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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Historia Alexandri Magni Historia Alexandri Magni Quintus Curtius Rufus The Roman historian's account of the conquests of Alexander the Great is one of the primary sources of our knowledge of the Macedonian conquest and its leader. OL145025W
Literature Of Greece and Rome Literature Of Greece and Rome McGraw-Hill Presents selections from the writings of such well-known classical authors as Aesop, Homer, Sappho, Horace, Ovid, and Pliny with biographical material, discussion questions, and writing prompts. OL14995934W
The One Thomas More The One Thomas More Travis Curtright "Thomas More" the humanist. "Sir Thomas More" the statesman. "Saint Thomas More" the martyr. Who was Thomas More? Which characterization of him is most true? Despite these multiple images and th… OL16509828W
Apuleius and Antonine Rome Apuleius and Antonine Rome K. R. Bradley "Apuleius and Antonine Rome features outstanding scholarship by Keith Bradley on the Latin author Apuleius of Madauros and on the second-century Roman world in which Apuleius lived. Bradley discusses… OL16729857W
Antike und Abendland. Beiträge zum Verständnis der Griechen und Römer und ihres Nachlebens. Jahrbuc… Antike und Abendland. Beiträge zum Verständnis der Griechen und Römer und ihres Nachlebens. Jahrbuc… Wilhelm Kuhlmann,Werner Von Koppenfels,Helmut Krasser The Yearbook Antike und Abendland is a forum for interdisciplinary discussion of topics from Antiquity and the Classical Tradition. The Editorial Board includes representatives from the disciplines o… OL19801840W
Writing religious women Writing religious women Christiania Whitehead,Denis Renevey This collection of commissioned essays explores women's vernacular theology through a wide range of medieval prose and verse texts, from saints' lives to visionary literature. Employing a historicist… OL20627326W
Virgil and the Augustan reception Virgil and the Augustan reception Richard F. Thomas This book is an examination of the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments in the last two millennia. The author focuses on the emperor Augustus in the poetry of Virgil, detects in the po… OL461956W
The hand of Cicero The hand of Cicero Shane Butler ix, 165 pages ; 25 cm OL6214298W