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  • Liminality in the Aeneid

    A Study in Liminal Poetic Technique

    by Marco Menna ...
    Die Aeneis, das Meisterwerk der lateinischen Dichtung, schildert die traumatische Verwandlung einer Schar von Besiegten und Flüchtlingen, Überlebenden der Vernichtung Trojas, zur Keimzelle von Jupiters Volk der Römer, das dazu bestimmt ist, der Welt Frieden und Ordnung zu bringen. Die vorliegende Studie interpretiert diese Wesens-Verwandlung als einen Übergangsritus, dessen liminale Phase durch ... Read more

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    The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection

    by Michel de Montaigne ...
    Translated by John Florio ...
    An NYRB Classics OriginalShakespeare, Nietzsche wrote, was Montaigne’s best reader—a typically brilliant Nietzschean insight, capturing the intimate relationship between Montaigne’s ever-changing record of the self and Shakespeare’s kaleidoscopic register of human character. And there is no doubt that Shakespeare read Montaigne—though how extensively remains a matter of debate—and that the ... Read more

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  • Horace: Odes Book II

    by Horace ...
    Series Book 2 - Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
    Horace's Odes remain among the most widely read works of classical literature. This volume constitutes the first substantial commentary for a generation on this book, and presents Horace's poems for a new cohort of modern students and scholars. The introduction focusses on the particular features of this poetic book and its place in Horace's poetic career and in the literary environment of its ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Darkness Visible

    A Study of Vergil's "Aeneid"

    by W.R. Johnson ...
    One of the best books ever written on one of humanity's greatest epics, W. R. Johnson's classic study of Vergil's Aeneid challenges centuries of received wisdom. Johnson rejects the political and historical reading of the epic as a record of the glorious prehistory of Rome and instead foregrounds Vergil's enigmatic style and questioning of the heroic myths.With an approach to the text that is both ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Ovid

    Edited by Philip Hardie ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Ovid was one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity, and arguably the single most influential ancient poet for post-classical literature and culture. In this Cambridge Companion, chapters by leading authorities from Europe and North America discuss the backgrounds and contexts for Ovid, the individual works, and his influence on later literature and art. Coverage of essential information ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Ovid, Metamorphoses (3.511–733)

    Latin Text with Introduction, Commentary, Glossary of Terms, Vocabulary Aid and Study Questions

    by Ingo Gildenhard, Andrew Zissos ...
    This part of Ovid's 'Theban History' recounts the confrontation of Pentheus, king of Thebes, with his divine cousin, Bacchus, the god of wine. Notwithstanding the warnings of the seer Tiresias and the cautionary tale of a character Acoetes (perhaps Bacchus in disguise), who tells of how the god once transformed a group of blasphemous sailors into dolphins, Pentheus refuses to acknowledge the ... Read more

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  • The World of Ovid's Metamorphoses

    by Joseph B. Solodow ...
    Synthesizing a wealth of detailed observations, Joseph Solodow studies the structure of Ovid’s poem Metamorphoses, the role of the narrator, Ovid’s treatment of myth, and the relationship between Ovid’s and Virgil’s presentations of Aeneas. He argues that for Ovid metamorphosis is an act of clarification, a form of artistic creation, and that the metamorphosed creatures in his poem are comparable ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Virgil, Aeneid 4.1–299

    Latin Text, Study Questions, Commentary and Interpretative Essays

    by Ingo Gildenhard ...
    Series Book 2 - Open Reports Series
    Love and tragedy dominate book four of Virgil’s most powerful work, building on the violent emotions invoked by the storms, battles, warring gods, and monster-plagued wanderings of the epic’s opening. Destined to be the founder of Roman culture, Aeneas, nudged by the gods, decides to leave his beloved Dido, causing her suicide in pursuit of his historical destiny. A dark plot, in which erotic ... Read more

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  • On Ovid's Metamorphoses

    by Gareth Williams ...
    Series series Core Knowledge
    Ovid’s Metamorphoses has entranced audiences for two thousand years, from Rome under Augustus to humanities classrooms today. Borrowing liberally from Greek and Roman mythology, the poem tells hundreds of stories that share one essential theme: each tale depicts a transformation from one physical form into another.Drawing on many years of teaching the Metamorphoses, Gareth Williams offers a brisk ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Harvard Classics Volume 32

    Literary And Philosophical Essays

    by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Michel, de Montaigne, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Golden Deer Classics, Ernest Renan, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich von Schiller, Immanuel Kant, Giuseppe Mazzini ...
    Series Book 32 - Harvard Classics
    Contents: 1. Essays, by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne 2. Montaigne and What is a Classic?, by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve 3. The Poetry of the Celtic Races, by Ernest Renan 4. The Education of the Human Race, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 5. Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man, by Friedrich von Schiller 6. Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, by Immanuel Kant 7. Byron and ... Read more

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  • Unity and Design in Horace's Odes

    by Matthew S. Santirocco ...
    Horace’s first three books of Odes, published together in 23 B.C., are a masterpiece of Augustan literature and the culmination of classical lyric. Matthew Santirocco provides the first new critical approach to them in English in more than two decades.Drawing on recent works on ancient and modern poetry books and using several contemporary critical methodologies, Santirocco reveals the Odes both ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Virgil

    Edited by Charles Martindale ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature, art, and politics. This Companion is designed as an indispensable guide for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of an author critical to so many disciplines. It consists of essays by seventeen scholars from Britain, the USA, Ireland and ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD