Ancient & Medieval Literature

These pages capture a thousand years of medieval women's visionary writing, from late antiquity to the 15th century. Written by hermits, recluses, wives, ...

Essential passages from the works of four fathers of history-Herodotus's History, Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, Xenophon's Anabasis, and Pol...

The Historians of Ancient Rome is the most comprehensive collection of ancient sources for Roman history available in a single English volume. After a gene...

"I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I...

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Chronicles The Greek Siege Of Troy And The War That Ensued. The Background To The Iliad -- The Theme Of The Iliad -- A Critical Summary Of The Iliad -- The ...

eleven Minutes Is The Story Of Maria, A Young Girl From A Brazilian Village, Whose First Innocent Brushes With Love Leave Her Heartbroken. At A Tender Age...

The De Doctrina Christiana ("On Christian Teaching") is one of Augustine's most important works on the classical tradition. Undertaken at the same time as...

The latest edition of this highly praised anthology of ancient Egyptian literature offers fresh translations of all the texts as well as some twenty-five ne...

From Triumph superstar Rik Emmett comes the thrilling, inspiring story of a life of rock and rollWhile describing the impulse driving his life and work, Rik...

Among surviving Greek tragedies only Euripides' Trojan Women shows us the extinction of a whole city, an entire people. Despite its grim theme, or more like...

The Greek writer Lysias is a fascinating source for the study of Athenian law, society and history in the late fifth century B.C. Six of his professional le...

Volume 1 Of The Acclaimed Broadview Anthology Of British Literature, Now Revised To Eliminate The Term Anglo-saxon From The Anthology Apparatus.Categories: ...

Seventy-year-old F.X. Toole has exploded onto the literary scene with this astonishing first collection of stories drawn from his own experiences in boxing...

The Romans conquered most of the known world and detailed their conquests in calm, unapologetic histories. They were a supremely urbane people who longed p...

Rumi's Divani Shamsi Tabriz (the Works Of Shams Of Tabriz--named In Honor Of Rumi's Spiritual Teacher And Friend) Is A Collection Of Lyric Poems That Contai...

Discover the ancient classical customs of the Kama Sutra in this tastefully produced and beautifully illustrated gift edition Includes two separate volumes ...

The World's Greatest War Novel Humans And Gods Wrestling With Towering Emotions. Men Fighting To The Death Amid Devastation And Destruction. Perhaps The Wes...

Sun Tzu's 2,500-year-old masterpiece, The Art of War, is one of the oldest and most-read military treatises in the world. This succinct text, which details ...

Winner of the academy of American Poets 1991 Landon Translation Award, this masterful new verse translation of Homer's classic story of the Trojan War has ...

Paris, un atelier d'artiste au fond d'une allée verdoyante.Madeline, une ex-flic londonienne, y est venue pour panser ses blessures.Gaspard, un auteur misa...

From Achilles's heel to the sword of Damocles, Western culture teems with allusions from the rich heritage of classical literature, and this new edition o...

Jack Kerouac.Categories: Literature & Fiction Ancient & Medieval LiteratureGreek

eleven Minutes Is The Story Of Maria, A Young Girl From A Brazilian Village, Whose First Innocent Brushes With Love Leave Her Heartbroken. At A Tender Age...

Herbert Mason's best-selling Gilgamesh is the most widely read and enduring interpretation of this ancient Babylonian epic. One of the oldest and most unive...

Book I A Fateful Haven 1 -- Book Ii How They Took The City 31 -- Book Iii Sea Wanderings And Strange Meetings 63 -- Book Iv The Passion Of The Queen 93 -- B...

Finest heroic poem in Old English celebrates character and exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman of the Geats, a people of southern Sweden. Narrative combin...

This classic, second only to the Bible for religious instruction and inspiration, has brought understanding and comfort to millions for centuries. Written...

Among The Most Important And Influential Philosophical Works In Western Thought: Euthyphro, Exploring The Concepts And Aims Of Piety And Religion; Apology, ...

With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway, University of London. The product of more than a decade's continuous work (1598-1611), Chap...

a Classic Work That Has Charmed Generations Of Readers, This Collection Assembles Carson Mccullers’s Best Stories, Including Her Beloved Novella “the Ball...

LES GRANDS TEXTES DU XXe SIÈCLE Devenu, avec Le Désert des Tartares, un classique du XXe siècle, Le K ouvre un recueil de 50 contes fantastiques où l'...

BKS Iyengar’s translation and commentary on these ancient yoga sutras has been described as the “bible” of yoga. This new edition of the classic text...

There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mas­tered it. If it's navel-gazing you're after, yo...

In all six of its volumes The Broadview Anthology of British Literature presents British literature in a truly distinctive light. Fully grounded in sound ...

A Brand-new Translation Of The World's Greatest Satirist. With A Signature Style That Is At Once Bawdy And Delicate, As Well As A Fearless Penchant For Lamp...

Narrative is an important element in our daily life and the novel is arguably the most popular genre of our times. The theory of narrative or narratology, w...

Sophocles' Ajax Is One Of The Most Disturbing And Powerful Surviving Ancient Tragedies. But It Is Also Difficult To Understand And Interpret. What Are We To...