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Anke Walter
Festivals in Latin Literature

Festivals feature prominently in Latin literature, even in works that are not explicitly dedicated to festive days like Ovid's Fasti. This book explores the role of festivals in elegiac, lyric, and epic p…

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Emily Hauser
Penelope's Bones

"Three millennia ago, in an ancient Greece where men spoke and women were silenced, some of the world's first epics were born: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. But these are not just tales about heroic men…

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Ahuvia Kahane
Epic, Novel and the Progress of Antiquity

Shows how classical ideas and material helped to shape the modern world. This book rethinks the characterization of two contrastive forms of ancient literary tradition - epic and novel - and re-frames the…

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Judah D Galinsky
The Making of a Medieval Bestseller

This study is a history of a medieval bestseller--Rabbi Isaac of Corbeil's handbook of accessible religious law relevant to Jews living in the Diaspora in medieval times. Galinsky describes how it came in…

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James Diggle
Last Thoughts on Euripides

Last Thoughts on Euripides is a companion to the second edition of volume II of the Oxford Classical Text edition of Euripides. James Diggle explains choices made in that edition, assesses developments in…

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Shakespeare's Classical Mythology: A Dictionary

An indispensable guide to the figures, places and stories of classical mythology in Shakespeare's works, with entries covering early modern usage and critical analysis in a cross-disciplinary approach tha…

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Latin Texts on Papyrus and the Study of Classics

This volume gathers 25 chapters focused on Latin texts on papyrus, exploring them from multi- and cross-disciplinary perspectives. It serves as a companion to the texts published in The Corpus of Latin Te…

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Rebecca de Souza
Memories of Colonisation in Medieval and Modern Castile

Memories of Colonisation in Medieval and Modern Castile: Rereading and Refashioning al-Andalus traces the evolving memory of a dominant al-Andalus in medieval Castilian and, later, modern Spanish literatu…

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Verführung (1995)

Als junges Mädchen folgte Anne Elliot dem Rat ihrer mütterlichen Freundin Lady Russel. Sie ließ die Vernunft über ihr Herz siegen und löste die Verlobung mit dem aufstrebenden Captain Wentworth, obwohl si…

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Krista A Milne
The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England

It is generally accepted that the contingencies of manuscript survival have disproportionately destroyed some sorts of manuscripts and not others, but there is no consensus as to which sorts. Considerable…

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Elise Wang
The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature

This book is about felony prosecution in late medieval England, which it argues was shaped by literary and legal ideas. Medieval lawmen found felony distasteful, leaving its definition and prosecution to …

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North & South

Für die junge Margaret Hale bricht eine Welt zusammen. Ihr Vater, der Pfarrer Richard Hale zweifelt an seinem Glauben und überwirft sich mit der Kirche. Von einem Tag auf den anderen ist es vorbei mit dem…

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Kate Cook
Praise and Blame in Greek Tragedy

Examines the poetic use of praise and blame in Greek tragedy in relation to heroic identity and gendered speech.

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John Thomas Hamilton
Without Within: Parenthetic Interferences in Reception History

Classical reception implies a parenthetical relationship where Antiquity appears to be inserted into while remaining alongside Modernity. By investigating exemplary instances of reception across several e…

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The Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature: Volume 2

Histories of Latin literature have often treated the period from the second to the seventh centuries as an epilogue to the main action - and yet the period includes such towering figures as Apuleius, Clau…

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The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth

The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth presents forty chapters about the unique and terrifying creatures from myths of the long-ago Near East and Mediterranean world, featuring authoritative co…

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The Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature: Volume 1

Histories of Latin literature have often treated the period from the second to the seventh centuries as an epilogue to the main action - and yet the period includes such towering figures as Apuleius, Clau…

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Lorna Hardwick, Stephen Harrison, Elizabeth Vandiver
Rupert Brooke, Charles Sorley, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen

Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in WWI. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was de…

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Erica Weaver
The Hermeneutics of Distraction in Early Medieval England

This book writes the cultural and intellectual history of distraction through the study of the affective practices of a particular community of medieval writers and readers: the influential circle of Ã†th…

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Suzanne Lye
Life / Afterlife

Life / Afterlife traces the development, evolution, and uses of underworld scenes in ancient Greek literature and society. Underworld scenes are a unique form of embedded storytelling, appearing across ti…

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