Language & Literature
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Vergil und seine deutschen Übersetzer [Paperback]
Eckart Klessmann (Author)
$9.00ISBN: 9783515096263
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Akademie Mainz. Abhandlungen der Klasse der Literatur
Volume: 2009.2
"By the way, perhaps no poet is more difficult to translate then Virgil." This statement from Christian Ludwig Neuffer (1816) is also confirmed by Eckart Klessmann in this presentation. He directs his attention to the translations of the Aen... .... Learn More -
The Lost Memoirs of Augustus [Hardback]
Anton Powell (Author); Christopher Smith (Editor)
$100.00ISBN: 9781905125258
Published by : Classical Press of Wales
Augustus' Memoirs, written probably in the mid 20s BC, might have been one of the most revealing texts of Roman history - had they survived. Far longer than his surviving Res Gestae, the Memoirs seem to date from a period in which the wounds of... .... Learn More -
Cicero's Consulship Campaign [Paperback]
M.G.L. Cooley (Editor)
$11.00ISBN: 9780903625333
Published by : London Association of Classical Teachers Occasional Research Series
Series: LACTOR
Volume: 3
This volume includes the SGE and other key texts relating to his election as consul for 63 BC, inlcuding two letters to Atticus, Asconius' commentary on Cicero's lost speech as a candidate, and extracts from pro Murena. Contains ... .... Learn More -
Augustine: De Civitate Dei Book V [Hardback]
P. G. Walsh (Editor)
$85.00ISBN: 9780856687983
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Classical Texts
This edition of St Augustine's City of God is the only one in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this most influential document in the history of western Christianity. In this book, written in the af... .... Learn More -
Augustine: De Civitate Dei Book V [Paperback]
P. G. Walsh (Editor)
$35.00ISBN: 9780856687938
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Classical Texts
This edition of St Augustine's City of God is the only one in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this most influential document in the history of western Christianity. In this book, written in the af... .... Learn More -
Das Vorbild der Vergangenheit: Geschichtsbild und Reformvorschläge bei Cicero und Sallust [Hardback]
Iris Samotta (Author)
$117.00ISBN: 9783515091671
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Historia - Einzelschriften
Volume: 204
The imaginary subjects of the Roman writers Cicero and Sallust demonstrate how strongly the political culture of Rome was influenced by historical perception. Both authors derived the impulse for their political actions from the place within h... .... Learn More -
Adnotationes codicum domini Justiniani (Summa Perusina) [Hardback]
Giuliano Crifo (Editor); Maria Campolunghi (Author)
$395.00ISBN: 9788856400441
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
The Summa Perusina is a treasure of early medieval jurisprudence, a unique collection of abstracts of the Justinian Code preserved in the University of Perugia library since its foundation in 1308. Federico Patetta's critical edition of the ... .... Learn More -
Il rinnovamento umanistico della poesia: L'epigramma e l'elegia [Paperback]
Roberto Cardini (Editor); Donatella Coppini (Author)
$48.00ISBN: 9788859604884
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Series: HUMANISTICA
This collection of articles addresses the humanistic renewal of poetry, notably through epigrams and elegies, examining, among others, the heritage of Latin and Greek authors and the elegiac poetry of humanist Renaissance authors. Italian text... .... Learn More -
Vergil's Aeneid: Augustan Epic and Political Context [Paperback]
Hans-Peter Stahl (Author)
$40.00ISBN: 9781905125333
Published by : Classical Press of Wales
A collection of 14 papers in which contributors use diverging critical methods on a selection of extracts from Vergil's epic, with the examination of political references in the work being prominent, as well as the question of the Aeneid 's ce... .... Learn More -
Fragmentary Classicising Historians of the Later Roman Empire, Volume 1: Eunapius, Olympiodorus, Priscus and Malchus [Paperback]
R C Blockley (Author)
$70.00ISBN: 9780905205519
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
Volume: 6
This volume constitutes a work of fundamental importance for historians of the period. Part One analyzes the background, opinions, and historiography of each of the four writers, with particular emphasis on recovering from the fragments the ori... .... Learn More