Five Italian Renaissance comedies

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The Songs of the South

By Various

Masterworks of early Chinese poetryDating from the second century AD, this anthology is the second- oldest collection of Chinese poems in existence. The poems, originating from the state of Chu an...

Latin Literature

By Michael Grant, Various

Hippocratic Writings

By Hippocrates, Various

This work is a sampling of the Hippocratic Corpus, a collection of ancient Greek medical works. At the beginning, and interspersed throughout, there are discussions on the philosophy of being a phy...

Early Greek Philosophy

By Jonathan Barnes

Seven Viking Romances

By Hermann Palsson

Combining traditional myth, oral history and re-worked European legend to depict an ancient realm of heroism and wonder, the seven tales collected here are among the most fantastical of all the Nor...

Early Christian Writings

By Andrew Louth, Various

The writings in this volume cast a glimmer of light upon the emerging traditions and organization of the infant church, during an otherwise little-known period of its development. A selection of le...

New Songs from a Jade Terrace: An Anthology of Early Chinese Love Poetry

By Various

Japanese No Dramas

By Royall Tyler

Japanese noh theatre or the drama of "perfected art" flourished in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries largely through the genius of the dramatist Zeami. An intricate fusion of music, dance, mas...

Roman Poets of the Early Empire

By Various