Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval

No detailed description available for "Catull".

Two thousand years ago, Antioch on the Orontes River was the third most important city in the Roman Empire.

This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Catullus' poems 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 17, 40, 70, 76, 85, 88, 89, 91 and 107, and the A-Level (Group 4) prescription of poems 1, 34, 62 and 64 lines 124 264, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction that also covers the prescribed poems to be read in English for A Level.

The question of whether or not our decisions and efforts make a difference in an uncertain and uncontrollable world had enormous significance for writers in Anglo-Saxon England.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This is the first collection of essays dedicated to the topics of money and economics in the English literature of the late Middle Ages.

This book sheds new light on labor and laboring in the Roman world.

It has been 2500 years since the Greek heavy infantry known as hoplites dominated the battlefield.

This book offers the first comprehensive evaluation of ethics in the ancient Greek novel, demonstrating how their representation of the cardinal virtue sophrosune positions these texts in their literary, philosophical and cultural contexts.

Das Vorkommen fiktionaler direkter Reden ist für den modernen Leser das wohl auffallendste Merkmal antiker Geschichtswerke.

Self-restraint or self-mastery may appear to be the opposite of erotic desire.

Examines the role of psychoanalysis within Latin literary studies, focusing on what psychoanalytic theory has to contribute to interpretation.

The OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Greek AS and A-Level set text prescriptions for examination in 2017-2019, giving full Greek text, commentary and vocabulary and a detailed introduction for each text that also covers the prescription to be read in English for A Level.

Writing War in Britain and France, 1370-1854: A History of Emotions brings together leading scholars in medieval, early modern, eighteenth-century, and Romantic studies.

Wie fremd ein ›exotisches‹ Tier in einem mittelalterlichen Text beschrieben wird und welche proprietates dabei besonders betont werden, hängt ganz davon ab, welchen Diskursen die Darstellung unterliegt.

Originally published in 1990.

This is the first volume to offer a critical overview of the long and complicated history of translations of Virgil from the early modern period to the present day, transcending traditional studies of single translations or particular national traditions in isolation to offer an insightful comparative perspective.

"Diese Enzyklopädie des gesamten naturkundlichen Wissen des Altertums wurde von Plinius aus griechischen und römischen Quellen zusammengestellt und nach Sachgruppen geordnet.

This book argues that the satire of the late Elizabethan period goes far beyond generic rhetorical persuasion, but is instead intentionally engaged in a literary mission of transideological "e;perceptual translation.

Euripides' "Suppliant Women" is an unfairly neglected master work by the most controversial of the three great tragedians of Ancient Greece.

Argues that Herodotus is key to understanding genre and the relationship between past and present in Apollonius of Rhodes'' Argonautica.

This biography represents a nuanced account of Edith Rickert's life-and inner life.

Illuminates the relationships between Lucilius'' satires and the Roman world in which he wrote, by combining linguistic and literary approaches.

Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice develops new approaches to reading literature that are informed by the insights of scholars working in affect studies across many disciplines, with essays that consider works of fiction, drama, poetry and memoir ranging from the medieval to the postmodern.

Der vierte Band der vierbändigen Ausgabe der »Tragicorum Romanorum Fragmenta« bietet alle bekannten Fragmente, die für die Tragödien und Praetexten des Accius überliefert sind, in der als wahrscheinlich zu konstituierenden Textfassung.

This volume explores the Arabic literary heritage from the twelfth to the nineteenth century.

The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer offers 40 chapters by leading scholars working with contemporary, theoretical, and textual approaches to the poetry and prose of Geoffrey Chaucer (c.

No detailed description available for "Kirchengeschichte".

The book shows how the Franciscans in Jerusalem in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries wrote works which standardized the cultural memory of the Holy Land.

A new and accessible translation of Plato''s Symposium with a substantial introduction.

Lucian and His Roman Voices examines cultural exchanges, political propaganda, and religious conflicts in the Early Roman Empire through the eyes of Lucian, his contemporary Roman authors, and Christian Apologists.

This book offers new dating of the poems of the Old Norse Poetic Edda , perhaps our best sources about the mythology and legends of the Viking Age.

Discussions about the nature of the emotions in Hellenistic philosophy have aroused intense scholarly interest over the last few years.

A deeply personal story of one man's life-long obsession with an ancient poet, and an exploration of what Horace's thoughts on life, leisure and love can teach us today

'A moving memoir that shakes the dust off Horace – and restores him to his rightful berth among the immortals' Harry Mount, author of Amo, Amas, Amat.

Draws on Old Norse literary heritage to explore questions of emotion as both a literary motif and as a social phenomenon.

Edition for students and scholars of this climactic book in the epic featuring the fatal encounter between Hector and Achilles.

Originally published in 1965, A Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is an interpretation of the most important poem in Middle English literature, the only fourteenth century work which can stand beside Chaucer.

The Chronica by the grammarian Apollodorus of Athens (2nd century BC) was an exemplary chronographical reference work.

No figure has had a more global impact than Alexander the Great, whose legends have encircled the globe and been translated into a dizzying multitude of languages, from Indo-European and Semitic to Turkic and Austronesian.

Beginning with Rudyard Kipling and Edith Nesbit and concluding with best-selling series still ongoing at the time of writing, this volume examines works of twentieth- and twenty-first-century children's literature that incorporate character types, settings, and narratives derived from the Greco-Roman past.

This volume examines the issue of violence in Xenophon's works, who lived in circumstances of war for many years.

This book focuses on the role that the Oxford classical curriculum has had in shaping Oscar Wilde's aestheticism.