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Critical introduction to the fascinating genre of Latin love elegy, exploring its Greek and Latin precursors, the individual elegists, the world it presents,... Læs mere
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This landmark study of Latin prose intertextuality radically reinterprets Pliny's Epistles as a brilliant transformation of... Læs mere
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Greco-Roman martial epic poetry, from Homer and Virgil to Neronian and Flavian epic, is obsessed with the treatment of dead bodies. This book provides an extensive survey and... Læs mere
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Focuses on education as practiced by the imperial age Romans, looking at what they considered the value of education and its effect... Læs mere
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"The Satyricon of Petronius", a comic novel written in the first century AD, is famous primarily for its amazing banquet tale, "Trimalchio's Feast." In this discussion of Petronius' masterful use of parody, the author offers an interpretation of the "Satyricon" as a whole.
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This work reassesses the last elegies of the Roman poet Propertius. By using psychoanalytic theory to illuminate the texts, the book examines the relation between... Læs mere
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Captures the intellectual and religious encounter between Augustine and Vergil. The text seeks to open a door not merely on the content and formation of Augustine's ideas, but also on the meaning of Vergil's poetry at a time of political and religious change.
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Offers a comprehensive reconsideration of the life and literary works of Paulinus of Nola (ca 352-431), a Roman senator who renounced his political career and... Læs mere
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Introduces representation theory into the study of Ciceronian persuasion and contends that an understanding of milieu - social, political, topographical - is crucial to understanding Ciceronian oratory.
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From Latin through the Romance languages, which types of past participle survived? Which older "irregular" types disappeared and which older "regular" types... Læs mere
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Helps in our understanding of Vergil's "Georgics", a vibrant work written by Rome's premier epic poet shortly before he began the... Læs mere