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Book SynopsisIn his reflections on Christianity, Saint Thomas Aquinas forged a unique synthesis of ancient philosophy and medieval theology. Preoccupied with the relationship between faith and reason, he was influenced both by Aristotle's rational world view and by the powerful belief that wisdom and truth can ultimately only be reached through divine revelation. Thomas's writings, which contain highly influential statements of fundamental Christian doctrine, as well as observations on topics as diverse as political science, anti-Semitism and heresy, demonstrate the great range of his intellect and place him firmly among the greatest medieval philosophers.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanTrade Review"There are readers of Aquinas's works, but Penguin's surpasses all by its sheer size, the very representative choice of texts, the excellent translations, and scholarly, informative introductions." —Albert E. GunnTable of ContentsSelected Writings - Thomas Aquinas IntroductionChronologyA Note on the TextsPart One: Student (1245-56)1. The Inaugural Sermons (1256)2. On the Principles of Nature (1252-6)3. On Being and Essence (1252-6)4. The Nature of Theology. Commentary on Sentences I, Prologue (1252-4)5. The Work of the Six Days of Creation. Commentary on Sentences 2.2, d. 12 (1252-4)Part Two: Master at Paris (1256-9)6. Theology, Faith and Reason. On Boethius On the Trinity, 1-2 (1257)7. How are Things Good? Exposition of On the Hebdomads of Boethius (1257)8. The Meanings of Truth. Disputed Question on Truth, I (1256-9)9. On the Teacher. Disputed Question on Truth, II (1256-9)10. On Conscience. Disputed Question on Truth, 17 (1256-9)Part Three: Italy (1259-68)11. Proof of God's Existence. Summa contra Gentiles, I, 9-14 (1259)12. The Human Good. Summa contra Gentiles, 3 (1259-65)13. On the Divine Simplicity. Disputed Question of the Power of God, 7 (1265-6)14. On Goodness and the Goodness of God. Summa theologiae, 1, 5-6 (1268)15. On Creation. Summa theologiae, 1, 44 (1268)16. On Angelic Knowledge. Summa theologiae, 1, 54-8 (1268)17. Definitions of Soul. On Aristotle's De anima, 2, 1-3 (1268)18. Platonism and Neoplatonism. Preface to Exposition of On the Divine Names (1265-8)Part Four: Paris (1269-72)19. The Range of Natural Philosophy. Expositions of Physics, 1, 1, Preface to On the Heavens, Preface to On Sense and the Sensed Object (1269)20. How Words Mean. Exposition of On Interpretation, 1-5 (1270-71)21. On the Ultimate End. Summa theologiae, 1-2, 1-5 (1271)22. On Human Choice. Disputed Question on Evil, 6 (1266-72)23. What Makes Actions Good or Bad? Summa theologiae, 1-2, 18-20 (1271)24. On Law and Natural Law. Summa theologiae, 1-2, 90-94 (1271)25. The Virtues. Summa theologiae, 1-2, 55-7 (1271-2)26. The Active and Contemplative Lives. Summa theologiae, 2-2, 179-81 (1271-2)27. On the Eternity of the World (1271)28. The Love of Wisdom. Exposition of Metaphysics, Preface and 1, 1-3 (1271)Part Five: Naples (1272-4)29. The Logic of the Incarnation. Summa theologiae, 3, 16 (1273)30. What is a Sacrament? Summa theologiae, 3, 6 (1273)31. The Exposition of the Book of Causes, 1-5 (1272)32. Exposition of Paul's Epistle to Philemon (1273)33. Exposition of the Angelic Salutation (Ave Maria) (1273)Glossary

