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Legare Street Press The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age Virgil
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Legare Street Press The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age
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LEGARE STREET PR De Bello Gallico Books 17
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LEGARE STREET PR Damasi Epigrammata
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LEGARE STREET PR Prisciani Grammatici Caesarienis Institutionum
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Legare Street Press Historia Philosophiae Graecae Et Romanae
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Legare Street Press Ars Oratoria
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LEGARE STREET PR Epinikoi Isthmionikais. The Isthmian odes. Edited
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Legare Street Press Epinikoi Isthmionikais. The Isthmian odes. Edited
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Poetry of Alcuin of York
Book SynopsisThis volume offers for the first time in any language a translation of the poetic corpus of Alcuin of York (c. 735â804), numbering some 339 individual pieces and nearly 7,000 lines.An introduction touches on Alcuinâs life, his writings (including doubtful works and pseudepigrapha), his Latinity, his place in the Latin literary tradition, and the manuscripts, textual history, and editions of his poetry. The translations follow DÃmmlerâs Latin text, with each poem controlled by a headnote that places the piece in its historical and literary contexts. A series of appendices offers translations of selected letters, a register of the poems by meter, a census of nearly 200 manuscripts with digital links, and a prolegomenon to a new edition.The Poetry of Alcuin of York is a stimulating resource for anyone working on later Latin poetry, and late ancient literature more broadly. The poems also offer fascinating insights into life and scholarship in Anglo-Saxon England and in the Carolingian empire in the late eighth and early ninth centuries, and so will also be of interest to students of medieval history.
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Cambridge University Press A Hellenistic Anthology
Book SynopsisThis book is an anthology of Greek poetry written during the third to first centuries BC, the Hellenistic period. It is intended to make available to undergraduates and graduate students a selection of texts which are for the most part not easily accessible elsewhere. The volume contains a wide and representative range of poetry including hymns, didactic verse, pastoral poetry, epigrams and epic. An introduction provides cultural and historical background, and a full commentary elucidates problems of language and reference in the texts. In this second edition, many notes have been rewritten and the bibliography has been updated. The selection has also been augmented with three hundred more lines of Greek text (Theocritus poems 5 and 15), and is now more than 2000 lines in length.Trade Review'This A Hellenistic Anthology - now issued as a second edition, with a greater contribution from Theocritus - is a welcome addition to the Green-and-Yellow series. The Introduction manages to convey a lot of information in a relatively short space … We then have the Commentary. [Hopkinson] introduces each poet, at greater or lesser length with a terse bibliography. The notes are a model of their kind: relevant, concise, precise … This is unequivocally excellent.' Colin Leach, Classics for All'I feel confident that Professor Hopkinson will continue to live on as a 'brilliant and devoted teacher' in this and in his other well-received publications.' James J. Clauss, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The apparatus criticus; Commentary; Appendix. Doric dialect; Indexes.
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Cambridge University Press Platos Gorgias
Book SynopsisThis Critical Guide offers detailed analysis of all parts of Plato's Gorgias, together with diverse perspectives on its advocacy of a philosophical, just life as against a life of rhetoric and injustice.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Aristophanes Lysistrata
Book SynopsisLysistrata is the most notorious of Aristophanes' comedies. First staged in 411 BCE, its action famously revolves around a sex strike launched by the women of Greece in an attempt to force their husbands to end the war. With its risqué humour, vibrant battle of the sexes, and themes of war and peace, Lysistrata remains as daring and thought-provoking today as it would have been for its original audience in Classical Athens. Aristophanes: Lysistrata is a lively and engaging introduction to this play aimed at students and scholars of classical drama alike. It sets Lysistrata in its social and historical context, looking at key themes such as politics, religion and its provocative portrayal of women, as well as the play's language, humour and personalities, including the formidable and trailblazing Lysistrata herself. Lysistrata has often been translated, adapted and performed in the modern era and this book also traces the ways in which it has been re-Trade ReviewRobson succeeds throughout in combining infectious enthusiasm and dispassionate discussion with a lightness of touch and lucidity that should appeal to students, lay readers and scholars alike. A quiet relish comes across not only in his lively discussion of sexual language, and of the ins and outs of the play’s censorship history, but also in the warmth and humour of his translations of the Greek. * Times Literary Supplement *James Robson has written a richly informative and reliable guide to one of Aristophanes’ most lively and durable comedies and, in my view, accomplished his stated goal of keeping the material at a consistently high level that is both challenging and accessible to a wide range of readers. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Maps Timeline of Ancient Events Introduction 1 Lysistrata in Context: Old Comedy and Athens in 411 BCE 2 The Action of the Play 3 People, Places and Politics 4 Laughter, Language and Logic 5 Lysistrata in the Modern World Notes Further Reading and Works Cited Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Plautus Menaechmi
