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University of Chicago Press Greek Tragedies 3
Book SynopsisOffers translations of Euripides' Medea, The Children of Heracles, Andromache, and Iphigenia among the Taurians, fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles' The Trackers. In this title, introductions for each play offer information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond.
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The University of Chicago Press Euripides III
Book SynopsisOffers translations of Euripides' Medea, The Children of Heracles, Andromache, and Iphigenia among the Taurians, fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles' The Trackers. In this title, introductions for each play offer information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond.
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The University of Chicago Press Dangerous Counsel Accountability and Advice in
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WW Norton & Co Inferno
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Penguin Putnam Inc Aristophanes The Complete Plays
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Birth of Comedy Texts Documents and Art from
Book SynopsisA full index includes not only authors, play titles, and persons mentioned, but themes from the whole Greek comic sphere (including politics, literature and philosophy, celebrities and social scandals, cookery and wine, sex, and wealth).Trade ReviewA unique resource for the serious study of comedy, this book is vast in scope and of incalculable value for those who do not read Greek. Choice This book is a landmark, which has come to stay. Bryn Mawr Classical Review This volume, which is aimed at general readers... and whose generous dimensions rival the size of an Oxford Classical Dictionary, will be an essential resource for anyone who wants to inquire into what is known of Athenian comedy beyond the surviving plays of Aristophanes and Menander... Rusten offers a concise and balanced account. New England Classical Journal The Birth of Comedy is a singularly ambitious and very welcome work. Times Literary Supplement A true reference book, to be dipped into when certain facts or information are required and thoughtfully arranged in an accessible style. Scholarly and academic in both approach and scope, this is a valuable resource for anyone interested in or researching not only Ancient Greek comedy but also the history of comic plays, theatre and drama. After twenty years spent compiling the material it is a resource that will not date and one that should provide for interesting scholarly debate and research outcomes. Reference Reviews A valuable scholarly enterprise. Classical Journal It will certainly be appearing on my reading lists in future. Journal of Hellenic StudiesTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsSymbols and AbbreviationsIntroductionFragments of ComedyPrinciples of This SelectionHow to Use This BookList of Translators and SectionsPlays and Fragments of Special InterestSources of the Comic FragmentsA Short History of Athenian ComedyAttested Dates of Athenian Comedies, 486–280 BCEPart I. Beginnings1. Proto-Comedy2. Epicharmus of SicilyPart II. Athenian Old ComedyIntroduction3. Festivals, Competitions, and Victory Lists4. The First and Second Generations (except Cratinus)5. Cratinus6. Eupolis7. Aristophanes8. Phrynichus and Platon9. Other Authors, ca. 420–390 BCE10. Theater, Audience, Actors, Chorus, and Costume of Old and Middle Comedy11. Scenes from Old or Middle Comedy on Fourth-Century South Italian VasesPart III. Middle ComedyIntroduction12. Anaxandrides, Eubulus, and Ephippus13. Antiphanes14. Timocles and Nicostratus15. Alexis16. Other AuthorsPart IV. Athenian New ComedyIntroduction17. Masks, Actors, Staging, and Scenes from New Comedy18. Philemon19. Menander20. Diphilus of Sinope21. Other AuthorsEpilogue22. Survival of Comedy in Hellenistic Greece and Republican and Imperial Rome23. Ancient Theories of Comedy and Laughter, and Ancient Writers on ComedyKomoidoumenoiBibliographyIllustration CreditsIndex
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Ohio State University Press Latin Elegy and Narratology Fragments of Story
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Ohio State University Press Catullus in Verona A Reading of the Elegiac
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Ohio State University Press Desiring Rome Male Subjectivity and Reading Ovids
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Undena Publications,U.S. The Late Babylonian Texts of the Oriental
Book SynopsisIn this volume D.B. Weisberg publishes the 54 cuneiform texts, almost all legal texts, from Uruk dated to the Seleucid and Arsacid periods which are preserved in the Tablet Collection of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
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Undena Publications,U.S. Assyrian Documents in the Musee dArt et dHistoire
Book SynopsisThree Neo-Assyrian legal and administrative tablets and four Middle Assyrian administrative fragments, probably mostly from Assur, are discussed here. The texts are published in copy and transliteration, with transliterations and commentary where appropriate.
