Silvia Montiglio, Katie Frendreis, Edith Hall, Benjamin Cyril Arthur, Konstantin Asimonov, John Capetanos, Brenda W. Clough, Marlaina Cockcroft, Travis Earl, Ayden June Fitzgerald...
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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526199799)
A new translation of an important source for medieval monastic history that provides interesting insights the background to the Norman Conquest of England. -- ....Loe edasi...
The Greek Language after Antiquity offers an in-depth look at the diachrony of the Greek language, focusing on a period relatively neglected by modern scholarship: the more than 1,000 years between the end of Antiquity and the early modern period....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Picador USA, ISBN-13: 9781250437594)
The classic verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia, now with an introduction by the poet Yusef Komunyakaa.Gilgamesh is the story of the godlike ruler of the ancient Mesopotamian city Uruk. The start of the p...Loe edasi...
How does the Sanskrit Mahbhrata act as a religious text? What is the relation between this texts ideas of salvation and its main character King Yudhihira? This book shows that Yudhihira serves as a medium for the organization of diverse soteriologic...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: 18-Jun-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: 15-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198994756)
A Book of Greek Life: The Ancient World Through Epigram introduces interested general readers to the richness and weirdness of the ancient world through its own social media (little poems called epigrams, of which we have thousands)....Loe edasi...
Sari: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-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...
An introduction to Aristophanes much-debated utopian comedy, its social, cultural, political, and theatrical contexts, and its themes and reception. This is the first book-length introduction to Aristophanes play that is accessible to...Loe edasi...
Discover timeless wisdom for modern times with these seven lessons from Homers classic The Odyssey as told by Dr Sam Akbar, Oxford Classicist and Clinical Psychologist....Loe edasi...
This book examines how twentieth-century anglophone authors use katabasis to express poetics and position themselves in the western literary canon....Loe edasi...
John Milton and Andrew Marvell are central figures of seventeenth-century literature. Yet there has until now been no sustained study comparing the two poets. In this book, the culmination of a distinguished academic career, Warren Chernaik places t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009735650)
John Milton and Andrew Marvell are central figures of seventeenth-century literature. Yet there has until now been no sustained study comparing the two poets. In this book, the culmination of a distinguished academic career, Warren Chernaik places t...Loe edasi...
This is the first full-length biography of Sulpicia, the earliest extant female author of classical Latin poetry. Unmentioned by her contemporaries, Sulpicia belonged to the pinnacle of the Roman aristocracy and wrote openly about her life and love a...Loe edasi...
An edition, fully accessible to undergraduates and graduate students, of the dynamic Book XXIII of the Iliad. Provides extensive help with language, meter, and style while also situating the poem in its historical and poetic contexts, helping studen...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107150157)
An edition, fully accessible to undergraduates and graduate students, of the dynamic Book XXIII of the Iliad. Provides extensive help with language, meter, and style while also situating the poem in its historical and poetic contexts, helping studen...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197800621)
The representation of the ancient world in film has long been an established site of scholarly interest, but animation remains understudied. Given the mediums popularity and its role as an access point to ancient history for young audiences, it dese...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520281301)
Nonnus of Panopoliss Dionysiaca is the longest and most ambitious epic poem to survive from Greco-Roman antiquity. Written by an Egyptian Christian in the fifth century CE, this stunning mythological adventure explores the birth, upbringing, exploi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520281318)
Nonnus of Panopoliss Dionysiaca is the longest and most ambitious epic poem to survive from Greco-Roman antiquity. Written by an Egyptian Christian in the fifth century CE, this stunning mythological adventure explores the birth, upbringing, exploi...Loe edasi...
This volume explores Mexican dramatic receptions of Sophocles Antigone from the 20th and 21st century, investigating the thematic evolution of Antigone in Mexico and its cumulative impact on Mexican heritage discourse....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...
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...
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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526199799)
A new translation of an important source for medieval monastic history that provides interesting insights the background to the Norman Conquest of England. -- ....Loe edasi...
The Greek Language after Antiquity offers an in-depth look at the diachrony of the Greek language, focusing on a period relatively neglected by modern scholarship: the more than 1,000 years between the end of Antiquity and the early modern period....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Picador USA, ISBN-13: 9781250437594)
The classic verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia, now with an introduction by the poet Yusef Komunyakaa.Gilgamesh is the story of the godlike ruler of the ancient Mesopotamian city Uruk. The start of the p...Loe edasi...
