Ancient Classical category: 1324 books
The Performance of Self
Ritual, Clothing, and Identity During the Hundred Years War
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Medieval courtiers defined themselves in ceremonies and rituals. Tournaments, Maying, interludes, charivaris, and masking invited the English and French nobility to assert their identities in gesture and costume as well as in speech. These events presumed that performance makes a self, in contrast...
The Romance of Adultery
Queenship and Sexual Transgression in Old French Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Peggy McCracken offers a feminist historicist reading of Guenevere, Iseut, and other adulterous queens of Old French literature, and situates romance narratives about queens and their lovers within the broader cultural debate about the institution of queenship in twelfth- and thirteenth-century France.
Moving...
The Celestial Cycle
The Theme of Paradise Lost in World Literature with Translations of the Major Analogues
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1952
An anthology of translated analogues, in whole or in part, on the theme of paradise lost. The collection is divided into two parts. Part one is the analogues and part two is a descriptive catalogue of all the analogues the author consulted. The book also includes a preface and lengthy introduction. It is an indispensable resource for any serious student or scholar of Milton's Paradise Lost.
by Dante Alighieri
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 1995
This new critical edition, including Mark Musa’s classic translation, provides students with a clear, readable verse translation accompanied by ten innovative interpretations of Dante’s masterpiece.
Meditations on Middle-Earth
New Writing on the Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien by Orson Scott Card, Ursula K. Le Guin, Raymond E. Feist, Terry Pratchett, Charles de Lint, George R. R. Martin, and more
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2002
NOMINATED FOR THE 2002 HUGO AND LOCUS AWARD
When J.R.R. Tolkien created the extraordinary world of Middle-earth and populated it with fantastic, archetypal denizens, reinventing the heroic quest, the world hardly noticed. Sales of The Lord of the Rings languished for the better part of two...
Frodo’s Journey
Discover the Hidden Meaning of the Lord of the Rings
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
J. R. R. Tolkien’s magnum opus, The Lord of the Rings has been beloved for generations, selling millions of copies and selling millions more tickets through its award-winning film adaptations. The immense cultural impact of this epic is undeniable, but the deeper meaning of the story often goes...
Waiting for the Barbarians
Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
AND THE PEN ART OF THE ESSAY AWARD
Over the past decade and a half, Daniel Mendelsohn’s reviews for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book Review have earned him a reputation as “one of the greatest...
by Jerry Toner
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Spanning the Crusades, the Indian Raj, and the postwar decline of the British Empire, Homer’s Turk illuminates how English writers of all eras have relied on Greek and Roman literature to help them understand the world once called “the Orient.” Even today, the Classics frame the West’s relationship with the Islamic world, India, and China.
by William Dean Howells
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885...
Literary Boston As I Knew It
From 'Literary Friends and Acquaintances'
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885...
by William Dean Howells
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Roundabout To Boston by the American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, William Dean Howells.Howells was a Christian socialist whose ideals were greatly influenced by Russian writer Leo Tolstoy.He joined a Christian socialist group in Boston between 1889 and 1891 and attended several...
by Xenophon
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2006
One of Socrates' Athenian disciples in his youth, Xenophon (c. 498-354 bc) fought as a mercenary commander in Cyrus the Younger's campaign to seize the Persian throne, and later wrote a wide range of works on history, politics and philosophy. These six treatises offer his informed insights into the...
Augustine's Confessions
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
In this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the Confessions--what motivated Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be read, and the many ways it has been misread in the one-and-a-half millennia since it was composed. Following Wills's biography...
by Hésiode, Leconte de Lisle
Language: French
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: February 5, 2016
elle Alkmènè, fille du prince des peuples Élektryôn, quittant ses demeures et la terre de la patrie, vint dans Thèba avec le brave Amphitryôn. Et, certes, elle surpassait toute la race des femmes femelles ; et, pour la beauté et la haute stature,...