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By: Andrew H. Plaks
ISBN: 9780691273518
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2025
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Andrew Plaks reinterprets the great texts of Chinese fiction known as the "Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel" (ssu ta ch'i-shu). Arguing that these are far more than collections of popular narratives, Professor Plaks shows that their fullest recensions represent a sophisticated new genre of Chinese prose fiction arising in the late Ming dynasty, e
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By: Erich Neumann
ISBN: 9780691017723
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1971
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Unfolding the spiritual and mythical background of the pagan narrative, this book shows how the contest between the mortal maid Psyche and the great goddess Aphrodite over the god Amor yields insights into the psychic life of women.
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By: Anne Carson
ISBN: 9780691247939
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Nizami
ISBN: 9781624664304
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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By: Joseph Farrell
ISBN: 9780691221250
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Friedrich August Wolf
ISBN: 9780691608761
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The subjects Wolf addressed have dominated Homeric scholarship for almost two centuries. Especially important were his analyses of the history of writing and of the nature of Alexandrian scholarship and his consideration of the composition of the Homeric poems--which set the terms for the analyst/unitarian controversy. His exploration of the histor
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By: Jonas Grethlein
ISBN: 9780691182490
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2025
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Emily Gowers
ISBN: 9780691193144
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Cicero
ISBN: 9780872209893
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2009
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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Includes ten speeches that illustrate Cicero's entire career and exemplify the major contexts for his oratory: before the senate, the people, and the courts. This title illuminates the major political crises of Cicero's time and offers portraits of many of the major political figures.
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By: Homer
ISBN: 9780872205406
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2000
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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Selections from both the Iliad and the Odyssey, made with an eye for those episodes that figure most prominently in the study of mythology.
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By: Helene P. Foley
ISBN: 9780691014791
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 1994
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Includes a poem that tells how Hades, lord of the underworld, abducted the goddess Persephone and how her grieving mother, Demeter, the goddess of grain, forced the gods to allow Persephone to return to her for part of each year.
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By: Apuleius
ISBN: 9780872209725
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2009
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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Is "Cupid and Psyche" a romance, a folktale, a Platonic allegory of the nature of the soul, a Jungian tale of individuation, or an archetypal dream This book provides a translation of this best known section of "Apuleius' Golden Ass".
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By: Guo Xiaoting
ISBN: 9780804849142
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
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Follow the brilliant and hilarious adventures of a mad Zen Buddhist monk who rose from humble beginnings to become one of China's greatest folk heroes!
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By: Author
ISBN: 9781529441048
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 12th September 2024
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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A hilarious celebration of more than 200 cat paintings from medieval times.
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By: Daniela Mairhofer
ISBN: 9781851244546
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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This is the first major publication on the Mainz Charterhouse manuscript collection. Published in two volumes, it provides authoritative and superbly detailed descriptions, including information about the physical characteristics, decoration, binding, and provenance of the manuscripts. Each manuscript is illustrated.
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By: Professor Christian Laes
ISBN: 9781350436282
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Professor Debbie Felton
ISBN: 9781350093799
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Professor Susan Aronstein
ISBN: 9781350094482
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Dr Hannah-Marie Chidwick
ISBN: 9781350377547
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Penelope Murray
ISBN: 9780140446517
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2000
UK Publication Date: 17th April 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A collection of works that have profoundly shaped the history of criticism in the Western world: they created much of the terminology still in use today and formulated enduring questions about the nature and function of literature. It features works that include "Ion", "Poetics", "Art of Poetry", and "On the Sublime".
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By: Philip Womack
ISBN: 9781786078148
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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An introduction to the classical world for youand your canine
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By: Philip Womack
ISBN: 9780861541218
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
UK Publication Date: 7th October 2021
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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An introduction to the classical world for youand your canine
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By: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9780743477109
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2007
Publisher: Downtown Press
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By: C.E.W. Steel
ISBN: 9780715632796
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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M. Tullius Cicero was a prolific writer, his writing covering an astonishingly wide spectrum: oratory, letters, epic and didactic poetry, pamphlets, philosophical and rhetorical treatises. He was also a major political figure at Rome during the Late Republic.
