Litteraturvetenskap: klassisk, tidig & medeltida litteratur

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 …

Metaforer hjälper oss att förstå världen: de är språkliga bilder som visar att något liknar något annat. När den grekiske poeten Homeros sjunger att en havsvåg ser ut som ryggen på …

A History of Roman Art provides a wide-ranging survey of the subject from the founding of Rome to the rule of Rome's first Christian emperor, Constantine. Incorporating the most …

For decades readers have chosen this book above all others to discover the thrilling, enchanting and fascinating world of Western mythology. From Odysseus's adventure-filled …

Få historiska gestalter har fascinerat sin samtid och eftervärlden som Alexander den store. Utgångspunkten för berättelsen om hans liv är Alexanderromanen från omkring år 300 e.Kr, …

This edition includes the entire surviving corpus attributed to Plato in antiquity. In addition to the texts, it contains introductions to the works, discussion on the chronology …

From major seminal works like the Mishnah or the Palestinian and Babylonian Talmuds, to Biblical commentaries, translations of Biblical books into Aramaic or relatively …

This volume collects for the first time three of Sophocles most moving tragedies, all set in mythical Thebes: Oedipus the King, perhaps the most powerful of all Greek tragedies; …

The Hermetica are a body of theological-philosophical texts written in late antiquity, but long believed to be much older. Their supposed author, Hermes Trismegistus, was thought …