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A History of the Crusades
Author | : Steven Runciman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1987-12-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521347709 |
Sir Steven Runciman explores the First Crusade and the foundation of the kingdom of Jerusalem.
The Shield of Achilles
Author | : W. H. Auden |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2024-05-07 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0691256586 |
Back in print for the first time in decades, Auden’s National Book Award–winning poetry collection, in a critical edition that introduces it to a new generation of readers The Shield of Achilles, which won the National Book Award in 1956, may well be W. H. Auden’s most important, intricately designed, and unified book of poetry. In addition to its famous title poem, which reimagines Achilles’s shield for the modern age, when war and heroism have changed beyond recognition, the book also includes two sequences—“Bucolics” and “Horae Canonicae”—that Auden believed to be among his most significant work. Featuring an authoritative text and an introduction and notes by Alan Jacobs, this volume brings Auden’s collection back into print for the first time in decades and offers the only critical edition of the work. As Jacobs writes in the introduction, Auden’s collection “is the boldest and most intellectually assured work of his career, an achievement that has not been sufficiently acknowledged.” Describing the book’s formal qualities and careful structure, Jacobs shows why The Shield of Achilles should be seen as one of Auden’s most central poetic statements—a richly imaginative, beautifully envisioned account of what it means to live, as human beings do, simultaneously in nature and in history.
Homer: Iliad Book XVIII
Author | : Homer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2019-01-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108594492 |
Book 18 of the Iliad is an outstanding example of the range and power of Homeric epic. It describes the reaction of the hero Achilles to the death of his closest friend, and his decision to re-enter the conflict even though it means he will lose his own life. The book also includes the forging of the marvellous shield for the hero by the smith-god Hephaestus: the images on the shield are described by the poet in detail, and this description forms the archetypal ecphrasis, influential on many later writers. In an extensive introduction, R. B. Rutherford discusses the themes, style and legacy of the book. The commentary provides line-by-line guidance for readers at all levels, addressing linguistic detail and larger questions of interpretation. A substantial appendix considers the relation between Iliad 18 and the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, which has been prominent in much recent discussion.
Homer: Iliad Book XVIII
Author | : Homer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2019-01-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107067774 |
Presents an edition of this outstanding book containing a clear and readable introduction, concise notes on the text and strong literary appreciation.
Homer: Iliad Book I
Author | : Seth L. Schein |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2022-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108351913 |
Book I of the Iliad marks the beginning of the first surviving work of Greek literature. This edition with commentary enables readers at all levels to interpret the poetry with heightened pleasure and understanding. It provides help with the morphology, grammar, and syntax of Homeric Greek, situates the poem in its historical and poetic contexts, and elucidates its traditional language, meter, rhetoric, and style, as well as its distinctive transformation of traditional mythology and narrative motifs in accordance with its own interests, values, and poetic purposes. It also addresses the programmatic contrast in Book I between gods and humans; the characterization of both major and minor figures; and the thematic significance in Book I and the poem generally of the representation of social, cultural, religious, and ethical institutions and values. Fully accessible to undergraduates and graduate students, this edition also contains much of value for the scholar.
The Odyssey
Author | : Homer |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2018-03-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0520966872 |
The Odyssey is vividly captured and beautifully paced in this swift and lucid new translation by acclaimed scholar and translator Peter Green. Accompanied by an illuminating introduction, maps, chapter summaries, a glossary, and explanatory notes, this is the ideal translation for both general readers and students to experience The Odyssey in all its glory. Green’s version, with its lyrical mastery and superb command of Greek, offers readers the opportunity to enjoy Homer’s epic tale of survival, temptation, betrayal, and vengeance with all of the verve and pathos of the original oral tradition.