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Liverpool University Press The Definitive Zoroastrian Critique of Islam
Book SynopsisZoroastrianism was the religion of the ancient Persian kings and following the Arab conquest, it remained the religion of a significant portion of the population in Iran and parts of Central Asia.
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Cornell University Press Gilgamesh among Us
Book SynopsisThe world''s oldest work of literature, the Epic of Gilgamesh recounts the adventures of the semimythical Sumerian king of Uruk and his ultimately futile quest for immortality after the death of his friend and companion, Enkidu, a wildman sent by the gods. Gilgamesh was deified by the Sumerians around 2500 BCE, and his tale as we know it today was codified in cuneiform tablets around 1750 BCE and continued to influence ancient cultureswhether in specific incidents like a world-consuming flood or in its quest structureinto Roman times. The epic was, however, largely forgotten, until the cuneiform tablets were rediscovered in 1872 in the British Museum''s collection of recently unearthed Mesopotamian artifacts. In the decades that followed its translation into modern languages, the Epic of Gilgamesh has become a point of reference throughout Western culture.In Gilgamesh among Us, Theodore Ziolkowski explores the surprising legacy of the poem and its hero, aTrade ReviewThis book represents a fascinating foray—written by a scholar known for his scrupulous research, clarity of expression, subtlety and wit—into the relatively new field of reception history. It offers us a complex history of the reception of the Gilgamesh cycle, rather than an analysis of the constitutive role played by an ancient epic in the emerging modern world. -- Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr. * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Ziolkowski brings together an extraordinary assemblage of creative endeavors—literary, musical and artistic—all bound in some way to the ancient poem recovered by Assyriology.... Gilgamesh's emergence into the company of what are now identified as the 'great books’ is fully explained by the reception history that Ziolkowski describes. -- Andrew R. George * Reviews in History *Ziolkowski's treatment [of the reception of the epic of Gilgamesh] is immensely thorough and supported by rich documentation. He sees the story of Gilgamesh as 'a finely tuned seismograph whose reception registers to a significant degree many of the major intellectual upheavals of the past century.' Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction The Story * The Text * The Rediscovery * The Early Translations1. The Initial Reception (1884–1935) The First Literarization * Babel and Bible * The German Connection * The Spread of the Epic2. Representative Beginnings (1941–1958) Modes of Modernization * Four Poets in English * Four German Initiatives * A Major German Thematization * The First Musical Settings3. The Popularization of Gilgamesh (1959–1978) Poetic Adaptations * The First Fictionalization * The Gay Gilgamesh * Gilgamesh and the Philosophers * A Comic Interlude * Three American Fictional Exuberances * The Operatic Gilgamesh4. The Contemporization of Gilgamesh (1979–1999) New Contexts * Gilgamesh Psychoanalyzed * Gilgamesh Deconstructed * Gilgamesh Historicized * Gilgamesh Drums for the Greens * Gilgamesh Postfigured * Gilgamesh Personalized * Gilgamesh Hispanicized * Gilgameshiana * Gilgamesh at Millennium's End5. Gilgamesh in the Twenty-First Century (2000–2009) Poetic Versions in English and French * A New Focus * Gilgamesh as Ritual Drama * Two Fictional Re-Visions * The Politicization of GilgameshConclusionChronology Notes Index
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Oxford University Press Osbern Bokenham
Book SynopsisThis is the second edition of a major work by the translator and hagiographer Osbern Bokenham. Unknown before the discovery of the unique manuscript in 2005, Bokenham''s work comprises a complete translation of Legenda Aurea, a collection of saints'' lives compiled by the Dominican friar Jacobus de Voragine which achieved widespread popularity throughout the Middle Ages and survives in over eight hundred manuscripts, supplemented with accounts of the lives of various British saints, including those of Cedde, Felix, Edward, and Oswald. Writing in the fifteenth century, Bokenham''s work, which combines prose and verse, was influenced by major writers such as Chaucer and Lydgate, both in its content and in its verse forms and style, and thus sheds new light on their fifteenth-century reputation. Bokenham''s work is also important for his naming of the patrons for whom he translated a number of these saints'' lives, allowing scholars to trace networks of patronage amongst prominent members
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Oxford University Press Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy Volume 62
Book SynopsisOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback.Table of Contents1: Richard Neels: Opposites and Explanations in Heraclitus 2: Suzanne Obdrzalek: Evaluative Illusion in Plato's Protagoras 3: Michael Wiitala: That Difference is Different from Being: Sophist 255c9-e2 4: Christopher Bobonich: Is Plato a Consequentialist? 5: Joshua Mendelsohn: Aristotle's Argument for the Necessity of What We Understand 6: Wei Wang: Aristotle on Digestion, Self-Motion, and the Eternity of the Universe: A Discussion of Physics 8.6 and De somno 7: Allison Piñeros Glasscock: Giving Gifts and Making Friends: Seneca's De beneficiis on How to Expand One's Sphere of Ethical Concern 8: Ralph Wedgwood: Hierocles' Concentric Circles 9: Matthew Evans: Archaic Epistemology: A Discussion of Jessica Moss, Plato's Epistemology: Being and Seeming
