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34 produkter
Literarisches Leben im antiken Rom
Sozialgeschichte der römischen Literatur von Cicero bis Apuleius
Inbunden, 1998
374 kr
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Diese Sozialgeschichte der klassischen römischen Literatur setzt Standards für alle herkömmlichen Literaturgeschichten. Wer waren die Leserinnen und Leser? Welche Bildung hatten sie und wie kamen sie an die Bücher? Unter welchen Bedingungen und nach welchen Vorbildern wurde Literatur produziert? …
Ovid's Metamorphoses
E-bok, 2004
394 kr
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Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature (Series Editors: Kathleen Coleman and Richard Rutherford) introduces individual works of Greek and Latin literature to readers who are approaching them for the first time. Each volume sets the work in its literary and historical context, and aims to offer a …
Roman World of Cicero's De Oratore
E-bok, 2006
694 kr
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The Roman World of Cicero''s De Oratore aims to provide an accessible study of Cicero''s first and fullest dialogue, on the ideal orator-statesman. It illustrates the dialogue''s achievement as a reflection of a civilized way of life and a brilliantly constructed literary unity, and considers the …
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Av Elaine Fantham, Kathleen Coleman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
2336 kr
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Ovid's Metamorphoses have been seen to mark the culmination of the classical epic tradition, and a revolutionary transferral of narrative interest from warfare to love and fantasy. This introduction considers how Ovid defined and shaped his narrative, its cultural context, and its vivid depictions …
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Av Elaine Fantham, Kathleen Coleman m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
579 kr
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Ovid's Metamorphoses have been seen to mark a culmination of the classical epic tradition and a revolutionary transferral of narrative interest from warfare to love and fantasy. This introduction considers how Ovid defined and shaped his narrative, its cultural context, and its vivid depictions of …
Ovid's Metamorphoses
E-bok, 2004
443 kr
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Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature (Series Editors: Kathleen Coleman and Richard Rutherford) introduces individual works of Greek and Latin literature to readers who are approaching them for the first time. Each volume sets the work in its literary and historical context, and aims to offer a …
The Roman World of Cicero's De Oratore
Häftad, 2006
1408 kr
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The Roman World of Cicero's De Oratore aims to provide an accessible study of Cicero's first and fullest dialogue, on the ideal orator-statesman. It illustrates the dialogue's achievement as a reflection of a civilized way of life and a brilliantly constructed literary unity, and considers the …
The Roman World of Cicero's De Oratore
Inbunden, 2004
1451 kr
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The Roman World of Cicero's De Oratore aims to provide an accessible study of Cicero's first and fullest dialogue, on the ideal orator-statesman. It illustrates the dialogue's achievement as a reflection of a civilized way of life and a brilliantly constructed literary unity, and considers the …
Cicero's Pro L. Murena Oratio
Inbunden, 2013
3179 kr
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Cicero's speech on behalf of L. Lucinius Murena, newly elected to the consulship of 62 BCE but immediately prosecuted for electoral bribery, is especially famous for its digressions and valuable for its insights into the complex political wrangles of the late 60s. It is, however, a speech more …
Cicero's Pro L. Murena Oratio
Häftad, 2013
766 kr
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Cicero's speech on behalf of L. Lucinius Murena, newly elected to the consulship of 62 BCE but immediately prosecuted for electoral bribery, is especially famous for its digressions and valuable for its insights into the complex political wrangles of the late 60s. It is, however, a speech more …
Cicero's Pro L. Murena Oratio
E-bok, 2013
525 kr
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Cicero''s speech on behalf of L. Lucinius Murena, newly elected to the consulship of 62 BCE but immediately prosecuted for electoral bribery, is especially famous for its digressions and valuable for its insights into the complex political wrangles of the late 60s. It is, however, a speech more …
Julia Augusti
Häftad, 2006
649 kr
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This scholarly biography details the life of an extraordinary woman in an extraordinary society.Julia Augusti studies the life of the only daughter of Augustus, the first Roman emperor, and the father who sacrificed his daughter and her children in order to establish a dynasty.Studying the abundant …
Lucan: De bello civili Book II
Av Lucan, Elaine Fantham
Häftad, 1992
635 kr
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In this edition Professor Fantham offers the first full-scale commentary on the neglected second book of Lucan's epic poem on the war between Caesar and Pompey: De bello civili. Book II presents all three leading figures - Cato, Caesar and Pompey - in speech and action. It expresses the moral and …
Ovid: Fasti Book IV
Av Ovid, Elaine Fantham
Häftad, 1998
515 kr
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Book IV of the Fasti, Ovid's celebration of the Roman calendar and its associated legends, is the book of April and honours the festivals of Venus, Cybele, Ceres, and their cult, as well as the traditional date of the foundation of Rome and many religious and civic anniversaries. Elaine Fantham …
Emperor Nero
A Guide to the Ancient Sources
Av Anthony A. Barrett, Elaine Fantham m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
406 kr
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Nero's reign (AD 54-68) witnessed some of the most memorable events in Roman history, such as the rebellion of Boudica and the first persecution of the Christians--not to mention Nero's murder of his mother, his tyranny and extravagance, and his suicide, which plunged the empire into civil war. The …
