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  • Sirio

    Tre seminari sulla cosmologia arcaica

    Durante la stretta collaborazione che condusse alla stesura del «Mulino di Amleto», Giorgio de Santillana e Hertha von Dechend raccontarono in varie conferenze le scoperte sensazionali che andavano via via facendo. Sepolti in sedi editoriali difficilmente accessibili, i testi di alcuni di quegli interventi sono ora qui raccolti, e consentono al lettore di gettare uno sguardo nell’incomparabile ... Read more

    $13.19 AUD

  • The Laws of Solon

    A New Edition with Introduction, Translation and Commentary

    Solon (c 658-558 BC) is famous as both statesman and poet but also, and above all, as the paramount lawmaker of ancient Athens. Though his works survive only in fragments, we know from the writings of Herodotus and Plutarch that his constitutional reforms against the venality, greed and political power-play of Attica's tyrants and noblemen were hugely influential-and may even be said to have laid ... Read more

    $52.99 AUD

  • 彩繪山海經

    by 施惠淇 ...
    打開本書,如同開啟「異世界之門」!傳說中的妖怪、神祇、奇異境地,文圖並茂地呈現在您眼前**還要讓****神靈精怪全部出籠,**來個東西方諸神怪大比拼您將見識古老傳說的魅力和先人的魔幻想像力,驚異程度絕不輸線上遊戲快來跟著《彩繪山海經》,遨遊神話之海尋寶囉!每一個古老的民族,都有一部神話史詩;每一個古老的國家,也至少都有一部神話聖典。而中國,卻因為種種因素,未能留下先民的神話故事,甚至連大至的概貌都很難追尋,唯一留下一點點線索的是先秦時期傳世的《山海經》一書。藉由此書,我們或可遙想中原大地上各個民族的一些神話事跡。但《山海經》一書文字太過簡略,所記述的方土、民族、人物、異禽、異獸等等,也無相應的文獻或口傳故事可以印證,是以此書歷代以來流傳不廣。惟近代神話學興起,開啟了神話研究的新契機,經由比較各... ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • Individuation in Fairy Tales

    Revised Edition

    Series series C. G. Jung Foundation Books Series
    With a text revised and corrected by the author, this definitive edition of Individuation in Fairy Tales is rich with insights from religion, literature, and myth. Dr. von Franz focuses on the symbolism of the bird motif in six fairy tales of Europe and Asia: "The White Parrot" (Spain), "The Bath Bagerd" (Persia), "Princess Hassan Pasha" (Turkestan), "The Bid Flower Triller" (Iran), "The ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

  • Storia della letteratura cristiana antica

    L'opera, a firma di due tra i più importanti specialisti italiani della materia, costituisce uno strumento agile e denso per introdurre allo studio della letteratura cristiana antica. Presentata in seconda edizione rivista e ampiamente aggiornata, essa coniuga la chiarezza espositiva con un'accurata informazione sullo stato degli studi italiani e stranieri. La buona accoglienza ricevuta dalla ... Read more

    $58.29 AUD

  • The Trojan War

    A legendary conflict in Ancient Greece

    by 50minutes ...
    Series series History
    Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the history of the Trojan War in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Trojan War. When Menelaus, king of Sparta, returned home after visiting his dying father in Crete to discover that his beautiful wife, Helen, had been kidnapped by Paris and taken to Troy, he was furious. He declared ... Read more

    $13.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Roman Homosexuality

    Second Edition

    Ten years after its original publication, Roman Homosexuality remains the definitive statement of this interesting but often misunderstood aspect of Roman culture. Learned yet accessible, the book has reached both students and general readers with an interest in ancient sexuality. This second edition features a new foreword by Martha Nussbaum, a completely rewritten introduction that takes account ... Read more

    $59.99 AUD

  • Ancient Greek Athletics

    Primary Sources in Translation

    The Sourcebook of Ancient Greek Athletics offers the most comprehensive collection to date of primary sources in translation for the study of ancient Greek athletics. Because Greek athletics was such an essential feature of both Greek and Roman culture, there is an especially strong need for proper treatment and understanding of the texts and other media used to reconstruct practices and ... Read more

    $48.99 AUD

  • Vom Anfang und Ende der Welt – Deutsche Mythologie

    by Paul Herrmann ...
    Der Zauber der germanischen Sagen.Woher stammen die Zwerge und Riesen, Walküren und Hexen, die unsere Kindermärchen bevölkern? Was hat Frau Holle mit dem alten Barbarossa im Kyffhäuser zu tun, und wer ist eigentlich der Klabautermann? Paul Herrmann erzählt von Zauberei, Göttern und Naturgeistern ebenso wie vom Ursprung des Seelenglaubens der Germanen und eröffnet einen Blick auf eine faszinierende ... Read more

    $13.30 AUD

  • The Greek Plays

    Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides

    Series series Modern Library Classics
    A landmark anthology of the masterpieces of Greek drama, featuring all-new, highly accessible translations of some of the world’s most beloved plays, including Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, Bacchae, Electra, Medea, Antigone, and Oedipus the KingFeaturing translations by Emily Wilson, Frank Nisetich, Sarah Ruden, Rachel Kitzinger, Mary Lefkowitz, and James RommThe great plays of Ancient Greece are ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • Sofocle. Le tragedie

    Tutto il teatro di Sofocle: Aiace, Trachinie, Antigone, Elettra, Edipo re, Filottete, Edipo a Colono. Ateniese, innamorato della sua città, ne esaltò la bellezza, ne difese le istituzioni, ma intravide anche le insidie e i pericoli del passaggio epocale dall’individualismo conservatore delle famiglie aristocratiche all’egualitarismo democratico dello stato di diritto. Cantore della polis, ma anche ... Read more

