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With contributions from leading scholars, this is a unique cross-cultural comparison of historical epics across a wide range of cultures and time periods, which presents crucial insights into how history is treated in narrative poetry. The first book to gain new...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-10-27
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Ancient World: Comparative Histories
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Ovid's extraordinary story of Thebes' founding and bloody unravelling spans two books of his epic poem, the Metamorphoses. His bizarre refractions of the well-ordered community engageOvid's own Rome and the mythohistory of the Eternal City's origins, most particularly...
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OUP Oxford
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2009-10-22
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This collection of recent articles provides convenient access to some of the best recent writing on Horace's Odes and Epodes. Formalist, structuralist, and historicizing approaches alike offer insight into this complex poet, who reinvented lyric at the transition from...
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OUP Oxford
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2009-10-02
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Gunther Martin examines the references to religion in the speeches of Demosthenes and other Athenian orators in the 4th century BC. In Part I he demonstrates the role religion plays in the rhetorical strategy of speeches in political trials: his main argument is that...
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OUP Oxford
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2009-09-03
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Aeschylus' Persae, first produced in 472 BC, is the oldest surviving Greek tragedy. It is also the only extant Greek tragedy that deals, not with a mythological subject, but with an event of recent history, the Greek defeat of the Persians at Salamis in 480 BC. Unlike...
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OUP Oxford
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2009-08-27
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This collection of essays explores the extensive use of Latin and Greek literary texts in a range of recent poetry written in English. It contains both contributions from poets, who include Tony Harrison, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Longley, talking about their uses of...
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OUP Oxford
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2009-08-20
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The last decades have seen a lively interest in Roman verse satire, and this collection of essays introduces the reader to the best of modern critical writing on Persius and Juvenal.The eight articles on Persius range from detailed analyses of his fine technique to...
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OUP Oxford
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2009-08-07
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Hyperides' Funeral Oration is arguably the most important surviving example of the genre from classical Greece. The speech stands apart from other funeral orations (epitaphioi) in a few key respects. First, we have the actual text as it was delivered in Athens (the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-06-22
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This collection of sixteen articles, written by leading specialists in Classical and English literature, is an important contribution to the critical assessment of Ted Hughes, one of the most popular and controversial English poets of the late 20th century. The chapters...
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OUP Oxford
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2009-06-04
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Catullus is one of the liveliest and most appealing Roman poets. His emotion, charm, and apparent spontaneity resonate with readers as strongly today as in antiquity. This sophisticated literary and historical introduction bringsCatullus to life for the modern reader...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-05-06
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Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World
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Catullus is one of the liveliest and most appealing Roman poets. His emotion, charm, and apparent spontaneity resonate with readers as strongly today as in antiquity. This sophisticated literary and historical introduction bringsCatullus to life for the modern reader...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-05-06
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Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World
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Politeness and Politics in Cicero's Letters presents a fresh examination of the letters exchanged between Cicero and correspondents, such as Pompey, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony during the final turbulent decades of the Roman Republic. Drawing upon sociolinguistic...
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Oxford University Press
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2009-05-06
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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 specialization Illuminates various aspects of Ovid's work, such...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-29
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood is a comprehensive literary biography ofHelen of Troy, which explores the ways in which her story has been told and retold in almost every century from the ancient world to the modern day. Takes readers on an epic voyage into the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-06
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Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood is a comprehensive literary biography ofHelen of Troy, which explores the ways in which her story has been told and retold in almost every century from the ancient world to the modern day. Takes readers on an epic voyage into the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-06
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Ancient Rome and Modern America explores the vital role the narratives and images of Rome have played in America’s understanding of itself and its history. Places America’s response to Rome in a historical context, from the Revolutionary era to the present Looks at...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-30
Collection :
Classical Receptions
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Ancient Rome and Modern America explores the vital role the narratives and images of Rome have played in America’s understanding of itself and its history. Places America’s response to Rome in a historical context, from the Revolutionary era to the present Looks at...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-30
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Classical Receptions
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Rome, Season One: History Makes Television examines the first season of the HBO-BBC collaboration,Rome, in a collection of thought-provoking essays by some of the world’s most influential scholars in the fields of classical antiquity and popular culture. Examines...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-03-25
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Whither Quo Vadis? offers an engaging account of how the Roman world and its history are represented in film and the way in which the different adaptations reflect the shifting historical situations and ideological concerns of their own times. Explores five...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-03-09
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This text makes use of contemporary work in linguistics to provide up-to-date commentary on the development of Latin, from its prehistoric origins in the Indo-European language family, through the earliest texts, to the creation of the Classical Language of Cicero and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-17
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