Ancient Poetry – Bücher, LPs, CDs und mehr, Seite 5

Gideon Nisbet
A Book of Greek Life

A Book of Greek Life: The Ancient World Through Epigram brings its readers into the realities and imaginations of the ancient world through its social media - the little poems we call epigrams. Epigram ca…

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Alison Keith
Sulpicia

This is the first full-length biography of Sulpicia, the earliest extant female author of classical Latin poetry. Unmentioned by her contemporaries, Sulpicia belonged to the pinnacle of the Roman aristocr…

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Hrotsvit Of Gandersheim,
The Works of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim

Hrotsvit, a canoness at the convent of Gandersheim in Saxony during the tenth century, is the first Latin dramatist since late antiquity whose work survives. While her plays are still frequently performed…

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Alison Keith
Sulpicia

This is the first full-length biography of Sulpicia, the earliest extant female author of classical Latin poetry. Unmentioned by her contemporaries, Sulpicia belonged to the pinnacle of the Roman aristocr…

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Giulio Celotto, Laurel Fulkerson
Sulpicia

The main challenge in writing the history of Roman women is their silence, for they either did not themselves write, or what writing they did was not kept and transmitted. There are, however, a few welcom…

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Simone Beta
Riddles, Oracles, and Dreams in Ancient Culture

A man walks alone along a road carved into the side of a mountain. His name is Oedipus. Where is he going? He is on his way to confront a monster-the Sphinx-who poses a riddle to all who pass. Those who f…

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Jim Ghedi

In The Furrows Of Common Place

Product Information "Instead of landscape sketches I wanted to go into more personal areas of my reality", says Jim Ghedi of his third album In The Furrows Of Common Place. "To hold up certain aspects o…

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Li Qingzhao,
The Magpie at Night

A luminous new translation of one of the greatest poets in Chinese historyLi Qingzhao is justly celebrated for her place in Chinese literary history. She was a poet with a wry, unsentimental style and a r…

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Steven J Green
Ilias Latina

The Ilias Latina ('the Latin Iliad') is a condensed Latin version of Homer's epic on the Trojan war, and was likely composed under Nero. Long neglected as a poem worthy of study, there is a growing awaren…

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Connie Bloomfield-Gadêlha, Edith Hall
Time, Tense, and Genre in Ancient Greek Literature

This collection of 24 essays provides the first comprehensive study of the way the passing of time, temporal setting, and the relationship between past, present, and future are presented in diverse genres…

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Ovid: Heroides

Ovid's Heroides ('Letters from Heroines') are one of the most remarkable works of classical literature. Written towards the end of the first century BCE, they take the form of verse letters written for th…

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Jenny Messenger,
Kathleen Raine

For the poet and scholar Kathleen Raine, ancient texts were not obsolete, but vital handbooks for reading reality . Drawing on Graeco-Roman philosophy alongside modernist receptions of the ancient world, …

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Emily Wilson
Crossing the Wine Dark-Sea

Drawing on twenty years of scholarship and translation experience, Emily Wilson-renowned translator of Homer's Odyssey and Iliad -explores the difficult choices that translators must make, the pleasures o…

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Jonas Faust
Speaking the Unspeakable

Beiträge zur englischen und amerikanischen Literatur - Band 44

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), one of the most important and widely read American poets of the 20th century, depicted himself as the prophet of a new America. Scholars and critics have echoed this self-descr…

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Homer,
The Iliad

When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017-revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was "fresh, unpretentious and lean" (Madeline Miller, The Washington Post …

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Attar, Sholeh Wolpe
The Invisible Sun

Longlisted for the PEN Translation AwardBest Spiritual Books of 2025 - Spirituality and PracticeThe first comprehensive English collection from one of the world's most influential mystics---Attar---the tw…

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Patrick Cheney
Placing Elysium in Renaissance Britain

Cheney explores the literary trope of Elysium from ancient Greek poetry to the English Renaissance, with attention to its place in cartography and the geographies of the sixteenth century, and with emphas…

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Nicholas Morrow Williams
Dialogues in the Dark

Dialogues in the Dark traces how Chinese readers and scholars since the Han dynasty have variously interpreted the ancient poem "Heavenly Questions" (Tianwen), an enigmatic work attributed to Qu…

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Joel P Christensen
The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Odyssey

The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Odyssey brings together internationally recognized experts to provide commentary style essays for non-specialists on each book of the Homeric epic. The introduction pr…

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Joel P Christensen
The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Odyssey

The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Odyssey brings together internationally recognized experts to provide commentary style essays for non-specialists on each book of the Homeric epic. The introduction pr…

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