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Télécharger le livre :  On the Gods and the World
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On the Gods and the World


Vojtech Hladký


The Derveni papyrus is a multi-layered and intricate philosophical and religious treatise written in Greek, probably just before 400 BCE. Since its discovery in 1962, the papyrus has attracted the attention of scholars in several areas of Classical studies, mostly...

Parution : 2024-07-12
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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108,72
Télécharger le livre :  Dante's Education
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Dante's Education


Filippo Gianferrari


In fourteenth-century Italy, literacy became accessible to a significantly larger portion of the lay population (allegedly between 60 and 80 percent in Florence) and provided a crucial means for the vernacularization and secularization of learning, and for the...

Parution : 2024-07-12
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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80,53
Télécharger le livre :  Women in Martial
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Women in Martial


Ilaria Marchesi


Women in Martial is the first monograph to treat the portrayals of women in Martial's Epigrams in a systematic way. In this volume, Marchesi proposes a new method of exploring the cultural construction of femininity in the Flavian age, presenting an interplay between...

Parution : 2024-07-12
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Translating Europe in Ælfric's Lives of Saints
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Translating Europe in Ælfric's Lives of Saints


Luisa Ostacchini


Translating Europe in Ælfric's 'Lives of Saints' is the first study of the representation of European peoples, places, and geographies in the Lives of Saints, one of early medieval England's most famed works. It examines the Lives of Saints as a unified collection whose...

Parution : 2024-07-12
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  The Dark Side of Statius' Achilleid
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The Dark Side of Statius' Achilleid


Julene Abad Del Vecchio


The Dark Side of Statius' Achilleid explores systematically and for the first time the darker aspects of Statius' Achilleid, bringing to light the poem's tragic and epic dimensions. By seeking to position at centre-stage these darker elements, the book offers several...

Parution : 2024-07-12
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Translating Europe in Ælfric's Lives of Saints
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Translating Europe in Ælfric's Lives of Saints


Luisa Ostacchini


Translating Europe in Ælfric's 'Lives of Saints' is the first study of the representation of European peoples, places, and geographies in the Lives of Saints, one of early medieval England's most famed works. It examines the Lives of Saints as a unified collection whose...

Parution : 2024-06-26
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Dante's Education
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Dante's Education


Filippo Gianferrari


In fourteenth-century Italy, literacy became accessible to a significantly larger portion of the lay population (allegedly between 60 and 80 percent in Florence) and provided a crucial means for the vernacularization and secularization of learning, and for the...

Parution : 2024-06-25
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  The Dark Side of Statius' Achilleid
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The Dark Side of Statius' Achilleid


Julene Abad Del Vecchio


The Dark Side of Statius' Achilleid explores systematically and for the first time the darker aspects of Statius' Achilleid, bringing to light the poem's tragic and epic dimensions. By seeking to position at centre-stage these darker elements, the book offers several...

Parution : 2024-06-25
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Women in Martial
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Women in Martial


Ilaria Marchesi


Women in Martial is the first monograph to treat the portrayals of women in Martial's Epigrams in a systematic way. In this volume, Marchesi proposes a new method of exploring the cultural construction of femininity in the Flavian age, presenting an interplay between...

Parution : 2024-06-24
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  In Praise of Greek Athletes
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In Praise of Greek Athletes


Peter J. Miller


In ancient Greece both epinikian songs and inscribed epigrams were regularly composed to celebrate victory at athletic festivals. For the first time this book offers an integrated approach to both genres. It focuses on the ultimate source of information about athletic...

Parution : 2024-05-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Reimagining the Past in the Borderlands of Medieval England and Wales
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Reimagining the Past in the Borderlands of Medieval England and Wales


Georgia Henley


Challenging the standard view that England emerged as a dominant power and Wales faded into obscurity after Edward I's conquest in 1282, this book considers how Welsh (and British) history became an enduringly potent instrument of political power in the late Middle...

Parution : 2024-05-08
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  On the Gods and the World
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On the Gods and the World


Vojtech Hladký


The Derveni papyrus is a multi-layered and intricate philosophical and religious treatise written in Greek, probably just before 400 BCE. Since its discovery in 1962, the papyrus has attracted the attention of scholars in several areas of Classical studies, mostly...

Parution : 2024-05-01
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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108,72
Télécharger le livre :  The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature
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The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature


Elise Wang


The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature explores the literary inheritance of criminal procedure in thirteenth to fifteenth century English law, focusing on felony, the gravest common law offense. Most scholarship in medieval law and literature has...

Parution : 2024-04-24
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Greek and Roman Antiquity in First World War Poetry
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Greek and Roman Antiquity in First World War Poetry


Lorna Hardwick , Stephen Harrison , Elizabeth Vandiver


Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in the First Word War. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but for all of the writers, engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was decisive in shaping their war...

Parution : 2024-04-22
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Rupert Brooke, Charles Sorley, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen
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Rupert Brooke, Charles Sorley, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen


Lorna Hardwick , Stephen Harrison , Elizabeth Vandiver


Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in the First Word War. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but for all of the writers, engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was decisive in shaping their war...

Parution : 2024-04-22
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Flattery in Seneca the Younger
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Flattery in Seneca the Younger


Martina Russo


Flattery in Seneca the Younger explores the discourse of flattery in Seneca's philosophical texts, and analyses the extent to which Seneca developed a theory of adulation. Martina Russo maps a phenomenology of flattery, tracing its external manifestations in Senecan...

Parution : 2024-04-07
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 13
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Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 13


C. M. Van Der Keur


Book 13 of Silius Italicus' Punica marks an important turning point in this Latin epic poem on the Second Punic War. After twelve books of Carthaginian dominance, Rome begins to gain the upper hand. Following his failed attempt to attack Rome, Hannibal is devastated to...

Parution : 2024-03-20
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Wasps and Other Plays
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Wasps and Other Plays


Aristophanes , Stephen Halliwell


'No matter which way you look at us, you'll find that we're in all respects; Remarkably wasp-like in our habits, in every aspect of our lives.' Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished...

Parution : 2024-02-28
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Greek Novel
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Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Greek Novel


Robert Cioffi


There is no region more central to the ancient Greek romance novel than the thousand or so miles stretching from Alexandria to ancient Ethiopia that comprise the Nile River Valley. Yet, for all its importance, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Greek Novel: Between Representation...

Parution : 2024-02-21
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Alfredian Prologues and Epilogues
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Alfredian Prologues and Epilogues


Susan Irvine


The Old English literary works traditionally associated with King Alfred are furnished with an array of prologues, epilogues, and other frame texts. These texts give fascinating glimpses into the ideas and contexts underlying the composition and reception of the...

Parution : 2024-02-16
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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