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Homer's the Odyssey
Harold Bloom
Library Binding - $65.95
This series provides comprehensive reading and study guides for some of the world's most important literary masterpieces.
The Odyssey
Harold Bloom
Hardcover - $96.95
This series provides comprehensive reading and study guides for some of the world's most important literary masterpieces.
The New Simonides : Contexts of Praise and Desire
Deborah Dickmann Boedeker
Hardcover - $235.95
Over the course of his life (550-460 BC), the Greek poet Simonides produced poetic work of every kind then extant. Unfortunately, Simonides' corpus has survived only in fragments, though classical scholars have been studying his work for generations. ...
Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions : An Anthology
Julia Boffey
Hardcover - $210.95
This anthology presents new editions of five English dream vision poems from the fifteenth century, exploring issues of love, philosophy, governance, life at court, and some of the anxieties of writing in a newly-forged English tradition. The texts a ...
Winged Words : Flight in Poetry and History
Piero Boitani
Hardcover - $59.95
Flight has always fascinated human minds, but until a century ago it remained a dream— the exclusive domain of birds, gods, and mythological heroes. From the myths of the ancients to the poetry of Pindar and Yeats, "Winged Words" traces the imp ...
Aristophanes
A. M. Bowie
Paperback - $82.95
This book examines the plays of the Greek comic writer Aristophanes and attempts to reconstruct the responses of the original audiences by using anthropological techniques to compare the plays with those Greek myths and rituals that share similar sto ...
Greek Lyric Poetry from Alcman to Simonides
C. M. Bowra
Hardcover - $446.95
Oxford Scholarly Classics is a new series that makes available again great academic works from the archives of Oxford University Press. Reissued in uniform series design, the reissues will enable libraries, scholars, and students to gain fresh access ...
Persius and the Programmatic Satire
J. C. Bramble
Paperback - $92.95
A critical study of Persius' poetic aims, aversions and techniques.