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Oxford University Press Ancient Greek Athletics
Book SynopsisThe Sourcebook of Ancient Greek Athletics offers the most comprehensive collection to date of primary sources in translation for the study of ancient Greek athletics. Because Greek athletics was such an essential feature of both Greek and Roman culture, there is an especially strong need for proper treatment and understanding of the texts and other media used to reconstruct practices and ideologies of ancient athletics. The sources in this collection are arranged chronologically from the Archaic Period to the Roman Imperial Era, with an extensive appendix discussing key themes and topics. The organization and in-depth presentation of textual sources is designed to help students, scholars, and general readers fully appreciate the broader social and cultural significance of ancient Greek athletics as it developed in different historical time periods throughout antiquity.Trade ReviewThis is a hugely valuable book. With 26 full colour illustrations, an historical time frame (which could have been more compendious), a list of Pindaric victory odes, tables showing when 'important Greek athletic contests were established' and the circuit of the four crown games, as well as a good bibliography, an index of names and a general index, it more than earns its place in libraries of schools and universities. * David Stuttard, Classics for all *Overall, there is a wealth of information included in this primary source book that will be well appreciated by future students and scholars. * David Gilman Romano, University of Arizona, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of ContentsTEXTS 1: The Archaic and Early Classical Period Epic Victory Odes Elegy Epigram 2: The Classical Period History Tragedy and Comedy Hippocratic Corpus Attic Oratory Philosophy 3: The Hellenistic Period 4: The Roman Period Inscriptions 5: Olympia 6: Delphi 7: Sparta 8: Athens 9: Other Significant Inscriptions Papyri Appendices Appendix A: The Athlete in Greek Culture Appendix B: Sites and Conduct of Festival Games Appendix C: The Events
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Oxford University Press Warriors Wives
Book SynopsisThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at [Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.Epic poetry and tragic drama provide us with some of the richest ancient Greek depictions of women who are married to soldiers. In tales of the Trojan War, as told by Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, we encounter these mythical warriors'' wives: Penelope, isolated but resourceful as she awaits the return of Odysseus after his lengthy absence; the war widow Andromache, enslaved and displaced from her homeland after the fall of Troy; the unfaithful and murderous Clytemnestra; and Tecmessa, a war captive who witnesses her partner''s breakdown and suicide in the aftermath of battle. Warriors'' Wives compares the experiences of these mythical characters with those of contemporary military spouses. Emma Bridges traces aspects of the lives of warriors'' wives--mythical and real, ancient and modern--from the moment of farewell, through periods of separation and reunion, to the often traumatic aftermath of war, to consider the emotional, psychological, and social impacts of life as a military spouse. By unearthing a wealth of contemporary evidence for the lives of the often silenced and unacknowledged partners of those who serve in the military, and by examining this alongside the ancient stories of warriors'' wives, Warriors'' Wives sheds fresh light on the experience of being married to the military.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Farewell: Andromache in the Iliad 2: Sacrifice: Clytemnestra in Aeschylus' Agamemnon and Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis 3: Separation: Penelope in the Odyssey 4: Infidelity: Clytemnestra in Homeric poetry and Athenian tragedy 5: Reunion: Penelope, Clytemnestra, and Trojan War homecomings 6: Aftermath: Euripides' Trojan Women and Andromache, and the Tecmessa of Sophocles' Ajax Epilogue
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Oxford University Press Seneca De Beneficiis L. Annaei Senecae De
Book SynopsisThis is the first new critical edition of De beneficiis in almost 100 years, based on a fresh examination of the extant archetype (N) and on more extensive familiarity with the later medieval and humanist manuscripts than any previous edition. Each work in the edition is provided with a critical apparatus that is both informative and economical. The apparatus fontium et testium standing between the text and the critical apparatus on each page provides full references to the texts Seneca himself cites and extensive cross-references among the three works in the edition and between those works and Seneca''s other prose writings, along with many parallel passages beyond the Senecan corpus. An appendix critica to De beneficiis contains much information on the text''s documentary basis and critical history that future editors should find useful to have at hand even if it was not judged worthy of inclusion in this edition''s critical apparatus.
