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300: The Art of the Filmby Frank Miller, Lynn VarleyISBN 1569714029 (1-56971-402-9)
Hardcover, Dark Horse Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: '300: The Art of the Film'Book summary:An emperor amasses an army of hundreds of thousands, drawn from two continents, to invade a third continent and conquer a tiny, divided nation. Only a few hundred warriors stand against them. Yet the tiny nation is saved. It sounds like the plot of a preposterous fantasy novel. It is historical fact. In 481-480 B.C., King Xerxes of Persia raised forces in Asia and Africa and invaded Greece with an army so huge that it "drank rivers dry." Then they entered the mountain pass of Thermopylae and encountered 300 determined soldiers from Sparta....
Writer-artist Frank Miller and colorist Lynn Varley retell the battle of Thermopylae in the exciting and moving graphic novel 300. They focus on King Leonidas, the young foot soldier Stelios, and the storyteller Dilios to highlight the Spartans' awe-inspiring toughness and valor. Miller and Varley's art is terrific, as always; the combat scenes are especially powerful. And Miller's writing is his best in years. Read it.
Do not, however, read 300 expecting a strictly accurate history. The Phocians did not "scatter," as Miller describes. His Spartans are mildly homophobic, which is goofy in such a gay society. Miller doesn't say how many Greeks remained for the climactic battle--you'd think 300 Spartans and maybe a dozen others, when there were between 700 and 1,100 Greeks. Herodotus's Histories does not identify the traitor Ephialtes as ugly and hunchbacked, or even as Spartan. 300 establishes a believable connection between Ephialtes's affliction and behavior, but his monstrous appearance, King Xerxes's effeminacy, and the Persians' inexplicable pierced-GenX-African looks make for an eyebrow-raising choice of villain imagery. Nonetheless, 300 is a brilliant dramatization.
For the full story of the failed invasion, read Herodotus's Histories or, for a concise, graphic-novel retelling, Larry Gonick's great Cartoon History of the Universe: Volumes 1-7, From the Big Bang to Alexander the Great. For a lighthearted look at post-invasion Athens and a very young Alexander the Great, check out William Messner-Loebs and Sam Kieth's witty and gorgeous graphic novels, Epicurus the Sage Vol. I and Vol. II. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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Aegean Prehistory: A Reviewby Tracey CullenISBN 0960904255 (0-9609042-5-5)
Softcover, Archaeological Inst of Amer
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Aesop's Fablesby AesopISBN 1421809001 (1-4218-0900-1)
Hardcover, 1st World Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aesop's Fables'Book summary:In this elegantly designed volume, more than sixty of Aesop's timeless fables have been carefully selected, humorously retold, and brought gloriously to life by four-time Caldecott Honor-winner Jerry Pinkney. Included are the Shepherd Boy and The Wolf, the Lion and the Mouse, the Tortoise and the Hare, plus many other charactersand moralsthat have inspired countless readers for centuries. With more than fifty magnificent full-color illustrations, this handsome edition is a must for every bookshelf. [via]
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Hardcover, Indypublish.Com - Aesop's Fables: ISBN 1593083300 (1-59308-330-0)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble - Aesop's Fables: ISBN 1596792345 (1-59679-234-5)
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Aesop's Fablesby D.L. Ashliman, Aesop, Arthur RackhamISBN 159308062X (1-59308-062-X)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Full of humor, insight, and wit, the tales in Aesops Fables champion the value of hard work and perseverance, compassion for others, and honesty. They are age-old wisdom in a delicious form, for the consumption of adults and children alike.
