Literary studies: ancient, classical Books
Pennsylvania State University Press Imagined Romes The Ancient City and Its Stories
Book SynopsisA study of ancient Rome as a prominent topic in the works of Middle English poets. Discusses how each these poets conceives of ancient Rome and Romans, both pagan and Christian, and why it matters to their work. Includes the works of Gower, Chaucer, Langland, and Lydgate.Trade Review“As with [the author’s] book about medieval Troy stories, Imagined Romes may well become a standard undergraduate source. The book conveniently maps out a set of instances in which some medieval writers represented Rome or responded to various definitions of Romanness.”—Sylvia Federico Speculum“The relation of medieval cultures to Rome is creatively conflicted: early Christianity defines itself against everything that ‘Rome’ stands for, while the Papacy models itself as a new empire. David Benson’s Imagined Romes takes us into the medieval city and trains us to understand how late medieval English readers of and visitors to the eternal city imagined its republican and imperial past. The resultant book—ever lucid and engaging—is full of illuminating surprises.”—James Simpson,author of Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition “David Benson has written a book that was much needed not only by students of medieval English literature but by all those who are interested in pagan and Christian Rome and her image after the fall of the empire. Imagined Romes is a work of intelligence and love, full of the surprises that only a great scholar can set up and rewarding throughout.”—Piero Boitani,author of The Gospel According to Shakespeare“Benson’s lyrical book about English writers’ recovery of ancient Rome allows us to see how profoundly ideas about Rome shaped the later Middle Ages. Imagined Romes offers a delightful tour of an ancient city that existed only in the memories of Middle English poets. Despite being a fantasy, this Rome shaped conceptions of power, truth, justice, mercy, love, tragedy, and literature for generations. Benson’s book will appeal to literary scholars, medievalists, and any reader who has fallen in love with a place found only in a book.”—Rebecca Krug,author of Reading Families: Women's Literate Practice in Late Medieval England“The originality and critical acumen of this work are well represented in its title: the reader can expect to discover a multitude of Romes, as Benson highlights the plurality of cities that, under the name of Rome, were built in the imagination of Middle English poets.”—Giulia Boitani Medium Aevum“Imagined Romes resounds with evocative and theologically rich tales of Rome and Romans in Middle English poetry, and will captivate a contemporary literate audience with the marvels of the eternal city, in an analogous fashion to those wondrous bells ringing-out from the Capitoline hill.”—Sean Michael Ryan Reading Religion“This study ably fills a startling gap that I, for one, had not previously thought to consider. The interpretative consequences are estimable, for Benson’s focus through the lens of Rome eloquently illuminates significant aspects of all four Middle English poets he considers.”—Karla Taylor Studies in the Age of ChaucerTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on SpellingIntroductionPart 1: Ancient Rome and Its Objects1 The Relics of Rome: Christian Mercy and the Stacions of Rome2 The Ruins of Rome: Pagan Marvels and the Metrical MirabiliaPart 2: Narratives of Ancient Romans3 Civic Romans in Gower’s Confessio Amantis4 Heroic (Women) Romans in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and the Legend ofGood Women5 Virtuous Romans in Piers Plowman6 Tragic Romans in Lydgate’s Fall of PrincesNotesBibliographyIndex
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Agamemnon
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Yale University Press The Poetry of Michelangelo An Annotated
Book SynopsisA bilingual edition of the more than 300 sonnets, madrigals and other poems produced by Michelangelo over his long career. The poems reveal much of the artist's inner feelings about such universal themes as love, death and redemption.
£51.58
Yale University Press Herodotus
Book SynopsisThis study argues that Herodotus was both a historian and a master storyteller. Romm discusses the historical background of Herodotus' life and work, his moralistic approach to history, his fascination with people and places, his literary powers, and the question of historical "truth".
£29.33
Yale University Press Virgils Epic Designs
Book SynopsisA study of ekphrasis - a self-contained aside that generates a pause in the narrative to describe a work of art or other object - in Virgil's final masterpiece, the "Aeneid". The author shows how the descriptions provide metaphors for the entire poem and reinforce its ambiguities.
£52.69
Yale University Press Oedipus at Thebes Sophocles Tragic Hero his Time
Book SynopsisThis text examines Sophocles' Oedipus' Tyrannus in the context of 5th-century Athens. In attempting to discover what the play meant to Sophocles' contemporaries, the book casts fresh light on its timeless and universal nature. This edition has a new preface and suggested reading list.
£33.78
Yale University Press The Dialogues of Plato Volume 4
Book SynopsisAmong Plato's later dialogues "The Parmenides" is considered one of the most significant. This book provides a translation of the text along with a structural analysis.
