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15 produkter
Virgil's Augustan Epic
Häftad, 2006
842 kr
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An examination of the main characters in the Aeneid - Aeneas himself, Dido and Turnus - in the light of Virgil's contemporary Augustan political and literary ideology. The characters and the plot and incident of the epic are seen as embodying and exemplifying first the ancient ideals of kingship …
Sextus Propertius
The Augustan Elegist
Häftad, 2009
1029 kr
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In 30-15 BC Sextus Propertius composed at Rome four books of elegies which range from erotic to learned to political and exhibit an unparalleled richness of themes, concepts and language. This book investigates their sources and motives, examining Propertius' family background in Umbrian Asisium …
Tibullus: A Hellenistic Poet at Rome
Häftad, 1979
823 kr
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Tibullus was one of the leading poets of Augustan Rome. Professor Cairns examines in detail aspects of Tibullus' poetic craftsmanship - his learning, his interest in the meanings of words, his use of suspense and deception, his control of the structures of his elegies - and demonstrates the …
Virgil's Augustan Epic
Inbunden, 1989
1872 kr
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An examination of the main characters in the Aeneid - Aeneas himself, Dido and Turnus - in the light of Virgil's contemporary Augustan political and literary ideology. The characters and the plot and incident of the epic are seen as embodying and exemplifying first the ancient ideals of kingship …
Sextus Propertius
The Augustan Elegist
Inbunden, 2006
2266 kr
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In 30-15 BC Sextus Propertius composed at Rome four books of elegies which range from erotic to learned to political and exhibit an unparalleled richness of themes, concepts and language. This book investigates their sources and motives, examining Propertius' family background in Umbrian Asisium …
Papers of the Leeds International Latin Seminar, Ninth Volume 1996
Av Francis Cairns, Malcolm Heath
Inbunden, 1996
692 kr
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The latest volume in this series of papers from Britain's premier classics conference, contains 22 papers on Roman poetry and prose, Greek poetry, etymology and historiography. Contents include: Money-loving Romans (Andrew Erskine); Virgil: a paradoxical poet? (P.R.Hardie); Herodotus warns the …
Generic Composition in Greek and Roman Poetry
Inbunden, 2007
374 kr
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Original in conception and powerful in scope, Generic Composition in Greek and Roman Poetry remains one of the most important books on early Greek, Hellenistic and Roman poetry in a generation. First published in the philological climate of the early 1970s, Francis Cairns' book was among the first …
Roman History in Roman Poetry
Av Francis Cairns, Trevor Luke
Inbunden, 2024
1263 kr
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In Roman History in Roman poetry (the 19th volume of PLLS) distinguished international scholars explore aspects of how historical and historiographical concerns were represented in or affected by Roman poetry. The essays, ranging chronologically from Roman pre-history through the late Republic and …
Hellenistic Epigram
Contexts of Exploration
Inbunden, 2016
2130 kr
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This book offers scholars and students of Hellenistic and Roman literature an overview of Hellenistic epigram, a field closely related to other Hellenistic poetry and highly influential upon Roman poetry. In fourteen themed chapters, it foregrounds the literary, linguistic, historical, epigraphic, …
Hellenistic Epigram
Contexts of Exploration
Häftad, 2020
787 kr
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This book offers scholars and students of Hellenistic and Roman literature an overview of Hellenistic epigram, a field closely related to other Hellenistic poetry and highly influential upon Roman poetry. In fourteen themed chapters, it foregrounds the literary, linguistic, historical, epigraphic, …
Roman Lyric
Collected Papers on Catullus and Horace
Inbunden, 2012
3113 kr
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Francis Cairns has made well-known contributions to the study of Roman Epic and Elegy. Papers on Catullus and Horace assembles his substantial body of work on Roman Lyric - about 30 papers published between 1969 and 2010 in many European and American periodicals, themed volumes and Festschriften, …
Roman Lyric
Collected Papers on Catullus and Horace
E-bok, 2012
3055 kr
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Francis Cairns has made well-known contributions to the study of Roman Epic and Elegy. Papers on Catullus and Horace assembles his substantial body of work on Roman Lyric - about 30 papers published between 1969 and 2010 in many European and American periodicals, themed volumes and Festschriften, …
Greek Poetry of Summons and Invitation
From Homer to the Hellenistic Age
Inbunden, 2024
2369 kr
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The Greek Poetry of Summons and Invitation assembles and studies for the first time the numerous poetic invitations and summonses of Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Greece. These poems and passages come from epic, lyric, dramatic, epigrammatic, and epigraphic sources. Most of them are by …
Greek Poetry of Summons and Invitation
From Homer to the Hellenistic Age
E-bok, 2024
1792 kr
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The Greek Poetry of Summons and Invitation assembles and studies for the first time the numerous poetic invitations and summonses of Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Greece. These poems and passages come from epic, lyric, dramatic, epigrammatic, and epigraphic sources. Most of them are by …
Greek Poetry of Summons and Invitation
From Homer to the Hellenistic Age
E-bok, 2024
1811 kr
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The Greek Poetry of Summons and Invitation assembles and studies for the first time the numerous poetic invitations and summonses of Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Greece. These poems and passages come from epic, lyric, dramatic, epigrammatic, and epigraphic sources. Most of them are by …