D. L. Ashliman is emeritus professor at the University of Pittsburgh. He taught folklore, mythology, German, and comparative literature at that institution for thirty-one years. He has also served as guest professor at the University of Augsburg in Germany.More editions of Aesop's Fables:
The Age of Fablesby Thomas BulfinchISBN 1576469522 (1-57646-952-2)
Softcover, Quiet Vision Pub
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Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar: For Schools and Colleges Founded on Comparative Grammarby Anne Mahoney, Annd Mahoney, George Lyman Kittredge, A. A. Howard, Benj L. D'00GeISBN 1585100420 (1-58510-042-0)
Hardcover, Focus Pub R Pullins & Co
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Alpha to Omega: The Life & Times of the Greek Alphabetby Alexander Humez, Nicholas D. HumezISBN 1567921019 (1-56792-101-9)
Softcover, David R Godine Pub
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Ancient Art & Ritual - 1913by Jane E. HarrisonISBN 156459596X (1-56459-596-X)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ancient Art & Ritual - 1913'Book summary:Contents: Art and Ritual, Primitive Ritual; Periodic Ceremonies: Spring Festival; Primitive Spring Dance or Dithyramb, in Greece; Transition from Ritual to Art; Greek Sculpture; Ritual, Art and Life; Bibliography. [via]
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Ancient Art and Ritualby Jane E. HarrisonISBN 1421967987 (1-4219-6798-7)
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Arms and Armour in Antiquity and the Middle Agesby Charles Boutell, M. P. LacombeISBN 0938289624 (0-938289-62-4)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romansby Franz CumontISBN 159605896X (1-59605-896-X)
Softcover, Cosimo Inc
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The Athenian Constitutionby AristotleISBN 1419152785 (1-4191-5278-5)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Bacchaeby Euripides, Nicholas RudallISBN 1566630673 (1-56663-067-3)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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The Banquetby Plato, Percy Bysshe ShelleyISBN 0943742129 (0-943742-12-9)
Softcover, Pagan Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Banquet'Book summary:Witty, sexy and radiantly beautiful, the Shelley translation of Plato's great Dialogue on Love, The Banquet (or The Symposium) is by far the best in the English language. It has been described as conveying much of the vivid life, the grace of movement, and the luminous beauty of Plato -- the poetry of a philosopher rendered by the prose of a poet. Although a masterpiece in its own right, the translation was suppressed and then bowdlerized for well over a century. In 19th century Britain, male love at the heart of the dialogue was unmentionable. The Banquet and Shelley's accompanying essay, A Discourse on the Manners of the Antient Greeks, were not published in their entirety until 1931, and then in an edition of 100 copies intended for private circulation only. For many years, the Shelley translation has been unobtainable, new or used. Pagan Press now offers a new edition, which is complete and authentic. In terms of both typography and editing, it is the most readable edition ever published. [via]
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Bulfinch's Mythologyby BulfinchISBN 1419111094 (1-4191-1109-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Chivalry Legends of King Arthurby Thomas Bulfinch, Charles MartinISBN 1593082738 (1-59308-273-8)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Chivalry Legends of King Arthur'Book summary:[via]Bulfinch's Mythology, by Thomas Bulfinch, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:One of the leading popularizers of classical learning in the nineteenth century, Thomas Bulfinch made the myths and legends of the ancient and medieval world available to American audiences through his three decisive works, The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, and Legends of Charlemagne, collectively published and widely known as Bulfinchs Mythology.A banking clerk by day, Bulfinch spent his nights skillfully weaving often disparate versions of classical and medieval mythology into a coherent whole. The thoroughness with which he combed through his sources made his mythological books standard reference guides for many years, while the vigor of his storytelling enthralled generations of readers. Written to teach mythology not as a study but as a relaxation from study, these timeless volumes span the ages: The Age Of Fable describes the gods and goddesses of Greece and Rome, as well as the mythology of the Germanic tribes, England, and the Near East; The Age of Chivalry tells the story of King Arthur and his court, Lancelot and Guinevere, and the death of Arthur; and Legends of Charlemagne gives a thrilling account of the reign of the first great French emperor, his wars, and his conquests.Charles Martin is a poet and translator. His verse translation of Ovids Metamorphoses was published in 2003 by W. W. Norton and received the Harold Morton Landon Award from the Academy of American Poets for 2004. His most recent book of poems, Starting from Sleep: New and Selected Poems, published in 2002 by the Sewanee Writers Series/The Overlook Press, was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Award of the Academy of American Poets.More editions of Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Chivalry Legends of King Arthur:
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Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fableby Thomas BulfinchISBN 1847029590 (1-84702-959-0)
Softcover, Echo Library
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Bulfinch's Mythology: The Illustrated Age of Fable - The Classic Retelling of Greek and Roman Myths Accompanied by the World's Greatest Paintingsby Thomas BulfinchISBN 1556708254 (1-55670-825-4)
Hardcover, Stewart, Tabori & Chang
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-- The panorama of artists includes Michelangelo, Botticelli, Titian, Poussin, Rubens, and Burne-Jones, among many others.
-- The marriage of classic painter and ancient mythology showcases how Ingres imagined Oedipus solving the riddle of the Sphinx; the terrifying head of the Medusa as painted by Caravaggio; the building of the Trojan Horse by Tiepolo; and countless other visions inspired by myth.
-- Each painting is accompanied by a caption that explores the artist's technique and symbolism and sets the work in a historical context.
