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Description: A Companion to Ancient Epic presents for the first time a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of ancient Near Eastern, Greek and Roman epic. It offers a multi-disciplinary discussion of both longstandi...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Using new methodological and theoretical approaches, A Companion to Byzantium presents an overview of the Byzantine world from its inception in 330 A.D. to its fall to the Ottoman Turks in 1453.Provid...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this companion, international scholars provide a comprehensive overview that reflects the most recent trends in Catullan studies.Explores the work of Catullus, one of the best Roman ‘lyric po...
Description: Examining the profusion of ways in which the arts, culture, and thought of Greece and Rome have been transmitted, interpreted, adapted and used, A Companion to Classical Receptions explores the impact...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Examining the profusion of ways in which the arts, culture, and thought of Greece and Rome have been transmitted, interpreted, adapted and used, A Companion to Classical Receptions explores the impact...
Description: This two-volume Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography reflects the new directions and interpretations that have arisen in the field of ancient historiography in the past few decades.Comprises a ...
Description: A Companion to Greek Mythology presents a series of essays that explore the phenomenon of Greek myth from its origins in shared Indo-European story patterns and the Greeks’ contacts with their E...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This major addition to Blackwell’s Companions to the Ancient World series covers all aspects of religion in the ancient Greek world from the archaic, through the classical and into the Hellenist...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This complete guide to ancient Greek rhetoric is exceptional both in its chronological range and the breadth of topics it covers.Traces the rise of rhetoric and its uses from Homer to ByzantiumCovers ...
Author: Gregory, Justina Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Blackwell Companion to Greek Tragedy provides readers with a fundamental grounding in Greek tragedy, and also introduces them to the various methodologies and the lively critical dialogue that cha...
Author: Davis, Gregson Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Companion to Horace features a collection of commissioned interpretive essays by leading scholars in the field of Latin literature covering the entire generic range of works produced by Horace.Featu...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Companion to Latin Literature gives an authoritative account of Latin literature from its beginnings in the third century BC through to the end of the second century AD. Provides expert overview of ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A comprehensive treatment of the significant symbols and institutions of Roman religion, this companion places the various religious symbols, discourses, and practices, including Judaism and Christian...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A comprehensive account of the language of Ancient Greek civilization in a single volume, with contributions from leading international scholars covering the historical, geographical, sociolinguistic,...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Companion to the Classical Tradition accommodates the pressing need for an up-to-date introduction and overview of the growing field of reception studies.A comprehensive introduction and overview of...
Description: A Companion to the Latin Language presents a collection of original essays from international scholars that track the development and use of the Latin language from its origins to its modern day usage...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Companion to Vergil’s Aeneid and its Tradition presents a collection of original interpretive essays that represent an innovative addition to the body of Vergil scholarship.Provides fresh appr...
Author: Griffith, R. Drew / Marks, Robert B. Publisher: Legacy Books Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Ancient Greece and Rome aren't usually remembered for their sense of humour. However, in reality the ancient Greeks and Romans often refused to take themselves seriously. Strange and outlandish activi...
Author: Gutzwiller, Kathryn Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is a guide to the extraordinarily diverse literature of the Hellenistic period.A guide to the literature of the Hellenistic age, from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE to the Battl...
Author: Neupert, Richard Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The French New Wave cinema is arguably the most fascinating of all film movements, famous for its exuberance, daring, and avant-garde techniques. A History of the French New Wave Cinema offers a fresh...
Author: Said, Suzanne Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This concise and comprehensive introduction follows Greek literature from its beginnings to the Justinian age. Tré dé and Saï d include literature from more than twelve centuries and wo...
Author: Johnson, Timothy Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The major themes and motifs of The Star—the birth, life, death, and the immortality of the soul; Eastern philosophies and Jewish mysticism; the relationship between God, world and humanity over time;...
Author: Csapo, Eric Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Actors and Icons of the Ancient Theater examines actors and their popular reception from the origins of theater in Classical Greece to the Roman EmpirePresents a highly original viewpoint into several...
Author: Kurke, Leslie Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Examining the figure of Aesop and the traditions surrounding him, Aesopic Conversations offers a portrait of what Greek popular culture might have looked like in the ancient world. What has survived f...