Book SynopsisThis new volume in the Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions series is perfect for students coming to one of Plautus'' most whimsical, provocative, and influential plays for the first time, and a useful first point of reference for scholars less familiar with Roman comedy. Menaechmi is a tale of identical twin brothers who are separated as young children and reconnect as adults following a series of misadventures due to mistaken identity. A gluttonous parasite, manipulative courtesan, shrewish wife, crotchety father-in-law, bumbling cook, saucy handmaid, quack doctor, and band of thugs comprise the colourful cast of characters. Each encounter with a misidentified twin destabilizes the status quo and provides valuable insight into Roman domestic and social relationships. The book analyzes the power dynamics at play in the various relationships, especially between master and slave and husband and wife, in order to explore the meaning of freedom and the status of slaves and women iTable of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: TWINtroduction to Menaechmi, Plautus, and Roman Comedy Chapter 2: Persons (and Places) of TWINterest: Setting, Characters, and Themes Chapter 3: Bits, Banter, and Buffoonery: TWINterplay of Comic Language and Stage Business Chapter 4: TWINfluence on the Classical Tradition Appendix Texts, Translations, and Commentaries Notes References Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC OCR Anthology for Classical Greek AS and A Level
Book SynopsisThis is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Greek AS and A-Level set text prescriptions for 202426 giving full Greek text, commentary and vocabulary and a detailed introduction for each text that also covers the prescription to be read in English for A Level. The texts covered are:AS and A Level Groups 1&3Herodotus, Histories, Book 1, 16, 813 and 1922Plato, Republic, Book 1, 327a to 332b Homer, Iliad, Book 16, lines 2047, 644867Euripides, Hippolytus, 284361, 391524A Level Groups 2&4Herodotus, Histories, Book 7: 3435, 3839, 4552, 101105Plato, Republic, Book 1, 336b to 337a7 and 338a4 to end of 342Plutarch, Life of Anthony, 7686 Homer, Iliad, Book 24, lines 349595Euripides, Hippolytus, 601624, 627633, 638662, 664668, 682731, 885911, 9141028, 10301035Aristophanes, Frogs, 1208 and 830874Supplementary resources are available on the Companion Website: https://www.bloomsbury.pub/OCR-editions-2024-2026.Table of ContentsPreface Then for each text: Introduction Text Commentary Notes Vocabulary
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC An Anthology of NeoLatin Literature in British
Book SynopsisCompiled by a team of experts in the field, this volume brings to view an array of Latin texts produced in British universities from c.1500 to 1700. It includes a comprehensive introduction to the production of Neo-Latin and Neo-Greek in the early modern university, the precise circumstances and broader environments that gave rise to it, plus an associated bibliography. 12 high-quality sections, each prefaced by its own short introduction, set forth the Latin (and occasionally Greek) texts and accompanying English translations and notes. Each section provides focused orientation and is arranged in such a way as to ensure the volume''s accessibility to scholars and students at all levels of familiarity with Neo-Latin. Passages are taken from documents that were composed in seats of learning across the British Isles, in Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin, Edinburgh and St Andrews, and adduce a wide range of material from orations and disputational theses to collections of occasional verse,Trade ReviewAn excellent introduction to the volume as a whole lucidly describes the development of universities in early modern Britain. The material collected examines these important institutions through the lens of the languages – Latin, and to a lesser extent, Greek – in which they functioned, revealing the vital role universities played in public and political life. -- Elisabeth Dutton, Professor of Medieval English, University of Fribourg, SwitzerlandTable of ContentsList of contributors Preface Introduction (Lucy R. Nicholas, KCL, UK) Texts 1 Academic Freedom on Trial in Tudor Times Stephen Gardiner (1483–1555), letter to John Cheke, 15 May 1542 (Micha Lazarus, University of Cambridge, UK) 2 Why Tudor Cambridge Needs Greek Richard Croke (1489–1558), Orationes duae (Aaron Kachuk, University of Cambridge, UK, and Benedick C.F. McDougall) 3 A Professor in Scottish Politics Andrew Melville (1545–1622), Stephaniskion (Stephen J. Harrison, University of Oxford, UK) 4 A Distinct Mode of Pastoral in Elizabethan Cambridge Giles Fletcher the Elder (c. 1546–1611), Ecloga Daphnis (Sharon van