Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval
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Odysseus at Troy
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£19.99| /This book contains translations of three plays:Ajax, Hecuba, and Trojan Women. They are all centered around the mythological theme of the Greek war...
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Oedipus Tyrannus
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£10.99| /Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's collaboration on this new translation combines the strengths that have recently distinguished both as translators...
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Oedipus Tyrannus
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£25.99| /Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's collaboration on this new translation combines the strengths that have recently distinguished both as translators...
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Oidipous at Colonus
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£12.99| /This is an English translation of Sophocles' tragedy of Oedipus who is banished from Thebes and confronts an array of obstacles that stand between ...
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Old Sumerian & Old Akkadian Texts in Philadelphia II
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£50.00| /This book contains the 'Akkadian Texts' -- i.e. texts written in the Akkadian Language or script ductus -- the Enlilemaba Texts and the Onion Archi...
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On Great Writing (On the Sublime)
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£10.99| /Celebrated for its own clarity and sublime style, this classic work of literary theory draws on the writings of Demosthenes, Plato, Sappho, Thucydi...
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On Great Writing (On the Sublime)
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£25.99| /Celebrated for its own clarity and sublime style, this classic work of literary theory draws on the writings of Demosthenes, Plato, Sappho, Thucydi...
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Oracular Tales in Pausanias
University Press of Southern Denmark (DK)£38.75| /Pausanias' Description of Greece is the only or at least the most important source to more than 60 percent of the oracular tales. This makes the wo...
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Oral Art Forms & their Passage into Writing
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£42.99| /What happens when oral texts are removed from their original medium and written down? This collection examines the complex interrelationship betwee...
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Oresteia
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£13.99| /Meineck's translation is faithful and supple; the language employed is modern without betraying the grandeur and complexity--particularly the image...
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Pals leizla
Viking Society For Northern Research (UK)£10.00| /Edition, with parallel text translation, of the Old Norse account of the Vision of St Paul and its Latin analogue.
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Paradiso
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£57.99| /Like his groundbreaking Inferno (Hackett, 2009) and Purgatorio (Hackett, 2016), Stanley Lombardo's Paradiso features a close yet dynamic verse tran...
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Paradiso
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£20.99| /Like his groundbreaking Inferno (Hackett, 2009) and Purgatorio (Hackett, 2016), Stanley Lombardo's Paradiso features a close yet dynamic verse tran...
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Parmenides
Focus Publishing (US)£12.99| /This is an English translation of one of the more challenging and enigmatic of Plato's dialogues between Socrates and Parmenides and Zeno of Elea, ...
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Parthenope
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£50.00| /This collection of studies is a sequel to Hägg's popular survey, 'The Novel of Antiquity' (1983), and a companion volume to his recent 'The Virgin ...
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Petese Stories II
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£60.99| /The Carlsberg Papyri 6 (CNI 29) contains the edition of a new manuscript with Petese Stories from the Tebtunis temple library, dating to the period...
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Philoctetes
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£10.99| /First published in Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's Sophocles: Four Tragedies , this riveting translation by Peter Meineck of Sophocles' Philoctet...
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Philoctetes
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£30.99| /First published in Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's Sophocles: Four Tragedies , this riveting translation by Peter Meineck of Sophocles' Philoctet...
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Philoktetes
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£12.99| /This is an English translation of Sophocles' tragedy of Philoctetes, an archer who had been abandoned on Lemnos by the rest of the Greek fleet whil...
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Plato: Complete Works
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£63.99| /Outstanding translations by leading contemporary scholars--many commissioned especially for this volume--are presented here in the first single edi...
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Plautus and Terence: Five Comedies
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£14.99| /This is a book worthy of high praise. . . . All versions are exceedingly witty and versatile, in verse that ripples from one's lips, pulling all th...
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Plautus and Terence: Five Comedies
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£39.99| /This is a book worthy of high praise. . . . All versions are exceedingly witty and versatile, in verse that ripples from one's lips, pulling all th...
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Plotting with Eros
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£47.99| /The intricate relationship between the erotic and the literary is a recurring theme in Western literature, with a starting-point in Plato's dialogu...
