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Bilingualism in Ancient Society : Language Contact and the Written Word
J. N. Adams
Hardcover - $557.95
This volume aims to introduce classicists, ancient historians, and other scholars interested in sociolinguistic research to the evidence of bilingualism in the ancient Mediterranean world. The fifteen original essays in this collection, which have be ...
Vergil's Empire : Political Thought in the Aeneid
Eve Adler
Paperback - $72.95
In Vergil's Empire, Eve Adler offers an exciting new interpretation of the political thought of Vergil's Aeneid. Adler argues that in this epic poem, Vergil presents the theoretical foundations of a new political order, one that resolves the conflict ...
Aesop's Fables (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
Aesop
Paperback - $10.95
In all likelihood, Aesop was just as invented as his fantastic fables. Allegorical tales of birds and beasts, the fables are humorous, inspirational, and often astonishingly pragmatic. They expose the superstitions and customs of the Greeks, as well ...
The Complete Fables
Aesop
Paperback - $18.95
This definitive and fully annotated modern edition of the Fables is the first translation ever to make available the complete corpus of 358 fables attributed to Aesop, displaying his humor, insight, and savage wit, as well as affording fascinating gl ...
A Book of Emblems : The Emblematum Liber in Latin and English
Andrea Alciati
Paperback - $102.95
Andrea Alciatis "Liber Emblemata (published in 1534) was an illustrated book of emblems
Alciphron, Aelian, and Philostratus : The Letters
Alciphron
Hardcover - $50.95
Aelian offers us entertaining vignettes of rural life in twenty letters that portray the country ways of their imagined writers. This volume also contains invented letters--mostly to fictitious characters--by Alciphron and, in the same genre, the Ero ...
Letters from the Country and the Town of Fishermen, Farmers, Parasites, and Courtesans
Alciphron
Paperback - $57.95
Alciphron, a Greek rhetorician, was probably a contemporary of Lucian (2nd century A.D.). He was the author of a collection of fictitious letters, of which 124 (118 complete and 6 fragments) have been published; they are written in the purest Attic d ...
Homer Beside Himself : Para-Narratives in the Iliad
Maureen Alden
Hardcover - $458.95
In this book Dr Alden offers advice on how to read the Iliad through the relationship of major paradigms to the events of the main narrative. The first section offers the first full-length study in English of the paradigmatic functions of secondary n ...
The Language of Literature : Linguistic Approaches to Classical Texts
Rutger J. Allan
Hardcover - $293.95