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Polybius: Book 8

Polybius is one of the most remarkable ancient historians, excelling as source, theorist and writer. Book 8 shows many sides of this extraordinary author: the superb narrator, recounting the tragic end of…

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Ahuvia Kahane
Epic, Novel and the Progress of Antiquity

Shows how classical ideas and material helped to shape the modern world. This book rethinks the characterization of two contrastive forms of ancient literary tradition - epic and novel - and re-frames the…

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Emily Hauser
Penelope's Bones

"Three millennia ago, in an ancient Greece where men spoke and women were silenced, some of the world's first epics were born: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. But these are not just tales about heroic men…

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Judah D Galinsky
The Making of a Medieval Bestseller

This study is a history of a medieval bestseller--Rabbi Isaac of Corbeil's handbook of accessible religious law relevant to Jews living in the Diaspora in medieval times. Galinsky describes how it came in…

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Krista A Milne
The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England

It is generally accepted that the contingencies of manuscript survival have disproportionately destroyed some sorts of manuscripts and not others, but there is no consensus as to which sorts. Considerable…

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Polybius: Book 8

"The first edition to show Polybius as an extraordinary writer and not just as a historian, focusing on a particularly varied and exciting book, here presented in a new text. It introduces Polybius a…

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Latin Texts on Papyrus and the Study of Classics

This volume gathers 25 chapters focused on Latin texts on papyrus, exploring them from multi- and cross-disciplinary perspectives. It serves as a companion to the texts published in The Corpus of Latin Te…

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Shakespeare's Classical Mythology: A Dictionary

An indispensable guide to the figures, places and stories of classical mythology in Shakespeare's works, with entries covering early modern usage and critical analysis in a cross-disciplinary approach tha…

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Anke Walter
Festivals in Latin Literature

Festivals feature prominently in Latin literature, even in works that are not explicitly dedicated to festive days like Ovid's Fasti. This book explores the role of festivals in elegiac, lyric, and epic p…

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Rebecca de Souza
Memories of Colonisation in Medieval and Modern Castile

Memories of Colonisation in Medieval and Modern Castile: Rereading and Refashioning al-Andalus traces the evolving memory of a dominant al-Andalus in medieval Castilian and, later, modern Spanish literatu…

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Elise Wang
The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature

This book is about felony prosecution in late medieval England, which it argues was shaped by literary and legal ideas. Medieval lawmen found felony distasteful, leaving its definition and prosecution to …

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Natalia I Petrovskaia
The Modern Afterlives of Old Irish Travel Narratives

This book explores the reception of the medieval Irish tradition of fantastic journey tales in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels , C.S. Lewis's The Voyage of the Dawn Treader , Umberto Eco's Baudolino ,…

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Jane Eyre (2006)

Was kann ein ungeliebtes Waisenkind schon vom Leben erwarten? Ein großes Abenteuer, das sie mit viel Mut und Willenskraft bestehen kann. Die bewegende Geschichte der Jane Eyre, eindrucksvoll beschrieben …

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Silvia Montiglio
Schadenfreude and Its Wicked Delights in Ancient Greece

This volume explores the significance of schadenfreude in Greek literature and culture from the archaic period to the second century CE. It examines how schadenfreude works, what purposes it serves within…

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James Diggle
Last Thoughts on Euripides

Last Thoughts on Euripides is a companion to the second edition of volume II of the Oxford Classical Text edition of Euripides. James Diggle explains choices made in that edition, assesses developments in…

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The Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature: Volume 2

Histories of Latin literature have often treated the period from the second to the seventh centuries as an epilogue to the main action - and yet the period includes such towering figures as Apuleius, Clau…

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The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth

The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth presents forty chapters about the unique and terrifying creatures from myths of the long-ago Near East and Mediterranean world, featuring authoritative co…

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The Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature: Volume 1

Histories of Latin literature have often treated the period from the second to the seventh centuries as an epilogue to the main action - and yet the period includes such towering figures as Apuleius, Clau…

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Lorna Hardwick, Stephen Harrison, Elizabeth Vandiver
Rupert Brooke, Charles Sorley, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen

Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in WWI. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was de…

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Erica Weaver
The Hermeneutics of Distraction in Early Medieval England

This book writes the cultural and intellectual history of distraction through the study of the affective practices of a particular community of medieval writers and readers: the influential circle of Ã†th…

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