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Steven J Green
Ilias Latina

The Ilias Latina ('the Latin Iliad') is a condensed Latin version of Homer's epic on the Trojan war, and was likely composed under Nero. Long neglected as a poem worthy of study, there is a growing awaren…

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Charles McNelis
Statius: Achilleid

Statius' Achilleid tells the story of the mythical Achilles and, in particular, his time hiding disguised as a girl on the island of Scyros. This new Latin text with facing-page English translation is acc…

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Georgia Henley
Reimagining the Past in the Borderlands of Medieval England and Wales

This study demonstrates the emergence of a particular brand of Welsh marcher literature interested in succession, land rights, and the narrative scope of Geoffrey of Monmouth, which had an enduring impact…

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Luisa Ostacchini
Translating Europe in ÆLfric's Lives of Saints

Translating Europe in Ælfric's 'Lives of Saints' is the first study of the representation of European peoples, places and geographies in the Lives of Saints, one of early medieval England's most famed wor…

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Georgia Henley
Reimagining the Past in the Borderlands of Medieval England and Wales

This study demonstrates the emergence of a particular brand of Welsh marcher literature interested in succession, land rights, and the narrative scope of Geoffrey of Monmouth, which had an enduring impact…

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Emily Hauser
Penelope's Bones

"Three millennia ago, in an ancient Greece where men spoke and women were silenced, some of the world's first epics were born: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. But these are not just tales about heroic men. The…

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Anke Walter
Festivals in Latin Literature

Festivals feature prominently in Latin literature, even in works that are not explicitly dedicated to festive days like Ovid's Fasti. This book explores the role of festivals in elegiac, lyric, and epic p…

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Connie Bloomfield-Gadêlha, Edith Hall
Time, Tense, and Genre in Ancient Greek Literature

This collection of 24 essays provides the first comprehensive study of the way the passing of time, temporal setting, and the relationship between past, present, and future are presented in diverse genres…

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Judah D Galinsky
The Making of a Medieval Bestseller

This study is a history of a medieval bestseller--Rabbi Isaac of Corbeil's handbook of accessible religious law relevant to Jews living in the Diaspora in medieval times. Galinsky describes how it came in…

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Peter J Miller
In Praise of Greek Athletes

"The first large-scale comparative study of epinikian song and epigram in English. Integrates these genres into the context of ancient Greek athletics, particularly the rituals associated with victory and…

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Rebecca de Souza
Memories of Colonisation in Medieval and Modern Castile

Memories of Colonisation in Medieval and Modern Castile: Rereading and Refashioning al-Andalus traces the evolving memory of a dominant al-Andalus in medieval Castilian and, later, modern Spanish literatu…

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Latin Texts on Papyrus and the Study of Classics

This volume gathers 25 chapters focused on Latin texts on papyrus, exploring them from multi- and cross-disciplinary perspectives. It serves as a companion to the texts published in The Corpus of Latin Te…

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Elise Wang
The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature

This book is about felony prosecution in late medieval England, which it argues was shaped by literary and legal ideas. Medieval lawmen found felony distasteful, leaving its definition and prosecution to …

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Shakespeare's Classical Mythology: A Dictionary

"Mythological figures, creatures, places and stories crowd Shakespeare's plays and poems, featuring as allusions, poetic analogies, inset shows, scene settings, and characters or plots in their own right.…

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Lorna Hardwick, Stephen Harrison, Elizabeth Vandiver
Rupert Brooke, Charles Sorley, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen

Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in WWI. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was de…

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Suzanne Lye
Life / Afterlife

Life / Afterlife traces the development, evolution, and uses of underworld scenes in ancient Greek literature and society. Underworld scenes are a unique form of embedded storytelling, appearing across ti…

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Laura Jansen
Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics

Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics examines the role the Greco-Roman classics play in Susan Sontag's intellectual and literary achievement. The collected chapters consider Sontag as a case of a thinker in…

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Bernardo Ballesteros
Divine Assemblies in Early Greek and Babylonian Epic

This book is the first to chart divine assembly scenes in ancient Babylonian and early Greek epic. It asks why similarities between the two corpora exist, and exploits those similarities to enhance unders…

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John M Bowers, Peter Steffensen
Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-1959

Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-59 traces Tolkien's career-long engagement with the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and shows how Chaucer was a major source of inspiration for all of Tolkien's creative works, most not…

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Antike ohne Ende

Transformationen der Antike - Band 64

Der vorliegende Band untersucht die Anwendbarkeit des Konzeptes der 'Allelopoiese' in Bezug auf antike Texte und ihre Rezeption in verschiedenen Epochen und Formen. Anhand der Analyse ausgewählter Transfo…

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