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAthenaze, Books I and II, presents a thoughtful, reading-based approach to learning ancient Greek. Both books are interspersed with superbly written cultural and historical essays that introduce readers to the signature characteristics of Greek culture. * Stephen Esposito, Boston University *I have found Athenaze's methodology successful with today's broad range of student learning styles and varied levels of language sophistication. * Elizabeth A. Fisher, George Washington University *Athenaze is an excellent adaptation of the reading approach for ancient Greek, with excellent Greek readings. * Nicholas Rynearson, University of Georgia *The approach is student friendly, the readings are varied and interesting, and the grammatical explanations are clear. * Laurie Cosgriff, Portland State University *Athenaze is the best text for learning ancient Greek. Period. * George Rudebusch, Northern Arizona University *The storyline and characters of the text readily draw students into the language and culture of the Greeks. Athenaze is arguably the best first-year Greek text on the market. * Richard L. Phillips, Virginia Tech University *Table of ContentsPreface List of Historical Essays List of Maps List of Color Plates About the Authors Introduction Map of Greece and the Aegean Sea 1. O *DIKAIO*PO*LI*S (a) Grammar 1. Verb Forms: Stems and Endings 2. Nouns: Genders, Stems, Endings, Cases, and Agreement 3. U se of the Definite Article Reading The Athenian Farmer O *DIKAIO*PO*LI*S (*b) Grammar 4. Accents Readings O K*LHPO*S Classical Greek: Heraclitus New Testament Greek: Title page of the Gospel of Luke 2. O *XAN*CIA*S (a) Grammar 1. Verb Forms: Indicative Mood; 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Persons Singular 2. Proclitics 3. The Imperative Readings Slavery Greek Wisdom: Cleobulus of Lindos O *XAN*CIA*S (*b) Grammar 4. Articles, Adjectives, and Nouns; Singular, All Cases 5. U ses of the Cases 6. Persistent Accent of Nouns and Adjectives 7. Recessive Accent of Verbs Readings O *DO*U*LO*S Classical Greek: Callimachus New Testament Greek: Luke 3.22 3. O APOTO*S (a) Grammar 1. Verb Forms: 3rd Person Plural, Imperatives, and Infinitives Reading The Deme and the Polis O APOTO*S (*b) Grammar 2. Articles, Adjectives, and Nouns; Singular and Plural, All Cases 3. Accent Shifting Readings OI *bOE*S Classical Greek: Menander New Testament Greek: Luke 6.46 4. *PPO*S THI KPHNHI (a) Grammar 1. Verb Forms: All Persons, Singular and Plural 2. Declensions of Nouns and Adjectives 3. Feminine Nouns and Adjectives of the 1st Declension Readings Women Greek Wisdom: Pittacus (of Mitylene) *PPO*S THI KPHNHI (*b) Grammar 4. Masculine Nouns of the 1st Declension 5. Feminine Nouns of the 2nd Declension 6. 1st and 2nd Declension Adjectives 7. Two Irregular Adjectives 8. Formation of Adverbs 9. The Definite Article as Case Indicator Readings AI *G*UNAIKE*S TO*U*S AN*DPA*S *PEI*CO*U*SIN Classical Greek: Callimachus New Testament Greek: Luke 6.45 5. O *L*UKO*S (a) Grammar 1. Contract Verbs in -a- 2. Recessive Accent of Finite Verbs 3. Article at the Beginning of a Clause 4. Elision Readings Gods and Men Greek Wisdom: Chilon of Sparta O *L*UKO*S (*b) Grammar 5. Agreement of Subject and Verb 6. Personal Pronouns 7. Attributive and Predicate Position 8. Possessives 9. The Adjective a)u*t)o*S, -)n, -)o Readings O AP*GO*S TA *PPO*bATA *S*WIZEI Greek Wisdom: The Seven Wise Men Classical Greek: Anacreon New Testament Greek: Luke 4.22 and 24 6. O M*U*CO*S (a) Grammar 1. Verb Forms: *P*L)e*W 2. Verbs: Voice 3. Verb Forms: Middle Voice 4. Deponent Verbs Reading Myth O M*U*CO*S (*b) Grammar 5. Middle Voice: Meaning 6. Some Uses of the Dative Case 7. Prepositions Readings O *CH*SE*U*S THN APIA*DNHN KATA*LEI*PEI Classical Greek: Marriage New Testament Greek: Luke 13.10-16 7. O K*UK*L*W*V (a) Grammar 1. Substantive Use of Adjectives 2. Nouns: Declensions 3. 3rd Declension Consonant Stem Nouns: Velar and Dental Stems 4. Reflexive Pronouns Reading Homer O K*UK*L*W*V (*b) Grammar 5. 3rd Declension Consonant Stem Nouns: Nasal Stems 6. 3rd Declension Consonant Stem Nouns: *b, *P, *Q (Labial) and *L, p (Liquid) Stems 7. A 3rd Declension Adjective: *S)w*Qp*Wv, *S*W.*Qpov, of sound mind; prudent; self-controlled 8. The Interrogative Pronoun and Adjective 9. The Indefinite Pronoun and Adjective Readings O TO*U *CH*SE*W*S *PATHP A*PO*CNHI*SKEI Classical Greek: Sophocles Greek Wisdom: Thales of Miletus 8. *PPO*S TO A*ST*U (a) Grammar 1. Participles: "Present" or Progressive: Middle Voice Readings Athens: A Historical Outline Classical Greek: Archilochus New Testament Greek: Luke 5.20-21 *PPO*S TO A*ST*U (*b) Grammar 2. 3rd Declension Consonant Stem Nouns: Stems in -p- 3. Two Important Irregular Nouns: )N *G*Uv)n, *tH.*S *G*Uva*iK)o*S, woman; wife, and )N *Y*e)Ip, *tH.*S *Y*e*ip)o*S, hand 4. 1st/3rd Declension Adjective: *Pa.*S, *Pa.*Sa, *Pa.v, all; every; whole Reading Greek Wisdom: Periander of Corinth Grammar 5. Numbers 6. Expressions of Time When, Duration of Time, and Time Within Which Readings O O*D*U*S*SE*U*S KAI O AIO*LO*S Classical Greek: Sappho: The Deserted Lover: A Girl's Lament 9. H *PANH*G)yPI*S (a) Grammar 1. Participles: Present or Progressive: Active Voice Reading The City of Athens H *PANH*G*UPI*S (*b) Grammar 2. 3rd Declension Nouns with Stems Ending in -v*t- 3. 3rd Declension Nouns with Stems Ending in a Vowel: )N *P)o*L*i*S and *t)O )a*S*t*U 4. 3rd Declension Nouns with Stems Ending in Diphthongs or Vowels: (o *ba*S*i*L*e)y*S and the Irregular Nouns )N va*U.*S and (o *bo*U.*S 5. U ses of the Genitive Case 6. Some Uses of the Article Readings O O*D*U*S*SE*U*S KAI H KIPKH Classical Greek: Simonides New Testament Greek: Luke 6.31-33: The Sermon on the Mount REVIEW OF VERB FORMS PREVIEW OF NEW VERB FORMS 10. H *S*UM*QOPA (a) Grammar 1. Verb Forms: Verbs with Sigmatic Futures 2. Verb Forms: The Asigmatic Contract Future of Verbs in -)I*z*W 3. Verb Forms: The Sigmatic Future of Contract Verbs 4. Verb Forms: Verbs with Deponent Futures Readings Festivals Classical Greek: Theognis New Testament Greek: Luke 6.35-36: The Sermon on the Mount H *S*UM*QOPA (*b) Grammar 5. Verb Forms: The Asigmatic Contract Future of Verbs with Liquid and Nasal Stems 6. The Irregular Verb *e(I)Yµ*i 7. Future Participle to Express Purpose 8. Impersonal Verbs 9. Review of Questions Readings O O*D*U*S*SE*U*S TO*U*S ETAIPO*U*S A*PO*L*L*U*SIN Classical Greek: Menander and Archilochus New Testament Greek: Luke 5.30-32 11. O IATPO*S (a) Grammar 1. Verb Forms: Past Tense: The Aorist 2. Verb Forms: The Thematic 2nd Aorist 3. Aspect 4. Thematic 2nd Aorist Active and Middle Participles 5. Verb Forms: Common Verbs with Thematic 2nd Aorists Readings Greek Science and Medicine Classical Greek: Theognis New Testament Greek: Luke 6.20-21: The Beatitudes O IATPO*S (*b) Grammar 6. Verbs with Thematic 2nd Aorists from Unrelated Stems 7. Accents on Thematic 2nd Aorist Active Imperatives 8. Augment Readings O *DHMOKH*DH*S TON *bA*SI*LEA IATPE*UEI New Testament Greek: Luke 6.27-29: The Sermon on the Mount 12. *PPO*S TON *PEIPAIA (a) Grammar 1. Verb Forms: Past Tense: The Sigmatic 1st Aorist 2. Sigmatic 1st Aorist Active and Middle Participles Readings Trade and Travel Classical Greek: Scolion: The Four Best Things in Life New Testament Greek: Luke 15.3-7: The Parable of the Lost Sheep *PPO*S TON *PEIPAIA (*b) Grammar 3. Verb Forms: The Asigmatic 1st Aorist of Verbs with Liquid and Nasal Stems 4. Irregular Sigmatic 1st Aorists 5. Verb Forms: Augment of Compound Verbs Readings O K*W*LAIO*S TON TAPTH*S*SON E*UPI*SKEI Greek Wisdom: Bias of Priene 13. *PPO*S THN *SA*LAMINA (a) Grammar 1. Verb Forms: The Imperfect or Past Progressive Tense 2. Aspect Reading The Rise of Persia *PPO*S THN *SA*LAMINA (*b) Grammar 3. Relative Clauses 4. 3rd Declension Nouns and Adjectives with Stems in -*e*S- 5. 1st/3rd Declension Adjective with 3rd Declension Stems in -*U- and -*e- Readings O *XEP*XH*S TON E*L*LH*S*PONTON *DIA*bAINEI Greek Wisdom: Solon of Athens Classical Greek: Archilochus New Testament Greek: Luke 21.1-4: The Widow's Mite 14. H EN TAI*S *CEPMO*P*U*LAI*S MA*YH (a) Grammar 1. Comparison of Adjectives 2. Irregular Comparison of Adjectives 3. Comparison of Adverbs 4. U ses of Comparatives and Superlatives Readings The Rise of Athens Classical Greek: Archilochus New Testament Greek: Luke 10.25-29: The Good Samaritan (concluded 14 (B)) H EN TAI*S *CEPMO*P*U*LAI*S MA*YH (*b) Grammar 5. Demonstrative Adjectives 6. Interrogative and Indefinite Pronouns, Adjectives, and Adverbs Readings OI *PEP*SAI TA *U*PEP *CEPMO*P*U*L*WN *STENA AIPO*U*SIN Classical Greek: Theognis New Testament Greek: Luke 10.30-37: The Good Samaritan (concluded) 15. H EN THI *SA*LAMINI MA*YH (a) Grammar 1. Athematic 2nd Aorists 2. More 3rd Declension Nouns with Stems in -*e*S- Readings Aeschylus's Persae New Testament Greek: Luke 2.1-14: The Birth of Jesus H EN THI *SA*LAMINI MA*YH (*b) Grammar 3. Contract Verbs in -o- 4. Contract Nouns of the 2nd Declension 5. More Numbers 6. U ses of )W*S and Its Compounds Reading OI *PEP*SAI TA*S A*CHNA*S AIPO*U*SIN 16. META THN EN THI *SA*LAMINI MA*YHN (a) Grammar 1. The Passive Voice Reading The Athenian Empire META THN EN THI *SA*LAMINI MA*YHN (*b) Grammar 2. Verbs with Athematic Presents and Imperfects: *D)yvaµa*i, K*e*i.µa*i, and )E*P)I*S*taµa*i Readings O *XEP*XH*S *PPO*S THN A*SIAN ANA*Y*WPEI Classical Greek: Sappho: Love's Power Classical Greek: Simonides New Testament Greek: Luke 2.15-20: The Birth of Jesus (concluded) Verb Charts Syllables and Accents Enclitics and Proclitics Forms Forms of Definite Article, Nouns, Adjectives, and Pronouns Laid Out in Case Order N, V, A, G, D Index of Language and Grammar Greek to English Vocabulary English to Greek Vocabulary General Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisThe third edition of The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature is the complete and authoritative reference guide to the classical world and its literary heritage. It not only presents the reader with all the essential facts about the authors, tales, and characters from ancient myths and literature, but it also places these details in the wider contexts of the history and society of the Greek and Roman worlds. With an extensive web of cross-references and a useful chronological table and location maps (all of which have been brought fully up to date), this volume traces the development of literary forms and the classical allusions which have become embedded in our Western culture. Extensively revised and updated, the Companion includes more thematic entries - medicine, friendship, science, the concept of freedom, and sexuality. These topical entries provide an excellent starting point to the exploration of their subjects in classical literature. The Companion contains extensive biogrTrade ReviewReview from previous edition 'useful and enjoyable... a miniature encyclopedia of the Graeco-Roman world' * Listener *a standard reference book for the forseeable future * Contemporary Review *a volume for all seasons... indispensable * Times Educational Supplement *will be the vade mecum of schoolchildren and undergraduates for generations to come * Sunday Telegraph *A necessity for any seriously literary household. * History Today *Table of ContentsPREFACE; A-Z ENTRIES; CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE; MAPS

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Book SynopsisThe Iliad has had a far-reaching impact on Western literature and culture, inspiring writers, artists and classical composers across the ages. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features an introduction by classicist, writer and broadcaster Natalie Haynes, author of A Thousand Ships and host of her own BBC Radio 4 show, Natalie Haynes Stands up for the Classics.Paris, a Trojan prince, wins Helen as his prize for judging a beauty contest between three goddesses, and abducts her from her Greek husband Menelaos. The Greeks, enraged by his audacity, sail to Troy and begin a long siege of the city. The Iliad is set in the tenth year of the war. Achilles – the greatest Greek warrior – is angry with his commander, Agamemnon, for failing to show him respect. He refuses to fight any longer, which is catastrophic for the Greeks, and results in personal tragedy for Achilles, too. With themes of war, rage, grief and love, The Iliad remains powerful and enthralling more than 2,700 years after it was composed.This edition is translated into prose by Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf and Ernest Myers.Trade ReviewThe final book of The Iliad has to be regarded, for my money, as the first great work in Western literature -- Ranjit Bolt * Guardian *The granddaddy of all classics -- Luke Slattery * Sydney Morning Herald *All we read today would be unwritable without the ‘love,’ ‘death’ and ‘dark’ that come to us in the first book of The Iliad * The New York Times *

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Book SynopsisExamines the role of the pig in medieval society in material and textual sources.