Dijk, University of Birmingham, UK) 5 Greek and Latin poetry from Cambridge on sixteenth-century questions of faith Act and Tripos verses from the 1580s and the 1590s (William M. Barton, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Austria) 6 Happy New Year in Jacobean Oxford: Metamorphosing Ovid into Student Comedy Philip Parsons (1594–1653), Atalanta (Elizabeth Sandis, Institute for English Studies, UK) 7 European Networks and the Reformation of the University of Edinburgh Astronomical disputations from the graduating class of 1612–16. Lecturer: William King (David McOmish, University of Glasgow, UK) 8 A Prevaricator Speech from Caroline Cambridge James Duport (1606–1679), Aurum potest produci per artem chymicam (Tommi Alho, University, Finland) 9 An Irish Panegyric on Henry Cromwell Caesar Williamson (c. 1611–1675), Panegyris in Excellentissimum Dominum, Dominum Henricum Cromwellum (Jason Harris, University College Cork, Ireland) 10 Herrings, Linen and Cheese: Celebrating the Treaty of Westminster in 1654 The Musarum Oxoniensium Elaiophoria (Oxford) and the Oliva Pacis (Cambridge) (Caroline Spearing, University of Exeter, UK) 11 Political Poetry from late Stuart Cambridge Cambridge Poems on the Peace of 1697 (David Money, University of Cambridge, UK) Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Simplicius On Aristotle Physics 1.12
Book SynopsisWith this translation, all 12 volumes of translation of Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's Physics have been published (full list below). In Physics 1.12, Aristotle raises the question of the number and character of the first principles of nature and feels the need to oppose the challenge of the paradoxical Eleatic philosophers who had denied that there could be more than one unchanging thing.This volume, part of the groundbreaking Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, translates into English for the first time Simplicius'' commentary on this selected text, and includes a brief introduction, extensive explanatory notes, indexes and a bibliography.Previous published volumes translating Simplicius'' commentary on Aristotle''s Physics can all be found in Bloomsbury's series:- On Aristotle Physics 1.34, tr. P. Huby and C. C. W. Taylor, 2011- On Aristotle Physics 1.59, tr. H. Baltussen, M. Atkinson, M. Share and I. MuelleTable of ContentsConventions Abbreviations Acknowledgements Principal Philosophers and Mathematicians Discussed Editors’ Preface Note on Text and Translation Translation Notes Bibliography English-Greek Glossary Greek-English Index Subject Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Looking at Greek Drama
Book SynopsisThis is a vital and accessible overview of Greek drama from its origins to its later reception, including chapters on authors and dramas in their social and religious context as well as key aspects such as structure, character, staging and music. With contributions by 13 international scholars, world experts in their field, it provides readers with clear, authoritative, up-to-date considerations of both the theory and practice of Greek drama. While each chapter can stand in isolation, the overall structure takes readers on a natural progression beginning with sources of evidence and origins, considering the major genres and their authors, examining the traditional Aristotelean components of drama in the context of performance, and ending with later reception. In doing so, it explores Greek drama as at once a religious act, a stage for political propaganda, an opportunity for questioning social issues, and pure entertainment a stunning melange of poetry, music, dance, and v
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Phryne
Book SynopsisHow did Mnesarete, a girl from Boeotia, turn into Phryne the famous beauty, and how did she end up as an enduring symbol of ancient Greek culture? This book pieces together the story of the notorious fourth-century Athenian sex worker, Phryne. It considers her early life and her development into a cultural figure, whose influence and legacy have lasted from her own lifetime to the present day. It also investigates her infamous nude courtroom appearance, her influence on one of the most well-known statues from antiquity and her connection to celebrated figures from Alexander the Great to the artist Apelles. Her appearances in modern culture, ranging from Belle Epoque cabaret shows to 1950s Italian film, are also analysed, offering an account of how the real life of a woman turned into the biography of a dream girl. Nothing but fragmentsremain of Phryne's story, short anecdotes passed on and on again in literary compendia, that tell the story of a witty and beautiful wTrade ReviewDrawing on an impressive number of literary and historical sources, Melissa Funke has created an innovative and sophisticated treatment of Phryne’s reputation. This original approach to life writing provides a model for similar reconstructions of women from the ancient world. -- Isobel Hurst, Lecturer in English, Goldsmiths, University of London, UKTable of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Note on Translation Introduction Chapter One: Mnesarete to Phryne Chapter Two: Phryne the Artist’s Model Chapter Three: Phryne on Trial Chapter Four: Phryne’s Afterlife Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC OCR Anthology for Latin AS and A Level Shorter
Book SynopsisThe only exam-board approved book for OCR's Latin AS and A-Level prescription of Tibullus I.2, I.5, II.4, Ovid's Metamorphoses VII and Lucretius' de rerum natura I for examinations in 202628..
