Ancient Classical category: 1324 books
Le texte comme présence
Contribution à lhistoire de la réflexion sur le texte et le livre
Language: French
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Commençant par Homère et finissant avec les héritiers de l’humanisme de la Renaissance au XVIIe siècle, on suit ici les réflexions sur la puissance particulière des mots écrits, donc du texte. Grâce à sa puissance, il rend effectivement présents pour ses lecteurs tous ceux dont il parle,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Best remembered for his unfinished epic, the Aeneid, the poet Vergil was celebrated in his time both for the perfection of his art and for the centrality of his ideas to Roman culture. The Eclogues, his earliest confirmed work, were composed in part out of political considerations: when the Roman...
Hrafnkel or the Ambiguities
Hard Cases, Hard Choices
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
William Ian Miller presents a close reading of one of the best known of the Icelandic sagas, showing its moral, political, and psychological sophistication. Hrafnkel tells of a fairly simple feud in which a man rises, falls, and rises again with a vengeance, so to speak. The saga deals with complex...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
A Companion to Greek Architecture provides an expansive overview of the topic, including design, engineering, and construction as well as theory, reception, and lasting impact.
Covers both sacred and secular structures and complexes, with particular attention to architectural decoration, such...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The world is on the threshold of a great new industrial revolution, a 1 scientific-industrial revolution. Recombinant DNA technology and hybridoma technology ("monoclonal antibodies") have already pro vided unique investment opportunities for venture capitalists. Hence published reports...
by Anna Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
This is a comprehensive guide to a literary period characterized by great variety and imagination, and vividly alert to the social transformations overtaking society. Spanning almost two centuries, it introduces the reader to a diverse range of authors writing for a fast-developing readership of both...
by Homero
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 18, 2019
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 18, 2019
Unos pocos días antes del último de los diez años que duró el asedio de los saqueos a la ciudad de Troya, proporcionan el marco cronológico a los acontecimientos narrados en la Ilíada, el poema más antiguo de la literatura occidental. Producto de una larga tradición oral, la epopeya, como...
Clarel by Herman Melville
A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land is an American epic poem
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land is an American epic poem by Herman Melville, published in two volumes in 1876. Clarel is the longest poem in American literature, stretching to almost 18,000 lines (longer even than European classics such as the Iliad, Aeneid and Paradise Lost). As well...
Routledge Revivals: Scheherezade (1953)
Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
First published in 1953, this translation of part of the Arabian Nights by A. J. Arberry offers four famous stories in modern idiom: Aladdin, Judar, Aboukir and Abousir, and the Amorous Goldsmith. The introduction provides a brief analysis of earlier translations of the tales and explains their value...
The Evolution of Tolkien's Mythology
A Study of the History of Middle-earth
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
The History of Middle-earth traces the evolution of J.R.R. Tolkien’s literary world, stories, and characters from their earliest written forms to the final revisions Tolkien penned shortly before his death in 1973. Published posthumously by Tolkien’s son Christopher, the extensively detailed 12-volume...
Romance and History
Imagining Time from the Medieval to the Early Modern Period
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
To what extent can imaginative events be situated in time and history? From the medieval to the early modern period, this question is intriguingly explored in the expansive literary genre of romance. This collective study, edited by Jon Whitman, is the first systematic investigation of that formative...
by Eugene de Faye
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Last year (1925) the Olaus Petri Endowment greatly honoured the author by inviting him to deliver a few lectures on Origen at the University of Upsala. It was agreed that they should be published and we now offer them to the public exactly as they were delievered.
There could be no question...
Propertius, Greek Myth, and Virgil
Rivalry, Allegory, and Polemic
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
This volume offers a strikingly innovative account of Propertius' relationship with Virgil, positing a keen rivalry between two of the greatest poets of Latin literature, contemporaries within the circle of Maecenas. It begins by examining all of the references to Greek mythology in Propertius' first...