Ancient Classical category: 1324 books
Ovid Revisited
The Poet in Exile
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
In time for the bimillennium of Ovid's relegation to Tomis on the Black Sea by the emperor Augustus in 8 AD, Jo-Marie Claassen here revises and integrates into a more popular format two decades of scholarship on Ovid's exile. Some twenty articles and reviews from scholarly journals have been shortened,...
The Buried Book
The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2007
Adventurers, explorers, kings, gods, and goddesses come to life in this riveting story of the first great epic—lost to the world for 2,000 years, and rediscovered in the nineteenth century
Composed by a poet and priest in Middle Babylonia around 1200 bce, The Epic of Gilgamesh foreshadowed...
Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.511-73
Latin Text with Introduction, Commentary, Glossary of Terms, Vocabulary Aid and Study Questions
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
This extract from Ovid's 'Theban History' recounts the confrontation of Pentheus, king of Thebes, with his divine cousin, Bacchus, the god of wine. Notwithstanding the warnings of the seer Tiresias and the cautionary tale of a character Acoetes (perhaps Bacchus in disguise), who tells of how the god...
by Adrian Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
In his final play, Sophocles returns to the ever-popular character of Oedipus, the blind outcast of Thebes, the ultimate symbol of human reversal, whose fall he had so memorably treated in the 'Oedipus Tyrannus'. In this play, Sophocles brings the aged Oedipus to Athens, where he seeks succour and...
The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales
Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales is the subject of this groundbreaking and intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s Nursery and Household Tales. This expanded edition includes a new preface and an appendix featuring translations...
De Prometeo a Frankenstein.
Autómatas, ciborgs y otras criaturas más que humanas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 3, 2012
¿Por qué la figura de Prometeo es tan importante y simbólica en la historia de la cultura? ¿Qué tienen en común el Prometeo de Hesíodo y Platón con las recreaciones de Goethe y Fritz Lang, con el Frankenstein de Mary Shelley o el Prometheus de Ridley Scott? La potencia poética y hermeneútica...
Looking Inward
Devotional Reading and the Private Self in Late Medieval England
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
"You must see yourself." The exhortation was increasingly familiar to English men and women in the two centuries before the Reformation. They encountered it repeatedly in their devotional books, the popular guides to spiritual self-improvement that were reaching an ever-growing readership...
by Elaine Treharne
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
This Very Short Introduction provides a compelling account of the emergence of the earliest literature in Britain and Ireland, including English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Norman. Introducing the reader to some of the greatest poetry, prose and drama ever written, Elaine Treharne...
The Sublime Seneca
Ethics, Literature, Metaphysics
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
This is an extended meditation on ethics in literature across the Senecan corpus. There are two chapters on the Moral Letters, asking how one is to read philosophy or how one can write about being. Moving from the Letters to the Natural Questions and Dialogues, Professor Gunderson explores how authorship...
Thug Notes
A Street-Smart Guide to Classic Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Sparky Sweets, PhD. and Wisecrack proudly present this outrageously funny, ultra-sharp guide to literature based on the hit online series, Thug Notes. Inside, you'll find hilarious plot breakdowns and masterful analyses of sixteen of literature's most beloved classics, including: The Catcher in the...
by Stephan Weaver
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2017
Norse Mythology is not only a relic of history but a fascinating record that exhibits humanities unending stream of creativity. This eBook delves into the past and emerges with a legion of breath taking accounts of events, gods, heroes, creatures, worlds and much more.
Inside you will learn...
by Giuseppe Pitrè
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
Well, gentlemen, here’s a tale that people have told time and again . . . .
So begins the title story in this collection of fifty Sicilian folk and fairy tales edited and translated by noted folklore scholar Jack Zipes. But while some of the stories may sound as if they’ve been told time...
The Other Virgil
`Pessimistic' Readings of the Aeneid in Early Modern Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
The Other Virgil tells the story of how a classic like the Aeneid can say different things to different people. As a school text it was generally taught to support the values and ideals of a succession of postclassical societies, but between 1500 and 1800 a number of unusually sensitive readers responded...
Bilbo’s Journey
Discovering the Hidden Meaning of the Hobbit
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
Discover the Christian meaning in The Hobbit In Bilbo's Journey go beyond the dragons, dwarves, and elves, and discover the surprisingly deep meaning of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic novel The Hobbit. Bilbo's quest to find and slay the dragon Smaug is a riveting tale of daring and heroism, but as renowned...