 | Aesopic Conversations: Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention of Greek Prose (Martin Classical Lectures)
Publication Date: October 25, 2010| Series: Martin Classical Lectures Examining the figure of Aesop and the traditions surrounding him, Aesopic Conversations offers a portrait of what Greek popular culture might have looked like in the ancient world. What has survived from the literary record of antiquity is almost entirely the product of an elite of birth, wealth, and education, limiting our access to a fuller range of voices from the ancient past. This book, however, explores the anonymous Life of Aesop and offers a different set of perspectives. Leslie Kurke argues that the traditions sur...
 |  | Nothing to Do with Dionysos? Athenian Drama in Its Social Context
Publication Date: April 15, 1992| ISBN-10: 0691015252 | ISBN-13: 978-0691015255These critically diverse and innovative essays are aimed at restoring the social context of ancient Greek drama. Theatrical productions, which included music and dancing, were civic events in honor of the god Dionysos and were attended by a politically stratified community, whose delegates handled all details from the seating arrangements to the qualifications of choral competitors. The growing complexity of these performances may have provoked the Athenian saying "nothing to do with Dionysos" implying that th...
|  | Aulus Gellius: Attic Nights, Volume I, Books 1-5 (Loeb Classical Library No. 195)
Publication Date: January 1, 1927Aulus Gellius (ca. 123–170 CE) is known almost wholly from his Noctes Atticae, 'Attic Nights', so called because it was begun during the nights of an Attic winter. The work collects in twenty books (of Book VIII only the index is extant) interesting notes covering philosophy, history, biography, all sorts of antiquities, points of law, literary criticism, and lexicographic matters, explanations of old words and questions of grammar. The work is valuable because of its many excerpts from other authors whose works are lost; and because of its evidence for ...
|  | The Tales of the Heike (Translations from the Asian Classics)
Publication Date: June 27, 2006| ISBN-10: 0231138024 | ISBN-13: 978-0231138024 The Tales of the Heike is one of the most influential works in Japanese literature and culture, remaining even today a crucial source for fiction, drama, and popular media. Originally written in the mid-thirteenth century, it features a cast of vivid characters and chronicles the epic Genpei war, a civil conflict that marked the end of the power of the Heike and changed the course of Japanese history.The Tales of the Heike focuses on the lives of both the samurai warriors who fought for two powerful twelfth-ce...
|  | CliffsNotes on Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur (The Death of Arthur) (Cliff Notes)
Publication Date: May 22, 1967| ISBN-10: 0822007266 | ISBN-13: 978-0822007265| Edition: First Edition Written in the 15th century, this version of the legend of King Arthur is perhaps the most famous. Filled with stories of adventure and chivalry among the knights of the Round Table in Camelot, love, and magic, it sets the imagination in motion. ...
|  | Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America
Publication Date: May 5, 2011| ISBN-10: 0199782253 | ISBN-13: 978-0199782253| Edition: Reprint In Death or Liberty, Douglas R. Egerton offers a sweeping chronicle of African American history stretching from Britain's 1763 victory in the Seven Years' War to the election of slaveholder Thomas Jefferson as president in 1800. While American slavery is usually identified with antebellum cotton plantations, Egerton shows that on the eve of the Revolution it encompassed everything from wading in the South Carolina rice fields to carting goods around Manhattan to serving the households of Boston...
|  | Playing the Other: Gender and Society in Classical Greek Literature (Women in Culture and Society)
Publication Date: November 15, 1995| ISBN-10: 0226979229 | ISBN-13: 978-0226979229| Edition: 1 Relations between the sexes was a pervasive concern of ancient Greek thought and literature, extending from considerations of masculine and feminine roles in domestic and political spheres to the organization of the cosmos in a pantheon of gods and goddesses. In Playing the Other Froma Zeitlin explores the diversity and complexity of these interactions through the most influential literary texts of the archaic and classical periods ranging from epic (Homer) and didactic poetry (Hesiod) to the t...
|  | Sextus Empiricus: Against the Logicians (Loeb Classical Library No. 291)
Publication Date: January 1, 1935| ISBN-10: 0674993217 | ISBN-13: 978-0674993211Sextus Empiricus (ca. 160–210 CE), exponent of scepticism and critic of the Dogmatists, was a Greek physician and philosopher, pupil and successor of the medical sceptic Herodotus (not the historian) of Tarsus. He probably lived for years in Rome and possibly also in Alexandria and Athens. His three surviving works are 'Outlines of Pyrrhonism' (three books on the practical and ethical scepticism of Pyrrho of Elis, ca. 360–275 BCE, as developed later, presenting also a case against the Dogmatists); '...
|  | Basil: The Letters, Volume I, Letters 1-58 (Loeb Classical Library No. 190)
Publication Date: January 1, 1926| ISBN-10: 0674992091 | ISBN-13: 978-0674992092Basil the Great was born ca. 330 CE at Caesarea in Cappadocia into a family noted for piety. He was at Constantinople and Athens for several years as a student with Gregory of Nazianzus and was much influenced by Origen. For a short time he held a chair of rhetoric at Caesarea, and was then baptized. He visited monasteries in Egypt and Palestine and sought out the most famous hermits in Syria and elsewhere to learn how to lead a pious and ascetic life; but he decided that communal monastic life and work were ...
|  | A Bend in the Road
Publication Date: November 15, 2004Eamon McEneaney, beloved Cornell All-American lacrosse player, Wall Street trader, loving father, and poet, tragically died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. McEneaney's poems, collected and published for the first time, demonstrate his sense of humor, his passion for life, and his deep compassion for others. This book brings to reality his dream of sharing his poetry and reminds us that each day is a precious gift.Proceeds from the sale of the book will be used to support the Eamon McEneaney Visiting Irish Writers Series at Cornell and the C...