-- This new approach to Bulfinch casts his text in a fresh perspective, reflecting how profoundly mythology has affected Western artists, writers, and thinkers and demonstrating how the beautiful, haunting images of the classical world have enriched our culture. [via]More editions of Bulfinch's Mythology: The Illustrated Age of Fable - The Classic Retelling of Greek and Roman Myths Accompanied by the World's Greatest Paintings:
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Caesar and Christ: A History of Roman Civilization and of Christianity from Their Beginnings to A.D. 325by Will DurantISBN 1567310141 (1-56731-014-1)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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Chapman's Homer the Iliad the Odysseyby HomerISBN 1840221178 (1-84022-117-8)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chapman's Homer the Iliad the Odyssey'Book summary:Hector bidding farewell to his wife and baby son, Odysseus bound to the mast listening to the Sirens, Penelope at the loom, Achilles dragging Hector's body round the walls of Troy - scenes from Homer have been reportrayed in every generation. The questions about mortality and identity that Homer's heroes ask, the bonds of love, respect and fellowship that motivate them, have gripped audiences for three millennia. Chapman's Iliad and Odyssey are great English epic poems, but they are also two of the liveliest and readable translations of Homer. Chapman's freshness makes the everyday world of nature and the craftsman as vivid as the battlefield and Mount Olympus. His poetry is driven by the excitement of the Renaissance discovery of classical civilisation as at once vital and distant, and is enriched by the perspectives of humanist thought. [via]
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The Divine Comedyby Dante Alighieri, J. G. NicholsISBN 1843911116 (1-84391-111-6)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'Book summary:[via]This is a new verse translation of the first canticle of Dante's moving human drama, a poetic masterpiece of penance and hope. Awakening in a dark wood, the poet Dante is forced to confront the darkness of his own life, and so he embarks upon a three-day journey towards redemption. His first day is spent traveling through Hellthe Infernowith the poet Virgil as his guide. As they traverse the nine circles of Hell, they meet a fiendish array of notorious characters, each suffering varying degrees of damnation for their earthly sins. Through this visionary spiritual journey, Dante comes to value the true nature of good and evil. Florentine poet Dante Alighieri is the author of The Divine Comedy, one of the greatest literary works of all time.More editions of The Divine Comedy:
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The Divine Comedyby Frederic Will, Alighieri Dante, Cynthia Brantley JohnsonISBN 1416500235 (1-4165-0023-5)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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The first volume of The Divine Comedy--Dante begins his downward journey through the seven circles of Hell.
EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: " A concise introduction that gives readers important background information
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Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential. [via]SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON
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English Grammar for Students of Latin: The Study Guide for Those Learning Latinby Norma Goldman, Ladislas SzymanskiISBN 0934034346 (0-934034-34-6)
Softcover, Olivia & Hill Pr
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Epilogemena to the Study of Greek Religionby Jane E. HarrisonISBN 1558181792 (1-55818-179-2)
Softcover, Holmes Pub Group Llc
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Eros: The Bittersweetby Anne CarsonISBN 1564781887 (1-56478-188-7)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eros: The Bittersweet'Book summary:Anne Carson has become one of the best-known poets of our time, but her first book, Eros the Bittersweet, was deeply rooted in her other life, as a scholar and professor of classics at McGill University. Eros the Bittersweet is a multi-layered essay that is in part an explication of the Greek philosophical concepts of "eros" and "agape" as they are found in 7th-century BC Greek poetry, but it's also a scintillating study of the way we use language, how we react to language in poetry, how writers write and readers read. It's sleek and sensuous, with the rich, ripe language that we have come to expect from Carson's poetry.
Beginning by guiding readers through a discussion of the poet Sappho's definition of "eros" as bittersweet, Carson soon moves toward the heart of her book: the connection between love and knowledge. The act of reading, like the act of loving, is one of coming to know, and Carson argues that the novelist who constructs a literary "moment of emotional and cognitive interception is making love, and you are the object of his wooing." Eros the Bittersweet is as provocative as it is arresting, and it is a marvellous place to begin to know and love Anne Carson. --Jeffrey Canton [via]
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Euripides' Bacchae: Translation, Introduction and Notesby Steven EspositoISBN 0941051420 (0-941051-42-0)
Softcover, Focus Pub R Pullins & Co
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Euripides' Hippolytusby Michael HalleranISBN 0941051862 (0-941051-86-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Euripides' Hippolytus'Book summary:This is an English translation of Euripides' tragedy Hippolytus about how Phaedra unsuccessfully fights her desire for Hippolytus, while he risks his life to keep her passion secret. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays.[via]No play of Euripides is more admired than Hippolytus. The tale of a married woman stirred to passion for a younger man was traditional, but Euripides modified this story and blended it with one of divine vengeance to create a masterpiece of tension, pathos, and dramatic power. In this play, Phaedra fights nobly but unsuccessfully against her desire for her stepson Hippolytus, while the young man risks his life to keep her passion secret. Both of them, constrained by the overwhelming force of divine power and human ignorance, choose to die in order to maintain their virtue and their good names.
