Literary studies: ancient, classical Books
Broadview Press Ltd Pearl: Text and Translation
Book SynopsisThe fourteenth-century Middle English poem Pearl is one of the best dream vision poems ever written, yet its Language (the North-west Midlands dialect of late-medieval England) and literary allusions (to biblical, mythological, and medieval works) make it difficult for modern readers to understand. This new dual-Language of Pearl provides the original Middle English with a facing-page modern English translation. It includes a comprehensive introduction, annotations of key words and ideas, reproduction of the four manuscript Illustrations, a literary sourcebook, and lists of biblical sources, significant liturgical dates, and the concatenation words. Literary and biblical sources for the poem are provided as appendices.Trade Review“A riddling meditation on loss, grief, and the nature of faith, Pearl is a tour de force of language and a masterpiece of poetic form. Jane Beal’s achievement in this edition is to render Pearl accessible to a contemporary audience without evacuating the wonder that the poem inspires or the productive ambiguity through which it creates meaning. The introduction and contextualizing materials will be invaluable to students seeking to understand the poem’s cultural contexts, and Beal’sjudicious editorial work and facing-page translation illuminate Pearl’s slippery language while encouraging engagement with the original Middle English.” — David K. Coley, Simon Fraser University“Jane Beal’s edition and translation of Pearl will be a treasure for both students and scholars. In a thorough introduction that expertly frames the contexts and critical issues surrounding this singularly important poem, Beal also makes a compelling case for the value of having the original Middle English text alongside a student-friendly translation. Her close but graceful translation enriches the study of the poem for those who are not expert in Middle English, and the numerous footnotes that accompany the translation deepen our understanding of the Pearl-poet’s world. The edition also includes reproductions of relevant manuscript images, along with a wealth of key biblical and classical sources informing the poem. Beal’s edition will surely be a welcome addition to many university syllabi as well as an excellent resource for those researching the poetic gem that is Pearl.” — Randy Schiff, University at Buffalo, SUNYTable of Contents Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction A Note on the Text Pearl Appendix A: Literary Sourcebook – Key Passages Parable Parable of the Pearl of Great Price Parable of the Treasure in the Field Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard Descriptions of Pearls From Pliny, Natural History From Albert the Great, De animalibus From Marbod of Rennes, De lapidibus From Bartholomæus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum From The Peterborough Lapidary From Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries Life of Saint Margaret of Antioch (from the Legenda Aurea) The Spring of Narcissus (from The Romance of the Rose) The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice (from King Alfred's Version of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, trans. Walter John Sedgefield) Dante Meets Matilda and Beatrice in the Earthly Paradise (from Dante's Purgatorio XXIX-XXXIII, trans. A. S. Kline) Pygmalion and Galatea (from Ovid's Metamorphoses) The Phoenix of Arabia (from Ovid's Metamorphoses) Origen on the Song of Songs The New Jerusalem (Revelation 21) Appendix B: List of Biblical Source Passages Appendix C: List of Significant Liturgical Dates Appendix D: Chart of Concatenation Words Select Bibliography
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Paul Dry Books, Inc Then & Now: The World's Center & the Soul's
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Linden Publishing Co Inc Myths of Love: Echoes of Ancient Mythology in the
Book SynopsisDr. Ruth Westheimer, America'';s favorite sex therapist, analyzes ancient myth and its relevance to 21st century relationships in her new book Myths of Love: Echoes of Greek and Roman Mythology in the Modern Romantic Imagination. From humanity'';s earliest beginnings, people have puzzled over the dual nature of love. For the ancient Greeks and Romans, love was sweet, but it was also irrational, cruel, and often deadly. Faced with the terrible paradox of love, classical civilization produced some of the most psychologically insightful myths of all time - stories of classic archetypes such as Narcissus, Helen of Troy, and Venus and Adonis. Dr. Ruth and classical scholar Jerome E. Singerman insightfully examine the underlying psychology of the ancient myths and explain why their universal appeal has shaped the imagination of Western civilization for millennia. Myths of Love traces how these myths of endured in literature and art across the centuries and how they still influence how we think about sex and relationships today. Surveying a vast range of Greek and Roman literature from Homer to Ovid,''Myths of Love'' retells and reconsiders the full gamut of human sexual experience, from the tenderest expressions of married love to the savage, self-destructive passions of narcissism on jealousy. Bridging high culture and pop culture, ''Myths of Love'' reveals the secret connections between classic literature and today''s popular novels and films. A stimulating blend of art, science, ancient religion, and the passions and contradictions of the human heart, ''Myths of Love'' is a smart and sexy revisit to the roots of Western culture''s eternal fascination with love.
