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Literary Collections > Ancient, Classical & Medieval

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	"Beowulf" and Other Old English Poems Author: N/A Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Rarely are these works translated by someone who is both a medieval scholar and a poet, and this combination makes for both fidelity to the complexity of the originals and compelling poetry in a moder...	$46.80
	A Feast of Creatures Author: N/A Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: In A Feast of Creatures, Craig Williamson combines his training as a medievalist, anthropologist, and literary critic with his talent as a translator and poet. Here he recasts nearly 100 Old English r...	$20.75
	Abusive Mouths in Classical Athens Author: Worman,Nancy Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: This study of the language of insult charts abuse in classical Athenian literature that centres on the mouth and its appetites, especially talking, eating, drinking, and sexual activities. Attic comed...	$41.60
	Allegories of Farming from Greece and Rome Author: Kronenberg, Leah Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: In this book Professor Kronenberg shows that XenophonÃs Oeconomicus, VarroÃs De Re Rustica and VirgilÃs Georgics are not simply works on farming but belong to a tradition of philosophical satire wh...	$89.44
	Aristophanes and the Poetics of Competition Author: Biles, Zachary P. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Athenian comic drama was written for performance at festivals honouring the god Dionysos. Through dramatic action and open discourse, poets sought to engage their rivals and impress the audience, all ...	$82.16
	Authorship and Cultural Identity in Early Greece and China Author: Beecroft, Alexander Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: In this book, Alexander Beecroft explores how the earliest poetry in Greece (Homeric epic and lyric) and China (the Canon of Songs) evolved from being local, oral, and anonymous to being textualised, ...	$73.84
	Character, Narrator, and Simile in the Iliad Author: Ready, Jonathan L. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Jonathan L. Ready offers the first comprehensive examination of Homer's similes in the Iliad as arenas of heroic competition. This study concentrates primarily on similes spoken by Homeric characters....	$74.88
	Cosmology and the Polis Author: Seaford, Richard Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: This book further develops Professor Seaford's innovative work on the study of ritual and money in the developing Greek polis. It employs the concept of the chronotope, which refers to the phenomenon ...	$91.52
	Decimus Laberius Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: This is a newly revised, critical text of the fragments attributed to the Roman knight and mimographer Decimus Laberius, a witty and crudely satirical contemporary of Cicero and Caesar. Laberius is pe...	$118.56
	Empire and Memory Author: Gowing, Alain M. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: The memory of the Roman Republic exercised a powerful influence on several generations of Romans who lived under its political and cultural successor, the Principate or Empire. Empire and Memory explo...	$28.08
	Fairy Tales from Before Fairy Tales Author: Ziolkowski, Jan M. Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: When did fairy tales begin? What qualifies as a fairy tale? Is a true fairy tale oral or literary? Or is a fairy tale determined not by style but by content? To answer these and other questions, Jan M...	$33.15
	Fifty Key Classical Authors Author: Sharrock, Alison Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF Description: Covering ten centuries, this fascinating introduction to the key Greek and Roman authors begins with writers like Homer and Sappho and concludes at the onset of the Late Antique period with the likes ...	$35.31
	Greek Tragedy in Vergil's Aeneid Author: Panoussi, Vassiliki Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: This is the first systematic study of the importance of Greek tragedy as a fundamental Ã«intertextÃ for VergilÃs Aeneid. Vassiliki Panoussi argues that the epicÃs representation of ritual acts, esp...	$71.76
	Hindu Hell: Visions, Tours and Descriptions of the Infernal Otherworld Author: N/A Publisher: Italica Press, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF Description: A collection of Hindu texts on hell, in English translation, including selections from the Rig-Veda, [Veda of Adoration], Atharva-Veda [Veda of the Wise and the Old], the Mahabharata, the Ramayana, th...	$8.29
	Homer Between History and Fiction in Imperial Greek Literature Author: Kim, Lawrence Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Did Homer tell the 'truth' about the Trojan War? If so, how much, and if not, why not? The issue was hardly academic to the Greeks living under the Roman Empire, given the centrality of both Homer, th...	$82.16
	Homer's Odyssey and the Near East Author: Louden, Bruce Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: The Odyssey's larger plot is composed of a number of distinct genres of myth, all of which are extant in various Near Eastern cultures (Mesopotamian, West Semitic, Egyptian). Unexpectedly, the Near Ea...	$82.16