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Euripides' Medeaby Anthony PodleckiISBN 0941051102 (0-941051-10-2)
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Famous Men of Greeceby A.B. Poland, John HaarenISBN 159915045X (1-59915-045-X)
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Famous Men of Romeby A.B. Poland, John HaarenISBN 1599150468 (1-59915-046-8)
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Four Plays Of Aeschylus: The Suppliant Maidens, The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Prometheus Boundby Aeschylus, E. D. A. MorsheadISBN 1419150014 (1-4191-5001-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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From Alpha to Omega: An Introduction to Classical Greekby Anne GrotonISBN 158510034X (1-58510-034-X)
Softcover, Focus Pub R Pullins & Co
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Greek Fire, Poison Arrows and Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient Worldby Adrienne MayorISBN 158567608X (1-58567-608-X)
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Greek Homosexualityby Kenneth James DoverISBN 1567312217 (1-56731-221-7)
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The Greeks: Crucible of Civilizationby Paul CartledgeISBN 1575000938 (1-57500-093-8)
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The Historiesby Cornelius TacitusISBN 1419123890 (1-4191-2389-0)
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The Histories of Tacitusby Cornelius TacitusISBN 1420926349 (1-4209-2634-9)
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Homer, The Iliad And the Odysseyby Homer, James H. Ford, Samuel ButlerISBN 0977340007 (0-9773400-0-7)
Softcover, El Paso Norte Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homer, The Iliad And the Odyssey'Book summary:The history of Homer and his works is lost in doubtful obscurity, as is the history of many of the first minds who have done honor to humanity because they rose amidst darkness. The majestic stream of his song, blessing and fertilizing, flows like a river through many lands and nations. The creations of genius always seem like miracles, because they are, for the most part, created far out of the reach of observation. If we were in possession of all the historical testimonies, we never could wholly explain the origin of the Iliad and the Odyssey. But it must be noted that Homer's great epic poems hold a singular place in literature. Within the knowledge of all of history that has been passed down to us, there is no known predecessor that could lay claim to be the progenitor or equal to these great works. It was Homer who formed the character of the Greek nation. No poet has ever, as a poet, exercised a similar influence over his countrymen. Prophets, lawgivers, and sages have formed the character of other nations; it was reserved to a poet to form that of the Greeks. When lawgivers and sages appeared in Greece, the work of the poet had already been accomplished; and they paid homage to his superior genius. He held up before his nation the mirror, in which they were to behold the world of gods and heroes no less than of feeble mortals, and to behold them reflected with purity and truth. His poems are founded on the first feeling of human nature; on the love of children, wife, and country; on that passion which outweighs all others, the love of glory. His songs were poured forth from a breast which sympathized with all the feelings of man; and therefore they enter, and will continue to enter, every breast which cherishes the same sympathies. The table of contents of this special edition begins with the first line of the text for each chapter and verse. [via]
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Homeric Dictionaryby Georg AutenriethISBN 1585100285 (1-58510-028-5)
Softcover, Focus Pub R Pullins & Co
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The Iliad of Homerby Alexander PopeISBN 1419167081 (1-4191-6708-1)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Infernoby Dante Alighieri, Charles Eliot NortonISBN 1420926381 (1-4209-2638-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dante's Inferno'Book summary:[via]The Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.The Inferno remains literatures most hallowed and graphic vision of Hell. Dante plunges readers into this unforgettable world with a deceptively simpleand now legendarytercet:
Midway upon the journey of our life
I found myself within a forest dark
For the straightforward pathway had been lost.
With these words, Dante plunges readers into the unforgettable world of the Infernoone of the most graphic visions of Hell ever created. In this first part of the epic The Divine Comedy, Dante is led by the poet Virgil down into the nine circles of Hell, where he travels through nightmare landscapes of fetid cesspools, viper pits, frozen lakes, and boiling rivers of blood and witnesses sinners being beaten, burned, eaten, defecated upon, and torn to pieces by demons. Along the way he meets the most fascinating characters known to the classical and medieval worldthe silver-tongued Ulysses, lustful Francesca da Rimini, the heretical Farinata degli Uberti, and scores of other intriguing and notorious figures.
This edition of the Inferno revives the famous Henry Wadsworth Longfellow translation, which first introduced Dantes literary genius to a broad American audience. Opening the book we stand face to face with the poet, wrote William Dean Howells of Longfellows Dante, and when his voice ceases we may marvel if he has not sung to us in his own Tuscan. Lyrically graceful and brimming with startlingly vivid images, Dantes Inferno is a perpetually engrossing classic that ranks with the greatest works of Homer and Shakespeare.