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Oxford University Press Homer
Book SynopsisHomer''s mythological tales of war and homecoming,the Iliad and the Odyssey, are widely considered to be two of the most influential works in the history of western literature. Yet their author, ''the greatest poet that ever lived'' is something of a mystery. By the 6th century BCE, Homer had already become a mythical figure, and today debate continues as to whether he ever existed.In this Very Short Introduction Barbara Graziosi considers Homer''s famous works, and their impact on readers throughout the centuries. She shows how the Iliad and the Odyssey benefit from a tradition of reading that spans well over two millennia, stemming from ancient scholars at the library of Alexandria, in the third and second centuries BCE, who wrote some of the first commentaries on the Homeric epics. Summaries of these scholars'' notes made their way into the margins of Byzantine manuscripts; from Byzantium the annotated manuscripts travelled to Italy; and the ancient notes finally appeared in the first printed editions of Homer, eventually influencing our interpretation of Homer''s work today. Along the way, Homer''s works have inspired artists, writers, philosophers, musicians, playwrights, and film-makers. Exploring the main literary, historical, cultural, and archaeological issues at the heart of Homer''s narratives, Graziosi analyses the enduring appeal of Homer and his iconic works.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.This book was previously published in hardback as Homer.Trade ReviewThe author has perfectly mastered the material under investigation and, even when speaking of allusions in the Homeric text to other myths, she does not generally force the interpretation in an attempt to establish improbable chronologies... it is easy to appreciate Graziosi's clarity of presentation and ability to offer precise and brief definitions... the book constitutes not only an accurate critical evaluation of Homeric studies for the benefit of scholars, but also a valuable and accessible introduction to the subject for non-specialist readers. * Carmine Pisano, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *An excellent, up-to-date, synthesis. * Lucia Marchini, Minerva *Graziosi's stimulating account of that resonance in such a short, up-to-date and readable book makes this the perfect introduction to Homer. * Times Literary Supplement *clear, beautifully written, enthusiasm-radiating volume * Times Higher Education *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Looking for Homer 2: Textual clues 3: Material clues 4: The poet in the poems 5: The wrath of Achilles 6: A poem about Troy 7: The tragedy of Hector 8: The man of many turns 9: Women and monsters 10: An infernal journey References Further reading Index
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Faber & Faber Pearl
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE PEN AWARD FOR POETRY IN TRANSLATIONPearl is an entrancing allegorical tale of grief and lost love, as the narrator is led on a Dantean journey through sorrow to redemption by his vanished beloved. Retaining all the alliterative music of the original, a Middle English poem thought to be by the same anonymous author responsible for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl is here brought to vivid and intricate life in the care of one of the finest poets writing today.