£38.23
Yale University Press Plutarch
Book SynopsisAn introduction to Plutarch's life and work for both general readers and students. Robert Lamberton sketches the cultural context in which Plutarch worked and discusses his family relationships, background, education and political career, then analyzes his writings.Trade Review"An excellent book that offers real literary and historical criticism, sound scholarship, and an interesting interpretation of Plutarch's contribution and attitude." Frances B. Titchener, Utah State University
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Yale University Press The Long March
Book SynopsisThe March of the Ten Thousand is one of the most famous military adventures in the ancient world. Its fearless army of Greek mercenaries marched through western Asia (modern Turkey and Iraq) in 401-399 B.C., their hopes and hardships recounted by Xenophon, the Athenian, an admiring pupil of Socrates.
£68.27
Yale University Press The Matter of Araby in Medieval England
Book SynopsisExamines the literary and intellectual relationships between "Piers Plowman" and "The Faerie Queene". This book links these two rich and problematical poems by showing their development from a common religious and artistic matrix and by assessing their roles in the evolution of allegory.
£36.00
Yale University Press Dantes Two Beloveds
Book SynopsisRe-examining key passages in Dante's oeuvre in the light of the crucial issue of moral choice, this book provides a thematic framework for interpreting the Divine Comedy. It shows how Dante articulated the relationship between the human and the divine as an erotic choice between two attractive women - Beatrice and the 'other woman'.Trade Review“This superlative study of Dante shows the signs of long study and contemplation, honing and refining. Holmes offers a persuasive and original interpretation.”—F. Regina Psaki, University of Oregon -- F. Regina Psaki“Dante’s Two Beloveds maintains a rare balance between the philological and semiological perspective. Holmes makes an important contribution to Dante studies.”—Simone Marchesi, Princeton University -- Simone MarchesiChosen as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 by Choice Magazine * Choice *
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages The New Middle Ages
Book SynopsisTo be a virgin or a widow never promised a stable, uniform status to a woman during the Middle Ages. Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages addresses many facets of these two female positions in medieval literature: gender constructions;Table of ContentsAppealing to Ecclesiastical Chivalry: The Widowed Queen in the Encomium Emmae ; R.S.Hollis A Widow's Chaste Vow: Mapping the Influence of Marie's La Vie de Sainte Audre�n Isabella, Countess of Suffolk; V.Blanton-Whetsell Closed Doors: An Epithalamium for Queen Edith, Widow and Virgin; M.Otter Performing Virginity: Sex and Violence in the Katherine Group; S.Salih The Paradox of Virginity with the Anchoritic Tradition: The Masculine Gaze and the Feminine Body in the Wohunge Group; S.M.Chewning Unrepresentable Rape and the Represented Church in Medieval Saints' Lives; K.C.Kelly Widowed Virgins, Viragos, and Authority in the Man of Law's Tale; C.C.Baswell The Violent Violation of Virginia: Family Violence in the Physician's Tale; S.P.Prior Between the Living and the Dead: Widows as Heroines of Medieval Romance; R.Hayward The Disorder of Violence/The Violence of Order: Abjection in the Prioress' Tale; K.M.Hobbs A Fountain Sealed, a Garden Enclosed: Literary Constructions of the Virgin Mary in Medieval French Story, Drama, and Lyric; J.M.Davis Virginity at Court: The Trials of the Virgin in the N-Town Cycle; C.L.Carlson Helpful Widows, Virgins in Distress: Women's Friendship in French Romances of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries; A.Roberts The Widow as Virgin: Desexualized Narrative in the Livre de la Cit�es Dames; A.J. Weisl Transgressive Tears: The Pedagogy of Grief and the Image of the Grieving Widow in Medieval French Culture; L.A.Callahan
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Bloomsbury USA 3pl Sing Sorrow
Book SynopsisOpera has often used classical literature as a means of expressing the most vital concerns of the period in which the operas were written. Sing Sorrow explores the classical roots of many noted operas, illustrating the ways in which the operas reflected the political concerns of their time through these ancient narratives.Table of ContentsPrelude The Birth of Opera and Transmission of Classics Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria: Heroism at Home Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas: Witches and Weddings Mozart's Idomeneo, re di Creta: The King of the Day Berlioz's Les Troyens: Making the Romans Romantic Strauss's Elektra: A Father's Daughter Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex: The King in a Trap The Gospel at Colonus: Black Pearls and Greek Diamonds Theodorakis and Euripides' Medea: The Wife and Mother from Hell Coda Selected Bibliography on Music Index
£70.00
Bloomsbury USA 3pl Chaucer The Knights Tale Palgrave Master Guides
£27.47
Lulu.com The Consolation of Philosophy
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Lulu.com The Consolation of Philosophy
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc The Eclogues of Virgil
Book SynopsisVirgil''s great lyrics, rendered by the acclaimed translator of The Odes of Horace and GilgameshThe Eclogues of Virgil gave definitive form to the pastoral mode, and these magically beautiful poems, which were influential in so much subsequent literature, perhaps best exemplify what pastoral can do. Song replying to song replying to song, touchingly comic, poignantly sad, sublimely joyful, the various music that these shepherds make echoes in scenes of repose and harmony, and of hardship and trouble in work and love. A bilingual edition, The Eclogues of Virgil includes concise, informative notes and an Introduction that describes the fundamental role of this deeply original book in the pastoral tradition.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Womens Lives in Medieval Europe A Sourcebook
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Cambridge University Press The Origins of Democratic Thinking
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Cambridge University Press Herodotus Histories Book VII
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iUniverse Dantes Great Adventure Selected Cantos from the Divine Comedy
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Punctum Books Dark Chaucer An Assortment
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Presbyterian Publishing Corporation Seeing the Psalms
Book SynopsisWilliam Brown introduces a new method of exegesis, particularly for biblical poetry, that attends to the metaphorical contours of the Psalms. His method as proposed and demonstrated in this book supplements traditional ways of interpreting the Psalms and results in a fresh understanding of their original context and contemporary...
