Kategoria BISAC: Literary Collections >> Ancient, Classical & Medieval

A principal source for the second period of Iconoclasm and the Amorian dynasty, the historical compilation known as Theophanes Continuatus was among the first works of the classicising revival in Byzantium after the Dark Age (7-8th centuries). A critical edition of the Greek text of Books I-IV, replacing that of 1838 by I. Bekker, is accompanied here by the first complete English translation.

• Gives readers the classical background they need in order to really appreciate British poetry.
  
• Divided into two halves - the first half presenting a selection of the best British poems, and the second presenting relevant classical works in translation.
  
• Notes and introductions highlight the connections between British works and their classical forebears.

Distinguished Latinist Elaine...

The third-century BC Greek poet Herodas had been all but forgotten until a papyrus of eight of his Mimiambs (plus fragments) turned up in the Egyptian desert at the end of the 19th century. They have since been translated into various modern languages and supplied with scholarly commentaries. This book is the first to attempt to reproduce in English Herodas' 'choliambic' or 'limping' metre (sic) - distinctive for its signatory reversed final foot, a variant on the standard Greek iambic trimeter.
The present volume provides an accessible introduction to Herodas and his Mimiambs...

The "Mahabharata "is at once an archive and a living text, a sourcebook complete by itself and an open text perennially under construction. Driving home this striking contemporary relevance of the famous Indian epic, "Mahabharata Now "focuses on the issues of narration, aesthetics and ethics, as also their interlinkages. The cross-disciplinary essays in the volume imaginatively re-interpret the timeless classic in the light of the pre-modern Indian narrative styles, poetics, aesthetic codes, and moral puzzles; the Western theories on modern ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, psychoanalysis,...

Adventure, conquest, romance, comedy, suspense, and tragedy are just a few of the themes woven together by the range of styles represented in this set of classical Sanskrit literature. The set brings together classics like the Aesop s fables which originated in Vishnu.sharman s Five Discourses on Worldly Wisdom with the less traditional, such as the adventures of Dandin s What Ten Young Men Did, written uncharacteristically in prose rather than verse.

Included in this set: The Emperor of the Sorcerers Volume 1 By Budha.svamin. Edited and translated by Sir James Mallinson. 452 pages /...