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Book 17 of Silius Italicus' Punica serves as the powerful conclusion of the epic, detailing the final stages of the Second Punic War, culminating in the Battle of Zama, where Roman dominance is secured. The narrative intertwines divine intervention with human conflict....
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OUP Oxford
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2025-11-26
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This book presents an innovative theoretical framework for exploring the intellectual culture of ancient Greece in the period 450–350 BC. The bewildering questions and surprising opportunities posed by emergent styles of ontological thinking at this time, about issues...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-11-21
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Last Thoughts on Euripedes is a companion to the second edition of volume II of the Oxford Classical Text of Euripides, which contains a radically revised text and apparatus criticus of six textually problematic plays. Its purpose is to explain and justify the choices...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-11-19
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More than forty years have passed since the publication of volume II of James Diggle's Oxford Classical Text of Euripides (1981). That volume was the first to be published of the three volumes of the OCT edition: volumes I and III followed in 1984 and 1994. This second...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-11-19
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Beginning with its central insight--that the life of literature is in fact a double life, a life shared between two relatively distinct domains of value, "strong" and "weak"--Literature's Social Lives unfolds across five chapters offering ever--deepening insights at...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-11-17
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Gaia
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2025-11-06
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Brazen
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2025-10-30
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Environmental Entanglements: African Literature's Ecological Imaginary traces a long history of ecological thought in African literature.
Reading African literatures as environmental literatures,Environmental Entanglements offers an interventional step back beyond the...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-10-22
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Order now to receive a collector’s edition, UK first print run only. The New York Times bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a posthumous collection of newly discovered writing, offering a fresh perspective on the remarkable literary mind behind To Kill a...
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Penguin
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2025-10-21
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Winner of the California Independent Booksellers Association 2026 Golden Poppy Award for NonfictionFrom the award-winning author of Creep comes a powerful book by a writer at the peak of her powers—at once a love letter to California and a literary tour de force...
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Timber Press
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2025-10-21
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This collection of new essays devoted to Oscar Wilde's classic novel presents new critical work by prominent scholars that deal with numerous aspects of the famed novel. Essays range from early literary influences on the novel and its controversial early reception to...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-10-20
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Schadenfreude, "pleasure in other people's misfortunes", is an emotion that pervades Greek texts and pervaded Greek communities. Many of their salient characteristics provided the ideal terrain for schadenfreude: competitiveness, a fierce attachment to honor and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-15
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Inscribing Flavian Rome offers the first systematic investigation of Martial's dynamic engagement with the full range of Roman epigraphic habits. Breaking new ground in the study of Roman epigram, it establishes a new interpretation of early imperial writing culture...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-10-15
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Echoing the reputed characteristics of their national emblems, the attractive flower of the thistle, the strength of the wild cat, the fearlessness of the unicorn, and their cautionary motto Nemo me impune lacessit, the Scots frequently call on their spirit of...
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Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté
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2025-10-03
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Annales littéraires
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Why does the myth of the Fall continue to matter in an increasingly secularised world?
Why do we continue to imagine a point where everything went wrong, and why must we imagine that things were once better than they are now?
Modern political theodicies repeatedly...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-26
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This study explores the hidden histories offered by Greco-Roman myths of metamorphosis, and what they can reveal about the lived experience of ancient men and women. It investigates the role of the body, and the embodied experiences of emotions in these stories, arguing...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-26
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Edward Thomas (1878-1917) is a renowned poet. Until recently, his prose writing has, by comparison, been neglected and very often dismissed by critics. Thanks not least to the multi-volume new edition being published by OUP (gen. eds. Guy Cuthbertson and Lucy Newlyn),...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-26
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Edward Thomas (1878-1917) is a renowned poet. Until recently, his prose writing has, by comparison, been neglected and very often dismissed by critics. Thanks not least to the multi-volume new edition being published by OUP (gen. eds. Guy Cuthbertson and Lucy Newlyn),...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-26
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This is the second volume of the Wodrow-Kenrick Correspondence 1750-1810. Reverend James Wodrow (1730-1810), minister of the Church of Scotland at Stevenston in Ayrshire, and Samuel Kenrick (1728-1811), tutor to a Renfrewshire family until 1763, and subsequently a...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-09-26
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This second volume of the letters of Dr Charles Burney follows directly from the first, published in 1991, and contains roughly two hundred letters written between 1785 and 1793. In these years, Burney consolidated his reputation as a musicologist, publishing his...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-26
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