Language & Literature
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Some Organic Readings in Narrative, Ancient and Modern [Hardback]
Ian Repath(Editor); Fritz-Gregor Herrmann(Editor)
$110.00ISBN: 9789492444943
Published by : Barkhuis
Series: Ancient Narrative Supplements
Volume: 27
This volume in honor of John Morgan contains seventeen essays by colleagues, research students, and post-doctoral researchers who have worked with and been influenced by him during his 40 years in Swansea, up to and beyond his retirement in 2015. ... .... Learn More -
Literary Currents and Romantic Forms: Essays in Memory of Bryan Reardon [Hardback]
Kathryn Chew(Editor); J.R. Morgan(Editor); Stephen M. Trzaskoma()
$110.00ISBN: 9789492444875
Published by : Barkhuis
Series: Ancient Narrative Supplements
Volume: 26
Bryan Reardon (1928-2009) was one of the most important and influential figures in the revival of scholarly interest in the Greek novel and ancient fiction in the last quarter of the twentieth century. His organisation of the first... .... Learn More -
Re-Wiring The Ancient Novel, 2 Volume set: Volume 1: Greek Novels, Volume 2: Roman Novels and Other Important Texts [Hardback]
Edmund Cueva(Editor); Stephen Harrison(Editor); Hugh Mason(Editor); William Owens(Editor); Saundra Schwartz(Editor)
$220.00ISBN: 9789492444561
Published by : Barkhuis
Series: Ancient Narrative Supplements
Volume: 24
The Fifth International Conference on the Ancient Novel, which was held in Houston, Texas, in the fall of 2015, brought together scholars and students of the ancient novel from all over the world in order to share new and significa... .... Learn More -
A Bestiary of Monsters in Greek Mythology [Paperback]
Spyros Syropoulos(Author)
$35.00ISBN: 9781784919504
Published by : Archaeopress Archaeology
Greek myths abound in images of beauty and perfection: charming gods, attractive goddesses, and handsome heroes, all of them standards of physical and spiritual flawlessness. However, the ancient Greeks were not fond of absolutes. No god or hero i... .... Learn More -
El Sur de la Península Ibérica y el Mediterráneo Occidental: relaciones culturales en la segunda mitad del II milenio a.C. [Paperback]
Juan Manuel Garrido Anguita(Author)
$130.00ISBN: 9781784916442
Published by : Archaeopress Access Archaeology
In ancient times, the first communities, societies and civilizations in the Iberian peninsula, according to archaeological evidence, began to develop following a progressive local evolution tempered by the significance of outside c... .... Learn More -
Xenophon’s Ephesiaca: A Paraliterary Love-Story from the Ancient World [Hardback]
Aldo Tagliabue(Author)
$110.00ISBN: 9789492444127
Published by : Barkhuis
Series: Ancient Narrative Supplements
Volume: 22
After many decades of neglect, the last forty years have seen a renewed scholarly appreciation of the literary value of the Greek novel. Within this renaissance of interest, four monographs have been published to date which focus ... .... Learn More -
Understanding Relations Between Scripts: The Aegean Writing Systems [Paperback]
Philippa Steele(Editor)
$55.00ISBN: 9781785706448
Published by : Oxbow Books
Understanding Relations Between Scripts examines the writing systems of the ancient Aegean and Cyprus in the second and first millennia BC, principally Cretan ‘Hieroglyphic’, Linear A, Linear B, Cypro-Minoan and the Cy... .... Learn More -
Gestures: Essays in Ancient History, Literature, and Philosophy presented to Alan L Boegehold [Paperback]
Geoffrey W. Bakewell(Author); James P. Sickinger(Author)
$49.99ISBN: 9781785707834
Published by : Oxbow Books
These thirty essays were presented to Alan L Boegehold, a distinguished philologist and an inspirational teacher, on the occasion of his retirement and his seventy-fifth birthday. The contributions fall into two categories, each o... .... Learn More -
Archaeology and the Homeric Epic [Paperback]
Susan Sherratt(Editor); John Bennet(Editor)
$49.99ISBN: 9781785702952
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology
The relationship between the Homeric epics and archaeology has long suffered mixed fortunes, swinging between 'fundamentalist' attempts to use archaeology in order to demonstrate the essential historicity of the epics and their ba... .... Learn More -
Ancient Historiography on War and Empire [Hardback]
Timothy Howe(Editor); Sabine Müller(Editor); Richard Stoneman(Editor)
Regular Price: $75.00
Special Price: $29.98
ISBN: 9781785702990
Published by : Oxbow Books
In the ancient Greek-speaking world, writing about the past meant balancing the reporting of facts with shaping and guiding the political interests and behaviours of the present. Ancient Historiography on War and Empire shows the ... .... Learn More