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC OCR Anthology for Latin AS and A Level Shorter
Book SynopsisThe only exam-board approved book for OCR's Latin AS and A-Level prescription of Nepos' Life of Hannibal, Tacitus' Annals XIV and Apuleius' Metamorphoses VI for examinations in 202628.
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Lulu.com Poetics
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Edinburgh University Press Sidonius Letters Book 5 Part 1
Book SynopsisStudies the first half of Sidonius' fifth book of letters from a philological, literary and historical perspectiveTrade Review"In the first commentary ever published on Book 5 of the letters of Sidonius, Giulia Marolla combines philological, literary and historical expertise to offer a profound new insight into the coherent artistic unit created from the largely secular matters that preoccupy the bishop in Book 5. Fresh discoveries abound in this tour de force." -Roy Gibson, Durham University
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Edinburgh University Press The Spirit of Aristophanes
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Edinburgh University Press The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor
Book SynopsisA radical rewrite of the history of fourth-century Latin literature
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Manchester University Press Rebel Angels: Space and Sovereignty in
Book SynopsisOver six hundred years before John Milton’s Paradise Lost, Anglo-Saxon authors told their own version of the fall of the angels. This book brings together various cultural moments, literary genres and relevant comparanda to recover that version, from the legal and social world to the world of popular spiritual ritual and belief. The story of the fall of the angels in Anglo-Saxon England is the story of a successfully transmitted exegetical teaching turned rich literary tradition. It can be traced through a range of genres – sermons, saints’ lives, royal charters, riddles, devotional and biblical poetry – each one offering a distinct window into the ancient myth’s place within the Anglo-Saxon literary and cultural imagination. Trade Review'One comes away from this book with a new appreciation for the motif of the fallen angels, both in its frequency and in its flexibility for interpretation and application.'Journal of English and Germanic Philology'Rebel Angels is a fantastic resource collating stories of angelic rebellion in early medieval England.'Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures -- .Table of ContentsList of figuresIntroduction1 Lands idle and unused2 The anxiety of inheritance3 Rebel clerics, monastic replacements4 The angels’ share5 A homeland as a possession6 A new praedestinati in Wulfstan’s Sermo Lupi ad AnglosAfterwordBibliographyIndex
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Medieval Institute Publications The Roland and Otuel Romances and the
Book SynopsisThis edition contains four Middle English Charlemagne romances from the Otuel cycle: Roland and Vernagu, Otuel a Knight, Otuel and Roland, and Duke Roland and Sir Otuel of Spain. A translation of the romances' source, the Anglo-French Otinel, is also included. The romances centre on conflicts between Frankish Christians and various Saracen groups, and deal with issues of racial and religious difference, conversion, and faith-based violence.Table of ContentsGeneral Introduction Select Bibliography Roland and Vernagu Introduction Select Bibliography Text Notes Otuel a Knight Introduction Select Bibliography Text Notes Otuel and Roland Introduction Select Bibliography Text Notes Duke Roland and Sir Otuel of Spain Introduction Select Bibliography Text Notes The Anglo-French Otinel Introduction Select Bibliography Text and Translation Notes Glossary
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Medieval Institute Publications The Owl and the Nightingale and the English
Book SynopsisAn edition of the early Middle English verse sequence contained in the thirteenth-century Oxford Jesus College MS 29 (II) with accompanying translations in Modern English and scholarly introduction and apparatus. The sequence is varied in subject, with poems of religious exhortation set beside others of secular pragmatism. Included are: The Owl and the Nightingale, Poema Morale, The Proverbs of Alfred, Thomas of Hales’s Love Rune, The Eleven Pains of Hell, the prose Shires and Hundreds of England, the lengthy Passion of Jesus Christ in English, and twenty-one additional lyrics, most of them uniquely preserved in this manuscript. Made in the West Midlands, the Jesus 29 manuscript is the lengthiest all-English verse collection known to exist in the period between the Exeter Book and the Harley Lyrics.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations List General Introduction Oxford, Jesus College, MS 29 (II): Texts and Translations 1. The Passion of Jesus Christ in English 2. The Owl and the Nightingale 3. Poema Morale 4. The Saws of Saint Bede 5. The Woman of Samaria 6. Weal 7. Death’s Wither-Clench 8. An Orison to Our Lady 9. Will and Wit 10. The Annunciation 11. The Five Joys of Our Lady Saint Mary 12. When Holy Church Is Under Foot 13. Doomsday 14. Death 15. Ten Abuses 16. A Little Sooth Sermon 17. Antiphon of Saint Thomas the Martyr in English 18. On Serving Christ 19. Thomas of Hales, Love Rune 20. Song of the Annunciation 21. Fire and Ice 22. Signs of Death 23. Three Sorrowful Tidings 24. The Proverbs of Alfred 25. An Orison to Our Lord 26. A Homily on Sooth Love 27. The Shires and Hundreds of England 28. The Eleven Pains of Hell Explanatory Notes Textual Notes Index of First Lines Index of Proper Names Bibliography
