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With a masterful sense of the place of rhetoric in both thought and practice and an ear attuned to the clarity, natural simplicity, and charm of Plato's Greek prose, James H. Nichols, Jr., offers a precise yet unusually readable translation of one of...
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Scholars have long maintained that Machiavelli's "The Prince" does not develop a single sustained argument but rather presents a set of disparate... Læs mere
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Presents a selection from Ovid's Metamorphoses, his witty, amusing and richly influential collection of Greek and Roman myths. The book is designed for... Læs mere
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The aim of this book is to explore the realm of the imaginary world of Greek mythology and present the reader with a categorization of monstrosity, referring to some of the most noted examples in each category.
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This selection of lapidary nuggets drawn from 33 of antiquity’s major authors includes poetry, dialogue, philosophical writing, history, descriptive reporting, satire, and fiction—giving a glimpse at the wide range of arts and sciences, thought and styles, of Greco-Roman culture.
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Medieval Literature and Social Politics brings together seventeen articles by literary historian Stephen Knight. It will be... Læs mere
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This volume introduces readers to classical Chinese literature from its beginnings (ca. 10th century BCE) to the tenth century BCE... Læs mere
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This book investigates the history of violence in medieval Iceland, testing theoretical tools by applying them to a series of case studies drawn from the Icelandic sagas.
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Bishop's deft translation, depict Petrarch's many-sided character in his own words, while twelve drawings by Alison Mason Kingsbury provide a rich embellishment for this entertaining book.
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Willcock provides a line-by-line commentary that explains allusions and Homeric conventions that a student or general reader could not be expected to bring to an initial encounter with the Iliad.
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This is a revised version of the survey on Homer which the author originally published in 1996. It is a clear introduction to the Iliad and the Odyssey, and the problems of their dating, context... Læs mere