Language & Literature
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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 Oxbow edition. It i... .... 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 -
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 -
Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound [Paperback]
Ian Ruffell (Author)
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ISBN: 9780715634769
Published by : Bristol Classical Press
Prometheus Bound is a play beloved of revolutionaries, romantics and rebels, with a fierce optimism tempered by an acute awareness of the compromises, dangers and obsessions of political action. This companion sets the play in its historical conte... .... Learn More -
Exemplum and Myth, Criticism and Creation [Hardback]
J. G. Howie (Author)
£80.00ISBN: 9780905205540
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
Volume: 3
J. Gordon Howie's seminal papers on Homer, Hesiod, Sappho, Pindar, Euripides, Thucydides, and Xenophon document the vitality and influence of cultural and intellectual patterns first visible in early Greek epic and lyric, and reveal the impact ... .... Learn More -
A Transportation Archive from Fourth-Century Oxyrhynchus (P. Mich. XX) [Hardback]
K. A. Worp (Author); P. J. Sijpesteijn (Editor); Klaas A. Worp (Editor); T. Gagos (Editor); Arthur Verhoogt (Editor)
£30.00ISBN: 9780979975837
Published by : American Society of Papyrologists
Series: AMERICAN STUDIES IN PAPYROLOGY
Volume: 49
This volume publishes 27 Greek papyri concerned with the transport of grain from Oxyrhynchus to Alexandria and Pelusium. Each text is presented with introduction, Greek text, English translation and explanatory notes. In the general introduction,... .... Learn More -
Arion's Lyre: Archaic Lyric into Hellenistic Poetry [Hardback]
Benjamin Acosta-Hughes (Author)
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ISBN: 9780691095257
Published by : Princeton University Press
This study examines how Hellenistic poetic culture adapted, reinterpreted, and transformed Archaic Greek lyric through a complex process of textual, cultural, and creative reception. Looking at the ways in which the poetry of Sappho, Alcaeus, ... .... Learn More -
Pindar [Paperback]
Anne Pippin Burnett (Author)
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ISBN: 9780801895753
Published by : Johns Hopkins University Press
As a companion volume to her recent accessible study of Pindar's poetry, Anne Pippin Burnett here provides a new translation of the Victory Odes themselves. Brief introductions to each poem explain matters of context and mythological symbolism... .... Learn More -
JJP Supplement 14 (2010) Journal of Juristic Papyrology: A Land List from the Panopolite Nome in Upper Egypt (after AD 21 3/4) [Hardback]
Tomasz Derda (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9788392591931
Published by : Journal of Juristic Papyrology
Series: JJP Supplements
Volume: 14
In its collection, Bibliotheca Bodmeriana possesses a papyrus, whose verso contains Books V and VI of the Iliad (published by Victor Martin, Papyrus Bodmer I. Homère, Iliade chants 5 et 6 , Cologny - Genève 1954). The document published in the... .... Learn More