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Book SynopsisThis compelling Icelandic history describes the life of King Harald Hardradi, from his battles across Europe and Russia to his final assault on England in 1066, less than three weeks before the invasion of William the Conqueror. It was a battle that led to his death and marked the end of an era in which Europe had been dominated by the threat of Scandinavian forces. Despite England's triumph, it also played a crucial part in fatally weakening the English army immediately prior to the Norman Conquest, changing the course of history. Taken from the Heimskringla—Snorri Sturluson's complete account of Norway from prehistoric times to 1177—this is a brilliantly human depiction of the turbulent life and savage death of the last great Norse warrior-king.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works thr

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Book SynopsisThe late-eighteenth century witnessed multiple Medeas take to the stages of Europe, in the Americas, and across the Russian empire. Performances took place in Moscow and São Paulo, in London and Lisbon, in Gotha, Stuttgart, and Venice. This lively collection of essays examines the various reasons why Medea, the ancient mother who killed her own children, attracted the attention of authors, audiences, actors, and rulers in Europe and its dominions during the pivotal period 1750 to 1800, and to what effects. As a migrant and iconoclast, Medea crosses a number of eighteenth-century borders: linguistic, cultural, national, temporal, spatial, aesthetic, ethical, and generic. Moreover, the fact that late-eighteenth-century playwrights, poets, composers, and choreographers all turned to one of the most problematic characters of Greco-Roman antiquity offers a unique opportunity to examine the remarkable flexibility of the reception process itself. Medea therefore functions as an intriguing case study, reflecting a wider context of cultural and political change within Europe and its colonies in the late-eighteenth century. By drawing together eighteenth-century specialists working across multiple languages and disciplines with the reception perspective of classical scholars, this volume brings much rare material from a range of archives across continental Europe to critical attention for the first time. Mapping Medea shows how the eighteenth century made Medea modern, and Medea helped to shape modern performance.Table of Contents1: Anna Albrektson and Fiona Macintosh: Mapping Medea: Revolutions and Transfers 1750-1800 I: Medea in an Expanding Eighteenth-Century World 2: Edith Hall: Pushing the Boundaries of Operatic Convention and European Identity: Generic and Historical Perspectives on Georg Benda's 1775 Medea 3: Larisa Nikiforova: Medea's Russian Images on Stage and in Literature: The Politics and Poetics of Female Characters 4: Anthony John Lappin: An Imperial Medea: Spain, Portugal, the Colonies 5: Anna Albrektson: Inverting the Barbarian: Estrangement and Excess in the Eighteenth-Century Medea II: Local Interpretations and Global Issues: Ontology and Form 6: Fiona Macintosh: From Hearth to Hades: Breaking Boundaries with Medea and ballet d'action 7: Jörg Krämer: Shaping Complexity: Medea in the German-Language Theatre of the Eighteenth Century 8: Petra Dotla%cilová: Visual Narrative: The Role of Costumes in Noverre's ballet d'action, Médée et Jason 9: Zoé Schweitzer: Medea as Infanticidal Mother in the Late Eighteenth-Century Theatre 10: Roland Lysell: Medea--Sorceress or Woman? c.1750 and Beyond Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Hebrew Bible, or Christian Old Testament, contains some of the finest literature that we have. This biblical literature has a place not only in the synagogue or the church but also among the classics of world literature. The stories of Jacob and David, for instance, present the earliest surviving examples of literary characters whose development the reader follows over the length of a lifetime. Elsewhere, as in the books of Esther or Ruth, readers find a snapshot of a particular, fraught moment that will define the character. The Hebrew Bible also provides quite a few high points of lyric poetry, from the praise and lament of the Psalms to the double entendres in the love of poetry of the Song of Songs. In short, the Bible can be celebrated not only as religious literature but, quite simply, as literature. This book offers a thorough and lively introduction to the Bible''s two primary literary modes, narrative and poetry, foregrounding the nuances of plot, character, metaphor, structure and design, and intertextual allusions. Tod Linafelt thus gives readers the tools to fully experience and appreciate the Hebrew Bible''s literary achievement.Trade ReviewLinafelt synthesizes a good deal of scholarly research in an accessible fashion and provides the lay reader with a helpful introduction to reading the narrative and poetic texts of the Hebrew Bible. * Kevin Scott, Reading Religion *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Biblical literature and the Western literary tradition ; 2. Reading biblical narrative ; 3. Reading biblical poetry ; 4. Narrative and poetry working together ; 5. Connections between texts

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Book SynopsisIn the dying days of the eighth century, the Vikings erupted onto the international stage with brutal raids and slaughter. The medieval Norsemen may be best remembered as monk murderers and village pillagers, but this is far from the whole story. Throughout the Middle Ages, long-ships transported hairy northern voyagers far and wide, where they not only raided but also traded, explored and settled new lands, encountered unfamiliar races, and embarked on pilgrimages and crusades.The Norsemen travelled to all corners of the medieval world and beyond; north to the wastelands of arctic Scandinavia, south to the politically turbulent heartlands of medieval Christendom, west across the wild seas to Greenland and the fringes of the North American continent, and east down the Russian waterways trading silver, skins, and slaves. Beyond the Northlands explores this world through the stories that the Vikings told about themselves in their sagas. But the depiction of the Viking world in the Old Norse-Icelandic sagas goes far beyond historical facts. What emerges from these tales is a mixture of realism and fantasy, quasi-historical adventures, and exotic wonder-tales that rocket far beyond the horizon of reality. On the crackling brown pages of saga manuscripts, trolls, dragons, and outlandish tribes jostle for position with explorers, traders, and kings. To explore the sagas and the world that produced them, Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough now takes her own trip through the dramatic landscapes that they describe. Along the way, she illuminates the rich but often confusing saga accounts with a range of other evidence: archaeological finds, rune-stones, medieval world maps, encyclopaedic manuscripts, and texts from as far away as Byzantium and Baghdad. As her journey across the Old Norse world shows, by situating the sagas against the revealing background of this other evidence, we can begin at least to understand just how the world was experienced, remembered, and imagined by this unique culture from the outermost edge of Europe so many centuries ago.Trade ReviewA vibrant account that evokes the spirit of the Viking age in a thoroughly entertaining, yet historically sound, fashion. * Philip Parker, BBC World Histories *Barraclough provides a confident, compelling narrative of their brutal, challenging world and a valuable companion to their sagas. * Diana Bentley, Minerva *[An] excellent, erudite, yet light-hearted glimpse into Norse culture, exploration and the melding of story and history. Filled with interesting facts, pop culture references and quirky asides, this is an immensely appealing, accessible resource, whatever your level of knowledge. * Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat and the Rune series *A book that is entertaining as well as erudite... There is no doubting Barraclough's meticulous and insightful scholarship. * Hana Videen, Times Literary Supplement *A delight ... a book that provides us with a highly entertaining and informative sense of the real Norse world-view. * Philip Parker, Literary Review *A BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker does that delightful trick of weaving lightly worn serious scholarship into a publisher- and educated general reader-pleasing "journey" narrative, as she serves up sagas and the world that inspired them in this well-illustrated book. Her voice is charming, wise and just the right side of whimsical as we meet "the jaculus and his posse of teeny tiny dragonlets", Skraelings, Snorri, Snaefrid's smelly corpse and Soviet-era Kievan Rus. Includes a knighting with a walrus penis bone; a beguiling TV series doubtless awaits. * Times Higher Education *what may chiefly distinguish [Eleanor] from other Viking scholars is her lively style. [...] Many well-chosen colour illustrations further bring her picture of adventurous Vikings, and their varied roles, vividly to life. * Harry Mead, Northern Echo *draws upon the Norse sagas and historical sources to take a lively and entertaining approach to her subjecy which will appeal to the casual reader. * Leon Burakowski, Shropshire Star *Wonderfully illustrated and authentic to place and time, the author has written perhaps one of the ultimate works for those wishing a deeper insight, as well as those new to the study of medieval Scandinavia. * Josh Provan, Adventures in Historyland *Moira reviews one of the funniest, and most fascinating books on the Norse Sagas that she's ever read ... Lively ... entertaining ... (I mean, you don't expect to find yourself honking inelegantly over the Vinland Sagas) * Moira Briggs, Vulpes Libris *[Barraclough's] book stretches our imaginations in time as well as space, combines literature, archaeology and personal observation, and reminds us of many works more than half-forgotten even by scholars. Blessedly, for all the rigor of the endnotes, there is not a trace of academic obfuscation. Truth is stranger than fiction, yes, and more fun too. * Wall Street Journal *Barraclough produces an intoxicating fusion of travelogue, history and saga... What emerges is a surprisingly complex portrait of Viking culture... Beyond the Northlands is a magnificent contribution to the understanding of a fierce and poetic people. * Shelf Awareness, Starred Review *With a clever and engaging style, the author marries interpretations of Norse sagas with historical references, creating a detailed analysis of Viking evolution and worldview with clarity, humor, and a sense of relevance... Thoroughly researched and well rooted in historical and literary context. * Library Journal *Table of ContentsVikings 1: Inroads from the Sea 2: Fire and IceNorth 3: In the Lands of the North 4: North of all Northmen 5: Where the Wild Things AreWest 6: Westward Ho! 7: New World 8: The Way the World EndsEast 9: Eastern Promise 10: Set in Stone 11: Far-Travelling BeastsSouth 12: Journey to the Centre of the Earth 13: Sailing to Byzantium 14: World's End Epilogue Notes Sagas in Translation Index

