Greek Epitaphic Poetry. A Selection, New ed, Paperback - ***

Thousands of Greek verse epitaphs, covering a millennium of history, survive inscribed on stone. They shed rich light on ancient moral values, reli...

This Element introduces this literature and proposes a novel contribution. It defends a realist stance and offers a way of delineating genuine leve...

In this unusual selection, a poet-critic of the 20th century encounters a poet-critic of the 19th, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). William Emp...

This is the first book to provide comprehensive treatment of Robert Lowell's engagements with Irish poetry. It includes original contributions by l...

Since the crisis hit in 2008, Greece has played host to a cultural renaissance unlike anything seen in Southern Europe for over thirty years. Poems...

Elegy and iambus are major forms of Greek literature which are crucial to understanding the Archaic and early Classical periods in particular. This...

This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Ovid's Amores 1.1 and 2.5, Propertius 1...

Publisher: Poetry Wales PressAuthor(s): Emyr HumphreysNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2019Dimensions: 136 x 209 x 35Cover type: Paperback / s...

I provide a sense for the texture of the Persian world by discussing what made poetry precious. By focusing on reports on poets' lives, I illuminat...

Reducere. This beautiful selection of classic poems is illustrated by E. Mervyn Taylor's engravings. The anthology is specially chosen to evoke rich discussi...

Reducere. With this book, it is hoped to raise awareness of Kurdish poetry and its diverse voices within world literary circles. This work will encourage Kur...

Reducere. This edition provides a full and representative selection of all early Greek lyric (omitting Pindar, who requires his own volume), elegiac and iamb...

Provides a new and broader perspective on ancient theater by focusing on its origins and development in Sicily and southern Italy, especially in co...

A beautiful and evocative collection of poems to guide you through fifteen centuries of Celtic mythologies, traditions and histories.Publisher: Wat...

Reducere. Mary Doria Russell, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Sparrow, returns with Epitaph. An American Iliad, this richly detailed and meticul...

This is the first book in English to explore Aristotle's criticisms of earlier Greek theories of the soul. It investigates Aristotle's hylomorphic ...

Reading Poetry offers a comprehensive and accessible guide to the art of reading poetry. Discussing more than 200 poems by more than 100 writers, t...

This is the first investigation of solo dancers in Archaic and Classical Greek literature. It demonstrates that dancing alone signifies transgressi...

Reducere. Description"It is all Greek to me " goes the joke, but actually, learning Greek isn't nearly as hard as people think. In this 'crash course' in New...

Reducere. The Morphology of Biblical Greek explains, in a way second-year Greek students can understand, how Greek words are formed. It shows that Greek word...

Nick Selby assembles some of the most important critical writings about Walt Whitman in order to demonstrate how critical debate about him has refl...

Publisher: Carcanet Press LtdAuthor(s): Fernao Mendes PintoIllustration(s): Ill.Translator: Michael LoweryNumber of pages: 450Collection: Aspects o...

The Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 B.C.--greats such as Sappho, Anacreon, and Simonides--produced some...

Demonstrates that Romans, Greeks, Jews and Christians imagined the future of Rome in strikingly different ways, revealing profound differences in t...

DescriptionThis generous selection of published essays by the distinguished classicist Charles Segal represents over twenty years of critical inqui...

The understanding of motion - the core concept of natural philosophy - underwent crucial changes in Greek thinking from Parmenides to Aristotle. Th...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Written and illustrated by one of the National Lampoon's few female contributors and never before collected in America, these hilarious, raunchy, a...

The Games Climbers Play is a best-selling anthology of climbing writing, punctuated by contemporary commentaries and hilarious cartoons. It collect...

The first half of the book is devoted to the poetry of Yannis Ritsos and includes several of his longer poems in their entirety. In the second half...

This is the first book-length study to examine the predicaments and achievements of mid-Victorian war poets. Confronted with news of suffering sold...

Now in its 8th edition, this magisterial work offers a comprehensive survey of the stories of Greek myth, from the Olympian gods, through the lesse...

Following the highly successful format of the first edition, this book's main purpose is to guide construction industry professionals on how to sel...

men are cocooning from the epidemic, alarmed by daily reports of death nearing their doorstep. Seeking escape from their precarious condition, they...

'Mandy Baggot is the queen of summer romance.' - NetGalley Reviewer'Absolutely delightful, my favourite book this year!' NetGalley ReviewerThis sum...

"It is all Greek to me " goes the joke, but actually, learning Greek isn't nearly as hard as people think. In this 'crash course' in New Testament ...

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): Thomas G. RosenmayerNumber of pages: 152Publication date: 1994Dimensions: 216 x 142 x 7Cover type: ...

Clarendon's History chonicles the English Civil War from the perspective of someone intimately involved in the events he describes. This classic wo...