Literary essays

Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe.

Selected and introduced by Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing is a celebration of the finest writing by scientists for a wider audience - revealing that many of the best scientists have displayed as much imagination and skill with the pen as they have in the laboratory.

'He was atrocious in his brutality, but his lechery was kept hidden.

'The mystery of Life, the mystery Of Death, I see Darkly as in a glass.

'you'll find another man to harvest, Glycerion: let this one go' The Greek satirist Lucian was a brilliantly entertaining writer who invented the comic dialogue as a vehicle for satiric comment.

Real ladies do not travel - or so it was once said.

In an updated edition of his hugely successful student introduction to English literature from 1100 to 1500, J.

The Commentary on Plato's Parmenides by Proclus (AD 412-85) is the most important extant document on the interpretation of this enigmatic dialogue, and has had a crucial influence on all subsequent readings.

'The following year Qin unified all under Heaven and the title of August Emperor was immediately adopted.

This new edition corrects shortcomings of earlier editors by providing a text which incorporates neglected or unavailable material from Greek manuscripts, recently published papyri, and quotations from the orations by rhetoricians dating from antiquity through to the Byzantine period.

'I will do as the Senate decrees.

'Two things alone I long for: first, that when I die I may leave the Roman people free.

Then they took the flowers of the oak, and the flowers of the broom, and the flowers of the meadowsweet, and from those they conjured up the fairest and most beautiful maiden that anyone had ever seen.

'You know how to win a battle, Hannibal; you do not know how to use the victory!

'No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity.

'Gaius Pliny sends greetings to his friend Septicius Clarus.

'For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination' Thomas De Quincey's three essays 'On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts' centre on the notorious career of the murderer John Williams, who in 1811 brutally killed seven people in London's East End.

'The men of culture are the true apostles of equality.

This volume presents new texts of Cicero's dialogues on political philosophy, De Re Publica and De Legibus, together with corrected versions of the editor's previously published editions of Cato Maior de Senectute and Laelius de Amicitia.

The Tain Bo Cuailnge, centre-piece of the eighth-century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland's greatest epic.

The Tain Bo Cuailnge, centre-piece of the eighth-century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland's greatest epic.

In this new translation the brilliant and impassioned descriptions of Augustine's colourful early life are conveyed to the English reader with accuracy and art.

The Argonautica is the dramatic story of Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece and his relations with the dangerous Colchian princess, Medea.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter details "e;how the U.

In an updated edition of his hugely successful student introduction to English literature from 1100 to 1500, J.

Real ladies do not travel - or so it was once said.

The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia thrived between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates over 4,000 years ago.

Statius' narrative of the fraternal strife of the Theban brothers Eteocles and Polynices has had a profound influence on Western literature and fascinated generations of scholars and readers.

Between 2009 and 2014, an anti-homosexuality law circulating in the Ugandan parliament came to be the focus of a global conversation about queer rights.

Between 2009 and 2014, an anti-homosexuality law circulating in the Ugandan parliament came to be the focus of a global conversation about queer rights.

America is at a crossroads.

As it happens with other early-Modern corpora, the descriptive texts from sixteenth-century encounters of the Portuguese colonizers in Brazil are well-known for their strangeness.

After its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, many wondered whether the law and literature movement would retain vitality.

Struggles for LGBT rights and the security of sexual and gender minorities are ongoing, urgent concerns across the world.

Struggles for LGBT rights and the security of sexual and gender minorities are ongoing, urgent concerns across the world.

Our culture attempts to separate competing ideological factions by denying relationships between multiple perspectives and influences outside of one's own narrow interpretive community.

Throughout her prodigious life, activist and lawyer Pauli Murray systematically fought against all arbitrary distinctions in society, channeling her outrage at the discrimination she faced to make America a more democratic country.

Throughout her prodigious life, activist and lawyer Pauli Murray systematically fought against all arbitrary distinctions in society, channeling her outrage at the discrimination she faced to make America a more democratic country.

Damn Great Empires!

John Edgar Tidwell and Steven C.

Just War theory - as it was developed by the Catholic theologians of medieval Europe and the jurists of the Renaissance - is a framework for the moral and legal evaluation of armed conflicts.

Kent Greenawalt's From the Bottom Up constitutes a collection of articles and essays written over the last five decades of his career.

After its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, many wondered whether the law and literature movement would retain vitality.

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Contemporary reception study has developed a diversity of approaches and methods, including the institutional, textual, historical, authorial, and reader-response, which, to a greater or lesser extent, acknowledge the various ways in which readers have found texts-- literature, television shows, movies, and newspapers--meaningful.

Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was one of the most remarkable women of her day.

In America, notes acclaimed novelist Francine Prose, we are obsessed with food and diet.

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Our personalities and our identities are intimately bound up with the stories that we tell to organize and to make sense of our lives.

To this day Jewish thinkers struggle to articulate the appropriate response to the unprecedented catastrophe of the Holocaust.