Nemean Odes. Isthmian Odes. Fragments (Pindar)(Pevná vazba)

Nemean Odes. Isthmian Odes. Fragments (Pindar)(Pevná vazba)

Of the Greek lyric poets, Pindar (ca. 518-438 BCE) was by far the greatest for the magnificence of his inspiration in Quintilian's view; Horace judged him sure to win Apollo's laurels. The esteem of the ancients may help explain why a good portion of his work was carefully preserved. Most of the

The Complete Odes (Pindar)(Paperback)

The Greek poet Pindar (c. 518-428 BC) composed victory odes for winners in the ancient Games, including the Olympics. He celebrated the victories of athletes competing in foot races, horse races, boxing, wrestling, all-in fighting and the pentathlon, and his Odes are fascinating not only for their

Odes to Common Things (Krabbenhoft Ken)(Pevná vazba)

A bilingual collection of 25 newly translated odes by the century's greatest Spanish-language poet, each accompanied by a pair of exquisite pencil drawings. From bread and soap to a bed and a box of tea, the -odes to common things- collected here conjure up the essence of their subjects clearly and

Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse (Nersessian Anahid)(Pevná vazba)

'When I say this book is a love story, I mean it is about things that cannot be gotten over--like this world, and some of the people in it.' In 1819, the poet John Keats wrote six poems that would become known as the Great Odes. Some of them--'Ode to a Nightingale,' 'To Autumn'--are among the most

Roman History, Volume VI: Civil Wars, Book 5. Fragments (Appian)(Pevná vazba)

Fragments: Oedipus-Chrysippus. Other Fragments (Euripides)(Pevná vazba)

Eighteen of the ninety or so plays composed by Euripides between 455 and 406 BCE survive in a complete form and are included in the first six volumes of the Loeb Euripides. A further fifty-two tragedies and eleven satyr plays, including a few of disputed authorship, are known from ancient

Fragments of my Father - A Memoir of Madness, Love and Being a Carer (Mills Sam)(Pevná vazba)

Fragments (Aristophanes)(Pevná vazba)

The eleven plays by Aristophanes that have come down to us intact brilliantly illuminate the eventful period spanned by his forty-year career, beginning with the first production in 427 BCE. But the Athenians knew much more of his work: over forty plays by Aristophanes were read in antiquity, of

Greek Lyric (Sappho)(Pevná vazba)

This volume contains the poetic fragments of the two illustrious singers of early sixth-century Lesbos: Sappho, the most famous woman poet of antiquity, whose main theme was love; and Alcaeus, poet of wine, war, and politics, and composer of short hymns to the gods. Also included are the principal

Early Greek Philosophy (Laks Andr)(Pevná vazba)

The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present

What It Is (Barry Lynda)(Pevná vazba)

'Deliciously drawn (with fragments of collage worked into each page), insightful and bubbling with delight in the process of artistic creation. A+' -SalonHow do objects summon memories? What do real images feel like? For decades, these types of questions have permeated the pages of Lynda Barry's

Early Greek Philosophy (Laks Andr)(Pevná vazba)

The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present

Early Greek Philosophy (Laks Andr)(Pevná vazba)

The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present

Fragments (Sophocles)(Pevná vazba)

Sophocles (497/6-406 BCE), the second of the three great tragedians of Athens and by common consent one of the world's greatest poets, wrote more than 120 plays. Only seven of these survive complete, but we have a wealth of fragments, from which much can be learned about Sophocles' language and

Early Greek Philosophy (Laks Andr)(Pevná vazba)

The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present

Early Greek Philosophy (Laks Andr)(Pevná vazba)

The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present

Early Greek Philosophy (Laks Andr)(Pevná vazba)

The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present

Early Greek Philosophy (Laks Andr)(Pevná vazba)

The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present

Why Marianne Faithfull Matters (Pearson Tanya)(Pevná vazba)

A remarkable feminist history and biography that features fragments from the five-decade career of an iconic

Fragments: Aegeus-Meleager (Euripides)(Pevná vazba)

Eighteen of the ninety or so plays composed by Euripides between 455 and 406 bce survive in a complete form and are included in the preceding six volumes of the Loeb Euripides. A further fifty-two tragedies and eleven satyr plays, including a few of disputed authorship, are known from ancient

Fragments (Aeschylus)(Pevná vazba)

Aeschylus (ca. 525-456 BCE), the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art forms, witnessed the establishment of democracy at Athens and fought against the Persians at Marathon. He won the tragic prize at the City Dionysia thirteen times between ca. 499 and 458, and in his

Early Greek Philosophy (Laks Andr)(Pevná vazba)

The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often known as the pre-Socratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present

The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat (Leiris Michel)(Pevná vazba)

Short fragments and essays that explore how a seemingly irrelevant aesthetic detail may cause the eruption of sublimity within the mundane.That the nude painted by Manet (in a painting so conceptually new that it created a scandal in its day) achieves so much truth through such a minor detail, that

A Passionate Prodigality: Fragments of Autobiography (Chapman Guy)(Pevná vazba)

When A Passionate Prodigality was first published in 1933 it was hailed as one of the finest English works to have come out of the First World War. Today this memoir reads with a graphic immediacy, not merely in the descriptions of the filth and shock and carnage that characterized the struggle,