Litteraturvetenskap: klassisk, tidig & medeltida litteratur

The De Amore of Andreas Capellanus (Andre the Chaplain), composed in France in the 1180s, is celebrated as the first comprehensive discussion of theory of courtly love. The book is …

Drawing on recent advances in Egyptology, R. B. Parkinson's new translations bring to life for the modern reader the golden age of Egyptian fictional literature, the Middle Kingdom …

Zimmerman presents a new edition of Apuleius' Metamorphoses, also known as Asinus Aureus ('The Golden Ass'), which was written in the second century AD and is the only ancient …

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time. A book about romantic love, Eros is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros" in both …

'What is poetry, how many kinds of it are there, and what are their specific effects?' Aristotle's Poetics is the most influential book on poetry ever written. A founding text of …

Selected by Choice as a 2012 Outstanding Academic Title Awarded a 2012 PROSE Honorable Mention as a Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences A Companion to Women in the …

Dantes liv döljer mysterier som tiden mångfaldigar och hans verk gömmer gåtor som inte förlorar sin fascinerande och uppfordrande kraft. Giacomo Oreglias Dante är ett i alla …

Litteraturens klassiker 1-18 är antologin för alla som vill stifta bekantskap med de yppersta verken inom lyrik, dramatik och prosa. Ett urval texter från antiken till 1900-talets …

Archaeology has progressed enormously since the early excavations of classical sites such as Olympia and Ephesus in the middle of the 19th century. A better perspective on the …

Under 400-talet före Kristus blomstrade en alldeles särskild konstform i Grekland. Den grekiska tragedin ställde alla de stora politiska och moraliska frågorna. Måste man lyda …

This up-to-date edition makes Euripides’ most famous and influential play accessible to students of Greek reading their first tragedy as well as to more advanced students. The …

»Kvinnorna gör alldeles rätt när de förkastar de levnadsregler som införts i världen, eftersom det är männen som har skapat dem utan kvinnorna.«Michel de Montaigne (153392)Vid de …

A compelling new translation of a vital account of Roman history With clarity and vivid intensity, Tacitus's Annals recounts the pivotal events in Roman history from the years …

The Gallic War, published on the eve of the civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an autobiographical account written by one of the most famous figures of …

Outstanding translations by leading contemporary scholars--many commissioned especially for this volume--are presented here in the first single edition to include the entire …

Providing a comprehensive and accessible orientation to the field of medieval manuscript studies, this lavishly illustrated book by Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham is unique …

From award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost: a deeply moving tale of a father and son's transformative journey in reading--and reliving--Homer's …

Tre av världslitteraturens största poeter dominerar denna bok om den äldsta grekiska lyriken: Satirikern Archilochos (omkr. 650 f Kr.), visdiktaren Sapfo (drygt ett halvsekel …

For more than four hundred years, the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. Distinguished from the detached formal essay by its …

Of more than seventy works by Varro (116 27 BCE) we have only his treatise On Agriculture and part of his On the Latin Language, a work typical of its author s interest not only in …