Ancient Classical category: 1324 books
Beowulf Unlocked
New Evidence from Lexomic Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
The most original and ground-breaking work on Beowulf in several decades, this book uses “lexomic” methods that blend computer-assisted statistical analysis with traditional approaches to reveal new and surprising information about the construction and sources of the greatest surviving Old English...
The Complete Story of the Grail
Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval and its continuations
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
The mysterious and haunting Grail makes its first appearance in literature in Chrétien de Troyes' I>Perceval at the end of the twelfth century. But Chrétien never finished his poem, leaving an unresolved story and an incomplete picture of the Grail. It was, however, far too attractive an idea...
Darkness Visible
A Study of Vergil's "Aeneid"
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
One of the best books ever written on one of humanity’s greatest epics, W. R. Johnson’s classic study of Vergil’s Aeneid challenges centuries of received wisdom. Johnson rejects the political and historical reading of the epic as a record of the glorious prehistory of Rome and instead foregrounds...
by Joseph B. Solodow
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Synthesizing a wealth of detailed observations, Joseph Solodow studies the structure of Ovid's poem Metamorphoses, the role of the narrator, Ovid's treatment of myth, and the relationship between Ovid's and Virgil's presentations of Aeneas. He argues that for Ovid metamorphosis is an act of clarification,...
by Richard F. Hardin
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
The fifteenth-century discovery of Plautus’s lost comedies brought him, for the first time since antiquity, the status of a major author both on stage and page. It also led to a reinvention of comedy and to new thinking about its art and potential. This book aims to define the unique contribution...
The Arthur of the Italians
The Arthurian Legend in Medieval Italian Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
This is the first comprehensive book on the Arthurian legend in medieval and Renaissance Italy since Edmund Gardner’s 1930 The Arthurian Legend in Italian Literature. Arthurian material reached all levels of Italian society, from princely courts with their luxury books and frescoed palaces, to the...
by Agathe Thornton
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Published in 1970, this important work interprets the poem with a focus on the idiosyncrasies of its originally oral composition.
In part I, the main themes of the Odyssey such as ‘guest-friendship’ and ‘testing’ are investigated. The incorporation of these and other themes, such as...
by Robin Mitchell-Boyask
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
The "Eumenides", the concluding drama in Aeschylus' sole surviving trilogy, the "Oresteia", is not only one of the most admired Greek tragedies, but also one of the most controversial and contested, both to specialist scholars and public intellectuals. It stands at the crux of...
Ovid
A Poet on the Margins
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
The Latin poet Ovid was famously exiled by the Emperor Augustus to the shores of the Black Sea for his self-confessed crimes of 'a poem and a mistake'. Throughout his poetry, he discusses his exile and embraces the themes of marginality and alterity.
This core motif is explored throughout this...
Bucolic Ecology
Virgil's Eclogues and the Environmental Literary Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Beginning in outer space and ending up among the atoms, "Bucolic Ecology" illustrates how these poems repeatedly turn to the natural world in order to define themselves and their place in the literary tradition. It argues that the 'Eclogues' find there both a sequence of analogies for their...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2008
Medieval French literature encompasses 450 years of literary output in Old and Middle French, mostly produced in Northern France and England. These texts, including courtly lyrics, prose and verse romances, dits amoureux and plays, proved hugely influential for other European literary traditions in...
by Claire Loffman, Harriet Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
A Handbook of Editing Early Modern Texts provides a series of answers written by more than forty editors of diverse texts addressing the 'how-to's' of completing an excellent scholarly edition. The Handbook is primarily a practical guide rather than a theoretical forum; it airs common problems and...
Shipwrecked
Disaster and Transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Shipwrecked: Disaster and Transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the Modern World presents the first comparative study of notable literary shipwrecks from the past four thousand years, focusing on Homer’s Odyssey, Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe....
by Ovid
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Should any one of the people not know the art of loving, let him read me; and taught by me, on reading my lines, let him love. By art the ships are onward sped by sails and oars; by art are the light chariots, by art is Love, to be guided. In the chariot and in the flowing reins was Automedon skilled:...