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Until the Reformation, almost all sermons were written down in Latin. Based on the extant manuscripts, this... Læs mere
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This works represents a new departure in the treatment of Ovid's Heroides, letters by women deserted by men. It portrays the... Læs mere
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This 2007 Companion is both an introduction to, and a series of thought-provoking essays on, one of the greatest of Latin poets, Lucretius. It gives equal space to... Læs mere
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Just as it compels writers today, the question of male and female relations preoccupied Ovid. This work investigates his obsession with the... Læs mere
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Generations of authors, scholars and students have embraced the sophisticated scurrility of Apuleius and Petronius, the elegance of Chariton and... Læs mere
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Apuleius' famous novel, The Metamorphoses, tells the story of a man who was magically changed into an ass and had various entertaining adventures... Læs mere
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Classical Latin appears to be without regional dialects, yet Latin evolved in little more than a millennium into a variety of different languages.... Læs mere
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This text treats Pliny's private epistles neither as a mere source of historical and social information, nor as a portrait... Læs mere
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A literary and historical interpretation of the literary career of the Roman historian Tacitus. It looks at how his writings Agricola, Histories, and Annals project an image of their author, and how they argue for the political importance of writing history.
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Based on columns that have appeared for over ten years in the "Spectator" and the "Sunday Telegraph", this book provides a Roman and ancient Greek perspective on modern society.
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This scholarly edition consists of the Latin text, with translation and detailed commentary, of a sequence of epigrams from the... Læs mere