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Selected Works
Author | : Galen |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015041059695 |
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Galen (AD 129-99), researcher and scholar, surgeon and philosopher, logician, herbalist and personal physician to the emperor Marcus Aurelius, was the most influential and multi-faceted medical author of antiquity. This is the first major selection in English of Galen's work, functioning as an essential introduction to his "medical philosophy" and including the first-ever translations of several major works. A detailed Introduction presents a vivid insight into medical practice as well as intellectual and everyday life in ancient Rome.
Gothic Tales
Author | : Arthur Conan Doyle |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 590 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English |
ISBN | : 9780198734291 |
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'There was a rumour, too, that he was a devil-worshipper, or something of that sort, and also that he had the evil eye...' Arthur Conan Doyle was the greatest genre writer Britain has ever produced. Throughout a long writing career, he drew on his own medical background, his travels, and his increasing interest in spiritualism and the occult to produce a spectacular array of Gothic stories. Many of Doyle's writings are recognized as the very greatest tales of terror. They range from hauntings in the polar wasteland to evil surgeons and malevolent jungle landscapes. This collection brings together over thirty of Conan Doyle's best "Gothic Tales," in a scholarly edition for the first time. Darryl Jones's introduction discusses the contradictions in Conan Doyle's very public life - as a medical doctor who became obsessed with the spirit world, or a British imperialist drawn to support Irish Home Rule - and shows the ways in which these found articulation in that most anxious of all literary forms, the Gothic.
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
Author | : Simon Hornblower,Antony Spawforth,Esther Eidinow |
Publsiher | : Oxford Companions |
Total Pages | : 907 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780198706779 |
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Illustrated with full-color plates and 140 black-and-white pictures, an encyclopedic, exhaustive, and up-to-date guide contains finely detailed articles and short reference notes on the people, places, and events that shaped ancient Western civilization. UP.
Twenty Years After
Author | : Alexandre Dumas |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : HARVARD:HWAEUU |
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Dialogues and Essays
Author | : Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2008-09-11 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780199552405 |
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Stoic philosopher and tutor to the young emperor Nero, Seneca wrote moral essays - exercises in practical philosophy - on how to live in a troubled world. Strikingly applicable today, his thoughts on happiness and other subjects are here combined in a clear, modern translation with an introduction on Seneca's life and philosophy.
Wuthering Heights
Author | : Emily Brontë |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2009-10-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780199541898 |
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"Wuthering Heights" is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also one of the most potent revenge narratives. The passionate tale of Catherine and Heathcliff is presented here in a new edition that examines the qualities that make it such a compelling novel.
Republic
Author | : Plato |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 561 |
Release | : 2008-04-17 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780199535767 |
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A model for the ideal state includes discussion of the nature and application of justice, the role of the philosopher in society, the goals of education, and the effects of art upon character.
Rome s Italian Wars
Author | : Livy, |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2013-04-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199564859 |
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"Here is a superb new translation of Books 6 to 10 of Livy's monumental history of Rome, covering the period when Rome, in a series of ever greater wars, imposed mastery over virtually the entire Italian peninsula. Livy paints vivid portraits of all the notable figures, such as young Manlius Torquatus, victor in a David-versus-Goliath duel with a Gallic chieftain, and Appius Claudius who built Rome's first major highway, the Appian Way. Livy's blend of factual narrative and imaginative recreation brings to life a key moment in the rise of Rome, and the one complete account we have, as the city passes from the mists of legend into the light of history. J. C. Yardley's translation gives a vivid sense of the energy, variety, and literary skill of Livy's great work. Dexter Hoyos's Introduction sets Livy in the context of Roman historiography and deftly explains why this period was so critical an era for the rise of Rome. The most up-to-date edition, drawing on the latest scholarship, this major work of Roman literature and history includes comprehensive notes that clarify problems of historical content, topography, and chronology, a detailed glossary of Roman technical terms, an appendix on the Roman legion of the time, and two maps."--Publisher's website.