Ancient Classical category: 1324 books
by Hourly History
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
The gifted W.B. Yeats wrote of his own people "...even a newspaperman, if you entice him into a cemetery at midnight, will believe in phantoms, for everyone is a visionary if you scratch him deep enough. But the Celt, unlike any other, is a visionary without scratching." This introduction...
The Road to Middle-Earth
How J. R. R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
“Uniquely qualified to explicate Tolkien’s worldview,” this journey into the roots of the Lord of the Rings is a classic in its own right (Salon.com).
*From beloved epic fantasy classic to record-breaking cinematic success, J.R.R. Tolkien's story of four brave hobbits has enraptured the...
by fray Bernardino de Sahagún
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Bernardino de Sahagún recopiló un inmenso caudal de datos que conforman la edición de su "Historia general de las cosas de la Nueva España". En estas páginas, extraídas de aquella monumental obra, se muestran las supersticiones y convicciones, los días y sus significados entre los antiguos mexicanos.
An Uncommon Heroine
Scarlett, Edna, Sula--and More Than 20 Other of the Most Remarkable Women in Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2010
One is not born a woman, one becomes one.
-Simone de Beauvoir
Literature has provided us with some of the most unforgettable women in history. From wives and mothers to daughters and lovers, these women all have one thing in common--they're uncommon heroines. This unique collection includes...
by Thomas Thornburg
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 1999
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format
Considered...
The Odyssey
A New Translation by Peter Green
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
The Odyssey is vividly captured and beautifully paced in this swift and lucid new translation by acclaimed scholar and translator Peter Green. Accompanied by an illuminating introduction, maps, chapter summaries, a glossary, and explanatory notes, this is the ideal translation for both general readers...
Literatura Homoerótica Latina
critérios para uma definição - criterios para una definición (edição bilingue)
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 27, 2014
É lugar-comum pensar que a literatura clássica greco-romana é abundante em homoerotismo, e sabemos como a leitura dos clássicos influenciou pensadores e escritores dos séculos XIX e XX como Havelock Ellis, Oscar Wilde, J. A Symmonds, E. M. Forster, Edward Carpenter, Walt Whitman, Fernando Pessoa...
The Hammer of Witches
A Complete Translation of the Malleus Maleficarum
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
The Malleus Maleficarum, first published in 1486–7, is the standard medieval text on witchcraft and it remained in print throughout the early modern period. Its descriptions of the evil acts of witches and the ways to exterminate them continue to contribute to our knowledge of early modern law,...
by Margaret Clunies Ross
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
The medieval Norse-Icelandic saga is one of the most important European vernacular literary genres of the Middle Ages. This Introduction to the saga genre outlines its origins and development, its literary character, its material existence in manuscripts and printed editions, and its changing reception...
by Hilda Doolittle
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 1974
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 1974
A fifty-line fragment by the poet Stesichorus of Sicily (c. 640-555 B.C.), what survives of his Pallinode, tells us almost all we know of this other Helen, and from it H. D. wove her book-length poem.
The fabulous beauty of Helen of Troy is legendary. But some say that Helen was never in Troy,...
Brick Fairy Tales
Cinderella, Rapunzel, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Hansel and Gretel, and More
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Enter the magical world of fairy tales retold through LEGO bricks! Filled with creative and whimsical settings built from this universally celebrated toy, this book presents an all-new retelling of the original Grimm’s fairy tales of Cinderella, Rapunzel, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Hansel...
by Virgil, Elaine Fantham
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2008
'Arms and the man I sing of Troy...' So begins one of the greatest works of literature in any language. Written by the Roman poet Virgil more than two thousand years ago, the story of Aeneas' seven-year journey from the ruins of Troy to Italy, where he becomes the founding ancestor of Rome, is a narrative...
by Peta Fowler, Lucretius, Don Fowler
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2008
`Therefore this terror and darkness of the mind Not by the sun's rays, nor the bright shafts of day, Must be dispersed, as is most necessary, But by the face of nature and her laws.' Lucretius' poem On the Nature of the Universe combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest...
Tales of Darkness and Light
Soso Tham's The Old Days of the Khasis
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
Soso Tham (1873–1940), the acknowledged poet laureate of the Khasis of northeastern India, was one of the first writers to give written poetic form to the rich oral tradition of his people.
Poet of landscape, myth and memory, Soso Tham paid rich and poignant tribute to his tribe in his masterpiece...