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Martial's Epigrams: A Selection
by Garry Wills  Synopsis Bawdy and biting epigrams, freshly translated, ready for enjoyment. One of literatureas greatest satirists, Martial earned his livelihood by excoriating the follies and vices of his time, and set a pattern that satirists have admired and imitated across...
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Lancelot of the Lake
by Corin Corley Synopsis Written in the early thirteenth century and universally considered a major work of European literature, Lancelot greatly influenced Malory, Tennyson, T.H. White and others. This edition presents, for the first time in English translation, the original...
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Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture: Travel, Locality and Panhellenism
by Richard Hunter Publisher Comments Although recent scholarship has focused on the city-state as the context for the production of Greek poetry, for poets and performers travel was more the norm than the exception. This book traces this central aspect of ancient culture from its roots in...
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Paradiso
by Dante Alighieri Publisher Comments The Divine Comedy is a complete scale of the depths and heights of human emotion, wrote T.S. Eliot. The last canto of the Paradiso is to my thinking the highest point that poetry has ever reached or ever can reach. The Divine Comedy stands as one of the...
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Writing and Empire in Tacitus
by Dylan Sailor Publisher Comments Writing and Empire in Tacitus examines how Tacitus' historiographical career serves as an argument about his personal autonomy and social value under the peculiar political conditions of the early Roman Empire. Following the arc of his career from...
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The Politics of Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica
by Anatole Mori Publisher Comments Apollonius Rhodius' epic poem, the Argonautica, is one of the most important and influential literary productions of the Hellenistic period. This book shows how the retelling of a heroic adventure set in the generation before the Trojan War engages the...
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The Satires of Horace
by Horace Publisher Comments The Roman philosopher and dramatic critic Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-3 B.C.), known in English as Horace, was also the most famous lyric poet of his age. Writing in the troubled decade ending with the establishment of Augustus's regime, his Satires...
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Selected Letters (Oxford World's Classics)
by Cicero Publisher Comments Cicero lived through some of the most turbulent years in the history of Rome and witnessed first-hand the overthrow of the republic and its replacement by the tyranny of Pompey, Caesar, Mark Antony, and Octavian. One of Rome's most memorable and keenly...
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation
by Simon Armitage Publisher Comments A spellbinding poetic translation of this six hundred year-old Arthurian story of beheading, romance, and the supernatural. Promises to drive the green force of the old poem through the Armitage fuse and set it a-buddin' and a-bloomin' for the new...
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Aeneid (Oxford World's Classics)
by Virgil Publisher Comments Frederick Ahl's new translation captures the excitement, poetic energy, and intellectual force of the original in a way that has never been done before. Ahl has used a version of Virgil's ancient hexameter, a swift-moving six-beat line varying between...
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Authorised Lives in Early Christian Biography: Between Eusebius and Augustine (Cambridge Classical Studies)
by Michael Williams Publisher Comments What was distinctive about Christian biography in late antiquity? In this book, Dr Williams examines a range of biographies of prominent Christians written in the fourth and fifth centuries, and suggests that they share a purpose and function which sets...
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Lucian: A Selection (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
by Lucian Publisher Comments Lucian of Samosata is one of the most brilliant and wide-ranging writers from antiquity, and yet few commentaries are available for those who wish to read Lucian in Greek. This edition presents a selection of rhetorical and satirical works in the...
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Metamorphoses (Norton Critical Editions)
by Ovid Publisher Comments About the Series: No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions. Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful...
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Athe Ocean of the Rivers of Storya by Somadeva
by James Mallinson Publisher Comments "The books line up on my shelf like bright Bodhisattvas ready to take tough questions or keep quiet company. They stake out a vast territory, with works from two millennia in multiple genres: aphorism, lyric, epic, theater, and romance." —Willis G...
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Lucretius: de Rerum Natura V (Classical Texts)
by Monica R. Gale Publisher Comments For a work written more than two thousand years ago, in a society in many ways quite alien to our own, Lucretius' De Rerum Natura contains much of striking, even startling, contemporary relevance. This is true, above all, of the fifth book, which begins...
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Latin Elegy and Narratology: Fragments of Story
by Genevieve Liveley Publisher Comments In recent decades, literary studies have shown great interest in issues concerning the elements of narrative. Narratology, with its most vocal exponents in the writings of Bal, Genette, and Ricoeur, has also emerged as an increasingly important aspect of...
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Lucian: A Selection (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
by Lucian Publisher Comments Lucian of Samosata is one of the most brilliant and wide-ranging writers from antiquity, and yet few commentaries are available for those who wish to read Lucian in Greek. This edition presents a selection of rhetorical and satirical works in the...
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Ahow the Nagas Were Pleaseda by Harsha & Athe Shattered Thighsa by Bhasa
by Andrew Skilton Publisher Comments "The books line up on my shelf like bright Bodhisattvas ready to take tough questions or keep quiet company. They stake out a vast territory, with works from two millennia in multiple genres: aphorism, lyric, epic, theater, and romance." —Willis G...
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I Tatti Renaissance Library #35: Poems
by Cristoforo Landino Publisher Comments Cristoforo Landino (1424-1498), one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance, is best known today for his Platonizing commentaries on Dante and Virgil. His most substantial work of poetry was his Three Books on Xandra, written while still a young...
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I Tatti Renaissance Library #36: Baldus
by Teofilo Folengo Publisher Comments Teofilo Folengo (1491-1544) was born in Mantua and joined the Benedictine order, but became a runaway monk and a satirist of monasticism. In 1517 he published, under the pseudonym Merlin Cocaio, the first version of his macaronic narrative poem Baldo...
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