Latin Criticism
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Mythical and Legendary Narrative in Ovid's Fasti
by Paul Murgatroyd  Publisher Comments This book analyses the mythical and legendary narratives in the Fasti as narrative. It covers aspects such as aperture, closure, characterization, internal narrators, description, space, time and also the narratives' complex relationship with Virgil...
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Roman Literary Culture: From Cicero to Apuleius (Ancient Society and History)
by Elaine Fantham Publisher Comments This is a book that needed to be written in answer to a deep gap in our resources on Latin literature. . . we owe Fantham much gratitude for having the energy and wisdom to undertake this demanding and original project. Every Latinist should study her...
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The Erotics of Domination: Male Desire and the Mistress in Latin Love Poetry
by Ellen Greene Publisher Comments The study of women in antiquity is a well-established area of research in the classics. In The Erotics of Domination, Ellen Greene reexamines long-held scholarly attitudes concerning the representation of male sexual desire and female subjection in the...
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Latin or the Empire of a Sign: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries
by Francoise Waquet Publisher Comments A highly original and accessible history of Latin between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries that explores how Latin came to dominate the civic and sacred worlds of Europe and, arguably, the entire western world....
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Statius & Virgil
by Randall Ganiban Publisher Comments At the end of the Thebaid, Statius enjoins his epic 'not to compete with the divine Aeneid but rather to follow at a distance and always revere its footprints'. The nature of the Thebaid’s interaction with the Aeneid is, however, a matter of...
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The Mirror of the Self: Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire
by Shadi Bartsch Publisher Comments People in the ancient world thought of vision as both an ethical tool and a tactile sense, akin to touch. Gazing upon someone—or oneself—was treated as a path to philosophical self-knowledge, but the question of tactility introduced an erotic...
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Metamorphosis of Language in Apuleius: A Study of Allusion in the Novel
by Ellen D Finkelpearl Publisher Comments Ellen D. Finkelpearl's Metamorphosis of Language in Apuleius studies the use of literary allusion by the Roman author Apuleius, in his second century C.E. novel the Metamorphoses, popularly known as The Golden Ass. Apuleius' work is enticing yet...
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Greek and Latin Literature of the Roman Empire: From Augustus to Justinian
by Albrecht Dihle Publisher Comments This is the first in-depth guide to Greek and Latin literature between the 1st century BC and the 6th century AD. Working from Friedrich Schlegel's observation that art, customs and political life in classical antiquity are closely intertwined, Albrecht...
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Plato on Rhetoric and Language: Four Key Dialogues
by Plato Publisher Comments Plato on Rhetoric and Language presents, for the first time in one volume, four key Platonic dialogues on rhetoric and language in complete, contemporary translations: the Ion, the Protagoras, the Gorgias, and the Phaedrus. Previously, those interested...
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Declamation, Paternity, and Roman Identity
by Erik Gunderson Publisher Comments Declamation was a staple of education and cultured literary life in the Roman world over many centuries. This book offers a radical re-evaluation of the genre, its social importance, and its role in the history of the Western self. Ironically, this genre...
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Roman Sexualities
by Judith Hallett
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Pietas from Vergil to Dryden
by James D Garrison Description Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-327) and indexes....
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Latin: On the Empire of a Sign
by Francoise Waquet Publisher Comments For almost three centuries, Latin dominated the civic and sacred worlds of Europe and, arguably, the entire western world. From the moment in the sixteenth century when it was adopted by the Humanists as the official language for schools and by the...
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The Other Virgil: Pessimistic' Readings of the Aeneid in Early Modern Culture
by Craig Kallendorf Publisher Comments The Other Virgil tells the story of how a classic like the Aeneid can say different things to different people. As a school text it was generally taught to support the values and ideals of a succession of postclassical societies, but between 1500 and...
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Life & Literature in the Roman Republic
by Tenney Frank
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Roman Literature & Society
by R M Ogilvie
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Latin Passion Play: Its Origins & Development
by Sandro Sticca
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Roman literature.
by Michael Grant
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Studies in Magic from Latin Literature
by Eugene Tavenner
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A literary history of Rome in the silver age; from Tiberius to Hadrian.
by J Wight Duff
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