Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval

This witty and accessible book traces the history of Arthurian romance from medieval to modern times, explaining its enduring appeal.

This landmark collection presents a wide variety of viewpoints on the value and role of reception theory within the modern discipline of classics.

This book introduces readers to the ancient rhetorical tradition by investigating key questions about the origins, nature and importance of rhetoric.

This accessible one-volume survey of the literature of Greece and Rome covers the period between Homer around 700 BC and Augustine around AD 410.

Exploiting the abundant primary sources available, this book examines the diverse ways in which war shaped the Hellenistic world.

The Eastern Mediterranean in the Age of Ramesses II offers a transnational perspective on the age of King Ramesses II of Egypt during the centuries of 1500 to 1200 BC.

A comprehensive treatment of the significant symbols and institutions of Roman religion, this companion places the various religious symbols, discourses, and practices, including Judaism and Christianity, into a larger framework to reveal the sprawling landscape of the Roman religion.

This two-volume Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography reflects the new directions and interpretations that have arisen in the field of ancient historiography in the past few decades.

This book is a guide to the extraordinarily diverse literature of the Hellenistic period.

Middle English is a student guide to the most influential critical writing on Middle English literature.

In this companion, international scholars provide a comprehensive overview that reflects the most recent trends in Catullan studies.

This collection of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century documents is designed for students of Chaucer and Middle English literature.

Examining the profusion of ways in which the arts, culture, and thought of Greece and Rome have been transmitted, interpreted, adapted and used, A Companion to Classical Receptions explores the impact of this phenomenon on both ancient and later societies.

This is the first biography in English of King Hammurabi, who ruled Babylon from 1792 to 1750 BC and presents a rounded view of his accomplishments.

Greek Tragedy sets ancient tragedy into its original theatrical, political and ritual context and applies modern critical approaches to understanding why tragedy continues to interest modern audiences.

This timely introduction to Old English literature focuses on the production and reception of Old English texts, and on their relation to Anglo-Saxon history and culture.

Designed as both a contribution to original research and as a stimulating and accessible text, this volume is a helpful, reliable, responsive and adaptable resource for students of Chaucer at all levels.

This book provides students and scholars of classical literature with a practical guide to modern literary theory and criticism.

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This anthology explores the multitude of evidence for recognisable fairy tales drawn from sources in the much older cultures of the ancient world, appearing much earlier than the 17th century where awareness of most fairy tales tends to begin.

This anthology explores the multitude of evidence for recognisable fairy tales drawn from sources in the much older cultures of the ancient world, appearing much earlier than the 17th century where awareness of most fairy tales tends to begin.

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Born around 630BC on the Greek island of Lesbos, Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of ancient Greece, ironic and passionate, capturing the troubled depths of love.

How the Ottomans refashioned and legitimated their rule through mystical imageries of authorityThe medieval theory of the caliphate, epitomized by the Abbasids (750-1258), was the construct of jurists who conceived it as a contractual leadership of the Muslim community in succession to the Prophet Muhammed's political authority.

It's a familiar story: a beautiful woman is abducted and her husband journeys to recover her.

How can we make sense of the innovative structure of Euripidean drama?

Why did Greek tragedy and "e;the tragic"e; come to be seen as essential to conceptions of modernity?

The study of Homeric imitations in Vergil has one of the longest traditions in Western culture, starting from the very moment the Aeneid was circulated.

The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece offers the first comprehensive inquiry into the deity of sexual love, a power that permeated daily Greek life.

From Pulitzer Prize-winner Garry Wills, the story of Augustine's ConfessionsIn this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the Confessions--what motivated Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be read, and the many ways it has been misread in the one-and-a-half millennia since it was composed.

Rhetorical theory, the core of Roman education, taught rules of public speaking that are still influential today.

The lives of Catullus and Horace overlap by a dozen years in the first century BC.

Although Classical Athenian ideology did not permit women to exercise legal, economic, and social autonomy, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides often represent them as influential social and moral forces in their own right.

Aristophanes has enjoyed a conspicuous revival in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Greece.

By "e;literary criticism"e; we usually mean a self-conscious act involving the technical and aesthetic appraisal, by individuals, of autonomous works of art.

This book concerns the way we read--or rather, imagine we are listening to--ancient Greek and Latin poetry.

This wide-ranging study of language and cultural change in fourteenth-century England argues that the influence of oral tradition is much more important to the advance of literacy than previously supposed.

Coleman Barks has played a central role in making the Sufi mystic Rumi the most popular poet in the world.

As the specter of religious extremism has become a fact of life today, the temptation is great to allow the evil actions and perspectives of a minority to represent an entire tradition.

The world's leading Islamicist offers a concise introduction to this rich and diverse tradition of 1.

The headlines are filled with the politics of Islam, but there is another side to the world's fastest-growing religion.

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Over 200 pages of legends, spells, facts and mermaid crafts!

An entrancing new telling of ancient Greek myths"e;This book is a triumph!

A unique look at how classical notions of ascent and flight preoccupied early modern British writers and artistsBetween the late sixteenth century and early nineteenth century, the British imagination-poetic, political, intellectual, spiritual and religious-displayed a pronounced fascination with images of ascent and flight to the heavens.