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Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Cleon, the Peloponnesian War and Athenian Democracy 2. Cavalry in Performance 3. Cavalry’s Plot, Themes and Meaning 4. The Reception History of Cavalry Notes Summary of Action Glossary Editions, Commentaries and Translations Suggestions for Further Reading Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisGesine Manuwald is Professor of Latin at University College London, UK, and President of the Society for Neo-Latin Studies. She has published a number of articles on early modern Latin literature and co-edited the collected volume Neo-Latin Poetry in the British Isles (Bloomsbury, 2012). L. B. T. Houghton teaches Classics at Rugby School and is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Department of Greek and Latin at University College London, UK. He is the author of Virgil's Fourth Eclogue in the Italian Renaissance (2019), and is a former Treasurer and member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Neo-Latin Studies. Lucy R. Nicholas is a Teaching Fellow in Classics at King's College London and the Warburg Institute, University of London, UK. She has published on Roger Ascham and written on other early modern Latin authors, including Thomas More and Walter Haddon. She co-edited Themes of Polemical Theology Across Early Modern Literary GenrTrade ReviewAn anthology of British Neo-Latin was long overdue. Now we have it. Comprehensive in its range, informative and perceptive in its presentation of the single texts, this book is a model of its kind. -- Martin Korenjak, Professor of Classics, University of Innsbruck (and Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies), AustriaTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors Preface INTRODUCTION (L. B. T. Houghton, UCL, UK Gesine Manuwald, UCL, UK and Lucy R. Nicholas, KCL and UCL, UK) 1 Neo-Latin as a Literary Medium 2 British Neo-Latin Literature 3 Overview of Neo-Latin Literary Genres 4 Aims and Coverage of this Volume 5 Latin Texts: Sources and Conventions 6 Further Reading TEXTS 1 Utopia: Elsewhere and Nowhere Thomas More (1478–1535), Extracts from Utopia (Lucy R. Nicholas, KCL and UCL, UK) 2 An Early Tudor Antiquarian at Bath John Leland (c. 1503–1552), De thermis Britannicis (Andrew W. Taylor, University of Cambridge, UK) 3 The Nature of the Universe George Buchanan (1506–1582), De sphaera 1.1–51 (David McOmish, University of Glasgow, UK) 4 A Celebration of Queen Elizabeth I’s Coronation in Verse Walter Haddon (1515–1572), In … Elisabethae regimen (Lucy R. Nicholas, KCL and UCL, UK) 5 The Latin University Orations of Queen Elizabeth I Queen Elizabeth I (1533–1603), Speeches of 1566 and 1592 (Sarah Knight, University of Leicester, UK) 6 Female Funerary Verse Elizabeth Hoby, Lady Russell (1540–1609), Epitaphic Poems (Lucy R. Nicholas, KCL and UCL, UK) 7 On Writing about Britain William Camden (1551–1623), Prefatory Letter to Britannia (Gesine Manuwald, UCL, UK) 8 A Birthday Poem for Christ Adam King (c. 1560–1620), Genethliacon Iesu Christi (c. 1586) (David McOmish, University of Glasgow, UK) 9 On Poetry, Politics and Religion John Owen (c. 1560–1622), Selection of Epigrams (Gesine Manuwald, UCL, UK) 10 A Comic Exorcism George Ruggle (1575–1622), Ignoramus IV 11 (Daniel Hadas, KCL, UK) 11 ‘Dazel’d thus with height of place’: An English Lyric in Two Latin Versions English: Henry Wotton (1568–1639); Latin: Anonymous [Georg Weckherlin (1584–1653)?] (Victoria Moul, KCL, UK) 12 A Meeting in Mauritania John Barclay (1582–1621), Argenis, Book 5, Chapter 8 (9) (Jacqueline Glomski, UCL, UK) 13 The Gunpowder Plot John Milton (1608–1674), In Quintum Novembris (Stephen Harrison, University of Oxford, UK) 14 A Frost Fair on the Thames William Baker, Descriptio Brumae (1634/5) (George Pounder, Glenalmond College, Scotland) 15 The Beauty and Horror of the Mountains Thomas Burnet (c. 1635–1715), Telluris theoria sacra 1.1.9 (William M. Barton, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Innsbruck, Austria) 16 A Satire on the Bishop of Salisbury Anonymous (Thomas Brown?), In Episcopum Quendam (c. 1689) (Victoria Moul, KCL, UK) 17 A View of the Scottish Highlands James Philp (1656/7–c. 1713), Grameid 3.10–36 (L. B. T. Houghton, UCL, UK) 18 Thomas Gray Prophesies Space Travel Thomas Gray (1716–1771), Luna habitabilis 51–72, 78–95 (L. B. T. Houghton, UCL, UK) Index

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Book SynopsisErica Bexley is an Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University, UK.

