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  • Sicco Polenton, Lives of the Famous Latin Authors

    A Selection

    by T. E. Franklinos, Rino Modonutti ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series: Early Modern Texts and Anthologies
    Offering an anthology of the first history of Latin literature, Sicco Polenton's Scriptorum illustrium Latinae linguae libri XVIII is a collection of biographies that spans the period from ancient Rome to the 15th century. Compiled between 1419 and 1433, the main focus of the Scriptores illustres is on the life and works of ancient Latin authors, but Polenton also displays a wider interest in the ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Propertius’ Cynthia

    The Book as Beloved

    by T. E. Franklinos ...
    Propertius' Cynthia considers Propertius' metapoetic and intra- and intertextual habits and their relationship with the repetitious amatory discourse that he fashions for himself with his beloved, Cynthia. Where scholarship tends to treat as separate the metaliterary and the amatory aspects of Propertius' poetry, this volume - focussed on Books 3 and 4 - argues that his discussion of his own ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Essays on Propertian and Ovidian Elegy

    A Limping Lady for Stephen Heyworth

    Edited by T. E. Franklinos, Jennifer Ingleheart ...
    This volume brings together eleven chapters on the genre of Latin elegy by leading scholars in the field. Latin elegy is typically thought to have flourished for a brief period at Rome between c. 40 BC and the early decades of the first century AD; it was the pre-eminent vehicle for writing about amatory matters in this period and among its principal exponents were Propertius and Ovid, whose works ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • Constructing Authors and Readers in the Appendices Vergiliana, Tibulliana, and Ouidiana

    Edited by Tristan E. Franklinos, Laurel Fulkerson ...
    Series series Pseudepigrapha Latina
    The Augustan period in Rome was a golden age for poetry, and also the age in which the cult of the author began in the west. By examining some early poetic understandings of what it might have meant to be Vergil, Ovid, and Tibullus, Constructing Authors and Readers in the Appendices Vergiliana, Tibulliana, and Ouidiana explores what those authors meant to near-contemporaries, and what the ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

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  • Long Live Latin

    The Pleasures of a Useless Language

    by Nicola Gardini ...
    A "fascinating" meditation on the joys of a not-so-dead language ( Los Angeles Review of Books).From acclaimed novelist and Oxford professor Nicola Gardini, this is a personal and passionate look at the Latin language: its history, its authors, its essential role in education, and its enduring impact on modern life—whether we call it "dead" or not.What use is Latin? It's a question we're often ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • A Natural History of Latin

    by Tore Janson ...
    Beginning in Rome around 600 BC, Latin became the language of the civilized world and remained so for more than two millennia. French, Spanish, Italian, and Romanian are among its progeny and it provides the international vocabulary of law and life science. No known language, including English - itself enriched by Latin words and phrases - has achieved such success and longevity. Tore Janson tells ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • 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

  • Tacitus: Annals Book XV

    by Tacitus ...
    Series Book 15 - Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
    Tacitus' account of Nero's principate is an extraordinary piece of historical writing. His graphic narrative (including Annals XV) is one of the highlights of the greatest surviving historian of the Roman Empire. It describes how the imperial system survived Nero's flamboyant and hedonistic tenure as emperor, and includes many famous passages, from the Great Fire of Rome in AD 64 to the city-wide ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Reading Roman Friendship

    by Craig A. Williams ...
    This book invites us to approach friendship not as something that simply is, but as something performed in and through language. Roman friendship is read across a wide spectrum of Latin texts, from Catullus' poetry to Petronius' Satyricon to the philosophical writings of Cicero and Seneca, from letters exchanged by the Emperor Marcus Aurelius and his beloved teacher Fronto, to those written by men ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Tacitus, Annals, 15.20–23, 33–45

    Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary

    by Mathew Owen, Ingo Gildenhard ...
    Series Book 3 - Open Reports Series
    The emperor Nero is etched into the Western imagination as one of ancient Rome’s most infamous villains, and Tacitus’ Annals have played a central role in shaping the mainstream historiographical understanding of this flamboyant autocrat. This section of the text plunges us straight into the moral cesspool that Rome had apparently become in the later years of Nero’s reign, chronicling the emperor ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Companion to Catullus

    Edited by Marilyn B. Skinner ...
    In this companion, international scholars provide a comprehensive overview that reflects the most recent trends in Catullan studies.Explores the work of Catullus, one of the best Roman ‘lyric poets’Provides discussions about production, genre, style, and reception, as well as interpretive essays on key poems and groups of poemsGrounds Catullus in the socio-historical world around himChapters ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • Latin Verse Satire

    An Anthology and Reader

    Edited by Paul Allen Miller ...
    A wide variety of texts by the Latin satirists are presented here in a fully loaded resource to provide an innovative reading of satire's relation to Roman ideology.Brimming with notes, commentaries, essays and texts in translation, this book succeeds in its mission to help the student understand the history of Latin's modern scholarly reception.Focusing on the linguistic difficulties and problems ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD