Platos Charmides is a rich mix of provocative drama and intricate argument. This book offers a comprehensive interpretation of its disparate elements. Paying close attention to its complex structure, and to the methodology of reading Plato, Raphael...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Mar-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300244434)
A fascinating and highly original history of medieval magic told through twenty key illuminated manuscripts Medieval Europe was preoccupied with magic. From the Carolingian Empire to Renaissance Italy and Tudor England, great rulers,...Loe edasi...
Sari: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009628877)
This book offers an innovative study of the uses of writing in early medieval England during a pivotal century of political and societal upheaval. It will appeal to students and scholars interested in Anglo-Saxon and early medieval England, the viki...Loe edasi...
Ilaria Ramelli analysiert den pseudepigraphen Briefwechsel zwischen Seneca und Paulus. Unter Einbezug nicht-literarischer griechischer und lateinischer Briefe der ersten nachchristlichen Jahrhunderte eröffnet sie neue Einblicke in Intertextualität,...Loe edasi...
Argues that Sophoclean tragedy is a distinctive form of religious discourse concerned with exploring the relationship between humans and gods and profoundly engaged with contemporary intellectual culture. Explores key plays in detail as well as gene...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009727808)
Argues that Sophoclean tragedy is a distinctive form of religious discourse concerned with exploring the relationship between humans and gods and profoundly engaged with contemporary intellectual culture. Explores key plays in detail as well as gene...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783112237250)
As literacy expanded in Classical Athens, myths became increasingly fixed through textualization, fostering a more analytical and critical approach to storytelling. Euripides did not merely adapt myths for the stage but actively interrogated their o...Loe edasi...
Roman political leaders used distance from Rome as a key political tool to assert pre-eminence. Through the case studies of Caesars hegemony, Augustuss autocracy, and Tiberiuss reign, this book examines how these figures experie...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Rock Point, ISBN-13: 9781577157908)
Embark on a literary odyssey through ancient Greece in this stunning compilation of Homers iconic epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey.This elegant addition to the Timeless Classics series features the complete and unabri...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Liverpool University Press, ISBN-13: 9781805967262)
The Paulicians were perhaps the most curious threat to imperil the Roman Empire in the east. This mission triggered the composition of an unusual collection of works, including an extended history of the Paulicians, and three sermons and florilegia...Loe edasi...
One of the greatest adventure tales in history, The OdysseyOdysseuss journey home after The Trojan Waris still a must-read in this newly designed faux-leather edition....Loe edasi...
The life and times of Dante’s soaring poetic allegory of the soul’s redemptive journey toward GodWritten during his exile from Florence in the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy describes the poet’s travels through...Loe edasi...
Susanna Barsella, William Caferro, Germano Maifreda
Sari: Toronto Italian Studies
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487549879)
Cultures of Exchange examines the mercantile culture of the Italian peninsula, whose wealth and geographic location made it a focal point of cultural exchange in the Mediterranean. The volume explores the integration of the peninsula into...Loe edasi...
This book explores the ways in which the origins of time, of the gods, and processes associated with time were conceptualised in antiquity, examining a variety of ancient sources from across the ancient world and addressing issues surrounding the so...Loe edasi...
Intellectual shifts in the late 20th century led to profound change in the questions that could be asked about the ancient world; the chapters in this volume are inspired by the way these shifts have affected scholars’ attitude towards...Loe edasi...
This interdisciplinary volume explores the ancient Greek myth of Medea and its global analogues found in other mythic and folk tales of deadly, exiled women, such as those of La Malinche and La Llorona, examining the connections between these figure...Loe edasi...
This book delves into the intricate and, as argued, essential relationship between poetics and religion in Pindar. It explores how performance, cult, and religious attitudes intersect, offering readers a nuanced approach to Pindaric poetry concernin...Loe edasi...
This book offers a fresh look at Hesiods concept of a Golden Age. It analyses the ways in which classical philosophers explored it and traces the many creative interactions with it in literature from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Age of Goet...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198883678)
This book explores the engagement of women writers and intellectuals at the beginning of the twentieth century with Greek tragedy--especially its central and enigmatic feature, the chorus--and the ways it shaped their experimental scholarship, ficti...Loe edasi...
Informed by semiotic theory, this comparative literary study reads the Gospel of John with Callirhoe to observe how the ancient novel might inform an understanding of the structural and rhetorical shape of the Fourth Gospel....Loe edasi...
The first in-depth study to explore the unexamined afterlives of Petrarchs 1347 Neo-Latin epic of the Second Punic War, the Africa, mapping out its place in the development of European, early modern discourses of race, empire, and nation...Loe edasi...
An introduction to Terences Eunuchus, a dramaturgically complex play addressing questions of behaviour still relevant in the modern world....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780197924488)
The Odyssey tells the story of the Greek hero Odysseus epic ten year journey home after the end of the Trojan War of the Iliad. Its epic sweep has gripped generations of readers....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: William Collins, ISBN-13: 9780008626563)
*A GUARDIAN AND WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025* The fascinating story of ancient words new revelations await The Guardian A magisterial feat New Scientist...Loe edasi...
Global bestselling author of River God and The New Kingdom, Wilbur Smith, returns with the next epic book in his brand-new Ancient Egyptian series....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198891925)
This is the first new edition of Ciceros Tusculan Disputations in over forty years. Robert A. Kaster draws on an extensive survey of medieval manuscripts and humanistic copies to present an authoritative edition of the text. This is...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783112225820)
A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Can a book really be dangerous? To take literally these words of Captain Beatty of Fahrenheit 451 one would say yes. Of course, even in this case, it is not the object book in and by itself to...Loe edasi...
Aristotle’s Eudemus presents a radically new view of the content of Aristotle’s lost Eudemus, by both reassessing standardly accepted fragments and collecting many as yet overlooked—particularly those found in the writings of the Church Father...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009721646)
Reveals how fiction was taught and reimagined in the Roman world. Bridging elite education and popular storytelling, it shows how the ancient novel both emerged from and satirized the literary training that shaped Roman cultural life. For classicist...Loe edasi...
