Litteraturvetenskap: klassisk, tidig & medeltida litteratur

"Suggestivt målar han upp bilden av hur en forntida sagoförtäljare i skymningen leder sin publik längs ristningens tablåer och ingående återger den storslagna berättelsen om hur svearnas mytiske urkung Ingwaz med åtta skepp ger sig ut på färd över...

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Här föreligger Jan Olov Ulléns uppskattade studie Det synliga osynliga i ny utgåva. Boken utkom ursprungligen 1989 och är en av de grundligaste och mest lättillgängliga läsningarna av Dantes mästerverk på svenska. Med ett personligt anslag leder U...

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Introduction to Medieval Europe 300-1500 provides a comprehensive survey of this complex and varied formative period of European history within a global context, covering themes as diverse as barbarian migrations, the impact of Christianisation, t...

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En gång i tiden var de gestalter och händelser som alla i Sverige kände till: Ane den gamle som offrade sina barn för att få evigt liv, Ingjald illråde som enade riket genom svek och våld, slaget på Bråvallarna som var så väldigt att himmel och jo...

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Introduction to Medieval Europe 300-1500 provides a comprehensive survey of this complex and varied formative period of European history within a global context, covering themes as diverse as barbarian migrations, the impact of Christianisation, t...

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The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication. This edition is twofold, for th...

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Nominerad till Stora Fackbokspriset 2024 »En pärla för nördar.« M magasin » Latin - handbok i odödlighet är [?] nästan lika mycket en berättelse om vår civilisations framväxt som om latinet i sig.« Språktidningen Hur gick det till när latinet blev...

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This accessible one-volume survey of the literature of Greece and Rome covers the period between Homer around 700 BC and Augustine around AD 410. Highlights what is important historically and of continuing interest and value in classical literatur...

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The first authorized copy of this mysterious, much-speculated-upon, one-of-a-kind, centuries-old puzzle "For the first time, a complete reproduction [of] The Voynich Manuscript, has been published, featuring essays exploring what is known about th...

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Virgil's masterpiece and one of the greatest works in all of literature, now in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith Virgil's Aeneid, inspired by Homer and the inspiration for Dante and Milton, is an immortal poem that...

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"Den stora förtjänsten med Cullheds rikt illustrerade och välskrivna arbete är att det gör det tydligt hur mångsidig, nyansrik och motsägelsefull den medeltida kärlekslitteraturen är." Aftonbladet "Cullhed skriver med en smittande entusiasm" Göteb...

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Discover Dante's original Inferno in this modern and acclaimed Penguin translation. Describing Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate figures are condemned to eternal damnation for c...

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Nietzsche's first published book, The Birth of Tragedy is a compelling argument for the necessity of art in life This landmark work of criticism is fuelled by Nietzsche's enthusiasms for Greek tragedy, the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the music ...

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This 75th anniversary edition of a classic bestseller is stunningly illustrated and designed to enchant fans of Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology at all ages. Since its original publication by Little, Brown and Company in 1942, Edith Hamilton's My...

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C.S. Lewis sista bok, vida betraktad som en av hans främsta, är en lärd genomgång av den medeltida världsbilden och dess inflytande över olika delar av människans tillvaro, från psykologin till vetenskapen, föreställningsförmågan och fantasin. Skr...

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Den tidiga fornnordiska litteraturen förser oss med de enda hedniska texter som är bevarade från Europas medeltid. Varken på keltiskt, slaviskt eller övrigt germanskt område finner vi någon motsvarighet, och detta ger oss en unik möjlighet att när...

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Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern Library Anne Carson's remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic love Since it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson's lyrical meditation on ...

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Sappho, the earliest and most famous Greek woman poet, sang her songs around 600 BCE on the island of Lesbos. Of what survives from the approximately nine papyrus scrolls collected in antiquity, all is translated here: substantial poems and fragme...

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Hesiod, who lived in Boetia in the late eighth century BC, is one of the oldest known, and possibly the oldest of Greek poets. His Theogony contains a systematic genealogy of the gods from the beginning of the world and an account of the struggles...

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Antikens historier är myterna och äventyren, alla anekdoterna om filosofer och fältherrar och kejsare, diktarnas och vetenskapsmännens liv och verk, politiken och vardagslivet, de religiösa ceremonierna, den grekiskromerska mytologins gudar och hj...

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If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of an everyman's journey through life. Odysseus' reliance on wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces during his te...

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Frederick Klaeber's Beowulf has long been the standard edition for study by students and advanced scholars alike. Its wide-ranging coverage of scholarship, its comprehensive philological aids, and its exceptionally thorough notes and glossary have...

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One of the greatest epics in Western literature, THE ILIAD recounts the story of the Trojan wars. This timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves to its tragi...

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Ovid's deliciously clever and exuberant epic, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectable editions are bound in high-quality, tactile cloth with foil stamped into ...

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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius are treasured today-as they have been over the centuries-as an inexhaustible source of wisdom. And as one of the three most important expressions of Stoicism, this is an essential text for everyone interested in ...

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Collecting the most incisive and influential writings of one of Rome's finest orators, Cicero's Selected Works is translated with an introduction by Michael Grant in Penguin Classics. Lawyer, philosopher, statesman and defender of Rome's Republic,...

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The theme of the Metamorphoses is change and transformation, as illustrated in Graeco-Roman myth and legend. On this ostensibly unifying thread Ovid strings together a vast and kaleidoscopic sequence of brilliant narratives, in which the often par...

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Herodotus is not only known as the `father of history', as Cicero called him, but also the father of ethnography; as well as charting the historical background to the Persian Wars, his curiosity also prompts frequent digression on the cultures of ...

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'A superb version . . . subtle, beautiful, precise, moving' THE TIMES The definitive complete translation of Sappho, by one of the world's greatest living poets Not much is known about Sappho, the great poetess of Ancient Greece. Her relationships...

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"The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of h...

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