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Book SynopsisThe world first publication of a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the extraordinary story of the final days of England’s legendary hero, King Arthur.Trade ReviewPraise for The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún: “This is the most unexpected of Tolkien’s many posthumous publications; his son’s ‘Commentary’ is a model of informed accessibility; the poems stand comparison with their Eddic models, and there is little poetry in the world like those” Times Literary Supplement “The compact verse form is ideally suited to describing impact… elsewhere it achieves a stark beauty” Telegraph

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Book SynopsisIn this book, leading Greek scholars explore the rich and diverse poetry and prose of the long Hellenistic period. Chapters focus on the poets of Alexandria such as Callimachus, Theocritus, Apollonius, and Posidippus and on prose texts written in Greek in the Roman Empire. This volume demonstrates the versatility of this literature and examines its multiple cultural affiliations. The Hellenistic writers emerge from this volume as complex, playful, and politically engaged figures, interested in the relationship between culture and society, and far removed from the stereotype of them as distant or elitist. This book makes a major contribution to the study of Hellenistic Greek culture.Susan Stephens is the Sarah Hart Kimball Emerita Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University, USA. Her contributions to the study of Hellenistic literature and culture are immense. She is the author of over fifty articles and the author or editor of ten books. Many of these publications haTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Contributors Preface Foreword Abbreviations PART I ARCHAIC AND CLASSICAL GREEK LITERATURE 1. Semonides, Fragment 1, as an Iambic Catalogue in Stanzas (Christopher Faraone, University of Chicago, USA) 2. The Humble and the Grand: Realism in Euripides’ Electra (Marco Fantuzzi, University of Roehampton, UK, and Mathias Hanses, Penn State University, USA) PART II COMING TO EGYPT 3. Iter ad Aegyptum: Alexander’s Trip to Memphis (Daniel L. Selden, University of California, USA) PART III CALLIMACHUS 4. Neglected Splendors: Alcman’s Louvre Partheneion and Callimachus' Tale of Phrygius and Pieria (Giulio Massimilla, University of Naples, Italy) 5. Callimachus’ Duplicitous Iambos (Don Levigne, Texas Tech University, USA) 6. From a Small Beginning: Of Sibling and Poetic Order in Callimachus (Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Ohio State University, USA) 7. Them He Cannot Take: Callimachus’ Epigram for Heraclitus (Phiroze Vasunia, UCL, UK) 8. Advisory Tops: Callimachus Ep. 54 Gow/Page (1 Pf.) (Markus Asper, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany) 9. On a New Papyrus Fragment of Callimachus’ Hecale (P.Ant. III 179 add.) (Giovan Battista d’Alessio, KCL, UK) 10. No Lyre for Heracles (Peter Parsons, Oxford University, UK) 11. Strabo’s Callimachus (Richard Hunter, University of Cambridge, UK) PART IV HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN CULTURE 12. Seeing Double: Apollonius’ Two Phaethons (Ivana Petrovic, University of Virginia, USA) 13. “Apollonius speaks Greek, Petiharenpi speaks Egyptian”: Cross-Cultural Self-Fashioning in the Serapeum Archive (Edward Kelting, University of Califorina, USA) 14. Young Snakes, Old Models: Hellenistic Poetics and Literary Heritage in Nicander, Theriaca 343–58 (Alexander Sens, Georgetown University, USA) 15. The Death of the Author: Hesiod’s Double Burial in Epigrams of Mnasalkes (AP 7.54 = 18 GP) and Alkaios (AP 7.55 = 12 GP) and in the Biographical Tradition (Peter Bing, University of Toronto, Canada) 16. Doomscrolling at Segesta: An Allusion to Lycophron in Virgil, Aeneid 5. 552-4 (Alessandro Barchiesi, NYU, USA) 17. Father Ammon and the King (Jay Reed, Brown University, USA) 18. Crinagoras of Mytilene and Octavia (Roland Mayer, KCL, UK) 19. Poets, Plants, and Riddles (Kathryn Gutzwiller, University of Cincinnati, USA) PART V ANCIENT PROSE FICTION 20. The sparagmos of Parthenope between Ancient Novel and Myth (Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne, University of Virginia, USA) 21. Alexandria in the Ancient Greek Novels (Stephen Nimis, Miami University, USA) AFTERMATH 22. Practicing Orthodoxy: Body Language in Sophronius’ Thaumata (Maud Gleason, Stanford University, USA) 23. Reading Stephens (Lee Wandel, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) A Bibliography of Susan A. Stephens Index

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Book SynopsisFirst scholarly edition of Philip James Bailey's epic masterpiece in a readable, modern volume.