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Book SynopsisSir Richard Sorabji is Honorary Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford, and Emeritus Professor, King's College, London, UK. He is the world's leading scholar on the commentators on Aristotle and founder and co-editor of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, published by Bloomsbury. He is also the author of the three sourcebooks on the ancient commentators: The Philosophy of the Commentators, 200600 AD, vols 13.Trade Review[A]nyone working in this subject area would be strongly advised to buy and read [this book] ... The amount of scholarship that is surveyed is jaw-dropping, and S[orabji]'s command of detail is impressive. * Classics for All Reviews *This hefty volume of 20 scholarly essays on the history, development, and influence of early Greek Aristotelian commentators is essentially a reprinting of the first edition (CH, Oct'90, 28-0896). For this second edition Sorabji (King's College London, UK) wrote a new introduction of some 40 pages, in which he summarizes and updates the essays and offers some critiques and revised interpretations based on new scholarship of the intervening 25 years. As Sorabji acknowledges, much of the content of the introduction is included and considered in more detail in Aristotle Re-interpreted: New Findings on Seven Hundred Years of the Ancient Commentators (2016), also edited by Sorabji, which is intended as a sequel to Aristotle Transformed. The essays compiled in Aristotle Transformed constitute indispensable scholarship on ancient commentary tradition, but either of the editions would seem sufficient, given the forthcoming Aristotle Re-interpreted. Summing Up: Recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsPrefaceto the First Edition Acknowledgments List of Contributors Introduction to Second Edition 1. The ancient commentators on Aristotle Richard Sorabji 2. Review of the Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca Karl Praechter 3. The earliest Aristotelian commentators Hans B. Gottschalk 4. The school of Alexander? Robert W. Sharples 5. Themistius: the last Peripatetic commentator on Aristotle? Henry J. Blumenthal 6. The harmony of Plotinus and Aristotle according to Porphyry Pierre Hadot 7. Porphyry’s legacy to logic: a reconstruction Sten Ebbesen 8. How did Syrianus regard Aristotle? H.D. Saffrey 9. Infinite power impressed: the transformation of Aristotle’s physics and theology Richard Sorabji 10. The metaphysics of Ammonius son of Hermeias Koenraad Verrycken 11. The development of Philoponus’ thought and its chronology Koenraad Verrycken 12. The life and work of Simplicius in Greek and Arabic sources Ilsetraut Hadot 13. Neoplatonic elements in the de Anima commentaries Henry J. Blumenthal 14. The Alexandrian commentators and the introductions to their commentaries L.G. Westerink 15. Boethius’ commentaries on Aristotle James Shiel 16. Boethius as an Aristotelian commentator Sten Ebbesen 17. An unpublished funeral oration on Anna Comnena Robert Browning 18. The Greek commentators on Aristotle’s Ethics H.P.F. Mercken 19. Philoponus, ‘Alexander’ and the origins of medieval logic Sten Ebbesen 20. Aristotle’s doctrine of abstraction in the commentators Ian Mueller Note on the frontispiece: ‘Aristotle and Alexander of Aphrodisias’ by Ulocrino Donald R. Morrison Select bibliography Index locorum General index

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Book SynopsisCarl P. E. Springer is SunTrust Chair of Excellence in the Humanities and Professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, USA. He is author of Luther's Rome/Rome's Luther (2021), Cicero in Heaven (2017) and Luther's Aesop (2011).

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Book SynopsisRoger Ascham is often classified as a great mid-Tudor humanist' and he is perhaps best known for his role as tutor to Elizabeth I. His most famous works, The Scholemaster and Toxophilus, have been extensively quarried and anthologised in studies on prose style and English humanism. By contrast, his Neo-Latin works that engaged with theology and key Reformation concerns have languished in the shadows of modern scholarship. Ascham's Themata Theologica (Theological Topics') is one of these, and its content has the potential to open up many an investigative avenue into the intellectual and religious culture of the sixteenth century. This is the first volume to offer a corresponding English translation. The Themata can be dated to the early to mid- 1540s, and was composed by Ascham while still at Cambridge University and serving as a senior fellow at St John's College. The work mainly comprises a compendium of relatively short commentaries on Scriptural verses (both Old and New Testament),

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Book SynopsisGiulia Sissa is Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Comparative Literature and Classics at UCLA, USA. She is the author of The Daily Life of the Greek Gods (with M. Detienne, 2000), Greek Virginity (1990), Sex and Sensuality in the Ancient World (2008), Jealousy: A Forbidden Passion (2017) and Le Pouvoir des femmes. Un défi pour la démocratie (2021).Francesca Martelli is Associate Professor of Classics at UCLA, USA. She is the author of Ovid (2020) and Ovid's Revisions (2013).