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Modern Language Association of America Tales of Crossed Destinies: The Modern Turkish
Book SynopsisAzade Seyhan's Tales of Crossed Destinies: The Modern Turkish Novel in a Comparative Context, second in the MLA series World Literatures Reimagined, offers a much-needed guide to the vast, underexplored territory of modern Turkish literature.Seyhan situates the Turkish novel in relation to such influences as the poetic and oral traditions of Ottoman Islamic culture, the early Turkish Republic, and Western Romantic and Enlightenment thought. She demonstrates that the evolution of the Turkish novel is inseparable from that of the Turkish state.Readers will discover a wealth of Turkish authors, from those with international renown, such as Ahmet Hamdi Tanp?nar and the Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, to others less widely read. Among them are Re?sat Nuri Güntekin, whose Autobiography of a Turkish Girl prompted thousands of young Turkish women to seek teaching posts; Halide Edib Ad?var, who envisioned a harmonious coexistence of Islamic spirituality with Western ideals; Aziz Nesin, Turkey's master humorist, who instructs the reader in censor-resistant code; and Ya?sar Kemal and Adalet A?ao?lu and their blendings of myth, memory, and politics.Appendixes provide a chronology, a pronunciation guide to Turkish, and a list of modern Turkish novels in English translation, preparing readers to embark on further exploration.
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Good Deed Rain Pinocchio in America
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Liverpool University Press Minor Greek Tragedians, Volume 1: The Fifth
Book SynopsisFor the modern world Greek tragedy is represented almost entirely by those plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides whose texts have been preserved since they were first produced in the fifth century BC. From that period and the next two hundred years more than eighty other tragic poets are known from biographical and production data, play-titles, mythical subject-matter, and remnants of their works quoted by other ancient writers or rediscovered in papyrus texts. This edition includes all the remnants of tragedies that can be identified with these other poets, with English translations, related historical information, detailed explanatory notes and bibliographies. Volume 1 includes some twenty 5th-century poets, notably Phrynichus, Aristarchus, Ion, Achaeus, Sophocles’ son Iophon, Agathon and the doubtful cases of Neophron (author of a Medea supposedly imitated by Euripides) and Critias (possibly author of three other tragedies attributed to Euripides). Volume 2 will include the 4th- and 3rd-century tragedians and some anonymous material derived from ancient sources or rediscovered papyrus texts.Remnants of these poets’ satyr-plays are included in a separate Aris & Phillips Classical Texts volume, Euripides Cyclops and Major Fragments of Greek Satyric Drama, edited by Patrick O’Sullivan and Christopher Collard (2013).Trade Review‘The most valuable element of the volume is the introductory discussions for each author and for each title, as well as the commentary notes to the testimonies and fragments.' Felice Stama, Bryn Mawr Classical Review ‘Our general opinion on Cropp's work is highly positive: well documented, scientifically up-to-date and rigorous, but at the same time easy to consult.’ Paolo B. Cipolla, Exemplaria Classica (translated from Italian).‘The clear translations, appropriately designed commentaries, and especially the excellent introductions to the individual poets and plays, in which Cropp includes both older and recent interpretations, while frequently adding his own thought-provoking suggestions, will find a grateful readership.’ Hauke Schneider, Gymnasium (translated from German)Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionTragedy in the fifth century: a sketchSourcesThis editionTexts, Translations and NotesThespis (TrGF 1) Choerilus (TrGF 2) Phrynichus (TrGF 3) Pratinas (TrGF 4) Polyphrasmon (TrGF 7) Aristias (TrGF 9) Euphorion, Euaeon (TrGF 12, 13) Aristarchus (TrGF 14) Neophron (TrGF 15) Euripides I, II (TrGF 16, 17) Ion (TrGF 19) Achaeus (TrGF 20) Iophon (TrGF 22)Philocles I (TrGF 24) Xenocles I (TrGF 33) Agathon (TrGF 39) Critias? (TrGF 43) Diogenes of Athens (TrGF 45) Abbreviations and references Indexes (Poets; Titles; Sources; General)