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Michigan Classical Press Polybius Book I A Commentary
Book SynopsisDavid D. Phillips presents a commentary on Polybius' first book. Volume includes the definitive text by Theodor Buttner-Wobst, with detailed commentary on points of linguistic and historical interest, and an introduction to Polybius' life, the Histories and Polybian language, style, and tone. An index of Greek words is included.Trade Review 'a long-awaited contribution to Polybian scholarship, as it focuses on the historian's language and style and opens up this difficult text to those in need of more direction. 'The fact that this volume was used to and is intended to teach from is clear from the presentation of Polybius' original text. The Greek is printed in a clear and easily readable font, the number of the passages are presented at the top of each page, and the individual passage numbers within the text are highlighted in bold for ease of identification. '... it will open doors to the teaching, analysis and reception of Polybius. It will hopefully be the impetus for further linguistic commentaries on Polybius' work, and the start of a new direction in the teaching of post-classical koinê Greek.' Emma Nicholson, University of Exeter -- Emma Nicholson, University of Exeter * Histos 12 (2018) *Teachers and students reading Polybius in Greek will find this commentary to be a useful asset for understanding the language and context of the first book of the Histories. [...]I recommend this commentary as a companion text for students reading Polybius in Greek at the advanced undergraduate, post-baccalaureate, or early graduate levels. Daniel Walker Moore, University of Virginia -- Daniel Walker Moore, University of Virginia * Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2017.11.54 *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Complete Greek Text of Book Commentary Index of Greek Words
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Abrams The Odyssey of Star Wars
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Digireads.com Oedipus Rex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Women and War in Antiquity
Book SynopsisWomen in ancient Greece and Rome played a much more active role in battle than previously assumed.The martial virtuescourage, loyalty, cunning, and strengthwere central to male identity in the ancient world, and antique literature is replete with depictions of men cultivating and exercising these virtues on the battlefield. In Women and War in Antiquity, sixteen scholars reexamine classical sources to uncover the complex but hitherto unexplored relationship between women and war in ancient Greece and Rome. They reveal that women played a much more active role in battle than previously assumed, embodying martial virtues in both real and mythological combat.The essays in the collection, taken from the first meeting of the European Research Network on Gender Studies in Antiquity, approach the topic from philological, historical, and material culture perspectives. The contributors examine discussions of women and war in works that span the ancient canon, fromTrade ReviewThe essays in this volume open up important but neglected topics for further inquiry, and will be valuable for literary and military historians alike. In addition, the international perspectives represented will challenge scholars to venture beyond traditional interpretations and methodologies, especially regarding the study of gender in antiquity. Bryn Mawr Classical Review Jacqueline Fabre-Serris and Alison Keith's volume, Women & War in Antiquity, provides meaningful contributions to the advancement of this question. Whereas the premise of this book is bold, the scope is equally impressive; articles range in chronology from Homer and the mythohistoric Trojan origins of the classical world to the fall of Christian Rome CLOELIA Women and War in Antiquity is a remarkable collection of historical and literary research, one that has much to interest the generalist, yet is sure to be an essential text for scholars of both ancient warfare and gender in antiquity... This excellent volume lights the way. CJ-Online Fabre-Serris and Keith have assembled an impressive collection of papers that offer insightful interpretations of the relationship between women and war in a variety of Greco-Roman literary and historical contexts...To scholars interested in gender more generally or in the specific topics of individual chapters, this volume's penetrating exploration of a variety of evidence will prompt productive questions for further thought. New