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Hadrian and the Christians (Millennium-Studien - Band 30)

Hadrian and the Christians (Millennium-Studien - Band 30)


Marco Rizzi



Hadrian and the Christians (Millennium-Studien - Band 30)...
Discovering the Greek Countryside at Metaponto (Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures)

Discovering the Greek Countryside at Metaponto (Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures)


Joseph Coleman Carter



Discovering the Greek Countryside at Metaponto (Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures)...
Political Women in the High Middle Ages: Berenguela of Castile and Her Family

Political Women in the High Middle Ages: Berenguela of Castile and Her Family


Miriam Shadis



Review "Berenguela of Castile (1180–1246) and Political Women in the High Middle Ages provides a thorough and though...
The Letters of Heloise and Abelard: A Translation of Their Collected Correspondence and Related Writings (The New Middle Ages)

The Letters of Heloise and Abelard: A Translation of Their Collected Correspondence and Related Writings (The New Middle Ages)


Bonnie Wheeler, Mary Martin Mclaughlin



Review “Heloise and Abelard have been extraordinarily well served by this latest translation of their celebrated c...
The Structured Self in Hellenistic and Roman Thought

The Structured Self in Hellenistic and Roman Thought


Christopher Gill



Review It is difficult to do justice to a book of this scope and richness within the compass of a single review, but ther...
Rhetoric and Poetics in Antiquity

Rhetoric and Poetics in Antiquity


Jeffrey Walker



Review "Rhetoric and Poetics in Antiquity is an excellent book...Walker has provided an important, original, and insightf...
Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry

Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry


Lowell Edmunds



Review Studded with striking observations and suggestive formulations. (Charles Platter Religious Studies Review ) Lowell E...
Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)

Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)


Patricia J. Johnson



Review “A new and stimulating reading of three central episodes of Ovid’s brilliant Metamorphoses: the arti...
The Image of the Poet in Ovid's Metamorphoses (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)

The Image of the Poet in Ovid's Metamorphoses (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)


Barbara Pavlock



Review “The poet Ovid hiding behind famous figures from his Metamorphoses, be it a Narcissus or a Daedalus—...
Horace's Carmen Saeculare: Ritual Magic and the Poet's Art

Horace's Carmen Saeculare: Ritual Magic and the Poet's Art


Michael C. J. Putnam



Review "In this lucid, appreciative study, Putnam revindicates the Carmen Saeculare as a 'neglected masterpiece' of Aug...
Early Christian Latin Poets (The Early Church Fathers)

Early Christian Latin Poets (The Early Church Fathers)


Carolinne White



Review The translation of the poems (most, of necessity, excerpts) are quite successful... there is clearly a real need f...
Libanius's Progymnasmata: Model Exercises in Greek Prose Composition and Rhetoric (Writings from the Greco-Roman World)

Libanius's Progymnasmata: Model Exercises in Greek Prose Composition and Rhetoric (Writings from the Greco-Roman World)


Craig A. Gibson, Libanius



Libanius's Progymnasmata: Model Exercises in Greek Prose Composition and Rhetoric (Writings from the Greco-Roman World)...
The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago: 1 2 - A 2

The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago: 1 2 - A 2


A. Leo Oppenheim, Erica Reiner



The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago: 1 2 - A 2...
Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago: 3 - D

Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago: 3 - D


A. Leo Oppenheim, Erica Reiner



Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago: 3 - D...
Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago: Volume 4 - E

Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago: Volume 4 - E


A. Leo Oppenheim, Erica Reiner



Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago: Volume 4 - E...
Further Greek Epigrams: Epigrams before AD 50 from the Greek Anthology and other sources, not included in 'Hellenistic Epigrams' or 'The Garland of Philip'

Further Greek Epigrams: Epigrams before AD 50 from the Greek Anthology and other sources, not included in 'Hellenistic Epigrams' or 'The Garland of Philip'


Denys L. Page



Book Description This book continues the work done in the volumes edited by A. S. F. Gow and D. L. Page entitled Hellenis...
De kredietcrisis. Een politiek-economisch perspectief

De kredietcrisis. Een politiek-economisch perspectief


Blom, Jasper



De kredietcrisis. Een politiek-economisch perspectief...
De fiere nachtegaal: het Nederlandse lied in de middeleeuwen

