Ancient Classical category: 1324 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
The Middle English popular romances enjoyed a wide appeal in later medieval Britain, and even today students of medieval literature will encounter examples of the genre, such as Sir Orfeo, Sir Tristrem, and Sir Launfal. This collection of twelve specially commissioned essays is designed to meet the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
When Planetomachia was published in 1585, Greene himself-always the best advertiser of his own books-promised his readers a perfectly balanced diet of edification and entertainment. He described his newest offering as an astronomical discourse on the nature and influence of the planets interlaced...
The Monstrous World
Corporeal Discourses in Phlegon of Tralles «Mirabilia»
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Revenants, oracular heads, hermaphrodites, sex-changers, human-animal children, multiple pregnancies, births, body features … This is just a sample of subjects that Phlegon of Tralles explored in the 2nd century AD in his "Mirabilia". This study identifies the common motifs of Phlegon’s...
Lucian and His Roman Voices
Cultural Exchanges and Conflicts in the Late Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Lucian and His Roman Voices examines cultural exchanges, political propaganda, and religious conflicts in the Early Roman Empire through the eyes of Lucian, his contemporary Roman authors, and Christian Apologists. Offering a multi-faceted analysis of the Lucianic corpus, this book explores how Lucian,...
by Barbara Goff
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Set at the end of the Trojan war, "Euripides' Trojan Women" depicts the women of Troy as they wait to be taken into slavery. While choral songs recall the death-throes of the great city, the scenes between the old queen, Hekabe, and the women of her family explore the consequences of the...
by Rebecca Davis
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Piers Plowman and the Books of Nature explores the relationship of divine creativity, poetry, and ethics in William Langland's fourteenth-century dream vision. These concerns converge in the poem's rich vocabulary of kynde, the familiar Middle English word for nature, broadly construed. But in a remarkable...
Persius
A Study in Food, Philosophy, and the Figural
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
The Roman poet and satirist Persius (34–62 CE) was unique among his peers for lampooning literary and social conventions from a distinctly Stoic point of view. A curious amalgam of mocking wit and philosophy, his Satires are rife with violent metaphors and unpleasant imagery and show little concern...
by Ignacio L. Götz
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
Conceptions of Happiness, Revised Edition presents the thesis that happiness does not mean just one thing but many, and that these many meanings have been studied, described, argued, and practiced throughout the centuries in many climes and places. When asked if one is happy, people answer according...
A Commentary on Demosthenes' Philippic I
With Rhetorical Analyses of Philippics II and III
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2008
Philippic I, delivered between 351 B.C. - 350 B.C., was the first speech by a prominent politician against the growing power of Philip II of Macedon. Along with the other Philippics of Demosthenes', it is arguably one of the finest deliberative speeches from antiquity. The present volume provides...
The Theater of Plautus
Playing to the Audience
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
The relationship between actors and spectators has been of perennial interest to playwrights. The Roman playwright Plautus (ca. 200 BCE) was particularly adept at manipulating this relationship. Plautus allowed his actors to acknowledge freely the illusion in which they were taking part, to elicit...
The Arena of Satire
Juvenal's Search for Rome
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
In this first comprehensive reading of Juvenal’s satires in more than fifty years, David H. J. Larmour deftly revises and sharpens our understanding of the second-century Roman writer who stands as the archetype for all later practitioners of the satirist’s art.
The enduring attraction...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
A Companion to Roman Love Elegy is the first comprehensive work dedicated solely to the study of love elegy. The genre is explored through 33 original essays thatoffer new and innovative approaches to specific elegists and the discipline as a whole.
Contributors represent a range of established...
Relief after Hardship
The Ottoman Turkish Model for The Thousand and One Days
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
The Thousand and One Days, a companion collection to The Thousand and One Nights, was published in 1710–1712 by French Orientalist scholar François Pétis de la Croix who advertised it as the faithful, albeit selective translation of a Persian work. Subsequent research has found that The Thousand...
Crossing Borders
Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Given Christianity's valuation of celibacy and its persistent association of sexuality with the Fall and of women with sin, Western medieval attitudes toward the erotic could not help but be vexed. In contrast, eroticism is explicitly celebrated in a large number of theological, scientific, and literary...