England Classical Journal ... ope paths and offer fresh ideas for future research... Classical Word Fabre-Serris and Keith have assembled an impressive collection of papers that offer insightful interpretations of the relationship between women and war in a variety of Greco-Roman literature and historical contexts... To scholars interested in gender more generally or in the specific topics of individual chapters, this volume's penetrating exploration of a variety of evidence will prompt productive questions for further thought. New England Classical JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction1. War, Speech, and the Bow Are Not Women's Business2. Women and War in the Iliad: Rhetorical and Ethical Implications3. Teichoskopia: Female Figures Looking on Battles4. Women Arming Men: Armor and Jewelry5. Woman and War: From the Theban Cycle to Greek Tragedy6. Women after War in Seneca's Troades: A Reflection on Emotions7. Love and War: Feminine Models, Epic Roles, and Gender Identity inStatius's Thebaid8. Elegiac Women and Roman Warfare9. Warrior Women in Roman Epic10. War in the Feminine in Ancient Greece11. To Act, Not Submit: Women's Attitudes in Situations of War in Ancient Greece12. Women's Wars, Censored Wars? A Few Greek Hypotheses (Eighth to FourthCenturies BCE)13. The Warrior Queens of Caria (Fifth to Fourth Centuries BCE): Archeology,History, and Historiography14. Fulvia: The Representation of an Elite Roman Woman Warrior15. Women and Imperium in Rome: Imperial Perspectives16. The Feminine Side of War in Claudian's Epics
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Johns Hopkins University Press Comic Democracies
Book SynopsisAfter recovering these lost chapters of our democratic past, Comic Democracies concludes with a draft for the future, using the old methods of comedy to envision a modern democracy rooted in the diversity, ingenuity, and power of popular art.Trade ReviewFletcher's main theory is convincing and will open up new fields of inquiry. This accessible work is for those interested in political science, cultural history, and comic theory as well as classical literature. ChoiceTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Ancient History of Comedy and Demokratia2. Fortune Favors the Impetuous3. The Virtù of Imitation4. The Pursuit of Indolence5. Quixotic Governance6. Amending Ourselves7. Demokratia at DenshawaiConclusionThe Futures of Comic DemocracyNotesIndex
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Bloomsbury Academic Selections from Tacitus Histories I
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Bloomsbury Academic Selections from Ovid Heroides
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Bloomsbury Academic Selections from Horace Odes III
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Penguin Classics Book
Book SynopsisA historic guide to the world of Penguin Classics from its UK origin, covering a span from the ancient world to World War I, in a luxurious orange clothbound package with colored endpapers, full-color pages, and illustrationsA Penguin Classic HardcoverPenguin Classics is the largest and best-known classics imprint in the world. The Penguin Classics Book covers all the greatest works of fiction, poetry, drama, history, and philosophy in between, this reader's companion encompasses 500 authors, 1,200 books, and 4,000 years of world literature, from ancient Mesopotamia to World War I. Filled with stories of the series' UK origin, author biographies, short book summaries and recommendations, and illustrated with historic Penguin Classic covers, The Penguin Classics Book is an entertaining historic look at the earliest chapters of the world's best-known Classics publisher.
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North Atlantic Books,U.S. The Odyssey
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Medieval Institute Publications The Regiment of Princes
Book SynopsisThomas Hoccleve was born in 1367 and entered government service as clerk in the office of the Privy Seal in 1387, an office that he held until his death in 1426. His earliest datable poem (the "Epistle of Cupid," a free translation of Christine de Pisan's "Epistre au Dieu d'Amour") was completed about 1402. The Regiment of Princes, written about 1410–11, was composed at a time when England was still feeling the consequences of the deposition of Richard II. Essentially it is addressed to a prince on the subject of his governance, but it exhibits considerable generic instability and thus raises fundamental questions about how we should understand the tone of considerable portions of the poem. For all the problems it presents, The Regiment shows that Hoccleve has strengths as a poet. At times he could be a very talented prosodist. In autobiographical sections of the poem he creates a most interesting early-modern subjectivity. He has distinctive observations to make about his time, and, in his self-critical awareness, probes the limits of what is means to be a poet writing in the wake of Chaucer.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Select Bibliography The Regiment of Princes Explanatory Notes Textual Notes Glossary
