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Lordship and tradition in barbarian Europe
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Hermann Moisl |
"In this work, the author aims to acquaint the novice with not only the techniques but also the values of the hunter. The work covers the famous hunters of legend, the moral value of hunting, and the… |
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Satirae
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Horace |
The Roman philosopher and dramatic critic Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-3 B.C.), known in English as Horace, was also the most famous lyric poet of his age. Written in the troubled decade ending with … |
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Beauty
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David Konstan |
xiii, 262 pages : 21 cm |
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The stranger's welcome
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Steve Reece |
This is a book about the rituals of hospitality (xenia) in Homer. But it is only secondarily so; it could just as well be about sacrifice, assembly, arming, or any of a number of frequently recurrin… |
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Chaucer and Boccaccio
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Edwards, Robert |
"In the late Middle Ages, Chaucer invented two imaginative domains - antiquity and modernity - that proved crucial to his culture and to our subsequent understanding of the emergence of selfhood, sub… |
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Poetics before Plato
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Grace M. Ledbetter |
"Combining literary and philosophical analysis, this study defends an utterly innovative reading of the early history of poetics. It is the first to argue that there is a distinctively Socratic view … |
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