How does the Sanskrit Mahbhrata act as a religious text? What is the relation between this texts ideas of salvation and its main character King Yudhihira? This book shows that Yudhihira serves as a medium for the organization of diverse soteriologic...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: 18-Jun-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: 15-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198994756)
A Book of Greek Life: The Ancient World Through Epigram introduces interested general readers to the richness and weirdness of the ancient world through its own social media (little poems called epigrams, of which we have thousands)....Loe edasi...
Claude Brügger, Magdalene Stoevesandt, Edzard Visser, Joachim Latacz, Anton Bierl, Stuart Douglas Olson, Benjamin Millis, Sara Strack
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111581200)
The renowned Basler Homer-Kommentar of the Iliad, edited by Anton Bierl and Joachim Latacz and originally published in German, presents the latest developments in Homeric scholarship. Through the English translation of this ground-breaking reference...Loe edasi...
Sari: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-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...
An introduction to Aristophanes much-debated utopian comedy, its social, cultural, political, and theatrical contexts, and its themes and reception. This is the first book-length introduction to Aristophanes play that is accessible to...Loe edasi...
Discover timeless wisdom for modern times with these seven lessons from Homers classic The Odyssey as told by Dr Sam Akbar, Oxford Classicist and Clinical Psychologist....Loe edasi...
This book examines how twentieth-century anglophone authors use katabasis to express poetics and position themselves in the western literary canon....Loe edasi...
John Milton and Andrew Marvell are central figures of seventeenth-century literature. Yet there has until now been no sustained study comparing the two poets. In this book, the culmination of a distinguished academic career, Warren Chernaik places t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009735650)
John Milton and Andrew Marvell are central figures of seventeenth-century literature. Yet there has until now been no sustained study comparing the two poets. In this book, the culmination of a distinguished academic career, Warren Chernaik places t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Calendar, Kirjastus: Flame Tree Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781806941414)
This beautiful Bodleian Libraries mini calendar features 12 incredible illustrations of animals and birds, real or legendary, which were used to draw out moral and religious lessons from the accompanying stories. Printed on FSC-certified paper, with...Loe edasi...
This is the first full-length biography of Sulpicia, the earliest extant female author of classical Latin poetry. Unmentioned by her contemporaries, Sulpicia belonged to the pinnacle of the Roman aristocracy and wrote openly about her life and love a...Loe edasi...
An edition, fully accessible to undergraduates and graduate students, of the dynamic Book XXIII of the Iliad. Provides extensive help with language, meter, and style while also situating the poem in its historical and poetic contexts, helping studen...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107150157)
An edition, fully accessible to undergraduates and graduate students, of the dynamic Book XXIII of the Iliad. Provides extensive help with language, meter, and style while also situating the poem in its historical and poetic contexts, helping studen...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197800621)
The representation of the ancient world in film has long been an established site of scholarly interest, but animation remains understudied. Given the mediums popularity and its role as an access point to ancient history for young audiences, it dese...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520281301)
Nonnus of Panopoliss Dionysiaca is the longest and most ambitious epic poem to survive from Greco-Roman antiquity. Written by an Egyptian Christian in the fifth century CE, this stunning mythological adventure explores the birth, upbringing, exploi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520281318)
Nonnus of Panopoliss Dionysiaca is the longest and most ambitious epic poem to survive from Greco-Roman antiquity. Written by an Egyptian Christian in the fifth century CE, this stunning mythological adventure explores the birth, upbringing, exploi...Loe edasi...
This volume explores Mexican dramatic receptions of Sophocles Antigone from the 20th and 21st century, investigating the thematic evolution of Antigone in Mexico and its cumulative impact on Mexican heritage discourse....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816557219)
Popol Wujis considered one of the oldest books in the Americas. Various elements of Popol Wuj have appeared in different written forms over the last two millennia and several parts of Popol Wuj likely coalesced in hieroglyphic book form a few centur...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...
Homers Odyssey is one of the worlds oldest and most famous works of literature. It has enthralled readers for almost three thousand years with its tales of gods and monsters, warriors and kings, but also of family, faith, and the universal longing f...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...