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a comprehensive review and reassessment of the classical sources describing the cryptographic Spartan device known as the scytale. Challenging the view promoted by modern historians of cryptography which look at the scytale as a simple and impractical stick', Diepenbroek argues for the scytale's deserved status as a vehicle for secret communication in the ancient world. By way of comparison, Diepenbroek demonstrates that the cryptographic principles employed in the Spartan scytale show an encryption and coding system that is no less complex than some 20th-century transposition ciphers. The result is that, contrary to the accepted point of view, scytale encryption is as complex and secure as other known ancient ciphers. Drawing on salient comparisons with a selection of modern transposition ciphers (and their historical predecessors), the reader is provided with a detailed overview and analysis of the surviving classical sou

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Book SynopsisBenjamin Acosta-Hughes is Professor of Greek and Latin at The Ohio State University, USA.Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia, USA.Phiroze Vasunia is Professor of Greek at University College London, UK.

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Book SynopsisLlewelyn Morgan is Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford, UK. His many publications include Ovid: A Very Short Introduction (2020) and Musa Pedestris: Metre and Meaning in Roman Verse (2010).Michael Lombardi-Nash is an independent scholar, USA. He has been translating for 45 years, especially the works by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs. Besides Ulrichs, he has translated and published several seminal German works by 19th-century and 20th-century pioneers in the history of sexuality.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book-length study dedicated to Aristophanes' Wasps (422 BCE), which is arguably one of his most hilarious and inventive comedies. At the heart of Wasps is a comic conflict between an Athenian father named Philocleon and his son Bdelycleon; at stake are issues of political discourse, the judicial system, social class and mental illness. Alongside Aristophanes' striking scenes involving a chorus of citizen wasps, a dog trial, and a concluding dance-off between tragedy and comedy, the reader is shown the theatrical genius of the playwright which is able to find the humor in the political, social and generational problems of his time.Ideal for students with no experience in Greek comedy or for researchers wanting an updated analysis of the play, this book explores Wasps in terms of Aristophanes' particular brand of Old Comedy, its historical context, innovative stagecraft and its reception up until the present day. While early modern

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Book SynopsisHow did ancient Greeks and Romans perceive their environments: did they see order or chaos, chance or control? And how do their views compare to modern perceptions? Conversing with Chaos in Graeco-Roman Antiquity challenges prevailing ideas that ancient perceptions of the non-human world rested on a profound belief in universal order, and that the cosmos was harmonious and under human control. Engaging with the concept of chaos in both its ancient and modern meanings, and focusing on the ancient Mediterranean and Near East, this book reveals another sense of environmental awareness, one that paid equal attention to chance and chaos, and the sometimes-fatal consequences of human interventions in nature. Bringing together a team of international scholars, the volume investigates the experience of the interaction of humans with the environment, as reflected in ancient evidence from myths and philosophical treatises, to epigraphic evidence and archaeological remain

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Book SynopsisDrawing together new research from emerging and senior scholars, this open-access volume presents an up-to-date discussion of these notions in the ancient world, both at the individual and community level. This open access edited volume offers insights into how ancient texts, ranging from the historical and biographical to the oratorical and epistolary, demonstrate the negotiation and renegotiation of otherness, identity and culture. Roman identity emerged as the result of multiple interactions with real and imagined Others. This volume analyses specific case studies and networks of inclusion and transformation that informed concepts of unity, otherness and cultural identity. In part one, contributors discuss Roman perceptions of communal identity, considering ethnic, geographical, religious, occupational and social factors that informed various ideas of belonging and exclusion. Part two goes further by examining ancient texts from the perspectives of non-Romans, in addition to famous

