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13 produkter
Classical Epic
Homer and Virgil
Häftad, 1998
348 kr
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In the ancient world Homer was recognised as the fountainhead of culture. His poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, were universally admired as examples of great literature which could never be surpassed. In this study, Richard Jenkyns re-examines the two Homeric epics and the work that is perhaps …
Classical Literature
E-bok, 2015
96 kr
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Any list of the six greatest European poets would include Virgil, Aeschylus and Homer. A recent history of philosophy named Aristotle and Plato as two of the world's four greatest philosophers. The greatest historian of all is likely to be Thucydides. Why was Ancient Greek and Roman literature so …
God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination
E-bok, 2013
739 kr
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God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination is a unique exploration of the relationship between the ancient Romans'' visual and literary cultures and their imagination. Drawing on a vast range of ancient sources, poetry and prose, texts, and material culture from all levels of Roman society, it …
Virgil's Experience
Nature and History: Times, Names, and Places
Inbunden, 1998
4602 kr
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This book studies Virgil's ideas of nature, history, sense of nation, and sense of identity. It is exact and patient in its probing for nuance and detail, but also bold, wide, and original in its scope. It combines the study of Virgil with the study of attitudes to nature throughout antiquity. …
The Legacy of Rome: A New Appraisal
Inbunden, 1992
1845 kr
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The achievements of the Roman world have profoundly affected European and world civilization. The original Legacy of Rome, edited by Cyril Bailey, was published in 1923 and has been widely read and enjoyed. Nearly seventy years on, this new edition, illustrated with 24 pages of plates, offers an …
A Fine Brush On Ivory
An Appreciation of Jane Austen
Häftad, 2007
271 kr
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What is it about Jane Austen's writing that brings such pleasure? There are good, even great novelists who are not good storytellers, and there are highly gifted storytellers who write thoroughly bad books. Jane Austen was both a very good storyteller and a great novelist. How did she do it? …
God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination
Inbunden, 2013
1329 kr
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God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination is a unique exploration of the relationship between the ancient Romans' visual and literary cultures and their imagination. Drawing on a vast range of ancient sources, poetry and prose, texts, and material culture from all levels of Roman society, it …
Path from Aulis
A Study of Aeschylus’ Oresteia
Inbunden, 2026
1385 kr
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The first book to re-assess the Oresteia for a new generation of Classicists. Bridging between the disciplines of Classics, literary studies, gender studies, moral philosophy, and theories of imagery, Jenkyns presents a close reading of the three plays and a sophisticated literary anaylsis that …
Path from Aulis
A Study of Aeschylus’ Oresteia
E-bok, 2026
1305 kr
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The first book to re-assess the Oresteia for a new generation of Classicists. Bridging between the disciplines of Classics, literary studies, gender studies, moral philosophy, and theories of imagery, Jenkyns presents a close reading of the three plays and a sophisticated literary anaylsis that …
Path from Aulis
A Study of Aeschylus’ Oresteia
E-bok, 2026
1315 kr
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The first book to re-assess the Oresteia for a new generation of Classicists. Bridging between the disciplines of Classics, literary studies, gender studies, moral philosophy, and theories of imagery, Jenkyns presents a close reading of the three plays and a sophisticated literary anaylsis that …
Westminster Abbey
A thousand years of national pageantry
E-bok, 2011
147 kr
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Westminster Abbey is the most complex church in the world in terms of its history, functions and memories - perhaps the most complex building of any kind. It has been an abbey and a cathedral and is now a collegiate church and a royal peculiar. It is the coronation church, a royal mausoleum, a …
