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Poets in a Landscape (New York Review Books Classics) by Gilbert Highet Publisher Comments Gilbert Highet was a legendary teacher at Columbia University, admired both for his scholarship and his charisma as a lecturer. Poets in a Landscape is his delightful exploration of Latin literature and the Italian landscape. As Highet writes in his... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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American Classical Studies #50: Figuring Genre in Roman Satire by Catherine Keane Publisher Comments Satirists are social critics, but they are also products of society. Horace, Persius, and Juvenal, the verse satirists of ancient Rome, exploit this double identity to produce their colorful commentaries on social life and behavior. In a fresh... (read more) List Price $61.75 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Figuring Genre in Roman Satire by Catherine Keane Publisher Comments Satirists are social critics, but they are also products of society. Horace, Persius, and Juvenal, the verse satirists of ancient Rome, exploit this double identity to produce their colorful commentaries on social life and behavior. In a fresh... (read more) List Price $70.00 Your price: $64.75 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Roman Theatre and Its Audience by Richard Beacham Review A fine piece of work...[Beacham's] theories about mime, pantomime, and Roman wall painting will stir much discussion, and his book will be valued by all who are interested in the theatre of the ancient world. Times Literary... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Slavery and the Roman Literary Imagination (Roman Literature and Its Contexts) by William Fitzgerald Publisher Comments This book deals with the ways in which the Roman literary imagination explored the phenomenon of slavery.... (read more) List Price $41.25 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Displaced Persons: The Literature of Exile from Cicero to Boethius (Wisconsin Studies in Classics) by Jo Marie Claassen Publisher Comments Exile is a political act involving loss of power. Five authors -- Cicero, Ovid, Seneca the Younger, Dio Chrysostomus, and Anicius Manlius Boethius -- all exiled from Rome, are examined in this fascinating study of the depiction of exile. Although... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Roman Classics, Notes - Study Notes by Mary Elle Snodgrass Publisher Comments Cliffs Notes on Roman Classics is the reference book you need to understand the values and ideas inherent in Latin literature and Roman civilization. It is a must for students of: the Humanities English Literature World Literature Law Classical... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Epic Successors of Virgil: A Study in the Dynamics of a Tradition (Roman Literature & Its Contexts) by Philip Hardie Publisher Comments A critically sophisticated introduction to the epic tradition of the early Roman empire.... (read more) List Price $41.25 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Latin Literature: A History by Gian Conte Publisher Comments This authoritative history of Latin literature offers a comprehensive survey of the thousand-year period from the origins of Latin as a written language to the early Middle Ages. At once a reference work, a bibliographic guide, a literary study, and a... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $43.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Aggression in Roman Humor by Amy Richlin Publisher Comments Statues of the god Priapus stood in Roman gardens to warn potential thieves that the god would rape them if they attempted to steal from him. In this book, Richlin argues that the attitude of sexual aggressiveness in defense of a bounded area serves as a... (read more) List Price $74.25 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pietas from Vergil to Dryden by James D. Garrison Publisher Comments ""The author has written an extraordinary history of the meanings and applications of a single word--- pieta--- and its cultural and Roman antiquity, early Christian Europe, the European middle ages, and sixteenth- and seventeenth -century Italy, France,... (read more) Your price: $14.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Personal Aspects of the Roman Theatre by Charles Garton Publisher Comments This collection of essays explores classical Roman theatre and the brilliant minds behind it.... (read more) Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Scurra by P B Corbett Your price: $1.75 Used - Hardcover
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Life & Literature in the Roman Republic by Tenney Frank Your price: $1.50 Used - Mass Market
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Roman Satire by Michael Coffey Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Roman Literature & Society by R. M Ogilvie Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Latin Poetry the New Poets & the Augusta by Clarence W Mendell Your price: $12.00 Used - Hardcover
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Poets in a Landscape by Gilbert Highet Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Texts & Contexts: The Roman Writers & Their Audience by Kenneth Quinn List Price $10.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Literary History of Rome From the Origins To the Close of the Golden Age by J Wight Duff Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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