£16.19
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Aristophanes and Menander: Three Comedies: Peace,
Book SynopsisThree Comedies features the work of three dramatic geniuses of the glorious, no-holds-barred tradition of ancient Athenian comedy. Here Aristophanes, the eight-hundred-pound gorilla of Old and Middle Comedy meets Menander, elephant in the room of New Comedy, in a match made possible by Douglass Parker--if not Athenian exactly, or even ancient, possibly the maddest chameleon ever to absorb the true colors of an ancient choral song, transpose a lost pun, or channel a venerable, giant, dung-eating cockroach for the benefit of those who couldn't be there the first time. Timothy J. Moore offers concise and informative introductions and notes to Parker's brilliant translation of Aristophanes' fantastical Peace and Money, the God and Menander's lively, domestic Samia --and includes, as a bonus, Parker's James Constantine Lecture at the University of Virginia, "A Desolation Called Peace : Trials of an Aristophanic Translator."
£41.64
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Gilgamesh
Book SynopsisThis stirring new version of the great Babylonian epic includes material from the recently discovered "monkey tablet" as well as an Introduction, timeline, glossary, and correspondences between lines of the translation and those of the original texts. "A comprehensive Introduction with a light touch (Beckman), a poetic rendering with verve and moxie (Lombardo): This edition of the colossal Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic should satisfy all readers who seek to plumb its wealth and depth without stumbling over its many inconvenient gaps and cruxes. A fine gift to all lovers of great literature."—Jack M. Sasson, Emeritus Professor, Vanderbilt University and The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillTrade Review"Stanley Lombardo’s new Gilgamesh weighs in at a slim 91 pages, including useful front and back matter as well as newly discovered segments from the middle of the story, the so-called Monkey Tablet. . . . Similar to other books produced by Hackett to serve study in liberal arts and humanities, Lombardo’s work is attractive without being ornate and is easily affordable for the college market. It is furnished with auxiliary materials to enhance the ability of a student (or a nonspecialist instructor) to contextualize and navigate an ancient and non-Western primary text. Gary Beckman's introduction is an excellent overview of the five-millennia-old literary tradition about Gilgamesh, legendary king of the historical ancient city of Uruk, and provides an account of the discovery and decipherment of cuneiform that is remarkably concise and comprehensible. . . . Additional material includes an 'About This Edition' section, a timeline, a glossary of proper names, suggestions for further reading, and a table showing how pages in Lombardo’s version correspond with lines of the original text. . . . Lombardo's contribution to the Gilgamesh tradition offers English-language readers a pleasurable, companionable, and rewarding entryway to a very long and ancient humanistic legacy." —Kathryn Slanski, Yale University, in Review of Biblical Literature
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Gilgamesh
Book SynopsisThis stirring new version of the great Babylonian epic includes material from the recently discovered "monkey tablet" as well as an Introduction, timeline, glossary, and correspondences between lines of the translation and those of the original texts. "A comprehensive Introduction with a light touch (Beckman), a poetic rendering with verve and moxie (Lombardo): This edition of the colossal Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic should satisfy all readers who seek to plumb its wealth and depth without stumbling over its many inconvenient gaps and cruxes. A fine gift to all lovers of great literature."—Jack M. Sasson, Emeritus Professor, Vanderbilt University and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
£33.29
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc The Western Literary Tradition: Volume 1: The
Book SynopsisThis compact anthology provides a thorough introduction to the major works of the Western literary tradition from Antiquity to 1700. It includes excerpts from seventy texts composed in eight ancient and modern languages and in genres as diverse as epic, lyric, and dramatic verse; prose narrative including story, romance, and novel; and non-fiction prose including autobiography, biography, letter, speech, dialogue, and essay. Contents include selections from the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and works by Homer, Euripides, Virgil, Ovid, Saint Augustine, Dante, Chaucer, Machiavelli, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Milton, and many more. Further distinguishing this collection is the inclusion of works by women writers often overlooked in other literary anthologies, including works by Sappho, Margery Kempe, Marie de France, Christine de Pizan, and others. Margaret L. King's clear, engaging introductions and notes support an informed reading of the texts while extending reader's knowledge of particular authors and problems of interest. See available book previews to view the entire Table of Contents, or visit www.hackettpublishing.com for more information. The Western Literary Tradition's modest length and cost allow for the use of full-length works—many of which are available in Hackett Publishing's own well-regarded and inexpensive translations and editions—alongside the anthology without adding undue cost to a reader's total textbook fees.
