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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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A detailed guide to an important book of Ovid's Fasti, in which the poet gives an account of the Roman calendar. The commentary and introduction explore the literary tradition to which... 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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In this book Lucan recounts the decisive victory of Julius Caesar over Pompey at the Battle of Pharsalus in 48 BCE. This edition guides students and scholars through the work and offers generous help with appreciating Lucan's sometimes difficult Latin and his poetic achievement.
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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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Examines the role of psychoanalysis within Latin literary studies, focusing on what psychoanalytic theory has to contribute to interpretation. The argument is... 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