Ancient Classical category: 1324 books
by Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2007
CliffsNotes on Greek Classics is the only reference book you need to understand the ideological and literary influence of the Greek civilization. A fully-indexed guide designed for students of: English Literature World Literature Classical Literature and Languages Philosophy History Theater and Drama...
Ecstasy and Terror
From the Greeks to Game of Thrones
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2019
This collection of essays exemplifies the range, depth, and erudition that have made Daniel Mendelsohn “required reading for anyone interested in dissecting culture” (The Daily Beast). Here Mendelsohn once again casts an eye at literature, film, television, and the personal essay, filtering his...
Voice in Later Medieval English Literature
Public Interiorities
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
David Lawton approaches later medieval English vernacular culture in terms of voice. As texts and discourses shift in translation and in use from one language to another, antecedent texts are revoiced in ways that recreate them (as 'public interiorities') without effacing their history or future....
by Liu Hsieh, Vincent Yu-chung Shih
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons is the first comprehensive work of literary criticism in Chinese, and one that has been considered essential reading for writers and scholars since it was written some 1,500 years ago. A vast compendium of all that was known about Chinese literature at...
Literary Territories
Cartographical Thinking in Late Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Literary Territories introduces readers to a wide range of literature from 200-900 CE in which geography is a defining principle of literary art. From accounts of Holy Land pilgrimage, to Roman mapmaking, to the systematization of Ptolemy's scientific works, Literary Territories argues that forms...
Claudian's In Eutropium
Or, How, When, and Why to Slander a Eunuch
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
From A.D. 395 to 404, Claudian was the court poet of the Western Roman Empire, ruled by Honorius. In 399 the eunuch Eutropius, the grand chamberlain and power behind the Eastern Roman throne of Honorius's brother Arcadius, became consul. The poem In Eutropium is Claudian's brilliantly nasty response....
Greek Tragedy on the Move
The Birth of a Panhellenic Art Form c. 500-300 BC
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Greek tragedy is one of the most important cultural legacies of the classical world, with a rich and varied history and reception, yet it appears to have its roots in a very particular place and time. The authors of the surviving works of Greek tragic drama-Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides-were...
Epigrams from the Anthologia Latina
Text,Translation and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
This new scholarly edition consists of the Latin text, with translation and detailed commentary, of a sequence of epigrams from the Anthologia Latina (Shackleton Bailey 78-188). The introduction discusses whether these epigrams constitute a unified collection and are the work of a single author, examines...
Neopoetics
The Evolution of the Literate Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
The quest to understand the evolution of the literary mind has become a fertile field of inquiry and speculation for scholars across literary studies and cognitive science. In Paleopoetics, Christopher Collins's acclaimed earlier title, he described how language emerged both as a communicative tool...
Aristophanes' Old-and-New Comedy
Volume I: Six Essays in Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
This startling and original study emerged from Kenneth Rockford's wish to vindicate Aristophanes' Clouds against detractors. As a result of years of rereading and teaching Aristophanes, he realized that the Clouds could not be defended in an analysis of that play in isolation. A better approach, he...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
This book presents critical studies of modern reconfigurations of conceptions of the past, of the 'classical', and of national heritage. Its scope is global (China, India, Egypt, Iran, Judaism, the Greco-Roman world) and inter-disciplinary (textual philology, history of art and architecture, philosophy,...
God of Many Names
Play, Poetry and Power in Hellenic Thought, From Homer to Aristotle
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Tracing the interrelationship among play, poetic imitation, and power to the Hellenic world, Mihai I. Spariosu provides a revisionist model of cultural change in Greek antiquity. Challenging the traditional and static distinction made between archaic and later Greek culture, Spariosu’s perspective...
by Kamayani
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
From the Cinderella who won the Prince to the Cinderella who rejects him, the fairy-tale heroine has journeyed long and hard through the rough and tumble of the cultural highway. From simple pliancy to subtle shades of desire and its complex expression, the fairy-tale heroine, and her co-habitant, the...
Glossae Scholia Commentarii
Studies on Commenting Texts in Antiquity and Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
The role of commentary as a basic method of research used broadly in both Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages still awaits further analysis. Commentary as a research and didactic method becomes especially interesting in a multicultural perspective: were Buddhist and Arabic texts commented in the...