 | Commentarii: Volume I:Bello Gallico cum A. Hirti Supplemento (Oxford Classical Texts)
Publication Date: December 31, 1968| Series: Oxford Classical Texts (Book 1) (Bellum Gallicum, cum A. Hirti supplemento.) Edited by R. L. A. Du Pontet. ...
 |  | The Histories, Volume VI: Books 28-39. Fragments (Loeb Classical Library)
Publication Date: October 22, 2012| Series: Loeb Classical Library (Book 161) The historian Polybius (ca. 200–118 bce) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years. From 168 to 151 he was held hostage in Rome, where he became a friend of Scipio Aemilianus, whose campaigns, including the destruction of Carthage, he later attended. As a trusted mediator between Greece and the Romans, he helped in the discussions that preceded the final war with Carthage, and after 146 was entrusted by the Romans with t...
|  | Aristoxenus of Tarentum: Discussion (Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities)
Publication Date: December 22, 2011| Series: Rutgers University Studies in Classical HumanitiesAristoxenus of Tarentum was reported to have been bitterly disappointed when Theophrastus was chosen instead of him to succeed Aristotle as the head of the Peripatetic School. He had a truly phenomenal output of some 453 volumes, most of which survive only in fragments. He was the most famous music theorist in antiquity and came to be referred to simply as “the musician.” In addition, he was a founder of Greek biography and wrote the life histories of Pythagoras, Archytas, Socrates, a...
|  | Engaging With Nature: Essays on the Natural World in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Publication Date: May 1, 2008| ISBN-10: 0268030839 | ISBN-13: 978-0268030834| Edition: 1st Historians and cultural critics face special challenges when treating the nonhuman natural world in the medieval and early modern periods. Their most daunting problem is that in both the visual and written records of the time, nature seems to be both everywhere and nowhere. In the broadest sense, nature was everywhere, for it was vital to human survival. Agriculture, animal husbandry, medicine, and the patterns of human settlement all have their basis in natural settings. Humans also marked persona...
|  | Hildegard of Bingen's Unknown Language: An Edition, Translation, and Discussion (New Middle Ages)
Release Date: December 10, 2007| ISBN-10: 1403976732 | ISBN-13: 978-1403976734| Edition: 1st The Lingua Ignota, "brought forth" by the twelfth-century German nun Hildegard of Bingen, provides 1012 neologisms for praise of Church and new expression of the things of her world. Noting her visionary metaphors, her music, and various medieval linguistic philosophies, Higley examines how the "Unknown Language" makes arid signifiers green again. This text, however, is too often seen in too narrow a context: glossolalia, angelic language, secret code. Higley provides an edition and English trans...
|  | Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc (The New Middle Ages)
Publication Date: August 1, 1999| ISBN-10: 0815336640 | ISBN-13: 978-0815336648| Edition: 1st This volume of original essays employs the latest tools of historical analysis, literary criticism, and feminist inquiry to reval why Joan of Arc was such an important figure. ...
|  | The Taktika of Leo VI (Dumbarton Oaks Texts)
Publication Date: October 15, 2010| Series: Dumbarton Oaks Texts (Book 12) Although he probably never set foot on a battlefield, the Byzantine emperor Leo VI (886–912) had a lively interest in military matters. Successor to Caesar Augustus, Constantine, and Justinian, he was expected to be victorious in war and to subject barbarian peoples to Rome, so he set out to acquire a solid knowledge of military equipment and practice. The Byzantines had inherited a voluminous series of military treatises from antiquity on nearly every aspect of warfare, from archery to battle formations and th...
|  | A Commentary on Horace: Odes Book III
Publication Date: April 19, 2007| ISBN-10: 0199288747 | ISBN-13: 978-0199288748This Commentary takes critical account of recent writing on the Odes. It deals with detailed questions of interpretation, and shows how Horace combined the tact of a court-poet with a humane individualism, and how he wrote within a literary tradition without losing a highly personal voice. Though the book is not intended for beginners, the editors aim throughout at clarity. ...
|  | Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy
Publication Date: October 6, 2004| ISBN-10: 0231125275 | ISBN-13: 978-0231125277 Empire of Magic offers a genesis and genealogy for medieval romance and the King Arthur legend through the history of Europe's encounters with the East in crusades, travel, missionizing, and empire formation. It also produces definitions of "race" and "nation" for the medieval period and posits that the Middle Ages and medieval fantasies of race and religion have recently returned.Drawing on feminist and gender theory, as well as cultural analyses of race, class, and colonialism, this provocative book revise...
|  | Making Silence Speak: Women's Voices in Greek Literature and Society.
