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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 : 2024-02-13
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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9,16
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 : 2024-02-08
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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83,15
Télécharger le livre :  The Choice of Odysseus
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The Choice of Odysseus


Sarah Van Der Laan


The Choice of Odysseus demonstrates how the Odyssey provided Renaissance authors and readers with a poetic ethics—tools for living developed in poetry—to navigate the challenges of their age. As they endured schisms, ruptures, and failures of ideals, readers and poets...

Parution : 2024-02-07
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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83,15
Télécharger le livre :  Essays on Propertian and Ovidian Elegy
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Essays on Propertian and Ovidian Elegy


T. E. Franklinos , Jennifer Ingleheart


This volume brings together eleven chapters on the genre of Latin elegy by leading scholars in the field. Latin elegy is typically thought to have flourished for a brief period at Rome between c. 40 BC and the early decades of the first century AD; it was the...

Parution : 2024-02-01
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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83,15
Télécharger le livre :  Off-Stage Groups in Athenian Drama
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Off-Stage Groups in Athenian Drama


Alexandra Hardwick


Despite the crucial roles they often play, no study yet compares the off-stage assemblies, armies, and populations found in surviving Athenian dramatic works. Covering fifth- and early fourth-century tragedy and comedy, Off-Stage Groups in Athenian Drama analyses how...

Parution : 2024-01-31
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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69,70
Télécharger le livre :  The Choice of Odysseus
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The Choice of Odysseus


Sarah Van Der Laan


The Choice of Odysseus demonstrates how the Odyssey provided Renaissance authors and readers with a poetic ethics—tools for living developed in poetry—to navigate the challenges of their age. As they endured schisms, ruptures, and failures of ideals, readers and poets...

Parution : 2024-01-23
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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83,15
Télécharger le livre :  Essays on Propertian and Ovidian Elegy
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Essays on Propertian and Ovidian Elegy


T. E. Franklinos , Jennifer Ingleheart


This volume brings together eleven chapters on the genre of Latin elegy by leading scholars in the field. Latin elegy is typically thought to have flourished for a brief period at Rome between c. 40 BC and the early decades of the first century AD; it was the...

Parution : 2024-01-17
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
J'achète
83,15
Télécharger le livre :  Off-Stage Groups in Athenian Drama
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Off-Stage Groups in Athenian Drama


Alexandra Hardwick


Despite the crucial roles they often play, no study yet compares the off-stage assemblies, armies, and populations found in surviving Athenian dramatic works. Covering fifth- and early fourth-century tragedy and comedy, Off-Stage Groups in Athenian Drama analyses how...

Parution : 2024-01-17
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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69,70
Télécharger le livre :  The Renaissance Battle for Rome
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The Renaissance Battle for Rome


Susanna De Beer


The Renaissance Battle for Rome examines the rhetorical battle fought simultaneously between a wide variety of parties (individuals, groups, authorities) seeking prestige or legitimacy through the legacy of ancient Rome—a battle over the question of whose claims to this...

Parution : 2024-01-16
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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69,70
Télécharger le livre :  The Renaissance Battle for Rome
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The Renaissance Battle for Rome


Susanna De Beer


The Renaissance Battle for Rome examines the rhetorical battle fought simultaneously between a wide variety of parties (individuals, groups, authorities) seeking prestige or legitimacy through the legacy of ancient Rome—a battle over the question of whose claims to this...

Parution : 2024-01-01
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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69,70
Télécharger le livre :  Roman de Brut
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Roman de Brut


Glyn S. Burgess , Wace


'Whoever wishes to hear about, and to know about, kings and heirs, about who first ruled England and which kings it had, Master Wace, who is telling the truth about this, has translated this.' Wace's Roman de Brut (1155) can be seen as the gateway to the history of the...

Parution : 2023-12-27
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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10,18
Télécharger le livre :  Roman de Brut
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Roman de Brut


Glyn S. Burgess , Wace


'Whoever wishes to hear about, and to know about, kings and heirs, about who first ruled England and which kings it had, Master Wace, who is telling the truth about this, has translated this.' Wace's Roman de Brut (1155) can be seen as the gateway to the history of the...

Parution : 2023-12-12
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
J'achète
10,18
Télécharger le livre :  Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century
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Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century


Thomas Matthew Vozar


No author in the English canon seems more deserving of the epithet sublime than John Milton. Yet Milton's sublimity has long been dismissed as an invention of eighteenth-century criticism. The poet himself, the story goes, could hardly have had any notion of the...

Parution : 2023-11-29
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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69,70
Télécharger le livre :  Intercultural Explorations and the Court of Henry VIII
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Intercultural Explorations and the Court of Henry VIII


Nadia T. Van Pelt


Seldom has a royal court invited such intensive study as that of Henry VIII, or become so prominent in popular culture. Nonetheless, Intercultural Explorations and the Court of Henry VIII is committed to offering a fresh perspective on Tudor court culture, by using...

Parution : 2023-11-27
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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17,11
Télécharger le livre :  Intercultural Explorations and the Court of Henry VIII
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Intercultural Explorations and the Court of Henry VIII


Nadia T. Van Pelt


Seldom has a royal court invited such intensive study as that of Henry VIII, or become so prominent in popular culture. Nonetheless, Intercultural Explorations and the Court of Henry VIII is committed to offering a fresh perspective on Tudor court culture, by using...

Parution : 2023-11-20
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
J'achète
17,11
Télécharger le livre :  Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century
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Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century


Thomas Matthew Vozar


No author in the English canon seems more deserving of the epithet sublime than John Milton. Yet Milton's sublimity has long been dismissed as an invention of eighteenth-century criticism. The poet himself, the story goes, could hardly have had any notion of the...

Parution : 2023-11-14
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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69,70
Télécharger le livre :  Elegiac Love and Death in Vergil's Aeneid
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Elegiac Love and Death in Vergil's Aeneid


Sarah L. Mccallum


Elegiac Love and Death in Vergil's 'Aeneid' poses new questions about Vergil's pervasive engagement with elegy, both amatory and funerary, throughout his final epic endeavor. A foundational discussion of elegiac experimentation in the Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid 1-6...

Parution : 2023-11-06
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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69,70
Télécharger le livre :  Ovid: Amores Book 3
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Ovid: Amores Book 3


P. J. Davis


Augustan love elegy represents one of the most important and most distinctive Roman contributions to European and world literature. This volume presents the first detailed commentary in any language on Ovid's Amores Book 3, the last collection of love poems composed in...

Parution : 2023-10-25
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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118,60
Télécharger le livre :  Elegiac Love and Death in Vergil's Aeneid
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Elegiac Love and Death in Vergil's Aeneid


Sarah L. Mccallum


Elegiac Love and Death in Vergil's 'Aeneid' poses new questions about Vergil's pervasive engagement with elegy, both amatory and funerary, throughout his final epic endeavor. A foundational discussion of elegiac experimentation in the Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid 1-6...

Parution : 2023-10-22
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
J'achète
69,70
Télécharger le livre :  Receptions of Simon Magus as an Archetype of the Heretic
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Receptions of Simon Magus as an Archetype of the Heretic


Alberto Ferreiro , Ephraim Nissan


This book about receptions of Simon Magus uncovers further facets of one who was held to be the evil archetype of heretics. Ephraim Nissan and Alberto Ferreiro explore how Simon Magus has been represented in text, visual art, and music. Special attention is devoted to...

Parution : 2023-10-14
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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116,59
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