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Commentary on Ovid's Fasti, Book 6
E-bok, 2006
2699 kr
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After a period of neglect, Ovid''s elegiac poem on the Roman calendar has been the focus of much recent scholarship. In her comprehensive and scholarly study of the final book, Joy Littlewood analyses Ovid''s account of the origins of the festivals of June, demonstrating that Book 6 is effectively …
Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination
Av R. Joy Littlewood, Antony Augoustakis
E-bok, 2019
1497 kr
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The region of Campania with its fertility and volcanic landscape exercised great influence over the Roman cultural imagination. A hub of activity outside the city of Rome, the Bay of Naples was a place of otium , leisure and quiet, repose and literary productivity, and yet also a place of danger: …
Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination
Av R. Joy Littlewood, Antony Augoustakis
E-bok, 2019
1497 kr
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The region of Campania with its fertility and volcanic landscape exercised great influence over the Roman cultural imagination. A hub of activity outside the city of Rome, the Bay of Naples was a place of otium , leisure and quiet, repose and literary productivity, and yet also a place of danger: …
A Commentary on Silius Italicus' Punica 10
Inbunden, 2017
2257 kr
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The Battle of Cannae represents a conflict of mighty powers and a crushing defeat, notoriously the worst in Rome's history. Dawn on 2 August 216 BC saw the armies of Rome and Carthage clash in what the participants hoped would be the decisive engagement for supremacy in Mediterranean trade and …
Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination
Av Antony Augoustakis, R. Joy Littlewood
Inbunden, 2019
2336 kr
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The region of Campania with its fertility and volcanic landscape exercised great influence over the Roman cultural imagination. A hub of activity outside the city of Rome, the Bay of Naples was a place of otium, leisure and quiet, repose and literary productivity, and yet also a place of danger: …
Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 3
Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary
Av Antony Augoustakis, R. Joy Littlewood
Inbunden, 2022
3475 kr
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Hannibal's crossing of the Alps represents a momentous event in the beginning of the Second Punic War (218-202 BCE). The third book of Silius Italicus' Punica reimagines this courageous feat, retracing the journey of Hannibal and his army from the temple of Hercules/Melqart in Gades, across the …
A Commentary on Ovid's Fasti, Book 6
Inbunden, 2006
4233 kr
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After a period of neglect, Ovid's elegiac poem on the Roman calendar has been the focus of much recent scholarship. In her comprehensive and scholarly study of the final book, Joy Littlewood analyses Ovid's account of the origins of the festivals of June, demonstrating that Book 6 is effectively a …
Commentary on Silius Italicus, Punica 7
Inbunden, 2011
3262 kr
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Once stigmatized as 'the worst epic ever written', Silius Italicus' Punica is now the focus of a resurgence of critical interest and wide-ranging positive reappraisal. In a climate of flourishing interest in Flavian literary culture, Punica 7 now joins the rising number of commentaries on Flavian …
Ovid: Amores. Text, Prolegomena and Commentary in four volumes. Volume IV.i. A Commentary on Book Three, Elegies 1 to 8
Av James C McKeown, R Joy Littlewood
Inbunden, 2023
964 kr
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The third and final book of Ovid’s love elegies is a complex farewell to the genre. It begins, programmatically, with Ovid, torn between Tragedy and Elegy, persuading Tragedy to give him a little more time for his love poetry and love affairs. As the book progresses, familiar obstructions to the …
