Ancient & Classical 91

The author's argument starts from a kind of literature that has not so far seemed important enough to be included in this new wave of publications on the literary and intellectual culture of the day……続きを見る

The origins of present-day Ibero-American racialization can be traced to the period when Europe straddled the boundary between the Middle Ages and the era of New World exploration. Focusing on theme……続きを見る

treasure trove of more than two hundred poems, this gem of an anthology compiled by Mary E Burt is indeed a most valuable set of poems to read or listen to. Published in 1904*, Poems Every Child Sho……続きを見る

This book is a companion to logical thought and logical thinking in China with a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. It introduces the basic ideas and theories of Chinese thought in a com……続きを見る

The Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy: Perspectives Across the Humanities is an interdisciplinary study of the abiding quarrel to which poet-philosopher Plato referred centuries ago in the Repub……続きを見る

Extrait : "TORRIBIO, aux Fossoyeurs : Allez ! il n'est plus besoin de vous ici ; mais, comme il ne doit pas être dit que ceux qui ont creusé la fosse du plus brave capitaine qui ait jamais existé de……続きを見る

This study brings new methodologies of literary geography to bear upon the unique contents of a codex known as British Library MS Harley 2253. The Harley manuscript was produced upon England’s Welsh……続きを見る

Extrait : "Nous habitions alors une maison predue dans une des plus pittoresques vallées des Vosges, la plus mystérieuse, la plus recueillie, et cependant la plus gaie qu'on puisse imaginer, dans so……続きを見る

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Le Dialogue des orateurs (Dialogus de Oratoribus, vers 105 apr. J.-C.), dont on considère aujourd’hui que l’auteur est très probablem……続きを見る

How were women represented in Greek tragedy? This question lies at the heart of much modern scholarship on ancient drama, yet it has typically been approached using evidence drawn only from the thir……続きを見る

Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature introduces individual works of Greek and Latin literature to readers who are approaching them for the first time. Each volume sets the work in its literary ……続きを見る

Greek and Roman stories of origin, or aetia, provide a fascinating window onto ancient conceptions of time. Aetia pervade ancient literature at all its stages, and connect the past with the present ……続きを見る

Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age explores one major manuscript repository’s digital presence and poses timely questions about studying books from a temporal and spatial distance via the onlin……続きを見る

This volume explores the reception of the classical past in the works of twentieth-century American dramatist Robert E. Sherwood and his use of the ancient world to critique key events and trends in……続きを見る

These essays of Sarah Carpenter have been selected to reflect her career’s close focus on the relationship of performance and audience. They are drawn from the last 25 years of her writing, and this……続きを見る

Here Stephen Tracy offers a vivid, fast-paced narrative that serves as a reading guide to Homer's monumental epic. He not only provides translations of key passages and traces the evolution of major……続きを見る

This book tells the fascinating story of Roman Britain, beginning with the late pre-Roman Iron Age and ending with the province's independence from Roman rule in AD 409. Incorporating for the first ……続きを見る

This study examines how Tacitus' representation of speech determines the roles of speakers within the political sphere, and explores the possibility of politically effective speech in the principate……続きを見る

Le recueil "Curiosa: Essais critiques de littérature ancienne ignorée ou mal connue" réunit des réflexions sur des œuvres littéraires méconnues, offrant un éclairage audacieux sur des textes souvent……続きを見る

Dans "Études sur Aristophane", Émile Deschanel explore avec une grande érudition l'œuvre du célèbre dramaturge grec, Aristophane. Le livre se distingue par son style analytique et poétique, offrant ……続きを見る

Toward the end of the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh King Gilgamesh laments the untimely death of his comrade Enkidu, "my friend whom I loved dearly." Similarly in the Bible, David mourns his compan……続きを見る

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, Christop……続きを見る

In this fascinating study, Muhsin J. al-Musawi shows how deeply Islamic heritage and culture is embedded in the tales of The Thousand and One Nights (known to many as the Arabian Nights) and how thi……続きを見る

Just Life reorients ethics and politics around the generativity of mothers and daughters rather than the right to property and the sexual proprieties of the oedipal drama. Invoking two concrete univ……続きを見る

Los demonios de Cervantes, obra compuesta por 5 parte o tratados en los cuales el autor desarrolla aspectos fundamentales de la obra de Miguel de Cervantes. A través de la exploración y reflexión so……続きを見る

The thirteenth-century allegorical dream vision, the Roman de la Rose, transformed how medieval literary texts engaged with philosophical ideas. Written in Old French, its influence dominated French……続きを見る

Virgil's Georgics depicts the world and its peoples in great detail, but this geographical interest has received little detailed scholarly attention. Hundreds of years later, readers in the British ……続きを見る

The best-selling, essential, and straightforward translation of the Homeric Hymns, accompanied by an expanded introduction and updated expert notes. A rich source for students of Greek mythology and……続きを見る

Both in antiquity and ever since the Renaissance Lucretius' De Rerum Natura has been admired – and condemned – for its startling poetry, its evangelical faith in materialist causation, and its seduc……続きを見る

Ovid's remarkable and endlessly fascinating Metamorphoses is one of the best-known and most popular works of classical literature, exerting a pervasive influence on later European literature and cul……続きを見る