	Homer's Trojan Theater Author: Strauss Clay, Jenny Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Moving away from the verbal and thematic repetitions that have dominated Homeric studies and exploiting the insights of cognitive psychology, this highly innovative and accessible study focuses on the...	$24.96
	Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria Author: Niehoff, Maren R. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Systematically reading Jewish exegesis in light of Homeric scholarship, this book argues that more than 2000 years ago Alexandrian Jews developed critical and literary methods of Bible interpretation ...	$70.72
	Literature of Ancient Egypt: An Anthology of Stories, Instructions, Stelae, Autobiographies, and Poetry; Third Edition Author: N/A Publisher: Yale University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: The latest edition of this highly praised anthology of ancient Egyptian literature offers fresh translations of all the texts as well as some twenty-five new entries, including writings from the late ...	$8.84
	Martial's Rome Author: Rimell,Victoria E. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: This provocative book is a major contribution to our understanding of Martial's poetics, his vision of the relationship between art and reality, and his role in formulating modern perceptions of Rome....	$81.12
	Medieval Outlaws: Twelve Tales in Modern English Translation Author: N/A Publisher: Parlor Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Billy the Kid, Jesse James, John Dillinger, and Al Capone were all are criminals who robbed and killed, yet they were considered good outlaws, celebrated in sensational newspapers, newsreels, and dime...	$14.56
	Pindar: Pythian Eleven Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Pindar's Pythian Eleven is a miniature masterpiece: a poem praising a young athlete which presents a vivid and important account of the Agamemnon legend. Yet it contains so many difficulties (of text,...	$31.20
	Plato and the Traditions of Ancient Literature Author: Hunter, Richard Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Exploring both how Plato engaged with existing literary forms and how later literature then created 'classics' out of some of Plato's richest works, this book includes chapters on such subjects as rew...	$82.16
	Pliny's Encyclopedia Author: Doody, Aude Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: The Elder Pliny's Natural History is one of the largest and most extraordinary works to survive from antiquity. It has often been referred to as an encyclopedia, usually without full awareness of what...	$82.16
	Pliny's Praise Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Pliny's Panegyricus (AD 100) survives as a unique example of senatorial rhetoric from the early Roman Empire. It offers an eyewitness account of the last years of Domitian's principate, the reign of N...	$79.04
	Pliny's Women Author: Carlon, Jacqueline M. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: PlinyÃƒÂs Women provides a comprehensive consideration of the many women who appear in the letters of Pliny the Younger. Combining detailed prosopography with close literary analysis, Jacqueline Carl...	$76.96
	Reading Roman Comedy Author: Sharrock, Alison Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: For many years the domain of specialists in early Latin, in complex metres, and in the reconstruction of texts, Roman comedy has only recently begun to establish itself in the mainstream of Classical ...	$30.16
	Reading Sin in the World Author: Dykes, Anthony Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Prudentius is one of the major Latin poets of antiquity. A Christian living and writing in Spain in the late fourth and early fifth centuries, he was thoroughly imbued with the whole tradition of Lati...	$87.36
	Reception and the Classics Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: This collection brings together leading experts in a number of fields of the humanities to offer a new perspective on the classical tradition. Drawing on reception studies, philology and early modern ...	$79.04
	Republicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political Thought Author: Kapust, Daniel J. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Republicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political Thought develops readings of Rome's three most important Latin historians - Sallust, Livy and Tacitus - in light of contemporary discussions of republicani...	$70.72
	Rhetorical Exercises from Late Antiquity Author: Choricius, / Amato, Eugenio Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: The first translation, produced by a team of eight scholars, of the Declamations and Preliminary Talks of the sixth-century sophist Choricius of Gaza. Declamations, deliberative or judicial orations o...	$91.52
	Simile and Identity in Ovid's Metamorphoses Author: von Glinski, Marie Louise Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Nulli sua forma manebat. The world of Ovid's Metamorphoses is marked by constant flux in which nothing keeps its original form. This book argues that Ovid uses the epic simile to capture states of unr...	$79.04
	Sophocles: Ajax Author: Sophocles, Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Sophocles' Ajax describes the fall of a mighty warrior denied the honour which he believed was his due. This new edition of the play presents a text and critical apparatus which take full advantage of...	$149.76
