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Rome in Triumph, Volume 1(2016) FLAVIO, BIONDOBiondo Flavio was a pioneering figure in the Renaissance discovery of antiquity and popularized the term Middle Age to describe the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the revival of antiquity in his own time. Rome in Triumph is the capstone oVezava: Trda47,68 €
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Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture(2020) NETZ, REVIEL (STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CALIFORNIA)How many authors were there in antiquity? Where did they work? How was the 'canon' made? This book provides an account of ancient culture in terms of such quantifiable questions. The end result explains why the Greeks were unique in creating a culture basVezava: Trda99,75 €
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Conquerors and Chroniclers of Early Medieval Spain(1999)John of Biclaro (c.590) and Isidore of Seville (c.625) authored histories that projected the Gothic achievements back on to their uncertain beginnings, transforming them from antagonists of the Roman Empire to protagonists of a new, independent ChistianitVezava: Mehka65,65 €
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Christian Identity, Piety, and Politics in Early Modern England(2021) STILLMAN, ROBERT E.Vezava: Trda77,52 €
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Printing and the Printers of The Book of Common Prayer, 1549–1561(2022) BLAYNEY, PETER W. M.This major, revisionist study upends our thinking about the ancestry and origins of the Elizabethan Book of Common Prayer, revealing it to have necessitated unprecedented levels of shared printing. In its close analysis of Anglican liturgy it will have coVezava: Trda68,43 €
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Medieval Literature(2015) TREHARNE, ELAINE (PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, STANFORD UNIVERSITY)Looking at literature from Medieval Britain and Ireland, including Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Norman poetry, prose and drama, this Very Short Introduction covers the earliest beginnings of print culture, and considers major themes of these works, such as sin aVezava: Mehka14,01 €
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Music and Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds(2021)Explores the deep connection between music and memory in Graeco-Roman culture, and how this connection was understood and experienced by ancient authors, artists, performers, and audiences. Reveals how musical memory formed a fundamental part of social, cVezava: Trda136,50 €
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Euripides' Medea(2022) EWANS, MICHAELThis book offers a new, accurate and actable translation of one of Euripides’ most popular plays, together with a commentary which provides insight into the challenges it sets for production and suggestions for how to solve them.Vezava: Mehka30,40 €
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Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei, Volume Five(2015)This is the fifth and final volume in David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the most famous and important novels in Chinese literature. The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei is an anonymous sixteenth-century work that focuses on the domestVezava: Mehka61,40 €
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Masnavi, Book Five(2022) RUMI, JALAL AL-DINThe first ever translation of the entirety of Book Five of Rumi's magnum opus, The Masnavi, into English. The Masnavi is well-known to contain much sexually explicit content within teaching stories about the path of annihilation of the self in a total andVezava: Mehka11,87 €
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Poet of the Medieval Modern(2021) BROOKS, FRANCESCA (LEVERHULME EARLY CAREER FELLOW, UNIVERSITY OF YORK)Studies the work of the Anglo-Welsh poet and artist David Jones (1895-1974) to explore how modern British poetry has engaged with the early medieval past in its renegotiation of local, religious, and national identities.Vezava: Mehka45,61 €
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Rumi: Hidden Music(2020) MAFI, MARYAM,KOLIN, AZIMA MELITAA breathtaking new collection of translations of poems by Rumi, one of the world’s most loved mystical teachers and bestselling poets. Beautifully packaged and illustrated with paintings and Persian calligraphy, this is an ideal gift.Vezava: Mehka14,01 €
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Antigone and other Tragedies(2021) SOPHOCLESThese original and distinctive verse translations convey the vitality of Sophocles' poetry and the vigour of the plays in performance, doing justice to both the sound of the poetry and the theatricality of the tragedies.Vezava: Mehka7,00 €
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Oedipus the King and Other Tragedies(2016) SOPHOCLESThis original and distinctive verse translation of four of Sophocles' plays conveys the vitality of his poetry and the vigour of the plays as performed showpieces, encouraging the reader to relish the sound of the spoken verse and the potential for song wVezava: Mehka12,61 €
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Mabinogion(2018)The Mabinogion is one of the great epics of medieval literature. Weaving together Celtic mythology and Arthurian romance, the eleven Welsh tales include stories of dragons and giants, kings and heroes, and shape-shifters and magicians. This lively translaVezava: Trda23,82 €
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Homer: Iliad Book XVIII(2019) HOMERBook 18 of the Iliad is an outstanding example of the range and power of Homeric epic. This edition provides an introduction, text and commentary suitable for intermediate and advanced students of Greek. It includes grammatical and other aid to translatioVezava: Mehka53,22 €
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Orations, Volume II(2021) ARISTIDES THEODORUS, PUBLIUS AELIUSAelius Aristides (117–after 180), among the most versatile authors of the Second Sophistic and an important figure in the transmission of Hellenism, produced speeches and lectures, declamations on historical themes, polemical works, prose hymns, and essayVezava: Trda50,39 €
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Menander Rhetor. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ars Rhetorica(2019) RHETOR, MENANDER,DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUSThe instructional treatises of Menander Rhetor and the Ars Rhetorica, deriving from the schools of rhetoric that flourished in the Greek East from the 2nd through 4th centuries AD, provide a window into the literary culture, educational practices, and socVezava: Trda44,47 €