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By: Claude Calame
ISBN: 9780691159430
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2013
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Offers a comprehensive inquiry into the deity of sexual love, a power that permeated daily Greek life. Avoiding Foucault's philosophical paradigm of dominance/submission, this book uses an anthropological and linguistic approach to re-create indigenous categories of erotic love.
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By: Thomas N. Habinek
ISBN: 9780691089843
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2002
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Describes the intimate relationship between Latin literature and the politics of ancient Rome. This work shows that, from its beginnings in the late third century BC to its eclipse by Christian literature six hundred years later, classical literature served the evolving interests of Roman and, more particularly, aristocratic power.
(Hardback)
By: Mary Raschko
ISBN: 9781526131171
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2018
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This study explores how writers reconciled provocative biblical stories with late-medieval culture. Highlighting the many variations and points of conflict across renditions of the same story, the book unfolds a creative theological discourse through which writers attempted to re-construct Christian belief and practice. -- .
(Paperback)
By: Rosie Harman
ISBN: 9781350335417
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Dr Matthew Shipton
ISBN: 9781350124967
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2019
UK Publication Date: 22nd August 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Dr Matthew Shipton
ISBN: 9781474295079
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Steven Shankman
ISBN: 9780304706402
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A comparative study of what the most influential writers of Ancient Greece and China thought it meant to have knowledge and whether they distinguished knowledge from other forms of wisdom. It surveys poetry, history and philosophy from roughly the eighth to the second century BCE.
(Hardback)
By: Silvia Montiglio
ISBN: 9781784533519
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A unique contribution to better understandings of ancient Greek writing and the various ways writers in antiquity used sleep to deal with major aspects of plot and character development.
(Paperback)
By: Silvia Montiglio
ISBN: 9781350197435
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Kirk Freudenburg
ISBN: 9780691601991
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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In laying the groundwork for a fresh and challenging reading of Roman satire, Kirk Freudenburg explores the literary precedents behind the situations and characters created by Horace, one of Rome's earliest and most influential satirists. Critics tend to think that his two books of Satires are but trite sermons of moral reform--which the poems supe
(Hardback)
By: Kirk Freudenburg
ISBN: 9780691631585
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback, Revised edition)
By: N. Rudd
ISBN: 9781853995613
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 1998
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This text sets out to illuminate all the central themes of Roman satire. It offers a synchronic assessment of different aspects of the work of Lucilius, Horace, Persius and Juvenal: their aims; their styles; and their views on freedom of speech, class patronage, Greeks and sex.
(Hardback)
By: Ioannis Polemis
ISBN: 9780755651429
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Ioannis Polemis
ISBN: 9780755651399
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Javier Aoiz
ISBN: 9781350346581
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback, New edition)
By: Anne Pippin Burnett
ISBN: 9781853995781
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 1998
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The portraits of the three Greek poets and their poetry, of their social setting, and their purposes within it, are studied here.
(Paperback)
By: Donald Roy Howard
ISBN: 9780691624181
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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A study of the medieval idea that defined the "world" as recorded in I John 2:16-the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. Conflict in Troilus and Criseyde, Piers Plowman, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is explored. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand techno
(Hardback)
By: Donald Roy Howard
ISBN: 9780691650784
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Edith Hall
ISBN: 9781474299336
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Edith Hall
ISBN: 9781350194588
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1977
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Published in 1930, this volume is still considered one of the standard works of criticism on the great epic.
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By: Cary Howie
ISBN: 9781526148650
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Transfiguring medievalism explores medieval literature, modern poetry and theologies both medieval and modern to show how bodies can become apparent to the attentive eye as more than they first appear. Bringing together medieval sources with modern lyric medievalism, the book argues for the surprising porousness of time and flesh. -- .
(Paperback)
By: Peter Liebregts
ISBN: 9781350191341
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Professor Paul Allen Miller
ISBN: 9781350357266
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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