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Harvard University Press Menander Rhetor. Dionysius of Halicarnassus Ars
Book SynopsisThe instructional treatises of Menander Rhetor and the Ars Rhetorica, deriving from the schools of rhetoric that flourished in the Greek East from the 2nd through 4th centuries AD, provide a window into the literary culture, educational practices, and social concerns of these Greeks under Roman rule, in both public and private life.Trade ReviewThese texts not only provide us with the most complete treatment of the topic, but also offer glimpses of various genres of epideictic speeches practiced in Antiquity… An invaluable contribution to the studies of ancient rhetoric. -- André Rodrigues Bertacchi * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *This new Loeb Classical Library volume is for those who fear public speaking more than death, taxes, or public embarrassment… Welcome exemplars of occasional speeches of praise, encouragement, and human connection. -- Paul J. Cain * Lutheran Book Review *
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Harvard University Press Fragmentary Republican Latin Volume III
Book SynopsisBased on the critical edition of Malcovati, this three-volume Loeb edition of Roman Republican oratory begins with Ap. Claudius Caecus (340–273 BC) and with the exceptions of Cato the Elder and Cicero includes all individuals for whom speech-making is attested and for whose speeches quotations, testimonia, or historiographic recreations survive.
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Cambridge University Press Carpe Diem
Book SynopsisCarpe diem 'eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die!' is a prominent motif throughout ancient literature and beyond. This wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study reveals its significance in ancient poetry and art, especially in creating the almost magical impression that something is happening here and now.Table of Contents1. The archaeology of Carpe Diem: Sardanapallus, monuments, epigrams, and false beginnings; 2. A moveable feast: Wine storage-places as drinkable calendars in Horace; 3. Gathering leaves: Horace, choice of words, cyclical time, and the production of presence; 4. The pleasure of images: Epigrams and objects 100 ʙᴄ – ᴀᴅ 100; 5. As is the generation of leaves, so are the generations of cows, mice, and gigolos…: Excerpe Diem! or excerpts of 'Carpe Diem'.
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Cambridge University Press Reading Greek Tragedy
Book SynopsisRevised edition of the pioneering Reading Greek Tragedy, which serves as an advanced, critical introduction for non-specialist readers who want to appreciate the plays in all their complexity. Includes a substantial new Introduction which engages with critical and scholarly developments in Greek tragedy since the original publication.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. The drama of logos; 2. The language of appropriation; 3. The city of words; 4. Relations and relationships; 5. Sexuality and difference; 6. Text and tradition; 7. Mind and madness; 8. Blindness and insight; 9. Sophistry, philosophy, rhetoric; 10. Genre and transgression; 11. Performance and performability; Bibliography; Index.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Cultural History of Tragedy in Antiquity
Book SynopsisEmily Wilson is a Professor of Classical Studies and Chair of the Program in Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Series Preface Introduction, Emily Wilson (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 1. Forms and Media, Naomi Weiss (Harvard University, USA) 2. Sites of Performance and Circulation, Rosa D'Andújar (King's College London, UK) 3. Communities of Production and Consumption, Eirene Visvardi (Wesleyan University, USA) 4. Philosophy and Social Theory, Austin Busch (College at Brockport, USA) 5. Religion, Ritual and Myth, Isabelle Torrance (Aarhus University, Denmark) 6. Politics of City and Nation, Robert Cowan (University of Sydney, Australia) 7. Society and Family, Marcel Widzicz (Southern Virginia University, USA) 8. Gender and Sexuality, Kirk Ormand (Oberlin College, USA) Notes Bibliography Index
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Manchester University Press Bestsellers and Masterpieces
Book SynopsisBestsellers and masterpieces: The changing medieval canon offers a comparative critique of the development of the modern canon' of medieval literature across European and Middle Eastern medieval studies. -- .
