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  • Greek and Roman Classics in the British Struggle for Social Reform

    Edited by Dr Henry Stead, Edith Hall ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
    Greek and Roman Classics in the British Struggle for Social Reform presents an original and carefully argued case for the importance of classical ideas, education and self-education in the personal development and activities of British social reformers in the 19th and first six decades of the 20th century. Usually drawn from the lower echelons of the middle class and the most aspirational ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • Alexander the Great

    by Jacob Abbott ...
    This book is one of the best books ever written on Alexander the Great, his incredible conquests, his eventual downfall, and the aftermath of his death.It is filled with fascinating details and deep insights into that period in history. Alexander's military tactics are still taught the world over and his influence lingers even after thousands of years.Alexander the Great is a towering figure in ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • The Hammer of Witches

    A Complete Translation of the Malleus Maleficarum

    by Christopher S. Mackay ...
    The Malleus Maleficarum, first published in 1486–7, is the standard medieval text on witchcraft and it remained in print throughout the early modern period. Its descriptions of the evil acts of witches and the ways to exterminate them continue to contribute to our knowledge of early modern law, religion and society. Mackay's highly acclaimed translation, based on his extensive research and ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Greek Tragedies II

    Tbe Libation Bearers • Electra • Iphigenia in Tauris, Electra, The Trojan Women

    by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides ...
    Five classical Greek tragedies from three great playwrights of the era, featuring updated translations and new introductions.This anthology volume offers a selection of the most important and characteristic plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides from Chicago's nine-volume Complete Greek Tragedies. Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Heroides

    by Ovid ...
    Translated by Harold Isbell ...
    In the twenty-one poems of the Heroides, Ovid gave voice to the heroines and heroes of epic and myth. These deeply moving literary epistles reveal the happiness and torment of love, as the writers tell of their pain at separation, forgiveness of infidelity or anger at betrayal. The faithful Penelope wonders at the suspiciously long absence of Ulysses, while Dido bitterly reproaches Aeneas for too ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Greek Tragedy

    by Ruth Scodel ...
    This book provides an accessible introduction for students and anyone interested in increasing their enjoyment of Greek tragic plays. Whether readers are studying Greek culture, performing a Greek tragedy, or simply interested in reading a Greek play, this book will help them to understand and enjoy this challenging and rewarding genre. An Introduction to Greek Tragedy provides background ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Demosthenes: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Michael Gagarin ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Cosmology and the Polis

    The Social Construction of Space and Time in the Tragedies of Aeschylus

    by Richard Seaford ...
    This book further develops Professor Seaford's innovative work on the study of ritual and money in the developing Greek polis. It employs the concept of the chronotope, which refers to the phenomenon whereby the spatial and temporal frameworks explicit or implicit in a text have the same structure, and uncovers various such chronotopes in Homer, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Presocratic philosophy ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • The Barbarian North in Medieval Imagination

    Ethnicity, Legend, and Literature

    by Robert Rix ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture
    This bookexamines the sustained interest in legends of the pagan and peripheral North, tracing and analyzing the use of an ‘out-of-Scandinavia’ legend (Scandinavia as an ancestral homeland) in a wide range of medieval texts from all over Europe, with a focus on the Anglo-Saxon tradition. The pagan North was an imaginative region, which attracted a number of conflicting interpretations. To ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Homer: Iliad Book VI

    Edited by Barbara Graziosi, Johannes Haubold ...
    Series Book 6 - Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
    The sixth book of the Iliad includes some of the most memorable and best-loved episodes in the whole poem: it holds meaning and interest for many different people, not just students of ancient Greek. Book 6 describes how Glaukos and Diomedes, though fighting on opposite sides, recognise an ancient bond of hospitality and exchange gifts on the battlefield. It then follows Hector as he enters the ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Cicero: Catilinarians

    by Marcus Tullius Cicero ...
    Series series Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
    As consul in 63 BC Cicero faced a conspiracy to overthrow the Roman state launched by the frustrated consular candidate Lucius Sergius Catilina. Cicero's handling of this crisis would shape foreverafter the way he defined himself and his statesmanship. The four speeches he delivered during the crisis show him at the height of his oratorical powers and political influence. Divided between ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The Books and the Life of Judith of Flanders

    by Mary Dockray-Miller ...
    In the first full-length study of Judith of Flanders (c. 1032-1094), Mary Dockray-Miller provides a narrative of Judith’s life through analysis of the books and art objects she commissioned and collected. Organizing her book chronologically by Judith’s marriages and commissions, Dockray-Miller argues that Judith consciously and successfully deployed patronage to support her political and marital ... Read more

    $64.99 USD