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Epic battles, hideous monsters and a host of petty gods--the world of Classical mythology continues to fascinate and inspire. Heroes like Herakles, Achilles and Perseus have influenced Western art a……続きを見る

台灣第一本西洋古典神話專題 以陰性力量，把追尋目標從向外拓展生命的廣度與長度，轉為向內凝聚生命的深度與密度，開創人生新境界。 「神話就像房子的樑，外表看不到，卻是支撐房子供人居住的重要結構。」──羅洛．……続きを見る

This book examines tragedy and tragic philosophy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to the present day. It explores key themes in the links between suffering and ethics through postcolonial literat……続きを見る

Medieval Literature and Social Politics brings together seventeen articles by literary historian Stephen Knight. The book primarily focuses on the social and political meaning of medieval literature……続きを見る

Michelle Zerba’s Modern Odysseys explores three major writers in global modernism from the Mediterranean, Anglo-European Britain, and the Caribbean whose groundbreaking literary works have never bee……続きを見る

This major new literary study offers a fresh view of the significance of the famous group of fourteenth-century poems, 'Pearl', 'Cleanness', 'Patience' and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'. It is a……続きを見る

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, January 2022 A TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR A BBC HISTORY MAG BOOK OF THE YEAR A DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR S……続きを見る

Latin literature is crowded with portraits of Romans in transit, but despite this ubiquity scholars have been reluctant to read vehicles as significant conveyors of textual and cultural meaning. Thi……続きを見る

This book offers, in one volume, a modern English translation of all 17 books of Silius Italicus’ Punica. Composed in the first century CE, this epic tells the story of the Second Punic War between ……続きを見る

This is the first major collection of essays to look at the literature of the entire Tudor period, from the reign of Henry VII to death of Elizabeth I. It pays particularly attention to the years be……続きを見る

The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the sc……続きを見る

The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies is a unique collection of some seventy articles which together explore the ways in which ancient Greece has been, is, and might be studied. It is intended to ……続きを見る

In classical scholarship, the presence of legal language in love poetry is commonly interpreted as absurd and incongruous. Ovid's legalisms have been described as frivolous, humorous, and ornamental……続きを見る

Looting, despoiling temples, attempted rape and judicial murder: these are just some of the themes of this classic piece of writing by one of the world’s greatest orators. This particular passage is……続きを見る

This book introduces readers who may have no previous knowledge of Menander's comedies to Epitrepontes (The Arbitration), arguably the most exquisitely crafted of his better-preserved plays. It expl……続きを見る

Iconoclasm was the name given to the stance of that portion of Eastern Christianity that rejected worshipping God through images (eikones) representing Christ, the Virgin or the saints and was the o……続きを見る

Conventional approaches to the Synoptic gospels argue that the gospel authors acted as literate spokespersons for their religious communities. Whether described as documenting intra-group 'oral trad……続きを見る

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the history and culture of the Parthian Empire, which existed for almost 500 years from 247 BC to 224 AD. The Parthians were Rome’s great opponents i……続きを見る

De verdensberømte islandske sagaer om bl.a. Egil Skalle-Grimssøn, Gunløg Slangetunge og Njal nylæses af Keld Zeruneith, og for første gang nogensinde beskrives sagaernes vilde drømmeliv indgående. M……続きを見る

In a provocative take on Germanic heroic poetry, Taranu reads texts like Beowulf, Maldon, and the Waltharius as participating in alternative modes of history-writing that functioned in a larger ecol……続きを見る

Myth criticism flourished in the mid-twentieth century under the powerful influence of Canadian thinker Northrop Frye. It asserted the need to identify common, unifying patterns in literature, arts,……続きを見る

The term "classical" is used to describe everything from the poems of Homer to entire periods of Greek and Roman antiquity. But just how did the concept evolve? This collection of essays by leading ……続きを見る

Shakespeare wrote for a theater in which the audience was understood to be, and at times invited to be, active and participatory. How have Shakespeare’s audiences, from the sixteenth century to the ……続きを見る

Grief and the Hero examines Achilles’ experience of the futility of grief in the context of the Iliad’s study of anger. No action can undo his friend Patroklos’ death, but the experience of death dr……続きを見る

In Clash of Cultures: A Psychodynamic Analysis of Homer and the Iliad, Vincenzo Sanguineti examines the psychological complexities of Homer through the Iliad, reflecting on the Iliad’s narrative as ……続きを見る

Hesiod, who lived in Boetia in the late eighth century BC, is one of the oldest known, and possibly the oldest of Greek poets. His Theogony contains a systematic genealogy of the gods from the begin……続きを見る

Tre motivi per leggerlo. • Perché è un appassionante viaggio nell'antichità – gli eroi di Omero, la Grecia classica, il cristianesimo eretico – alla ricerca di risposte fondamentali per la nostra vi……続きを見る

Noi tutti vogliamo essere felici, ma per essere felici dobbiamo per prima cosa tenere a bada le nostra angosce, guardare la realtà e poi accettarla con serenità o con altrettanta serenità cercare di……続きを見る

La poesia amorosa del Medioevo viene spesso considerata una lirica fortemente codificata, basata sulla ripetizione e la variazione di situazioni e dichiarazioni sentimentali fisse, convenzionali. Ma……続きを見る

Ovidio è tra i classici più amati e più fortunati dell’antichità, e il suo astro non ha mai conosciuto eclissi. Autore di un’opera influentissima come le Metamorfosi, è teorico del gioco amoroso, in……続きを見る