De fiere nachtegaal: het Nederlandse lied in de middeleeuwen


Frank Willaert, Louis Peter Grijp



About the Author Louis Peter Grijp is a researcher at the Meertens Institute in Amsterdam and professor of Dutch song cul...
Greek Tragedy (Yale Classical Studies Vol. 25)

Greek Tragedy (Yale Classical Studies Vol. 25)


C. J. Herington, T. F. Gould



Book Description The essays in volume 25 of Yale Classical Studies were specially commissioned by the editors to provide ...
In the ''Stranger People's'' country

In the ''Stranger People's'' country


Charles Egbert Craddock, Marjorie Pryse, Mary Noailles Murfree



Review "A positive addition to the available in-print books about the region because Murfree was the first writer to publ...
Later Greek Literature (Yale Classical Studies (No. 27))

Later Greek Literature (Yale Classical Studies (No. 27))


Gordon Williams, John J. Winkler



Book Description The essays in this 1982 volume of Yale Classical Studies of Greek literature were collected in an attemp...
Allegories of Farming from Greece and Rome: Philosophical Satire in Xenophon, Varro, and Virgil

Allegories of Farming from Greece and Rome: Philosophical Satire in Xenophon, Varro, and Virgil


Leah Kronenberg



Book Description Shows that Xenophon's Oeconomicus, Varro's De Re Rustica and Virgil's Georgics are not simply works on f...
Aristophanes: Myth, Ritual and Comedy

Aristophanes: Myth, Ritual and Comedy


A. M. Bowie



Review "Bowie's book is a refreshing examination of Aristophanes's use of myth and ritual." Martha Habash, Classical Jo...
Divine Ventriloquism in Medieval English Literature: Power, Anxiety, Subversion (New Middle Ages)

Divine Ventriloquism in Medieval English Literature: Power, Anxiety, Subversion (New Middle Ages)


Mary Hayes



Review Other reviews forthcoming. "This book does two things all medievalists can be grateful for. One, it demonstrates h...
Women and Economic Activities in Late Medieval Ghent (New Middle Ages)

Women and Economic Activities in Late Medieval Ghent (New Middle Ages)


Shennan Hutton



About the Author Shennan Hutton is a Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of California, Dav...
Crome Yellow

Crome Yellow


Aldous Huxley



From Library Journal Huxley launched his career as a novelist with this 1921 effort in which a student named Denys spends...
La condition humaine

La condition humaine


Agnès Verlet, André Malraux, Sophie Doudet



La condition humaine...
Das Haus mit den sieben Giebeln

Das Haus mit den sieben Giebeln


Nathaniel Hawthorne



Das Haus mit den sieben Giebeln...
The Five Books of the Histories and The Life of St. William (Oxford Medieval Texts)

The Five Books of the Histories and The Life of St. William (Oxford Medieval Texts)


John France, Paul Reynolds, Neithard Bulst



Review "As this millennium draws to its clsoe, it seems only appropriate that the event be heralded by the appearance of ...
The Forsyte Saga - Complete

The Forsyte Saga - Complete


John Galsworthy



The Forsyte Saga - Complete...
The Cambridge Companion to Ovid (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

The Cambridge Companion to Ovid (Cambridge Companions to Literature)


Philip Hardie



Review "...this volume, packed with information and creative criticism, constitutes a basic necessity for any college lib...
Narrators, Narratees, And Narratives In Ancient Greek Literature: Studies In Ancient Greek Narrative (Mnemosyne Supplements)

Narrators, Narratees, And Narratives In Ancient Greek Literature: Studies In Ancient Greek Narrative (Mnemosyne Supplements)


Irene De Jong, Angus Bowle, Angus M. Bowie, Irene J. F. De Jong, Rene Nunlist



Narrators, Narratees, And Narratives In Ancient Greek Literature: Studies In Ancient Greek Narrative (Mnemosyne Supplements)...
The Metre of Old Saxon Poetry: The Remaking of Alliterative Tradition (Medieval Literature)

The Metre of Old Saxon Poetry: The Remaking of Alliterative Tradition (Medieval Literature)


Seiichi Suzuki



About the Author SEIICHI SUZUKI is Professor of Old Germanic Studies, Kansai Gaidai University, Japan. ...
Arthurian Studies in Honour of P.J.C. Field

