Language & Literature
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Why Homer Matters [Hardback]
Adam Nicholson (Author)
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ISBN: 9781627791793
Published by : Henry Holt
Where does Homer come from? And why does Homer matter? His epic poems of war and suffering can still speak to us of the role of destiny in life, of cruelty, of humanity and its frailty, but why they do is a mystery. How can we be so intimate with ... .... Learn More -
Homer on the Gods and Human Virtue [Hardback]
Peter J. Ahrensdorf (Author)
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ISBN: 9780521193887
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This book seeks to restore Homer to his rightful place among the principal figures in the history of political and moral philosophy. Through this fresh and provocative analysis of the Iliad and the Odyssey, Peter J. Ahrensdorf examines Homer's und... .... Learn More -
KE-RA-ME-JA [Hardback]
Dimitri Nakassis (Editor); Joann Gulizio (Editor); Sarah A. James (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781931534765
Published by : INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
Series: Prehistory Monographs
Volume: 46
The title of this volume, ke-ra-me-ja in Linear B, was chosen because it means “potter” (Κεράμεια, from Greek κέραμος, “potter’s clay”) and combines two major strands of Cynthia Shelmerdine’s scholarship: Mycenaean ceramics and Linear B texts. It... .... Learn More -
Dictionary of Classical Mythology [Paperback]
Jennifer R. March (Author)
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ISBN: 9781782976356
Published by : Oxbow Books
Jenny March’s acclaimed Dictionary of Classical Mythology, first published in 1998 but long out of print, has been extensively revised and expanded including a completely new set of beautiful line-drawing illustrations for this Ox... .... Learn More -
Cult, Myth, and Occasion in Pindar’s Victory Odes [Hardback]
Eveline Krummen (Author); J. G. Howie (Translator)
£75.00ISBN: 9780905205564
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
Volume: 52
In this pioneering study, first published in German as Pyrsos Hymnon. Festliche Gegenwart und mythisch-rituelle Tradition als Voraussetzung einer Pindarinterpretation (Isthmie 4, Pythie 5, Olympie 1 und 3) (1990), Eveline Krummen examines the rela... .... Learn More -
Sophocles’ Jebb [Hardback]
Chris Stray (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780956838131
Published by : Cambridge Philological Society
Series: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Volume
Volume: 38
Sir Richard Jebb (1841–1905) was the most celebrated classical scholar in late Victorian Britain: his edition of Sophocles, which remains a classic, brought him a knighthood. Professor of Greek at Cambridge from 1889, and MP for the University fro... .... Learn More -
At the Limits of Art: A Literary Study of Aelius Aristides' Hieroi Logoi [Hardback]
Janet Downie (Author)
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ISBN: 9780199924875
Published by : Oxford University Press
Aelius Aristides' Hieroi Logoi present a unique first-person narrative from the ancient world-a narrative that seems at once public and private, artful and naive. While scholars have embraced the Logoi as a rich source for Imperial-era religion, p... .... Learn More -
From Polypragmon to Curiosus: Ancient Concepts of Curious and Meddlesome Behaviour [Hardback]
Matthew Leigh (Author)
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ISBN: 9780199668618
Published by : Oxford University Press
From Polypragmon to Curiosus is a study of how Greek and Latin writers describe curious, meddlesome, and exaggerated behaviour. Founded on a detailed investigation of a family of Greek terms, often treated as synonymous with each other, and of the... .... Learn More -
Menander: Eleven Plays [Paperback]
Colin Austin (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780956838124
Published by : Cambridge Philological Society
Series: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Volume
Volume: 37
Colin Austin, Professor of Greek at Cambridge University 1998–2008, was one of the world’s foremost experts in the reconstruction and interpretation of Greek comedy. When he died in August 2010, he was working towards a new edition of Menander for... .... Learn More -
Relative Chronology in Early Greek Epic Poetry [Hardback]
Oivind Andersen (Author)
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ISBN: 9780521194976
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This book sets out to disentangle the complex chronology of early Greek epic poetry, which includes Homer, Hesiod, hymns and catalogues. The preserved corpus of these texts is characterized by a rather uniform language and many recurring themes... .... Learn More