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Book SynopsisFirst scholarly edition of Philip James Bailey's epic masterpiece in a readable, modern volume.Trade Review"Scholars of nineteenth-century culture will want to thank Mischa Willett for this beautifully curated critical edition of Philip James Bailey's Festus. Seldom read today, Festus was devoured by Victorian readers from all walks of life and was reverenced in literary circles. Willett's thoughtful introduction unfolds for us the magnificent strangeness, as well as the abiding interest of this remarkable work.? " -Charles LaPorte, University of Washington

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Book SynopsisSilver Medal Winner for Poetry at the 2022 Nautilus Book Awards.A powerful new anthology depicting how love over the past two-and-a-half millennia has found its expression in the words of the world's greatest poets.No, Love Is Not Dead is a timely affirmation of the great linguistic diversity of poetry and its ability to express passionate love, the most extreme of human emotions. With influential, award-winning poets including Kim Hyesoon, Laura Tohe and Warsan Shire, and languages ranging from Amharic, Akkadian and Ancient Greek to Yankunytjatjara, Yiddish and Yoruba, this unique anthology engages the reader in reflective tales of unlikely love stories and impossible love, love in a time of politics, surrealist love, visual love and free love, offering an intuitive insight into both historical and present-day perceptions of love across cultures. Including over 50 poets, writing on each of the world's continents, this new anthology of poems about love features a diverse range of original poems written in a variety of languages - modern, ancient, endangered and constructed -, accompanied by English translations and commentaries.Poets included in the book: Apollinaire; Nicole Brossard; Augusto de Campos; Catullus; Chaucer; Dante; Robert Desnos; Ali Cobby Eckermann; Goethe; Kim Hyesoon; Louise Labé; Federico Garcia Lorca; Vladimir Mayakovsky; Miklós Radnóti; Kutti Ravathi; Sappho; Warsan Shire; Laura Tohe; Marina Tsvetaeva.Languages included in the book: Akkadian; Amharic; Ancient Greek; Faroese; French; German; Hungarian; Italian; Japanese; Latvian; Maori; Persian; Polari; Portuguese; Russian; Sanskrit; Scots; Scottish Gaelic; Serbian; Spanish; Welsh; Yoruba.Foreword by Laura Tohe, the current Navajo Nation Poet Laureate and Professor Emeritus with Distinction at Arizona State University, who has won awards including the 2020 Academy of American Poetry Fellowship, the 2019 American Indian Festival of Writers Award, and the Arizona Book Association's Glyph Award for Best Poetry.

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Book SynopsisA great deal of excellent poetry was composed in Scotland in the first quarter of the seventeenth century. In 1603, when James Stewart became also king of England and Ireland, several Scottish poets moved to London, and commented on events at Court. Others preferred to remain in their homeland, at a distance from the metropolis; and some who had gone south soon returned home. In addition to the perennial themes of love and religion, attention was given to topics such as national identity, foreign travel, civil society, monarchy, the good life, friendship, retreat, and the nature and language of literature itself. Poets faced the political and cultural challenges inherent in the novel concept of Great Britain in a variety of ways, and the thistle and the rose bloomed together in the Jacobean garden of verses.

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Book SynopsisDie Metamorphosen von Ovid: Faszinierende Verwandlungsgeschichten, Götter und Liebe - aber fër Schëler oft eine große sprachliche Herausforderung.Diese Lektëre entschärft die Schwierigkeiten und motiviert, ohne auf die Beschäftigung mit dem Originaltext zu verzichten.Die Lektëre ist doppelseitig aufgebaut: Eine Comic-Fassung ermöglicht ein erstes grundlegendes Textverständnis und entlastet auch sprachlich schwierige Passagen. Der Comic dient zur Vorerschließung, an die sich die Arbeit mit dem Originaltext auf der gegenëberliegenden Seite anschließt.