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Medieval Institute Publications Confessio Amantis, Volume 2
Book SynopsisThe complete text of John Gower's Confessio Amantis is a three-volume edition, including all Latin components - with translations - of this bilingual poem and extensive glosses, bibliography, and explanatory notes. Volume 2 contains Books 2, 3, and 4, which follow in their structure the outline of Vice and its children found in the early French poem the Mirour de l'Omme.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Confessio Amantis Book 2: Envy i. On Envy Sorrow for Another's Joy Tale of Acis and Galatea ii. Joy Over Another’s Grief Tale of the Travelers and the Angel iii. Detraction Tale of Constance Tale of Demetrius and Perseus iv. False-Semblant Tale of Deianira, Hercules, and Nessus v. Supplantation Tale of Geta and Amphitrion Tale of the False Bachelor Tale of Pope Boniface vi. The Pallor of Envy Charity and Pity as Remedy Tale of Constantine and Sylvester Book 3: Wrath i. On Melancholy Tale of Canace and Machaire Tale of Tiresias and the Snakes ii. Contention Patience of Socrates Of Jupiter, Juno, and Tiresias Tale of Phebus and Cornide Jupiter and Laar iii. Hate Tale of King Namplus and the Greeks iv. Contek and Homicide Tale of Diogenes and Alexander Tale of Pyramus and Thisbe On Daunger Tale of Phebus and Daphne Tale of Athemas and Demephon Tale of Orestes v. Evil of War Tale of Alexander and the Pirate On Crusades Tale of Telaphus and Teucer Book 4: Sloth i. On Lachesce, or Procrastination Tale of Aeneas and Dido Tale of Ulysses and Penelope The Great Clerk Grosseteste The Foolish Virgins ii. Pusillamité, or Cowardice Pygmalion and His Statue Tale of Iphis and Iante iii. Forgetfulness Tale of Demophon and Phyllis iv. Negligence Tale of Phaeton Tale of Icarus v. Idleness Tale of Rosiphelee Tale of Jephthah’s Daughter vi. Decerte, or Meritoriousness Tale of Nauplus and Ulysses Examples of Prowess: Protesilaus Saul Education of Achilles Tale of Hercules and Achelons Penthesilea, Philemenis, Aeneas Gentilesse vii. On the Uses of Labor Discoverers and Inventors Alchemy Three Philosopher Stones First Alchemists Letters and Language viii. Somnolence On Dreams Tale of Ceix and Alceone Prayer of Cephalus Tale of Argus and Mercury ix. Tristesse and Despondency Tale of Iphis and Araxarathen Explanatory Notes Textual Notes Bibliography Illustration Figure 1, MS Bodley 902, Fol. 8r.
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Medieval Institute Publications Mary of Nemmegen: The ca. 1518 Translation and
Book SynopsisMary of Nemmegen, a prose condensation in English of the Middle Dutch play Mariken van Nieumeghen, is an important example of the literature that was imported from Holland in the early part of the sixteenth century. It also may be compared to Everyman, described as a treatise "in the manner of a moral play." Mary of Nemmegen is an analogue of the Faustus story. As such, it is also a window on the obsession in its own time with the occult.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Mary of Nemmegen Mariken van Nieumeghen (Dutch text) Mariken of Nijmegen (English translation) Notes to Mary of Nemmegen and Mariken van Nieumeghen Abbreviations Bibliography
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Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of
Book SynopsisThis volume of the Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CHD) is the complete volume of the letter S (-sa to suu-), including fascicles 1-4. The CHD is a comprehensive, bilingual Hittite-English dictionary. The CHD is not just a list of words and their meanings, but rather an encyclopedic dictionary that reflects and illustrates the ideas and material world of Hittite society through its lexicon. Published letter by letter, the CHD is a long-term project and the result of a painstaking process of cultural, historical, and lexical investigation for all those interested in Hittite culture and history. The CHD is the only such project in the English speaking world.
