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Horace's Odes and the Mystery of Do-Re-Mi
edited, with translation and commentary by Stuart Lyons
Lyons's acclaimed verse translation of the Odes is here fully revised and included with revealing new material on Horace and the nature of his work. The book describes the life and times of Horace. It places his experiences and writings in the context of the civil wars and the Augustan Age, and explains how his literary career was bound up with the rise and fall of his sponsor Maecenas. It brings together compelling evidence that Horace ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £19.95, Our Price GB £6.95
Music in the Odes of Horace
by Stuart Lyons
Following the success of Horace's Odes and the Mystery of Do-Re-Mi in which he proposed that Horace's Odes were truly carmina (songs), Stuart Lyons further explores the orality of the Odes in both the Augustan Age and their early medieval reception. Challenging the perception of the Odes as purely literary works and drawing on extensive evidence in Horace and other ancient sources, Lyons argues that Horace's objective was to ...
Hardback. Price GB £40.00
Horace: Satires I
by P. M. Brown
Horace's Satires not only handles moral topics with a persuasive air of sweet reason but also reveals much of the poet's own engaging personality and way of life. This edition incorporates a new text and prose translation and is designed to make the poems readily accessible to the modern reader by elucidating their content, structure and background. Latin text with facing-page translation, commentary and notes. 208p (Aris and Phillips ...
Paperback. Price GB £18.00
Horace Satires II
by F. Muecke
The poems of Horace's second book of Satires, for the most part written in the newly-adopted dialogue form, display great literary and intellectual sophistication, artistic skill and charm. The intention of this edition is to supply sufficient background information to enable the text to be read with understanding. The emphasis is on the social context, the history of satire in Rome, and the ethical-philosophical content. Text and translation ...
Paperback. Price GB £18.00
Catullus: The Shorter Poems
edited by John Godwin
This volume encompasses the edition of all the surviving poetry of Catullus, aiming to bring the literary history of this poet to readers who may not have read his work before. It aims to describe and discuss recent scholarship on the poems, seeing them in their context as fully as possible. Some of these poems have often been imitated and anthologised, while others do not even find place in standard editions such as that of Fordyce- this edition ...
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Lucretius: De Rerum Natura III
with an introduction, translation and commentary by Michael Brown
Lucretius' poem, for which Epicurean philosophy provided the inspiration, attempts to explain the nature of the universe and its processes with the object of freeing mankind from religious fears. The third book not only seeks to demonstrate that, since the soul is mortal, there can be no after-life, but also aims to reconcile the reader to the prospect of the end of his consciousness. This edition incorporates a new text and prose translation and ...
Paperback. Price GB £18.00
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Ovid: Metmorphoses V-VIII
by D. E. Hill
Text with translation, commentary and notes. (Aris and Phillips 1992)
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Lucretius De Rerum Natura VI
edited with translation and commentary by J. Godwin
The purpose of this edition is to demonstrate the quality and interest of book VI: the intellectual curiosity of the analyst of earthquakes, volcanoes and marvellous phenomena, the rhetorical and philosophical powers of a thinker who wants to make his interpretation of Epicureanism both cogent and vivid, the deep humane compassion of the chronicler of the Plague at Athens, the sheer brilliance of the poet whose verse inspired all later writers in ...
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Ovid: Amores II
edited with translation and commentary by Joan Booth
Text, translation, commentary and notes. (Aris & Phillips 1991)
Paperback. Price GB £18.00
Ovid: Metamorphoses I-IV
by D. E. Hill
Text with translation, commentary and notes. (Aris and Phillips 1985)
Paperback. Price GB £18.00
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