Ancient & Classical 88

Joan of Arc has long piqued the historical imagination, for it seems impossible that a peasant-maid couldhave led the French army, crowned her king, and then been burned as a heretic, only later to ……続きを見る

Edited with an introduction by an internationally recognized scholar, this nine-volume set represents the most exhaustive collection of essential critical writings in the field, from studies of the ……続きを見る

I. Rome fut d’abord soumise à des rois. L. Brutus fonda la liberté et le consulat. Les dictatures étaient passagères ; le pouvoir décemviral ne dura pas au delà de deux années, et les tribuns milita……続きを見る

Meet mythology’s fifty fiercest females in this modern retelling of the world’s greatest legends. From feminist fairies to bloodsucking temptresses, half-human harpies and protective Vodou goddesses……続きを見る

This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Ovid's Heroides, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary for HeroidesI lines 1–68, and ……続きを見る

Theme park studies is a growing field in social and cultural studies. Nonetheless, until now little attention has been dedicated to the choice of the themes represented in the parks and the strategi……続きを見る

This book offers a provocative and groundbreaking re-appraisal of the demands of acting ancient tragedy, informed by cutting-edge scholarship in the fields of actor training, theatre history, and cl……続きを見る

In "Über die Dichtkunst" entfaltet Aristoteles sein tiefgreifendes Verständnis der Tragödie als einer Kunstform, die durch das Mysterium von Imitation und Emotion gekennzeichnet ist. Er analysiert d……続きを見る

L'opera in cui René Descartes (1596-1650) teorizza il nuovo orientamento nel campo del sapere fondato sulla razionalità. Il manifesto della filosofia moderna, il nuovo metodo "per condurre la propri……続きを見る

This book offers the first systematic reading of Plato’s Laches in Englishafter three decades of scholarly silence. It rekindles interest in this much-neglected dialogue by providing a fresh discuss……続きを見る

Unlike many studies of the family in the ancient world, this volume presents readings of mothers in classical literature, including philosophical and epigraphic writing as well as poetic texts. Rath……続きを見る

'Reveals Gray's powers of insight and invention' Guardian 'One of the most vital retellings of the poem to date' Spectator Dante, now guided by Beatrice, faces the final third of his epic journey th……続きを見る

Impossible bequests of the soul; an outlawed younger son who rises to become justice of the king's forests; the artificially-preserved corpse of the heir to an empire; a medieval clerk kept awake at……続きを見る

Der vorliegende Band bietet eine ebenso informative wie spannende Einführung in die Odyssee. Im Zentrum der Darstellung stehen Fragen nach dem rätselhaften Dichter Homer und seiner Poetik, aber auch……続きを見る

This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin A-Level (Group 2) prescription of Livy's History of Rome, Book I, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary for chapters 53……続きを見る

In *Debating Rhetorical Narratology:*On the Synthetic, Mimetic, and Thematic Aspects of Narrative, Matthew Clark and James Phelan provide a model of lively, sharp, and good-natured scholarly exchang……続きを見る

The Acts of the Apostles includes persuasive speeches, but the whole story should also be seen as an act of persuasion. In How Ancient Narratives Persuade: Acts in Its Literary Context, Eric Clousto……続きを見る

I.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies This is the first English translation of the final philosophical work of the great eleventh-century Ismaili thinker, poet, and Fatimid……続きを見る

Laughing Atoms, Laughing Matter: Lucretius' De Rerum Natura and Satire offers the first comprehensive examination of Roman epic poet Lucretius’ engagement with satire. Author T. H. M. Gellar-Goad ar……続きを見る

Astyanax is thrown from the walls of Troy; Medeia kills her children as an act of vengeance against her husband; Aias reflects with sorrow on his son's inheritance, yet kills himself and leaves Eury……続きを見る

That the Roman republic died is a commonplace often repeated. In extant literature, the notion is first given form in the works of the orator Cicero (106-43 BCE) and his contemporaries, though the s……続きを見る

From the Earliest Gospel (Q+) to the Gospel of Mark focuses on the remarkable overlaps between Jesus’s teachings in the lost Gospel Q and Mark. Dennis R. MacDonald argues Synoptic intertextuality is……続きを見る

Using new and cutting-edge perspectives, this book explores literary criticism and the reception of Aristotle's Poetics in early modern Italy. Written by leading international scholars, the chapters……続きを見る

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The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not onl……続きを見る

Performing Epic or Telling Tales takes the new millennium as a starting point for an exploration of the turn to narrative in twenty-first-century theatre, which is often also a turn to Graeco-Roman ……続きを見る

First published in 1986, this book provides a handlist to James Joyce’s Ulysses, or a complete alphabetical index to the critical reading text, that is, the text on the right-hand pages in the criti……続きを見る

Drawing extensively on unpublished manuscript sources, this study uncovers the culture of experimentation that surrounded biblical exegesis in fourteenth-century England. In an area ripe for revisio……続きを見る

This Cambridge Companion serves as an authoritative guide to Augustine's Confessions - a literary classic and one of the most important theological/philosophical works of Late Antiquity. Bringing to……続きを見る

In "Gyges und sein Ring" entführt uns Friedrich Hebbel in eine fesselnde Erzählung, die sich mit moralischen Dilemmata und der Natur des Menschen auseinandersetzt. Durch die mythologische Figur des ……続きを見る