Ancient Classical category: 1324 books
by Homer, William Allan
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
'Tell me, Muse, of the man of many turns, who was driven far and wide after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy' Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to return home to Ithaca. His household is in disarray: a horde of over 100 disorderly and arrogant suitors...
The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Literature
1485-1603
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
This is the first major collection of essays to look at the literature of the entire Tudor period, from the reign of Henry VII to death of Elizabeth I. It pays particularly attention to the years before 1580. Those decades saw, amongst other things, the establishment of print culture and growth of...
NIETZSCHE: Beyond Good and Evil, Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Hellenism & Pessimism (3 Books in One Edition)
The Birth of Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
"Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None" chronicles the fictitious travels and speeches of Zarathustra, the founder of Zoroastrianism. Zarathustra contains the famous dictum "God is dead" and the concept of the "Übermensch" (overman or superman). In "Beyond...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
A Companion to Greek Mythology presents a series of essays that explore the phenomenon of Greek myth from its origins in shared Indo-European story patterns and the Greeks’ contacts with their Eastern Mediterranean neighbours through its development as a shared language and thought-system for the...
Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds
Ways of Telling the Self
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2004
Metamorphosis is a dynamic principle of creation, vital to natural processes of generation and evolution, growth and decay, yet it also threatens personal identity if human beings are subject to a continual process of bodily transformation. Shape-shifting also belongs in the landscape of magic, witchcraft,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Greek and Roman Classics in the British Struggle for Social Reform presents an original and carefully argued case for the importance of classical ideas, education and self-education in the personal development and activities of British social reformers in the 19th and first six decades of the 20th...
The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy (Volume 1)
Neglected Authors
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Numerous books have been written about Greek tragedy, but almost all of them are concerned with the 32 plays that still survive. This book, by contrast, concentrates on the plays that no longer exist. Hundreds of tragedies were performed in Athens and further afield during the classical period, and...
Poetry in Speech
Orality and Homeric Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Applying linguistic theory to the study of Homeric style, Egbert J. Bakker offers a highly innovative approach to oral poetry, particularly the poetry of Homer. By situating formulas and other features of oral style within the wider contexts of spoken language and communication, he moves the study...
by J. W. Binns
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
This volume, offering an insight into the literary world of Rome in the fourth century AD, reflects an increased interest in the writers of the 150 years before the collapse of the Western Empire, who have long been over-shadowed by the pre-eminence accorded since the eighteenth century to the Golden...
Shakespeare's Rome
Republic and Empire
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
For more than forty years, Paul Cantor’s Shakespeare’s Rome has been a foundational work in the field of politics and literature. While many critics assumed that the Roman plays do not reflect any special knowledge of Rome, Cantor was one of the first to argue that they are grounded in a profound...
by Rollo May
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1991
Here are case studies in which myths have helped Dr. May's patients make sense out of an often senseless world.
It happens almost daily in a therapist's office. A patient, recalling a person, an event, an emotion, quite unexpectedly supplies a link from a life in the present to one of the durable...
Afro-Greeks
Dialogues between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2010
Afro-Greeks examines the reception of Classics in the English-speaking Caribbean, from about 1920 to the beginning of the 21st century. Emily Greenwood focuses on the ways in which Greco-Roman antiquity has been put to creative use in Anglophone Caribbean literature, and relates this regional classical...
A Travel Guide to Homer
On the Trail of Odysseus Through Turkey and the Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
In October 1945 at the age of 19, John Freely passed the southernmost tip of Crete on his way home from the war in China, just as Odysseus did on his homeward voyage from the battle of Troy. He has been bewitched by Homer and the lands of Homer's epics ever since. As the culmination of a life spent...
Crossroads in the Black Aegean
Oedipus, Antigone, and Dramas of the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
Crossroads in the Black Aegean is a compendious, timely, and fascinating study of African rewritings of Greek tragedy. It consists of detailed readings of six dramas and one epic poem, from different locations across the African diaspora. Barbara Goff and Michael Simpson ask why the plays of Sophocles'...