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Liverpool University Press The Council of Ephesus of 431: Documents and
Book SynopsisThe First Council of Ephesus (431) was the climax of the so-called Nestorian Controversy. Convoked by the emperor Theodosius II to restore peace to the Church, it immediately divided into two rival councils, both meeting at Ephesus. Attempts by the emperor’s representatives to get the bishops on both sides to meet together had no success, and after four months the council was dissolved without having ever properly met. But a number of decrees by the larger of the two rival councils, in particular the condemnation of Nestorius of Constantinople, were subsequently accepted as the valid decrees of the ‘ecumenical council of Ephesus’. The documentation, consisting of conciliar proceedings, letters and other documents, provides information not only about events in Ephesus itself, but also about lobbying and public demonstrations in Constantinople. There is no episode in late Roman history where we are so well informed about how politics were conducted in the imperial capital. This makes the Acts a document of first importance for the history of the Later Roman Empire as well for that of the Church.Trade Review‘Richard Price [has made] translated texts for historians... available to a wider scholarly public... In this way, future research will have much easier access to difficult complex of traditions.’ Wolfram Kinzig, Plekos (translated from German)‘[S]ophisticated and nuanced historical narrative... an extraordinary contribution to scholarship on the council and on the development of fifth-century theology and ecclesiastical politics.’ Nathan Porter, Vigiliae ChristianaeTable of ContentsGeneral IntroductionI. The Sources II. The ‘Nestorian Controversy’ and the First Council of Ephesus: a brief historyIII. The TheologyDocuments and Proceedings1. Before the Council [Eph 1]2. The Session of 22 June [Eph 2]3. After the Session of 22 June [Eph 3]4. The ‘Session’ of 22 July [Eph 4] 5. From the end of July till Nestorius’ retirement [Eph 5]6. From the Colloquia at Chalcedon to the Dissolution of the Council [Eph 6]Appendices I. Attendance at the CouncilII. From the Coptic ActsGlossaryBibliography MapsIndices
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Archaeopress Human Transgression – Divine Retribution: A Study
Book SynopsisHuman Transgression – Divine Retribution analyses pagan concepts of religious transgressions, how they should be regarded and punished, as expressed in Greek cultic regulations from the 5th century BC to the 3rd century AD. Also considered are the so-called propitiatory inscriptions (often referred to as ‘confession inscriptions’) from the 1st to the 3rd century AD Lydia and Phrygia, in light of ‘cultic morality’, an ideal code of behaviour intended to make places, occasions, and worshippers suitable for ritual. This code is on the one hand associated with ‘purity’ (hagneia) and removal of pollution (miasma) caused by deaths, births and sexuality, and on the other with the protection of sacred property. This study seeks to explain the emphasis of divine punishments in the Lydian and Phrygian inscriptions, while rare in most Greek cultic regulations, as part of a continuum within pagan religion rather than as a result of an absolute division between Greek and Oriental religion.Table of ContentsForeword ; Part 1. Introduction and Aims of the Study ; Chapter 1. Introduction ; Chapter 2. Aims of the study ; Part 2. The Propitiatory Inscriptions ; Chapter 3. The Propitiatory Inscriptions and their Religious Context ; Chapter 4. Earlier Research on the Propitiatory Inscriptions ; Part 3. Religious Transgressions and Punishments ; Chapter 5. Greek Cultic Morality ; Chapter 6. Prohibitions and Punishments in Greek Cultic Regulations ; Chapter 7. Transgressions in the Propitiatory Inscriptions ; Part 4. Conclusions ; Chapter 8. Conclusions ; Part 5. Appendices, Bibliography and Index Of Citation ; Appendix A: Cultic Regulations ; Appendix B: Propitiatory Inscriptions ; Bibliography ; Index of Citations
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The Lilliput Press Ltd A Letter Marked Personal
