Classics – Page 2 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Structure, Commentary, and Culture in Ancient Greek Drama

By: Frederic Will

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This book explores the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes. It considers their principal characters, their motivations, and what their legacies mean to us today, revealing the enduring influence of Classical Greek drama on modern culture.

The British Myth of Russia

By: Svetlana Koroleva

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This book explores the British myth of Russia—a collection of images, stereotypes, and plots formed over centuries by cultural and historical forces. It describes the major stages of the myth's development and analyzes the forms it takes in British fiction.

This book explores the British myth of Russia—a collection of images, stereotypes, and plots formed over centuries by cultural and historical forces. It describes the major stages of the myth’s development and analyzes the forms it takes in British fiction.

Literary Misogyny and Praise of Women in the Middle Ages

Commented Readings of Medieval Texts

By: Pedro Carlos Louzada Fonseca

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This book examines two major traditions in medieval literature: the praise of women and misogyny. It explores misogyny from the Church Fathers to secular authors and discusses the major literary works that praised women as a response to their misogynist counterparts.

The Young Dante

Archetypes of His Early Intellectual Biography

By: Maria Luisa Ardizzone

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This book explores Dante’s formative Florentine years, a crucible of great importance. Focusing on the Vita Nuova and early poems, it shows how the young poet took archetypes from ancient-medieval tradition and reshaped them to pave the way for his own work.

A New Translation of the Novellino of Masuccio Salernitano

By: Christopher Stace

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So fiercely anti-clerical it was placed on the Index of Prohibited Books, this 15th-century Italian collection is a landmark of short fiction. Its tales of murder, incest, and ingenious adultery are by turns grim, comic, tragic, and erotic.

Spatial Readings and Linguistic Landscapes

Edited By: Alina Bako

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This selection of studies unites East and West, exploring space in literature, drama, and film. Through challenging analyses, the reader journeys into complementary cultures to discover how spatiality produces knowledge, and how reading itself becomes a form of owning space.

Love, Friendship, and Expediency in Cicero’s Letters

By: Gabriel Evangelou

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Cicero was one of Epicurus’ most fervent critics. This book challenges that conventional view, arguing that despite his anti-Epicurean statements, personal benefit played a vital role in his relationships, even with his family, in accord with the very philosophy he rejected.

The Classical Tradition in Portuguese and Brazilian Poetry

Edited By: Maria de Fátima Silva, Lorna Hardwick, Susana Marques Pereira

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This book studies contemporary Portuguese and Brazilian poets influenced by the Greco-Roman tradition. The comparison between poets from the two countries highlights the cultural community that unites them through the common theme of travels, routes, and symbolic adventures.

Zeus, Jupiter, Jesus and the Catholic Church

What Good Is a God?

By: Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy

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Why get out of bed in the morning? This book finds an answer in Virgil’s Aeneid: “No day shall erase you from the memory of time.” It connects the Aeneid’s deceitful gods to the Bible’s Devil to reveal an offer of eternal happiness, freely given, not forced.

An Annotated English Translation of Tagore en las barrancas de San Isidro

By: Victoria Ocampo, Nilanjana Bhattacharya

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Victoria Ocampo's account of Rabindranath Tagore’s stay in Argentina is an important document tracing Indo-Argentine contact. This first English translation includes a critical introduction, notes, and an annotated bibliography for scholars and readers.

Victoria Ocampo’s account of Rabindranath Tagore’s stay in Argentina is an important document tracing Indo-Argentine contact. This first English translation includes a critical introduction, notes, and an annotated bibliography for scholars and readers.

Poetics of the Native

Edited By: Yosra Amraoui, Bootheina Majoul

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This volume challenges colonial representations of indigenous peoples. It re-reads native discourses from around the world to celebrate their multiplicity of meanings, discussing literary performances, history, testimony, displacement, and the struggle for legitimacy.

Voices of Sanskrit Poets

A Fresh Look at the Classics

By: GRK Murty

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Is Vālmīki’s Sīta a feminist archetype? Is infidelity a virtue? This book offers a fresh perspective on Sanskrit literature for the modern reader, juxtaposing the heroism of Achilles and Rāma and exploring the power of love through Cordelia and Śakuntala.

German Representations of the Far North (17th-19th Centuries)

Writing the Arctic

Edited By: Jan Borm, Joanna Kodzik

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German travellers, explorers, and scholars produced significant new knowledge about the Arctic from the 17th to the 19th century. This is the first English-language volume dedicated to their work, offering critical readings of travelogues, histories, and fiction.

Retelling Cinderella

Cultural and Creative Transformations

Edited By: Nicola Darwood, Alexis Weedon

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This collection demonstrates how the Cinderella story remains active in societies adapting to modern culture. The volume explores dating apps, prom nights, women’s roles, and gender identity through international perspectives on folklore, film, fashion, and literature.

A Special Model of Classical Reception

Summaries and Short Narratives

Edited By: Maria de Fátima Silva, David Bouvier, Maria das Graças Augusto

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This volume traces the influence of epics like the Odyssey across a vast geographical and cultural space. It analyzes modern and contemporary tales from around the globe, focusing on how major political phenomena can have on universal creativity.

Plautus’ Erudite Comedy

New Insights into the Work of a doctus poeta

Edited By: Sophia Papaioannou, Chrysanthi Demetriou

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This collection of original essays examines the comedy of Plautus as a creative dialogue with contemporary culture. The studies explore his engagement with Greek literature, science, and philosophy, revealing his foundational influence on Latin literature.

A Reading of Violence in Partition Stories from Bengal

By: Suranjana Choudhury

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This book examines representations of Partition violence in narratives from Bengal. It explores how these stories of suffering, trauma, and betrayal offer a critique of historical and political engagements with one of the most traumatic periods in Indian history.

Instances of Death in Greek Tragedy

By: Sorana-Cristina Man

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The Trojan War begins with one sacrifice, Iphigenia, and ends with another, Polyxena. In Greek tragedy, did these ritual killings restore cosmic balance, or did they only unleash greater chaos?

Aspects of Orality and Greek Literature in the Roman Empire

Edited By: Consuelo Ruiz-Montero

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This volume explores how Greek texts circulated during the Roman Empire from both a literary and sociocultural point of view. Illuminating the interconnections between literary and social practices, these studies draw attention to under-researched texts and inscriptions.

Classics and Classicists

Selected Essays, 1964-2000

By: John Glucker

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This panoramic collection of articles explores Greek and Roman literature and philosophy, from close textual readings to the modern legacy of ancient works. A vital resource for classical scholars, students of philosophy, and intellectual historians.