek out cheap girls" 173 2.24 B "the kind of cheap gifts that glitter on the Via Sacra" 175 2.24 C "Just now you were praising me and reading my poems" 177 2.25 "that beauty will become, through my books, the most famous" 181 2.26 A "I saw you in a dream, my love, in a shipwreck" 185 2.26 B "I hope she never says, 'Poet, get out of my bed' " 187 2.26 C "A single plank will be enough to hold two lovers" 189 2.27 "Our head again tossed into the tumult, we moan" 193 2.28 A "A big mouth and beauty brought you to this" 195 2.28 B "The twisted rhombuses and their magic incantation have failed" 199 2.28 C "Neither beauty nor fortune is permanent" 201 2.29 A "a band of little boys ... suddenly appeared" 203 2.29 B "from that moment on, I haven't had a happy night" 205 2.30 A "even though you may sin, he is a forgiving god" 207 2.30 B "Can it be wrong to live for one woman, contented?" 209 2.31 "Phoebus' golden / portico was opened by mighty Caesar" 211 2.32 "Whoever sees, sins" 213 2.33 A "Already the dreary ritual returns" 219 2.33 B "Languid, you drink: midnight can't break you" 221 2.34 "Why would anyone entrust their mistress' beauty to Love?" 223 BOOK THREE 3.1 "Let the verse be finished with light pumice" 233 3.2 "These poems will be so many monuments to your beauty" 237 3.3 "I had put my little mouth to this gushing source" 239 3.4 "The god Caesar plans war against the luxurious Indians" 243 3.5 "Love is a god of Peace" 245 3.6 "Tell me what you really know about my girl" 249 3.7 "Money, you are the cause of life's problems!" 253 3.8 A "It's not real passion that you don't turn to reproaches" 259 3.8 B "Be happy, since no girl's as pretty" 263 3.9 "Huge sails don't fit my raft" 265 3.10 "May the day pass without clouds, may winds stand in the air" 271 3.11 "Why do you wonder if a woman perverts my life" 275 3.12 "may all you greedy bastards perish" 281 3.13 "You ask why a night with gluttonous girls costs so much" 285 3.14 "We marvel, Sparta, at the rules of your wrestling school" 291 3.15 "she knowingly moistened my raw spirit" 295 3.16 "Middle of the night, and a letter comes from my mistress" 299 3.17 "give me calm, father, and favorable sails" 303 3.18 "hateful Baiae ... / what hostile god stands in your water?" 307 3.19 "Our lust is often tossed in my face by you" 311 3.20 "A stiff who could trade his girl for profit!" 315 3.21 "I am forced to make the Great Tour to learned Athens" 319 3.22 "Here, Anio, you flow through Tibur, Clitumnus near the Umbrian / path" 323 3.23 "It seems my clever tablets have disappeared" 327 3.24 "Your confidence in your beauty is unfounded, woman" 329 3.25 "I was a joke at dinner parties among the set tables" 331 BOOK FOUR 4.1 "Rites and holy days I'll sing, and ancient names of places" 335 4.2 "learn the origins of the god Vertumnus" 349 4.3 "I cover the chapels with flowers, I fill the crossroads with vervain" 355 4.4 "a lofty dowry comes to you-Rome betrayed" 361 4.5 "Should she will it, loadstone will lose its power to attract iron" 369 4.6 "Muse, we will tell of the temple of Palatine Apollo" 377 4.7 "Spirits do exist. Death doesn't end it all" 385 4.8 "Learn what scandalized the well-watered Esquiline last night" 393 4.9 "The Amphitryonid had driven the oxen through / a tempest" 401 4.10 "Now I begin, revealing the stories of Jove Feretrius" 407 4.11 "I lived distinguished between the two torches" 411 Notes 419 Index of First Lines 451 General Index 455
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Classical Press of Wales What Catullus Wrote: Problems in Textual
Book SynopsisThe poems of Catullus barely managed to survive the Middle Ages. All surviving copies of the collection derive from an extremely corrupt manuscript, and scholars have been working since the Renaissance to reconstruct the original text. This volume aims to contribute to this effort. The authors represent different generations of scholarship and of academic tradition. They here study aspects of the manuscript tradition of the poems and their editorial history as well as contributing directly to the reconstruction of the text. The volume aims to set an example of a collaborative approach to textual criticism, in which significant choices are based not on the judgement of a single authoritative editor, but on the outcome of debate between scholars who represent a broad range of viewpoints.
