Language & Literature
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Senecan Tragedy and the Reception of Augustan Poetry [Hardback]
Christopher V. Trinacty (Author)
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ISBN: 9780199356560
Published by : Oxford University Press
In their practice of aemulatio, the mimicry of older models of writing, the Augustan poets often looked to the Greeks: Horace drew inspiration from the lyric poets, Virgil from Homer, and Ovid from Hesiod, Callimachus, and others. But by the time ... .... Learn More -
The Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca [Hardback]
Emily Wilson (Author)
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ISBN: 9780199926640
Published by : Oxford University Press
Philosopher, dramatist, rhetorician, Stoic and pragmatist, Seneca was one of the most contradictory figures in ancient Rome, embracing a stern ascetic morality while amassing a fortune under Nero and eventually committing suicide. This definitive ... .... Learn More -
Dictionary of Classical Mythology [Paperback]
Jennifer R. March (Author)
£29.95ISBN: 9781782976356
Published by : Oxbow Books
Jenny March’s acclaimed Dictionary of Classical Mythology, first published in 1998 but long out of print, has been extensively revised and expanded including a completely new set of beautiful line-drawing illustrations for this Oxbow edition. It i... .... Learn More -
Fronto: Selected Letters [Paperback]
Caillan Davenport (Author); Jennifer Manley (Author)
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ISBN: 9781780934426
Published by : Bloomsbury
M. Cornelius Fronto was a Roman senator from North Africa, and the foremost Latin orator and legal advocate of the mid-second century A.D. Fronto's talent and fame led to his appointment as tutor to Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, the adoptive s... .... Learn More -
The Ancient Novel and Early Christian and Jewish Narrative: Fictional Intersections [Hardback]
Marília P. Futre Pinheiro (Editor); Judith Perkins (Editor); Richard Pervo (Editor)
£60.00ISBN: 9789491431210
Published by : Barkhuis
Series: Ancient Narrative Supplementum
Volume: 16
This innovative collection explores the vital role played by fictional narratives in Christian and Jewish self-fashioning in the early Roman imperial period. Employing a diversity of approaches, including cultural studies, feminis... .... Learn More -
Exemplary Traits: Reading Characterization in Roman Poetry [Hardback]
J. Mira Seo (Author)
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ISBN: 9780199734283
Published by : Oxford University Press
How did Roman poets create character? Mythological figures entail their own predetermined plotlines and received characteristics: a soft, maternal Medea is as absurd as a spineless Achilles. For the Roman poets, the problem is even more acute sinc... .... Learn More -
A Jew Among Romans: The Life and Legacy of Flavius Josephus [Hardback]
Frederic Raphael (Author)
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ISBN: 9780307378163
Published by : Random House
An audacious history of Josephus, the Jewish general turned Roman historian whose emblematic betrayal is a touchstone for the Jew alone in the Gentile world. Raphael goes beyond the fascinating details of Josephus's life and his singular literary ... .... Learn More -
Elegiac Passion: Jealousy in Roman Love Elegy [Hardback]
Ruth Rothaus Caston (Author)
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ISBN: 9780199925902
Published by : Oxford University Press
The passions were a topic of widespread interest in antiquity, as evidenced by the recent surge of interest and research in the emotions in Greek and Roman literature. Until now, however, there has been very little focus on love elegy or its relat... .... Learn More -
Horace: A Life [Paperback]
Peter Levi (Author)
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ISBN: 9781780761398
Published by : I.B. Tauris
The work of the great Roman poet, Horatius Flaccus (65 BC to 8 BC), spanned all aspects of Roman life: politics, the arts, religion, and the authority of the emperor, while his legendary poems (Satires, Odes, Epistles) about friendship, philosophy... .... Learn More -
Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar, 15, 2012 [Hardback]
Francis Cairns (Editor)
£55.00ISBN: 9780905205557
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
Series: ARCA, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs
Volume: 51
The fifteenth volume of PLLS (and the fifth in the Langford series) contains major papers on early Greek epic and tragedy, aspects of ekphrasis, Roman republican culture and politics, and astrology in the imperial period. .... Learn More