Seneca's Troades
A Literary Introduction with Text, Translation and Commentary
E-bok, 2019
1230 kr
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Elaine Fantham provides here a fresh Latin text of Seneca''s Traodes and an English version, with an extensive introduction and critical commentary--the first separate treatment of the play in English since Kingery''s 1908 edition. Arguing that the Troades was not intended for stage production, the …
Seneca's Troades
A Literary Introduction with Text, Translation and Commentary
Häftad, 2019
892 kr
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Elaine Fantham provides here a fresh Latin text of Seneca's Traodes and an English version, with an extensive introduction and critical commentary--the first separate treatment of the play in English since Kingery's 1908 edition. Arguing that the Troades was not intended for stage production, the …
Seneca's Troades
A Literary Introduction with Text, Translation and Commentary
Inbunden, 2019
3610 kr
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Elaine Fantham provides here a fresh Latin text of Seneca's Traodes and an English version, with an extensive introduction and critical commentary--the first separate treatment of the play in English since Kingery's 1908 edition. Arguing that the Troades was not intended for stage production, the …
Julia Augusti
E-bok, 2006
696 kr
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This scholarly biography details the life of an extraordinary woman in an extraordinary society. Julia Augusti studies the life of the only daughter of Augustus, the first Roman emperor, and the father who sacrificed his daughter and her children in order to establish a dynasty. Studying the …
Julia Augusti
E-bok, 2006
717 kr
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This scholarly biography details the life of an extraordinary woman in an extraordinary society. Julia Augusti studies the life of the only daughter of Augustus, the first Roman emperor, and the father who sacrificed his daughter and her children in order to establish a dynasty. Studying the …
Emperor Nero
A Guide to the Ancient Sources
Av John C. Yardley, Elaine Fantham m. fl.
E-bok, 2016
530 kr
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Nero''s reign (AD 54–68) witnessed some of the most memorable events in Roman history, such as the rebellion of Boudica and the first persecution of the Christians—not to mention Nero''s murder of his mother, his tyranny and extravagance, and his suicide, which plunged the empire into civil war. …
Latin Poets and Italian Gods
Inbunden, 2009
769 kr
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Based on Elaine Fantham's 2004 Robson lectures, Latin Poets and Italian Gods reconstructs the response of Roman poets in the late republic and Augustan age to the rural cults of central Italy. Study of Roman gods is often limited to the grand equivalents of the Olympian Greek deities such as …
Collected Works of Erasmus
Literary and Educational Writings 7
Av Desiderius Erasmus, Elaine Fantham
E-bok, 1989
2380 kr
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This final volume in the Literary and Educational Writings contains diverse woks spanning a generation. They demonstrate Erasmus' skill in applying classical rhetoric to contemporary Christian needs. Four are short rhetorical pieces; the next group illustrates facets of Erasmus' classical …
Latin Poets and Italian Gods
E-bok, 2009
980 kr
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Based on Elaine Fantham's 2004 Robson lectures, Latin Poets and Italian Gods reconstructs the response of Roman poets in the late republic and Augustan age to the rural cults of central Italy. Study of Roman gods is often limited to the grand equivalents of the Olympian Greek deities such as …
Latin Poets and Italian Gods
Häftad, 2020
396 kr
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Based on Elaine Fantham's 2004 Robson lectures, Latin Poets and Italian Gods reconstructs the response of Roman poets in the late republic and Augustan age to the rural cults of central Italy. Study of Roman gods is often limited to the grand equivalents of the Olympian Greek deities such as …
Comparative Studies in Republican Latin Imagery
E-bok, 1972
459 kr
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Of all stylistic devices, imagery has the greatest appeal to the imagination, but is also the most likely to offend, either by staleness or by tasteless excess. This volume establishes some of the limitations which govern figurative language in Latin speech and prose by exploring such questions as …
Comparative Studies in Republican Latin Imagery
E-bok, 1972
459 kr
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Of all stylistic devices, imagery has the greatest appeal to the imagination, but is also the most likely to offend, either by staleness or by tasteless excess. This volume establishes some of the limitations which govern figurative language in Latin speech and prose by exploring such questions as …
Comparative Studies in Republican Latin Imagery
Häftad, 1972
364 kr
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Of all stylistic devices, imagery has the greatest appeal to the imagination, but is also the most likely to offend, either by staleness or by tasteless excess. This volume establishes some of the limitations which govern figurative language in Latin speech and prose by exploring such questions as …
Roman Readings
Roman response to Greek literature from Plautus to Statius and Quintilian
Inbunden, 2011
3113 kr
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This volume presents closely connected articles by Elaine Fantham, which deal with Roman responses to Greek literature on three major subjects: the history and criticism of Latin poetry and rhetoric, women in Roman life and dramatic poetry and the poetic representation of children in relation to …
Roman Readings
Roman response to Greek literature from Plautus to Statius and Quintilian
E-bok, 2011
3155 kr
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This volume presents closely connected articles by Elaine Fantham, which deal with Roman responses to Greek literature on three major subjects: the history and criticism of Latin poetry and rhetoric, women in Roman life and dramatic poetry and the poetic representation of children in relation to …
