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  • Carpe Diem

    The Poetics of Presence in Greek and Latin Literature

    by Robert A. Rohland ...
    Series series Cambridge Classical Studies
    Carpe diem – 'eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die!' – is a prominent motif throughout ancient literature and beyond. This is the first book-length examination of its significance and demonstrates that close analysis can make a key contribution to a question that is central to literary studies in and beyond Classics: how can poetry give us the almost magical impression that something is ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

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  • European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages

    by Ernst Robert Curtius ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and from the Italian peninsula to the British Isles. In what T. S. Eliot called a "magnificent" book, Ernst Robert Curtius establishes medieval Latin ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • 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

    $36.99 USD

  • On Roman Religion

    Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome

    by Jörg Rüpke ...
    Series Book 67 - Cornell Studies in Classical Philology
    Provocative reading for anyone interested in Roman culture in the late Republic and early Empire.â• Religious Studies ReviewWas religious practice in ancient Rome cultic and hostile to individual expression? Or was there, rather, considerable latitude for individual initiative and creativity? Jörg Rüpke, one of the world’s leading authorities on Roman religion, demonstrates in his new book that it ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • 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

    $50.00 USD

  • 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

    $40.99 USD

  • 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

    $18.99 USD

  • Critics, Compilers, and Commentators

    An Introduction to Roman Philology, 200 BCE-800 CE

    by James E.G. Zetzel ...
    "To teach correct Latin and to explain the poets" were the two standard duties of Roman teachers. Not only was a command of literary Latin a prerequisite for political and social advancement, but a sense of Latin's history and importance contributed to the Romans' understanding of their own cultural identity. Put plainly, philology-the study of language and texts-was important at Rome. Critics, ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • TransAntiquity

    Cross-Dressing and Transgender Dynamics in the Ancient World

    Edited by Domitilla Campanile, Filippo Carlà-Uhink, Margherita Facella ...
    Series series Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
    TransAntiquity explores transgender practices, in particular cross-dressing, and their literary and figurative representations in antiquity. It offers a ground-breaking study of cross-dressing, both the social practice and its conceptualization, and its interaction with normative prescriptions on gender and sexuality in the ancient Mediterranean world. Special attention is paid to the reactions of ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Catullus

    Edited by Ian Du Quesnay, Tony Woodman ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Catullus is one of the most popular poets to survive from classical antiquity. Above all others he seems to speak to modern readers with a modern voice. The distinguished contributors to this Companion discuss the principal subjects which drew Catullus' affection and disgust, above all his famous affair with the woman he calls 'Lesbia', and situate him in the social, historical and intellectual ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • A Companion to Ovid

    Edited by Peter E. Knox ...
    Series series Wiley Companions to the Ancient World
    A Companion to Ovid is a comprehensive overview of one of the most influential poets of classical antiquity.Features more than 30 newly commissioned chapters by noted scholars writing in their areas of specializationIlluminates various aspects of Ovid's work, such as production, genre, and stylePresents interpretive essays on key poems and collections of poemsIncludes detailed discussions of Ovid ... Read more

    $48.00 USD

  • Knowledge, Text and Practice in Ancient Technical Writing

    Edited by Marco Formisano, Philip van der Eijk ...
    The relationship between theory and practice, in other words between norms indicated in a text and their extra-textual application, is one of the most fascinating issues in the history and theory of science. Yet this aspect has often been taken for granted and never explored in depth. The essays contained in this volume provide a complex and nuanced discussion of this relationship as it emerges in ... Read more

    $38.99 USD