Book Synopsis`Nathan Langriesh Johnson is the name. The United States my nation, From Maine to Florida. From New York to California. I am its loyal citizen. And before I am homeless out on the street, I am, without slipping and breaking my neck, going to wash my face in semi-cold water.’ Nathan Johnson, forty-eight and restless, began his career as a door-to-door lingerie salesman, reaching the top of the rag trade with a penthouse overlooking Manhattan. A `confirmed social climber’ in 1990s New York City, he looks back on his early struggles, indulging fantasies of life as a country squire on Blueberry Hill – the Westchester estate he buys his wife Muriel as a birthday present. He meets a model from Iowa, different from the rest, and is captivated. When, out of the blue, a letter marked `personal’ arrives, his wife opens it and life unravels. A Letter Marked Personal is J.P.Donleavy’s final novel, completed in 2007. His portrait of a flawed Anglophile delineates the American Dream, from aspirational greed to the vanity of human wishes. This poignant story of Nathan’s rise and demise speaks for the everyman – an apt farewell from one of literature’s true originals.Trade Review‘Reading Mr Donleavy is no longer like being dragged into a beer-brawl in some violent Irish pub, but more like sitting down to an evening of good whiskey and mad laughter in a rare conversation somewhere on the edge of reality.’ HUNTER S. THOMPSON ‘Donleavy was very much a part of the small Dublin bohemia … who kept alive a spirit of irreverence, invention and free thought that stopped Ireland from succumbing to complete stultification.’ THE IRISH TIMES‘Reading Mr Donleavy is no longer like being dragged into a beer-brawl in some violent Irish pub, but more like sitting down to an evening of good whiskey and mad laughter in a rare conversation somewhere on the edge of reality.’ HUNTER S. THOMPSON ‘Donleavy was very much a part of the small Dublin bohemia … who kept alive a spirit of irreverence, invention and free thought that stopped Ireland from succumbing to complete stultification.’ THE IRISH TIMESLong anticipated, finally delivered. -- Bill Dunn * Irish Times *Donleavy’s final novel is a more than worthy addition to his canon. -- Pat Carty * Hot Press *In A Letter Marked Personal J.P. Donleavy has given us his valedictory novel and left us with reminders of his lyrical style, colourful characterisation, black humour and that he is saying something fundamental about the human condition. -- Colin Overall * Books Ireland *‘Reading Mr Donleavy is no longer like being dragged into a beer-brawl in some violent Irish pub, but more like sitting down to an evening of good whiskey and mad laughter in a rare conversation somewhere on the edge of reality.’ -- Hunter S Thompson‘Donleavy was very much a part of the small Dublin bohemia … who kept alive a spirit of irreverence, invention and free thought that stopped Ireland from succumbing to complete stultification.’ -- The Irish Times
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Persephone Books Ltd The Call
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Alicia Editions Mythologie grecque et romaine: Introduction
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Philippi: Band 1: Die erste christliche Gemeinde
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Vitasta Publishing Pvt.Ltd Love Stories Across Time And History
Book SynopsisHow could Dante write an unforgettable poem for Beatrice, the woman he saw only twice in life? How did Orpheus travel to the depths of hell to reach Eurydice? Was the love between Simone De Bouviour and Sartre tainted by the need to manipulate others? This short story collection encompasses different shades of love. From Amrita Pritam and Sahir Ludhianvi's pining for each other, Dushyant and Shakuntala's struggle to unite, to Adele Hugo's transgressive pursuit of romance. Taking some of the most legendary love stories across history and mythology.
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Alpha Edition Northern Travel: Summer and Winter Pictures of
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Lector House Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin: Edited By
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Museum Tusculanum Press Opuscula XVII
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Aeschylus Agamemnon
Book SynopsisThis accessible edition for students brings the Agamemnon, Aeschylus'' opening play in the Oresteia trilogy, to life for first-time readers. A hugely popular play in antiquity and with a rich reception history to the present day, this is an essential play for students of classics, drama and the canon of western literature. Leah Himmelhoch provides a helpful guide for students and instructors wishing to study and teach the play, building on her over twenty-five years of experience teaching college and university students. A quick introduction sets out Agamemnons historical, literary, and performative context, its use of imagery and themes (especially gender conflict and the perversion of sacrificial ritual), and its subsequent literary and cultural impact while extensive commentary notes guide students through every line of the Greek text. Difficult passages are carefully explained while the power and beauty of the language is brought out at every opportunity. HimmTable of ContentsIntroduction Text Commentary Bibliography
£33.24
Indiana University Press Dantes Inferno The Indiana Critical Edition
Book SynopsisA classic translation with critical essays by leading scholars.
