Language & Literature
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Emotion, Genre and Gender in Classical Antiquity [Hardback]
Dana Munteanu (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 9780715638958
Published by : Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd.
These essays examine expressions of emotion within genres of Greek and Roman literature. They ask which emotions specific genres were designed to produce, and how, within genres, emotions were categorised according to gender. Subjects include s... .... Learn More -
Virgil's Garden: The Nature of Bucolic Space [Hardback]
Frederick Jones (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 9780715638675
Published by : Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd.
This study looks at the 'Eclogues' in terms of the relationship between its contents and its cultural context, making connections between the 'Eclogues' and the representational modes of Roman art, Roman concepts of space and landscape, and Rom... .... Learn More -
Tales of the Barbarians [Hardback]
Greg Woolf (Author)
£55.00ISBN: 9781405160735
Published by : John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Greg Woolf here considers Roman views of the non-Roman inhabitants of the western empire: Celts, Spaniards, Africans and Britons. He draws on modern theories of ethnography and, exploring how ancient geography, local histories and the stories ... .... Learn More -
Commentary on Propertius Book 3 [Hardback]
S.J. Heyworth (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9780199571482
Published by : Oxford University Press
This collaboration between a noted scholar of Augustan poetry and a specialist in the Latin language is the first commentary in English on Book 3 of Propertius' Odes for almost fifty years. It is aimed primarily at undergraduates and graduate ... .... Learn More -
Commentary on Propertius Book 3 [Paperback]
S.J. Heyworth (Author)
£33.00ISBN: 9780199571499
Published by : Oxford University Press
This collaboration between a noted scholar of Augustan poetry and a specialist in the Latin language is the first commentary in English on Book 3 of Propertius' Odes for almost fifty years. It is aimed primarily at undergraduates and graduate ... .... Learn More -
Ovid's Metamorphoses: A Reader's Guide [Hardback]
Genevieve Liveley (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 9781441125194
Published by : Continuum International Pub.
This is a clear and well set out introduction to Ovid's witty and boundlessly creative poem, that begins with the creation of the world and ends in the first century BC with the apotheosis of Julius Caesar and the new principate of Augustus. It i... .... Learn More -
Ovid's Metamorphoses: A Reader's Guide [Paperback]
Genevieve Liveley (Author)
£14.99ISBN: 9781441100849
Published by : Continuum International Pub.
This is a clear and well set out introduction to Ovid's witty and boundlessly creative poem, that begins with the creation of the world and ends in the first century BC with the apotheosis of Julius Caesar and the new principate of Augustus. It i... .... Learn More -
Plautus, Volume II [Hardback]
Wolfgang David Cirilo de Melo (Author)
£15.95ISBN: 9780674996786
Published by : Harvard University Press
This new Loeb edition of Plautus includes a full introduction that surveys all aspects of Plautus' work, the historical context of the plays, and the textual tradition. The newly-edited Latin text is accompanied by facing translation in clear a... .... Learn More -
Roman Historiography: An Introduction [Hardback]
Andreas Mehl (Author);Hans-Friedrich Mueller (Author)
£70.00ISBN: 9781405121835
Published by : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Hans-Friedrich Mueller's translation of this work brings its rigorous but innovative approach to a wider English-speaking audience. Mehl undertakes a thorough analysis of Roman historiography, from its beginnings with the Annales Maximi to th... .... Learn More -
Virgil's Homeric Lens [Hardback]
Edan Dekel (Author)
£80.00ISBN: 9780415890403
Published by : Routledge Ltd
This study reevaluates the traditional view of the Aeneids relationship to Homers Iliad and Odyssey. By examining the ways in which Virgil bases his own epic project on the dynamic interaction between the two Homeric poems themselves, Edan Deke... .... Learn More