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"Spuria Macri"
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 154.00?Spuria Macri? consists of 20 chapters and 487 hexameters about plant, animal, and mineral remedies added to the poem ?Macer Floridus.? This translation, the first ever into German, contains rich commentaries on language, sources, reception, authorship, intellectual history, and genre. more...
"The Story of Apollonius, King of Tyre"
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 182.00The anonymous Latin Story of Apollonius, King of Tyre (Historia Apollonii regis Tyri) is a romance of adventure, possibly of Greek origins, with Christian elements in its plot. Well known for its important afterlife, including Shakespeare?s Pericles, the Story of Apollonius is commonly viewed as a Christianised folktale of a sub-literary character.... more...
The "Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite" and Related Texts
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 154.00The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (600s BCE?) tells the story of a brief encounter between the goddess of love and the cowherd Anchises, which led to the birth of the Trojan hero Aeneas. Less than 300 lines long, it is among the shortest of the so-called ?major Homeric Hymns?, but is nonetheless richly and beautifully conceived and narrated. This book... more...
The "Homeric Hymn to Hermes"
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 182.00This volume offers a detailed philological commentary on the longest of the Homeric Hymns. The commentary is preceded by a lengthy introduction addressing the Hymn?s ideas on poetry and music, its humorous aspects, the poem?s relation to the rest of archaic hexameter literature, its reception in later literature, its structure, date and place of composition,... more...
100 Must-read Classic Novels
A&C Black 2006; US$ 9.09Want to become a classic novel buff, or expand your reading of some of the finest novels ever published? With 100 of the best titles fully reviewed and a further 500 recommended, youll quickly set out on a journey of discovery. more...
Absent Narratives, Manuscript Textuality, and Literary Structure in Late Medieval England
Palgrave Macmillan 2002; US$ 111.00Absent Narratives is a book about the defining difference between medieval and modern stories. In chapters devoted to the major writers of the late medieval period - Chaucer, Gower, the Gawain -poet and Malory - it presents and then analyzes a set of unique and unnoticed phenomena in medieval narrative, namely the persistent appearance of missing... more...
Abusive Mouths in Classical Athens
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 42.00Groundbreaking study examining the imagery of the mouth in classical Athenian invective. more...
Actors and Icons of the Ancient Theater
Wiley 2010; US$ 134.95Actors and Icons of the Ancient Theater examines actors and their popular reception from the origins of theater in Classical Greece to the Roman Empire Presents a highly original viewpoint into several new and contested fields of study Offers the first systematic survey of evidence for the spread of theater outside Athens and the impact of the expansion... more...
Aelius Aristides between Greece, Rome, and the Gods
BRILL 2008; US$ 169.00This volume, containing fourteen papers given at a conference held at Columbia in 2007, is the most concerted attempt in recent times to understand the famous and enigmatic orator and to set him in his cultural, religious and political context. more...
Aeschylus
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 154.99Aeschylus' Persae, first produced in 472 BC, is the oldest surviving Greek tragedy. It is also the only extant Greek tragedy that deals, not with a mythological subject, but with an event of recent history, the Greek defeat of the Persians at Salamis in 480 BC. Unlike Aeschylus' other surviving plays, it is apparently not part of a connected... more...









