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Texts, Editors, and Readers
Methods and Problems in Latin Textual Criticism
Häftad, 2016
486 kr
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This book re-examines the most traditional area of classical scholarship, offering critical assessments of the current state of the field, its methods and controversies, and its prospects for the future in a digital environment. Each stage of the editorial process is examined, from gathering and …
The Arts of Love
Five Studies in the Discourse of Roman Love Elegy
Häftad, 1992
560 kr
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This book examines the love elegies of the Roman poets Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid from the point of view of the way the meanings attributed to the poems arise out of the interests and preoccupations of the cultural situation in which they are read. Each study is centred around a reading of a …
The Epic Successors of Virgil
A Study in the Dynamics of a Tradition
Av Philip Hardie, D. C. Feeney m. fl.
Häftad, 1992
617 kr
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This short book is a study of the epic tradition of the early Roman empire and specifically of the epic poems of Ovid, Lucan, Statius, Valerius Flaccus and Silius Italicus. It explores the use they made of Virgil's Aeneid, an epic interpreted not just as a monument to the heroic construction of the …
Redeeming the Text
Latin Poetry and the Hermeneutics of Reception
Av Charles Martindale, D. C. Feeney m. fl.
Häftad, 1992
617 kr
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This book applies some of the procedures of modern critical theory (in particular reception-theory, deconstruction, theories of dialogue and the hermeneutics associated with the German philosopher Gadamer) to the interpretation of Latin poetry. Charles Martindale argues that we neither can nor …
Virgilian Geopoetics
The Poetics and Politics of Space in the Aeneid
Häftad, 2026
284 kr
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This is an exploration of how the spatial dimension of the Aeneid is enriched by history, memory, and prophecy. As the travel of Aeneas moves on through the Mediterranean, space is turning into place, and place is turning into a Romanized map of the world. Alessandro Barchiesi brings to bear on the …
Empire and Memory
The Representation of the Roman Republic in Imperial Culture
Häftad, 2005
641 kr
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The memory of the Roman Republic exercised a powerful influence on several generations of Romans who lived under its political and cultural successor, the Principate or Empire. Empire and Memory explores how (and why) that memory manifested itself over the course of the early Principate. Making use …
Engendering Rome
Women in Latin Epic
Häftad, 2000
804 kr
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Heroism has long been recognised by readers and critics of Roman epic as a central theme of the genre from Virgil and Ovid to Lucan and Statius. However the crucial role female characters play in the constitution and negotiation of the heroism on display in epic has received scant attention in the …
Literature and Religion at Rome
Cultures, Contexts, and Beliefs
Av Denis Feeney
Häftad, 1998
710 kr
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Recent reevaluations of Roman religion by ancient historians have stressed the vitality and creativity of the Romans' religious system throughout its long history of continual adaptation to new challenges. Capitalising on these insights, Denis Feeney argues that Roman literature was not an …
Writing Rome
Textual Approaches to the City
Häftad, 1996
677 kr
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The city of Rome is built not only of bricks and marble but also of the words of its writers. For the ancient inhabitant or visitor, the buildings of Rome, the public spaces of the city, were crowded with meanings and associations. These meanings were generated partly through activities associated …
Allusion and Intertext
Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Poetry
Av Stephen Hinds, D. C. Feeney m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
1572 kr
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The study of the deliberate allusion by one author to the words of a previous author has long been central to Latin philology. However, literary Romanists have been diffident about situating such work within the more spacious inquiries into intertextuality now current. This 1998 book represents an …
Allusion and Intertext
Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Poetry
Häftad, 1998
679 kr
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The study of the deliberate allusion by one author to the words of a previous author has long been central to Latin philology. However, literary Romanists have been diffident about situating such work within the more spacious inquiries into intertextuality now current. This 1998 book represents an …
Inconsistency in Roman Epic
Studies in Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and Lucan
Häftad, 2007
512 kr
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How should we react as readers and as critics when two passages in a literary work contradict one another? Classicists once assumed that all inconsistencies in ancient texts needed to be amended, explained away, or lamented. Building on recent work on both Greek and Roman authors, this book …
The Shadow of Callimachus
Studies in the Reception of Hellenistic Poetry at Rome
Häftad, 2006
617 kr
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Through a series of critical readings this book builds a picture of the Roman reaction to, and adoption of, the Greek poetry of the last three pre-Christian centuries. Although the poetry of the greatest figure of Greek poetry after Alexander, Callimachus of Cyrene, and his contemporaries stands at …
Texts, Editors, and Readers
Methods and Problems in Latin Textual Criticism
Inbunden, 2016
1497 kr
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This book re-examines the most traditional area of classical scholarship, offering critical assessments of the current state of the field, its methods and controversies, and its prospects for the future in a digital environment. Each stage of the editorial process is examined, from gathering and …
Latin Language and Latin Culture
From Ancient to Modern Times
Av Joseph Farrell, D. C. Feeney m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
742 kr
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The Latin language is popularly imagined in a number of specific ways: as a masculine language, an imperial language, a classical language, a dead language. This book considers the sources of these metaphors and analyses their effect on how Latin literature is read. It argues that these metaphors …
Slavery and the Roman Literary Imagination
Av William Fitzgerald, D. C. Feeney m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
560 kr
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This book explores the presence of slaves and slavery in Roman literature and asks particularly what the free imagination made of the experience of living with slaves, beings who both were and were not fellow humans. As a shadow humanity, slaves furnished the free with other selves and imaginative …
Virgilian Geopoetics
The Poetics and Politics of Space in the Aeneid
Inbunden, 2026
637 kr
Kommande
This is an exploration of how the spatial dimension of the Aeneid is enriched by history, memory, and prophecy. As the travel of Aeneas moves on through the Mediterranean, space is turning into place, and place is turning into a Romanized map of the world. Alessandro Barchiesi brings to bear on the …
Inconsistency in Roman Epic
Studies in Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and Lucan
Inbunden, 2007
1239 kr
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How should we react as readers and as critics when two passages in a literary work contradict one another? Classicists once assumed that all inconsistencies in ancient texts needed to be amended, explained away, or lamented. Building on recent work on both Greek and Roman authors, this book …
Empire and Memory
The Representation of the Roman Republic in Imperial Culture
Inbunden, 2005
977 kr
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The memory of the Roman Republic exercised a powerful influence on several generations of Romans who lived under its political and cultural successor, the Principate or Empire. Empire and Memory explores how (and why) that memory manifested itself over the course of the early Principate. Making use …