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Book SynopsisCollects Willis Barnstone's translations of Greek lyric poetry - including the most complete Sappho in English. This book includes a representative sampling of significant poets, from Archilochos, in the 7th century BCE, through Pindar and the other great singers of the classical age, down to the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods.Trade ReviewArmed with this book a teacher can more readily convince the Greekless that Greek lyric poetry was one of the supreme achievements of literary history. * The Classical Bulletin *There have been many translations of Sappho's work by gifted and well-meaning writers. . . . None quite connects the shards and fragments with the same satisfying verve and flair as Willis Barnstone. Barnstone is one of the greatest translators of literary expression from a foreign language into English. * New Letters *With the work of more than seventy poets from the Greek, Hellenistic, Byzantine, and Roman periods, the distinguished translator Willis Barnstone offers us a very rich selection. ...William E. McCulloh's fine introduction traces the development of the Greek lyric, while Barnstone's notes on the poets provide valuable contexts. It is hard to conceive of a more satisfying anthology than this . . . .Jan./Feb. 2010 -- Peter Skinner * ForeWord *Table of ContentsPreface on Vagabond SongstersAcknowledgmentsIntroduction by William E. McCullohA Note on Selections, Texts, and Translation by Willis BarnstoneTHE GREEK PERIOD Archilochos Kallinos Tyrtaios Semonides Terpandros Alkman Alkaios Sappho Solon Mimnermos Phokylides Asios Stesichoros Ibykos Hipponax Anakreon Xenophanes Simonides Lasos Theognis Apollodoros Hipparchos Korinna Telesilla Timokreon Lamprokles Pindaros (Pindar) Bakchylides Praxilla Parrhasios Hippon Melanippides Timotheos Platon (Plato)THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD Diphilos Anyte Kallimachos Theokritos Leonidas of Tarentum Asklepiades Mnasalkas Theodoridas Moschos Ariston Meleagros BionTHE ROMAN PERIOD Philodemos the Epicurean Diodoros Antipatros of Thessaloniki Marcus Argentarius Rufinus Apollonides Parmenion Nikarchos Lucillius Leonidas of Alexandria Traianus (The Emperor Trajan) Ammianus Loukianos (Lucian) Dionysius Sophistes Julianus (Julian the Apostate) AisoposTHE BYZANTINE PERIOD Palladas Julianus (Julian the Prefect of Egypt) Paulus Silentiarius Agathias Scholastikos Damaskios Julianus (Julian Antecessor)AUTHORS AND ANONYMOUS WORKS OF INDEFINITE PERIOD Glykon Kallikteros Ammonides Diophanes of Myrina The Anakreonteia Miscellaneous FolksongsSAPPHO Sappho: An Introduction Testimonia Sources and NotesGlossaryBibliography

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Manuscript Poetics offers a new perspective on the relationship between textuality and materiality in fourteenth-century Italy and between different kinds of authorial poetics related to the materiality of books and their subsequent publics.” —Laura Banella, author of La “Vita nuova” del Boccaccio“Manuscript Poetics functions both as a history of medieval manuscript culture and poetry, which will serve as an excellent introduction to and overview of the literary culture of the period for undergraduate students, and as a more focused study of specific texts and authors for specialists.” —Rhiannon Daniels, author of Boccaccio and the BookTable of ContentsList of Plates Acknowledgements Introduction: Materiality and Method Part 1. Materiality as Narrative in Dante’s Vita nuova 1. Scriptor in Fabula 2. The Author as Scribe 3. The Scribe as Author Appendix: Pulcra Metaphora de Quaterno et Volumine Part Two: Materiality and Authority in Boccaccio’s Teseida 4. Picture-Book (without Pictures) 5. The Textual Proliferation of the Teseida Part Three: Materiality and Poetics in Petrarca’s Sestinas 6. Materiality and Meter 7. Carmina Figurata Afterword: In Praise of Materiality Works Cited

