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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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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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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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There exist many ways in Latin of expressing the same thing, whether conveying an order or a greeting. What factors lead speakers to choose one expression over... Læs mere
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Argues that Propertius' third book re-invents Latin love-elegy, in competition with Horatian lyric and Virgilian epic, as part of an ambitious claim to Augustan pre-eminence. Uses detailed readings of individual elegies to explore elegy's engagement with emerging Augustan mores.
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This book is a systematic study of the importance of Greek tragedy as a fundamental 'intertext' for Vergil's Aeneid. Vassiliki Panoussi... Læs mere
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An original contribution to the history of Latin and its development into Romance by a group of leading specialists. The special focus on the issue of continuity... Læs mere
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Working from the example of the mythic prophet Cassandra, this book uses insights from translation theory to uncover the value of... Læs mere