    $14.29 AUD

  • Old Babylonian Texts in the Schøyen Collection, Part Two

    School Letters, Model Contracts, and Related Texts

    Series Book 2 - CUSAS
    In ancient Mesopotamia, men training to be scribes copied model letters in order to practice writing and familiarize themselves with epistolary forms and expressions. Similarly, model contracts were used to teach them how to draw up agreements for the transactions typical of everyday economic life. This volume makes available a trove of previously unknown tablets and fragments, now housed in the ... Read more

    $132.99 AUD

  • Premesse a Cassandra

    by Christa Wolf ...
    Translated by Anita Raja ...
    «Voglio pregarvi di seguirmi in un viaggio» inizia Christa Wolf riferendosi a un viaggio in Grecia ma anche alle vie percorse dopo che Cassandra ha preso possesso di lei. Iniziamo così a seguirla tra le rovine di Cnosso, nella discussione delle teorie degli archeologi, attraverso la ricostruzione della storia dei miti, sulle tracce di una società (forse) matriarcale, (forse) pacifica, in compagnia ... Read more

    $14.29 AUD

  • De la brièveté de la vie

    by Sénèque ...
    De la brièveté de la vie est un dialogue du philosophe romain Sénèque, écrit en 49 ap. J.-C..Dans cette œuvre, adressée à Paulinus, beau-père de Sénèque, ce dernier expose que pour atteindre le bonheur, il faut consacrer son temps à la sagesse et non le perdre en activités stériles et inutiles.Ce livre numérique comporte une table des matières dynamique.Il est parfaitement mise en page pour une ... Read more

    $2.81 AUD

  • NIETZSCHE: Beyond Good and Evil, Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Hellenism & Pessimism

    The Birth of Tragedy (3 Books in One Edition)

    "Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None" chronicles the fictitious travels and speeches of Zarathustra, the founder of Zoroastrianism. Zarathustra contains the famous dictum "God is dead" and the concept of the "Übermensch" (overman or superman). In "Beyond Good and Evil" Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of lacking critical sense and blindly accepting dogmatic premises in their ... Read more

    $2.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beowulf

    a new translation

    A GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATOR, AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of The Mere WifeNearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf — and fifty years after the translation that continues to torment high-school students around the world — there is a a radical new verse interpretation of the epic poem by Maria Dahvana Headley, . ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD

  • The Ingenious Language

    Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek

    Translated by Will Schutt ...
    An Italian journalist pleads her case for learning ancient Greek in modern times.For word nerds, language loons, and grammar geeks, an impassioned and informative literary leap into the wonders of the Greek language. Here are nine ways Greek can transform your relationship to time and to those around you, nine reflections on the language of Sappho, Plato, and Thucydides, and its relevance to our ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Modern Myths

    Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination

    by Philip Ball ...
    With The Modern Myths, brilliant science communicator Philip Ball spins a new yarn. From novels and comic books to B-movies, it is an epic exploration of literature, new media and technology, the nature of storytelling, and the making and meaning of our most important tales.Myths are usually seen as stories from the depths of time—fun and fantastical, but no longer believed by anyone. Yet, as ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD

  • Chaucer

    A European Life

    by Marion Turner ...
    A groundbreaking biography that recreates the cosmopolitan world in which a wine merchant’s son became one of the most celebrated of all English poetsMore than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life—yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they reflect a conflicted world, and their astonishing ... Read more

    $31.99 AUD

  • Ben-Hur

    by Lew Wallace ...
    HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.‘The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.’In first-century Judea, Jewish prince Judah Ben-Hur is falsely accused of assassinating a Roman governor, and sentenced to life as a galley slave. His fortunes are reversed when he saves the captain’s life and he returns, ... Read more

    $6.99 AUD $5.99 AUD

  • The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War

    by Donald Kagan ...
    "Kagan's book is a contribution of considerable distinction, scrupulously fair, carefully argued, and lucidly written. And, what is more, it is persuasive.... Kagan sets out the story in detail and with acumen. The case has been adumbrated before―but never presented with such thoroughness."―Journal of Interdisciplinary HistoryThe first volume of Donald Kagan's acclaimed four-volume history of the ... Read more

    $30.99 AUD

  • A History of the Tajiks

    Iranians of the East

    by Richard Foltz ...
    In this comprehensive and up to date history, from prehistoric proto-Indo-Iranian times to the post-Soviet period, Richard Foltz traces the complex linguistic, cultural and political history of the Tajiks, a Persian-speaking Iranian ethnic group from the modern-day Central Asian states of Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan. In eight chapters, the author explores the revitalisation of Persian ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance

    Edited by Michael Wyatt ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    The Renaissance in Italy continues to exercise a powerful hold on the popular imagination and on scholarly enquiry. This Companion presents a lively, comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and current approach to the period that extends in Italy from the turn of the fourteenth century through the latter decades of the sixteenth. Addressed to students, scholars, and non-specialists, it introduces the ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD

  • Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds

    Ways of Telling the Self

    by Marina Warner ...
    Series series Clarendon Lectures in English
    Metamorphosis is a dynamic principle of creation, vital to natural processes of generation and evolution, growth and decay, yet it also threatens personal identity if human beings are subject to a continual process of bodily transformation. Shape-shifting also belongs in the landscape of magic, witchcraft, and wonder, and enlivens classical mythology, early modern fairy tales and uncanny fictions ... Read more

    $64.99 AUD