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc The Western Literary Tradition: Volume 1: The
Book SynopsisThis compact anthology provides a thorough introduction to the major works of the Western literary tradition from Antiquity to 1700. It includes excerpts from seventy texts composed in eight ancient and modern languages and in genres as diverse as epic, lyric, and dramatic verse; prose narrative including story, romance, and novel; and non-fiction prose including autobiography, biography, letter, speech, dialogue, and essay. Contents include selections from the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and works by Homer, Euripides, Virgil, Ovid, Saint Augustine, Dante, Chaucer, Machiavelli, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Milton, and many more. Further distinguishing this collection is the inclusion of works by women writers often overlooked in other literary anthologies, including works by Sappho, Margery Kempe, Marie de France, Christine de Pizan, and others. Margaret L. King's clear, engaging introductions and notes support an informed reading of the texts while extending reader's knowledge of particular authors and problems of interest. See available book previews to view the entire Table of Contents, or visit www.hackettpublishing.com for more information. The Western Literary Tradition's modest length and cost allow for the use of full-length works—many of which are available in Hackett Publishing's own well-regarded and inexpensive translations and editions—alongside the anthology without adding undue cost to a reader's total textbook fees.
£77.34
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Aristophanes: Frogs
Book SynopsisAristophanes's classic send-up of rivalry within the ultra-competitive world of fifth-century Athenian theatre wins a new lease on life in this fresh line-for-line translation by Peter Meineck. Premiered in 2021 by Aquila Theatre and accompanied here by Meineck’s notes and wide-ranging Introduction, this Frogs offers the best view yet of a high-stakes afterlife contest between two of Athens's late great playwrights. Both are undisputed masters of tragedy. But only one can win and return to save the city.Trade Review"Peter Meineck draws on his vast experience as both theatre producer and classical scholar in this lively and thoroughly contemporary translation of Aristophanes's rambunctious but heady Frogs. In highlighting Aristophanes's own concern for spectacle, stage action, and musicality, Meineck offers flexible guidance not only for modern producers of this comedy but also for readers eager to visualize an Aristophanic play in its original setting and to marvel at its enduring comic brilliance." —Ralph M. Rosen, Vartan Gregorian Professor of the Humanities and Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania"Meineck's edition of Frogs is a fantastic resource for students, teachers, and anyone interested in ancient theatre. His Introduction skillfully condenses an impressive amount of information about ancient history, myth, and theatre, contextualizing the play in a clear and accessible manner. His crisp and modern translation imaginatively brings the text and music of Aristophanes to life for today’s audiences." —Rosa Andújar, Deputy Director of Liberal Arts and Lecturer in Liberal Arts, King’s College London"Peter Meineck’s new translation of Aristophanes' Frogs offers expert and funny solutions to [the many challenges of translating this play], and he shines most brightly when it comes to the comic playwright’s particularly hard-to-tackle choral odes and monody, as he rewrites Aristophanes' lyrics to tunes by AC/DC, Wu-Tang Clan, and Bruce Springsteen. While reading Meineck's latest translation, I had YouTube open the entire time, tapping my feet to 'Thunder Struck,' 'Triumph,' and 'The Rising.' . . . Meineck's primary objective, as always, is creating a translation that can be performed (he is founder of Aquila, a theater company that is known for original music, among other things), and his most recent offering, with its attention to music, stands out from other translations of Frogs, because Meineck represents the different musical styles of Aeschylus and Euripides in creative and modern ways. . . . Meineck's Frogs provoked such a rousing discussion in my grad-level class that I look forward to assigning it in my undergraduate classes as well. So, grab a copy of Meineck's Frogs, open YouTube, and soon you will be humming Europe's 'The Final Countdown,' but with a slight twist, after Meineck, as 'the final smackdown'." —Laurialan Reitzammer, University of Colorado at Boulder, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review "[T]he introduction contains all a student or teacher would need to