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Fronto Fronto: selected letters
Engels | 225 pagina's | Bloomsbury, London, New York | 2014
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Adam Nicolson The mighty dead
why Homer matters
Where does Homer come from? And why does Homer matter? His epic poems of war and suffering can still speak to us of the role of destiny in life, of cruelty, of humanity and its frailty, but why they do is a mystery. How can we be so intimate with something so distant?
Engels | 314 pagina's | William Collins, London | 2014
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Irene J.F. de Jong Narratology and classics
a practical guide
Engels | 230 pagina's | Oxford University Press, Oxford | 2014
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John Freely A travel guide to Homer
on the trail of Odysseus through Turkey and the Mediterranean
Engels | 254 pagina's | I.B. Tauris, London | 2014
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C.B.R. Pelling | Maria Wyke Twelve voices from Greece and Rome
ancient ideas for modern times
Engels | 274 pagina's | Oxford University Press, Oxford | 2014
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Graham Holderness Tales from Shakespeare
creative collisions
Machine generated contents note: Introduction: from appropriation to collision; Part I: 1. The voyage of the Red Dragon; 2. 'Shooting an elephant'; Part II: 3. Shakespeare and the King James Bible; 4. 'Wholly writ': a play in two acts; Part III: 5. The Coriolanus myth; 6. 'The lonely dragon'; Part IV: 7. Shakespeare and 9/11; 8. 'Rudely interrupted'; Afterword: 'tales from Shakespeare'
Engels | 245 pagina's | Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom | 2014
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K.F.B. Fletcher Finding Italy
travel, nation and colonization in Vergil's Aeneid
Engels | 280 pagina's | The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor | 2014
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David Konstan Beauty
the fortunes of an ancient Greek idea
Engels | 262 pagina's | Oxford University Press, New York | 2014
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Shubha Pathak Divine yet human epics
reflections of poetic rulers from ancient Greece and India
Engels | 210 pagina's | Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC | 2014
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Ian C. Storey | Arlene Allan A guide to ancient Greek drama
Engels | 331 pagina's | Wiley Blackwell, Malden, MA | 2014
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A companion to Linear B
Mycenaean Greek texts and their world
Engels | 292 pagina's | Peeters, Louvain-la-Neuve, Walpole, MA | 2014
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Averil Cameron Dialoguing in late antiquity
Engels | 85 pagina's | Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C. | 2014
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Margalit Fox The riddle of the labyrinth
the quest to crack an ancient code and the uncovering of a lost civilisation
Engels | 363 pagina's | Profile Books, London | 2014
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Emily Wilson The greatest empire
a life of Seneca
"The life and works of Seneca pose a number of fascinating challenges. For one thing, how can we reconcile the bloody, passionate tragedies, with the prose works advocating a life of Stoic tranquility? An even more challenging question is, how are we to reconcile Seneca the Stoic philosopher, the man of principle, who advocated a life of calm and simplicity, with Seneca the man of the moment, who amassed a vast personal fortune in the service of an emperor seen by many, at the time and afterwards,...
Engels | 253 pagina's | Oxford University Press, New York, NY | 2014
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Douglas Dales Alcuin
theology and thought
Engels | 357 pagina's | James Clarke & Co, Cambridge | 2013
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Anthony Kaldellis Ethnography after antiquity
foreign lands and peoples in Byzantine literature
Engels | 275 pagina's | University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia | 2013
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Wilfred E. Major The court of comedy
Aristophanes, rhetoric, and democracy in fifth-century Athens
Engels | 232 pagina's | The Ohio State University Press, Columbus | 2013
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Philip F. Kennedy Scheherazade's children
global encounters with the Arabian Nights
Engels | 450 pagina's | New York Univeristy Press, New York, London | 2013
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Emma Gee Aratus and the astronomical tradition
Engels | 298 pagina's | Oxford University Press, New York, NY | 2013
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