£31.35
Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S. Letter Writing in GrecoRoman Antiquity Library of Early Christianity
Book SynopsisMaking use of letters--both formal and personal--that have been preserved through the ages, Stanley Stowers analyzes the cultural setting within which Christianity arose.The Library of Early Christianity is a series of eight outstanding books exploring the Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts in which the New Testament...
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Bloomsbury USA 3pl Latin Prose Composition
Book SynopsisThis book is aimed at helping students enhance their command of Latin grammar and vocabulary. The exercises have been structured in a manner that gradually enables students to build their Latin prose skills.Table of ContentsPreface Preliminary Exercises Sequence of Tenses Final Clauses Consecutive Clauses Final and Consecutive Clauses Infinitive as Subject or Complement – prolative infinitive Participles Time, Space, Place Ablatives of Comparison, Quality, Measure of Difference ; Words Governing the Ablative Indirect Statement Price and Value Partitative Genetive Verbs Governing Dative Exercises for Revision Passive of Intransitative Verbs Direct command Indirect command Dative of Purpose Ablatives of Origin, Separation, Association Ablatives of Respect and Manner Exercises for Revision Gerunds and Gerundives, Gerundive Attraction Supines Exercises for Revision with Gerunds Direct Questions Indirect Questions Subordinate Clauses in Indirect Statement Impersonal Verbs Genitive (Objective, etc) Exercises for revision Relative with the Subjunctive Gerunds and Gerundives, Gerundive Expressing Obligation Verbs of Fearing Causal Clauses Quin and Quominus Exercises for revision Temporal Clauses Conditional Sentences Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Greek Phrase Book Greek Language
Book SynopsisH.W. Auden taught classics in Edinburgh.
£26.48
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Elementary Greek Exercises Greek Language
Book SynopsisA.E. Hillard was the High Master of St. Paul's School, London, UK.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Elementary Latin Exercises Latin language
Book SynopsisA.E. Hillard was the High Master of St. Paul's School, London, UK.C.G. Botting was Assistant Master at St. Paul's School, UK.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Outline of Greek Accidence Greek Language
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Greek Prose Composition Greek Language
Book SynopsisThe late Arthur Sidgwick was a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Poetics of Aristotle
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Continnuum-3PL Elementary Latin Translation Latin language
Book SynopsisThis volume contains Latin text, with notes in English.Table of ContentsIntroductory Exercises, A-H Exercises 1-96 Special Vocabularies General Vocabulary
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Lucretius in the Modern World Classical Interfaces
Book SynopsisW.R. Johnson is John Matthews Manly Professor of Classics and Comparative literature, Emeritus, at the University of Chicago, USA. He is the author of Darkness Visible, and Horace and the Dialectic of Freedom.
£31.42
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Reading Roman Women Sources Genres and Real Life
Book SynopsisHow do we retrieve the lives of real Roman women? This book presents a range of examples to support the argument that our ideas of what we know about women's work, sexuality, commerce and political activity in the Roman world have been shaped by the format, or genre, of each ancient source.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Art of Plato
Book SynopsisThis study is a contribution to the literary interpretation of Plato's dialogues, through analysis of their formal structure, characterization, language and imagery. The "Gorgias", the "Symposium", the "Republic" and the "Phaedrus" are considered, and the personality of Socrates is examined.