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Book SynopsisThe Alexandra, attributed to Lykophron is a minor poetic masterpiece. At 1474 lines, it is one of the most important and notoriously difficult Greek poems dating from the Hellenistic period.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Note on the text and translation Select Bibliography Timeline Synopsis of the Poem Introduction THE ALEXANDRA OF LYKOPHRON Explanatory notes Index

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Book SynopsisAristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, the exuberant, satirical form of festival drama which flourished during the heyday of classical Athenian culture in the fifth century BC. His plays are characterized by extraordinary combinations of fantasy and satire, sophistication and vulgarity, formality and freedom. Birds is an escapist fantasy in which two dissatisfied Athenians, in defiance of men and gods, bring about a city of birds, the eponymous Cloudcuckooland. In Lysistrata the heroine of the play organizes a sex-strike and the wives of Athens occupy the Akropolis in an attempt to restore peace to the city. The main source of comedy in the Assembly-Women is a similar usurpation of male power as the women attempt to reform Athenian society along utopian-communist lines. Finally, Wealth is Aristophanes'' last surviving comedy, in which Ploutos, the god of wealth is cured of his blindness and the remarkable social consequences of his new discrimination are exemplified. This is the first complete verse translation of Aristophanes'' comedies to appear for more than twenty-five years and makes freshly available one of the most remarkable comic playwrights in the entire Western tradition, complete with an illuminating introduction including play by play analysis and detailed notes. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Trade ReviewI readily endorse the opinion that the general introduction (ix-lxvi) is 'superb' and the introductions to the individual comedies 'excellent'. The rock-bottom price suggests extensive sales are anticipated and rightly so. * P. Walcot, Greece & Rome *Table of ContentsBirds ; Lysistrata ; Assembly - Women ; Wealth

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Book Synopsis''I thought you''d do what the common run of slaves normally do, cheating and tricking me because my son''s having an affair.''Terence''s comedies have provided plots and characters for comic drama from classical times to the present; the outstanding comic playwright of his generation at Rome, he has influenced authors from Molière and Wycherley to P. G. Wodehouse. Scheming slaves, parasites, prostitutes, pimps, and boastful soldiers populate his plays, which show love triumphing over obstacles of various kinds, and the problems that arise from ignorance, misunderstanding, and prejudice. Although they reflect contemporary tensions in Roman society, their insights into human nature and experience make them timeless in their appeal. Peter Brown''s lively new translation does full justice to Terence''s style and skill as a dramatist. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Table of ContentsThe Girl from Andros ; The Mother-in-Law ; The Self-Tormentor ; The Eunuch ; Phormio ; The Brothers

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Book SynopsisTibullus was one of the great Roman elegists, alongside Ovid and Propertius. His poems of love, addressed to his mistresses Delia and Nemesis and the boy Marathus portray idealism, anguish, and betrayal, newly translated into stylish English by A. M. Juster, with parallel Latin text, introduction, and notes by Tibullus scholar Robert Maltby.Trade ReviewJuster's translation reproduces Tibullus's verses in simple yet polished language, and it contains many creative and appealing turns of phrase. * The Classical Journal, Robert J. Ball *A.M Juster's verse translation is clear and helpful ... an excellent introduction and notes * Translation and Literature *It is difficult to believe that they could possibly be better rendered into contemporary English. * Gilbert Wesley Purdy, Eclectica *

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Book Synopsis''Like nothing else you will read'' Hilary MantelTop 25 History Books of the Year, The Times - the perfect gift for book lovers this Christmas!Every day a beloved father dies. Every day a lover departs. Every day a woman turns forty.All three happening together brings a moment of reckoning.Medieval historian Elizabeth Boyle made sense of these events the best way she knew how - by immersing herself in the literature that has been her first love and life''s work for over two decades.Fierce Appetites is the exhilarating and deeply humane result. Not only does Elizabeth Boyle write dazzling accounts of ancient stories, familiar and obscure, from Ireland and further afield, but she uses her historical learning to grapple with the raw and urgent questions she faces, questions that have bedevilled people in every age. She writes on grief, addiction, family breakdown, the complexities of motherhood, love and sex, memorTrade ReviewA book of blazing honesty that allows all the gorgeous complexity of the past into our messy present to remind us we've always been like this -- Max PorterReally REALLY good -- Siobhán McSweeneyBoyle has the skill to move us between the raw and the refined, the mind and the body, the past and the present, the mundane and the marvellous without ever losing control of her dark materials -- Fintan O'TooleAn astounding piece of writing -- David PerryJust as brilliant and hard to define as everyone says it is. You should read it. You will both learn things and be entertained -- Jan CarsonAn eloquent plea for the value of curiosity and the life of the mind, standing up the robustness of scholarship against the frailty of individuals, the resilience of myth against brittle daily preoccupations. It's an agile story, irreverent, capacious and constantly surprising: like nothing else you will read -- Hilary MantelPure nectar for the imagination, and it's my book of 2022 -- Clodagh Finn * Irish Examiner *Bracingly honest, fiery, funny, scholarly, Fierce Appetites really is a wildly good book -- Hilary FanninI just love it -- John ConnollyUnusual, arresting and genuinely enriching -- Sharon Arbuthnot * Irish Times *Highly original . . . engagingly candid [and] thought-provoking -- Martina Devlin * Irish Independent *I loved this luminous, radical book about bodies in time. It is a deeply personal history, that simultaneously brings medieval myth and poetry to breathing, bleeding life. An education for the mind and the heart -- Clare PollardFiercely smart, strange, surprising -- Jennifer O'Connell * Irish Times *Extremely intriguing . . . I found myself completely absorbed. Fascinating -- Ryan TubridyEverything is illuminated, magnified, revisioned: sexual desire, motherhood, family. Her writing is unorthodox, unnerving, and very exciting -- Tanya Shadrick, author of The Cure for SleepAn outstanding achievement. Fierce Appetites defies easy categorization, is brilliantly written and simply deserves to be read -- Darach Ó SéaghdhaI absolutely loved this utterly original book. Immersing myself in Elizabeth Boyle's considerable brain was a true privilege, and the way she uses medieval narratives to unpick her own present was endlessly surprising and beautiful. I read it in two sittings, devouring her perspective on life, love, loss -- Clover Stroud[A] marvellous, astonishing, funny, moving, wise, reflective, deeply scholarly, fascinating book -- Aidan O'SullivanAll twelve essays are freighted with that fierceness the title trumpets * RTÉ Guide *This book is extraordinary . . . a wonderful work of women's memoir -- Sinéad Crowley

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Book SynopsisThis volume examines various manifestations and understandings of the concept of monstrosity in medieval Europe around 500-1500 ce through a collection of contextual chapters and primary sources. The main chapters focus on a specific theme, a type of monster or representation of monstrosity, and consist of a contextual essay synthesizing recent scholarship on that theme, excerpts from primary sources and a bibliography of additional primary and secondary sources on the topics addressed in the chapter. In addition to building upon the wealth of scholarship on monsters and monstrosity produced in recent decades, the book engages with the current fascination with monsters in popular culture, especially in movies, television, and video games. The book presents a survey of medieval monstrosity for a non-specialist audience and provides a theoretical framework for interpreting the monstrous. This book is ideal for undergraduate students working on the theme of monstrosity, aTable of Contents1. Monster Theory and The Monstrous Races 2. Non-Christians as Monsters: Jews and Muslims 3. The Monstrous Female Body, Monstrous Women, and Monstrous Births 4. Revenants 5. Werewolves 6. Dragons

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Book SynopsisYork Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced intorduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.Table of Contents Study methods Introduction to the poems Summaries with critical notes Themes and techniques Author biography Historical and literary background Modern and historical critical approaches Chronology Glossary of literary terms

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Book SynopsisYork Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced intorduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.Table of Contents Part 1: Introduction Part 2: The poems Part 3: Critical approachs Part 4: Critical history Part 5: Background Further Reading Literacy Terms

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Book SynopsisRational persuasion and appeal to an audience's emotions are elements of most literature, but they are found in their purest form in oratory. The speeches written by the Greek Orators for delivery in law-courts, deliberative councils and assemblies enjoyed an honoured literary status, and rightly so, for the best of them have great vitality.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Parallel Greek text and English translation; Commentary.