fully understand the play. Firstly, the reader is provided with a clear and concise historical and cultural background to the play spread over 15 pages. This also includes sub-divided information on all the conventions of Old Comedy including festivals, the theatre building, masks, costumes, props, music and staging. Secondly, Meineck provides the reader with a 36-page character information list. . . . I found this to be a really useful resource for students of all abilities in my classes. . . . For those . . . who would like to start their exploration into Greek comedy, or for those more seasoned readers looking for an interesting take on the work of Aristophanes, this is a worthwhile read." —Ben Greenley, in Journal of Classics Teaching
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Lucian: Three Menippean Fantasies
Book SynopsisA handful of fragments is all that remains of the writings of Menippus, the third-century BCE provocateur of the Greek Cynic movement. The Western literary tradition knows him through Lucian, the Greek satirist who lived and worked four hundred years later. Included in this book are Joel Relihan’s lively English translations of Lucian’s three reanimations of Menippus—fantastic narratives and comic dialogues set in heaven and hell: Menippus; or, The Consultation of the Corpses Icaromenippus; or, A Man above the Clouds The Colloquies of the Corpses (Dialogues of the Dead) For the first time in over fifty years, these works are assembled in a unified format to tell a particular story: Lucian’s evolving understanding of the philosophical and literary potential of the person, productions, and purposes of Menippus. Not only is it time to give Lucian’s Menippus a fresh look and a thorough reevaluation, but also to consider how Lucian’s imitations and innovations adumbrate, illuminate, and complicate the history of that enigmatic genre, Menippean satire.Trade Review“Professor Relihan’s translations of Lucian’s Menippus works are the best I know of in English. The notes, Introduction, and Afterword are models of concision and clarity. This volume will be enormously useful to anyone interested in Lucian, Menippus, or ‘Menippean satire’.” —R. Bracht Branham, Emory University
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Politics of Olympus: Form and Meaning in the Major Homeric Hymns
Book SynopsisAn edition of "The Politics of Olympus", first published in the USA in 1989.Trade Review"'This important and ground-breaking book provides for the first time systematic and convincing reading of these four fascinating poems as a group, and in relation to the epics of Homer and the Theogony of Hesiod. Clay's expert and highly original analysis of the poems' narrative and thematic patterns succeeds brilliantly in demonstrating not only the unexpected subtlety and coherence of each Hymn, but also the ways in which they work in combination to provide an overarching Greek world-view. The contested nature of divine authority, the close yet problematic relations between gods and humans, and the multiple processes of conflict and resolution among competing factions within the cosmic order, are all explored and skilfully interconnected in this highly acclaimed study - already a classic in the field. This is by far the best book that has been written on this important body of poetry.' - Mark Griffith, University of California, Berkeley 'Though controversial in many places, this book is of great value to classicists. Its assumption that the poems have an intellectual and "theological" coherence... is welcome and will benefit those who teach the Hymns.' - Charles Platter, Classical Outlook"
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Carcanet Press Ltd Selected Poems
Book SynopsisHugh MacDiarmid hailed William Dunbar (1461?-1520?) as "in many ways the most modern, as he is the most varied, of Scottish poets". His verve, wit, metrical skill, malice and elegiac power made him one of the great poets of the 15th century, and a defining Scottish poet of all time. Although he was a priest for most of his adult life, Dunbar saw himself as a professional writer and took an outspoken pride in his craft, never failing to remind the king, his employer, of the unwisdom of neglecting to reward poets. Close to the European traditions of Francois Villon and troubadour lyrics, and inheriting the vigorous rhythms of Piers Plowman, Dunbar revitalised the conventions of medieval poetry, excelling in his mastery of the short satirical and lyrical poem. He can be bawdy, savage and romantic. Above all, more than any other poet of his time, Dunbar speaks directly in a voice that is vivid and challenging. This fully annotated edition makes the richness of Dunbar's language accessible to the modern reader.
