Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval
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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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The Book of John Mandeville
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£40.99| /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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The Classical Tradition in the Baltic Region
Edition Olms AG£108.99| /Reception of antiquity in Northern and Northeastern Europe is a field of research that is overall largely undeveloped. At the same time, the countr...
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The Complete Poems and Major Prose
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£63.99| /First published by Odyssey Press in 1957, this classic edition provides Milton's poetry and major prose works, richly annotated, in a sturdy and af...
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The Copenhagen Bohun Manuscripts
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£42.99| /This book provides a detailed analysis of the components of two exquisitely illuminated fourteenth-century English manuscripts, the Hours of the Vi...
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The Electra Plays
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£13.99| /Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers ; Euripides: Electra ; Sophocles: Electra
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The Electra Plays
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£36.99| /Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers ; Euripides: Electra ; Sophocles: Electra
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The Epic of The Cid
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£15.99| /The Epic of the Cid records the deeds of Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, the Cid of history and legend. A powerful warrior in the Christian reconquest of me...
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The Essential Iliad
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£11.99| /While preserving the basic narrative of the Iliad , this selection also highlights the epic's high poetic moments and essential mythological conten...
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The Essential Iliad
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£31.99| /While preserving the basic narrative of the Iliad , this selection also highlights the epic's high poetic moments and essential mythological conten...
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The Essential Odyssey
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£32.99| /This generous abridgment of Stanley Lombardo's translation of the Odyssey offers more than half of the epic, including all of its best-known episod...
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The Essential Petrarch
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£17.99| /Petrarch fashioned so many different versions of himself for posterity that it is an exacting task to establish where one might start to explore. ....
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The Essential Petrarch
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£48.99| /Petrarch fashioned so many different versions of himself for posterity that it is an exacting task to establish where one might start to explore. ....
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