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Book SynopsisElegy and iambus are major forms of Greek literature which are crucial to understanding the Archaic and early Classical periods in particular. This edition gathers work by ten poets: two iambic (Semonides and Hipponax), six elegiac (Callinus, Tyrtaeus, Mimnermus, Theognis, Xenophanes, Simonides), and two writing in both forms (Archilochus and Solon). It explores a representative sample of each poet''s surviving work, while also highlighting their variety, and provides an up-to-date commentary on major pieces, including recent discoveries such as Simonides'' Plataea elegy and Archilochus'' Telephus elegy. The wide-ranging Introduction discusses such issues as poet and persona, contexts of performance, and various cultural themes (expansion and contact with foreign cultures, social and political revolution, sexuality and gender, rationalism) as well as language, style, metre, and textual transmission. The volume will be of interest to upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, as wTrade Review'Readers with WA's book in hand will be well equipped to deal with the riches of Greek elegy and iambus.' Krystyna Bartol, Exemplaria Classica'Allan's commentary is sensitive and well-edited and will offer good guidance to those who want to learn about, or embark on research on, aspects of the history of early Greek iambus and elegy.' Demetrios Yatromanolakes, EIRENE: Studia Graeca et LatinaTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Elegy and iambus as poetic forms; 2. Performance and mobility; 3. Poets and personae; 4. Society and culture; 5. Language, style, metre; 6. Transmission of the text; Greek elegy and Iambus: A Selection: Archilochus; Semonides; Callinus; Tyrtaeus; Mimnermus; Solon; Theognis; Xenophanes; Hipponax; Simonides; Commentary.

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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive treatment in English of the rich and varied afterlife of classical drama across Latin America, this volume explores the myriad ways in which ancient Greek and Roman texts have been adapted, invoked and re-worked in notable modern theatrical works across North and South America and the Caribbean, while also paying particular attention to the national and local context of each play. A comprehensive introduction provides a critical overview of the varying issues and complexities that arise when studying the afterlife of the European classics in the theatrical stages across this diverse and vast region. Fourteen chapters, divided into three general geographical sub-regions (Southern Cone, Brazil and the Caribbean and North America) present a strong connection to an ancient dramatic source text as well as comment upon important socio-political crises in the modern history of Latin America. The diversity and expertise of the voices in this volume translate into a muTrade ReviewGreeks and Romans on the Latin American Stage is a fine addition to Bloomsbury’s Studies in Classical Reception collection … It shows that Latin America is a region that Anglophone scholarship can no longer afford to overlook, and throws down an impressive gauntlet for scholars in the field to begin wrestling with the reception of antiquity on the Latin American stage. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *[A] volume that brings to light little-known adaptations from a variety of countries in the area addressing many of its present conflicts and recent past turmoil, is extremely valuable. Moreover, the fact that the book starts by highlighting the need to redefine certain terms taken for granted to examine reception in 'Latin America' and to acknowledge that this is not a homogeneous area but a highly diverse region that cannot be studied as a single unit, is certainly refreshing, reassuring, and a step in the right direction. * Classics for All *The editors provide an introduction fizzing with helpful social and historical contextualization for a readership less familiar with the issues and complexities surrounding these diverse ‘Latin’ American receptions. The methodological and theoretical discussion is recommended for anyone interested in twentieth-century and postcolonial receptions. * Greece & Rome *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1. Staging the European Classical in ‘Latin’ America: An Introduction Rosa Andújar, King's College London, UK and Konstantinos Nikoloutsos, Saint Joseph’s University, USA I. Southern Cone 2. From Epic to Tragedy: Theatre and Politics in Juan Cruz Varela’s Dido Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos, Saint Joseph’s University, USA 3. Leopoldo Marechal’s Antígona Vélez: Rewriting Greek Tragedy as a Foundation Myth in Peronist Argentina Brenda López Saiz, University of Chile, Chile 4. Juan Radrigán’s Medea Mapuche: Recreating Euripides’ Revenge Tragedy in an Indigenous Chilean Context Irmtrud König, University of Chile, Chile 5. Philoctetes and Medea in Contemporary Chilean Theatre Carolina Brncic, University of Chile, Chile II. Brazil 6. A God Slept Here by Guilherme Figueiredo: A Radical Modernist Amphitruo from Brazil Rodrigo Tadeu Gonçalves, University of Paraná, Brazil 7. Guilherme Figueiredo, Amphitryon, and the Widow of Ephesus: Linking Plautus and Petronius Tiziana Ragno, University of Foggia, Italy 8. Electra’s Turn to the Dark Side: Nelson Rodrigues’ Senhora dos Afogados Anastasia Bakogianni, Massey University, New Zealand 9. Becoming Antigone: The Classics as a Model of Resistance in Jorge Andrade’s Pedreira das Almas Seth A. Jeppesen, Brigham Young University, USA III. The Caribbean and North America 10. Distorting the Lysistrata Paradigm in Puerto Rico: Francisco Arriví’s Club de Solteros Rosa Andújar, King's College London, UK 11. Challenging the Canon in the Dominican Republic: Lisístrata odia la política by Franklin Domínguez Katherine Ford, East Carolina University, USA 12. Aeschylus and the Cuban Counter-Revolution Jacques Bromberg, University of Pittsburgh, USA 13. The Contest between Créolité and Classics in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Stage Plays Justine McConnell, King's College London, UK 14. Dismantling the Anthropological Machine: Feliks Moriso-Lewa’s Antigòn and Luis Alfaro’s Electricidad Tom Hawkins, Ohio State University, USA 15. Antigone Undead: Tragedy and Biopolitics in Perla de la Rosa’s Antígona: las voces que incendian el desierto Jesse Weiner, Hamilton College, USA Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCourse Notes is designed to help you succeed in your law examinations and assessments. Each guide supports revision of an undergraduate and conversion GDL/CPE law degree module by demonstrating good practice in creating and maintaining ideal notes. Course Notes will support you in actively and effectively learning the material by guiding you through the demands of compiling the information you need. Written by expert lecturers who understand your needs with examination requirements in mind Covers key cases, legislation and principles clearly and concisely so you can recall information confidently Contains easy to use diagrams, definition boxes and work points  to help you understand difficult concepts Provides self test opportunities throughout for you to check your understanding Illustrates how to compile the ideal set of revision notes Covers the essential modules of study for undergraduate llb aTable of ContentsChapter 1: Initial Matters Chapter 2: The UK Constitution Chapter 3: Constitutional Conventions Chapter 4: Responsible Government and Accountability Chapter 5: Separation of Powers and Judicial Independence Chapter 6: Parliament and Supremacy Chapter 7: Monarchy and Prerogative Chapter 8: The Rule of Law Chapter 9: The European Union Chapter 10: Judicial Review 1: Introduction and Procedure Chapter 11: Judicial Review 2: Grounds for Judicial Review Chapter 12: The Convention and the Human Rights Act 1998 Chapter 13: Freedom of Expression

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Book SynopsisErich Auerbach’s Dante: Poet of the Secular World is an inspiring introduction to one of world’s greatest poets as well as a brilliantly argued and still provocative essay in the history of ideas. Here Auerbach, thought by many to be the greatest of twentieth-century scholar-critics, makes the seemingly paradoxical claim that it is in the poetry of Dante, supreme among religious poets, and above all in the stanzas of his Divine Comedy, that the secular world of the modern novel first took imaginative form. Auerbach’s study of Dante, a precursor and necessary complement to Mimesis, his magisterial overview of realism in Western literature, illuminates both the overall structure and the individual detail of Dante’s work, showing it to be an extraordinary synthesis of the sensuous and the conceptual, the particular and the universal, that redefined notions of human character and fate and opened the way into modernity.CONTENTSI. Historical Introduction; The Idea of Man in LiteratureII. Dante''s Early PoetryIII. The Subject of the 'Comedy'IV. The Structure of the 'Comedy'V. The PresentationVI. The Survival and Transformation of Dante''s Vision of RealityNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Otto Gründler Book Prize, The Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University""Winner of the Beatrice White Prize, The English Association, University of Leicester""Winner of the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, The British Academy""Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, The Wolfson Foundation""Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown, Historical Writers’ Association""Finalist for the PROSE Award in Biography and Autobiography, Association of American Publishers""One of The Times' Best Literary Non-Fiction Books of 2019""One of the Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year 2019""One of the Sunday Times' Best Literary Books of 2019""A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""One of New Statesman's Books of the Year 2020""[Turner has] read his work so intelligently, that even those who thought they knew it all already will find themselves looking at Chaucer with completely fresh eyes. She evokes the times, the politics, the personalities of his contemporaries and, above all, she gets inside this most ironical and brilliant of poets. . . . The book was so richly enjoyable that, once I had finished, I started to read all over again. It is an absolute triumph."---A. N. Wilson, Times Literary Supplement"A quite exceptional biography that with imaginative insight and stylish wit, sets one of the most significant figures in English literary history firmly in a European context." * Wolfson History Prize judges *""It’s very wide-ranging scholarship, but it’s written in a witty, engaging style and it’s very, very accessible. . . . [A] deeply researched and highly readable life.""---Richard J. Evans, Five Books"[Chaucer’s] life in its European context. Fresh glimpses of the great man are everywhere: perhaps most strikingly an account of the instagrammable teenaged Chaucer posing as aristocratic eye candy in a skimpy outfit called a 'paltok', which failed to cover his backside. Oddsbodkins!"---James Marriott, The Times"A European Life feels to me like a radical new take on a man we thought we knew, but whose sophisticated business, military and political career took him criss-crossing the continent."---Andrew Marr, Start the Week, BBC Radio 4"A hugely illuminating book. This is one of those studies that academics like to call 'magisterial', but non-specialists will find much to enjoy here too. Turner's writing is never less than perspicacious, and often slyly humorous. . . . What A European Life does particularly well is to situate Chaucer in the largeness and complexity of his world."---Tim Smith-Laing, The Telegraph (five star review)"Turner charts an uncannily tangible route through Chaucer’s life, binding his ideas and poems to precise locations, often enlivening it with consummate detail. . . . Chaucer: A European Life serves as a compass that allows readers to traverse Chaucer’s London and Europe. At the same time, reading Turner’s book makes us aware of how much our own lives are shaped by the rooms we inhabit and the places we visit. . . . Chaucer: A European Life introduces the 21st century to Chaucer and Chaucer to the 21st century"---Sebastian Sobecki, Literary Review"In this fine biography, Marion Turner gives us new images of the poet. Turner’s biography takes us from birth to death, but focuses on the spaces through which Chaucer moved, in reality and in poetic imagination. This is a clever move, and Turner’s technique means that the poet’s works can be woven organically into an account of his life. The book is elegantly written, accessible to the general reader as well as the scholarly specialist. In suggesting further questions and presenting an array of new images, Turner’s book gives us back an image of Chaucer more melancholy and mercurial than the cosy figure we thought we knew."---Mark Williams, The Times"[A] wholly beguiling, original, vividly written appreciation of the hugely innovative author and his rich cultural and political European background. A parable for our time?"---Robert Fox, Evening Standard"Magnificently scholarly."---Sam Leith, The Spectator"Marion Turner’s exciting new biography explores in breathtaking detail the spaces and places that shaped the imaginative world of this great Anglo-European poet . . . . this momentous biography gives readers a new perspective on the personal authorial journey that culminated in The Canterbury Tales. Turner has produced a stylishly written and carefully crafted book, at times humorous and always lucid, lively, and engaging."---Clare Egan, BBC History Magazine"[Turner pays] carefully nuanced attention to the significance of the places visited, to the mixture of cultures they accommodated, and to the range of experiences they offered to a traveller from London. . . . [Turner’s] processes of expansion, and of interweaving the life with the works, make for enjoyable and consistently informative reading. . . . Although the book’s European emphasis and concluding gestures to the here and now insist on its timeliness, its real focus is on understanding Chaucer’s world through the variety of that world’s records and its remains, and through the imaginative reflection of it in Chaucer’s works."---Julia Boffey, Times Literary Supplement"Marion Turner has had the inspired idea of organising her biography by the places [Chaucer] occupied . . . . So many places, so many points of view. Chaucer's modernity consists in his adoption of many perspectives. This biography provides a wonderful illumination of his art." * Country Life Magazine *"It feels as though new light is genuinely being shed on Chaucer’s life, combining documentary material with sure-footed interpretations of his works, what we know of the people and places he encountered, and social and economic history . . . . The result is a three-dimensional picture of Chaucer from the outside in."---Laura Ashe, History Today"Marion Turner has done a magnificent job. . . . I do not expect to see this biography superseded."---Paul Dean, New Criterion"A meticulously researched, well-styled academic study showing Chaucer as the ‘consummate networker.’" * Kirkus *"This meaty new biography is likely to be the best book on the subject for decades to come."---Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Review"In Marion Turner’s capacious biography – the first since Derek Pearsall’s in 1992 and the first ever by a woman – Chaucer is Bakhtinian and plural, a man of many voices. Much like his Canterbury pilgrims, he is always en route but never arriving. . . . Fittingly, she ends by rejecting the image of Chaucer as the ‘father of English poetry’ and finds his legacy instead in the suppressed and marginalised voices that he licensed to speak."---Barbara Newman, London Review of Books"A rich, thought-provoking and readable work of scholarship. . . . [Turner] has forged a new kind of biography. . . . Her work promises to be definitive for some time to come."---Mary Wellesley, Times Higher Education"[A] great swirl of a biography, one more capacious and more ranging than any of its predecessors. . . . [Chaucer: A European Life] proclaims a hope to bring this canonical medieval poet to life before a broad, modern audience."---Joe Stadolnik, Los Angeles Review of Books"What wonders Turner can work with a word! . . . . I find it difficult to stop quoting Turner, since she puts the life she is following into such intricate yet accessible prose. You need to stick with this long biography to fully absorb the point toward which she is headed. In other words, it becomes a journey just like the many trips Chaucer took for himself and others."---Carl Rollyson, University Bookman"Chaucer has not lacked for biographies, but Marion Turner’s is of a rare ambition and competence . . . [A] very substantial book . . . sustained by a confident erudition and a powerful and controlled narrative flow."---John V. Fleming, First Things"[I]n Marion Turner's brilliant 'Chaucer: A European Life,' you will learn not only about the life of the man behind 'The Canterbury Tales,' you will learn about the bustling, fast-changing world in which he lived and traveled . . . if you are interested in history, poetry or the man who invented iambic pentameter, it's fascinating."---Laurie Hertzel, Minneapolis Star Tribune"Turner's study is itself like a medieval book. It loves exhaustive detail; it loves a careful architectural design; and it is not afraid of exhausting its readers. It's a biography full of rich detail . . . securely grounded in the material and cultural world, instead of the conventional focus on the singular voice of a solitary poetic genius."---Stephanie Trigg, Sydney Morning Herald"Marion Turner's splendid new biography of the poet . . . is wonderfully evocative. [A] magisterial intellectual biography."---Bruce Whiteman, Hudson Review"[Turner's] expansive book is written with an unusual mix of erudition, clarity, and wit: it will be required reading for specialists, an invaluable resource for students, and a rich introduction to Chaucer’s world for the general reader. . . .[Turner's] generous and humane vision is deeply appealing, and offered with a warmth that is hard to resist—a welcome invitation to all of us to broaden our horizons."---Philip Knox, Review of English Studies"Chaucer’s first female biographer provides a fresh, modern perspective, memorably showing us the great poet as a young man dressed by his employer in a skimpy garment designed to emphasise the genitals and buttocks. A richly textured account and an essential addition to Chaucerian scholarship."---Claire Lowdon, Sunday Times"Marion Turner carves out a space for another biography by locating the facts of Chaucer’s professional and writing life within the context of English and European history and material culture…This is a strong biography, well suited to the needs and interests of our own Chaucerian moment."---Lynn Staley, Studies in the Age of Chaucer"[Turner] enchantingly weaves Chaucer’s life and poetry between the local spaces of households, gardens, and inns, as well as the international spaces of French castles under siege, Italian libraries, and Mediterranean marketplaces. . . .[this book] is crucial and rewarding for any current or future student of medieval literature—and luckily for us, Turner’s style both educates and delights."---Leah Pope Parker, Journal of British Studies"[Turner’s] enormous contribution to our comprehension of Chaucer's moves and maneuvers within his culture will alter scholarly contexts."---John L. Murphy, PopMatters"[A] new and brilliant biography. . . . This is a book of the first importance not only for students of Chaucer but for anyone seriously interested in the ways in which history, poetry, life and art generally came about and developed in late medieval Europe." * Heythrop Journal *"Chaucer scholarship has always been awaiting a biography this rich…Among the very many contributions Turner’s biography makes to Chaucer scholarship is to reverse the general presumption that has always animated studies of this kind; rather than write about Chaucer because he was a historically significant poet, Turner shows us what, in history, made this poet matter."---Christopher Canno, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies"A vivid reconstruction of Chaucer’s 14th-century world and a revelatory exploration of his poems."---Thomas Penn, History Today"Chaucer: A European Life is a masterful appreciation of the first great poet of the living English language—a biography of Geoffrey Chaucer wrapped around a thoughtful study of what Chaucer wrote and what he read . . . A strength of this book is that Turner looks beyond the portraits that Chaucer so emphatically sketched to emphasize the vitality with which he imbued his characters. . . . The genius of the book lies in its valuing of difference qua difference, and its refusal either to collapse those differences or to prioritize saint’s life over folktale, man over woman, knight over miller, marquis over peasant girl, moral truth over poetic line, idea over rhetoric."---The Key Reporter, Allen D. Boyer"A masterpiece."---Simon Winder, New Statesman"This is an invigorating and refreshing book that is by no means a standard biography. . . . this book is an extraordinary achievement. Its erudition and enthusiasm are matched by an enviable eloquence, and it will remain a focus of admiration, reference and discussion for many years to come."---Peter Brown, Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen"Marion Turner does a spectacular job."---Baroness Bennet, The House Magazine