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East India Publishing Companies The Trojan Women
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East India Publishing Company Agamemnon
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Carcanet Press Ltd Poems
Book SynopsisThe Poetry Book Society Autumn 2018 Recommended Translation. Asked to name the great Latin love poets, today’s reader is likely to offer Catullus, Ovid, Virgil, Horace. Propertius, a successor of the first and influential peer to the others, has not been blessed by posterity. Yet at their best his poems match any of the period. They are poems of love, of desire, of insecurity and obsession: of struggle, too, as they resist the Augustan Empire’s attempts to turn its love poets into propagandists. The result is a highly refined irony, a subtlety of tone and humour that is unique. Patrick Worsnip’s translations bring out Propertius’ playfulness and his psychological acuity, reinstating his poems at the heart of Latin literature’s golden age.Trade Review`Propertius is perhaps the most enigmatic of the great poets from the golden age of Latin literature […] Patrick Worsnip’s vibrant contemporary translation will bring him to a new generation of discerning readers.’ - Peter Heslin, from the Introduction
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Archaeopress The Later Saxon and Early Norman Manorial
Book SynopsisThis report outlines investigation of the early manor at Guiting Power, a village in the Cotswolds with Saxon origins, lying in an area with interesting entries in the Domesday Survey of 1086. Excavation has shown that, during the later Saxon period, a lightly defended compound contained a principal area of habitation, with an adjacent, more open ‘working area’ partly divided by ditched sub-enclosures, perhaps related to subsidiary settlement, or other economic activity. This complex may have formed the main estate-centre for a more extensive land-holding, scattered over the northern Cotswolds, and leased from the king, its last Saxon tenant being one ‘Alwin’, as sheriff of the county a thegn of some standing. During the major economic and social changes following the Conquest, under a change to Norman lordship, the manorial perimeter was reinforced, and a small apsidal church was constructed within it, now restored as a standing monument. Subsequently, a new complex of manorial buildings was established on a fresh site within the enclosure, the precursor of the present parish church was constructed nearby, with further development of manor and village into the full medieval period.Table of ContentsSECTION 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE SITE, OBJECTIVES, AND METHODS OF INVESTIGATION ; SECTION 2: STRUCTURAL SEQUENCE AT THE SITE ; SECTION 3: GENERAL DISCUSSION OF THE SITE ; SECTION 4: FINDS AND SAMPLES FROM THE SITE ; SECTION 5: CONSERVATION OF THE SITE ; SECTION 6: SUPPORTING INFORMATION/SOURCES ; SECTION 7: FIGURES AND PLATES ; SECTION 8: ONLINE CONTENT
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Archaeopress Daily Life in Ancient Egyptian Personal
Book SynopsisRepresentations and inscriptions on tomb and temple walls and individual stelae have provided considerable knowledge of ancient Egyptian daily life, religious custom and military achievements. However, as visual or eulogistic textual evidence they are unable to provide the insight into the people themselves, their personalities and the events and issues they were concerned with, insight which can be found in personal correspondence. Daily Life in Ancient Egyptian Personal Correspondence addresses a selection of letters from the Old Kingdom up to and including the Twenty-first Dynasty. Under the topic headings of problems and issues, daily life, religious matters, military and police matters, it will show the insight they provide regarding aspects of belief, relationships, custom and behaviour, evidencing the distinctiveness of the data such personal correspondence can provide as a primary source of daily life in ancient Egypt – the extra dimension.Trade ReviewThis is a fascinating read that really brings ancient Egyptian people to life - from the standard-bearer Maiseti threatening a man with death while also asking him to provide more rope, to the horrified Khay sent a jar of fat instead of honey. Highly recommended to anyone with an interest in Egyptology, with plenty of background notes and references to keep the academics happy. -- Sarah Griffiths * Ancient Egypt *In one letter a man demands his maidservant be returned, while in another a brother complains that his sister doesn’t write to him. Each provide a unique snapshot of what it was to live in the shadow of the pyramids. This work yields a fascinating glimpse of what it was to be a part of this long-vanished world. -- Dianna Wray * AramcoWorld *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Problems and issues ; Letter 1 ; Letter 2 ; Letter 3 ; Letter 4 ; Domestic issues