Language & Literature
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Asclepiades of Samos: Epigrams and Fragments [Hardback]
Alexander Sens (Author)
£90.00ISBN: 9780199253197
Published by : Oxford University Press
This is the first commentary in English devoted exclusively to the surviving epigrams and fragments of Asclepiades of Samos, a Hellenistic poet who exerted great influence on the work of his contemporaries and helped shape the genre of literary... .... Learn More -
Challenges to the Power of Zeus in Early Greek Poetry [Hardback]
N. Yasumura (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 9780715636787
Published by : Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd.
In the earliest extant works of Greek literature, Zeus reigns supreme in the Olympian hierarchy. However, scattered and scanty though they may be, there are allusions to threats of rebellion which challenge Zeus' supremacy. This book examines t... .... Learn More -
Eve of the Festival: Making Myth in Odyssey 19 [Paperback]
Olga Levaniouk (Author)
£14.95ISBN: 9780674053359
Published by : Harvard University Press
Eve of the Festival is a study of Homeric myth-making in the first and longest dialogue of Penelope and Odysseus (Odyssey 19). At the core of the book is a detailed examination of several myths in the dialogue in an attempt to understand what i... .... Learn More -
Homer's Odyssey and the Near East [Hardback]
Bruce Louden (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9780521768207
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This groundbreaking book examines the parallels between the Odyssey and the Old Testament. Louden considers how certain type-scenes, especially non-heroic episodes, occur in similar form in both texts, and the possibility of mutual influence be... .... Learn More -
Philodemus On Poems, Books 3-4 [Hardback]
Richard Janko (Author)
£100.00ISBN: 9780199572076
Published by : Oxford University Press
The discovery and excavation (still ongoing today) of the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum have brought to light a number of ancient works that were previously thought not to have survived. Amongst the carbonised scrolls found in the Villa's ... .... Learn More -
Classical Literature: An Introduction [Hardback]
N T Croally (Author);Roy Hyde (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9780415468121
Published by : Routledge Ltd
This collection of introductory essays is notable in that all the contributors are retired or practising teachers of Classics in schools. Unsurprisingly, then, it is aimed at A Level students and teachers, but will also be useful to undergradua... .... Learn More -
Classical Literature: An Introduction [Paperback]
N T Croally (Author);Roy Hyde (Author)
£22.99ISBN: 9780415468138
Published by : Routledge Ltd
This collection of introductory essays is notable in that all the contributors are retired or practising teachers of Classics in schools. Unsurprisingly, then, it is aimed at A Level students and teachers, but will also be useful to undergradua... .... Learn More -
Aesopic Conversations: Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue and the Invention of Greek Prose [Hardback]
Leslie Kurke (Author)
£52.00ISBN: 9780691144573
Published by : Princeton University Press
What has survived from the literary record of antiquity is almost entirely the product of an elite of birth, wealth, and education, limiting our access to a fuller range of voices from the ancient past. This book, however, explores the anonymou... .... Learn More -
Aesopic Conversations: Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue and the Invention of Greek Prose [Paperback]
Leslie Kurke (Author)
£20.95ISBN: 9780691144580
Published by : Princeton University Press
What has survived from the literary record of antiquity is almost entirely the product of an elite of birth, wealth, and education, limiting our access to a fuller range of voices from the ancient past. This book, however, explores the anonymou... .... Learn More -
Athenaeus: The Learned Banqueters Vol VII. Book 14.653b-15 [Hardback]
S Douglas Olson (Author);Athenaeus of Naucratis (Author)
£15.95ISBN: 9780674996731
Published by : Harvard University Press
Series: Loeb
Volume: L345
In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the second century CE) is amusing reading and of extraordinary value... .... Learn More