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Carcanet Press Ltd Old English Poems and Riddles
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Forrester Roberts Legend of Tristan and Iseulet: The Tale and the
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£5.95
Seagull Books London Ltd Sex and Terror
Book SynopsisThe fascinus, or phallus, was at the heart of classical Roman art and life. No god was more represented in ancient Rome than the phallic deity Priapus, and the fescennine verses, one of the earliest forms of Roman poetry, accompanied the celebrations of Priapus, the harvest, and fertility. But with this emphasis on virility also came an emphasis on power and ideas of possession and protection. In "Sex and Terror", Pascal Quignard looks closely at this delicate interplay of celebration and terror. In startling and original readings of myths, satires, memoirs, and works of ancient philosophy and visual art, Quignard locates moments of both playful, aesthetic commemoration and outward cruelty. Through these examples, he describes a colossal cultural shift within Western civilization that occurred two millennia ago, as Augustus shaped the Roman world into an empire and the joyous, precise eroticism of the Greeks turned into a terror-stricken melancholy. The details of this revolution in thinking are revealed through Quignard's astute analysis of classical literary sources and Roman art. This powerful transformation from celebration to fear is a change whose consequences, Quignard argues, we are still dealing with today, making "Sex and Terror" an intriguing reconsideration of ancient Rome that transcends its history.
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De Gruyter Virgil, Aeneid 6: A Commentary
Book SynopsisWorking “in the shadow of Eduard Norden” in the author’s own words, Nicholas Horsfall has written his own monumental commentary on Aeneid 6. This is Horsfall’s fifth large-scale commentary on the Aeneid, and as his earlier commentaries on books 7, 11, 3, and 2, this is not a commentary aimed at undergraduates. Horsfall is a commentators’ commentator writing with encyclopedic command of Virgilian scholarship for the most demanding reader. Volume One includes the introduction, text and translation, and bibliography,Volume Two includes the commentary, appendices, and indices.
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Bohlau Verlag Neo-Latin Contexts in Croatia and Tyrol:
Book SynopsisResearch during the last decades has demonstrated the critical importance of Neo-Latin literature for the formation of cultural identities on both a European, as well as on a national and regional level, especially in those parts of Europe which have not previously been at the centre of scholarly interest. The studies collected in this volume explore different aspects of the Neo-Latin literature in Croatia and Tyrol from the Renaissance to the dawn of modernity. Their interests range from the interpretation of individual genres or periods, to comparison of the two literatures and evaluation of the very concepts of national and regional literature in the field of Neo-Latin studies. It is the first volume published in English to examine either Croatian or Tyrolean Latinity to such an extent.
£68.84
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG A Christian in Toga: Boethius: Interpreter of
Book SynopsisClaudio Moreschini focuses on selected and as yet still understudied aspects of Boethius' life and works. He presents Boethius in the culture of the sixth century in Italy, outlines his great cultural project and discusses the problem of his Christian faith. The Consolatio Philosophiae is examined from the point of view of Latin Platonism, highlighting the aims of its poetry and its philosophical tenets. Moreschini also shows how Boethius combined Christian faith and philosophy in order to solve theological issues, most notably the Christological debates of his times or the question of the Trinity.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Education, Religion, and Literary Culture in the
Book SynopsisThis book contextualizes Claudian's handling of the Proserpina myth and the underworld in the history of literature and religion while showing intersections with and differences between the literary and religious uses of the underworld topos. In doing so, the study provides an incentive to rethink the dichotomy of the terms "religious" and "non-religious" in favour of a more nuanced model of references and refunctionalisations of elements which are, or could be, religiously connotated. A close philological analysis of De raptu Proserpinae identifies the sphere of myth and poetry as an area of expressive freedom, a parallel universe to theological discourses (whether they be pagan-philosophical or Christian), while the profound understanding and skilful use of this particular sphere "a formative aspect of European religious and intellectual history" is postulated as a characteristic of the educated Roman and of Claudian's poetry.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Lustrum Band 63 - 2021
Book SynopsisForschungsbericht zu Ovids Metamorphosen im Zeitraum von 1980 bis 2014.