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Manuscript Poetics offers a new perspective on the relationship between textuality and materiality in fourteenth-century Italy and between different kinds of authorial poetics related to the materiality of books and their subsequent publics.” —Laura Banella, author of La “Vita nuova” del Boccaccio“Manuscript Poetics functions both as a history of medieval manuscript culture and poetry, which will serve as an excellent introduction to and overview of the literary culture of the period for undergraduate students, and as a more focused study of specific texts and authors for specialists.” —Rhiannon Daniels, author of Boccaccio and the BookTable of ContentsList of Plates Acknowledgements Introduction: Materiality and Method Part 1. Materiality as Narrative in Dante’s Vita nuova 1. Scriptor in Fabula 2. The Author as Scribe 3. The Scribe as Author Appendix: Pulcra Metaphora de Quaterno et Volumine Part Two: Materiality and Authority in Boccaccio’s Teseida 4. Picture-Book (without Pictures) 5. The Textual Proliferation of the Teseida Part Three: Materiality and Poetics in Petrarca’s Sestinas 6. Materiality and Meter 7. Carmina Figurata Afterword: In Praise of Materiality Works Cited

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Book SynopsisJames Bradley Wells shares his poet’s soul and scholar’s eye in this thought-provoking new translation of two of Vergil’s early works, the Eclogues and Georgics. With its emphasis on a natural rather than stylized rhythm, Eclogues and Georgics honours the original spirit of ancient Roman poetry.Table of Contents Preface Chronology Statement on Translation Pronunciation Guide General Introduction to Vergil and His Poetry Vergil’s Eclogues Introduction to Vergil’s Eclogues Eclogue 1 Eclogue 2 Eclogue 3 Eclogue 4 Eclogue 5 Eclogue 6 Eclogue 7 Eclogue 8 Eclogue 9 Eclogue 10 Vergil’s Georgics Introduction to Vergil’s Georgics Book 1 Book 2 Book 3 Book 4 Glossary Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Weiss offers us a new way of seeing how choruses are central characters in Euripides’ late plays, even when they seem at first glance far removed from what is going on around them. Her work is an excellent example of the current revolution in the study of ancient music, which is refuting definitively the facile assumption that tragedy's music in unknowable and therefore uninteresting." * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *“[This] work is highly valuable. It will add depth of understanding to those interested in Euripides and Greek tragedy, and the role of mousikê in a variety of genres. It adds a new perspective on debate regarding the nature of the New music and provides extra dimension to the currently voguish focus on the role of the chorus. Most critically, it relocates the reader through time and space, allowing at least a glimpse of the immersive choral culture for which we are in want.” -- Matthew Shipton * The Classical Review *"This outstanding book is the first entirely devoted to Euripidean music." * Greek and Roman Musical Studies *"An elegiac tone runs through NaomiWeiss’ careful, learned, and compelling book, a subtle basso ostinato suggesting that Euripides’ late tragedies can never be experienced as vividly or as urgently as they once were. I recommend her book both for its masterful display of scholarly skill and for this moving and provocative sense of loss." * Classical Philology *"As Weiss fills the silence of music lost with a symphony of images and sounds, Greek mousikē emerges as a cognitively demanding and complex synaesthetic practice." * Theatre Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Note on Editions and Translations Introduction: In Search of Tragedy’s Music 1. Words, Music, and Dance in Archaic Lyric and Classical Tragedy Before Tragedy: Imaginative Suggestion in Archaic Choral Lyric Metamusical Play in Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Early Euripides 2. Chorus, Character, and Plot in Electra Electra and the Chorus Performed Ecphrasis Choral Anticipation and Enactment 3. Musical Absence in Trojan Women The Paradox of Absent Choreia New Songs and Past Performances Performing the Fall of Troy 4. Protean Singers and the Shaping of Narrative in Helen Birdsong and Lament New Music Travel and Epiphany 5. From Choreia to Monody in Iphigenia in Aulis Spectatorship, Enactment, and Desire Past and Present Mousike Choreia and Monody Conclusion: Euripides’ Musical Innovations Works Cited General Index Index Locorum

