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Classical World Bogserier

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  • The Roman Poetry of Love

    Elegy and Politics in a Time of Revolution

    af Efrossini Spentzou ...
    Serier serie Classical World
    The Roman Poetry of Love explores the formation of a key literary genre in a troubled historical and political setting. The short-lived genre of Latin love elegy produced spectacular, multi-faceted and often difficult poetry. Its proponents Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid remain to this day some of the most influential poetic voices of Western civilisation.This accessible introduction ... Læs mere

    181,11 kr.

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  • Metamorphoses

    af A. D. Melville ...
    Oversat af E. J. Kenney ...
    Serier serie Oxford World's Classics
    The modern, unacademic idiom of A.D. Melville's translation opens the way to a fresh understanding of Ovid's unique and elusive vision of reality. ... Læs mere

    47,08 kr.

  • The Death of King Arthur

    af Simon Armitage ...
    The Alliterative Morte Arthure - the title given to a four-thousand line poem written sometime around 1400 - was part of a medieval Arthurian revival which produced such masterpieces as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Sir Thomas Malory's prose Morte D'Arthur.Like Gawain, the Alliterative Morte Arthure is a unique manuscript (held in the library of Lincoln Cathedral) by an anonymous author, and ... Læs mere

    81,25 kr.

  • The Complete Poems of Sappho

    Redigeret af Willis Barnstone ...
    A vivid, contemporary translation of the greatest Greek love poet—with a wealth of materials for understanding her work—by a prize-winning poet and translatorSappho’s thrilling lyric verse has been unremittingly popular for more than 2,600 years—certainly a record for poetry of any kind—and love for her art only increases as time goes on. Though her extant work consists only of a collection of ... Læs mere

    120,36 kr.

  • Poetics

    af Aristotle ...
    Oversat af Anthony Kenny ...
    Serier serie Oxford World's Classics
    'What is poetry, how many kinds of it are there, and what are their specific effects?' Aristotle's Poetics is the most influential book on poetry ever written. A founding text of European aesthetics and literary criticism, from it stems much of our modern understanding of the creation and impact of imaginative writing, including poetry, drama, and fiction. For Aristotle, the art of representation ... Læs mere

    62,80 kr.

    Også tilgængelig som: Lydbøger

    Også tilgængelig som: Lydbøger

  • Heroides

    af Ovid ...
    Oversat af Harold Isbell ...
    In the twenty-one poems of the Heroides, Ovid gave voice to the heroines and heroes of epic and myth. These deeply moving literary epistles reveal the happiness and torment of love, as the writers tell of their pain at separation, forgiveness of infidelity or anger at betrayal. The faithful Penelope wonders at the suspiciously long absence of Ulysses, while Dido bitterly reproaches Aeneas for too ... Læs mere

    94,33 kr.

  • Gilgamesh

    Redigeret af John Gardner ...
    The story of Gilgamesh, an ancient epic poem written on clay tablets in a cuneiform alphabet, is as fascinating and moving as it is crucial to our ability to fathom the time and the place in which it was written. Gardner's version restores the poetry of the text and the lyricism that is lost in the earlier, almost scientific renderings. The principal theme of the poem is a familiar one: man's ... Læs mere

    50,15 kr.

  • The Metamorphoses Of Ovid

    Oversat af Allen Mandelbaum ...
    af Ovid ...
    **Through National Book Award-winning translator Allen Mandelbaum's poetic artistry, this gloriously entertaining achievement of literature — classical myths filtered through the worldly and far from reverent sensibility of the Roman poet Ovid — is revealed anew.**Savage and sophisticated, mischievious and majestic, witty and wicked, The Metamorphoses weaves together every major mythological story ... Læs mere

    125,69 kr.

  • Cut These Words into My Stone

    Ancient Greek Epitaphs

    The lively ancient epitaphs in this bilingual collection fit together like small mosaic tiles, forming a vivid portrait of Greek society.Cut These Words into My Stone offers evidence that ancient Greek life was not only celebrated in great heroic epics, but was also commemorated in hundreds of artfully composed verse epitaphs. They have been preserved in anthologies and gleaned from weathered ... Læs mere

    199,49 kr.

  • The 25 Most Famous People of Ancient Greece - Ancient Greece History | Children's Ancient History

    af Baby Professor ...
    Ancient Greece was home to philosophers, mathematicians and other great minds who shaped civilization. You're going to meet 25 of them in the pages of this ancient history book for kids. It is hoped that by the end of this book, you will develop a sense of gratitude for all the contributions of these famous people. Who do you think made the most significant mark in history? ... Læs mere

    31,36 kr.

  • Metamorphoses III

    An Extract 511-733

    af Ovid ...
    Serier serie Latin Texts
    Metamorphoses is an epic poem but is very different from what we expect in an epic. Original, inventive and charming, the poem tells the stories of myths featuring transformations, from the creation of the universe to the death and deification of Julius Caesar. Book III concentrates on the House of Thebes, and this selection details the story of Pentheus and his tragic end after refusing to ... Læs mere

    181,11 kr.

  • Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds

    Ways of Telling the Self

    af Marina Warner ...
    Serier serie 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 ... Læs mere

    318,36 kr.