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Arc Humanities Press Beowulf and the North before the Vikings
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Equinox Publishing Ltd Poetry and Culture in Middle Kingdom Egypt: A
Book SynopsisThe Middle Kingdom (c.1940-1640 BC) was a golden age of Ancient Egyptian writing. This pioneering book is the first comprehensive study of this literary legacy. The status of literature is controversial in many ancient civilizations, and Middle Kingdom poems have often been regarded as propaganda for the ruling dynasty. This study radically reassesses their cultural role, drawing on recent studies of the individual texts, some by the author, and on general developments in literary criticism, to argue that they were entertainments that voiced potentially dissident views while also being integral to elite culture. The book explores literature's status as a differentiated form of discourse, suggesting what social practices made its role possible and offering an innovative model for the reader's engagement with these subtle and complex ancient works. The book also surveys the social and ideological context of literature and proposes readings of the main tales, discourses, and teachings. The conclusion sets the readings in a broad context, while an appendix surveys the entire range of surviving texts.Trade Review'[T]he book reviewed here certainly represents a landmark. It is the first monograph devoted to an integral study and interpretation of the entire corpus of literature preserved from the Egyptian Middle Kingdom.' Joachim Friedrich Quack, Freie Universitat Berlin, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 124.2 'This is an extremely important book' Piotr Michalowski, George G. Cameron Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations University of Michigan 'Dr Parkinson has produced a work which surpasses all that has been written on Egyptian literature of the classicA" period till now.' E. Hornung, Professor Emeritus, University of BaselTable of ContentsPart One: Approaches 1. The Study of Middle Kingdom "Literature" 2. General Considerations: Definitions, Genre, Interpretation Part Two: Context and Intertext 3. Texts and Intertext 4. The Social Context 5. Literature and Culture 6. Literary Form 7. Cultural Themes of Literature Part Three: Readings 8. Tales 9. Discourses and Dialogues 10. Teachings 11. Reading the Poems Appendix 1: Survey of the Middle Kingdom Literary Corpus Appendix 2: Kemit
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Lector House Authors Of Greece: With An Introduction By The
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Brill Die Orationes Homeri des Leonardo Bruni Aretino:
Book SynopsisLeonardo Bruni Aretino (c. 1370-1444) was one of the most gifted and prolific translators of Greek authors in the early Italian Renaissance and a bestseller whose works often circulated in more than a hundred manuscripts. Moreover, Homer ranks as the most admired Greek poet in the Renaissance. The 'Orationes Homeri', i.e. Bruni's translation of three speeches from the embassy scene, are of focal interest in the studies of Renaissance literature in its many aspects: survival of ancient authors and their influence on Renaissance literature and literary theory, translation theory and practice, knowledge of Greek poetic language. This first critical edition with an introduction and a systematic commentary presents the 'Orationes Homeri' in comparison with other works of Bruni and translations of Homer by other humanists. It includes the part of the Lorenzo Valla version corresponding to the 'Orationes Homeri' and the Castilian version of the 'Orationes Homeri', which is the first vernacular translation of Homer.Trade Review'Das Bild Brunis als Übersetzer griechischer Autoren, eine wesentliche Funktion seiner humanistischen Mission, wird durch die sorgfältige und vielseitige Analyse der 'Orations Homeri'aufs glücklichste ergänzt und bereichert.' August Buck, Renaissance Mitteilungen, 1994. '...we learn much of Renaissance political thinking in reading this author...' Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 1994.
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Oxford University Press The Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet
Book SynopsisDespite the death of contemporary witnesses for the late Augustan and early Tiberian Principates, Ovid''s Fasti has remained curiously neglected as an historical source for the period. The aim of this new research is to show that the poem of some five thousand lines on the Roman calendar, written and revised in the years between AD 4-16, provides students of the Augustan age with a wealth of information, both about the author himself, and about his cultural and political environment. The author discovers important new insights into the way in which Augustus and his family were incorporated into the ancient religion of the city of Rome, and reveals Ovid as a unique contemporary witness of the last decade of Augustus'' life and the first years of Tiberius'' rule. From his poem the Fasti, Dr Herbert-Brown finds new evidence of the processes which marked the transition from the Republic to Empire.Trade ReviewThis study will be essential reading for anyone interested in the Augustan period, from a literary, topographical, or political point of view. * Christopher Smith, The Classical Review *A fine example of how to analyse the effect of political power on a writer and his work. * Thomas Wiedemann, Greece and Rome *Herbert-Brown's powerful discussions of those episodes in the Fasti that relate to the imperial house stand in an older tradition of scholarship on 'history of Ovid'...H.B. is very impressive in her control of the historical evidence and in her ability to combine it into large-scale hypothetical structures to provide usually convincing backgrounds to details of selection and emphasis in Ovid's treatment of the imperial household. * Philip Hardie, New Hall, Cambridge *This revised doctoral thesis is a learned and closely argued work that reads Ovid's Fasti essentially as a historical document. The book is well organized and produced ... There is no question but that the author has a thorough command of the historical evidence that bears on her subject. Her imagination is vivid and detailed, her attempts to reconstruct the ideological forces that shaped Augustus' Principate and Ovid's poem always challenging and instructive ... can ... be read with profit: it is full of useful information and challenging analysis ... A book to be used. * Joseph Farrell, University of Pennsylvania, American Journal of Philology 12/97 *Table of ContentsWhy "Fasti"; Augustus; Julius Caesar; Livia; Germanicus. Appendix: omissions in the Fasti.
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Indiana University Press A Lancastrian Mirror for Princes The Yale Law
Book SynopsisHow language and marginalia shape the perception of a landmark legal textTrade Review. . . an indisputably good book. . . assiduous scholarship illumines . . . . * American Historical Review *McGerr has done an excellent job in reminding her audience to pay attention not only to the words in the manuscript, but their margin as well. McGerr's prose is fantastic, too, flowing naturally and being free from unnecessary jargon. * Mediaevistik *[McGerr's] study, scholarly and intuitive in equal measure, demonstrates that what may appear to be an inert status symbol, is actually a highly charged, and exquisitely wrought, political document. * Renaissance Quarterly *McGerr has examined what might otherwise appear to be a common fifteenth-century legal text and has successfully demonstrated the ways in which its visual characteristics may have much greater political implications. * RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cutlural Heritage *Combining evidence and analyses from literature, codicology, history, and art history, A Lancastrian Mirror for Princes returns a considerable dividend for investing sustained attention in one manuscript. * The Medieval Review *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: The Margin and the Center—Framing a Reading of a Legal Manuscript1. The Yale New Statutes Manuscript and Medieval English Statute Books: Similarities and Differences2. Royal Portraits and Royal Arms: The Iconography of the Yale New Statutes Manuscript3. The Queen and the Lancastrian Cause: The Yale New Statutes Manuscript and Margaret of Anjou4. Educating the Prince: The Yale New Statutes Manuscript and Lancastrian Mirrors for Princes5. "Grace Be Our Guide": The Cultural Significance of a Medieval Law BookAppendix 1: Chronology of EventsAppendix 2: Codicological Description of New Haven, Yale Law School, Lillian Goldman Law Library MssG +St11 no.1NotesBibliographyIndexPlates appear after page 000.
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University of Texas Press Roman Tragedy
Book SynopsisTraces the evolution of Roman tragedy from the earliest tragedians to the dramatist SenecaTrade Review"This book is bold and original. I know of no other work in which the evolution of the tragic form is treated as a form, within its context, over time." oGuy MacLean Rogers, Professor of Classics and History, Wellesley CollegeTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: Theatre to Theatricality Chapter 1: Creating Tragedy Livius Andronicus Naevius Ennius The Audience Chapter 2: Theatricalizing Tragedy Pacuvius Accius Chapter 3: Dramatizing History Theatricality of History Staging History Chapter 4: Creating Metatragedy Pompey's Theatre Opening Staging Brutus Thyestes on the Roman Stage Nero: Imperator Scaenicus Chapter 5: Metatragedy Seneca's Actor-Audience From Tragedy to Metatragedy Appendix Bibliography Index
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Cambridge University Press Rewriting Old English in the Twelfth Century
Book SynopsisThis book, published in 2000, is a substantial publication in the growing field of studies of texts in Old English in the twelfth (and early thirteenth) century. Useful to historians, linguists, English, Anglo-Norman and Latin literature scholars and manuscript specialists, it covers a wide variety of significant issues including production, audience, contents and uses.Trade Review'The scholarship of the volume is meticulous.' Graham Holderness, The Times Literary Supplement'This is a splendid volume, bringing to the fore an area of Anglo-Saxon studies which has been much neglected or devalued in the past.' Medium Aevum'The essays are highly technical and deeply learned, but together push open a door into a neglected world.' Annual Bulletin of Historical LiteratureTable of ContentsList of plates; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction Elaine M. Treharne and Mary Swan; 2. The production and script of manuscripts containing English religious texts in the first half of the twelfth century Elaine M. Treharne; 3. The compilation and use of manuscripts containing Old English in the twelfth century Susan Irvine; 4. Ælfric's Catholic Homilies in the twelfth century Mary Swan; 5. Wulfstan and the twelfth century Jonathan Wilcox; 6. Mnemonic transmission of Old English texts in the post-Conquest period Loredana Teresi; 7. Old English prose saints' lives in the twelfth century: the evidence of the extant manuscripts Joana Proud; 8. Old English prose saints' lives in the twelfth century: the Life of Martin in Bodley 343 Susan Rosser; 9. Scribal habit: the evidence of the Old English Gospels Roy Michael Liuzza; 10. The Old English gloss of the Eadwine Psalter Phillip Pulsiano; 11. The Tremulous Worcester Hand and Gregory's Pastoral Care Wendy Collier; Index of manuscripts; General index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature
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Cambridge University Press Sextus Empiricus
