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  • The Drunken Duchess of Vassar

    Grace Harriet Macurdy, Pioneering Feminist Classical Scholar

    par Barbara McManus ...
    In this biography, Barbara McManus recovers the intriguing life story of Grace Harriet Macurdy (1866–1946), Professor of Greek at Vassar College and the first woman classicist to focus her scholarship on the lives of ancient Greco-Roman women. Fondly known as “the Drunken Duchess,” although she never drank alcohol, Macurdy came from a poor family with no social, economic, or educational advantages ... En savoir plus

    $48.79 CAD

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  • The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science

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    par Thomas Troward ...
    The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science are required reading for anyone wishing to understand and control the power of the mind. Without these lectures the New Thought Movement and The Science of Mind might never have been born. Thomas Troward was an early New Thought writer who had an immense impact on those who would follow. Ernest Holmes, Frederick Bailes, Joseph Murphy, and Emmett Fox cited ... En savoir plus

    $3.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Christopher Marlowe in Context

    Modifié par Emily C. Bartels, Emma Smith ...
    Collections series Literature in Context
    A contemporary of William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe was one of the most influential early modern dramatists, whose life and mysterious death have long been the subject of critical and popular speculation. This collection sets Marlowe's plays and poems in their historical context, exploring his world and his wider cultural influence. Chapters by leading international scholars ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Trojan War

    Literature and Legends from the Bronze Age to the Present, 2d ed.

    par Diane P. Thompson ...
    The Trojan War occurred more than 3,000 years ago. Since then, starting with Homer's epics, people have been writing, painting, sculpting and creating music about this event and its participants. This book starts with an overview of the Bronze Age when the Trojan War occurred, and then follows a selection of the major literature about this war from Homer down through the ages and on to the ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Chapters on Jewish Literature

    par Israel Abrahams ...
    Chapters on Jewish Literature is a survey of the period from the fall of Jerusalem in ad 70 to the death of the Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. After teaching for several years at Jews' College, London, Abrahams was appointed reader in Talmudics (rabbinic literature) at the University of Cambridge, a post he retained until his death. Although of strict Orthodox upbringing, Abrahams was among ... En savoir plus

    $4.11 CAD

  • The Complete Euripides

    Volume II: Iphigenia in Tauris and Other Plays

    Modifié par Peter Burian, Alan Shapiro ...
    Collections series Greek Tragedy in New Translations
    Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. The tragedies collected here were originally available as single ... En savoir plus

    $13.59 CAD

  • Selected Letters

    par Cicero ...
    Traduit par P. G. Walsh ...
    Collections series Oxford World's Classics
    'How I wish that you had invited me to that most attractive feast on the Ides of March!' Cicero lived through some of the most turbulent years in the history of Rome, and witnessed at first-hand the overthrow of the republic and its replacement by a tyranny. His letters to friends and family are an astonishingly detailed record of daily life and politics in Rome. This selection, covering the years ... En savoir plus

    $9.89 CAD

  • Roman Religion: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    par Elaine Fantham, Emily Fairey ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • Simile and Identity in Ovid's Metamorphoses

    par Marie Louise von Glinski ...
    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 unresolved identity - in the transition between human, animal and divine identity, as well as in the poem's textual ambivalence between genres and the negotiation of fiction and reality. In conjuring up ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • God of Many Names

    Play, Poetry and Power in Hellenic Thought, From Homer to Aristotle

    par Mihai I. Spariosu ...
    Tracing the interrelationship among play, poetic imitation, and power to the Hellenic world, Mihai I. Spariosu provides a revisionist model of cultural change in Greek antiquity. Challenging the traditional and static distinction made between archaic and later Greek culture, Spariosu’s perspective is grounded in a dialectical understanding of values whose dominance depends on cultural emphasis and ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • Modern Honor

    A Philosophical Defense

    par Anthony Cunningham ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory
    This book examines the notion of honor with an eye to dissecting its intellectual demise and with the aim of making a case for honor’s rehabilitation. Western intellectuals acknowledge honor’s influence, but they lament its authority. For Western democratic societies to embrace honor, it must be compatible with social ideals like liberty, equality, and fraternity. Cunningham details a conception ... En savoir plus

    $101.68 CAD

  • The Poetics of Aristotle

    Epps has attempted to provide a translation of the Poetics to which all students could have access and thus gain a common terminology for this work. He has endeavored to make it clear enough that the average student with reasonable effort can understand the work without consulting aids. ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD