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  • Victorian Horace

    Classics and Class

    door Stephen Harrison ...
    Serie series Classical Inter/Faces
    The poetry of Horace was central to Victorian male elite education and the ancient poet himself, suitably refashioned, became a model for the English gentleman. Horace and the Victorians examines the English reception of Horace in Victorian culture, a period which saw the foundations of the discipline of modern classical scholarship in England and of many associated and lasting social values. It ... Meer lezen

    36,01 €

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  • The Bhagavad Gita

    door Eknath Easwaran ...
    Serie Boek 1 - Easwaran's Classics of Indian Spirituality
    The Bhagavad Gita is the best known of all the Indian scriptures, and Eknath Easwaran’s best-selling translation is reliable, readable, and profound.Easwaran's 55-page introduction places the Bhagavad Gita in its historical setting, and brings out the universality and timelessness of its teachings. Chapter introductions clarify key concepts, and notes and a glossary explain Sanskrit terms.Easwaran ... Meer lezen

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  • Early Christianity: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    door Eric Rebillard ...
    Serie series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Meer lezen

    8,91 €

  • Ancient Philosophical Poetics

    door Malcolm Heath ...
    Serie series Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy
    What is poetry? Why do human beings produce and consume it? What effects does it have on them? Can it give them insight into truth, or is it dangerously misleading? This book is a wide-ranging study of the very varied answers which ancient philosophers gave to such questions. An extended discussion of Plato's Republic shows how the two discussions of poetry are integrated with each other and with ... Meer lezen

    27,22 €

  • Narrative and Identity in the Ancient Greek Novel

    Returning Romance

    door Tim Whitmarsh ...
    Serie series Greek Culture in the Roman World
    The Greek romance was for the Roman period what epic was for the Archaic period or drama for the Classical: the central literary vehicle for articulating ideas about the relationship between self and community. This book offers a reading of the romance both as a distinctive narrative form (using a range of narrative theories) and as a paradigmatic expression of identity (social, sexual and ... Meer lezen

    40,82 €

  • Aristotle's Politics

    A Critical Guide

    Bewerkt door Thornton Lockwood, Thanassis Samaras ...
    Serie series Cambridge Critical Guides
    Arguably the foundational text of Western political theory, Aristotle's Politics has become one of the most widely and carefully studied works in ethical and political philosophy. This volume of essays offers fresh interpretations of Aristotle's key work and opens new paths for students and scholars to explore. The contributors embrace a variety of methodological approaches that range across the ... Meer lezen

    42,06 €

  • Babylon

    Legend, History and the Ancient City

    door Michael Seymour ...
    Babylon: for eons its very name has been a byword for luxury and wickedness. 'By the rivers of Babylon we sat down and wept', wrote the psalmist, 'as we remembered Zion'. One of the greatest cities of the ancient world, Babylon has been eclipsed by its own sinful reputation. For two thousand years the real, physical metropolis lay buried while another, ghostly city lived on, engorged on accounts ... Meer lezen

    30,20 €

  • Ancient Chinese Emperors and How They Ruled-Children's Ancient History Books

    door Baby Professor ...
    History textbooks really do look and sound boring. This ancient history book is not one of them. Featuring the ancient Chinese Emperors and how they ruled, this book aims to present the stories in the most interesting way possible to keep your kids’ enthusiasm. Check it out here and buy your own copy. ... Meer lezen

    3,56 €

  • Mimetic Contagion

    Art and Artifice in Terence's Eunuch

    door The late Robert Germany ...
    Serie series Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture & Representation
    When we are confronted with a work of art, what is its effect on us? In contrast to post-Enlightenment conceptions, which tend to restrict themselves to aesthetic or discursive responses, the ancient Greeks and Romans often conceived works of art as having a more dynamic effect on their viewers, inspiring them to direct imitation of what they saw represented. This notion of 'mimetic contagion' was ... Meer lezen

    96,34 €

  • Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature

    Dante, Petrarch, Cavalcanti, and the Authority of the Vernacular

    door Martin Eisner ...
    Serie Boek 87 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    Giovanni Boccaccio played a pivotal role in the extraordinary emergence of the Italian literary tradition in the fourteenth century, not only as author of the Decameron, but also as scribe of Dante, Petrarch and Cavalcanti. Using a single codex written entirely in Boccaccio's hand, Martin Eisner brings together material philology and literary history to reveal the multiple ways Boccaccio ... Meer lezen

    42,06 €

  • Landscape, Nature, and the Sacred in Byzantium

    door Veronica della Dora ...
    Nature is as much an idea as a physical reality. By 'placing' nature within Byzantine culture and within the discourse of Orthodox Christian thought and practice, Landscape, Nature and the Sacred in Byzantium explores attitudes towards creation that are utterly and fascinatingly different from the modern. Drawing on Patristic writing and on Byzantine literature and art, the book develops a fresh ... Meer lezen

    42,06 €

  • Selections from Apuleius Metamorphoses V

    An Edition for Intermediate Students

    Serie series Bloomsbury Classical Languages
    This is the first intermediate-student edition of a selection from Apuleius' Metamorphoses V. Sections 11–24 are included as Latin text with an accompanying commentary and vocabulary. Focusing on a deliberately concise extract from the original, this edition is designed to be manageable for students reading the text for the first time while also perfectly encapsulating the interest of the longer ... Meer lezen

    12,17 €