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Georg Olms Verlag AG Manuscript Transmission of the Anthologia Latina
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Georg Olms Verlag AG Nikephoros: Zeitschrift für Sport und Kultur im
Book SynopsisIn June 2014, to mark the appearance of volume 25 of the journal NIKEPHOROS, a conference was held in Graz on the theme of sport in antiquity. It documented, through the work of 32 established and young scholars from Denmark, Germany, Greece, Great Britain, Italy, Canada, Croatia, The Netherlands, the USA and Austria, both the current interest in the theme of ancient sports and the increasing awareness of the importance of this specific aspect of culture in researching more general historical questions. The papers from the conference are published in edited form in volumes 27 and 28 of NIKEPHOROS.
£70.49
Transcript Verlag Recounting Deviance: Forms and Practices of
Book SynopsisHow do historical sources narrate or recount deviance? Is there a relationship between the manner in which divergent behaviour is recounted and the type of source in which this behaviour is presented? The articles present examples of the recounting of deviance by using, amongst others, sources such as chronicles, travel accounts and court records from 15th century England, 15th/16th century Germany, 17th century Spain, 17th/18th century Venice and 17th/18th century Italy and France. It can be asserted that different types of narrative patterns to recount deviance occur intermingled in the cases discussed.
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V&R unipress GmbH Spatial Practices: Medieval/Modern
Book SynopsisIn recent decades, the conceptualisation of space and place as social constructs, rather than static settings has received significant attention and has been re-evaluated with an emphasis on the cultural, social, and political practice. This shift moves away from regarding space as fixed, unchanging container towards a realisation that space is always inextricably linked with social practice and cultural signification. Thus, the study of spatial practices interrogates human action in different spaces, human agency in the production of space, and space in its capacity to prompt human action. By focusing on human action in manipulating and subverting space, and thereby creating multiple coexisting and overlapping spatialities, the interest also shifts from semiotic correlations in cultural expressions to events, practices, material and medial embodiment of culture. This collection of essays approaches the study of space and place from a historically inclusive perspective; it gives new insights into historical shifts and changes in the construction and perception of space as well as historical developments and diachonicity of literary, social, and architectural sites and places. It aims to gather a number of case studies in order to collect historically concrete evidence of such spatial practices as reflected in literature and art as well as in sources pertaining to the social and political life of premodern, early modern, and modern era. In recent decades the conceptualisation of space and place as social constructs, rather than static settings has received significant attention and has been re-evaluated with an emphasis on the cultural, social and political practice. This shift moves away from regarding space as fixed, unchanging container towards a realisation that space is always inextricably linked with social practice and cultural signification. Thus, the study of spatial practices interrogates human action in different spaces, human agency in the production of space, and space in its capacity to prompt human action. By focusing on human action in manipulating and subverting space, and thereby creating multiple coexisting and overlapping spatialities, the interest also shifts from semiotic correlations in cultural expressions to events, practices, material and medial embodiment of culture. This collection of essays approaches the study of space and place from a historically inclusive perspective; it gives new insights into historical shifts and changes in the construction and perception of space as well as historical developments and diachonicity of literary, social, and architectural sites and places. It aims to gather a number of case studies in order to collect historically concrete evidence of such spatial practices as reflected in literature and art as well as in sources pertaining to the social and political life of premodern, early modern, and modern era.
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V&R Unipress Ancient Ethics
Book SynopsisA collection of essays on Ancient Ethics from Homer to Plotinus
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Fragmenta Comica: Eupolis
Book SynopsisThe series Fragmenta Comica will provide the full commentary on the fragments of the Greek comedy. The goal of the comments is, on the one hand, to tap into the generally difficult to understand texts from all possible points of view, on the other hand, where possible is to try a reconstruction of the pieces and to make a literary - historical classification of the authors.The fragments and testimonies are translated.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG FrC 3.6 Kratinos: Kratinos ffr. 299-514
Book SynopsisThis volume is devoted to the over 200 fragments of Cratinus for which have no play title. Much of the material has never been commented on previously. Douglas Olson and Ryan Seaberg offer a close literary, philological and historical study of the fragments, with particular attention to textual, poetic and linguistic issues of all sorts and to the lexicographic sources that preserve the material. Their general goal is to open up problems and perspectives rather than to shut them down. By teasing out some of their individual puzzles and peculiarities they want to render the fragments accessible to further scholarly work. The commentary of the Fragmenta Comica series illuminate not only the genre history of comedy, but also the Greek literary history of the Classical and Hellenistic period.