Features a map of Hell and illustrations by Gustave Doré.Peter Bondanella is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian at Indiana University and a past president of the American Association for Italian Studies. His publications include a number of translations of Italian classics, books on Italian Renaissance literature and Italian cinema, and a dictionary of Italian literature. -
The Infernoby Peter Bondanella, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Gustave Dore, Alighieri DanteISBN 1593080514 (1-59308-051-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Inferno'Book summary:The Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:The Inferno remains literatures most hallowed and graphic vision of Hell. Dante plunges readers into this unforgettable world with a deceptively simpleand now legendarytercet:
Midway upon the journey of our life
I found myself within a forest dark
For the straightforward pathway had been lost.
With these words, Dante plunges readers into the unforgettable world of the Infernoone of the most graphic visions of Hell ever created. In this first part of the epic The Divine Comedy, Dante is led by the poet Virgil down into the nine circles of Hell, where he travels through nightmare landscapes of fetid cesspools, viper pits, frozen lakes, and boiling rivers of blood and witnesses sinners being beaten, burned, eaten, defecated upon, and torn to pieces by demons. Along the way he meets the most fascinating characters known to the classical and medieval worldthe silver-tongued Ulysses, lustful Francesca da Rimini, the heretical Farinata degli Uberti, and scores of other intriguing and notorious figures.
This edition of the Inferno revives the famous Henry Wadsworth Longfellow translation, which first introduced Dantes literary genius to a broad American audience. Opening the book we stand face to face with the poet, wrote William Dean Howells of Longfellows Dante, and when his voice ceases we may marvel if he has not sung to us in his own Tuscan. Lyrically graceful and brimming with startlingly vivid images, Dantes Inferno is a perpetually engrossing classic that ranks with the greatest works of Homer and Shakespeare.
Features a map of Hell and illustrations by Gustave Doré.[via]Peter Bondanella is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian at Indiana University and a past president of the American Association for Italian Studies. His publications include a number of translations of Italian classics, books on Italian Renaissance literature and Italian cinema, and a dictionary of Italian literature.
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The Inferno Of Dante Alighieriby Dante Alighieri, Ciaran CarsonISBN 1590171144 (1-59017-114-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Inferno Of Dante Alighieri'Book summary:This startling new translation of Dante's Inferno is by Ciaran Carson, one of contemporary Ireland's most dazzlingly gifted poets. Written in a vigorous and inventive contemporary idiom, while also reproducing the intricate rhyme-scheme that is so essential to the beauty and power of Dante's epic, Carson's virtuosic rendering of the Inferno is that rare thinga translation with the heft and force of a true English poem. Like Seamus Heaney's Beowulf and Ted Hughes's Tales from Ovid, Ciaran Carson's Inferno is an extraordinary modern response to one of the great works of world literature. [via]
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Josephusby Flavius JosephusISBN 1557482667 (1-55748-266-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Josephus'Book summary:231 pages - writings of Josephus during Christian times. - Multiple printing years. [via]
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Latin For All Occasions (Lingua Latina Occasionibus Omnibus): Become the Life of the Party with Everyone's Favorite Dead Language!by Henry Beard, J. Mark Sugars, Mikhail IvenitskyISBN 1592400809 (1-59240-080-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Latin For All Occasions (Lingua Latina Occasionibus Omnibus): Become the Life of the Party with Everyone's Favorite Dead Language!'Book summary:With more than 200,000 copies in print, Latin for All Occasions and its follow-up, Latin for Even More Occasions, have helped scores of readers harness the language of Caesar and Cicero. Impress your boss with Occupational Latin (Lingua Latina Occupationi); sell your product with Sales Latin (Lingua Latina Mercatoria); flirt with your classics professor with Sensual Latin (Lingua Latina Libidinosa); look like the hipster you are with Pop-Cultural Latin (Lingua Latina Popularis); survive the holidays with Familial Latin (Lingua Latina Domestica) and Celebrational Latin (Lingua Latina Festiva). Its all here, whether youre a student of the language or just want to talk like one.[via]From cocktail-party banter to climbing the corporate ladder to online dating, Latin for All Occasions features dozens of handy sections, including Las Vegas Latin, Latin for Golfers, Latin for Breakups, Latin for the Politically Correct, and much, much more. In one easy-to-use volume, National Lampoon founder Henry Beard presents hundreds of listings rendered in grammatically accurate classical Latin, with a foolproof pronunciation guide.
Who says Latin is a dead language? From the comic genius who brought us X-Treme Latin comes Latin for All Occasions, guaranteed to help readers delight their friends, insult their enemies, and elevate the public discourse.
