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Psychomachia of Prudentius
Text, Commentary, and Glossary
Häftad, 2019
382 kr
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Prudentius (b. 348 c.e.), one of the greatest Latin poets of late antiquity, was also a devoted Christian. His allegorical masterpiece, Psychomachia, combines epic language and theological speculation to offer a powerful vision of Roman and Christian triumphalism. Yet this important work - one of …
Plato's Apology of Socrates
A Commentary
Av Paul Allen Miller, Charles Platter
Häftad, 2010
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
329 kr
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The significance of Plato's Apology of Socrates is impossible to overestimate. An account of the famous trial of Socrates in 399 b.c., it appeals to historians, philosophers, political scientists, classicists, and literary critics. It is also essential reading for students of ancient Greek.This new …
Lysias
Selected Speeches
Av Lysias, Charles Darwin Adams
Häftad, 1989
298 kr
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The Greek writer Lysias is a fascinating source for the study of Athenian law, society and history in the late fifth century B.C. Six of his professional legal speeches are included in this new edition, both for their intrinsic interest and for the accessibility of their language. In his …
Women in Prehistory
Häftad, 1990
254 kr
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ocial attitudes in our culture have led to the assumption that early advances in human knowledge were the achievements of men; the role of women in prehistoric times has been largely overlooked. In this thought-provoking book, however, Margaret Ehrenberg argues that the true contribution of women …
Work, Identity, and Legal Status at Rome
A Study of the Occupational Inscriptions
Häftad, 1993
342 kr
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In Work, Identity, and Legal Status at Rome, Sandra R. Joshel examines Roman commemorative inscriptions from the first and second centuries A.D. to determine ways in which slaves, freed slaves, and unprivileged freeborn citizens used work to frame their identities. The inscriptions indicate the …
Greece, Rome, and the Bill of Rights
Inbunden, 1992
398 kr
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Susan Ford Wiltshire traces the evolution of the doctrine of individual rights from antiquity through the eighteenth century. The common thread through that long story is the theory of natural law. Growing out of Greek political thought, especially that of Aristotle, natural law became a major …
Plautus Curculio
Av John Wright
Häftad, 1993
252 kr
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Plautus' Curculio, the shortest of the twenty surviving comedies by ancient Rome's master dramatist, certainly is among his best. It has all the characteristics that make Plautus a perennial favorite among readers of Latin: archetypal characters such as the braggart warrior and the greedy parasite, …
Virgil
A Study in Civilized Poetry
Av Brooks Otis
Häftad, 1995
333 kr
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In this classic study, Brooks Otis presents Virgil as a radically different poet from any of his Greek or Roman predecessors. Virgil molded the ancient epic tradition to his own Roman contemporary aims and succeeded in making mythical and legendary figures meaningful to a sophisticated, unmythical …
Horace
Epodes and Odes, a New Annotated Latin Edition
Häftad, 1998
382 kr
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This fully annotated Latin edition, by Daniel H. Garrison, of Horace's Epodes, Odes, and Carmen Saeculare is the first comprehensive English commentary on these works since 1903. The full text of the Epodes is included and placed before the Odes, as it was originally written and published. Garrison …
Reading Vergil's Aeneid
An Interpretive Guide
Av Christine G. Perkell, C.G. Perkell
Häftad, 1999
333 kr
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Vergil's Aeneid has been considered a classic, if not the classic, of Western literature for two thousand years. In recent decades this famous poem has become the subject of fresh and searching controversy. What is the poem's fundamental meaning? Does it endorse or undermine values of empire and …
Student's Ovid
Selections from the Metamorphoses
Av Ovid, Margaret Worsham Musgrove
Häftad, 2000
333 kr
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Ideally suited to intermediate to advanced college-level students, The Student's Ovid offers twenty-one selections from the Metamorphoses, with notes to aid translation and interpretation. The introduction includes an essay on Ovid's life and works, an outline of the structure of the Metamorphoses, …
Iliad As Politics
The Performance of Political Thought
Av Dean Hammer
Inbunden, 2002
463 kr
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Wily Odysseus. Bold Achilles. Brave Hektor. Beautiful Helen of Troy. For centuries, people around the world have been fascinated by these figures and their tragic war as recounted in Homer's Iliad, long admired and studied as one of the foremost epic poems of the ancient world. In The Iliad as …
Euripides' Alcestis
Av Euripides
Häftad, 2003
298 kr
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Euripides' Alcestis - perhaps the most anthologized Attic drama--is an ideal text for students reading their first play in the original Greek. Literary commentaries and language aids in most editions are too advanced or too elementary for intermediate students of the language, but in their new …
Cleopatra
A Sourcebook
Häftad, 2006
292 kr
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Who was Cleopatra? Who is Cleopatra? Viewed as both goddess and monster even in her own lifetime, she has become through the ages saint and sinner, heroine and victim, femme fatale and star-crossed lover, black and white. A protean figure, Cleopatra defies categorization.Cleopatra's life story, …
Concise Guide to Teaching Latin Literature
Av Ronnie Ancona, Ronnie Ancona
Häftad, 2007
284 kr
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Catullus, Horace, Ovid, Cicero, and Vergil are the official Advanced Placement Program Latin authors as well as standard reading for college and advanced secondary students of Latin. This book provides accessible information about recent scholarship on these authors to show how an awareness of …
