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  • An Introduction to Greek Tragedy

    by Ruth Scodel ...
    This book provides an accessible introduction for students and anyone interested in increasing their enjoyment of Greek tragic plays. Whether readers are studying Greek culture, performing a Greek tragedy, or simply interested in reading a Greek play, this book will help them to understand and enjoy this challenging and rewarding genre. An Introduction to Greek Tragedy provides background ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • A Companion to Apollonius of Rhodes

    Edited by Ruth Scodel ...
    This volume presents a companion text to ancient Greek poet Apollonius of Rhodes, author of the epic poem Argonautica, which stands on a level of importance with other major ancient epics like the Aeneid or the Odyssey. Ruth Scodel and her contributors examine Apollonius’ work from three points of view—his literary influences and impact on contemporary writers, the actual work of Apollonius, and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Theater and Society in the Classical World

    Edited by Ruth Scodel ...
    Powerful and evocative, persuasive, frightening, and inspiring—the comedies and tragedies written in classical antiquity are all of these. In recent years the study of ancient drama has become ever more exciting and controversial. The social context of Greek drama especially has drawn attention, and a new understanding of Roman comedy has arisen.Theater and Society in the Classical World draws ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Hesiod: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Ruth Scodel ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Sophocles: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Ruth Scodel ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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    From Plato to the Augustan Poets

    by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Susan A. Stephens ...
    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 images - slender Muse, instructing divinity, small voice, pure waters; the Greek version emphasizes a learned scholar who includes literary criticism within his poetry, an encomiast of the Ptolemies, a ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Cicero

    Edited by Catherine Steel ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Cicero was one of classical antiquity's most prolific, varied and self-revealing authors. His letters, speeches, treatises and poetry chart a political career marked by personal struggle and failure and the collapse of the republican system of government to which he was intellectually and emotionally committed. They were read, studied and imitated throughout antiquity and subsequently became ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Ovid

    Edited by Philip Hardie ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Ovid was one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity, and arguably the single most influential ancient poet for post-classical literature and culture. In this Cambridge Companion, chapters by leading authorities from Europe and North America discuss the backgrounds and contexts for Ovid, the individual works, and his influence on later literature and art. Coverage of essential information ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Kinesis

    The Ancient Depiction of Gesture, Motion, and Emotion

    Edited by Christina Clark, Edith Foster, Judith P. Hallett ...
    Donald Lateiner, in his groundbreaking work The Sardonic Smile, presented the first thorough study of nonverbal behavior in Homeric epics, drawing a significant distinction between ancient and modern gesture and demonstrating the intrinsic relevance of this “silent language” to psychological, social, and anthropological studies of the ancient world.Using Lateiner’s work as a touchstone, the ... Read more

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  • Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea

    Why the Greeks Matter

    by Thomas Cahill ...
    Series series The Hinges of History
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization takes us on a journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago.“A triumph of popularization: extraordinarily knowledgeable, informal in tone, amusing, wide ranging, smartly paced.” —The New York Times Book Review**In the city-states of Athens and Sparta and ... Read more

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  • European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages

    by Ernst Robert Curtius ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and from the Italian peninsula to the British Isles. In what T. S. Eliot called a "magnificent" book, Ernst Robert Curtius establishes medieval Latin ... Read more

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  • The Discarded Image

    An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature

    by C. S. Lewis ...
    In The Discarded Image, C.S. Lewis paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It describes the "image" discarded by later years as "the medieval synthesis itself, the whole organization of their theology, science and history into a single, complex, harmonious mental model of the universe. ... Read more

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