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Cockatrice Books A Book of Three Birds: A new translation of the Welsh classic
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Carcanet Press Ltd Beowulf
Book SynopsisAny translation is a reading. Chris McCully reads Beowulf as an epic written in English using all the complex metrical conventions of its time, as well as distinctive epic tropes including sea-crossings, oracular pronouncements and encounters with the monstrous. This version renders the original in readable contemporary English but also keeps as close as it can to the older, alliterative metrical system, so that readers may experience something of the textures and formal properties of the original. An `Afterword’ explains the translator’s formal choices and explores the nature of this epic, with its emphasis on tribe, location and mortality. `McCully captures the special magic and power of the Beowulf poet’s word-pile and life-thoughts.’ (Martin Duffell, Fellow of Queen Mary, University of London)
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Tales from Tang Dynasty China: Selections from
Book SynopsisCompiled during the Song dynasty (960–1279) at the behest of Emperor Taizong, the Taiping Guangji anthologized thousands of pages of unofficial histories, accounts, and minor stories from the Tang dynasty (618–907). The twenty-two tales translated in this volume, many appearing for the first time in English, reveal the dynamism and diversity of society in Tang China. A lengthy Introduction as well as introductions to each selection further illuminate the social and historical contexts within which these narratives unfold. This collection offers a wealth of information for anyone interested in medieval Chinese history, religion, or everyday life.Trade Review"This new collection of Tang dynasty tales translated from the Taiping Guangji is an outstanding new resource for students of China. The stories are well-chosen to represent the fascinating breadth of medieval Chinese culture—tales of romance, politics, revenge, and interactions with the supernatural bring to life the richness of medieval religion and society. The translations themselves are accurate and compelling. The authors and translators provide concise, clear introductions to each story and to the volume as a whole, and the collection is carefully organized and indexed so that teachers and students can explore stories on different topics. Lively and accessible to the non-specialist reader, this volume will make a terrific addition to any course on China." —Anna M. Shields, Princeton University"Hackett has published a considerable number of excellent books in various areas of premodern Chinese Studies. Slim, straightforward, and affordable, especially in paperback form, these books are usually of outstanding scholarly quality and thus perfectly suited for undergraduate teaching. In the last decade, translations from vernacular Chinese literature have formed a particularly interesting part of Hackett’s repertoire. . . . [Tales from Tang Dynasty China is a] splendid addition to this tradition . . . offer[ing] twenty-two stories from the large, imperially commissioned late tenth-century collection Taiping guangji. . . . The twenty-two stories, fascinating and diverse in subject matter and literary form, are gathered under three headings: 'This World,' 'Between Worlds: Otherworldly Encounters in the Human World,' and 'Between Worlds: Travel to Other Worlds.' Each of the uniformly faithful and often elegant translations (on average three pages long) is preceded by a brief introduction (of one to three pages) and followed by a few reading suggestions; annotations are included with the translation in most cases. This contextual placement of each story—in terms of its historical situation, religious implications, and relevance in Chinese literary history, for instance through the elucidation of literary motifs—is a great strength. . . The editors and the publisher are also to be commended for the occasional addition of Chinese words and characters for personal names, important concepts, etc., throughout. . . . Tales from Tang Dynasty China: Selections from the Taiping Guangji will not only make for immensely useful teaching materials, especially for instructors who want to venture beyond the usual anthology pieces, but hopefully also reach appreciative readers beyond the classroom." —Antje Richter, University of Colorado, in Journal of the American Oriental Society"I am very impressed by Tales from Tang Dynasty China. The scholarship is impeccable, the prefaces provide important context to the translated stories, and the quality of the translations is very good. Especially appreciated is the inclusion of original Chinese for proper nouns and poems. Overall, the text is accessible to the general reader, and for this reason, I plan to adopt it for my course Introduction to Chinese Literature, and will also make it a highly recommended title for my course Introduction to Chinese Civilization. In times of escalating textbook prices, the very reasonable price of this volume is noticed and appreciated. In fact, considering the price, I may just make it a required text for the Civilization course." —Curtis Dean Smith, California State University, Sacramento"All in all, with excellent translations, knowledgeable and insightful introductions, as well as a user-friendly index and appendices, this anthology is beyond doubt a valuable addition to the study of Tang tales. I believe it will be enthusiastically welcomed by all students and scholars of Chinese fiction and religions and enjoyed by general readers as well." —Zhenjun Zhang, St. Lawrence University, in Chinese Literature"The reader of Tales from Tang Dynasty China is struck above all by the impressive quality of the translations, which throughout maintain great attention to detail, style, and precision. The first-rate and user-friendly supplementary materials, including the introduction, appendices, bibliography, and index, further enhance the substantial pedagogical and scholarly importance of the volume. [This book] represents an invaluable contribution to the field of Chinese literary studies and a critical resource for students, instructors, and researchers of Tang literature and culture." —Rebecca Doran, University of Miami, in Journal of Chinese Religions