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Laws: Platoby Benjamin JowettISBN 1573927996 (1-57392-799-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Laws: Plato'Book summary:Plato's fascinating dialogue about legislation and governance in an ideal state supposedly takes place among three travellers passing the time during a long journey by foot through the countryside of Crete. The participants in the conversation are an Athenian visitor, the dominant speaker; a citizen of Knossos, who along with nine other citizens has been commissioned by the state of Crete to found and administer government in a new colony; and a Spartan. After preliminary discussions about the education of youth; the means of instilling citizens with the cardinal virtues of justice, temperance, wisdom, and courage; and the necessity of basing laws on these virtues, the focus of the conversation turns to an elaboration of the particular laws that should be enacted in the new Cretan colony.Much of the remainder of the work consists of monologues by the Athenian, who is clearly Plato's spokesman, in which the details of setting up the government and of laws governing every aspect of life are painstakingly laid out. Plato covers a great deal of philosophical ground in this dialogue ranging from mundane, everyday affairs (marriage laws, sexual habits, crime and punishment, trade, slavery, and many other topics) to deep questions about the existence of the gods, the nature of the soul, and the problem of evil. [via]
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Life and Leisure in Ancient Romeby J.P.V.D. BalsdonISBN 1842125931 (1-84212-593-1)
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The Love Books of Ovid Being the Amores, Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris And Medicamina Faciei Femineae of Publius Ovidius Nasoby Ovid, J. Lewis MayISBN 1417905824 (1-4179-0582-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Love Books of Ovid Being the Amores, Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris And Medicamina Faciei Femineae of Publius Ovidius Naso'Book summary:1930. Illustrated by Jean de Bosschere. Ovid was a Roman writer of love elegies (Amores), then experimented with the imaginary letter, mock didactic verse (Ars Amatoria), and collective narrative relating disconnected stories inside a large historical or chronological frame. Little was heard of Ovid until the Renaissance where he was revered as the great preceptor of courtly love. Through the Renaissance up to modern times, his poetry has been respected as a treasury of mythic themes, the suggestiveness and psychological content of which have inspired the imagination of a legion of writers. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. [via]
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Medeaby Euripides, Edward P. ColeridgeISBN 1420926446 (1-4209-2644-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medea'Book summary:Medea, whose magical powers helped Jason and the Argonauts take the Golden Fleece, remains one of the strongest female characters ever to appear on stage. In the play she kills her own children. Plays for Performance Series. [via]
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The Mysteries of Mithra: (1910)by Franz CumontISBN 1564596907 (1-56459-690-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mysteries of Mithra: (1910)'Book summary:Contents: Preface to the French Edition; The Origins of Mithraism; The Dissemination of Mithraism in the Roman Empire; Mithra and the Imperial Power of Rome; The Doctrine of the Mithraic Mysteries; The Mithraic Liturgy, Clergy and Devotees; Mithraism and the Religions of the Empire; Mithraic Art; Index. [via]
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Myth and Society in Ancient Greeceby Jean-Pierre VernantISBN 0942299175 (0-942299-17-5)
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Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greeceby Jean-Pierre Vernant, Pierre Vidal-NaquetISBN 0942299191 (0-942299-19-1)
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Myths Of Crete And Pre-hellenic Europeby Donald A. MacKenzieISBN 1419136534 (1-4191-3653-4)
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Oedipus Rexby Sophocles, E.H. PlumptreISBN 1420926039 (1-4209-2603-9)
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Oedipus Rex: Literary Touchstone Editionby Not AvailableISBN 1580495931 (1-58049-593-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oedipus Rex: Literary Touchstone Edition'Book summary:To make Oedipus more accessible for the modern reader, our Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition" includes a glossary of the more difficult words, as well as convenient sidebar notes to enlighten the reader on aspects that may be confusing or overlooked. We hope that the reader may, through this edition, more fully enjoy the beauty of the verse, the wisdom of the insights, and the impact of the drama. Sophocles Oedipus Rex has never been surpassed for the raw and terrible power with which its hero struggles to answer the eternal question, "Who am I?" The play, a story of a king whoacting entirely in ignorancekills his father and marries his mother, unfolds with shattering power; we are helplessly carried along with Oedipus towards the final, horrific truth. This vibrant, new translation invites its readers to lose themselves in the unfolding of this tragic taleas suspenseful as a detective mystery, yet with an outcome long ago determined by Fate. [via]
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Oedipus the King: Uses And Abusesby SophoclesISBN 1416500332 (1-4165-0033-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oedipus the King: Uses And Abuses'Book summary:Enduring Literature Illuminated by Practical Scholarship
One noble family's descent into madness, mayhem, and murder -- the first play in Sophocles' great Theban trilogy.
