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The Lays of Beleriand
Follows The Book of Lost Tales, parts 1 & 2, and precedes The Shaping of Middle-earth.
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun
Tolkien's version of the great legend of Northern antiquity. In the first part, we follow the adventures of Sigurd, the slayer of Fafnir, and his betrothal to the Valkyrie Brynhild. In the second, the tragedy mounts to its end in the murder of Sigurd…
The Legend of the Jews
Legends of the Jews is a most remarkable and comprehensive compilation of stories connected to the Hebrew Bible. It is an indispensable reference on that body of literature known as Midrash, the imaginative retelling and elaboration on Bible stories…
The Legends of the Jews
Legends of the Jews is a most remarkable and comprehensive compilation of stories connected to the Hebrew Bible. It is an indispensable reference on that body of literature known as Midrash, the imaginative retelling and elaboration on Bible stories…
The Legends of the Jews
Legends of the Jews is a most remarkable and comprehensive compilation of stories connected to the Hebrew Bible. It is an indispensable reference on that body of literature known as Midrash, the imaginative retelling and elaboration on Bible stories…
The Legends of the Jews
Legends of the Jews is a most remarkable and comprehensive compilation of stories connected to the Hebrew Bible. It is an indispensable reference on that body of literature known as Midrash, the imaginative retelling and elaboration on Bible stories…
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
Selected letters discuss his books, their meanings, his interests and also reveal his view of the world.
The Libraries of the Neoplatonists: proceedings of the meeting of the European Science Foundation Network "Late antiquity and Arabic thought : patterns in the constitution of European culture", held in Strasbourg, March 12-14, 2004 under the impulsion of the scientific committee of the meeting, composed by Matthias Baltes, Michel Cacouros, Cristina D'Ancona, Tiziano Dorandi, Gerhard Endress, Philippe Hoffmann, Henri Hugonnard Roche
The transmission of Greek learning to the Arabic-speaking world paved the way to the rise of Arabic philosophy. This volume offers a multifarious survey of transmission of Greek philosophy through the schools of late Antiquity to the Syriac-speaking…
The Library of Alexandria: Centre of Learning in the Ancient World
"The Library of Alexandria explores one of the greatest cultural adornments of the late ancient world. The origins of the 'vanished library' of Alexandria lie in the distant echoes of the great library of Pisistratus in Athens, an institution which…