Ancient Classical category: 1324 books
by Kenneth J. Reckford
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
Recognizing Persius is a passionate and in-depth exploration of the libellus--or little book--of six Latin satires left by the Roman satirical writer Persius when he died in AD 62 at the age of twenty-seven. In this comprehensive and reflectively personal book, Kenneth Reckford fleshes out the primary...
by Katharina Volk
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
This book provides a unique and accessible introduction to the complete works of Ovid. Using a thematic approach, Volk lays out what we know about Ovid's life, presents the author's works within their poetic genres, and discusses central Ovidian themes.
The first general introduction to Ovid...
by R. Alden Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Virgil offers undergraduates, graduate students and general readers a comprehensive and carefully balanced introduction to the works and literary reception of Virgil.
Offers a fresh, comprehensive introduction to Virgil in translation
Explores the historical context in which Virgil wrote and...
Producing Women's Poetry, 1600–1730
Text and Paratext, Manuscript and Print
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
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...
Textual Events
Performance and the Lyric in Early Greece
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Recent decades have seen a major expansion in our understanding of how early Greek lyric functioned in its social, political, and ritual contexts, and the fundamental role song played in the day-to-day lives of communities, groups, and individuals has been the object of intense study. This volume...
Power Play
The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The game of chess reached western Europe by the year 1000, and within several generations it had become one of the most popular pastimes ever. Both men and women, and even priests played the game despite the Catholic Church's repeated prohibitions. Characters in countless romances, chansons de geste,...
Metaphysics
Selected Problems of Metaphysics and Ontology
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The presented text offers a basic overview of the terms and topics of the very wide philosophical discipline called metaphysics. The text includes, besides an overview of individual problems, reflections to consider and recommended literature. Readers will become familiar with the basic terms (metaphysics,...
by Tao Yuan Ming
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
This ebook "Tao Hua Yuan Ji" is including English translation and the Chinese original.
The Peach Blossom Land was a fable by Tao Yuanming in 421 about a chance discovery of an ethereal utopia where the people lead an ideal existence in harmony with nature, unaware of the outside...
Playing Gods
Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Politics of Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
This book offers a novel interpretation of politics and identity in Ovid's epic poem of transformations, the Metamorphoses. Reexamining the emphatically fictional character of the poem, Playing Gods argues that Ovid uses the problem of fiction in the text to redefine the power of poetry in Augustan...
Italian Children’s Literature and National Identity
Childhood, Melancholy, Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
This book bridges the fields of Children’s Literature and Italian Studies by examining how turn-of-the-century children’s books forged a unified national identity for the new Italian State. Through contextualized close readings of a wide range of texts, Truglio shows how the 19th-century concept...
The Roman Poetry of Love
Elegy and Politics in a Time of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
The Roman Poetry of Love explores the formation of a key literary genre in a troubled historical and political setting. The short-lived genre of Latin love elegy produced spectacular, multi-faceted and often difficult poetry. Its proponents Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid remain to this day...
Casanova, Stendhal, Tolstoy: Adepts in Self-Portraiture
Volume 3, Master Builders of the Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Casanova, Stendhal, Tolstoy: Adepts in Self-Portraiture, the final volume of Stefan Zweig's masterful Master Builders of the Spirit trilogy, discloses the smaller version of a writer's own ego. Unconscious though it is, no reality is as important to the writer as the reality of their own life. Giacomo...
by Gary Scharnhorst
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Westerns are rarely only about the West. From the works of James Fenimore Cooper to Gary Cooper, stories set in the American West have served as vehicles for topical commentary. More than any other pioneer of the genre, Owen Wister turned the Western into a form of social and political critique, touching...
Awake the Courteous Echo
The Themes Prosody of Comus, Lycidas, and Paradise Regained in World Literature with Translations of the Major Analogues
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
This Miltonic reference works is the third and final volume in a trilogy dealing with Miltonic analogues. It complements the author's previous compendia of analogues, The Celestial Cycle (on Paradise Lost) and That Invincible Samson (on Samson Agonistes).
Thirty-seven years of research in the...