	The Ancient Critic at Work Author: N¸nlist,RenÈ Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: The large but underrated corpus of Greek scholia, the marginal and interlinear notes found in manuscripts, is a very important source for ancient literary criticism. The evidence of the scholia signif...	$45.76
	The Art of Caesar's Bellum Civile Author: Grillo, Luca Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Traditional approaches have reduced Caesar's Bellum Civile to a tool for teaching Latin or to one-dimensional propaganda, thereby underestimating its artistic properties and ideological complexity. Re...	$79.04
	The Art of Euripides Author: Mastronarde, Donald J. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: In this book Professor Mastronarde draws on the seventeen surviving tragedies of Euripides, as well as the fragmentary remains of his lost plays, to explore key topics in the interpretation of the pla...	$86.32
	The Art of Pliny's Letters Author: Marchesi,Ilaria Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: In the first book on intertextuality in Pliny the Younger, Professor Marchesi invites a new reading of Pliny's collection of private epistles: the letters are examined as the product of an authorial s...	$45.76
	The End of Dialogue in Antiquity Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: 'Dialogue' was invented as a written form in democratic Athens and made a celebrated and popular literary and philosophical style by Plato. Yet it almost completely disappeared in the Christian empire...	$89.44
	The Golden Ass: Or Metamorphoses (Adlington's Translation, 1566) Author: Apuleius, Lucius Publisher: Digireads.com Format: Adobe PDF Description:	$3.21
	The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity Author: Budin, Stephanie Lynn Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Stephanie Budin demonstrates that sacred prostitution, the sale of a person's body for sex in which some or all of the money earned was devoted to a deity or a temple, did not exist in the ancient wor...	$27.04
	The Politics of Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica Author: Mori,Anatole Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Apollonius Rhodius' epic poem, the Argonautica, is one of the most important and influential literary productions of the Hellenistic period. This book shows how the retelling of a heroic adventure set...	$94.64
	The Trotula Author: N/A Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: The Trotula was the most influential compendium on women's medicine in medieval Europe. Green here presents the first modern English translation of the so-called standardized Trotula ensemble, a compo...	$25.95
	Virgil's Eclogues Author: Virgil Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: This new translation by poet Len Krisak of Virgil's classic of pastoral verse captures both the meaning and meter of the original. The text features the English and original Latin on facing pages and ...	$31.15
	Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Although recent scholarship has focused on the city-state as the context for the production of Greek poetry, for poets and performers travel was more the norm than the exception. This book traces this...	$89.44
	Writing and Empire in Tacitus Author: Sailor,Dylan Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Writing and Empire in Tacitus examines how Tacitus' historiographical career serves as an argument about his personal autonomy and social value under the peculiar political conditions of the early Rom...	$37.44
	Callimachus in Context Author: Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin / Stephens, Susan A. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Scholarly reception has bequeathed two Callimachuses: the Roman version is a poet of elegant non-heroic poetry (usually erotic elegy), represented by a handful of intertexts with a recurring set of im...	$82.16
	Performing Oaths in Classical Greek Drama Author: Fletcher, Judith Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Oaths were ubiquitous rituals in ancient Athenian legal, commercial, civic and international spheres. Their importance is reflected by the fact that much of surviving Greek drama features a formal oat...	$82.16
	Relative Chronology in Early Greek Epic Poetry Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: This book sets out to disentangle the complex chronology of early Greek epic poetry, which includes Homer, Hesiod, hymns and catalogues. The preserved corpus of these texts is characterised by a rathe...	$82.16
	Rethinking the Gods Author: van Nuffelen, Peter Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Ancient philosophers had always been fascinated by religion. From the first century BC onwards the traditionally hostile attitude of Greek and Roman philosophy was abandoned in favour of the view that...	$82.16
	Roman Republican Theatre Author: Manuwald, Gesine Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Theatre flourished in the Roman Republic, from the tragedies of Ennius and Pacuvius to the comedies of Plautus and Terence and the mimes of Laberius. Yet apart from the surviving plays of Plautus and ...	$87.36

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