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  • Sex

    Vice and Love from Antiquity to Modernity

    af Alastair J. L. Blanshard ...
    Serier serie Classical Receptions
    Sex: Vice and Love from Antiquity to Modernity examines the impact that sexual fantasies about the classical world have had on modern Western culture.Offers a wealth of information on sex in the Greek and Roman worldCorrelates the study of classical sexuality with modern Western culturesIdentifies key influential themes in the evolution of erotic discourse from antiquity to modernityPresents a ... Læs mere

    258,74 kr.

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  • Gisli Sursson's Saga and the Saga of the People of Eyri

    af Penguin Books Ltd ...
    These sagas recount fierce feuds in which honour is fought for, sacrifice is demanded, and blood is shed. The fate of the characters at the centre of each saga, however, is very different. Gisli is a traditional Viking-age hero who is determined to exact revenge at any cost and whose death is tragic when it comes. In contrast his nephew, Snorri, represents a new generation and acts to strengthen ... Læs mere

    94,63 kr.

  • A Travel Guide to Homer

    On the Trail of Odysseus Through Turkey and the Mediterranean

    af John Freely ...
    In October 1945 at the age of 19, John Freely passed the southernmost tip of Crete on his way home from the war in China, just as Odysseus did on his homeward voyage from the battle of Troy. He has been bewitched by Homer and the lands of Homer's epics ever since. As the culmination of a life spent exploring both these lands and the stories by, and connected to, Homer, Freely has created a ... Læs mere

    202,05 kr.

  • Literary Criticism from Plato to Postmodernism

    The Humanistic Alternative

    af James Seaton ...
    This book offers a history of literary criticism from Plato to the present, arguing that this history can best be seen as a dialogue among three traditions - the Platonic, Neoplatonic, and the humanistic, originated by Aristotle. There are many histories of literary criticism, but this is the first to clarify our understanding of the many seemingly incommensurable approaches employed over the ... Læs mere

    376,83 kr.

  • «My Name is Freida Sima»

    The American-Jewish Women’s Immigrant Experience Through the Eyes of a Young Girl from the Bukovina

    af Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz ...
    Freida Sima (Bertha) Eisenberg Kraus was among the two million Jewish men, women and children who emigrated from Europe to the United States during the Great Wave of Immigration (1881–1914). This book tells her story and that of her family, from her birth in the Bukovina to her immigration to New York City alone at age fifteen in 1911, her immigrant work life, her marriage to a widower with four ... Læs mere

    563,65 kr.

  • A Handbook of Editing Early Modern Texts

    af Claire Loffman, Harriet Phillips ...
    Serier serie Material Readings in Early Modern Culture
    A Handbook of Editing Early Modern Texts provides a series of answers written by more than forty editors of diverse texts addressing the 'how-to's' of completing an excellent scholarly edition. The Handbook is primarily a practical guide rather than a theoretical forum; it airs common problems and offers a number of solutions to help a range of interested readers, from the lone editor of an ... Læs mere

    516,51 kr.

  • Greek Literature in the Roman Empire

    af Professor Jason König ...
    Serier serie Classical World
    In this book Jason Konig offers for the first time an accessible yet comprehensive account of the multi-faceted Greek literature of the Roman Empire, focusing especially on the first three centuries AD. He covers in turn the Greek novels of this period, the satirical writing of Lucian, rhetoric, philosophy, scientific and miscellanistic writing, geography and history, biography and poetry, ... Læs mere

    237,73 kr.

  • A Companion to Josephus

    Redigeret af Honora Howell Chapman, Zuleika Rodgers ...
    Serier serie Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
    A Companion to Josephus presents a collection of readings from international scholars that explore the works of the first century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus.Represents the first single-volume collection of readings to focus on JosephusCovers a wide range of disciplinary approaches to the subject, including reception historyFeatures contributions from 29 eminent scholars in the field from ... Læs mere

    442,74 kr.

  • Canidia, Rome’s First Witch

    af Professor Maxwell Teitel Paule ...
    Canidia is one of the most well-attested witches in Latin literature. She appears in no fewer than six of Horace's poems, three of which she has a prominent role in. Throughout Horace's Epodes and Satires she perpetrates acts of grave desecration, kidnapping, murder, magical torture and poisoning. She invades the gardens of Horace's literary patron Maecenas, rips apart a lamb with her teeth, ... Læs mere

    353,18 kr.

  • Augustine: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    af Eric Rebillard ...
    Serier serie 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 ... Læs mere

    80,10 kr.

  • A Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art

    Redigeret af Melinda K. Hartwig ...
    Serier serie Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
    How did ancient Egyptians define “art”—and how did the myriad of artistic works they produced mirror their worldview? A Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art presents a comprehensive collection of original essays exploring key concepts, critical discourses, and theories that shape the discipline of ancient Egyptian art. Themes and topics include methodological approaches and theoretical concepts, the ... Læs mere

    1.451,36 kr.

  • Becoming Female

    The Male Body in Greek Tragedy

    af Katrina Cawthorn ...
    "Becoming Female", the first book-length examination of the body in classical Athenian tragedy, reconsiders the figure of the male tragic hero, making use of both feminist and body theory. The male hero becomes female in the space of tragedy through the experience of suffering, and seems unable to return to any secure expression of masculinity. Katrina Cawthorn concentrates initially on the figure ... Læs mere

    1.082,39 kr.