Publication Date: May 1, 2001| ISBN-10: 0691004668 | ISBN-13: 978-0691004662This collection attempts to recover the voices of women in antiquity from a variety of perspectives: how they spoke, where they could be heard, and how their speech was adopted in literature and public discourse. Rather than confirming the old model of binary oppositions in which women's speech was viewed as insignificant and subordinate to male discourse, these essays reveal a dynamic and potentially explosive interrelation between women's speech and the realm of literary production, religion, and oratory. The c...
|  | Lucian: A Selection (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
Publication Date: December 22, 2008| ISBN-10: 0521603048 | ISBN-13: 978-0521603041| Edition: 1 Lucian of Samosata is one of the most brilliant and wide-ranging writers from antiquity, and yet few commentaries are available for those who wish to read Lucian in Greek. This edition presents a selection of rhetorical and satirical works in the original Greek illustrating his range, wit and literary sophistication. Texts include both more and less well-known texts such as The Dream, The Fly, Timon, A Literary Prometheus, Sigma versus Tau and Dialogues of the Sea-Gods. The Introduction discuss...
|  | Robin Hood (Third Edition)
Publication Date: June 1, 2011| ISBN-10: 0500289352 | ISBN-13: 978-0500289358| Edition: Third Edition "Highly recommended to all armchair swashbucklers."—Fresno BeeThe legend of Robin Hood began more than 600 years ago. Theman, if he existed at all, lived even earlier. In this definitive work,Professor Sir James Holt, one of Britain’s premier historians andauthor of the standard work on the Magna Carta, unravels pureinvention from real possibility and offers the results of some thirtyyears of research. He assesses the evidence for the historical Robin Hood andfinds that the...
|  | Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry
Publication Date: January 26, 2012Hellenistic poets of the third and second centuries BC sought to mark their continuity with the classical past as well as demonstrate their independence from it. This major study explores Greek poetry of the period and its reception and influence in Rome. The volume covers some of the most familiar poetry of the age, such as Callimachus' Aitia, alongside detailed consideration of newly published texts like the epigrams of Posidippus. ...
|  | A Companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition)
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|  | The Body of Beatrice
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|  | Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900 (Abridged Edition) (Translations from the Asian Classics)
Publication Date: April 21, 2008| Series: Translations from the Asian Classics This abridged edition of Haruo Shirane's popular anthology,Early Modern Japanese Literature, retains the essential texts that have made the original volume such a valuable resource. The book introduces English-speaking readers to prose fiction genres, includingdangibon,kibyoshi (satiric picture books),sharebon (books of wit and fashion),yomihon,kokkeibon (books of humor),gokan (bound books), andninjobon (books of romance and sentiment). It also features poetic genres such aswaka, haiku,senryu, andkyoka, and plays ...
|  | Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-first Century
Publication Date: December 7, 2006With over thirty illustrations in color and black and white, Phantasmagoria takes readers on an intellectually exhilarating tour of ideas of spirit and soul in the modern world, illuminating key questions of imagination and cognition. Warner tells the unexpected and often disturbing story about shifts in thought about consciousness and the individual person, from the first public waxworks portraits at the end of the eighteenth century to stories of hauntings, possession, and loss of self in modern times. She probes the perceived distinctions between fantasy ...
|  | Scheming Papists and Lutheran Fools: Five Reformation Satires
Publication Date: January 1, 1993This volume is a collection of five satires from the Reformation period, written between 1517 and 1526. In her Introduction to the work, Rummel explains that the battle between reformers and champions of the old faith was waged on many fronts, not only by preachers thundering from the pulpits, theologians facing each other in acrimonious disputations, and church authorities issuing censures and condemnations.This collection focuses on the impact and importance of a supporting cast of satirists whose ad hoc productions reached a wider audience, in a more visce...
|  | The Palaeotypography of the French Renaissance: Selected Papers on Sixteenth-century Typefaces (Library of the Written Word)
Publication Date: December 2008| ISBN-10: 9004169822 | ISBN-13: 978-9004169821This collection of thirteen essays examines sixteenth-century type design in France. Typefaces developed during this period were to influence decisively the typography of the centuries which followed, and they continue to influence a great many contemporary typefaces. The papers' common goal is to establish the paternity of the typefaces described and critically to appraise their attributions, many of which have previously been inadequately ascribed. Such an approach will be of interest to type historians and t...
|  | Select Letters of Seneca (College Classical Series)
Release Date: June 1, 1983| ISBN-10: 0862921201 | ISBN-13: 978-0862921200In Latin, with supporting materials in English. ...
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