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An edition of Tacitus' work on oratory, with a substantial introduction and commentary. The commentary is designed to elucidate problems of language and reference in the text and to put the reader in the picture as regards late first-century AD society and literature.
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The 78 letters in this Anthology are selected both for their intrinsic interest, and to illustrate the range of functions letters performed in the... 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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Virgil's Georgics is considered one of the greatest poems in western literature. It purports to be a didactic poem on agriculture, but its true subject is man and his place in literature and... Læs mere
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When in 80 BC Sextus Roscius was prosecuted for murdering his father, Cicero took on the defense. His speech, pinning responsibility on the men behind the prosecution, won him a... Læs mere
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Explores the ideological use of Carthage in the most authoritative of the Augustan literary texts, the Aeneid of Virgil. Addressed to... Læs mere
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A representative selection of the poems of the first-century AD epigrammatist Martial is presented in this edition, together with a very full introduction and commentary suitable... Læs mere
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This book offers a new perspective on the role of oratory in Roman Republican politics through its unique focus on the oratorical performances of orators other than Cicero and the ways in which these performances shaped their political careers.
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Re-examines a range of critical approaches to which this influential poem has given rise and which in turn have shaped... Læs mere
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In this collection of papers, distinguished historian Benjamin Isaac examines the Roman concepts of state and empire and mechanisms of... Læs mere
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The presumed dichotomy between a Greco-Roman paradigm of Western humanism and new theoretical currents in the humanities is exploded in this volume, which explores the myriad... Læs mere
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A dedicated study of how classical Latin erotic elegy was read in the Renaissance and helped shape the emergence of English love poetry. This book will be of interest to scholars of early modern literature and classical literature, in particular love, gender, sex and the body.