Clodia
A Sourcebook
Häftad, 2008
292 kr
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A striking portrait of one of the most fascinating women in Roman historyNoble and notorious, the flamboyant Clodia Metelli was the object of passion in poetry and prose in ancient Rome and appears in more written sources than any other woman of her day. Cicero, in a famous oration, branded her a …
Roman Political Thought and the Modern Theoretical Imagination
Av Dean Hammer
Inbunden, 2008
468 kr
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Links modern political theorists with the Romans who inspired themRoman contributions to political theory have been acknowledged primarily in the province of law and administration. Even with a growing interest among classicists in Roman political thought, most political theorists view it as merely …
Caesar and the Crisis of the Roman Aristocracy
A Civil War Reader
Häftad, 2008
284 kr
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One of the Greatest Military and Political Geniuses in western history, Julius Caesar stirs almost as much controversy today as he did in his own time. Neutrality toward Caesar may well be impossible--and according to James S. Ruebel, it is undesirable. In Caesar and the Crisis of the Roman …
Euripides' Electra
A Commentary
Av Hanna M. Roisman, C. A. E. Luschnig
Häftad, 2011
317 kr
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Among the best-known Greek tragedies, Electra is also one of the plays students of Greek often read in the original language. It tells the story of how Electra and her brother, Orestes, avenge the murder of their father, Agamemnon, by their mother and her lover. H. M. Roisman and C. A. E. Luschnig …
Eros at the Banquet
Reviewing Greek with Plato's Symposium
Av Louise Pratt
Häftad, 2011
342 kr
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After studying ancient Greek for a year, students often become discouraged when presented with unabridged classical texts that offer only minimal supportive apparatus.In welcome contrast, this intermediate-level textbook reinforces the first-year lessons and enables students to read Plato's …
Essentials of Greek Grammar
A Reference for Intermediate Readers of Attic Greek
Av Louise Pratt
Häftad, 2011
342 kr
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Designed for intermediate-level students, this textbook presents an outline of the essential forms and syntax of ancient Attic Greek. A perfect supplement to Louise Pratt's Eros at the Banquet, it also stands alone as a useful resource for any student seeking to move beyond the basics of Greek into …
Lysistrata, the Women's Festival, and Frogs
Av Aristophanes
Häftad, 2011
447 kr
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Most readers nowadays encounter the plays of Aristophanes in the classroom, not the theater. Yet the ""father of comedy"" wrote his plays for the stage, not as literary texts. Many English translations of the plays were written decades ago, and in their outdated language they fail to capture the …
Death in the Greek World
From Homer to the Classical Age
Häftad, 2012
254 kr
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In our contemporary Western society, death has become taboo. Despite its inevitability, we focus on maintaining youthfulness and well-being, while fearing death's intrusion in our daily activities. In contrast, observes Maria Serena Mirto, the ancient Greeks embraced death more openly and …
Aeneid of Vergil
Av Vergil
Häftad, 2012
317 kr
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At the beginning of Vergil's epic poem - long considered a classic of Western literature - the hero Aeneas escapes from the carnage of the Trojan War and embarks on a treacherous series of adventures that eventually lead him to the future site of Rome. Vergil renders Aeneas' dramatic story in …
Acharnians, Knights, and Peace
Av Aristophanes
Häftad, 2012
284 kr
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Most readers nowadays encounter the plays of Aristophanes in the classroom, not the theater. Yet the ""father of comedy"" wrote his plays for the stage, not as literary texts. Many English translations of the plays were written decades ago, and in their outdated language they fail to capture the …
Student's Catullus
Häftad, 2004
342 kr
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Although his audacious, erotic, and satirical verses survived the Middle Ages in only a single copy, Catullus has become in our time a canonical author, ranking in popularity and importance with Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. And for students and teachers of Latin, Daniel H. Garrison's The Student's …
Caesar's Gallic War
A Commentary
Häftad, 2012
254 kr
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A classic of western literature, Julius Caesar's Gallic War is also a staple of Latin language instruction at both the high school and college levels. This new edition for students, prepared by a senior classical scholar and translator, is among the most comprehensive available and will be …
From Republic to Empire
Rhetoric, Religion, and Power in the Visual Culture of Ancient Rome
Av John Pollini
Inbunden, 2012
757 kr
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Political image-making - especially from the Age of Augustus, when the Roman Republic evolved into a system capable of governing a vast, culturally diverse empire - is the focus of this masterful study of Roman culture. Distinguished art historian and classical archaeologist John Pollini explores …
Plato's Phaedrus
A Commentary for Greek Readers
Av Paul Ryan
Häftad, 2012
275 kr
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Composed in the fourth century b.c., the Phaedrus - a dialogue between Phaedrus and Socrates - deals ostensibly with love but develops into a wide-ranging discussion of such subjects as the pursuit of beauty, the nature of humanity, the immortality of the soul, and the attainment of truth, ending …
Odyssey
Av Homer, Herbert Jordan
Häftad, 2014
317 kr
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One of the two major ancient Greek epics, Homer's Odyssey, has been a classic of Western Literature for centuries. This new translation into spare, elegant blank verse is certain to attract the same praise and admiration as Herbert Jordan's translation of Homer's Iliad.In keeping with the style of …
