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Similes are a particular feature of epic, and those of Homer and Virgil's Aeneid have received considerable attention. This is the first book to examine the more numerous similes in Ovid's Metamorphoses and the ways in which they touch on the most profound issues of the poem.
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Explores the vital links between social order and cosmology through an examination of the concept of foedus (ritual alliance) in Roman religion and literature. Examines a wide range of texts from Homer to St Augustine.
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Proust and the Arts brings together expert Proustians and renowned interdisciplinary scholars in a major reconsideration of the novelist's complex relation to the arts. It examines... Læs mere
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This book sets Prudentius' martyr poetry within the religious, social, and visual contexts of late antique... Læs mere
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Focusing on key ancient responses to the five-part narrative of human history in Hesiod's Works and Days, this book argues that critical... Læs mere
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This edition is designed to facilitate reading of Pseudolus, one of Plautus' most innovative and delightful plays and a lens into Roman slave society. It assumes no specialised... Læs mere
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Demonstrates the creative affinities between ancient verbal and modern visual modes of narrative through the example of Ovid's influence on cinema history in both... Læs mere
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Collects and examines the Greek-alphabet inscriptions in Oscan, which was spoken in Southern Italy in the second half of the first millennium BC. It provides new insights into... Læs mere
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Michelangelo's extant correspondence is the most abundant of any artist. Spanning 67 years, it comprises roughly 1,400 letters, 500 being written by... Læs mere
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Joseph Solodow tells the story of how Latin developed into modern French, Spanish, and Italian, and also deeply affected English.... Læs mere
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The first comprehensive study of the sublime in Lucan, integrating theorisations from Longinus to Lyotard to explore the concept's... Læs mere
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Virginie Greene explores the influence of philosophy and logic on major works of medieval literature, including those by Anselm of Canterbury,... Læs mere