Christian Raffensperger tracks the dynastic marriages of the Volodimerovici, the ruling family of Rus´. Using a modern scholarly approach and... Læs mere
The Greek Anthology contains some 4,500 Greek poems in the sparkling,... Læs mere
From wages to elections, labor unions once exerted tremendous clout in American life. Today, the only thing big about Big Labor is the scope of its problems. While many studies... Læs mere
Pausanias, one of the Roman world’s great travelers, sketches in Description of Greece the history, geography, landmarks, legends, and religious cults of all the... Læs mere
Karen L. King offers an illuminating reading of this ancient text, said to be Christ's revelation to his disciple John. In her analysis, the Revelation becomes a... Læs mere
Acclaimed literary critic Northrop Frye argues that romance constitutes a vital mythological universe, a “secular scripture” whose hero is man, paralleling the sacred scripture whose hero is God, and whose plot elements form “the structural core of all fiction.”
Duden asserts that the most basic biological and medical terms that we use to describe our own bodies—male and female, healthy... Læs mere
Euripides (ca. 485–406 BC) has been prized in every age for his emotional and intellectual drama. Eighteen of his ninety or so plays survive complete,... Læs mere
This volume contains papers presented at the Third Quinquennial Conference on Ukrainian Economics. It contains 14 essays dealing with the one thousand years... Læs mere
Oleh Ilnytzkyj seeks to rectify the misinterpretations surrounding the Futurists and their leader Mykhail Semenko by providing the first major English-language monograph on this vibrant literary movement and its charismatic leader.
Shepherd enters the debate over the wartime behavior of the Wehrmacht with a detailed study of the motivation and conduct of its anti-partisan... Læs mere