Language & Literature
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Rome, Polybius and the East [Hardback]
Peter Sidney Derow (Author); Andrew Erskine (Editor); Josephine Crawley Quinn (Editor)
Regular Price: £100.00
Special Price: £35.00
ISBN: 9780199640904
Published by : Oxford University Press
Rome, Polybius, and the East offers a collection of seventeen of the more important papers written by the late Peter Derow, Hody Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Wadham College, Oxford, during the course of his career. With a detailed introd... .... Learn More -
Greek Music, Drama, Sport, and Fauna [Hardback]
Calum Maciver (Editor)
£70.00ISBN: 9780905205571
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
Volume: 4
PROFESSOR E. KERR BORTHWICK (1925–2008) studied Classics at Aberdeen University and at Christ’s College Cambridge before being appointed Lecturer, first at the University of Leeds and then, in 1955, at Edinburgh Univer... .... Learn More -
Narrative and Identity in the Ancient Greek World [Paperback]
Tim Whitmarsh (Author)
Regular Price: £21.99
Special Price: £10.00
ISBN: 9781107491021
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This study, by a leading scholar of Greek literature and culture under the Roman empire, considers the Greek romance, those happy-ever-after tales of young love and its tribulations set in an imaginary classicising past. Whitmarsh offers a fresh r... .... Learn More -
Why Homer Matters [Hardback]
Adam Nicholson (Author)
Regular Price: £25.00
Special Price: £7.95
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)
Regular Price: £32.99
Special Price: £15.00
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)
£55.00ISBN: 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)
£29.95ISBN: 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 -
Iphicrates, Peltasts and Lechaeum [Hardback]
Nicholas Sekunda (Editor); Bogdan Burliga (Editor)
£35.00ISBN: 9788375311679
Published by : Akanthina
Series: Monograph Series
Volume: 9
The works assembled in this volume complement the article written on the battle of Lechaeum by Andreas Konecy inChrion 31 (2001), which is here translated into English by Brian Bertosa. Konecy not only reconstructs the location and phases of the b... .... 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 -
Speech Presentation in Homeric Epic [Paperback]
Deborah Beck (Author)
Regular Price: £19.99
Special Price: £12.00
ISBN: 9780292756793
Published by : University of Texas Press
In this original study Deborah Beck analyses the full range of methods of speech representation, placing a new weight on non-direct speech. She examines the complex and overlapping functions of each form of speech representation, building up a pic... .... Learn More