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Book SynopsisFor the first time, the poems and accompanying letters of Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius (Optatian) are published here with a translation and detailed commentary, along with a full introduction to Optatian's work during this period.Optatian was sent into exile by Constantine sometime after the Emperor's ascent to power in Rome in 312 AD. Hoping to receive pardon, Optatian sent a gift of probably twenty design poems to Constantine around the time of the ruler's twentieth anniversary (325/326 AD).To enable the reader to experience the multiple messages of the poems, the Latin text is presented near the English translation with any related design close by. Some poems, laid out on a grid of up to 35 letters across and down, have an interwoven poem marking key letters in the primary poem, thereby revealing a highlighted image. Some designs include the Chi-Rho or numerals created from V's and X's to mark imperial anniversaries. Other (previously unrecognised) designs seem Trade ReviewAn invaluable resource for understanding the fascinating, complex literary and political culture of the later Roman Empire. -- Erin Sebo, Associate Professor of Medieval Literature and Language, Flinders University, AustraliaTable of ContentsList of Figures Preface Acknowledgments Note on Text, Translation and Abbreviations Introduction 1. Letters between Constantine and Optatian [Porfyrius] 2. The Poems of Optatian to Constantine 3. The Poems of Optatian to Other Recipients Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe term radical formalism refers to strategies aimed at defamiliarising and revitalising conventional modes of formalistic reading and theorising form. These strategies disrupt and unsettle established norms while incorporating a metadiscursive awareness of their broader political implications. This volume presents a radical reconceptualisation of literary works from Greek and Roman antiquity. Engaging in an ongoing dialogue with critical theory and postcritique, as well as drawing inspiration from traditions rooted in Black art, poetry and philosophyboth directly and indirectly connected to the classical traditionthe essays in this collection explore subversions of canonical norms and resistances to the hegemony of textual order. This collection not only provides new, provocative insights into a corpus of texts that has exerted a lasting impact on modern literature and philosophy, but also challenges current interpretive methods, recasting the very practice of reading in relation t

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Book SynopsisVictor Houliston is Research Professor at the University of the Free State, South Africa, and the lead editor of the Correspondence and Unpublished Papers of Robert Persons (Pontifical Institute for Mediaeval Studies).Marianne Dircksen is Former Director of the School of Biblical Studies and Ancient Languages at the North West University, South Africa.

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Book SynopsisPresenting a range of Neo-Latin poems written by distinguished classical scholars across Europe from c. 1490 to c. 1900, this anthology includes a selection of celebrated names in the history of scholarship. Individual chapters present the Neo-Latin poems alongside new English translations (usually the first) and accompanying introductions and commentaries that annotate these verses for a modern readership, and contextualise them within the careers of their authors and the history of classical scholarship in the Renaissance and early modern period.An appealing feature of Renaissance and early modern Latinity is the composition of fine Neo-Latin poetry by major classical scholars, and the interface between this creative work and their scholarly research. In some cases, the two are actually combined in the same work. In others, the creative composition and scholarship accompany each other along parallel tracks, when scholars are moved to write their own veTrade ReviewThis volume will be a valuable resource for anyone with an interest in the history of literature, education and scholarship. -- L. B. T. Houghton, Honorary Research Fellow in Greek and Latin, University College London, UKTable of ContentsList of Contributors Preface Introduction, Stephen J. Harrison (University of Oxford, UK) 1. Poems of Printed Books: The Case of Niccolo Perotti's (1430-1480) Cornu Copiae, Marianne Pade (Aarhus University, Denmark) 2. The Natalis of Paolo Marsi (1440-1484), Raphael Schwitter (University of Bonn, Germany) 3. The Verses of Antonio de Nebrija (1444–1522) on the Philologist's Work of the Philologist and the Place of Greek, William M. Barton (University of Innsbruck, Austria) 4. Aldus Manutius (c. 1450-1515), Musarum Panagyris and Other Early Poems, Oren Margolis (University of East Anglia, UK) 5. An Elegiac Poem by Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484-1558) on Sickness and Healing, Bobby Xinyue (King's College London, UK) 6. Two Poems by Pietro Vettori (1499–1585), Agnese D'Angelo (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) 7. Jean Dorat (1508-1588): The Latin Lyrics of a Greek Professor, Stephen J. Harrison (University of Oxford, UK) 8. Janus Dousa (1545-1604): The Satires of a Dutch Scholar, David Andrew Porter (Hunan Normal University, China) 9. Editing Cicero (and Translating Aratus) in 16th Century Europe: Jan Kochanowski (1579) and Hugo Grotius (1600), Daniele Pellacani (University of Bologna, Italy) 10. John Barclay (1582-1621): The Argenis as a Station Scholar's Novel, Ruth Parkes (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK) 11. Spare Muses: Epigrams by the Cambridge Don James Duport (1606-1678), Thomas Matthew Vozar (University of Hamburg, Germany) 12. Writing a Woman Scholar: Poems Around Birgitte Thott (1610-1662), Trine Arlund Hass (University of Oxford, UK) 13. The Plinian Dolphin: Johann Matthias Gesner (1691-1761), Carmina, Gesine Manuwald (University College London, UK) 14. Giovanni Pascoli (1855-1912), Reditus Augusti, an Horatian Mime, Francesco Citti (University of Bologna, Italy) Notes Bibliography Index

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