Francis Cairns (Publications)
Francis Cairns (Publications) produces important volumes of classical and medieval texts, papers and monographs under the series title ARCA (within which appears PLLS, Papers of the Liverpool and Leeds Latin Seminars), in addition to school and university textbooks in Latin literature and collected Classical papers. Other publications include series on Hispanic and French studies.
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Diderot, Dialogue and Debate
by D J Adams
Diderot is widely praised as a master of lively, dramatic and original dialogue. This book studies the developing role of dialogue in his early writings (1745 to 1754). Diderot's earlier experiments with the dialogue form, meticulously charted and ...
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Jerome on Virginity: A Commentary on the Libellus de virginitate servanda (Letter 22)
by Neil Adkin
This is a major new commentary on Jerome's Libellus de virginitate servanda, the first in any language to be devoted to this work. Written in Rome in 384, this treatise sets out the manner of life appropriate to a Christian virgin. It takes the ...
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Lorca's Late Poetry: A Critical Study
Federico García Lorca (1898-1938), is often thought of as a fine lyric poet of the 1920s who then developed into one of Spain's greatest playwrights (1931-36). But other aspects of Lorca's literary career are equally significant: the earlier ...
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Claudian's Panegyric on the Fourth Consulate of Honorius
text, translation and commentary by William Barr
Claudius Claudianus (fl. circa 400 AD) was one of the last major poets of the Roman Empire. Highly regarded by his contemporaries, he is one of the great transmitters of Latin culture to Medieval Europe. The Panegyric on the IVth Consulate of the Emperor ...
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The Satires of Perseus
by Guy Lee and William Barr
Aulus Persius Flaccus (A.D. 34-62) wrote in racy conversational Latin six satires countering contemporary vice with Stoic morality; he died young. This is not easy poetry, with its sudden shifts of tone, switches of speaker and situation, vivid evocation ...
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Intellectual Culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England: The Latin Writings of the Age
by J W Binns
Works written and published in Latin by Elizabethan and Jacobean writers covered a vast range, from brief poetic trifles to massive scholarly, humanist and scientific treatises. Among its authors were some of the greatest intellects of the day; and study ...
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Sextus Aurelius Victor: A Historiographical Study
by H W Bird
Sextus Aurelius Victor was an imperial bureaucrat whose life spanned most of the fourth century AD. Harry Bird describes how Victor, a man of humble African origin, acquired by virtue of his education and personal qualities a consular governorship in ...
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East Roman Foreign Policy: formation and conduct from Diocletian to Anastasius
by R C Blockley
The early Roman empire took a militaristic attitude towards its neighbours, but by the reign of Justinian a complex stance had evolved in which military force was tempered by diplomacy. Covering the period from the Peace of Nisibis in 299 to the death of ...
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Fragmentary Classicising Historians of the Later Roman Empire, Volume 1: Eunapius, Olympiodorus, Priscus and Malchus
by R C Blockley
he historical works of the fifth-century AD classicising historians originally covered the years from the death of Claudius II in 270 to the death of Zeno in 491, a period which saw the dismemberment of the western Roman Empire and the transformation of the eastern portion into the Byzantine Empire. These writers now survive only in fragmentary and indirect form. R.C. Blockley's reasoned arrangement of the fragments in this volume constitutes a ...
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Fragmentary Classicising Historians of the Later Roman Empire, Volume 2: Text, Translation and Historiographical Notes
by R. C. Blockley
This volume is the much larger companion to Roger Blockley's similarly-titled monograph, published in 1981 (ARCA 6). The earlier volume gave a commented conspectus of the fragments, and essays on the individual historians. In vol. II the texts themselves are printed, with English translations and historiographical notes. Included also is a correlation of Blockley's order with the older numbering of Müller, Dindorf and Niebuhr, and indices of ...
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