Language & Literature
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Slaves to Rome: Paradigms of Empire in Roman Culture [Hardback]
Myles Lavan (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9781107026018
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This study in the language of Roman imperialism provides new perspective on the Roman imperial project. It highlights the prominence of the language of mastery and slavery in Roman descriptions of the conquest and subjection of th... .... Learn More -
Greek and Roman Consolations: Eight studies of a tradition and its afterlife [Hardback]
H Baltussen (Editor)
£50.00ISBN: 9781905125562
Published by : Classical Press of Wales
In the Ancient World death came – on average - at a far earlier age than in today’s West, and without the authoritative warnings given by modern medicine. Consolation for the trauma of loss had, accordingly, a more pro... .... Learn More -
Tragedy and Archaic Greek Thought [Hardback]
D. L. Cairns (Editor)
£50.00ISBN: 9781905125579
Published by : Classical Press of Wales
Eight leading contemporary interpreters of Classical Greek tragedy here explore its relation to the thought of the Archaic Period. Prominent topics are the nature and possibility of divine justice; the influence of the gods on hum... .... Learn More -
Conspiracy Theory in Latin Literature [Hardback]
Victoria Emma Pagan (Author)
£39.00ISBN: 9780292739727
Published by : University of Texas Press
In this compelling exploration of Latin literature, Pagan uses conspiracy theory to illuminate the ways that elite Romans invoked conspiracy as they navigated the hierarchies, divisions, and inequalities in their society. By seemi... .... Learn More -
Augustine: De Civitate Dei VIII and IX [Hardback]
P. G. Walsh (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 9780856688546
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 these books, written in the af... .... Learn More -
Augustine: De Civitate Dei VIII and IX [Paperback]
P. G. Walsh (Author)
£24.99ISBN: 9780856688539
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 these books, written in the af... .... Learn More -
Callimachus: Aetia [Hardback]
Annette Harder (Author)
£225.00ISBN: 9780199581016
Published by : Oxford University Press
Callimachus' Aetia, written in Alexandria in the third century BC, was an important and influential poem which inspired many later Greek and Latin poets. Papyrus finds show that it was widely read until late antiquity and perhaps well into the ... .... Learn More -
Companion to Tacitus [Hardback]
Victoria Emma Pagan (Author)
£110.00ISBN: 9781405190329
Published by : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Containing both the necessary basics and the latest theoretical approaches this companion forms a comprehensive introduction to Tactitean studies. It is divided into five parts. Texts looks at the manuscript tradition and rediscovery of Tacitus... .... Learn More -
Plautus and Roman Slavery [Hardback]
Roberta Stewart (Author)
£55.00ISBN: 9781405196284
Published by : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Plautus comedies could be our most reliable source for reconstructing the lives of slaves in ancient Rome. By reading literature alongside the historical record, we can conjure a thickly contextualized picture of slavery in the late third and ... .... Learn More -
A Companion to Ovid [Paperback]
Peter E. Knox (Author)
£29.99ISBN: 9781118451342
Published by : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
More than 30 new essays from an international cast of specialists reflect the most recent developments in Ovidian scholarship. Written in an accessible and lively style, the essays represent a wide range of critical methodologies and approache... .... Learn More