Language & Literature
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Ovid: Amores. Text, Prolegomena and Commentary in four volumes. Volume IV.i. A Commentary on Book Three, Elegies 1 to 8 [Hardback]
James C. McKeown (Author); R. Joy Littlewood (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9780995461239
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
Series: Ovid: Amores
Volume: 4
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The third and final book of Ovid’s love elegies is a complex farewell to the genre. It begins, programmatically, with Ovid, torn between Tragedy and Elegy, persuading Tragedy to give him a little more time for his love poetry and love affairs. As ... .... Learn More -
Poems without Poets: Approaches to anonymous ancient poetry [Hardback]
Boris Kayachev (Editor)
£60.00ISBN: 9781913701406
Published by : Cambridge Philological Society
Series: Cambridge Classical Journal Supplements
Volume: 43
The canon of classical Greek and Latin poetry is built around big names, with Homer and Virgil at the centre, but many ancient poems survive without a firm ascription to a known author. This negative category, anonymity, ties together texts as dif... .... Learn More -
Augustus and the Destruction of History: The politics of the past in early imperial Rome [Hardback]
Ingo Gildenhard (Editor); Ulrich Gotter (Editor); Wolfgang Havener (Editor); Louise Hodgson (Editor)
£60.00ISBN: 9780956838162
Published by : Cambridge Philological Society
Series: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Volume
Volume: 41
Augustus and the Destruction of History explores the intense controversies over the meaning and profile of the past that accompanied the violent transformation of the Roman Republic into the Augustan principate. The ten case studies colle... .... Learn More -
Landscapes of Dread in Classical Antiquity: Negative Emotion in Natural and Constructed Spaces [Hardback]
Debbie Felton (Editor)
Regular Price: £115.00
Special Price: £75.00
ISBN: 9781138104952
Published by : Routledge
Over the last two decades, research in cultural geography and landscape studies has influenced many humanities fields, including Classics, and has increasingly drawn our attention to the importance of spaces and their contexts, both geographical a... .... Learn More -
The Afterlife of Virgil [Paperback]
Peter Mack (Editor); John North (Editor)
Regular Price: £60.00
Special Price: £25.00
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Word and Context in Latin Poetry: Studies in Memory of David West [Hardback]
A. J. Woodman (Editor); J. Wisse (Editor)
£52.50Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9780956838155
Published by : Cambridge Philological Society
Series: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Volume
Volume: 40
This volume of essays is intended to commemorate the eminent Latin scholar David West, best known for his work on Lucretius, Horace, Virgil and Shakespeare. The contributors – Francis Cairns, Ian Du Quesnay, Bruce Gibson, Alex Hardie, Stephen Harr... .... Learn More -
Masters of Roman Prose from Cato to Apuleius: Interpretive Studies [Paperback]
M. Von Albrecht (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9780995461208
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
In this commented anthology of Latin prose, Michael von Albrecht selects texts from a span of Roman literature covering four centuries. A summary of the contents will indicate its range and variety: M. Porcius Cato (the preface to De agricultu... .... Learn More -
Colloquial and Literary Latin [Paperback]
Eleanor Dickey (Editor); Anna Chahoud (Editor)
Regular Price: £24.99
Special Price: £18.00
ISBN: 9781107684416
Published by : Cambridge University Press
What is colloquial Latin? What can we learn about it from Roman literature, and how does an understanding of colloquial Latin enhance our appreciation of literature? This book sets out to answer such questions, beginning with examinations of how t... .... Learn More -
Writing Biography in Greece and Rome: Narrative Technique and Fictionalization [Hardback]
Koen de Temmerman (Editor); Kristoffel Demoen (Editor)
Regular Price: £78.99
Special Price: £50.00
ISBN: 9781107129122
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Ancient biography is now a well-established and popular field of study among classicists as well as many scholars of literature and history more generally. In particular biographies offer important insights into the dynamics underlying ancient per... .... Learn More -
Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar, Volume 16, 2016: Greek and Roman Poetry: The Elder Pliny [Hardback]
Francis Cairns (Editor); Roy Gibson (Editor)
£50.00ISBN: 9780905205595
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
Series: ARCA, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs
Volume: 54
PLLS 16 contains papers mainly arising from several Langford Colloquia held by the Department of Classics, Florida State University. Contents The Elder Pliny S. Citroni Marchetti (Università di Firenze):‘Cicero as Role-Model in the Self-Definition... .... Learn More
