The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic. Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica and the Poetics of Impersonation, New ed, Paperback - Emma (Universi

The first literary and cultural reading of Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica, a major Greek epic from the height of the Roman Empire which tells the ...

Fresh analysis of elite public giving in the Greek cities in all periods of ancient history, highlighting it as a structural feature of polis socie...

This book provides a groundbreaking reassessment of the prehistory of Homeric epic. It argues that in the Early Iron Age bilingual poets transmitte...

Explores how literary form changes when Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape. By reading little-known but hugely influential texts, this bo...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Roger BakerMen have been dressing as women on stage for hundreds of years, dating back to the thirteenth century when the C...

The question of the materiality of the book has surprising consequences when applied to dramatic writing. In Print and the Poetics of Modern Drama,...

Reducere. Composed in the third century A.D., the Trojan Epic is the earliest surviving literary evidence for many of the traditions of the Trojan War passed...

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

The visual language of the Roman Empire was remarkably consistent. These images were made, used, and reinterpreted at all social levels, and often ...

Reducere. Menis opens for consideration an immense range of significant poetic possibilities, not the least of which is that of an ethical sense for the term...

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 ...

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

What does it mean to "fail" in performance? How might staging failure reveal theatre’s potential to expand our understanding of social, political a...

Reducere. "Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling Waldseem...

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...

The Poetics of Insecurity addresses a key concern of modern America - security - through close readings of American literary works. It combines lit...

In the field of philosophy, the common view of philosophy as an essentially Western discipline persists even today, while non-Western philosophy te...

Athenian comedy was written for performance in competitions at religious festivals. This book applies traditional philological techniques to five o...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Michael DavidsonIllustration(s): 24 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 256Collection: CripPublication...

Reducere. Promoting a new, broadly interdisciplinary horizon for future studies in early Greek philosophy, Dirk L. Couprie, Robert Hahn, and Gerard Naddaf es...

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

Reducere. This new, original translation of Cornelius Nepos's "Lives of the Great Commanders" is the first to appear in many generations. It is also the firs...

Since the turn of the millennium, a growing number of female filmmakers have appropriated the aesthetics of horror for their films. In this book, P...

Publisher: Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoAuthor(s): AristotleNumber of pages: 80Publication date: 2006Dimensions: 141 x 216 x 5Cover type: Paperba...

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 ...

A sweeping history of premodern architecture told through the material of stonePublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Fabio BarryIllustration(s...

Reducere. Reveals the presence of God in the creative works of human life and culture What are the "poetics of everyday life"? What can they teach us about G...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book is part of the series "Scripture and Feasts for Children." It is about the Great Feast of the Nativity of Christ and is intend...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book is part of the series "Scripture and Feasts for Children." It is about the Great Feast of the Nativity of Christ and is intend...

This book locates Polwhele's work within key preoccupations of the age and will be of interest to those working in the field of late eighteenth and...

Reducere. Immortality of the Soul or Resurrection of the Dead?: The Witness of the New Testament, Paperback

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

The ancient Mabinogi is a great world literature and fascinating Celtic mythology. Here in the much-loved Guest translation and including companion...

Reducere. In the early twentieth century, three women of color helped shape a new world of ethnographic discovery. Ella Cara Deloria, a Sioux woman from Sout...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Tobias WilkeIllustration(s): 5 color plates, 39 halftonesNumber of pages: 272Publication date:...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Tobias WilkeIllustration(s): 5 color plates, 39 halftonesNumber of pages: 272Publication date:...

Advances in the Study of Greek offers an introduction to issues of interest in the current world of Greek scholarship. Those within Greek scholarsh...

An epic poem probably written in the 900s CE, Beowulf tells of events 600 years before, where the hero Beowulf is implored to assist the King of th...

Publisher: Inter-Varsity PressNumber of pages: 643Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 49Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera farme...

Japan, the world s third largest economy and its largest creditor nation, has been in crisis for more than two decades. Its economy has been depres...

This book examines major literary texts by and about the Irish in the Middle Ages, providing an analysis of a spatial poetics developed over 600 ye...

Reducere. The ancient Greek hymnic tradition translated beautifully and accessibly. The hymn--as poetry, as craft, as a tool for worship and philosophy--was ...

This volume highlights the sustained focus in Acts on the resurrection of Christ, bringing clarity to the theology of Acts and its purpose. Brandon...

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...

Reducere. Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. African & African American Studies. Art. Music. Black artists of the avant-garde have always defined the future. BLACK...

Early American naturalists assembled dazzling collections of native flora and fauna, from John Bartram's botanical garden in Philadelphia and the a...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Albert HouraniAfterword by: Malise RuthvenUpon its publication in 1991, Albert Hourani's masterwork was hailed as the defin...