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Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co Paradiso
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HarperCollins Publishers How to Be Life Lessons from the Early Greeks
Book SynopsisA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARWhat is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other?Before the Greeks, the idea of the world was dominated by god-kings and their priests, in a life ruled by imagined metaphysical monsters. 2,500 years ago, in a succession of small eastern Mediterranean harbour-cities, that way of thinking began to change. Men (and some women) decided to cast off mental subservience and apply their own worrying and thinking minds to the conundrums of life.These great innovators shaped the beginnings of philosophy. Through the questioning voyager Odysseus, Homer explored how we might navigate our way through the world. Heraclitus in Ephesus was the first to consider the interrelatedness of things. Xenophanes of Colophon was the first champion of civility. In Lesbos, the Aegean island of Sappho and Alcaeus, the early lyric poets asked themselves How can I be true to myself?' In Samos, Pythagoras Trade Review A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘What links all Nicolson’s writing, though, is a tireless and tigerish sense of wonder and curiosity; a bounding willingness to immerse himself and his reader deeply in his subject: life… I’m not sure I’ve ever read a book that marries such profundity with such a sense of fun. How to Be delivers wholeheartedly on the promise of its vaunting title. It is like a net strung between the deep past and the present, a blueprint for a life well lived’ OBSERVER ‘This eminently readable tour of Greek philosophy from approximately 650 to 450 B.C. brings the ‘sea-and-city world’ of Heraclitus and Homer to life . . . [He shows] the early Greeks developed intellectual habits, chief among them the use of questioning as the basis of knowing, which laid the groundwork for Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, and for how we reason today’ NEW YORKER ‘Wise, elegant . . . richer and more unusual than [the self-help genre], an exploration of the origins of Western subjectivity’ WASHINGTON POST 'Seductive… a poetic tour of philosophical thought’ SPECTATOR ‘Passionate, poetic, and hauntingly beautiful, Adam Nicolson’s account of the west’s earliest philosophers brings vividly alive the mercantile hustle and bustle of ideas traded and transformed in a web of maritime Greek cities.. In this life-affirming, vital book, those ideas sing with the excitement of a new discovery’ David Stuttard ‘It’s hard not to be dazzled by this book … No one else writes with the originality, energy and persuasiveness of Adam Nicolson. It’s like encountering the Greek sea. It takes your breath away’ Laura Beatty, bestselling author of Lost Property
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Harvard University Press Guardian of a Dying Flame
Book SynopsisArthur McKeown examines newly revealed Tibetan and Chinese biographies of Sariputra and a collection of historical documents in Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Chinese. These sources point to a fundamental reconsideration of later Indian Buddhism, its relationship with Brahmanism and Islam, and its enduring importance throughout Asia.
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in
Book SynopsisThis new edition of Anthology of Classical Myth offers selections from key Near Eastern texts—the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, Epic of Creation (Enuma Elish), and Atrahasis; the Hittite Song of Emergence; and the flood story from the book of Genesis—thereby enabling students to explore the many similarities between ancient Greek and Mesopotamian mythology and enhancing its reputation as the best and most complete collection of its kind.Trade ReviewReview of the first edition: "This book is a treasure-trove. It will be hugely useful to instructors teaching any level of mythology course. Not only does it provide, under one cover, good translations of the two complete books essential to every course (Theogony; Homeric Hymns), but it also offers hundreds of pages of additional primary material. . . . No other book in English offers such a wide range of well-translated and important sources. This will be the perfect complement to courses in myth and ancient civilization, making exploration of the mythic heritage richer and more intellectually exciting for all. . . . The quality of translation is universally high—passages are simple, direct, accurate, yet preserve (as the editors wished) a good sense of the native stylistic variations found in the range of excerpts." —Richard Martin, Stanford UniversityReview of the first edition: "I am astonished by the simplicity of the idea, and, at the same time, the complexity of the effort, that joined to produce this outstanding work . . . the organization is impeccable and the selection is provocative. [An] invaluable contribution to the way we teach Classical myth at the university level." —Monica Cyrino, University of New MexicoReview of the first edition: "I believe any mythology teacher who uses primary texts should order this volume for their classes; I certainly will. While the combination of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns in one volume is in itself welcome, the addition of Apollodorus, Pausanias, Lucian, and Ovid's Heroides, among many others, should prove irresistible to experienced teachers of myth. . . . The introductory materials are very clear and well presented." —Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Temple University
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in