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Book SynopsisThe struggle which Plato has Socrates recommend to his interlocutors in Gorgias - and to his readers - is the struggle to overcome the temptations of worldly success and to concentrate on genuine morality. Ostensibly an enquiry into the value of rhetoric, the dialogue soon becomes an investigation into the value of these two contrasting ways of life. In a series of dazzling and bold arguments, Plato attempts to establish that only morality can bring a person true happiness, and to demolish alternative viewpoints. It is not suprising that Gorgias is one of Plato''s most widely read dialogues. Philosophers read it for its coverage of central moral issues; others enjoy its vividness, clarity and occasional bitter humour. This new translation is accompanied by explanatory notes and an informative introduction. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s comm

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Book SynopsisAppian (ca. AD 95–161) is a principal source for the history of the Roman Republic. His theme is the process by which Rome achieved her contemporary prosperity, and his method is to trace in individual books the story of each nation’s wars with Rome up through her own civil wars. This Loeb edition replaces the original by Horace White (1912–13).Trade ReviewA superb, nuanced translation…It is not simply that McGing updates the translation to reflect contemporary idiom; he also breathes new life into Appian’s prose on almost every page…This exceptionally well executed Loeb is a welcome resource that will be deeply appreciated by all those interested in Appian and his remarkable Roman History as well as expand his appeal to a new generation of readers. -- Alain M. Gowing * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *I have not read any fictions that have more dramatic tension, philosophy, or narrative curiosities than this history of Appian’s. * Pennsylvania Literary Journal *

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Book SynopsisPliny's letters provide a fascinating insight into Roman life in the period 97 to 112 AD. They document politics, social life, religion, the educational system, the treatment of slaves and include a vivid description of the eruption of Vesuvius. This is a lively and sympathetic new translation.

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Book SynopsisVolume I of the Loeb Hippocrates presents an exemplary selection of works by or attributed to the “Father of Medicine” that illustrate his fundamental contributions to the theory, philosophy, and practice of medicine. Included are Ancient Medicine; Airs, Waters, Places; Epidemics 1 and 3; Precepts; Nutriment; and the famous Hippocratic Oath.

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Book SynopsisFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author of Storyland and Wild, comes a sweeping new legendary of miracles, magic, human frailty and heroic strength. Illustrated with over thirty original paper cutouts by the author.''Jeffs writes beautifully, erring just on the right side of florid, and her linocut prints make for attractive illustrations . . . This gorgeous book should live on the bookshelves in every house that cares about the idea of Britain, what is was and where it came from'' The Times on Storyland''I have fallen so completely in love with this book; Storyland, by Amy Jeffs, just one of the finest, most covetable things around'' Katherine RundellSaints'' legends suffused medieval European culture. Their heroes'' suffering and wonder-working shaped landscapes, rituals and folk beliefs. Their tales spoke of men raised by wolves, women communing with flocks of birds and severed h

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Book SynopsisEgil's Saga tells the story of the long and brutal life of tenth-century warrior-poet and farmer Egil Skallagrimsson: a morally ambiguous character who was at once the composer of intricately beautiful poetry, and a physical grotesque capable of staggering brutality. The saga recounts Egil's progression from youthful savagery to mature wisdom as he struggles to avenge his father's exile from Norway, defend his honour against the Norwegian King Erik Bloodaxe, and fight for the English King Athelstan in his battles against Scotland. Exploring issues as diverse as the question of loyalty, the power of poetry, and the relationship between two brothers who love the same woman, Egil's Saga is a fascinating depiction of a deeply human character.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout

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Book SynopsisVolume IX of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the so-called sophists Antiphon, Lycophron, and Xeniades, along with the Anonymous of Iamblichus, the Dissoi Logoi, a chapter on characterizations of the 'sophists' as a group, and an appendix on philosophy and philosophers in Greek drama.Trade ReviewIn brief, André Laks and Glenn Most give us a brilliant and beautiful reference work that can, at the same time, be easily enough read straight through. And spending a few months doing so gives the reader almost all that she needs (perhaps along with Loeb #258, Greek Elegiac Poetry) to reconstruct for herself the origins of the discipline of philosophy. I should want any graduate student or colleague in ancient philosophy or intellectual history to acquire and make their way through it. -- Christopher Moore * Classical Journal *The publication of the Loeb Classical Library’s nine-volume set, Early Greek Philosophy, gives us a new edition of the original texts, with fresh translations. It is a monumental achievement—the result of many years of dedicated work on the part of the two editors/translators André Laks and Glenn W. Most… We owe a profound debt of gratitude to the editors/translators for their thorough and impeccable scholarship, and to the publishers for their usual high standards of production. If you can afford them, don’t hesitate: you will be all the richer for having these volumes on your shelves. -- Jeremy Naydler * Minerva *André Laks and Glenn W. Most have made available to the world of scholarship in early Greek philosophy a resource of immense value. Every study of a thinker or of an issue within the thematic ambit of Early Greek Philosophy must henceforth start by canvassing and taking into account the appropriate selections in the Loeb set. -- Alexander P. D. Mourelatos * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *The publication of a Loeb Classical Library edition of the evidence for early Greek philosophy is a major event in classical scholarship…The editors and their assistants are to be commended for their exemplary execution of such a vast and difficult task. They have succeeded in producing what is far and away the best available edition of the texts of the early Greek philosophers with accompanying English translation…More than that, their edition effectively supersedes Hermann Diels and Walter Kranz’s Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, which has long held sway as the standard edition of the Presocratics, but it only does so because Laks and Most have respectfully taken Diels-Kranz as their model…Laks and Most have set such a high standard with this work that it is hard to imagine that we will see a better general collection on early Greek philosophy in our lifetimes…Laks and Most’s philological acumen, judiciousness as editors, and excellence as translators is evident on every page. -- John Palmer * Arion *

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Book SynopsisThe poetry of Horace (born 65 BC) is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private concerns, urban and rural settings, Stoic and Epicurean thought. His Odes cover a wide range of moods and topics. Love and political concerns are frequent themes of the Epodes.

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Book SynopsisWillcock provides a line-by-line commentary that explains allusions and Homeric conventions that a student or general reader could not be expected to bring to an initial encounter with the Iliad.

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Book Synopsis''Men, the enemy troops you can see are all that stands between us and the place we have for so long been determined to reach. We must find a way to eat them alive!''The Expedition of Cyrus tells the story of the march of the Ten Thousand. The exploits of this famous army of Greek mercenaries in modern-day Turkey, Syria, and Iraq were described by one of their leaders, the Athenian historian and philosopher Xenophon. They were recruited at the end of the fifth century BC by a young Persian prince, Cyrus, who rose in revolt against his brother, the king of Persia. After Cyrus'' death, the army was left stranded in the desert of Mesopotamia, a thousand miles from home. Their long march, across mountains and plateaux to the sight of ''The sea! The sea!'', and back to the fringes of the Greek world, is the most exciting adventure story to survive from the ancient world.Xenophon''s gripping narrative offers a unique insight into the character of a Greek army struggling to survive in an alien world. It is also the most sustained eyewitness account of the landscape of the vast and wealthy Persian empire. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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Book SynopsisA work of literary theory that draws on the writings of Demosthenes, Plato, Sappho, Thucydides, Euripides, and Aeschylus, among others, to examine and delineate the essentials of a noble style.Trade ReviewGrube's translation is a masterful work of scholarship, and is admirably accessible for the common reader.--Jeffrey Walker, Emory University

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Book SynopsisOvid Unseens provides a bank of 80 practice passages of Latin verse, half elegiac and half hexameter.Taken from across Ovid's works, including the Metamorphoses, Fasti, Heroides, Amores and Tristia, the passages help build students'' knowledge and confidence in a notoriously difficult element of Latin language learning. Every passage begins with an introduction, outlining the basic story and theme of the passage, followed by a lead-in' sentence, paraphrasing the few lines before the passage begins. The first set of passages are translation exercises of 12-16 lines, each accompanied by a Discendum box which highlights a key feature of poetic Latin, equipping students further with the skills to tackle ever more difficult verse passages at first sight. These are followed by longer passages with scansion exercises and questions on comprehension and stylistic analysis, replicating unseen verse exam questiTrade ReviewOvid Unseens offers a wide-ranging and carefully graded collection of passages, giving students an excellent introduction to the poet and to the technique of unprepared verse translation. It is packed with sound advice and will be hugely useful. -- John Taylor, Head of Classics at Tonbridge School, UK and author of "Latin Beyond GCSE"Table of ContentsPreface Introduction to Ovid Translating Latin verse Ovid’s style Ovid’s Elegiac Poetry: - Shorter translation passages 1-20 - Full translation and comprehension passages 21-40 Ovid’s Hexameter Poetry: - Shorter translation passages 1-20 - Full translation and comprehension passages 21-40 An introduction to scansion and Ovid’s metres Verse vocabulary checklists Index locorum

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Book SynopsisBy the Poet LaureateThe Alliterative Morte Arthure - the title given to a four-thousand line poem written sometime around 1400 - was part of a medieval Arthurian revival which produced such masterpieces as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Sir Thomas Malory''s prose Morte D''Arthur. The Death of King Arthur deals in the cut-and-thrust of warfare and politics: the ever-topical matter of Britain''s relationship with continental Europe, and of its military interests overseas. Simon Armitage is already the master of this alliterative music, as his earlier version of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2006) so resourcefully and exuberantly showed. His new translation restores a neglected masterpiece of story-telling, by bringing vividly to life its entirely medieval mix of ruthlessness and restraint.

