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Sophocles: Electra
March, Jennifer R.
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Plutarch: Themistocles
by J. L. Marr
The commentary in this edition of one of Plutarchs Lives concentrates on the historical aspects of the work and includes much detailed comparison of Plutarch's narrative with those of other sources such as Herodotos, Thucydides, Diodorus and Cornelius Nepos. Greek text with facing translation. 176p (Aris and Phillips 1998)
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Egyptian Administrative & Private Name Seals
Martin, Geoffrey T.
Including many seals published here for the first time, this catalogue is as near as possible a complete catalogue of Egyptian seals, mostly of the Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period, as known in 1971. The seals fall into two main divisions: ...
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Tacitus: Annals V and VI~
edited with an introduction, translation and commentary by Ronald Martin~
Books V and VI of Tacitus' Annals, when complete, carried the narrative of Tiberius' reign from A.D. 29 to 37. Unfortunately most of Book V has been lost, but Annals VI, which resumes the narrative 2 weeks after the execution of Sejanus, contains a fascinating variety of incidents. Whereas Suetonius talks of an elderly emperor who discarded all interest in public affairs from the time he retired to Capri, Tacitus portrays a ...
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Lucan: Civil War VIII
edited with an introduction, translation and commentary by R. Mayer
In his De Bello Civili Lucan tells the story of the civil war between Caesar and Pompey, dealing in Book VIII with the defeat and death of the latter. This edition provides a literary commentary to accompany the Latin text and the revised translation of J.D.Daff. The introduction covers the life of Lucan and the literary revival of Nero's time, the meaning of Lucan's choice of theme, a sketch of the form of the whole poem and the ...
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The Unis Cemetery at Saqqara Volume 1: The Tomb of Irukapta
Mcfarlane, A.
Often referred to as the `Butcher's Tomb' the decorated tomb of Irukapta in the Unis Cemetery at Saqqara, has been fully recorded for publication. A well-preserved example of Old Kingdom rock architecture, it retains much of its painted decoration. An ...
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Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano: Commander Mendoza
Translated by Robert Fedorchek, with an Introduction by Susan McKenna
Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano (1824-1905), one of nineteenth-century Spain's most respected authors, lived an international life-a career in the diplomatic service, with postings to more than a half dozen countries in Europe and the Americas. Cosmopolitan, cultured, and urbane, Valera was fluent in a number of languages and read widely in all of them. A serious student of his own and foreign literatures, he wrote novels, short stories, ...
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Lucian: A Selection
by M. B. McLeod.
Lucian lived in the second century AD and though his mother tongue was probably Aramaic he was famous for his witty satire and polished Greek. The aim of this selection is to produce a representative coverage of some of Lucians best work, particularly those pieces not available in recent editions or translations. Five of the nine works offered are examples of the comic, satiric dialogue as that was Lucians forte, but also included to illustrate ...
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Christians & Moors in Spain. Vol 3: Arab sources
edited and translated by Charles Melville and Ahmad Ubaydli
The last two volumes in this series have looked at the confrontation between Christian and Moor in Medieval Spain exclusively from the Christian side.This book attemps to redress the balance by looking at many of the same incidents from the Moslem point of view. Apart from military encounters, some attention is paid to diplomacy, and also to lawsuits, legal judgements and regulations governing the co-existance of the rival communities. The 112 ...
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Lorca: Yerma
Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Ian R. Macpherson and Jacqueline Minett with a General Introduction by John E. Lyon
One of Lorca's best known plays tells the story of a young peasant wife in rural Spain whose sole conscious desire is to embody what she regards as the natural, moral and social laws governing her life as a woman in motherhood. The tragedy of Yerma, which literally means 'barren', in this powerful and emotive drama, is that she remains childless and so is denied the dignity and the emotional fulfilment which traditionally only the role of mother ...
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