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  • Ovid

    A Poet on the Margins

    par Laurel Fulkerson ...
    Collections series Classical World
    The Latin poet Ovid was famously exiled by the Emperor Augustus to the shores of the Black Sea for his self-confessed crimes of 'a poem and a mistake'. Throughout his poetry, he discusses his exile and embraces the themes of marginality and alterity.This core motif is explored throughout this overview of Ovid's life, the society he lived in and his innovative, perennially popular body of work. ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD

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  • The Nibelungenlied: The Lay of the Nibelungs

    The Lay of the Nibelungs

    Collections series Oxford World's Classics
    'In ancient tales many marvels are told us ... now you may hear such marvels told!' The greatest of the heroic epics to emerge from medieval Germany, the Nibelungenlied is a revenge saga of sweeping dimensions. It tells of the dragon-slayer Sivrit, and the mysterious kingdom of the Nibelungs with its priceless treasure-hoard guarded by dwarves and giants, of Pr�nhilt the Amazonian queen, fortune ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • Dante

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Peter Hainsworth, David Robey ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey take a different approach to Dante, by examining the main themes and issues that run through all of his work, ranging from autobiography, to understanding God and the order of the universe. In doing so, they highlight what has made Dante a vital point of reference for modern writers and readers, both inside and outside Italy. They ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

    A Reader's Guide

    par Dr Genevieve Liveley ...
    Collections series Reader's Guides
    Perhaps no other classical text has proved its versatility so much as Ovid's epic poem. A staple of undergraduate courses in Classical Studies, Latin, English and Comparative Literature, Metamorphoses is arguably one of the most important, canonical Latin texts and certainly among the most widely read and studied.Ovid's 'Metamorphoses': A Reader's Guide is the ideal companion to this epic ... En savoir plus

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Primacy of Vision in Virgil's Aeneid

    par Riggs Alden Smith ...
    One of the masterpieces of Latin and, indeed, world literature, Virgil's Aeneid was written during the Augustan "renaissance" of architecture, art, and literature that redefined the Roman world in the early years of the empire. This period was marked by a transition from the use of rhetoric as a means of public persuasion to the use of images to display imperial power. Taking a fresh approach to ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Historians

    Modifié par Andrew Feldherr ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    No field of Latin literature has been more transformed over the last couple of decades than that of the Roman historians. Narratology, a new receptiveness to intertextuality, and a re-thinking of the relationship between literature and its political contexts have ensured that the works of historians such as Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus will be read as texts with the same interest and sophistication ... En savoir plus

    $46.99 CAD

  • Ancient Chinese Emperors and How They Ruled-Children's Ancient History Books

    par Baby Professor ...
    History textbooks really do look and sound boring. This ancient history book is not one of them. Featuring the ancient Chinese Emperors and how they ruled, this book aims to present the stories in the most interesting way possible to keep your kids’ enthusiasm. Check it out here and buy your own copy. ... En savoir plus

    $4.99 CAD

  • Landscape and the Spaces of Metaphor in Ancient Literary Theory and Criticism

    par Nancy Worman ...
    This study explores a previously uncharted area of ancient literary theory and criticism: the ancient landscapes (such as the Ilissus river in Athens and Mount Helicon) that generate metaphors for distinguishing styles, which dovetail with ancient conceptions of metaphor as itself spatial and mobile. Ancient writers most often coordinate stylistic features with country settings, where ... En savoir plus

    $48.99 CAD

  • The Composition of the Gospel of Thomas

    Original Language and Influences

    par Simon Gathercole ...
    Collections Livre 151 - Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series
    This book addresses two central questions in current research on the Gospel of Thomas: what was its original language and which early Christian works influenced it? At present, theories of Thomas as a Semitic work abound. Simon Gathercole dismantles these approaches, arguing instead that Thomas is Greek literature and that the matter of Thomas's original language is connected with an even more ... En savoir plus

    $48.99 CAD

  • Landscapes of Power

    Selected Papers from the XV Oxford University Byzantine Society International Graduate Conference

    Modifié par Maximilian Lau, Caterina Franchi, Morgan Di Rodi ...
    Collections Livre 10 - Byzantine and Neohellenic Studies
    This volume contains selected papers from the XV International Graduate Conference, highlighting the latest scholarship from a new generation of Late Antique and Byzantine scholars from around the world. The theme of the conference explored the interaction between power and the natural and human environments of Byzantium, an interaction that is an essential part of the empire’s legacy. This legacy ... En savoir plus

    $111.99 CAD

  • Producing Women's Poetry, 1600–1730

    Text and Paratext, Manuscript and Print

    par Gillian Wright ...
    Producing Women's Poetry is the first specialist study to consider English-language poetry by women across the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Gillian Wright explores not only the forms and topics favoured by women, but also how their verse was enabled and shaped by their textual and biographical circumstances. She combines traditional literary and bibliographical approaches to address ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • Reading Republican Oratory

    Reconstructions, Contexts, Receptions

    Modifié par Christa Gray, Andrea Balbo, Richard M. A. Marshall, Catherine E. W. Steel ...
    Public speech was a key aspect of politics in Republican Rome, both in theory and in practice, and recent decades have seen a surge in scholarly discussion of its significance and performance. Yet the partial nature of the surviving evidence means that our understanding of its workings is dominated by one man, whose texts are the only examples to have survived in complete form since antiquity: ... En savoir plus

    $123.19 CAD