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Cambridge University Press Inconsistency in Roman Epic
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Cambridge University Press Lucretian Receptions
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Cambridge University Press Playing Hesiod
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Cambridge University Press A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 BC Volume 1 The Theatre Festivals of Athens Documents with Translation and Commentary
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Cambridge University Press Landscape and the Spaces of Metaphor in Ancient Literary Theory and Criticism
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Cambridge University Press AngloSaxon England Volume 31 AngloSaxon England Series Number 31
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Cambridge University Press Western Illuminated Manuscripts
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Cambridge University Press Hellenistic Epigrams
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Cambridge University Press Platonic Drama and its Ancient Reception
Book SynopsisThis book studies the reception of Plato's dialogues as performance texts both by his original audience and by his readers down to late antiquity. A combination of well-known and newly discovered pieces of literary and archaeological evidence tell the forgotten story of 'Plato the playwright'.Table of Contents1. Setting the stage; 2. The metatheatre of dialogue; 3. Performing Plato; 4. Plato's theatre: the fragments; Finale; Appendix: an Academy inscription.
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Cambridge University Press Diogenes Laertius Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Sievers Law in Germanic 22 Berkeley Insights in
Book SynopsisOne of the most interesting changes in Proto-Germanic was the alternation of y and w after short syllables with i and u after long, respectively - an alternation with far-reaching effects. Described by Eduard Sievers in 1878, this law has been the subject of controversy ever since. Is it related to a similar phenomenon in Vedic Sanskrit, and was it, therefore, Indo-European in origin? What is its relationship to alliterative verse in Germanic? This study addresses such questions and demonstrates that Sievers'' Law has played a wider role in Old English than heretofore demonstrated.
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Fordham University Press Medieval Poetics and Social Practice Responding
Book SynopsisThis collection responds to the critical legacy of Penn R. Szittya. Its contributors investigate how medieval poetic language reflects and shapes social, political, and religious worlds. In addition to new readings of canonical poetic texts, it includes readings of texts that have previously not held a central place in critical attention.Trade Review"I am certain that I will be referring to several of these essays in my own work in the near future, and I am confident that others will find them as useful as I have." -- -Robert Adams Sam Houston State University
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Greek Lyric
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMiller is one of the ablest experts in the language of Greek poetry, and he has a razor-sharp sense for the nuances of the wording. A lastingly important sourcebook; I strongly recommend it. --Gregory Nagy, Harvard UniversityAndrew Miller is one of the--if not the--leading authority on classical antiquity’s most difficult lyric poet, Pindar. This book of translations and social and literary commentary proudly takes its place next to Richmond Lattimore’s. There is no better introduction to the problems and accomplishments of Greek lyric poetry, and the expert will appreciate the seriousness and brilliance of insight from a Hellenist of the highest caliber. --Joseph M. Romero, Mary Washington College. . . the translations are first-rate, better than anything comparable I know. The author is intelligent and scrupulous; he succeeds in maintaining a much higher level of accuracy and readability than any of his competitors. --Emmet Robbins, University of Toronto
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc The Greek and Roman Critics
Book SynopsisA reprint of the University of Toronto edition of 1965.Trade ReviewAn indispensable guide for anyone who wishes to study that . . . section of Greek and Latin literature which we should consider literary criticism. --A. H. Armstrong
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc The Greek and Roman Critics
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn indispensable guide for anyone who wishes to study that . . . section of Greek and Latin literature which we should consider literary criticism. --A. H. Armstrong
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Oedipus Tyrannus