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to approach the visuality of ancient Greek drama through the lens of theater phenomenology. Gathering evidence from tragedy, comedy, satyr play, and vase painting, Naomi Weiss argues that, from its very beginnings, Greek theater in the fifth century BCE was understood as a complex interplay of actuality and virtuality. Classical drama frequently exposes and interrogates potential viewing experiences within the theatronliterally, the place for seeing. Weiss shows how, in so doing, it demands distinctive modes of engagement from its audiences. Examining plays and pottery with attention to the instability and ambiguity inherent in visual perception, Seeing Theater provides an entirely new model for understanding this ancient art form.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Texts, Translations, and Abbreviations Introduction Phenomenology, Aristotle, and Classical Greek Drama Theōrein and Seeing Theater The “Play of Actuality” beyond Fifth-Century Theater Engaged Spectatorship Genre and Scope 1. Opening Spaces Tragic and Comic Space Seeing the Setting Staged Spectatorship Seeing Theater, Seeing Assembly Atopic Beginnings The Phenomenology of Space in the Classical Greek Theater 2. Seeing What? Is This That? Aeschylus’s Theoroi Visual Indeterminacy in Aeschylus’s Suppliants Winging with Words in Aristophanes’s Birds 3. Pain Between Bodies Dustheatos Blinded Bodies I: Euripides’s Cyclops and Hecuba Blinded Bodies II: Sophocles’s Oedipus the King Sympathetic Bodies: [Aeschylus’s] Prometheus Bound Pleasure in Pain 4. Pots and Plays Actor, Mask, Costume The Basel Chorus Krater The London Pandora Krater The Naples Birds Krater Epilogue Works Cited General Index Index Locorum

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Book SynopsisTheft of a Tree, by the sixteenth-century poet Nandi Timmana, recounts how Krishna stole the pārijāta, a wish-granting tree, from the king of the gods. Krishna gifts the tree to his wife Satyabhama—who must temporarily relinquish it to enjoy endless happiness. The text is presented in the Telugu script alongside the first English translation.Trade ReviewTheft of a Tree is wonderful piece, but it’s not what you’re used to—unless you were born five hundred years ago, in a galaxy far, far away…I had a helluva time, rethinking everything, thanks to this book. -- Anthony Madrid * RHINO *

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Book SynopsisThe Life of Padma, Volume 2 recounts Rama’s exile in the Dandaka Forest with his wife Sita and brother Lakshmana. When Sita disappears, Rama prepares for war against Ravana. This first direct translation into English of the oldest extant Apabhramsha work appears alongside a corrected text, in the Devanagari script, of Bhayani’s critical edition.

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Book SynopsisRenowned scholar Susan J. Wolfson assembles seventy-eight selections—some beloved, others less well known—that illuminate the brief, extraordinary career of John Keats. Lively commentaries showcase the poems’ form, style, layers of meaning, and relevant contexts, offering a chronicle of Keats’s artistic evolution.Trade ReviewWolfson’s commentaries offer ‘tutorials’…in how to savour Keats’s poetry, arousing the sort of intense appetite that Keats felt for Homer. Each commentary is an immersion in language and effect, thickened by attention to a web of references…As a ‘series of close encounters’, A Greeting of the Spirit lends itself to browsing; the reader can drop in on her commentaries, skip and re-read them with pleasure. -- Christy Edwall * Times Literary Supplement *Destined to become required reading for all Keats lovers, students, and scholars…Wolfson writes beautifully and with infectious delight for her subject. -- Robert White * Review 19 *Wolfson serves a tempting selection of Keats’s poetry…Nothing—no sound, no pun, no pattern, no definition, no idiom, no punctuation mark, no part of speech, no poetic genre, no etymological possibility—is beyond probing and parsing, nuancing and scrutinizing; word roots are rooted out, marginalia is never marginal; the intertextual is necessarily contextualized; and variants are never unconsidered. Literary histories mesh with deep, formalistic insights and are easefully worked into and then through biographical observations—whatever it takes to get the most out of a poem. -- G. Kim Blank * European Romantic Review *Susan Wolfson offers a series of superb commentaries on Keats’s poems, opening up the verbal energies, complexities, peculiarities, and imaginative capacities of his writing. This book is an invitation for us all to read and reread Keats, accompanied by one of his most brilliant modern critics, who reveals him as a poet for everyone ready to be enchanted by genius. -- Nicholas Roe, author of John Keats: A New LifeA generous, expertly chosen selection of Keats's greatest poems, accompanied by commentaries which are learned and lithe, brilliantly perceptive, extraordinarily informative, and infectiously full of delight. Really, you could not imagine a better companion to guide you through these endlessly marvelous poems. -- Seamus Perry, editor of Coleridge's NotebooksWolfson’s is the book on Keats: a stirring feat of participatory stylistic insight and creative empathy. The rare idiomatic flair of her prose brings back Keats, man and craftsman, in his historical and mortal moment, tracked through impeccably re-estimated verses. With no stone left unturned, even settled gems are rubbed more brilliant by context. Metaphor, metrics, textual history, notes in Keats’s margins and letters, his inexhaustible word play, his philosophical ruminations on the horizons of poetry: all the varied facets of genius and aspiration are seen together in their glinting refraction as never before. -- Garrett Stewart, author of The Ways of the WordA fine selection of Keats’s work, richly analyzed and contextualized by a scholar whose formal attention to detail brings poetry to life on the page. Wolfson guides the reader step by step through both the best-loved and least-known of Keats’s poems, in an anthology that also becomes an enjoyable and thought-provoking tutorial. -- Angela Leighton, author of Hearing Things: The Work of Sound in LiteratureSusan Wolfson’s A Greeting of the Spirit generously tracks Keats’s ‘experiments with words,’ exercising the depth and breadth of her expertise to make his verses newly available to readers. Her commentaries, fresh and incisive, invite us to participate in the poet’s heady way of concentrating the resources of language. -- Frances Ferguson, author of Solitude and the Sublime