This Enriched Classic Edition includes:
" A concise introduction that gives readers important background information
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Oedipus the King: Oedipus Rexby SophoclesISBN 1599869519 (1-59986-951-9)
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Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism - 1911by Franz CumontISBN 1564595374 (1-56459-537-4)
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The Origin of Egyptian Symbolismby IamblichusISBN 1558181415 (1-55818-141-5)
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The Parthenon in Nashvilleby Wilbur CreightonISBN 0939298740 (0-939298-74-0)
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Persiansby AeschylusISBN 1419177060 (1-4191-7706-0)
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The Philosopher's Kitchen : Recipes from Ancient Greece and Rome for the Modern Cookby Francine Segan, Tim TurnerISBN 1400060990 (1-4000-6099-0)
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Plato's Timaeusby Peter KalkavageISBN 1585100072 (1-58510-007-2)
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Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Platos immediate audience.
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Poems and Fragmentsby Josephine BalmerISBN 0946189757 (0-946189-75-7)
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Protagoras And Menoby Plato, Benjamin JowettISBN 1420926888 (1-4209-2688-8)
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Quo Vadisby Henryk Sienkiewicz, Jeremiah CurtinISBN 160312036X (1-60312-036-X)
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In the dark, decadent last days of the Roman Empire, a pagan soldier sees a girl of exotic beauty and decides he must have her as his concubine. But unknown to him, Ligia is a Christian intent on living a pure life, even as Nero's ruthless persecution sweeps the city. As the lives of Vinicius and Ligia intertwine, they watch the world they know change before their eyes. While the apostles Peter and Paul seek to save the immoral city from ruin, Christians are brutally martyred in the Coliseum and Rome burns. Quo Vadis, part of Focus on the Family Great Stories collection, vividly captures all the madness and suspense of one of history's most unforgettable chapters.
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Quo Vadis a Narrative of the Time of Neroby Henryk SienkiewiczISBN 1404326901 (1-4043-2690-1)
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Rhetoricby Aristotle, Rhys W. RobertsISBN 1420925997 (1-4209-2599-7)
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The Rise of the Greeksby Michael GrantISBN 1842122657 (1-84212-265-7)
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Rubicon: The Last Years Of The Roman Republicby Tom HollandISBN 1400078970 (1-4000-7897-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rubicon: The Last Years Of The Roman Republic'Book summary:In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small border river called the Rubicon and plunged Rome into cataclysmic civil war. Tom Hollands enthralling account tells the story of Caesars generation, witness to the twilight of the Republic and its bloody transformation into an empire. From Cicero, Spartacus, and Brutus, to Cleopatra, Virgil, and Augustus, here are some of the most legendary figures in history brought thrillingly to life. Combining verve and freshness with scrupulous scholarship, Rubicon is not only an engrossing history of this pivotal era but a uniquely resonant portrait of a great civilization in all its extremes of self-sacrifice and rivalry, decadence and catastrophe, intrigue, war, and world-shaking ambition. [via]
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Sacred Mushrooms Of The Goddess and The Secrets of Eleusisby Carl A. P. RuckISBN 1579510302 (1-57951-030-2)
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The Sbl Handbook of Style: For Ancient Near Eastern, Biblical & Early Christian Studiesby Society of Biblical Literature, Patrick H. Alexander, David L. Petersen, James D. Ernest, John F. Kutsko, Shirley Decker-LuckeISBN 156563487X (1-56563-487-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sbl Handbook of Style: For Ancient Near Eastern, Biblical & Early Christian Studies'Book summary:"The SBL Handbook of Style is an astonishing book, a true 'one-stop' reference for authors preparing manuscripts in biblical studies and related fields. It covers an amazing range of topics, from what every literate scholar should know (but may not) to what only the most erudite expert in an obscure sub-field of the discipline would be likely to know. Do you need to know how to cite an internet publication? Whose job it is to prepare the index and secure permissions? How to alphabetize Abraham ibn Ezra (and why)? What the abbreviation AAeg stands for? It's all here. This volume should substantially reduce the incidence of tears and tantrums that so often beset the process of manuscript preparation. Before long biblical scholars will wonder how we ever got along without this indispensable reference work. Every graduate program should make The SBL Handbook of Style a required text."
-Carol A. Newsom, Professor of Old Testament, Emory University" . . . A major service for the community of biblical scholars. This comprehensive but handy stylesheet, building on the base of the SBL guidelines, incorporates all that most authors and editors currently need to know about the technical dimensions of publishing activity, from commas and hyphens to abbreviations, from transliterations to forms of annotation. All that's left to authors is to come up with good ideas. All editors have to do is to learn what is here."