Book SynopsisPeter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's collaboration on this new translation combines the strengths that have recently distinguished both as translators of Greek tragedy: expert knowledge of the Greek and of the needs of the teaching classicist, intimate knowledge of theatre, and an excellent ear for the spoken word. Their Oedipus Tyrannus features foot-of-the-page notes, an Introduction, stage directions and a translation characterized by its clarity, accuracy, and power.Trade ReviewA clear, vigorous, spare, actable translation, and with it, excellent apparatus (Intro., notes, bibliography); all in a slim and affordable volume. I will use when I next teach Oedipus. Hackett is an invaluable resource!--Rachel Hadas, Rutgers UniversityI have enjoyed all of the recent Hackett editions of translations of Greek literature and "Oedipus Tyrannus” is certainly no exception. Meineck and Woodruff got things just right, from employing "Tyrannus” instead of "Rex” in the title (as has become traditional, though it lends an erroneous sense to the play from the outset) to Woodruff’s very fine and accessible Introduction to the suspenseful, poetic and powerful rendering of the play itself. Meineck’s theatrical sensibility and knowledge are evident, yet the text never becomes too "stagey” nor wanders far from the Greek. I will definitely use this text along with other terrific Hackett editions in my courses.--Lisa Rengs George, Arizona State UniversityAn excellent translation. . . . Paul Woodruff’s Introduction, written for a general audience, is clear and well-informed.--Herman Van Looy, L'Antiquité Classique
£23.39
Viking Society for Northern Research Fourth Grammatical Treatise
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£11.40
Viking Society for Northern Research Illuga Saga Gridarfostra
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£10.00
Viking Society for Northern Research Pals leizla
Book SynopsisThe Old Norse text of a Vision of St Paul, parallel with the Latin text on which it was based, and an English translation.
£10.00
Mage Publishers Borrowed Ware
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£16.14
Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co The Birds
Book SynopsisThis is an English translation of Aristophanes' greatest comedy the Birds and is the story of birds taking control of the government. Includes background material on the historical and cultural context of this work, suggestions for further reading, and notes. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture.
£11.39
Cambridge University Press Staging Conventions in Medieval English Theatre
Book SynopsisHow was medieval English theatre performed? This book analyses dormant evidence of theatrical processes such as casting, doubling of parts, rehearsing, memorising, cueing, entering, exiting, playing, prompting, timing, hearing, seeing and responding. All these concerns point to a very different kind of theatre to the naturalistic theatre produced today.Trade Review'Butterworth's book will be of use to those seeking a scholarly discussion of problems and strategies in the performance of medieval drama, both as it was once written and played, and for contemporary revivals. His knowledge is extensive and his practical experience of the staging of many of these works clearly and helpfully informs his comments on their characteristic ways of working in space, time, and action.' Tom Bishop, SpeculumTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Outdoors and indoors; 2. Casting and doubling; 3. Rehearsing, memorising and cueing; 4. Coming and going; 5. Playing, feigning and counterfeiting; 6. Dressing and disguising; 7. Expounding and monitoring; 8. Effecting effects; 9. Timing and waiting; 10. Hearing, seeing and responding.
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Cambridge University Press Lucan and the Sublime
Book SynopsisThis is the first comprehensive study of the sublime in Lucan. Drawing upon renewed literary-critical interest in the tradition of philosophical aesthetics, Henry Day argues that the category of the sublime offers a means of moving beyond readings of Lucan''s Bellum Civile in terms of the poem''s political commitment or, alternatively, nihilism. Demonstrating in dialogue with theorists from Burke and Kant to Freud, Lyotard and Ankersmit the continuing vitality of Longinus'' foundational treatise On the Sublime, Day charts Lucan''s complex and instructive exploration of the relationship between sublimity and ethical discourses of freedom and oppression. Through the Bellum Civile''s cataclysmic vision of civil war and metapoetic accounts of its own genesis, through its heated linguistic texture and proclaimed effects upon future readers and, most powerfully of all, through its representation of its twin protagonists Caesar and Pompey, Lucan''s great epic emerges as a central text in the history of the sublime.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The experience of the sublime; 2. Representation, the sublime and the Bellum Civile; 3. The Caesarian sublime; 4. The Pompeian sublime; Epilogue.
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