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Poems and Fragments
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£12.99| /Little remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet Sappho (fl. late 7th and early 6th centuries B.C.E.), whose work is said to have fil...
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Poems and Fragments
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£29.99| /Little remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet Sappho (fl. late 7th and early 6th centuries B.C.E.), whose work is said to have fil...
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Poems to Friends
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£45.99| /Owing to the rich storehouse of information it contains, the poetry of Venantius Fortunatus (c. 535--600) has long been mined as a historical sourc...
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Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Papyrologists
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£77.99| /79 articles in English, French, German and Italian from a congress held in Copenhagen from the 23th-29th August 1992. All the papers deal with subj...
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Prometheus Bound
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£12.99| /This is an outstandingly useful edition of Prometheus Bound . The translation is both faithful and graceful, and the introduction to this difficult...
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Prometheus Bound
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£26.99| /This is an outstandingly useful edition of Prometheus Bound . The translation is both faithful and graceful, and the introduction to this difficult...
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Purgatorio
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£57.99| /Like his groundbreaking Inferno (Hackett, 2009) and Paradiso (Hackett, 2017), Stanley Lombardo's Purgatorio features a close yet dynamic verse tran...
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Purgatorio
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£20.99| /Like his groundbreaking Inferno (Hackett, 2009) and Paradiso (Hackett, 2017), Stanley Lombardo's Purgatorio features a close yet dynamic verse tran...
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Reception of Plutarch's 'Lives' in Fifteenth-Century Italy
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£82.99| /Plutarch's Lives of great Greek and Roman public figures are among the central texts of European culture. Like most Greek authors Plutarch had been...
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Relations of Power
V & R Unipress GmbH£38.99| /Women's networks - their relations with other women, men, objects and place - were a source of power in various European and neighbouring regions t...
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Roman Comedy: Five Plays by Plautus and Terence
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£20.99| /This anthology contains English translations of five plays by two of the best practitioners of Roman comedy, Plautus and Terence. The plays, Menaec...
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Satyricon
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£13.99| /This new Satyricon features not only a lively, new, annotated translation of the text, but fresh and accessible commentaries that discuss Petronius...
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£12.99| /A dazzling recreation of the most memorable Middle English poem, and one that captures the original alliterative verse in all its dimensions: sense...
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£33.99| /A dazzling recreation of the most memorable Middle English poem, and one that captures the original alliterative verse in all its dimensions: sense...
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Sophist
Focus Publishing (US)£12.99| /This is an English translation of Plato presenting a new conception of the Theory of Forms. Socrates and others discuss the epistemological and met...
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Soul of Poetry Redefined
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£32.99| /What is the soul of poetry? The most influential answer was probably given in Aristotle's Poetics, but even within that tradition which claimed the...
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Spatial Practices
V & R Unipress GmbH£52.99| /In recent decades, the conceptualisation of space and place as social constructs, rather than static settings has received significant attention an...
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Stories from the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi, Volume 2
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£49.99| /Volume 2 opens and closes with tales of tragic conflict between a king and his son: Prince Seyavash and Prince Esfandiyar are both driven from the ...
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Stories from the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi, Volume 3
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£89.99| /With our third and final volume of stories from the Shahnameh we move from mythology and legend to romanticized history. Here the mighty events tha...
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Study of Medieval Greek Romance
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£21.99| /Study of Medieval Greek Romance
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Sunjata
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£19.99| /A pillar of the West African oral tradition for centuries, this epic traces the adventures and achievements of the Mande hero, Sunjata, as he liber...
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Sunjata
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£46.99| /A pillar of the West African oral tradition for centuries, this epic traces the adventures and achievements of the Mande hero, Sunjata, as he liber...
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Symposium
Focus Publishing (US)£12.99| /This is an English translation of Plato account of an important dialogue on the nature of love between Phaedrus, Pausanias, Eryximachus, Aristophan...
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The Birds
Focus Publishing (US)£11.99| /This is an English translation of Aristophanes' greatest comedy the Birds and is the story of birds taking control of the government. Includes back...
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The Book of John Mandeville
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£14.99| /A fictive traveler's guide to the East, both Near and Far, The Book of John Mandeville was a late--medieval best seller, more popular in its day th...
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