|  | Chaucer's Pardoner's Prologue and Tale: An Annotated Bibliography, 1900-1995 (Chaucer Bibliographies)
Publication Date: March 7, 2000| ISBN-10: 0802047440 | ISBN-13: 978-0802047441| Edition: 1 The Pardoner's Tale is unique among the Canterbury Tales in that it showcases a character who also makes several other appearances throughout the Tales. One of only three pilgrims to be given a full-length prologue by Chaucer, the Pardoner takes on a dramatic force unequaled among the pilgrims. A research tool for specialist and graduate student alike, this volume on Chaucer's Pardoner's Prologue and Tale offers an exhaustive collection of material from the period 1900 to 1995, abstracting and cros...
|  | Reading Old English: An Introduction (Medieval European Studies)
Publication Date: May 1, 2005| ISBN-10: 1933202017 | ISBN-13: 978-1933202013| Edition: 1st Edition "Other introductory texts seem reluctant to abandon the 'serious' philological and historical background to Old English, a reluctance that can have serious consequences for the subject's appeal to today's students. By focusing on the main goal of learning to translate Old English texts, students gain access to this fascinating body of literature much more quickly. Their confidence is bolstered, and as my experience has shown, many of them go on to learn more about the language and cult...
|  | Basil: Letters 59-185 (Loeb Classical Library No. 215)
Publication Date: January 1, 1928| ISBN-10: 0674992377 | ISBN-13: 978-0674992375Basil the Great was born ca. 330 CE at Caesarea in Cappadocia into a family noted for piety. He was at Constantinople and Athens for several years as a student with Gregory of Nazianzus and was much influenced by Origen. For a short time he held a chair of rhetoric at Caesarea, and was then baptized. He visited monasteries in Egypt and Palestine and sought out the most famous hermits in Syria and elsewhere to learn how to lead a pious and ascetic life; but he decided that communal monastic life and work were ...
|  | A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle (Arthurian Studies)
Publication Date: March 18, 2010| Series: Arthurian Studies The early thirteenth-century French prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle (or Vulgate Cycle) brings together the stories of Arthur with those of the Grail, a conjunction of materials that continues to fascinate the Western imagination today. Representing what is probably the earliest large-scale use of prose for fiction in the West, it also exemplifies the taste for big cyclic compositions that shaped much of European narrative fiction for three centuries. A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle is the first comprehensive volume devoted exclus...
|  | Courtly Love, the Love of Courtliness, and the History of Sexuality
Publication Date: August 15, 2006| ISBN-10: 0226740897 | ISBN-13: 978-0226740898| Edition: First Edition One of the great achievements of the Middle Ages, Europe’s courtly culture gave the world the tournament, the festival, the knighting ceremony, and also courtly love. But courtly love has strangely been ignored by historians of sexuality. With Courtly Love, the Love of Courtliness, and the History of Sexuality, James Schultz corrects this oversight with careful analysis of key courtly texts of the medieval German literary tradition. Courtly love, Schultz finds, was provoked...
|  | Medieval Writers and Their Work: Middle English Literature and Its Background 1100-1500 (Opus S.)
Publication Date: June 10, 1982| ISBN-10: 0192891227 | ISBN-13: 978-0192891228J. A. Burrow shows that the literature of authors such as Chaucer, Gower, and Langland is more readily accessible than usually imagined, and well worth reading too. By placing medieval writers in their historical context - the four centuries between the Norman Conquest and the Renaissance - Professor Burrow explains not only how they wrote, but why. This book provides a valuable introduction to the problems which a modern reader encounters when approaching Middle English writings for the first time. ...
|  | Medea & Electra(MAXNotes Literature Guides)
Publication Date: June 3, 1996| Series: MAXnotes Literature Guides REA's MAXnotes for Euripides' Medea & ElectraMAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions.MAXnotes cover the essentials of what one should know about each work, including an overall summary,...
|  | The Complete Works of the Pearl Poet
Publication Date: April 6, 1993This edition presents, for the first time, the entire oeuvre of the Pearl poet with both the original Middle English works and complete verse translations. Poet and scholar Casey Finch uses anapestic tetrameters (and iambic tetrameter for Pearl) in his translations rather than the accented tetrameters of the originals, thus achieving the rhythmic regularity the poems would have displayed when performed to music, as they surely were meant to be. Finch's translations are printed facing the best modern editions of the poems, those of Malcolm Andrew and Ronald Wald...
|  | The Virgin Martyrs: A Hagiographical and Mystagogical Interpretation
Publication Date: October 11, 2011| ISBN-10: 1595250220 | ISBN-13: 978-1595250223Rev. Michael Fuller was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Rockford, Illinois in 1997. He holds a doctorate in Spiritual Theology from the Pontifical University of St.Mary of the Lake and is teaching Theology and Spirituality at the University of Saint Mary of the Lake/ Mundelein Seminary. He taught Medical Ethics at Saint Anthony College of Nursing in Rockford, Illinois. ...
|  | Lectura Dantis: Purgatorio
Publication Date: February 6, 2008| ISBN-10: 0520250567 | ISBN-13: 978-0520250567| Edition: 1 This new critical volume, the second to appear in the three-volume Lectura Dantis, contains expert, focused commentary on the Purgatorio by thirty-three international scholars, each of whom presents to the nonspecialist reader one of the cantos of the transitional middle cantica of Dante's unique Christian epic. The cast of characters is as colorful as before, although this time most of them are headed for salvation. The canto-by-canto commentary allows each contributor his or her individual voi...
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