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ISBN: 9781843843511 - Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages
Larissa Tracy

ISBN10: 184384351X  ISBN13: 9781843843511
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd D.S. Brewer
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 18 Jul 2013
Essays exploring medieval castration, as reflected in archaeology, law, historical record, and literary motifs. Castration and castrati have always been facets of western culture, from myth and legend to law and theology, from eunuchs guarding... More

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ISBN: 9788763507806 - Narrative Literature from the Tebtunis Temple Library Narrative Literature from the Tebtunis Temple Library
Kim Ryholt

ISBN10: 8763507803  ISBN13: 9788763507806
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 10 Jun 2013
The book presents ten narrative texts written in the demotic script and preserved in papyri from the Tebtunis temple library (1st/2nd century AD). Eight of the texts are historical narratives which focus on the first millennium BC. Four concern... More

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ISBN: 9781897976364 - Shorter Scottish Medieval Romances Shorter Scottish Medieval Romances
Rhiannon Purdie

ISBN10: 1897976364  ISBN13: 9781897976364
Publisher: Scottish Text Society
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 16 May 2013
First modern edition of four romances from the medieval Scottish tradition. The four romances in this collection have been unjustly neglected. Indeed, Florimond, King Orphius and Sir Colling were entirely unknown to modern audiences ... More

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ISBN: 9780199605408 - Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science
Daryn Lehoux, A D Morrison, Alison Sharrock

ISBN10: 0199605408  ISBN13: 9780199605408
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 09 May 2013
The volume unites the three aspects - poetry, philosophy, and science - found in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura. With ten original essays and an analytical introduction, the volume aims not only to combine different approaches within single covers... More

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ISBN: 9780226308821 - Euripides III Euripides III
Mark Griffith, Glenn W Most

ISBN10: 0226308820  ISBN13: 9780226308821
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 May 2013
Offers translations of Euripides' "Medea", "The Children of Heracles", "Andromache", and "Iphigenia among the Taurians", fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles' "The Trackers". In this title, introductions for... More

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ISBN: 9780226311470 - Aeschylus II Aeschylus II
Mark Griffith, Glenn W Most

ISBN10: 0226311473  ISBN13: 9780226311470
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 May 2013
Offers translations of Euripides' "Medea", "The Children of Heracles", "Andromache", and "Iphigenia among the Taurians", fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles' "The Trackers". In this title, introductions for... More

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ISBN: 9780674072275 - The Classical Tradition The Classical Tradition
Anthony Grafton, Glenn W Most, Salvatore Settis

ISBN10: 0674072278  ISBN13: 9780674072275
Publisher: Harvard University Press The Belknap Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 May 2013
How do we get from the polis to the police? Or from Odysseus' sirens to an ambulance's? The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. This title investigates the... More

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ISBN: 9780521729802 - The Cambridge Companion to Cicero The Cambridge Companion to Cicero
Catherine Steel

ISBN10: 0521729807  ISBN13: 9780521729802
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 02 May 2013
A comprehensive and authoritative account of one of the greatest and most prolific writers of classical antiquity. Cicero was one of classical antiquity's most prolific, varied and self-revealing authors. His letters, speeches, treatises and... More

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ISBN: 9781107004221 - Menander in Antiquity Menander in Antiquity
Sebastiana Nervegna

ISBN10: 1107004225  ISBN13: 9781107004221
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 25 Apr 2013
Reconstructs the ancient afterlife of Menander by focusing on three contexts of reception: public theatre, private entertainment and schools. The comic playwright Menander was one of the most popular writers throughout antiquity. This book... More

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ISBN: 9780199602988 - War, Liberty, and Caesar War, Liberty, and Caesar
Edward Paleit

ISBN10: 0199602980  ISBN13: 9780199602988
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 25 Apr 2013
In War, Liberty, and Caesar, Edward Paleit discusses how readers and writers of the English Renaissance read and understood Lucan's epic poem on the Roman civil wars. Looking at engagements with Lucan across a wide variety of literary forms... More