Name: Visual Polemics in the Ninth-Century Byzantine Psalters
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Visual Polemics in the Ninth-Century Byzantine Psalters

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Visual Polemics in the Ninth-Century Byzantine PsaltersAmong the first works of art produced after Iconoclasm was defeated in 843, the Byzantine Marginal Psalters provide a rare glimpse into the world of scholarship and religious and political debate that occupied some of the leading intellectuals in Constantinople. The manuscripts are best known for their depictions of the heroes and villains of the Iconoclastic controversy: Iconoclasts whitewashing the icons of Christ, and Iconophiles triumphing over

and courage to war and wisdom

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Venus and Adonis

the gods of Ovid's universe selfishly pursue their own pleasures

With the devastating truthfulness of a child's non-negotiable sense of justice and a wry sense of humour that never tries to be funny

David offers a thoroughgoing treatment of Homeric poetics: here some remarkable discoveries in the harmonic movement of epic verse

Oedipus at Colonus provides a fitting conclusion to the life of the aged and blinded king

ιστορίες του καπλανιού που τους διηγείται ο ξάδερφός τους ο Νίκος

Dr Christenson presents a new text that includes stage directions in English

2 Volume set

bringing ancient Mesopotamia and its people to life

' I must die