Arthurian Studies in Honour of P.J.C. Field


Bonnie Wheeler



Review All the contributors share a common methodology: patient, meticulous, erudite study of texts and contexts. Such ex...
Performance, Cognitive Theory, and Devotional Culture: Sensual Piety in Late Medieval York (Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance)

Performance, Cognitive Theory, and Devotional Culture: Sensual Piety in Late Medieval York (Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance)


Jill Stevenson



Review “This very poised first book represents an important new departure in the study of early drama. Judiciously dr...
Augustan and Julio-Claudian Athens: A New Epigraphy and Prosopography (Mnemosyne Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity)

Augustan and Julio-Claudian Athens: A New Epigraphy and Prosopography (Mnemosyne Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity)


Geoffrey C. R. Schmalz



About the Author Geoffrey C. R. Schmalz, Ph.D. (1994) in Classical Art & Archaeology, University of Michigan, is Associat...
Ovid's Metamorphoses (Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature)

Ovid's Metamorphoses (Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature)


Elaine Fantham



Review "[A] beautifully written, undogmatic, and thoroughly sound introduction to the Metamorphoses.... This is a book th...
Medieval Mythography: From Roman North Africa to the School of Chartres, A.D. 433-1177

Medieval Mythography: From Roman North Africa to the School of Chartres, A.D. 433-1177


Jane Chance



Book Description "Fascinating as an exercise in mapping out a major current in the Western intellectual tradition. . . . Br...
Ulysses (Gabler Edition)

Ulysses (Gabler Edition)


James Joyce, Hans Gabler



Amazon.com Review Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge Joh...
Letters, Volume I: Books 1-7 (Loeb Classical Library)

Letters, Volume I: Books 1-7 (Loeb Classical Library)


Pliny The Younger, W.M.L. Hutchinson, William Melmoth



About the Author Betty Radice (1912-1985) edited the Penguin Classics from 1964 to 1985 and translated Terence, Livy, Pli...
Letters, Volume II: Books 8-10. Panegyricus (Loeb Classical Library)

Letters, Volume II: Books 8-10. Panegyricus (Loeb Classical Library)


Pliny The Younger, W.M.L. Hutchinson, William Melmoth



About the Author Betty Radice (1912-1985) edited the Penguin Classics from 1964 to 1985 and translated Terence, Livy, Pli...
Covert Gestures: Crypto-Islamic Literature as Cultural Practice in Early Modern Spain

Covert Gestures: Crypto-Islamic Literature as Cultural Practice in Early Modern Spain


Vincent Barletta



Book Description Forcibly expelled from Spain in the early seventeenth century, the substantial Muslim community known a...
Wisdom and Chivalry: Chaucer's Knight's Tale and Medieval Political Theory

Wisdom and Chivalry: Chaucer's Knight's Tale and Medieval Political Theory


Stephen H. Rigby



Wisdom and Chivalry: Chaucer's Knight's Tale and Medieval Political Theory...
The First Men in the Moon

The First Men in the Moon


H. G. Wells



Review “Written with astonishing animation and lucidity.” —G. K. Chesterton --This text refers to an ...
The Shattering of the Self: Violence, Subjectivity, and Early Modern Texts

The Shattering of the Self: Violence, Subjectivity, and Early Modern Texts


Cynthia Marshall



Review Marshall effectively brings to our attention the variety of ways in which late-sixteenth- and early-seventeenth-cent...
The Cambridge Companion to Horace (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

The Cambridge Companion to Horace (Cambridge Companions to Literature)


Stephen Harrison



Book Description Horace is a central author in Latin literature and his work spans a wide range of genres. In this 2007 v...
Virtue in the Cave: Moral Inquiry in Plato's Meno

Virtue in the Cave: Moral Inquiry in Plato's Meno


Roslyn Weiss



Review Virtue in the Cave advances a distinctive, original, and provocative account of Plato's Meno. (J. Dybikowski ) Vir...
Tacitus, I, Agricola. Germania. Dialogue on Oratory (Loeb Classical Library)

Tacitus, I, Agricola. Germania. Dialogue on Oratory (Loeb Classical Library)


Tacitus



Tacitus, I, Agricola. Germania. Dialogue on Oratory (Loeb Classical Library)...