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Confessions, Volume I(2014) AUGUSTINEConfessions is a spiritual autobiography of Augustine's early life, family, associations, and explorations of alternative religious and theological viewpoints as he moved toward his conversion. Cast as a prayer addressed to God, it offers a gripping persoVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Amphitryon. The Comedy of Asses. The Pot of Gold. The Two Bacchises. The Captives(2011) PLAUTUSThe comedies of Plautus , who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences ca. 205–184 BC, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespeare and Molière to modern times. Twenty-oVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Histories, Volume II(2010) POLYBIUSIn his history, Polybius (ca. 200–118 BC) is centrally concerned with how and why Roman power spread. The main part of the work, a vital achievement despite the incomplete state in which all but the first five books of an original forty survive, describesVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Philippics 1–6(2010) CICEROWe know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other Roman. Besides much else, his work conveys the turmoil of his time, and the part he played in a period that saw the rise and fall of Julius CaVezava: Trda44,47 € -
On Human Worth and Excellence(2019) MANETTI, GIANNOZZOIn On Human Worth and Excellence, celebrated diplomat, historian, philosopher, and scholar Giannozzo Manetti (1396–1459) asks: what are the moral, intellectual, and spiritual capabilities of the unique amalgam of body and soul that constitutes human naturVezava: Trda47,68 € -
Athenaze, Book I(2016) BALME, MAURICE,LAWALL, GILBERT,MORWOOD, THE LATE JAMESVezava: Mehka132,99 € -
Pindar and the Sublime(2022) FOWLER, PROFESSOR ROBERT L. (UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, UK)Vezava: Mehka36,58 € -
Confronting Crisis in the Carolingian Empire(2020)This is the translation of an extraordinary and enigmatic narrative of Carolingian history, which should interest historians of politics, religion and literature in equal measure. Radbertus’ ‘Epitaph for Arsenius’ is both a personal and a political text,Vezava: Trda105,39 € -
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Achilles Tatius: Leucippe and Clitophon Books I–II(2020)The first modern commentary in English on this most sophisticated and brilliant of ancient Greek novels. With its freewheeling plotline, its setting on the edge of the Greek world, its ironic play with the reader's expectations and its sallies into obscenVezava: Mehka53,22 € -
Believing in Dante(2022) CORNISH, ALISON (NEW YORK UNIVERSITY)Eminently readable, this book tackles specific issues in the Divine Comedy that seem particularly alien to modern ways of thinking and renders them compelling. It shows why faith is a question of trust and cannot be bracketed off as merely religious; rathVezava: Trda58,93 € -
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Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders(2022) CLUNIES ROSS, MARGARETFirst full analysis of the skaldic verse appearing in the family sagas of Icelanders, considering why and how it is deployed.Vezava: Trda163,65 € -
Dynastic Drama of Beowulf(2022) LENEGHAN, FRANCIS (ROYALTY ACCOUNT)A strikingly original approach to Beowulf, linking its structure to the dynastic life-cycle.Vezava: Mehka54,51 € -
Birds in Medieval English Poetry(2021) WARREN, MICHAEL J. (ROYALTY ACCOUNT)First full-length study of birds and their metamorphoses as treated in a wide range of medieval poetry, from the Anglo-Saxons to Chaucer and Gower.Vezava: Mehka54,51 € -
Hidden Hands(2022) WELLESLEY, MARYWith an insistent emphasis on the early role of women as authors and artists and illustrated with over fifty colour plates, Hidden Hands is an important contribution to our understanding of literature and history.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Duanaire na Sracaire: Songbook of the Pillagers(2019)Duanaire na Sracaire is the first anthology to bring together Scotland's Gaelic poetry from the millenium c.600-1600 AD. It includes a huge range of diverse poetry: prayers and hymns of Iona, Fenian lays, praise poems and satires, courtly songs and lewd rVezava: Mehka49,90 €
