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This advanced introduction to Horace considers his poetry not only as works of literature, but also as social acts which simultaneously promoted his authority while... Læs mere
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An edition with introduction and commentary of Horace's Carmen Saeculare and fourth book of Odes. Horace's return to lyric combines poems focusing alternately on the... Læs mere
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This study explores the use of other languages in medieval and Renaissance English drama. From the mystery cycles to Shakespeare, Janette Dillon... Læs mere
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This 1998 book investigates the politics of vernacular translation in late medieval England the contemporary concerns of clerical corruption of authoritative texts, and the education of vernacular writers such as Langland, Trevisa and Wyclif.
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This is a 1999 study of one of the most famous poems of Roman literature. By close reading of selected passages from the Georgics the author seeks to understand the work in terms of the cultural and political upheavals which were afflicting Rome at the time of its composition.
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The astronomical material in Ovid's Fasti has been overlooked by the current trend of scholarly interest in the poem. It is this material which is the... Læs mere
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This book undertakes a literary analysis of the comic plays of Plautus and Terence. Despite being some of the earliest Latin... Læs mere
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This book traces the intellectual life of Italy, where humanism began a century before it influenced the rest of Europe.
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This book examines the work of the Roman poet Horace and the ways his poetry has been read from classical antiquity to the present day, investigating... Læs mere
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Re-examines the most traditional area of classical scholarship, offering critical assessments of the current state of the field,... Læs mere
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In this Companion to one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity - and arguably the single most influential ancient poet for post-classical literature and culture... Læs mere
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Richard Thomas examines the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments in the last two millennia. It looks at different 'encounters' with Virgil's Aeneid and... Læs mere