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Book SynopsisExamines how Hellenistic poetic culture adapted, reinterpreted, and transformed Archaic Greek lyric through a complex process of textual, cultural, and creative reception. This book looks at the ways in which the poetry of Sappho, Alcaeus, Ibycus, Anacreon, and Simonides was preserved, edited, and read by Hellenistic scholars and poets.Trade Review"[T]his is a very important contribution to both Hellenistic poetry and archaic lyric. It offers copious material for further discussion on textual problems and interpretative approaches."--Flora P. Manakidou, European LegacyTable of ContentsPreface xi Abbreviations xv Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Preserving Her Aeolic Song: Traces of Alexandrian Sappho 12 Chapter 2: Lyric into Elegy: Sappho Again 62 Chapter 3: Alcaeus: Voice and Metaphor of the Symposium 105 Chapter 4: From Samos to Alexandria: Earlier Court Poets and Their Legacies 141 Chapter 5: Simonides Recalled: Imitations of a Poikilos Original 171 Epilogue: Lyric Transformed 214 References Cited 221 Index Locorum 239 Subject Index 247

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Book SynopsisThe elegy flared into existence, commanded the cultural stage for several decades, then went extinct. This book accounts for the swift rise and sudden decline of a genre whose life span was incredibly brief relative to its impact. It presents the history of Latin erotic elegy since Georg Luck's.Trade Review"This work offers a panoramic analysis of a major literary genre, important for historic as well as aesthetic reasons, and of the scholarship produced on it over the past century. It applies a range of sophisticated contemporary theoretical perspectives to illuminate the genre as a whole and specific texts within it. Its close readings abound with new insights."—Judith P. Hallett, University of Maryland, College ParkTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix CHAPTER ONE Toward a New History of Genre:Elegy and the Real 1 CHAPTER TWO The Catullan Sublime,Elegy, and the Emergence of the Real 31 CHAPTER THREE Cynthia as Symptom: Propertius, Gallus, and the Boys 60 CHAPTER FOUR "He Do the Police in Different Voices": The Tibullan Dream Text 95 CHAPTER FIVE Why Propertius Is a Woman 130 CHAPTER SIX Deconstructing the Vir: Lawand the Other in the Amores 160 CHAPTER SEVEN Displacing the Subject, Saving the Text 184 CHAPTER EIGHT Between the Two Deaths: Technologies of the Self in Ovid's Exilic Poetry 210 NOTES 237 BIBLIOGRAPHY 277 INDEX LOCORUM 303 GENERAL INDEX 307

