Ancient Classical category: 1324 books
The Shadow of the Parthenon
Studies in Ancient History and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
A lively combination of scholarship and unorthodoxy makes these studies in ancient history and literature unusually rewarding. Few of the objects of conventional admiration gain much support from Peter Green (Pericles and the "democracy" of fifth-century Athens are treated to a very cool...
Sir Gawain and the Classical Tradition
Essays on the Ancient Antecedents
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
The 14th century English alliterative poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is admired for its morally complex plot and brilliant poetics. A chivalric romance placed in an Arthurian setting, it has since received acclaim for its commentary regarding important socio-political and religious concerns....
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Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
The third edition of The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature is the complete and authoritative reference guide to the classical world and its literary heritage. It not only presents the reader with all the essential facts about the authors, tales, and characters from ancient myths and literature,...
Romantic Paganism
The Politics of Ecstasy in the Shelley Circle
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
This book addresses the function of the classical world in the cultural imaginations of the second generation of romantic writers: Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Thomas Love Peacock, John Keats, Leigh Hunt, and the rest of their diverse circle. The younger romantics inherited impressions of the ancient...
Artifact and Artifice
Classical Archaeology and the Ancient Historian
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Is it possible to trace the footprints of the historical Sokrates in Athens? Was there really an individual named Romulus, and if so, when did he found Rome? Is the tomb beneath the high altar of St. Peter’s Basilica home to the apostle Peter? To answer these questions, we need both dirt and words—that...
OCR Classical Civilisation GCSE Route 1
Myth and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for GCSE Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers the Thematic Study Component 11 and all three Literature and Culture options (Components 21–23):
Thematic Study: Myth and Religion by Ben Greenley
Literature...
The Long Shadow of Antiquity
What Have the Greeks and Romans Done for Us?
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
A vivid exploration of the many ways the classical world remains relevant today, this is a passionate justification of why we continue to read about and study the lives and works of the ancient Greeks and Romans.
Challenging the way the phrase 'That's just ancient history' is used to dismiss...
From the Socratics to the Socratic Schools
Classical Ethics, Metaphysics and Epistemology
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
In the two golden centuries that followed the death of Socrates, ancient philosophy underwent a tremendous transformation that culminated in the philosophical systematizations of Plato, Aristotle and the Hellenistic schools. Fundamental figures other than Plato were active after the death of Socrates;...
Classical Literature
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Classical Literature: An Introduction provides a series of essays on all the major authors of Greek and Latin literature, as well as on a number of writers less often read. An introductory chapter provides information on important general topics, such as poetic metres, patronage and symposia.
The...
Pindar's Eyes
Visual and Material Culture in Epinician Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Pindar's Eyes is a ground-breaking interdisciplinary exploration of the interactions between Greek lyric poetry and visual and material culture in the early fifth century BCE. It draws on case studies of classical art and texts to open up analysis of the genre to the wider theme of aesthetic experience...
Ladies' Greek
Victorian Translations of Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
In Ladies' Greek, Yopie Prins illuminates a culture of female classical literacy that emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century, during the formation of women's colleges on both sides of the Atlantic. Why did Victorian women of letters desire to learn ancient Greek, a "dead" language...
OCR Classical Civilisation AS and A Level Component 11
The World of the Hero
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specifications for AS and A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers all three options for Component 11: World of the Hero (Homer's Iliad, Homer's Odyssey and Virgil's Aeneid).
Why does the Trojan War continue...
Bodily Arts
Rhetoric and Athletics in Ancient Greece
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
The role of athletics in ancient Greece extended well beyond the realms of kinesiology, competition, and entertainment. In teaching and philosophy, athletic practices overlapped with rhetorical ones and formed a shared mode of knowledge production. Bodily Arts examines this intriguing intersection, offering...
Classical Literature
An Epic Journey from Homer to Virgil and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The writings of the Greeks and Romans form the bedrock of Western culture. Inventing the molds for histories, tragedies, and philosophies, while pioneering radical new forms of epic and poetry, the Greeks and Romans created the literary world we still inhabit today. Writing with verve and insight,...