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Verlag-Antike Muthos: Aristotle's Concept of Narrative and the
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Bharatiya Kala Prakashan Bhaminivilasa of Jagannatha: With
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Pentagon Press Classics in Italian Literature
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Pentagon Press Classics in World Literature: The Best of World
Book SynopsisThe two political classics in this book are the product of a time of intense turmoil in Chinese history. Dating from the Period of the Warring States (403-221BC), they anticipate Machiavelli's The Prince by nearly 2000 years. The Art of War is the best known of a considerable body of Chinese works on the subject. It analyses the nature of war, and reveals how victory may be ensured. The Book of Lord Shang is a political treatise for the instruction of rulers. These texts are anything but armchair strategy or ivory-tower speculation. They are serious, urgent and practical responses to the desperate situations in which they were written. They have been immensely influential both inside and outside China.
£24.38
Oslo Academic Press Dante: A Critical Reappraisal
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Museum Tusculanum Press Gregory of Nazianzus: Images & Reflections
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Museum Tusculanum Press Oral Art Forms and their Passage into Writing
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Museum Tusculanum Press The Reception of Plutarch's Lives in
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Museum Tusculanum Press Plotting with Eros: Essays on the Poetics of Love
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Museum Tusculanum Press Alexanders Saga: AM 519a 4 in The Arnamagnan
Book SynopsisBook & CD-ROM. The oldest manuscript of Alexanders saga, AM 519a 4°, from circa 1280 is considered to be one of the most important extant pieces of Icelandic writing from the medieval period. Alexanders saga is the Norse translation of Walter of Châtillon's epic poem about Alexander the Great, Alexandreis. The volume contains an introduction, the text in 'facsimile', quantitative analysis of the manuscript's palaeography, orthography and phonetic system as well as a lemmatised index. The accompanying CD-ROM contains colour illustrations of the complete manuscript and reproduces the text in a diplomatic and normalised version, allowing the user easy access to the three text levels as well as other functions.Table of ContentsPreface; General Introduction; Description of the Codex; Orthography; Morphology; Text of AM 519a 4°.
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Museum Tusculanum Press Hákonar saga Hárekssonar
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Museum Tusculanum Press Classica et Mediaevalia: Danish Journal of
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Museum Tusculanum Press The Soul of Poetry Redefined: Vacillations of
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Museum Tusculanum Press Classica et Mediaevalia Volume 63: Danish Journal
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£48.44
Museum Tusculanum Press The Copenhagen Bohun Manuscripts: Women,
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Museum Tusculanum Press Classica et Medieavalia 66: Danish Journal of
Book SynopsisClassica et Mediaevalia is an international, peer reviewed journal covering the field of the Greek and Latin languages and literature from classical antiquity until the late Middle Ages as well as the Greco-Roman history and traditions as manifested in the general history, history of law, history of philosophy and ecclesiastic history. Articles are published mainly in English, but also in French and German. Some of the many contributions to the present issue include Rhetoric in Classical Athens: The Recognition Scene in Aeschylus' Choephoroi and in Sophocles' and Euripides'Electra " and Aphrodite and Inanna: The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite and Sumerian Poetry on Inanna"Table of ContentsKristoffer Maribo Engell Larsen: "Aphrodite and Inanna: The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite and Sumerian Poetry on Inanna" M. Carmen Encinas Reguero: "Rhetoric in Classical Athens: The Recognition Scene in Aeschylus' Choephoroi and in Sophocles' and Euripides'Electra" Janek Kucharski: "Matricide and Silence in Sophocles' Electra". Charles Pry: "The Artist as Critic? Some Notes on the Portrayal of the Athenian Warmaking in the Plays of Euripides". Benjamin Pedersen: "Callisthenes and the Creation of a Homeric Hero". Katerina Philippides: "Altars and Temples in Plautine Comedy". Nick Geller: "Rhetoric's "Cure": The Sublime τέχνη of Longinus". Keith R. Bradley: Artemidorus and the Dreams of Slaves". Marc Steinmann: "Eine fiktive Depesche der Gymnosophisten an Alexander den Großen: Die Epistula Bragmanorum ad Alexandrum als Einleitung zu einer moralisch-ethnographischen Epitome" Willum Westenholz: "Sidonius as an Auctor in the Middle Ages". Stavroula Constantinou: "The Saint's Two Bodies: Sensibility under (self-)Torture in Byzantine Hagiography. Vasileios Pappas: "Justin Neograecus: The Translation of Epitome of Philippics by Daniel Philippides". Heta Björklund: "A Note on the Aspects of the Greek Child-Killing Demon".