£32.41
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Rape in Antiquity
Book SynopsisA collection of 12 original essays providing an overview of how Greeks and Romans perceived the phenomenon of rape. Using the numerous references to rape in Greek legal speeches, comedy, tragedy, visual art and myth, the perceived victims and degree of seriousness of rape is assessed.Trade Review'... provides a rare and sensitive understanding of rape in the ancient world' Nick Kochan, Financial Times
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Aristotle on Comedy Towards a Reconstruction of Poetics No 2 Towards a Reconstruction of Poetics II
Book SynopsisRichard Janko is Gerald F. Else Distinguished University Professor of Classical Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. His publications include as translator Aristotle: Poetics (1987); as editor The Iliad. A Commentary. 4: Books 13-16 (1992); and Philodemus: the Aesthetic Works. Vol. I/1: On Poems Book 1 (2000) and Books 3-4 (2011)Trade Review'This is a splendidly vigorous book. Janko presents his case with enthusiasm and panache. He is forthright in expressing his own views and in denouncing the errors of other scholars. His arguments, some of them complex, are invariably clear - and often deliciously clever. Whatever the truth about TC [Tractatus Coislinianus], Janko's conclusions must be taken seriously.... No reader will be able to stay silent about this fascinating book' Jonathan Barnes, Phronesis
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Homer The Resonance of Epic Classical Literature and Society
Book SynopsisBarbara Graziosi is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Durham and the author of Inventing Homer: The Early Reception of Epic (2002). Johannes Haubold is Lecturer in Greek Literature at the University of Durham and the author of Homer's People: Epic Poetry and Social Formation (2000).
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Classics and Colonialism
Book SynopsisContributors: Emily Greenwood (University of St Andrews), Thomas Harrison (University of Liverpool), Phiroze Vasunia (University of North Carolina), John Gilmore (University of Warwick), Lorna Hardwick (Open University), Felix Budelmann (Open University). Barbara Goff is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classics, University of Reading.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Women in Greek Myth
Book SynopsisMary Lefkowitz is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Wellesley College, Massachusetts.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Bucolic Ecology Virgils Eclogues and the Environmental Literary Tradition
Book SynopsisTimothy Saunders is Postdoctoral scholar at the University of Tromso.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Chronicle of Ibn alAthir for the Crusading
Book SynopsisThe Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir (1160-1233 AD), entitled al-Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh, is one of the outstanding sources for the history of the mediaeval world. It covers the whole sweep of Islamic history almost up to the death of its author and, with the sources available to him, he attempted to embrace the widest geographical spread; events in Iraq, Iran and further East run in counterpoint with those involving North Africa and Spain. From the time of the arrival of the Crusaders in the Levant, their activities and the Muslim response become the focus of the work. While continuing with the aim of comprehensive coverage, the years in this part are dominated by the careers of Nur al-Din and Saladin, the champions of the Jihad, sometimes called the 'counter-crusade'. Of special interest is the historian's partiality for the House of the former, and his perceived hostility to Saladin.Trade Review’This is the second of Richards's translations that I have had the good fortune to assess, the first being The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin, and once again I have been struck by Richards's ability to produce a translation that maintains a high level of accuracy while also remaining eminently readable. Richards draws on a extensive vocabulary to enable him to render into English subtleties of Arabic meaning that might have been missed by a less careful translation.’ Speculum JournalTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Introduction; The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir: The year 541 [1146-47] to the year 589 [1193-94]; Bibliographical references; Index.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Female Sexuality in the Early Medieval Islamic World
Book SynopsisPERNILLA MYRNE is Associate Professor of Arabic Literature andHistory at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, from where she alsoreceived her PhD. She has published several peer-reviewed articles andchapters on gender and sexuality in the early Islamic world.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Theodore Metochites
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Chartwell Books The Divine Comedy 5 Chartwell Classics
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Oxford University Press Essay On the Life and Poetry Of Homer
Book SynopsisThis bilingual edition, with introduction and brief commentary, makes accessible for the first time in English a text of great importance for the history and interpretation of Homer. Although attributed to Plutarch, the Essay is probably the work of a grammaticus of the second and third century and is the single most valuable source of evidence for the nature of the teaching of Homer in the schools of the Roman Empire. Well represented in the manuscript tradition, the Essay was used as prefatory material by Renaissance editors of Homer, beginning with the editio princeps (1488), and so exercised a powerful influence on Renaissance and early-modern readers, who often refer to ''Plutarch'' as an authority on Homer. The newly edited Greek text is presented with facing translation.Trade Review[An] attractive bilingual edition ... The first part of the Introduction, "The History of the Essay," is a most useful and concise discussion of text transmission, authorship, and date ... Lamberton shows a deft touch in his notes, printed at the foot of the English pages: lean, always instructive, never impeding. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
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Society of Biblical Literature Hittite Diplomatic Texts Second Edition 7 Writings from the Ancient World
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