Author: Balázs Nagy
Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 963386500X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
More than sixty friends and colleagues pay tribute to the distinguished professor János Bak's 70th birthday. Notable contributors from many countries dedicate previously unpublished essays and articles in this celebratory Festschrift. Reflecting the intellectual calibre of János Bak, scholars not only of medieval history, but also from the fields of modern history, philosophy, linguistics, art history and political science provide a broad range of perspectives on a wide range of disciplinary areas thus allowing a wide readership audience.
The Man of Many Devices, Who Wandered Full Many Ways
Author: Balázs Nagy
Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 963386500X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
More than sixty friends and colleagues pay tribute to the distinguished professor János Bak's 70th birthday. Notable contributors from many countries dedicate previously unpublished essays and articles in this celebratory Festschrift. Reflecting the intellectual calibre of János Bak, scholars not only of medieval history, but also from the fields of modern history, philosophy, linguistics, art history and political science provide a broad range of perspectives on a wide range of disciplinary areas thus allowing a wide readership audience.
Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 963386500X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
More than sixty friends and colleagues pay tribute to the distinguished professor János Bak's 70th birthday. Notable contributors from many countries dedicate previously unpublished essays and articles in this celebratory Festschrift. Reflecting the intellectual calibre of János Bak, scholars not only of medieval history, but also from the fields of modern history, philosophy, linguistics, art history and political science provide a broad range of perspectives on a wide range of disciplinary areas thus allowing a wide readership audience.
The Man of Many Devices, who Wandered Full Many Ways--
Author: Bal zs Nagy
Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 9789639116672
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
More than sixty friends and colleagues pay tribute to the distinguised professor Janos M. Bak's 70th birthday."
Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 9789639116672
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
More than sixty friends and colleagues pay tribute to the distinguised professor Janos M. Bak's 70th birthday."
Odyssey
Author: Homer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198788805
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Since their composition almost 3,000 years ago the Homeric epics have lost none of their power to grip audiences and fire the imagination: with their stories of life and death, love and loss, war and peace they continue to speak to us at the deepest level about who we are across the span of generations. That being said, the world of Homer is in many ways distant from that in which we live today, with fundamental differences not only in language, social order, and religion, but in basic assumptions about the world and human nature. This volume offers a detailed yet accessible introduction to ancient Greek culture through the lens of Book One of the Odyssey, covering all of these aspects and more in a comprehensive Introduction designed to orient students in their studies of Greek literature and history. The full Greek text is included alongside a facing English translation which aims to reproduce as far as feasible the word order and sound play of the Greek original and is supplemented by a Glossary of Technical Terms and a full vocabulary keyed to the specific ways that words are used in Odyssey I. At the heart of the volume is a full-length line-by-line commentary, the first in English since the 1980s and updated to bring the latest scholarship to bear on the text: focusing on philological and linguistic issues, its close engagement with the original Greek yields insights that will be of use to scholars and advanced students as well as to those coming to the text for the first time.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198788805
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Since their composition almost 3,000 years ago the Homeric epics have lost none of their power to grip audiences and fire the imagination: with their stories of life and death, love and loss, war and peace they continue to speak to us at the deepest level about who we are across the span of generations. That being said, the world of Homer is in many ways distant from that in which we live today, with fundamental differences not only in language, social order, and religion, but in basic assumptions about the world and human nature. This volume offers a detailed yet accessible introduction to ancient Greek culture through the lens of Book One of the Odyssey, covering all of these aspects and more in a comprehensive Introduction designed to orient students in their studies of Greek literature and history. The full Greek text is included alongside a facing English translation which aims to reproduce as far as feasible the word order and sound play of the Greek original and is supplemented by a Glossary of Technical Terms and a full vocabulary keyed to the specific ways that words are used in Odyssey I. At the heart of the volume is a full-length line-by-line commentary, the first in English since the 1980s and updated to bring the latest scholarship to bear on the text: focusing on philological and linguistic issues, its close engagement with the original Greek yields insights that will be of use to scholars and advanced students as well as to those coming to the text for the first time.