Author: Robertson, Jamie Cox Publisher: Adams Media Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: One is not born a woman, one becomes one. -Simone de BeauvoirLiterature has provided us with some of the most unforgettable women in history. From wives and mothers to daughters and lovers, these wom...
Author: Robertson, Jamie Cox Publisher: Adams Media Format: Adobe PDF
Description: One is not born a woman, one becomes one. -Simone de Beauvoir. Literature has provided us with some of the most unforgettable women in history. From wives and mothers to daughters and lovers, these wo...
Author: King, Katherine Callen Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Ancient Epic offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to six of the greatest ancient epics – Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Vergil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Apollonius of Rhodes'...
Description: Ancient Epic offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to six of the greatest ancient epics – Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Vergil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Apollonius of Rhodes'...
Author: Fain, Gordon L. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: After Sappho but before the great Latin poets, the most important short poems in the ancient world were Greek epigrams. Beginning with simple expressions engraved on stone, these poems eventually enco...
Author: Habinek, Thomas N. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book introduces readers to the ancient rhetorical tradition by investigating key questions about the origins, nature and importance of rhetoric. Explores the role of the orator, especially the tw...
Author: Malamud, Margaret Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Ancient Rome and Modern America explores the vital role the narratives and images of Rome have played in America’s understanding of itself and its history.Places America’s response to Rome...
Author: Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Arion's Lyre examines how Hellenistic poetic culture adapted, reinterpreted, and transformed Archaic Greek lyric through a complex process of textual, cultural, and creative reception. Looking at the ...
Author: Aristotle Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Here's another one of the great Aristotle books. Recommended for the person who is interested in philosophy and human nature. Great reading for those rainy days! Please Note: This book is easy to r...
Author: Wills, Garry Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the Confessions--what motivated Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be read, and the many ways it h...
Author: Bialystok, Ellen Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Bilingualism in Development is an examination of the language and cognitive development of bilingual children focusing primarily on the preschool years. It begins by defining the territory for what i...
Author: Struck, Peter T. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Nearly all of us have studied poetry and been taught to look for the symbolic as well as literal meaning of the text. Is this the way the ancients saw poetry? In Birth of the Symbol, Peter Struck expl...
Author: Gaisser, Julia Haig Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Catullus is one of the liveliest and most appealing Roman poets. His emotion, charm, and apparent spontaneity resonate with readers as strongly today as in antiquity. This sophisticated literary and h...
Author: Wray, David Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book applies comparative cultural and literary models to a reading of Catullus' poems as social performances of a 'poetics of manhood': a competitively, often outrageously, self-allusive bid for ...
Description: Classical Literature: An Introduction provides a series of essays on all the major authors of Greek and Latin literature, as well as on a number of writers less often read. An introductory chapter pro...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Classical Literature: An Introduction provides a series of essays on all the major authors of Greek and Latin literature, as well as on a number of writers less often read. An introductory chapter pro...
Author: Rutherford, Richard Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This accessible one-volume survey of the literature of Greece and Rome covers the period between Homer around 700 BC and Augustine around AD 410. Highlights what is important historically and of conti...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This landmark collection presents a wide variety of viewpoints on the value and role of reception theory within the modern discipline of classics.A pioneering collection, looking at the role reception...
Author: Hunter, Richard Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Through a series of innovative critical readings Richard Hunter builds a picture of how the ancients discussed the meaning of literary works and their importance in society. He pays particular attenti...
Author: Havely, Nick Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A comprehensive guide to Dante’s life and literature, with an emphasis on his Commedia. This text looks at the influences that shaped Dante’s writing, and the reception of his work by late...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: < P> Demosthenes' political power stretched over thirty years. Successive generations have judged him the statesman < i> par excellence< /i> , and his oratory as some of the finest t...
Author: Theocritus Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Under Ptolemy II Philadelphus, who ruled Egypt in the middle of the third century B.C.E., Alexandria became the brilliant multicultural capital of the Greek world. Theocritus's poem in praise of Phila...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: With contributions from leading scholars, this is a unique cross-cultural comparison of historical epics across a wide range of cultures and time periods, which presents crucial insights into how hist...
Author: Anderson, Graham Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The first modern study of the ancient fairytale, it bridges a major gap between the study of the ancient world and the wider world of oral culture, and will be of immense value and interest to student...
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