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Cervantes: Exemplary Novels 2
edited with an introduction, translation and notes by B. W. Ilf~
The English Spanish Girl is a story of how a Spanish girl, Isabel, is kidnapped by an English naval captin on a raid on Cadiz in the late sixteenth century. She is bought up in England as a Catholic and the Captain's son falls in love with her. When Queen Elizabeth I is notified of the proposed marriave, she sends the young man to sea to win his spurs and deserve the hand of lovely Isabel. Successes and disaster follow including a victorious ...
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Cervantes: Exemplary Novels, Vol 1
Edited and translated by Lynn Williams and others
The Little Gypsy Girl has always enjoyed enormous populatiry. Its success derives mainly from the charm of its protagonist, Peciosa. The novel is not only a romance tale in a touch gypsy atmosphere; it can also be seen as a study of feminine decision and independence in Preciosa, and of gradual maturing of the attitude of Juan/Andres towards her. The Generous Lover is a complex story which draws on Cervantes's experiences in captivity. ...
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The Experience of Thucydides
by D Proctor.
Translated extracts from various works by Thucydides including 'Thucydides' Life', 'The Funeral Oration' and 'Alcibiades and Pericles'. This book is intended for the general reader without any special knowledge of the subject. Proctor has provided a helpful Summary of Dates and ages at which Thucydides wrote each work. This book attempts to evoke the personality and the experience which emerge from the pages of Thuycides History. 272p (Aris ...
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Symposium and Komos in Aristophanes, second edition
by Babette Pütz
Feasting, wine, revellers and dancing girls; the modern image of ancient Greek symposia is an enduring one. Many symposia were more formal affairs; drinking-parties after which a komos, or procession of revellers often took place, with much protocol involved. Many accounts survive in ancient literature, as well as depictions on vase paintings. There has been a considerable amount of modern research on the symposium, especially on its ...
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The Book of Alexander (Libro de Alexandre)
edited and translated with an introduction and notes by Peter Such and Richard Rabone
The Libro de Alexandre is an epic poem about the life of Alexander the Great, written by an anonymous Spanish cleric in the thirteenth century. It is the most substantial poem (and almost certainly the first) composed in the learned cuaderna vía verse form and provides a unique insight into the intellectual world from which it sprang. The poem conveys the grim message of Alexander's life, the sense of hubris and the horror of ...
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The 'Old Oligarch': The Constitution of the Athenians Attributed to Xenophon~
edited, with an introduction, translation and commentary by J L Marr and P J Rhodes
'Old Oligarch' is a label often applied to the unknown author of the Athenian Constitution preserved with the works of Xenophon. Probably written in the mid 420s B.C., it is the earliest surviving Athenian prose text, and its author was probably a young pupil of the teachers known as sophists. It is an essay which replies to oligarchic criticisms of the Athenian democracy by agreeing with the critics that democracy is distasteful but ...
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Thucydides: History, Book II
edited with an introduction, translation and commentary by P. J. Rhodes~
Most editions of single books of Thucydides are nearly 100 years old, and concentrate heavily on textual and linguistic matters. This new edition of Book II, the book in which Thucydides' main narrative of the Peloponnesian war begins, contains an introduction, a Greek text, an English translation, and a commentary which should be useful not only to specialists but also to readers who know little or no Greek. Matters of texts and language are ...
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Thucydides: History, Book III
edited with an introcution, translation and commentary by P.J. Rhodes
Professor Rhodes continues his edition of Thucydides' books on the Archidamian War with his edition of Book III, providing an Introduction (on Thucydides' history and on the Peloponnesian War), Greek text with selective critical apparatus and facing translation, and a commentary which should be useful not only to specialists but also to readers who know little or no Greek, and which assumes no previous acquaintance with Thucydides. Matters of ...
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Thucydidies: History IV.1-V.24
edited with an introduction, translation and commentary by P.J. Rhodes
Following on from his first two books, Rhodes completes his edition of Thucydides' books on the Archidamian War, providing an Introduction Thucydides' history and on the Peloponnesian War, Greek text with selective critical apparatus and facing translation, and a commentary which should be useful both to specialists and to readers with little or no Greek, and which assumes no previous acquaintance with Thucydides. Matters of text and language are ...
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Cassius Dio: Roman History 53.1 - 55.9
edited with translation and commentary by J W Rich
Covers the years 28 to 5 BC; includes Dio's discussion of the constitutional settlement of 27 BC and the imperial system it inaugurated. 260p (Aris and Phillips 1990)
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