Ancient, classical and medieval texts

This book investigates the issue of the singularity versus the multiplicity of ancient Near Eastern deities who are known by a common first name but differentiated by their last names, or geographic epithets.

This book brings together our present-day knowledge about textile terminology in the Akkadian language of the first-millennium BC.

This book brings together our present-day knowledge about textile terminology in the Akkadian language of the first-millennium BC.

This volume is dedicated to Miguel Civil in celebration of his 90th birthday.

This volume is dedicated to Miguel Civil in celebration of his 90th birthday.

Early Assyriologists were lured to Babylonian studies by the light which cuneiform text shed on ancient history and the Bible, and for later scholars this is still the attraction.

The textual tradition of the Latin dramatist Publius Terentius Afer (second century BC) is unusually rich and complex.

The Italian spoken in most of Tuscany is characterized by a number of peculiar pronunciations which for over half a century Romance scholars have explained by a theory of linguistic substratum influence.

This book is concerned with the idea of character and the methods of representing it in ancient and medieval narrative fiction, and shows how late classical and medieval authors adopted techniques and perspectives from rhetoric, philosophy, and sometimes theology to fashion figures who define not only themselves but also their readers.

Drawing on an extensive knowledge of the critical history of Olympian One, Professor Gerber here presents a thorough analysis of the language thought, myth, structure, and poetic technique of Pindar's most famous ode.

Three important literary questions in early Greek lyrics are addressed in this study.

Of all stylistic devices, imagery has the greatest appeal to the imagination, but is also the most likely to offend, either by staleness or by tasteless excess.

Early Assyriologists were lured to Babylonian studies by the light which cuneiform text shed on ancient history and the Bible, and for later scholars this is still the attraction.

The textual tradition of the Latin dramatist Publius Terentius Afer (second century BC) is unusually rich and complex.

The Italian spoken in most of Tuscany is characterized by a number of peculiar pronunciations which for over half a century Romance scholars have explained by a theory of linguistic substratum influence.

Of all stylistic devices, imagery has the greatest appeal to the imagination, but is also the most likely to offend, either by staleness or by tasteless excess.

An anthology of translated analogues, in whole or in part, on the theme of paradise lost.

This work examines the more than one hundred analogues of Samson Agonistes, about half of them written earlier than Milton's drama.

This Miltonic reference works is the third and final volume in a trilogy dealing with Miltonic analogues.

Three important literary questions in early Greek lyrics are addressed in this study.

Drawing on an extensive knowledge of the critical history of Olympian One, Professor Gerber here presents a thorough analysis of the language thought, myth, structure, and poetic technique of Pindar's most famous ode.

This book is concerned with the idea of character and the methods of representing it in ancient and medieval narrative fiction, and shows how late classical and medieval authors adopted techniques and perspectives from rhetoric, philosophy, and sometimes theology to fashion figures who define not only themselves but also their readers.

An anthology of translated analogues, in whole or in part, on the theme of paradise lost.

This work examines the more than one hundred analogues of Samson Agonistes, about half of them written earlier than Milton's drama.

This Miltonic reference works is the third and final volume in a trilogy dealing with Miltonic analogues.

It is widely believed that people living in the Middle Ages seldom traveled.

It is widely believed that people living in the Middle Ages seldom traveled.

Critical editions of most classical authors are based on readings transmitted by medieval scholars that can be examined and collated.

The myth of Orpheus, shaman and teacher, musician and lover, is the subject of this book.

Of irony as a figure of speech we are commonly aware: it is an everyday conversational weapon.

From the time of Cyrus to the time of Herod, except for a brief period of independence in the second and first centuries BC, Judea was subservient to either the Persians, the Hellenistic kingdoms, or the Romans.

This study makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the development of ancient Platonism and of the influence of Greek philosophy on Christian thought.

Until the nineteenth century it was common to assume that philosophers said more or less the same things throughout their lives.

This volume contains an edited selection of the papers read at the International Colloquium on Interpretation of Narrative held at the University of Toronto, 24 to 27 March 1976 by the Graduate Programme in Comparative Literature.

The well-known reference works and analyses of Old English literature show little agreement about the definition and exemplification of style in the poetry of the period.

Walking through Elysium stresses the subtle and intricate ways writers across time and space wove Vergil's underworld in Aeneid 6 into their works.

Walking through Elysium stresses the subtle and intricate ways writers across time and space wove Vergil's underworld in Aeneid 6 into their works.

Whether it is our love of chance and vicarious thrill, our need to release anxiety and aggression, or our appreciation of the arc traced by a ball at a crucial moment - sports draw us in.

Whether it is our love of chance and vicarious thrill, our need to release anxiety and aggression, or our appreciation of the arc traced by a ball at a crucial moment - sports draw us in.

Although Aristotle's contribution to biology has long been recognized, there are many philosophers and historians of science who still hold that he was the great delayer of natural science, calling him the man who held up the Scientific Revolution by two thousand years.

Although Aristotle's contribution to biology has long been recognized, there are many philosophers and historians of science who still hold that he was the great delayer of natural science, calling him the man who held up the Scientific Revolution by two thousand years.

Before Utopia demonstrates that Thomas More's Utopia (1516) is not, as is widely accepted, a rhetorical play of spirit but is instead built from a particular philosophy.

Before Utopia demonstrates that Thomas More's Utopia (1516) is not, as is widely accepted, a rhetorical play of spirit but is instead built from a particular philosophy.

Fides in Flavian Literature explores the ideology of "e;good faith"e; (fides) during the time of the emperors Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian (69-96 CE), the new imperial dynasty that gained power in the wake of the civil wars of the period.

Fides in Flavian Literature explores the ideology of "e;good faith"e; (fides) during the time of the emperors Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian (69-96 CE), the new imperial dynasty that gained power in the wake of the civil wars of the period.

This sixth of seven volumes devoted to the Adages in the Collected Works of Erasmus completes the translation and annotation of the more than 4000 proverbs gathered and commented on by Erasmus in his Adagiorum Chiliades (Thousands of Adages, usually known more simply as the Adagia).

This original and provocative engagement with Erasmus' work argues that the Dutch humanist discovered in classical Stoicism several principles which he developed into a paradigm-shifting application of Stoicism to Christianity.

WHEN GODS TURN VENGEFUL, ONLY THE BRAVE CAN DEFY FATE AND FIND THEIR WAY HOMEDiscover the stunning conclusion to Stephen Fry's internationally bestselling Greek myths series'Relatable and full of humour ' GUARDIAN'Fry breathes contemporary relevance into these ancient tales' OBSERVER--After the fall of Troy, wily Odysseus, King of Ithaca, sails for home and his steadfast queen Penelope.