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Book SynopsisOffers an in-depth exploration of the libellus - or little book - of six Latin satires left by the Roman satirical writer Persius when he died in AD 62 at the age of twenty-seven. In this book, the author fleshes out the primary importance of this mysterious and idiosyncratic writer.Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2010 "The book retains the informal approach of the original lectures, a shrewd choice since Reckford excels at using the public speaker's panoply to bring his subject to life; by book's end, readers will fell that they not only know Persius better but also understand more deeply his struggle, as a person and as an author, against humanity's foibles and follies."--Choice "Reckford takes his reader through a well-structured overview of the genre, which I believe will be particularly helpful to students just encountering Roman Satire. Because of the scope of this book, therefore, I would strongly recommend it as an introduction not only to Persius but also to the entire genre, for it places Lucilius, Horace, and to some extent Juvenal, in a context that is often elusive, largely because of the very nature of satire."--Patricia A. Johnston, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix PROLOGUE: In Search of Persius 1 CHAPTER ONE: Performing Privately 16 "Who'll read this stuff?" (Satire 1) 17 "In Different Voices" 21 Performing satire (1): Lucilius 25 Performing satire (2): Horace 32 Three Bad Performances 39 Persius's Return to the Colors 46 Appendix: The Choliambics 52 CHAPTER TWO: Seeking Integrity 56 Hypocrisy and Self-Deception (Satire 2) 57 Called to Virtue (Satire 3) 63 Where Horace Left Off 68 Division Problems 77 Autobiographical Fragments 82 Images of Dissolution 87 Recomposing a Life 91 Appendix: Epictetus, Diatribe, and Persius 96 CHAPTER THREE: Exploring Freedom 102 Shadows of Falsehood (Satire 4) 103 Modes of Disclosure (Satire 5) 108 "Every Fool a Slave" 118 Another Dissident Under Nero 124 CHAPTER FOUR: Life, Death, and Art 130 Between Volterra and Rome 131 The Land, the Sea, and the Heir (Satire 6) 136 Reading the libellus: Children and Grown-ups 144 Recognizing Persius 151 EPILOGUE: From Persius to Juvenal 161 NOTES 181 BIBLIOGRAPHY 219 GENERAL INDEX 233 INDEX LOCORUM 237

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Book SynopsisWhat was the medieval English lyric? Moving beyond the received understanding of the genre, The Voices of Medieval English Lyric explores, through analysis, discussion, and demonstration, what the term lyric most meaningfully implies in a Middle English context. A critical edition of 131 poems that illustrate the range and rich variety of lyric poetry from the mid-twelfth century to the early sixteenth century, The Voices of Medieval English Lyric presents its texts - freshly edited from the manuscripts - in thirteen sections emphasizing contrasting and complementary voices and genres. As well as a selection of religious poetry, the collection includes a high proportion of secular lyrics, many on love and sexuality, both earnest and humorous. In general, major authors who have been covered thoroughly elsewhere are excluded from the edited texts, but some, especially Chaucer, are quoted or mentioned as illuminating comparisons. Charles d''Orléans and the Scots poets Robert Henryson and Trade Review"This edition of a selection of medieval English lyrics is informative and admirably wide-ranging. I finished reading this book with a sense that I’d been given a comprehensive overview of the field by a trustworthy guide." Julia Boffey, Queen Mary University of London

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Book SynopsisLouden's comprehensive achievement gives the reader a fresh perspective on the role of divine hostility and the artistry of an epic survivor on his timeless journey home.Trade ReviewOften illuminating... The reader will find much to welcome. -- Matthew Clark Phoenix

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Book SynopsisBrilliantly revitalized by James, the Trojan Epic will appeal to a wide range of readers interested in Greek mythology and the legend of Troy.Trade ReviewJames's accessible, lively rendition of Quintus's poem deserves to alter the face of ancient epic studies... He fuses a flexible and nuanced form of the ancient hexameter rhythm with contemporary idiom. His Posthomerica includes a superb introduction, lucid commentary, bibliography, index of the occurrence of proper names, and summaries of the action of each Book... A landmark publication. -- Edith Hall Times Literary Supplement 2005 Amazingly, the first full-scale introduction to Quintus and his poem in English. -- Martijn Cuypers Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005 This third-century CE poem-which deals with the events surrounding Homer's Iliad and Odyssey-has been unfairly neglected and even denigrated by scholars more familiar with the Homeric epics. James attempts to rectify this situation in this comprehensive book. Choice 2005 Provides an excellent and accessible introduction, translation, and commentary for this neglected epic. -- Jean Alvares Classical Outlook 2006 Through J.'s industry and scholarship Quintus is served well in this volume, which will generate interest in the Trojan Epic and pave the way for a much-needed literary reappraisal. -- Katerina Carvounis Journal of Hellenic Studies 2006 Posthomerica clearly aims to be a work of scholarship. -- Robert Schmiel Mouseion: Journal of Classical Association of Canada 2006Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionThe Trojan Epic1. Penthesileia2. Memnon3. The Death of Achilles4. The Funeral Games of Achilles5. The Contest for the Armor of Achilles6. The Arrival of Eurypylos7. The Arrival of Neoptolemos8. The Death of Eurypylos9. The Arrival of Philoktetes10. The Death of Paris11. The Defense of Troy12. The Wooden Horse13. The Sack of Troy14. The Departure of the GreeksCritical SummaryCommentaryIndex of Names

