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How to Find Happiness
An Ancient Guide to the Good Life
Av Marcus Tullius Cicero, Katharina Volk
Inbunden, 2026
198 kr
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Does happiness come from the pursuit of pleasure or moral virtue? A vivid new translation of Cicero’s exploration of a timeless question“Of course, we all want to be happy.” So wrote the Roman statesman, orator, and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero. He and his fellow Greek and Roman philosophers …
Vergil's Eclogues
E-bok, 2008
769 kr
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This volume, together with its companion on the Georgics and the previously published volume on the Aeneid , completes the coverage of Vergil''s poetry in Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. It collects ten classic papers on the Eclogues written between 1970 and 1999 by leading scholars from …
Vergil's Georgics
E-bok, 2008
712 kr
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This volume, together with its companion on the Eclogues and the previously published volume on the Aeneid , completes the coverage of Vergil''s poetry in Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. It collects ten classic papers on the Georgics written between 1970 and 1999 by leading scholars from …
Vergil's Eclogues
Av Katharina Volk, Katharina Volk
Inbunden, 2008
2547 kr
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This volume, together with its companion on the Georgics and the previously published volume on the Aeneid, completes the coverage of Vergil's poetry in Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. It collects ten classic papers on the Eclogues written between 1970 and 1999 by leading scholars from …
Vergil's Eclogues
Häftad, 2008
1115 kr
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This volume, together with its companion on the Georgics and the previously published volume on the Aeneid, completes the coverage of Vergil's poetry in Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. It collects ten classic papers on the Eclogues written between 1970 and 1999 by leading scholars from …
The Poetics of Latin Didactic
Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid, Manilius
Inbunden, 2002
4549 kr
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Some of the most famous literary works from antiquity are so-called didactic poems. Even the Greeks and Romans found it difficult to gain a theoretical understanding of this genre, and modern readers often avoid such texts, which they perceive as dry and overly technical. Volk offers a new …
Manilius and his Intellectual Background
Inbunden, 2009
3917 kr
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This is the first English-language monograph on Marcus Manilius, a Roman poet of the first century AD, whose Astronomica is our earliest extant comprehensive treatment of astrology. Katharina Volk brings Manilius and his world alive for modern readers by exploring the manifold intellectual …
Vergil's Georgics
Av Katharina Volk, Katharina Volk
Inbunden, 2008
3232 kr
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This volume, together with its companion on the Eclogues and the previously published volume on the Aeneid, completes the coverage of Vergil's poetry in Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. It collects ten classic papers on the Georgics written between 1970 and 1999 by leading scholars from …
Vergil's Georgics
Häftad, 2008
1052 kr
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This volume, together with its companion on the Eclogues and the previously published volume on the Aeneid, completes the coverage of Vergil's poetry in Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. It collects ten classic papers on the Georgics written between 1970 and 1999 by leading scholars from …
Forgotten Stars
Rediscovering Manilius' Astronomica
Av Steven J. Green, Katharina Volk
Inbunden, 2011
1853 kr
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The Astronomica of Manilius is a poem in five books, at least partly written under the Emperor Augustus, which purports to teach the reader the art of astrology and the means by which an accurate horoscope may be cast. It is, therefore, a text from the classical age of Roman literature which deals …
Roman Reflections
Studies in Latin Philosophy
Av Gareth D. Williams, Katharina Volk
Inbunden, 2015
1894 kr
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When the Romans adopted Greek literary genres, artistic techniques, and iconographies, they did not slavishly imitate their models. Rather, the Romans created vibrant and original literature and art. The same is true for philosophy, though the rich Roman philosophical tradition is still too often …
Roman Reflections
Studies in Latin Philosophy
Av Katharina Volk, Gareth D. Williams
E-bok, 2015
1246 kr
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When the Romans adopted Greek literary genres and artistic techniques, they did not slavishly imitate their models but created vibrant and original works of literature and art in their own right. The same is true for philosophy, notwithstanding the fact that the rich Roman philosophical tradition …
Roman Republic of Letters
Scholarship, Philosophy, and Politics in the Age of Cicero and Caesar
Inbunden, 2021
380 kr
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An intellectual history of the late Roman Republic—and the senators who fought both scholarly debates and a civil warIn The Roman Republic of Letters, Katharina Volk explores a fascinating chapter of intellectual history, focusing on the literary senators of the mid-first century BCE who came to …
Roman Republic of Letters
Scholarship, Philosophy, and Politics in the Age of Cicero and Caesar
E-bok, 2021
357 kr
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An intellectual history of the late Roman Republic—and the senators who fought both scholarly debates and a civil war In The Roman Republic of Letters , Katharina Volk explores a fascinating chapter of intellectual history, focusing on the literary senators of the mid-first century BCE who came to …
Roman Republic of Letters
Scholarship, Philosophy, and Politics in the Age of Cicero and Caesar
Häftad, 2023
261 kr
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An intellectual history of the late Roman Republic—and the senators who fought both scholarly debates and a civil warIn The Roman Republic of Letters, Katharina Volk explores a fascinating chapter of intellectual history, focusing on the literary senators of the mid-first century BCE who came to …
Cicero: Laelius de amicitia
Av Katharina Volk, James E. G. Zetzel
Inbunden, 2024
1370 kr
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Cicero's last dialogue, De amicitia, is a work of stylistic brilliance containing the fullest examination of the values and problems of friendship to survive from the Greco-Roman world. How do we make (and lose) friends? If a conflict arises between personal affection and ethical behavior, how do …
Cicero: Laelius de amicitia
Av Katharina Volk, James E. G. Zetzel
Häftad, 2024
381 kr
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Cicero's last dialogue, De amicitia, is a work of stylistic brilliance containing the fullest examination of the values and problems of friendship to survive from the Greco-Roman world. How do we make (and lose) friends? If a conflict arises between personal affection and ethical behavior, how do …
Ovid
Inbunden, 2010
540 kr
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This book provides a unique and accessible introduction to the complete works of Ovid. Using a thematic approach, Volk lays out what we know about Ovid's life, presents the author's works within their poetic genres, and discusses central Ovidian themes. The first general introduction to Ovid …
Ovid
E-bok, 2010
618 kr
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This book provides a unique and accessible introduction to the complete works of Ovid. Using a thematic approach, Volk lays out what we know about Ovid''s life, presents the author''s works within their poetic genres, and discusses central Ovidian themes. The first general introduction to Ovid …
Ovid
E-bok, 2011
605 kr
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This book provides a unique and accessible introduction to the complete works of Ovid. Using a thematic approach, Volk lays out what we know about Ovid''s life, presents the author''s works within their poetic genres, and discusses central Ovidian themes. The first general introduction to Ovid …
Ovid
2010
1189 kr
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This book provides a unique and accessible introduction to the complete works of Ovid. Using a thematic approach, Volk lays out what we know about Ovid's life, presents the author's works within their poetic genres, and discusses central Ovidian themes. The first general introduction to Ovid …