Book SynopsisThis new edition of Anthology of Classical Myth offers selections from key Near Eastern texts—the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, Epic of Creation (Enuma Elish), and Atrahasis; the Hittite Song of Emergence; and the flood story from the book of Genesis—thereby enabling students to explore the many similarities between ancient Greek and Mesopotamian mythology and enhancing its reputation as the best and most complete collection of its kind.Trade ReviewReview of the first edition: "This book is a treasure-trove. It will be hugely useful to instructors teaching any level of mythology course. Not only does it provide, under one cover, good translations of the two complete books essential to every course (Theogony; Homeric Hymns), but it also offers hundreds of pages of additional primary material. . . . No other book in English offers such a wide range of well-translated and important sources. This will be the perfect complement to courses in myth and ancient civilization, making exploration of the mythic heritage richer and more intellectually exciting for all. . . . The quality of translation is universally high—passages are simple, direct, accurate, yet preserve (as the editors wished) a good sense of the native stylistic variations found in the range of excerpts." —Richard Martin, Stanford UniversityReview of the first edition: "I am astonished by the simplicity of the idea, and, at the same time, the complexity of the effort, that joined to produce this outstanding work . . . the organization is impeccable and the selection is provocative. [An] invaluable contribution to the way we teach Classical myth at the university level." —Monica Cyrino, University of New MexicoReview of the first edition: "I believe any mythology teacher who uses primary texts should order this volume for their classes; I certainly will. While the combination of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns in one volume is in itself welcome, the addition of Apollodorus, Pausanias, Lucian, and Ovid's Heroides, among many others, should prove irresistible to experienced teachers of myth. . . . The introductory materials are very clear and well presented." —Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Temple University
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Guidance for Women in Twelfth-Century Convents
Book SynopsisCollection of letters and texts offering guidance for nuns, and including selections from Abelard's letters to Heloise. These translated letters and texts composed for younger and older women in twelfth-century convents illuminate the powerful medieval ideals of virginity and chastity. Abelard's history of women's roles in the church and his letteron women's education, both written for Heloise in her work as abbess, are seen here alongside previously untranslated letters and texts for abbesses and nuns in England and France. An interpretive essay explores the practical and spiritual engagement of women's convents with medieval commemorative and memorial practices, showing that the professional concern of women religious with death goes far beyond the stereotype of nuns as dead to the world, or enclosed in living death. VERA MORTON gained an MA in Medieval Studies at the University of Liverpool in 1994. JOCELYN WOGAN-BROWNE is Professor of English at Fordham University, NY.Trade ReviewA significant and lasting contribution to the field of medieval women's religious literature and culture. -- DIANE WATT, THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW
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Cockatrice Books A Courtiers Trifles
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LEGARE STREET PR The Politics and Economics of Aristotle
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Harvard University Press The Kannada Mahabharata: Volume 1
Book SynopsisThe Kannada Mahabharata, known as Kumāravyāsa Bhārata, is an innovative fifteenth-century retelling of the famous Mahabharata story centered on Krishna. Volume 1 includes “The Book of Beginnings” and “The Book of the Assembly.” This abridged edition presents a new English translation and authoritative Kannada text in the Kannada script.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Enuma Elish
Book SynopsisJohannes Haubold is Professor of Classics at Princeton University, USASophus Helle is Postdoctoral Fellow at The Free University of Berlin, Germany and Oxford University, UKEnrique Jiménez is Chair of Ancient Near Eastern Literatures at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, GermanySelena Wisnom is Lecturer in the Heritage of the Middle East, University of Leicester, UK
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Cornell University Press The Retrospective Muse
Book SynopsisThe Retrospective Muse showcases the celebrated work of Froma I. Zeitlin. Over many decades, Zeitlin''s innovative studies have changed the field of classics. Her instantly recognizable work brings together anthropology, gender studies, cultural studies, and an acute literary sensibility to open ancient texts and ideas to new forms of understanding. A selection of her luminous essays on topics still timely today are collected for the first time in a volume that shows the full range and flair of her remarkable intellect. Together, these illuminating analyses show why Zeitlin''s work on ancient Greek culture has had an enduring impact on scholars around the world, not just in classics but across multiple fields. From Homer to the Greek novel, from religion to erotics, from myth and ritual to theatrical performance, she expounds on some of the most important works of ancient writing and some of modernity''s most significant critical questions. Zeitlin''s writing st
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Legare Street Press Des Claudius Ptolemäus Handbuch der astronomie ..
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Legare Street Press M. Tullius Ciceros sämmtliche Briefe übersetzt und erläutert von C.M. Wieland.
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