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This study explores the use of other languages in medieval and Renaissance English drama. From the mystery cycles to Shakespeare, Janette Dillon... Læs mere
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This substantially introduced and annotated first edition of a previously unknown Latin text, the biblical commentaries of Theodore and Hadrian, throws light on the intellectual history of early medieval Europe.
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An examination of the main characters in the Aeneid - Aeneas himself, Dido and Turnus - in the light of Virgil's contemporary Augustan political and literary ideology. The... Læs mere
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This is a book of essays by distinguished scholars on the relationship between Latin authors and their audiences. The authors and works covered are Cicero (as... Læs mere
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John Henderson explores three letters of Seneca describing visits to Roman villas, and surveys the whole collection to show how these villas work as... Læs mere
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Ovid, a poet unashamedly in love in poetry, including his own, has enjoyed a recent renaissance in popularity. Yet there is still a... Læs mere
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The writers of Greece and Rome regularly imitated and alluded to the great authors of the past. Such imitations were not considered plagiarism, but as essential... Læs mere
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Anger is found everywhere in the ancient world, starting with the very first word of the Iliad and continuing through all literary genres and every aspect... Læs mere
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This book attempts to provide a more positive assessment of Lucretius' aims and methodology by considering the poet's attitude to myth, and the role which it plays in the De Rerum Natura, against the background of earlier and contemporary views.
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Usually seen just as an index of the 'low' genre of Petronius' Satyricon, corporeality is here explored as a metaphor and it is argued that, on the level of imagery, the text can be read as a unified whole rather than as an episodic jumble.
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This is an in-depth treatment of Juvenal's third book of Satires, which gives a welcome overview of the development of Juvenal's satiric output.
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A critical study of Persius' poetic aims, aversions and techniques, based mainly on an extended analysis of Satires I. John Bramble shows... Læs mere