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Roman writers of the late Roman Republic and early Empire developed important conventions of the western plague narrative as a response to the... 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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This volumes offers a study of all known manuscripts and incunabular editions of four classical texts: Vitruvius' De architectura, Cato's De agri cultura, Varro's De re rustica, Porphyrio's Commentary on Horace, and Priscian's Periegesis.
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This collection of essays examines the presence of what might be seen as an unclassical love of paradox and the marvellous in the literature... Læs mere
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Edward Courtney presents an overall interpretation of Petronius' Satyrica, beginning with basic background information, then surveying each episode in order that leading themes... Læs mere
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Edward Courtney presents an overall interpretation of Petronius' Satyricon, beginning with basic background information, then surveying each episode in order that leading themes... Læs mere
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This study of Cicero's political oratory and Roman imperialism in the late Republic offers new readings of neglected speeches. C.E.W. Steel examines the role and capacities of... Læs mere
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Horace's "Epodes" reflect as no other work of Latin poetry does the crisis afflicting Rome in the 40s and 30s BC, as it passed from a republican to a monarchical system.... Læs mere
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A collection of important scholarly articles on the Roman poet Lucretius, whose philosophical epic, the De Rerum Natura or On the Nature of the Universe (c.55 BC), seeks to... Læs mere
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In order to understand fully the development of Latin poetry, this work revises the surviving fragments of quotations from writers and provides the necessary interpretative... Læs mere
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The Latin text of the most comprehensive work on Roman agriculture surviving from antiquity, written in the first century CE. Columella is an important but under-appreciated Latin stylist, in significant ways a precursor of modern scientific and economic doctrines.