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Book SynopsisThe Major Declamations, attributed to Quintilian in antiquity, exemplify the final stage of Greco-Roman rhetorical training, in which students delivered speeches for the prosecution and defense at imaginary trials. A wide variety of fascinating ethical, social, and legal details animate the fictional world conjured up by these oratorical exercises.

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Book SynopsisKeenly aware that thousands of books have been written about The Divine Comedy, Prue Shaw—one of the world’s foremost Dante authorities–is convinced that an accessible, non-scholarly work that explicated Dante is needed. Just as Dante becomes a poet with a prophetic mission, Reading Dante becomes far more than an exegesis of Dante’s three-part Commedia. It offers a literary experience that lifts the reader into the universal realms of poetry and mythology, revealing how one can recover time-past through memory and language. Whether challenging the notion that Dante was vindictive, decoding the numerology that can confound readers or positioning Dante’s tortured life within the framework of fourteenth-century Florence, Shaw creates an astonishingly lyrical work that will appeal to both those who’ve never read the Commedia and those who have. Reading Dante underscores Dante’s belief that poetry can change human lives.Trade Review"Reading Dante is an experience of a lifetime... But, like Dante himself, at large in the frightening wood, you need a companion for the journey, and it is difficult to imagine one more enlightening than Prue Shaw." -- The Spectator"Shaw’s sharp, brilliantly engaging book delivers masterfully on its promise to fuel love for the Comedy precisely by dispelling readers’ anxieties, and showing how the great underlying concerns of this work are not only those of every work of art but are the stuff of life itself. Moreover, she keeps us so enthralled with her compelling and fast-paced prose that the only reason one would want to put down this book is to open the one she is talking about." -- Book of the Week - Times Higher Education"Writing an introduction[to The Divine Comedy] for the general reader is not an easy task. Prue Shaw has done this in a way that manages to be at the same time scholarly, compelling and original." -- The Times Literary Supplement"Reading Dante is undoubtedly one of the best introductions to Dante's Commedia available. It is accurate, informative but never dull or patronising. All the important topics are covered, while steering clear of academic jargon... It is a virtuoso performance." -- The Tablet

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Book SynopsisWhat comes to mind when we think of swans? Likely their beauty in domestic settings, their preserved status, their association with royalty, and possibly even the phrase ‘swan song’. This book explores the emergence of each of these ideas, starting with an examination of the medieval swan in natural history, exploring classical writings and their medieval interpretations and demonstrating how the idea of a swan’s song developed. The book then proceeds to consider literary motifs of swan-to-human transformation, particularly the legend of the Knight of the Swan. Although this legend is known today largely through Wagner’s opera, it was a best-seller in the Middle Ages, and courts throughout Europe strove to be associated as descendants of this Swan Knight. Consequently, the swan was projected as an icon of courtly and eventual royal status. The book’s third chapter looks at the swan as icon of the Lancasters, particularly important during the reign of Richard II and the War of the Roses, and the final chapter examines the swan as an important item of feasting, focusing on cookery and husbandry to argue that over time the right to keep swans became an increasingly restricted right controlled by the English crown. Each of the swan’s medieval associations are explored as they developed over time to the modern day. 　Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Medieval Swan: History and Culture 2. The Swan in Literature 3. The Swan at Court 4. The Swan in Art 5. The Legacy of the Medieval Swan Bibliography

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Book SynopsisSocial convention may have prevented Renaissance women writers from openly taking part in the political and religious debates of their day, but they found varied and innovative ways to intervene. Collecting the work of three great poets-Isabella Whitney, Mary Sidney, and Aemilia Lanyer-this volume repositions women writers of the Renaissance by presenting their poems in the context of their history and culture. Whitney's poems offer the only glimpse into her life, express a concern for women's lack of social and economic power, and powerfully evoke sixteenth-century London. Sidney produced potent translations of Petrarch's works and the Psalms, as well as original verse. Lanyer wrote poems that advocate and praise female virtue and Christian piety, but reflect a desire for an idealized, classless world. The strong and original voices of these three women-each from different social, cultural, and historical strata-demonstrate the emergence of a new female identity during the RenTable of ContentsEdited by Danielle ClarkeAcknowledgmentsIntroductionFurther ReadingTable of DatesA Note on the TextsIsabella Whitneyfrom A SWEET NOSGAYTo the worshipfull and right vertuous yong Gentylman, George Mainwaring Esquier...The Auctor to the ReaderCertain familier Epistles and friendly Letters by the Auctor: with RepliesTo her Brother. G.W.To her Brother. B. W.A modest meane for Maides... to two of her yonger Sisters servinge in LondonTo her Sister Misteris. A.B.To her CosenA carefull complaynt by the unfortunate AuctorIS. W. to C.B. in bewalylynge her mishappesTo my Friend Master T.L. whose good nature I see abusdeIS W. beyng wery of wrtyng, sendeth this for AnswereThe Auchtour (though loth to leave the Citie) upon her Friendes procurement, is constrained to departe...and maketh her Wyll and Testament...A comunication which the Auctor had to London, before she made her WyllThe maner of her Wyll, and what she left to London: and all those in it: at her departing***THE COPY OF A LETTER, lately written in meeter, by a yonge Gentilwoman: to her unconstant Lover...I.W. To her unconstant LoverThe admonition by the Auctor, to all yong Gentilwomen: And to al other Maids being in Love***The lamentation of a Gentilwoman upon the death of her late deceased frend William Gruffith Gent.Mary Sidney, Countess of PembrokeTHE SIDNEY PSALTER"Even now that Care"To the Angell spirit of the most excellent Sir Phillip SidneyThe Psalmes of Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke***A Dialogue betweene two shepheards, Thenot, and Piers, in praise of Astrea...***THE TRIUMPH OF DEATH TRANSLATED OUT OF ITALIAN BY THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROOKEThe first chapterThe second chapterAemilia LanyerSALVE DEUS REX JUDAEORUMTo the Queenes most Excellent MajestieTo all vertuous Ladies in generallThe Authors Dreame to the Ladie Marie, the Countesse Dowager of PembrookeTo the Ladie Lucie, Countesse of BedfordTo the Ladie Margaret, Countesse Dowager of CumberlandTo the Ladie Anne, Countesse of DorcetTo the Vertuous ReaderSalve Deus Rex JudaeorumThe Description of Cooke-hamAbbreviations and Short Titles Used in the Notes and Textual ApparatusNotesTextual Apparatus

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Book SynopsisWritten around the thirteenth century AD by Icelandic monks, the seven tales collected here offer a combination of pagan elements tightly woven into the pattern of Christian ethics. They take as their subjects figures who are heroic, but do not fit into the mould of traditional heroes. Some stories concern characters in Iceland - among them Hrafknel's Saga, in which a poor man's son is murdered by his powerful neighbour, and Thorstein the Staff-Struck, which describes an ageing warrior's struggle to settle into a peaceful rural community. Others focus on the adventures of Icelanders abroad, including the compelling Audun's Story, which depicts a farmhand's pilgrimage to Rome. These fascinating tales deal with powerful human emotions, suffering and dignity at a time of profound transition, when traditional ideals were gradually yielding to a more peaceful pastoral lifestyle.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literaTable of ContentsHrafnkel's SagaIntroductionNote on the Translation1. Hrafnkel's Saga2. Thorstein the Staff-Struck3. Ale-Hood4. Hreidar the Fool5. Halldor Snorrason6. Audun's Story7. Ivar's StoryList of Personal NamesMaps

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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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Book SynopsisBelisarius & Antonina is a biography of an immensely powerful marriage in the time of Roman resurgence and expansion. It sheds new light on the reign of Justinian while exploring the successes, failures, and challenges of this unique partnership.Trade ReviewThis is a splendid analysis of one of the great power couples of Late Antiquity. Outsiders both, Belisarius and Antonina, were alternatively welcome and unwelcome to their contemporaries; their lives together were objects of potent contemporary image making as well as intensely hostile gossip. Parnell does a masterful job untangling the complex traditions stemming from the ambiguity of their positions, both at the time and the later myths surrounding them. In so doing, he offers a valuable picture of the Roman Empire in the sixth century from a fresh perspective. * David Potter, University of Michigan *Parnell brings to life these two enigmatic figures, Antonina and Belisarius, in an enthralling narrative, in which he shows not just the trials and tribulations of Belisarius' career, but also the invaluable role played by Antonina in his western campaigns. Throughout, while taking a middle ground regarding the vexatious Secret History, Parnell has a knack of teasing out valuable insight into Antonina's actions and Belisarius' motives, which are often obscured by Procopius' sometimes cagey accounts. * Conor Whately, University of Winnipeg *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The World of Antonina 2. General of the East 3. Victory in Africa 4. The Eternal City 5. From Rome to Ravenna 6. Trying Times 7. Italy Redux 8. Twilight of a Power Couple 9. Afterlife and Legend Appendix 1: Dramatis Personae Appendix 2: Timeline Appendix 3: The Wealth of Belisarius Bibliography

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