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Museum Tusculanum Press Living Waters: Scandinavian Oriental Studies. In
Book SynopsisLiving Waters - Scandinavian Oriental Studies. In Honour of Frede LøkkegaardTable of ContentsSumerian literary dialogues and debates and their place in Ancient Near Eastern literature; die Berufung Jesajas und seine Sendung; Bemerkungen zum "Die Kraniche des Ibykus"-Motiv in der orientalischen Literatur; Frederik Ludvig Norden a Alexandrie en 1737 et 1738; der Islam und Athens Demokratie; Manichaean literature and the writings of Augustine; Lewis Larsson - a Swede in Jerusalem in the first half of the 20th century; foot-noters to the Arabian Nights or the Book of the Thousand and One Nights; an anonymous Hebrew erotico-panegyric from Mahzor Cod. Hebr. XXX, Copenhagen; fra El to Alla - Nasir-i Khosro's beretning om Jerusalem i Safarnameh, "Rejsedagbog"; on Akkadian texts in Greek orthography; the fathers of the grandfather - notes on the teachers of Ibn al-Jauzi of Baghdad as evidenced by his grandson Sibt ibn al-Jauzi in this al-Jalis as-salih wal-anis an-nasih; Edvard Brandes som oversaetter of den jodiske bibel; tribal solidarity - ideology and reality, Ibn Haldun's concept of Asabiya; om gud og det ondes ophav ifolge buddhismen; Shadday in the book of Job; the incarnation according to Ethiopian orthodox catechisms; the values of the tenses in modern Cairene Arabic; Adam og Eva - associationer, etymologier og litteraer semantik - perspektivrids; Ejnar Fugmann, the architect, as a portrayer of the Syrian town Hama in the Islamic period; Erwaegungen zu Gen. 2.18; on a grammatical term in Sibawayh and what it has to tell us; deux versions de Futuh al-Buldan?; al-Sarradj's use of triads in Kitab al-luma; participles and verbal nouns formed from the derived forms of the Arabic strong triliteral verb and their treatment in Urdu; Tadschikistans Latifa; was bedeuted BRNZ bei al-Hamdani?; ARSH and KURSI - an essay on the throne traditions in Islam; Babylonian and Assyrian catalogues; a note on the pre-Islamic Arabic dialect of Syria on basis of Greek inscriptions; the Hebrew revolution and the revolution of the Hebrew language between the 1880s and the 1930s; Betrachtungen ueber den Begriff RIDA.
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Museum Tusculanum Press Study of Medieval Greek Romance
Book SynopsisStudy of Medieval Greek Romance
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Museum Tusculanum Press Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of
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Museum Tusculanum Press Chaucer's Narrative Voice in the Knight's Tale
Book SynopsisThe first specialised study of narrative voice in The Knights'' Tale.
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Museum Tusculanum Press La Reception de La Litterature Classique au Moyen
Book SynopsisA collection of articles dealing with the reception of classical texts in the Middle Ages. The book was published in celebration of Professor Birger Munk Olsen's 60th birthday.Table of ContentsA poem by Theognis; a note on Pindar "Olympian" i, 26 and the critics; cardinal virtues - the language of public approbation in democratic Athens; the regular payment of Aegean mercenaries in the Classical period; the physicality of god in the "Politicus" myth and in the later dialogues; the "Ambrose" text of Alexander and the Brahmans; "Qui Mare Teneat" (Cic. Att. 10.8) - Caesar Pompey and the waves; "pre-history" in the 9th-century manuscript "Ad Herennium"; Gregory Nazianzen's "Homily 36" - a Socratic response to Christian persecution; the rediscovery of Arnulf of Orleans's glosses to Ovid's creation myth; corectio theatrali bei Johannes von Garlandia.
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