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Compunction was one of the most important emotions for medieval Christianity; in fact, through its confessional function, compunction became the primary means for an affective sinner to gain redempt……続きを見る

Going beyond exclusively national perspectives, this volume considers the reception of the ancient Greek poet Sappho and her first Latin translator, Catullus, as a literary pair who transmit poetic ……続きを見る

Argues that images are at the heart of the dialogue's philosophical argumentation. Although Plato has long been known as a critic of imagination and its limits, Marina Berzins McCoy explores the ext……続きを見る

Presents new ways of thinking about the human and the humanities through a rethinking of Antigone. Why revive Antigone-again? And why now? William Robert responds to these questions through an inven……続きを見る

Provocative reinterpretation of Plato's Symposium. An original analysis of one of Plato's most well-known and pivotal dialogues, this study is based upon the effort to think together the most manife……続きを見る

How Greek Tragedy Works is a journey through the hidden meanings and dual nature of Greek tragedy, drawing on its foremost dramatists to bring about a deeper understanding of how and why to engage w……続きを見る

This exploration of key terms related to social and political order, found in early Indian texts, challenges the idea of a unified ancient India and a unified national identity at that time. This co……続きを見る

Do we take pleasure in reading ancient Greek tragedy despite the unsettling content or because of it? Does a safe aesthetic distance protect us from tragic suffering, or does the proximity to death ……続きを見る

構成中國古典學最基本特色的金石學，特別是其中的碑刻墓誌研究，在20世紀非但沒有衰落，反倒迎來了另外一次復興。 久居漢唐故都的李浩，利用地利之便，在摩挲耽玩片石之餘，也對新出文物及時跟進，鈔錄釋讀，並配……続きを見る

The Oxford Handbook of Egyptology offers a comprehensive survey of the entire study of ancient Egypt from prehistory through to the end of the Roman period. It seeks to place Egyptology within its t……続きを見る

Tenderness is not a notion commonly associated with the Romans, whose mythical origin was attributed to brutal rape. Yet, as Hérica Valladares argues in this ground-breaking study, in the second hal……続きを見る

Bombing Pompeii examines the circumstances under which over 160 Allied bombs hit the archaeological site of Pompeii in August and September 1943, and the wider significance of this event in the hist……続きを見る

This book presents an important re-theorisation of gender and anti-Semitism in medieval biblical drama. It charts conflicts staged between dramatic personae in plays that represent theological trans……続きを見る

L’Ippolito fu una delle poche vittorie di Euripide. Il primo Ippolito, cioè l’Ippolito velato (dal fatto che l’eroe si nasconde il viso davanti alla dichiarazione d’amore della matrigna Fedra) aveva……続きを見る

Poetry in Dialogue in the Duecento and Dante provides a new perspective on the highly networked literary landscape of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy. It demonstrates the fundamental role o……続きを見る

First published in 1991. It was the lyric poetry of Petrarch that popularized the sonnet in European literature, that set the standard for love poetry for centuries to follow. Compared to the large ……続きを見る

《漫漫古典情2：詩詞那一刻》系列作品── 詩文名家樸月精選「唐至民國」44首經典詩詞，娓娓道來背後精彩故事 【一場與最美古詩詞的相遇】 詩詞就是一幕幕的故事，一起在時間流轉中，領略詩詞的動人風情。 【超越時……続きを見る

品最美詩詞，讀詩人故事， 超越時代、細水長流的「漫漫古典情」 只是一兩句詩詞，卻令讀者聞之觸動！ 是怎樣深刻的故事，讓詩人動筆寫下了千古佳作？ 【超越時代、細水長流的「漫漫古典情」】 時代流行一直變化，……続きを見る

學生推薦最佳詩詞古文入門讀物，與《古文觀止》、《世說新語》、《史記》共同入選「一百本好書」中「古典詞章」類別，重新修訂最新版本。 一本最適合贈人、悠間品讀，推薦給青年學子的詩詞賞析讀物 詩詞與生活的36……続きを見る

This is the first book-length study of Plautus' shortest surviving comedy, Curculio, a play in which the tricksy brown-nosed title character (“The Weevil”) bamboozles a shady banker and a pious pimp……続きを見る

Agamemnon is the first of the three plays within the Oresteia trilogy and is considered to be one of Aeschylus' greatest works. This collection of 12 essays, written by prominent international acade……続きを見る

The heroines of Greek tragedy presented in the plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides have long captivated audiences and critics. In this volume each of the eleven chapters discusses one of the……続きを見る

The scholarship and teaching of manuscript studies has been transformed by digitisation, rendering previously rarefied documents accessible for study on a vast scale. The Cambridge Companion to Medi……続きを見る

In twelfth-century Constantinople, writers worked on commission for the imperial family or aristocratic patrons. Texts were occasioned by specific events, representing both a link between writer and……続きを見る

“Ancient Greek dance” traditionally evokes images of stately choruses or lively Dionysiac revels – communal acts of performance. This is the first book to look beyond the chorus to the diverse and c……続きを見る

What did it mean to be a poet in fourteenth-century Italy? What counted as poetry? In an effort to answer these questions, this book examines the careers of four medieval Italian poets (Albertino Mu……続きを見る

This ambitious book presents the first sustained analysis of the evolving representation of Cuthbert, the premier saint of northern England. The study spans both major and neglected texts across eig……続きを見る

This new introduction to Euripides' fascinating interpretation of the story of Electra and her brother Orestes emphasizes its theatricality, showing how captivating the play remains to this day. Ele……続きを見る

This reader of Virgil's text features passages from the second half of the Aeneid and is designed to help students understand and appreciate Virgil's poem, as well as improve their Latin reading ski……続きを見る

An innovative and accessible overview of how ancient Scandinavians understood and made use of their mythological stories. Old Norse Mythology provides a unique survey of the mythology of Scandinavi……続きを見る