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Writing and the Origins of Greek Literature
Professor Powell ties the origin and nature of archaic Greek literature to the special technology of Greek alphabetic writing. In building his model...
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Poetry and Civil War in Lucan’s Bellum Civile
Lucan is the wild maverick among Latin epic poets. Sneered at for over a century for failing to conform to humanist canons of taste and propriety, in...
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Postcolonial English
The global spread of English has resulted in the emergence of a diverse range of postcolonial varieties around the world. Postcolonial English...
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A Study of Daphnis and Chloe
This book provides a serious modern literary treatment of perhaps the best known of all surviving works of ancient Greek fiction. Dr Hunter...
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Postcolonial English
The global spread of English has resulted in the emergence of a diverse range of postcolonial varieties around the world. Postcolonial English...
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Euripidean Polemic
The book offers an interpretation of Euripides’ The Trojan Women which issues from the argument that the function of Greek tragedy was to educate....
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Reading Greek
First published in 1978, Reading Greek has become a best-selling one-year introductory course in ancient Greek for students and adults. It combines...
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Maori: A Linguistic Introduction
Mäori, the indigenous language of New Zealand, is an endangered, minority language, with an important role in the culture and identity of the Mäori...
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Reading Greek
First published in 1978, Reading Greek has become a best-selling one-year introductory course in ancient Greek for students and adults. It combines...
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The Syntax of French
French is a syntactically interesting language, with aspects of its word order and clause structure triggering a variety of important developments in...
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The Narrator in Archaic Greek and Hellenistic Poetry
Re-examines the relationship of Hellenistic poetry to Archaic poetry. It demonstrates how Callimachus, Theocritus and Apollonius develop their...
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The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature
The writings of the Church Fathers form a distinct body of literature that shaped the early church and built upon the doctrinal foundations of...
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Religious Identity in Late Antiquity
Studies of religious interaction in the fourth century AD have often assumed that the categories of pagan, Christian and Jew can be straightforwardly...
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Reading Herodotus
Reading Herodotus represents a new departure in Herodotean scholarship: it is the first multi-authored collection of scholarly essays to focus on a...
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Written Texts and the Rise of Literate Culture in Ancient Greece
From the sixth through the fourth centuries BCE, the landmark developments of Greek culture and the critical works of Greek thought and literature...
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Sophocles: Electra
One of Sophocles’ more accomplished dramas, the Electra has always generated a good deal of scholarly debate. This edition, the first full-scale...
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Persius and the Programmatic Satire
A critical study of Persius’ poetic aims, aversions and techniques, based mainly on an extended analysis of Satires I. John Bramble shows how...
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Inventing Homer
How was the poet Homer imagined by ancient Greeks? This book examines stories circulating between the sixth and fourth centuries BC about his birth,...
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The Authenticity of Prometheus Bound
Prometheus Bound was accepted without question in antiquity as the work of Aeschylus, and most modern authorities endorse this ascription. But since...
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Studies in The Language of Homer
Professor Shipp’s purpose in the first edition of this book (published in 1953) was to examine in as much detail as possible the development of the...
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The Cambridge Companion to August Wilson
One of America’s most powerful and original dramatists, August Wilson offered an alternative history of the twentieth century, as seen from the...
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Beyond Anger
Beyond Anger is a detailed literary analysis of the three poems which make up Juvenal’s third book of Satires (i.e. Satires 7, 8 and 9). Dr Braund...
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The Cambridge Companion to August Wilson
One of America’s most powerful and original dramatists, August Wilson offered an alternative history of the twentieth century, as seen from the...
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