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Selected Writings: Charles Lamb (Paperback)

This collection contains a representative selection from Charles Lamb s writings including essays dramatic criticism verse and letters demonstrating his literary achievements and acting as an autobiography. more

Greek Latin And Literature Of The Middle Ages (Paperback)

Greek Latin And Literature Of The Middle Ages is a comprehensive book written by Walter Blair that explores the literary works of ancient Greek and Latin cultures as well as the literature of the Middle Ages. The book is divided into three main... more

Pre-Owned On Justice Power and Human Nature : Selections from the History of the Peloponnesian War 9780872201682

Designed for students with little or no background in ancient Greek language and culture this collection of extracts from The History of the Peloponnesian War includes those passages that shed most light onThucydides political theory--famous as well... more

Sophrosune in the Greek Novel: Reading Reactions to Desire (Paperback)

This book offers the first comprehensive evaluation of ethics in the ancient Greek novel demonstrating how their representation of the cardinal virtue sophrosune positions these texts in their literary philosophical and cultural contexts. Sophrosune... more

Philologus. Supplemente / Philologus. Supplementary Volumes: Epistolary Fiction in Ancient Greek Literature (Hardcover)

Ancient epistolary fiction is a still largely under-explored field of research at the intersection of studies on epistolography and on pseudepigraphy. The present volume sketches out a broad panorama of ancient fiction in letters. It covers a large... more

Arthur Laurenson. His Letters and Literary Remains. A selection. With an introductory memoir. Edited by Catherine Spence 1901 [Leather Bound]

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Light from ancient letters : private correspondence in the non-literary papyri of Oxyrhynchus of the first four centuries and its bearing on New Testament language and thought 192

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Light from ancient letters: private correspondence in the non-literary papyri of Oxyrhynchus of the first four centuries and its bearing on New Testament language and thought by Henry G. Meecham.

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Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Letters of Charles Dickens (Paperback)

This selection from the letters of Charles Dickens (1812-70) was edited (as it says on the title page) by his sister-in-law and his eldest daughter . The former was Georgina Hogarth (1827-1917) who stayed in Dickens household and cared for the... more

In Search of the Classic: Reconsidering the Greco-Roman Tradition Homer to Valéry and Beyond (Paperback)

The classical Steven Shankman argues should not be confused with a particular historical period of Western antiquity although it may owe its original articulation to the literary and philosophical explorations of ancient Greek authors. Shankman s... more

The three literary letters Ep. ad Ammaeum I Ep. ad Pompeium Ep. ad Ammaeum 2; the Greek text edited with English translation facsimile notes glossary of rhetorical and [Leather Bound]

Leatherbound edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1901 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index if any are... more

Greek Comedy and the Discourse of Genres (Hardcover)

Recent scholarship has acknowledged that the intertextual discourse of ancient comedy with previous and contemporary literary traditions is not limited to tragedy. This book is a timely response to the more sophisticated and theory-grounded way of... more

W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures Greece and Mesopotamia: Dialogues in Literature (Hardcover)

This book proposes a new approach to the study of ancient Greek and Mesopotamian literature. Ranging from Homer and Gilgamesh to Herodotus and the Babylonian-Greek author Berossos it paints a picture of two literary cultures that over the course of... more

Duckworth Classical Essays: Eroticism in Ancient Greek and Medieval Poetry (Hardcover)

Ancient Greek poetry even at its most sophisticated presupposed a degree of familiarity with and assimilation of many more elementary types of song. The continuous if uneven interplay between high-flown literature and sub-literary popular oral song... more

Ancient Epistolary Fictions: The Letter in Greek Literature (Hardcover)

This book offers the first comprehensive look at the use of imaginary letters in Greek literature from Homer to Philostratus. By imaginary letters it means letters written in the voice of another and either inserted into a narrative (epic... more

Myth and Poetics: Masks of Authority: Fiction and Pragmatics in Ancient Greek Poetics (Hardcover)

Exploring a variety of literary texts representing different poetic genres Claude Calame an internationally known classicist draws the lineaments of a real history of the means used by ancient Greek poets to create in their works a fictional... more

Madness in Literature (Paperback)

To probe the literary representation of the alienated mind Lillian Feder examines mad protagonists of literature and the work of writers for whom madness is a vehicle of self-revelation. Ranging from ancient Greek myth and tragedy to contemporary... more

Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics Greek and Latin Letters: An Anthology with Translation (Paperback)

The seventy-eight letters in this Anthology are selected both for their intrinsic interest and to illustrate the range of functions letters performed in the ancient world. Dating from between c.500 BC and c.400 AD they include naive and high-style... more

Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English Literary Criticism: The Making of Menander s Comedy (Hardcover)

The discovery on papyrus of plays by Menander the greatest writer of Greek New Comedy at last makes possible an evaluation on his own terms of an ancient author who through the adaptations of Plautus and Terence profoundly influenced the course of... more

Selections from the Attic Orators Antiphon Anocides Lysias Isocrates Isaeus : Being a Companion Volume to the Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeus (Paperback)

This collection brings together the works of prominent Attic Orators including Andocides Antiphon Lysias and Isocrates. Through their speeches and writings these orators offer a unique perspective on ancient Greek politics law and society making for... more

Greek Drama and Dramatists (Paperback)

The history of European drama began at the festivals of Dionysus in ancient Athens where tragedy satyr-drama and comedy were performed. Understanding this background is vital for students of classical literary and theatrical subjects and Alan H.... more

Poetæ Bucolici Et Didactici : Theocritus Bion Moschus (Hardcover)

This volume collects the works of three ancient Greek poets - Theocritus Bion and Moschus - who specialized in pastoral poetry and hymns to the gods. Each poem is accompanied by detailed notes on its literary and historical context making this book... more