and responsibility ; Letter 5 ; Letter 6 ; Provisioning ; Letter 7 ; Letter 8 ; Personal and familial issues ; Letter 9 ; Letter 10 ; Letter 11 ; Letter 12 ; Summary ; Daily Life ; Building work and labour ; Letter 1 ; Letter 2 ; Husbandry ; Letter 3 ; Letter 4 ; Letter 5 ; Provisions ; Letter 6 ; Letter 7 ; Personal topics ; Letter 8 ; Letter 9 ; Letter 10 ; Raw materials ; Letter 11 ; Letters 12 and 13 ; Summary ; Religious matters ; Religious duties, festivals, and a divine offering problem ; Letter 1 ; Letter 2 ; Letter 3 ; Letter 4 ; Letter 5 ; The ‘God’s Father Priests of “He of the Camp”’ ; Letter 6 ; Letter 7 ; Letter 8 ; Letter 9 ; Letter 10 ; Letter 11 ; Letter 12 ; Letter 13 ; Summary ; Military and police matters ; Military duties and responsibility ; Letters 1, 2 and 3 ; Letter 4 ; Letter 5 ; Letter 6 ; An assassination plot ; Letter 7 ; Letter 8 ; Letter 9 ; Summary ; Further analysis ; Aspects of agricultural organisation and natural resources ; Religious aspects ; Aspects of feelings and emotion ; The role of women ; Delivery ; Writers and recipients ; Aspects regarding distinctiveness of data ; Conclusion ; Appendix ; Letters within collections ; Letters from a specific period ; Letters grouped by topic ; Letters grouped by same sender and/or recipient ; Letters studied with respect to specific aspects of structure and focus ; In conclusion: other categories of correspondence ; References
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Medieval Institute Publications Wynnere and Wastoure and The Parlement of the
Book SynopsisThis edition contains two poems valuable to the study of satire of social abuses in the fourteenth century: Wynnere and Wastoure and The Parlement of the Thre Ages. Both combine two genres of medieval poetry: dream visions and poetic debates. As the editor observes, the poem's perspectives are truly dizzying: on the one hand, economics, politics, ethics and social relations are seen as an interrelated set of universal, timeless principles; on the other, they appear as actual, contingent conditions that have resulted from specific acts in history. The editions include notes, glosses, an introduction, and a glossary, making them accessible to beginning and advanced students in Middle English alike.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Wynnere and Wastoure The Parlement of the Thre Ages Textual Notes Glossary
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Parmenides Publishing Iliad
Book SynopsisHomer's Iliad - More than 3,000 years after the fall of Troy, here at last is a rendition of the Homeric epic that everybody can understand and appreciate. The world can't hear Homer speak his own words, but Stanley Lombardo is the next best thing. Reading his own acclaimed (unabridged) translations, Lombardo's insightful rendition takes advantage of the rhythms and other poetic resources of everyday American speech. The result provides cinematic and performance qualities to the time-honored poetry—sharp scene cuts, dynamic language, urgency of the characters (human and divine). His virtuoso performance in these audiobooks reflects years of experience before a wide variety of audiences—beautifully paced, shaped, intoned, and acted throughout.Trade ReviewMatch The Iliad by Homer, read by Stanley Lombardo (12 CDs. retail ed. Parmenides Audio. 2006. ISBN 978-1-930972-08-7. $42), to a long straight drive with nothing much to see so that you can safely sink into the meter. Homer’s dark meditation features the rage and regret of Achilles during the Trojan War, at the siege of Ilium. The epic was meant to be recited aloud, and Lombardo’s spellbinding narration acts as a time capsule, hurling listeners back to the heroic age and placing them in the presence of a master storyteller. His voice slips into chant, rises and crests with the terrible violence of battle, and shifts into pure incantation as Homer transitions into the emotional caverns of the story"". - Library Journal“Great poetry is best heard, not just read… Lombardo’s voice is wonderfully resonant and expressive… and together with the original music, beautifully evokes the world of the Trojan War and Odysseus’ journey home.” - The Bloomsbury Review, Nov 2006
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Parmenides Publishing The Essential Homer
