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Advances the study of Ennius' Annals, a foundational but now fragmentary work of Latin literature, by exploring the cross-fertilization of recent critical approaches to... Læs mere
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This book offers a new perspective on the role of oratory in Roman Republican politics through its unique focus on the oratorical performances of orators other than Cicero and the ways in which these performances shaped their political careers.
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Re-examines a range of critical approaches to which this influential poem has given rise and which in turn have shaped... Læs mere
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In this collection of papers, distinguished historian Benjamin Isaac examines the Roman concepts of state and empire and mechanisms of... 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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The Art of Complicity in Martial and Statius examines the relationship between politics and aesthetics in two poets from the reign of Domitian. Gunderson argues that power and politics are intimately involved in Latin praise poetry.
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A dedicated study of how classical Latin erotic elegy was read in the Renaissance and helped shape the emergence of English love poetry. This book will be of interest to scholars of early modern literature and classical literature, in particular love, gender, sex and the body.
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This book shows the impact of the 1428 rediscovery of Plautus’s plays on the theory and composition of comedy, and sets Plautus’s reception apart from that... Læs mere
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This text explores the concept of the "iambic" as a genre. In a set of detailed studies, the contributors examine, across time, the idea of the iambic through a wide variety of cultural settings: Greek, Hellenistic, Roman, and Late Antiquity.
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This book shows the impact of the 1428 rediscovery of Plautus’s plays on the theory and composition of comedy, and sets Plautus’s reception apart from that... Læs mere
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Disorienting Empire is the first book to examine Republican Latin poetry's recurring interest in characters who become lost. Basil Dufallo explains the prevalence of this theme with reference to the rapid expansion of Rome's empire in the Middle and Late Republic.
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This volume presents the analysis, English translation, and critical edition of the Latin text of The Little History of the Lombards of Benevento, thus offering an important contribution for a better understanding of early medieval southern Italian (and Mediterranean) history.