The Odyssey for Boys and Girls
Author: Alfred John Church
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mythology, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A clear, easy-to-read version of Ulysees' wandering.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mythology, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A clear, easy-to-read version of Ulysees' wandering.
Legends of Charlemagne
Author: Thomas Bulfinch
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775458407
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Travel back in time with this collection of fables and legends set in medieval France. Famed folklorist Thomas Bulfinch brings together a carefully curated compendium of stories that are sure to delight. A bevy of damsels in distress and courageous knights populate these pages in tales that veer from action-adventure to romance and back again.
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775458407
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Travel back in time with this collection of fables and legends set in medieval France. Famed folklorist Thomas Bulfinch brings together a carefully curated compendium of stories that are sure to delight. A bevy of damsels in distress and courageous knights populate these pages in tales that veer from action-adventure to romance and back again.
Homer on the Gods and Human Virtue
Author: Peter J. Ahrensdorf
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521193885
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This book seeks to restore Homer to his rightful place among the principal figures in political and moral philosophy.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521193885
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This book seeks to restore Homer to his rightful place among the principal figures in political and moral philosophy.
Education of a Wandering Man
Author: Louis L'Amour
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553899082
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
From his decision to leave school at fifteen to roam the world, to his recollections of life as a hobo on the Southern Pacific Railroad, as a cattle skinner in Texas, as a merchant seaman in Singapore and the West Indies, and as an itinerant bare-knuckled prizefighter across small-town America, here is Louis L'Amour's memoir of his lifelong love affair with learning—from books, from yondering, and from some remarkable men and women—that shaped him as a storyteller and as a man. Like classic L'Amour fiction, Education of a Wandering Man mixes authentic frontier drama--such as the author's desperate efforts to survive a sudden two-day trek across the blazing Mojave desert--with true-life characters like Shanghai waterfront toughs, desert prospectors, and cowboys whom Louis L'Amour met while traveling the globe. At last, in his own words, this is a story of a one-of-a-kind life lived to the fullest . . . a life that inspired the books that will forever enable us to relive our glorious frontier heritage.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553899082
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
From his decision to leave school at fifteen to roam the world, to his recollections of life as a hobo on the Southern Pacific Railroad, as a cattle skinner in Texas, as a merchant seaman in Singapore and the West Indies, and as an itinerant bare-knuckled prizefighter across small-town America, here is Louis L'Amour's memoir of his lifelong love affair with learning—from books, from yondering, and from some remarkable men and women—that shaped him as a storyteller and as a man. Like classic L'Amour fiction, Education of a Wandering Man mixes authentic frontier drama--such as the author's desperate efforts to survive a sudden two-day trek across the blazing Mojave desert--with true-life characters like Shanghai waterfront toughs, desert prospectors, and cowboys whom Louis L'Amour met while traveling the globe. At last, in his own words, this is a story of a one-of-a-kind life lived to the fullest . . . a life that inspired the books that will forever enable us to relive our glorious frontier heritage.
The Seafarer
Author: Ida L. Gordon
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719007781
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719007781
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The Geography of the Imagination
Author: Guy Davenport
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9781567920802
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
In the 40 essays that constitute this collection, Guy Davenport, one of America's major literary critics, elucidates a range of literary history, encompassing literature, art, philosophy and music, from the ancients to the grand old men of modernism.
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9781567920802
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
In the 40 essays that constitute this collection, Guy Davenport, one of America's major literary critics, elucidates a range of literary history, encompassing literature, art, philosophy and music, from the ancients to the grand old men of modernism.
The Return of Odysseus
Author: I. M. Richardson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780816700165
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Odysseus returns at last to Ithaca where he rids his house of the evil suitors, is reunited with Penelope, and visits his aging, grieving father.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780816700165
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Odysseus returns at last to Ithaca where he rids his house of the evil suitors, is reunited with Penelope, and visits his aging, grieving father.