A Dictionary of Literary Symbols: (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: This is the first dictionary of symbols to be based on literature, rather than "universal" psychological archetypes, myths or esoterica. Michael Ferber has assembled nearly two hundred main entries clearly explaining and illustrating the literary symbols th... Details...

A Dictionary of the Ancient Greek World: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: More than four thousand years ago, a warrior people invaded the rugged hills and fertile plains of the Balkan Peninsula. These people were the ancient Greeks, and their legacy to modern global society is immense. The Greeks invented democracy, narrative his... Details...

A Dictionary of the Roman Empire: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: The extraordinarily rich cultural legacy of the Roman world has had a profound affect world civilization. Roman achievements in architecture, law, politics, literature, war, and philosophy serve as the foundation of modern Western society. Now, for the firs... Details...

A Dictionary of World Mythology, New Rev. and Expanded: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: "I am Nature, the universal Mother, mistress of all the elements, sovereign of all things spiritual....I am worshipped in many aspects, known by countless names, and propitiated with all manner of different rites, yet the whole round earth venerates me." Wi... Details...

A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed.): (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: Liddell & Scott's Greek-English Lexicon is the most comprehensive and up-to-date ancient Greek dictionary in the world. Used by every student of ancient Greek in the English-speaking world, the dictionary covers every surviving ancient Greek author and text... Details...

A Historical Commentary on Arrian's History of Alexander: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: This is the long-awaited second volume of a magisterial commentary on the work of the historian Arrian. It deals in depth with a crucial period (329-326 BC) of the reign of Alexander the Great, discussing some of the earliest datable evidence for the histor... Details...

A Historical Commentary on Arrian's History of Alexander (Historical Commentary on Arrian's History of Alexander #I): (Oxford University Press) Details...

A History of Macedonia: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: The history of Macedonia--the most remarkable of all monarchic states--is here presented from the death of Philip II through the state's loss of independence in 167 B.C. Recent discoveries about Macedonian arts and institutions have aided the authors in rec... Details...

A History of the Ancient World (4th ed.): (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: Reflecting five decades of teaching and research, and drawing on the most recent scholarship, the fourth edition of this widely-read history provides the same broad coverage, chronological framework, and absorbing literary style that distinguished previous ... Details...

A Latin Dictionary: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: The translation of Dr. Freud's great Latin-German Dictionary, edited by the late E. A. Andrews, LL.D, and published in 1850, has been from has been from that time in extensive use throughout England and America. It has had for competitors, indeed, in the sc... Details...