£16.14
Harvard University Press Miscellanies: Volume 2
Book SynopsisIn the Miscellanies, the great Italian Renaissance scholar-poet Angelo Poliziano penned two sets of mini-essays focused on lexical or textual problems. He solves these with his characteristic deep learning and brash criticism. The two volumes presented here are the first translation of both collection into any modern language.Trade ReviewA lot of work has gone into the English translation, which is more helpful than usual given the kind of material with which Poliziano is working. There are also enough notes to facilitate a first reading of the text. In short, the work itself is well worth the read, and the editors/translators have done a real service in making it much more accessible than it has been. -- Craig Kallendorf * Neo-Latin News *
£26.96
Harvard University Press Greek and Latin Poetry
Book SynopsisAngelo Poliziano (14541494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance and a leading figure in the Florence during the Age of the Medici. This I Tatti edition contains all of his Greek and Latin poetry (with the exception of the Silvae in ITRL 14) translated into English for the first time.Trade ReviewKnox’s first-rate talent as a translator remains in evidence on every page, even and especially when the text of more than a few poems is unapologetically risqué. Kudos to Peter Knox for pulling no punches. And plaudits to him for superb work all around. -- William J. Kennedy * Renaissance Quarterly *
£26.96
Cornell University Press The Shorter Writings
Book SynopsisThis book contains new, annotated, and literal yet accessible translations of Xenophon's eight shorter writings, accompanied by interpretive essays that reveal these works to be masterful achievements by a serious thinker of the first rank who raises important moral, political, and philosophical questions. Five of these shorter writings are unmistakably devoted to political matters. The Agesilaos is a eulogy of a Spartan king, and the Hiero, or the Skilled Tyrant recounts a searching dialogue between a poet and a tyrant. The Regime of the Lacedaemonians presents itself as a laudatory examination of what turns out to be an oligarchic regime of a certain type, while The Regime of the Athenians offers an unflattering picture of a democratic regime. Ways and Means, or On Revenues offers suggestions on how to improve the political economy of Athens' troubled democracy.The other three works included hereThe Skilled Cavalry Commander, On Trade ReviewMagnificent.... The translators and commentators assembled by McBrayer approach Xenophon with a prudence and care that would have made the Athenian smile. * The Weekly Standard *Plaudits to Gregory McBrayer, who has edited a new collection of the shorter works of the ancient Greek philosopher Xenophon, complete with fresh literal translations and interpretative essays by distinguished scholars. The Shorter Writings features Xenophon's reflections on subjects ranging from tyranny, political economy, hunting with dogs, and the ways of life of Athens and Sparta, the two most interesting Greek cities. By writing on topics that can at first glance sometimes appear quite mundane, Xenophon shows how the greatest philosophical puzzles can be seen through the practical problems of life out in the world. * Mosaic Magazine *On the surface, the Ways and Means is an attempt by a native son of Athens to restore the laurel to that great city through economic reforms. On a deeper level, it is the recognition of national existence as a strenuous act of renewal; and, more importantly, the affirmation and exposition of a certain kind of knowledge, or "science," of political economy. -- Pedro L. Gonzalez, American Greatness * KirkCenter.org *
£97.20
Bodleian Library A Sanskrit Treasury: A Compendium of Literature
Book SynopsisThis beautiful collection brings together passages from the renowned stories, poems, dramas and myths of South Asian literature, including the Mahābhārata and the Rāmāyaṇa. Drawing on the translations published by the Clay Sanskrit Library, the book presents episodes from the adventures of young Krishna, the life of Prince Rāma and Hindu foundational myths, the life of the Buddha, as well as Buddhist and Jaina birth stories. Pairing key excerpts from these wonderful Sanskrit texts with exquisite illustrations from the Bodleian Library’s rich manuscript collections, the book includes images of birch-bark and palm-leaf manuscripts, vibrant Mughal miniatures, early printed books, sculptures, watercolour paintings and even early photograph albums. Each extract is presented in both English translation and Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script, and is accompanied by a commentary on the literature and related books and artworks. The collection is organised by geographical region and includes sections on the Himalayas, North India, Central and South India, Sri Lanka and South East Asia, Tibet, Inner and East Asia, and the Middle East and Europe. This is the perfect introduction for anyone interested in Sanskrit literature and the manuscript art of South Asia – and beyond.
£45.00
