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Greece and Mesopotamia
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 76.00Proposes an exciting new approach to the study of ancient Greek and Mesopotamian literature. more...
It?s a City-showman?s Show!
Penguin Books Ltd 2013; Not AvailableThe monsoon night passes like a knife? again and again the heart is cut away The seventeenth-century ascetic Anandghan (Cloud of Bliss) is one of the outstanding poets of Jain vernacular literature. His transcendental songs have been popular for over three centuries and remain part of the Jain devotional canon even today. Anandghan?s songs?which... more...
Greek Comedy and the Discourse of Genres
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 88.00Explores comedy's voracious and multifarious dialogue with a large spectrum of literary, sub-literary and paraliterary traditions surrounding and shaping it. more...
Menander in Antiquity
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 79.00Reconstructs the ancient afterlife of Menander by focusing on three contexts of reception: public theatre, private entertainment and schools. more...
The Meaning of Meat and the Structure of the Odyssey
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 72.00A literary study of the Odyssey based on the central economic and symbolic importance of the eating of meat. more...
A Perceforest Reader
Boydell & Brewer Group Ltd 2013; US$ 14.57Perceforest' is one of the largest and certainly the most extraordinary of the late Arthurian romances, and is almost completely unknown except to a handful of scholars. But it is a work of exceptional richness and importance, and has been justly described as "an encyclopaedia of 14th-century chivalry" and "a mine of folkloric motifs". Its contents... more...
Dragons, Serpents, and Slayers in the Classical and Early Christian Worlds
Oxford University Press, USA 2013; US$ 26.99Stories about dragons, serpents, and their slayers make up a rich and varied tradition within ancient mythology and folklore. In this sourcebook, Daniel Ogden presents a comprehensive and easily accessible collection of dragon myths from Greek, Roman, and early Christian sources. Some of the dragons featured are well known: the Hydra, slain by Heracles;... more...
Euripides' Medea
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 12.00Euripides' Medea comes alive in this new translation that will be useful for both academic study and stage production. more...
Ovid and Hesiod
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 79.00Explores the previously neglected influence on Ovid's Metamorphoses of Hesiod, the most important archaic Greek poet after Homer. more...
Hats and Doctors
Penguin Books Ltd 2013; Not AvailableHats and Doctors offers English readers the opportunity to savour, for the first time, the work of Upendranath Ashk, one of Hindi literature?s best-known authors. The stories in this collection often display a wry sense of humour, such as ?The Dal Eaters? in which a family of cheapskates journeys to Kashmir. While Ashk?s satirical eye is employed to... more...









