Ancient & Classical

Inventing the Novel uses the work of the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) to explore the ancient origins of the modern novel. The analysis focuses on one of the most elusive works of classical antiquity, the Satyrica, written by Nero's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814252987Author Jean MillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

The nature of the epic and its examples from classical times through the 18th century.About the AuthorTillyard /f Eustace /i Mandeville WetenhallBook InformationISBN 9780837187815Format HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814256381Author Luca GraveriniFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

This volume, in focusing on the meaning and treatment of symbol and myth as developed in some of the more familiar Greek and Roman poets, aims to open up what may be a new avenue into the ancient poetic imagination.Book InformationISBN...

Voyages in Classical Mythology takes 44 great classical adventure tales of mythology and exploration and retells them in this beautifully written volume.Organized by character or traveler's name, each entry includes a description of the voyager's life,...

C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) is best remembered as a literary critic, essayist, theologian, and novelist, and his famed tales The Chronicles of Narnia and The Screwtape Letters have been read by millions. Now, A. T. Reyes reveals a different side of this...

Homeric Epic and its Reception, comprising twelve chapter--some previously published but revised for this collection, and others appearing here in print for the first time--offers literary interpretations of the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Homeric Hymn...

Greek traditions of writing about food and the symposium had a long and rich afterlife in the first to fifth centuries CE, in both Greco-Roman and early Christian culture. This book provides an account of the history of the table-talk tradition, derived...

This volume explores the extraordinary contribution that classical poetics has made to twentieth and twenty-first century theories of narrative, aiming not to argue that modern narratologies simply present 'old wine in new wineskins', but rather to...

Standing at the very beginning of European literature, the poems and verse fragments that have come down to us under Hesiod's name tap the vast reservoir of oral tradition constituting Greek wisdom about the ways of gods and men. The Theogony tells of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891303923Author Herbert W. BenarioFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Oxford University Press IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814252659Author Will HastyFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Making Mockery explores the dynamics of comic mockery and satire in Greek and Roman poetry, and argues that poets working with such material composed in accordance with shared generic principles and literary protocols. It encourages a synoptic,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814253144Author E R CaleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

The essays in this volume interrogate the unique and often problematic relationship between early modern cultural studies and ecocriticism, providing theoretical insights and models for a future practice that successfully wed the two disciplines.TODD...

Nineteenth century medievalism is usually associated with Scott's world of Ivanhoe , but Romantic Medievalism argues that Scott's is a conservative use of the past and that radical poets such as the young Coleridge, Keats and Shelley used the medieval to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013292293Author Ingo GildenhardFormat HardbackPage Count 594Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Exploring the hero's journey as a metaphor for spiritual evolution, this book offers a close, original reading of three seminal works of epic poetry: the Epic of Gilgamesh. Homer's Iliad, and Virgil's Aeneid. An excellent introduction to the central...

The elements of music, musical values, the relationship of music to the other ancient arts--all of these subjects are explored as Polin discusses the musical heritage of the ancient Near East.Book InformationISBN 9780837157962Author Claire Polin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814252970Author Hunter GardnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

The engaging political speeches and persuasive writing of today are carefully crafted instances of rhetoric. The governing theories behind contemporary speakers and writers are deeply rooted in the classical world, where such great thinkers as Aristotle,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814253410Author Professor Emeritus of Classics Mark MorfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814252215Author Grant a NelsestuenFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814252123Author Angela FritsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

A more intimate and vivid glimpse of Athenian political life during and directly after the Peloponnesian War is provided by the speech of Andokides On the Mysteries than by any other work: it is also a major source of legal and prosopographical...

During a stopover of the Argo in Mysia, the boy Hylas sets out to fetch water for his companion Hercules. Wandering into the woods, he arrives at a secluded spring, inhabited by nymphs who fall in love with him and pull him into the water. Mad with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255100Author Dr Paul Allen MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

This is the first comprehensive account of the life and work of the distinguished scholar and public figure Gilbert Murray (1866-1957). Sixteen contributors survey his childhood, his work in the theatre and in international relations, his Greek...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013288258Author Michael BrysonFormat HardbackPage Count 574Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814214640Author Michelle ZerbaFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814253014Author Mark MastersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

This history of the development of Greek prose, based on the author's Oxford lectures, was designed for use by university students and professors.About the Authornniston /f John /i DewarBook InformationISBN 9780313209604Format HardbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980081428Author Christopher J. MackieFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint New Academia Publishing, LLCPublisher New Academia Publishing,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814253892Author Barbara McManusFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Published in 1930, this volume is still considered one of the standard works of criticism on the great epic.Book InformationISBN 9780837195612Format HardbackPage Count 293Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 454g

Latin plays were written for audiences whose gender perspectives and expectations were shaped by life in Rome, and the crowds watching the plays included both female citizens and female slaves. Relationships between men and women, ideas of masculinity...

European Erotic Romance examines the Renaissance publication and translation of the ancient Greek erotic romances, and English adaptations of the genre by Sir Philip Sidney, Shakespeare and Lady Mary Sidney Wroth. Providing fresh insight into the...

Literature in English is hardly ever entirely in English. Contact with other languages takes place, for example, whenever foreign languages are introduced, or if a native style is self-consciously developed, or when aspects of English are remade in the...

This bilingual edition, with introduction and brief commentary, makes accessible for the first time in English a text of great importance for the history and interpretation of Homer. Although attributed to Plutarch, the Essay is probably the work of a...