This book demonstrates how Homeric poetry manages to confer significance on persons and actions, interpreting the world and the lives of the people who inhabit it. Taking central themes like characterization, death, and the gods, the author argues that current ideas of the limitations of "oral poetry" are unreal, and that Homer embodies a view of the world both unique and profound.

Homer on Life and Death (Clarendon Press Paperbacks)

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Griffin, Jasper

History & Criticism

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Troubadours and Eloquence (English and French Edition)

Paterson, Linda M.

Apollonio di Giovanni (Oxford studies in the history of art and architecture)

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British policy towards the Amerindians in British Guiana, 1803-1873

Politics & Social Sciences

Mary Noel Menezes

Politics & Government

Baggara Arabs: Power and the Lineage in a Sudanese Nomad Tribe

Cunnison, Ian

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Nathan, N. M. L.

The Consolations of Philosophy by Boethius, whose English translators include King Alfred, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Queen Elizabeth I, ranks among the most remarkable books to be written by a prisoner awaiting the execution of a tyrannical death sentence. Its interpretation is bound up with his other writings on mathematics and music, on Aristotelian and propositional logic, and on central themes of Christian dogma. Chadwick begins by tracing the career of Boethius, a Roman rising to high office under the Gothic King Theoderic the Great, and suggests that his death may be seen as a cruel by-product of Byzantine ambitions to restore Roman imperial rule after its elimination in the West in AD 476. Subsequent chapters examine in detail his educational programme in the liberal arts designed to avert a threatened collapse of culture and his ambition to translate into Latin everything he could find on Plato and Aristotle. Boethius has been called 'last of the Romans, first of the scholastics'. This book is the first major study in English of a writer who was of critical importance in the history of thought.

Boethius: The Consolations of Music, Logic, Theology, and Philosophy

Chadwick, Henry

Philosophy

The theory of neutron resonance reactions, (The International series of monographs on physics)

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Here are all of Shakespeare's plays and poems in a compact edition that fits nearly onto your bookshelf or comfortably in your lap. And, as if all of the Bard were not enough, this reissue of an Oxford Classic offers something more: editions of the plays in their theatrical versions, as they were originally performed on the Elizabethan stage. This edition also features a brief introduction to each work, as well as an illuminating General Introduction; reconsiders every detail of the text and presentation of Shakespeare's complete works in the light of modern scholarship; re-examines the nature and authority of the early documents, and freshly establishes the canon and chronological order of composition; and modernizes spelling and punctuation to make the works more accessible to modern readers, without ever altering their original language or meter. The Times Higher Education Supplement called William Shakespeare: The Complete Works "the most ambitious edition of the works ever attempted," and The Times (London) hailed it as "a monument to Shakespearean scholarship." For scholars and general readers alike, this is a must-have collection for your home library.

William Shakespeare: The Complete Works (The ^AOxford Shakespeare)

Shakespeare., William

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This new edition of the established text Basic Documents on Human Rights provides an extensive collection of key documents covering all elements of the subject, accompanied by authoritative commentary and annotation. The result is a clear and accurate account of the most important human rights instruments adopted by the United Nations and its agencies, by regional organisations and other actors in the field.

Basic Documents on Human Rights

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