Book SynopsisHomer's Iliad & Odyssey, abridged - More than 3,000 years after the fall of Troy, here at last is a rendition of the Homeric epic that everybody can understand and appreciate. The world can't hear Homer speak his own words, but Stanley Lombardo is the next best thing. Reading his own acclaimed (unabridged) translations, Lombardo's insightful rendition takes advantage of the rhythms and other poetic resources of everyday American speech. The result provides cinematic and performance qualities to the time-honored poetry—sharp scene cuts, dynamic language, urgency of the characters (human and divine). His virtuoso performance in these audiobooks reflects years of experience before a wide variety of audiences—beautifully paced, shaped, intoned, and acted throughout.Trade ReviewGreat poetry is best heard, not just read, and these two CD sets of Homer’s epic works are exemplars of the spoken word. Stanley Lombardo, professor of classics at the University of Kansas, is among the leading scholars of Homer, and here reads his own translation of the Iliad and the Odyssey in their entirety. Each recorded set includes a booklet with a map of Homer’s storied world; synopses of each book in the work, which are read by actress Susan Sarandon; and a glossary of personal and place names. Lombardo’s voice is wonderfully resonant and expressive—he is also a performer—and together with the original music, beautifully evokes the world of the Trojan War and Odysseus’ journey home. These productions from Parmenides Publishing, which specializes in Western philosophy, are a class act"". - Bloomsbury ReviewTable of ContentsForeword; Growing Up in Neoliberal Times; Identity: A Project of the Self; Research Tools; Beginning Post-School Transitions; Great Expectations; Performing Collective Identities; Spirituality as a Resource; Young People Re-Creating; Children of the Market?; Culturally Intelligible Femininities & Masculinities; Transition Interrupted: Young Mothers; Unfolding Plans; Crafting Identities; References; Index.
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Griffin House Publications Dante Revisited: Essays by Anne Paolucci
Book SynopsisScattered in a variety of academic journals here and abroad, these importnat essays have been brought together in a single volume for the first time. Included as an introduction is a lecture prepared by Dino Bigongiari, for over five decades the most eminent scholar at Columbia University and one of the great Dantist of the century.An internationally-known comparist, founder of Council on National Literatures and for over three decades Editor of its prestigious series, Review of National Literatures, Dr. Anne Paolucci brings her wide reading and training to bear in such essays as "Dante's Satan and Milton's 'Bryonic Hero'," "Dante and Machiavelli: Political 'Idealism' and Political 'Realism';" and "Women in the Political Love-Ethic of the Divine Comedy and the Faerie Queens." She sheds new light on a familiar subject in "Dante, Hegel, and the Marian Inspiration of the Commedia," showing Hegel to be a rich source for critical study in this area. "Exile Among the Exiles: Dante's Party of One" focuses on Dante's bitter life-long exile from his beloved Florence. "The Strident Voices of Hell" provides an insightful introduction to the Inferno. A brief but substantive picture of the Middle Ages is provided in "The Cosmopolitan Age of Dante and His Dream of Restored Imperial Rule."Professor Bigongiari's essya, probably written to be delivered as a lecture in Florence on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Dante's birth, is a welcome Introduction to the volume. In his terse, informative and authoritative voice, the author raises two important questions: "Is Dante a popular poet?" and "Is Dante a classic poet?" In the course of answering these questions, Professor Bigongiari provides brilliant insights into the preservation and transmission of the precious manuscripts and codices that passed through his hands in Florence, where he had been invited to help prepare for the anniversary celebrations.
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Les Belles Lettres Sapho Alcee, Fragments
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Les Belles Lettres Archimede, Oeuvres: Tome I: de la Sphere Et Du
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Les Belles Lettres Aristophane, Comedies: Tome V: l'Assemblee Des
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Les Belles Lettres Aristote, Rhetorique: Tome II: Livre II
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Les Belles Lettres Aristote, Rhetorique: Tome III: Livre III
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Les Belles Lettres Callimaque, Les Origines - Reponses Aux Telchines
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Les Belles Lettres Demosthene, Harangues: Tome I: Sur Les Symmories
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Les Belles Lettres Epictete, Entretiens: Tome II: Livre II
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Les Belles Lettres Euripide, Tragedies: Tome VI, 1re Partie: Oreste
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Les Belles Lettres Flavius Josephe, Guerre Des Juifs: Tome II:
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Les Belles Lettres Flavius Josephe, Guerre Des Juifs: Tome III:
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Les Belles Lettres L'Empereur Julien, Oeuvres Completes: Tome II, 2e
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Les Belles Lettres Platon, Oeuvres Completes: Tome III, 2e Partie:
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