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Sky Signs: Aratus' Phenomenaby Soloensis AratusISBN 0938190164 (0-938190-16-4)
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The Symposium of Plato: The Shelley Translationby Plato, David Kevin O'Connor, Percy Bysshe ShelleyISBN 1587318024 (1-58731-802-4)
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Much of what the dialogue offers to today's reader - namely, its invitation to see erotic experience as the privileged locus of our contact with the sacred and the divine - is lost in translation by failures of tone more than by inaccuracies or simple infelicities. The elevation and sophistication of Shelley's prose makes his translation a much better English vehicle for Plato's writing than the rather chatty and colloquial translations current today. Plato's speeches on love need an English idiom in which myth is at home, and in which humor rises to urbanity rather than descending to mere wit and joke. With Shelley, we get a translation of a great literary masterpiece by a writer who is himself a literary master, and his mastery is of exactly the type required by Plato's text.
This translation came at the height of Shelley's powers, mirroring in language and conception some of his finest works, and so is itself a precious document in the history of Romanticism, for which the reappropriation of Plato is second in importance only to the massive influence of Shakespeare. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, her husband's literary executor, upon publication of (a somewhat expurgated version of) the dialogue, boasted that "Shelley resembled Plato; both taking more delight in the abstract and the ideal than in the special and the tangible. This did not result from imitation; for it was not till Shelley resided in Italy that he made Plato his study. He then translated his Symposium and Ion; and the English language boasts of no more brilliant composition than Plato's Praise of Love translated by Shelley." If this goes too far, it goes at least in the right direction. [via]
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Timaeusby Plato, Benjamin JowettISBN 1406831727 (1-4068-3172-7)
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Traditio: An Introduction to the Latin Languageby Patricia JohnstonISBN 0941051951 (0-941051-95-1)
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Tusculan Disputations: On the Nature of the Gods, And on the Commonwealthby Marcus Tullius Cicero, Charles Duke YongeISBN 1596057300 (1-59605-730-0)
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A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian Warby Victor Davis HansonISBN 1400060958 (1-4000-6095-8)
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Over the course of a generation, the Hellenic city-states of Athens and Sparta fought a bloody conflict that resulted in the collapse of Athens and the end of its golden age. Thucydides wrote the standard history of the Peloponnesian War, which has given readers throughout the ages a vivid and authoritative narrative. But Hanson offers readers something new: a complete chronological account that reflects the political background of the time, the strategic thinking of the combatants, the misery of battle in multifaceted theaters, and important insight into how these events echo in the present.
Hanson compellingly portrays the ways Athens and Sparta fought on land and sea, in city and countryside, and details their employment of the full scope of conventional and nonconventional tactics, from sieges to targeted assassinations, torture, and terrorism. He also assesses the crucial roles played by warriors such as Pericles and Lysander, artists, among them Aristophanes, and thinkers including Sophocles and Plato.
Hansons perceptive analysis of events and personalities raises many thought-provoking questions: Were Athens and Sparta like America and Russia, two superpowers battling to the death? Is the Peloponnesian War echoed in the endless, frustrating conflicts of Vietnam, Northern Ireland, and the current Middle East? Or was it more like Americas own Civil War, a brutal rift that rent the fabric of a glorious society, or even this centurys red stateblue state schism between liberals and conservatives, a cultural war that manifestly controls military policies? Hanson daringly brings the facts to life and unearths the often surprising ways in which the past informs the present.
Brilliantly researched, dynamically written, A War Like No Other is like no other history of this important war. [via]More editions of A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War:
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The Works of Josephusby William WhistonISBN 1565631676 (1-56563-167-6)
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The Works of Philoby Philo, Charles Duke YongeISBN 0943575931 (0-943575-93-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Works of Philo'Book summary:While it would not be correct to say that Philo's works have been "lost"--scholars have always known and used Philo--they have essentially been "misplaced" as far as the average student of the Bible is concerned. Now the translation of the eminent classicist C. D. Yonge is available in an affordable, easy-to-read edition, with a new foreword and newly translated passages, and containing supposed fragments of Philo's writings from ancient authors such as John of Damascus. The title and arrangement of the writings have been standardized according to scholarly conventions.
A contemporary of Paul and Jesus, Philo Judaeus, of Alexandria, Egypt, is unquestionably among the most important writers for historians and students of Hellenistic Judaism and early Christianity. Although Philo does not explicitly mention Jesus, or Paul, or any of the followers of Jesus, Philo lived in their world. It is from Philo, for example, that we learn about how, like the Gospel of John, Jews (and Greeks) in the Greco-Roman world spoke of the creative force of God as God's "Logos." Philo, too, employs interpretive strategies that parallel those of the author of Hebrews. Most scholars would agree that Philo and the author of Hebrews are drawing from the same, or at least similar, traditions of Hellenistic Judaism. With these kind of connections to the world of Judaism and early Christianity, Philo cannot be ignored. [via]
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