Ancient Literature – Bücher, Blu-ray Discs, CDs und mehr, Seite 9

Mario Telò
Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler

"Considering Butler's "tragic trilogy"-a set of interventions on Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Bacchae, and Aeschylus's Eumenides-this book seeks to understand not just how Butler uses an…

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Euripides,
Medea

A Student Edition of Euripides' play, which accessibly unpacks Greek tragedy in its social context, issues of translation and adaptation, and performance approaches over the centuries.Euripides' play Mede…

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Camilla Caporicci
The Song of Songs and Its Tradition in Renaissance Love Lyric

Traditionally attributed to King Solomon and called by Rabbi Aqiva the "Holy of Holies" among sacred Scriptures (Mishnah, Yadayim 3:5), the Song of Songs is one of the most fascinating and contr…

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Massimiliano Riviera
Richard Barnfield and Queer Classicism in Elizabethan England

Richard Barnfield and Queer Classicism in Elizabethan England offers a comprehensive reappraisal of the work of Richard Barnfield, the Elizabethan writer who authored homoerotic and pastoral poetry during…

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Cristina Salcedo González
The Persephone Myth in Young Adult Fiction

Investigating the widespread but understudied presence of the Persephone myth within 21st-century young adult literature, Cristina Salcedo González analyses six young adult novels which incorporate a rewo…

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Emily Pillinger, Miranda Stanyon
Music as Classical Reception

Musical as Classical Reception: Amplifying Antiquity investigates music as a site of classical reception from the early modern rise of opera to contemporary hip-hop. The volume's contributors explore topi…

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Eveline Krummen
Mousike Historia

This series is dedicated to classical studies in general. The volumes primarily examine topics relating to the ancient world from the fields of literary, visual, media, theatre, religious, and cultural st…

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Phil Cousineau
The Wisdom of the Odyssey

An accessible companion to Homer's Odyssey that illuminates its timeless lessons on change, resilience, and the search for home, written by acclaimed mythographer and cultural historian Phil Cousineau. Fo…

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Edward Prime-Stevenson, Zsolt Bojti, S Brooke Cameron
Imre

'I love thee... once more helpless, and therewith hopeless!--but this time no longer silent, before the Friendship which is Love, the Love which is Friendship.'Considered one of the first examples of the …

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Seneca: Phoenissae

Phoenissae is probably Seneca's final play, a work of great dramatic, poetic, and intellectual force, permeated by issues central to Senecan thinking and tragic practice. This edition offers a newly edite…

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Classical Antiquity and Medieval Ireland

"This open-access book fills a huge gap in the study of classical reception in Irish literature by making accessible in translation selections from a wide variety of C10th-C15th texts. These texts ar…

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Gervase Of Melkley,
The Art of Making Verses

The thirteenth-century Art of Making Verses, which departs from established critical texts on poetry and seeks to teach the art of verse in an entirely new way, was composed by the English poet and teache…

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Jenny C Mann
The Trials of Orpheus

A revealing look at how the Orpheus myth helped Renaissance writers and thinkers understand the force of eloquence In ancient Greek mythology, the lyrical songs of Orpheus charmed the gods, and compelled…

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José María Pérez Fernández
Translation and the Truth of History

This book tells the material and intellectual history of several translations of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, from Lorenzo Valla's first Latin rendering in 1452, to the publication of Tho…

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José María Pérez Fernández
Translation and the Truth of History

This book tells the material and intellectual history of several translations of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, from Lorenzo Valla's first Latin rendering in 1452, to the publication of Tho…

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Marcel Proust, Helen Constantine, Adam Watt
Sodom and Gomorrah

'the metamorphosis of Monsieur de Charlus into a new person was so complete that... everything which had appeared incoherent to me until then, was becoming intelligible, and self-evident'The fourth volume…

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Claire de Duras, Pratima Prasad, Chris Miller
Ourika, Édouard, and Olivier

'I have no secrets; my unhappiness is the story of my entire life.'A key figure in the literary world of post-Revolutionary Paris, Claire de Duras was a writer of exceptional talent, admired by Sainte-Beu…

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Vered Lev Kenaan, Patricia A Rosenmeyer
Classics Transformed in Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian Receptions

This volume explores how classical antiquity influenced the writings of poets, translators, and scholars emerging from modern Jewish diasporas, Mandatory Palestine, and the State of Israel. The chapters e…

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Ryan Denson,
A Zoobiography of the Ancient Sea Monster

A comprehensive study of the ketos - the most prominent sea monster of Greco-Roman culture.

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Ps. Aurelius Victor,
De viris illustribus urbis Romae / Die berühmten Männer der Stadt Rom

Sammlung Tusculum

Since 1923 the Sammlung Tusculum has published authoritative editions of Greek and Latin works together with a German translation. The original texts are comprehensively annotated, and feature an introduc…

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