Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval

A history of English georgic writing – literature focused on working rural lives, landscapes and environments – from 1500 to the present.

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Aeschylus was the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art-forms.

Interdisciplinary study of the interrelationship of the literature, monuments, and urban landscape of Augustan Rome.

Diotima at the Barricades argues that the debates that emerged from the burgeoning of feminist intellectual life in post-modern France involved complex, structured, and reciprocal exchanges on the interpretation and position of Plato and other ancient texts in the western philosophical and literary tradition.

The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation.

This book investigates one of the most characteristic and prominent features of ancient Greek literature - the scene of debate or agon, in which with varying degrees of formality characters square up to each other and engage in a contest of words.

In his extraordinary story of the defence of Greece against the Persian invasions of 490-480 BC, Herodotus sought to communicate not only what happened, but also the background of thoughts and perceptions that shaped those events and became critical to their interpretation afterwards.

A detailed study of Molière as playwright, director and actor, and his life and career.

Saint Augustine famously "e;wept for Dido, who killed herself by the sword,"e; and many later medieval schoolboys were taught to respond in similarly emotional ways to the pain of female characters in Virgil's Aeneid and other classical texts.

New approaches to religious texts from the Middle Ages, highlighting their diversity and sophistication.

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Seitdem Theodor Mommsen 1847 seinen grundlegenden Akademieantrag für ein Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum vorlegte, haben sich die Methoden und Praktiken der Inschriftenedition in der Altertumskunde, auch abhängig von der Vielfalt der Inschriftengattungen, stark ausdifferenziert.

The most comprehensive account of asyndetic coordination in Latin, genre by genre, ever attempted.

Readers coming to the Odyssey for the first time are often dazzled and bewildered by the wealth of material it contains which is seemingly unrelated to the central story: the main plot of Odysseus' return to Ithaca is complicated by myriad secondary narratives related by the poet and his characters, including Odysseus' own fantastic tales of Lotus Eaters, Sirens, and cannibal giants.

Munro explores the conscious use of archaic language by poets and dramatists including Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson and Milton.

This book offers new insights into the workings of the human soul and the philosophical conception of the mind in Ancient Greece.

This is the first new biography in English for nearly eighty years of Italy's foremost writer and thinker, and weaves into a single thread the whole of Dante's life and works.

Many new and fruitful avenues of investigation open up when scholars consider forgery as a creative act rather than a crime.

The myths of the Norse god Thor were preserved in the Icelandic Eddas, set down in the early Middle Ages.

Gathering together over 60 new and revised discussions of textual issues, this volume represents notorious problems in well-known texts from the classical era by authors including Horace, Ennius, and Vergil.

These essays of Sarah Carpenter have been selected to reflect her career's close focus on the relationship of performance and audience.

Explores for the first time the deep and significant interactions between classical philology and theology.

The idea of heroism has become thoroughly muddled today.

This volume presents comprehensive investigations into various facets of observational astronomy during the medieval Islamic period, spanning from the ninth to the seventeenth centuries.

It has been said that the difference between and language and a dialect is that a language is a dialect with an army.

The Memoirs of Sylvester Syropoulos is a text written by a I'yzantine ecclesiastical official in the 15th century.

Beginning with an introduction that examines the portrayal of the characters of Lancelot and Guinevere from their origins to the present day, this collection of 16 essays-five of which appear here for the first time-puts particular emphasis on the appearance of the two characters in medieval and modern literature.

This is a substantially expanded and completely revised edition of a book originally published in 1988 as Maenads, Martyrs, Matrons, Monastics.

This volume approaches the broad topic of wonder in the works of Tacitus, encompassing paradox, the marvellous and the admirable.

Offers a fluent and readable translation of the Eudemian Ethics, including explanatory notes.

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This book is the first study to focus on a metaliterary interpretation of Maximianus' Elegies, and aims to fill a major gap in international literature concerning the thoughts of the last love elegist on the evolution and renovation of the genre of love elegy during Late Antiquity.

This book is a general introduction to the structures of the different medieval Romance vernaculars most commonly known as Old or Medieval Spanish, as preserved in texts from Spain from the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries.

Plato is one of the central figures of the Greek literary heritage.

Compunction was one of the most important emotions for medieval Christianity; in fact, through its confessional function, compunction became the primary means for an affective sinner to gain redemption.