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An Historical Commentary on the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia
Commentaries on the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia, an anonymous history of events in the Greek world in the late fifth and early fourth centuries BC, have...
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Exile and Journey in Seventeenth-Century Literature
The political and religious upheavals of the seventeenth century caused an unprecedented number of people to emigrate, voluntarily or not, from...
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Anglo-Saxon England (No. 24)
Our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon England depends wholly on the precise and detailed study of the texts that have come down to us from pre-Conquest times....
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The Psychology of Risk
Risk surrounds and envelopes us. Without understanding it, we risk everything and without capitalising on it, we gain nothing. This accessible new...
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Statius’ Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War
This study focuses on ways in which Statius’ epic Thebaid, a poem about the civil war between Oedipus’ sons Eteocles and Polynices, reflects the...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Harriet Beecher Stowe
Through the publication of her bestseller Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe became one of the most internationally famous and important...
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Anglo-Saxon England (No. 25)
Material evidence brought to light in this book includes a niello disc from Limpsfield Grange (Surrey) and two fragments of a composite Old English...
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Judgment and Decision-Making Research in Accounting and Auditing
The study of behavioural decision-making has expanded into the area of accounting and auditing. This branch of research seeks to understand the...
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The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism
If there is a movement or school that epitomizes analytic philosophy in the middle of the twentieth century, it is logical empiricism. Logical...
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Statius and Virgil
At the end of the Thebaid, Statius enjoins his epic not to compete with the divine Aeneid but rather to follow at a distance and always revere its...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Nathaniel Hawthorne
As the author of The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne has been established as a major writer of the nineteenth century and the most prominent...
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Anglo-Saxon England (No. 26)
In the present volume, the two essays that frame the book provide exciting insight into the mental world of the Anglo-Saxons by showing on the one...
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Bernard Williams
This volume provides a systematic overview and comprehensive assessment of Bernard Williams’ contribution to moral philosophy, a field in which...
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The Cambridge Companion to Horace
Horace is a central author in Latin literature. His work spans a wide range of genres, from iambus to satire, and odes to literary epistle, and he is...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Nathaniel Hawthorne
As the author of The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne has been established as a major writer of the nineteenth century and the most prominent...
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The Cambridge Companion to Horace
Horace is a central author in Latin literature. His work spans a wide range of genres, from iambus to satire, and odes to literary epistle, and he is...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Harriet Beecher Stowe
Through the publication of her bestseller Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe became one of the most internationally famous and important...
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Anglo-Saxon England (No. 27)
The discovery in Sonderhausen of a fragmentary psalter glossed in Latin and Old English allows fresh inferences to be drawn regarding the study of...
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Ransom, Revenge, and Heroic Identity in the Iliad
From beginning to end of the Iliad, Agamemnon and Achilleus are locked in a high-stakes struggle for dominance based on their efforts to impose...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound is one of the most visible and influential poets of the twentieth century. He is also one of the most complex, his poetry containing...
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Anglo-Saxon England (No. 28)
This volume is framed by articles that throw interesting light on the achievement and reputation of the greatest of Anglo-Saxon kings - Alfred. It...
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Horace and the Rhetoric of Authority
This book explores how Horace’s poems construct the literary and social authority of their author. Bridging the traditional distinction between...
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Early American Theatre from the Revolution to Thomas Jefferson
Theatre has often served as a touchstone for moments of political change or national definition and as a way of exploring cultural and ethnic...
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Myth and Philosophy from the Presocratics to Plato
This book explores the dynamic relationship between myth and philosophy in the Presocratics, the Sophists, and in Plato - a relationship which is...
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