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Book SynopsisThree new books in a spectacular limited edition box carry the tradition of the long poem far into the 21st century with a low-lit, slow-drag ebullienceTrade Review"What Mackey now calls a ‘long song that’s one and more than one’ is a tale of the tribe with a planetary scope, an expansive lyrico-epic worthy of the cultural demands of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries." -- Michael Leong - Boston Review"Mackey is doing what might be the most technically virtuosic rhythmo-syntactic work in the English language. No one comes close. I hope these two long poems never end." -- Mike Lala - Brooklyn Rail"Mackey’s music sings transience, sings transliteration, lyricizing its own shifting philosophical constructs as it goes." -- Laverne Frith - New York Journal of Books"Because of [their] crablike logic Mackey’s lines feel simultaneously abraded and buffed, their meanings fugitive, tremulous, mercurial. He is a lyric poet whose probing of wounds and the whir of words reaches into epic dimensions." -- John Palattella - The Nation"Nathaniel Mackey is a poet of ongoingness involved in a kind of spiritualist or cosmic pursuit." -- Edward Hirsch - The Washington Post"For decades, National Book Award-winner Mackey has devoted himself to creating a long poem that covers ambitious territory — and he begins this installment by recalling how early free jazz musicians re-invented the multi-disc record collection because they needed several albums to record their fertile improvisations; you might say that Double Trio is Mackey's multi-disc box set Double Trio is a libretto of metaphysical music and probably the most important poetry collection to come out this year." -- Ken Chen - NPR"Over the years, Mackey's two works have intertwined into what he calls 'the long song,' recounting the travels of a band of refugees, a 'philosophic posse' exiled somewhere outside of history as we understand it. The destination or substance of their wanderings—the surreal moments when they cross paths with a description of Eric Dolphy’s clarinet, an imaginary tune about Eric Garner, the view from a slaver’s ship, or a nineteen-eighties military campaign—matters less than the sensations and mystical visions they gather along the way. They are constantly starting over, discovering worlds within their worlds. Their journeys don’t tell a story so much as they map a kind of alternative history of humankind.... Mackey's poetry is like an archive of all that the world forgot, what might have been had humans resisted the desire to enslave and colonize one another." -- Hua Hsu - New Yorker"These poems are epic meditations that transform and transcend the everyday into an otherworldly, timeless space." -- Publishers Weekly"Double Trio moves in the recursive, spiraling way of an improviser juggling a theme. Insofar-I and his travelers move across a quickly shifting landscape of cities and countries, with death keeping time. All three books move in the time of Mackey’s scansion, hitting the hi-hat of that hanging syllable." -- Sasha Frere-Jones - Bookforum"That condition of music that Walter Pater said we all aspire to has been reached by Nathaniel Mackey in his wild merging of sound and sense (both in making it and in rejecting its packaged forms)." -- John Yau - Hyperallergic

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Book SynopsisSophistics is the paradigm of a discourse that does things with words. It is not pure rhetoric, as Plato want us to believe, but it provides an alternative to the philosophical mainstream. This book constitutes a major contribution to the debate between philosophical pluralism, unitarism, and pragmatism.Trade Review"... the publication of this anthology represents a major event in continental thought: a summa of Cassin's multifaceted philosophical project to date." -- Paul Earlie -Radical Philosophy "To think with Barbara Cassin is a pleasure and a privilege. English readers will be grateful to Fordham University Press for making Cassin's work in classics and philosophy available to them finally. Her unique readings, combining ancient texts and contemporary theory, breathe new life into everything they touch." -- -Bonnie Honig Brown University "Nietzsche considered that Socrates mischaracterized the Sophists and exiled them out of the Logos, making their art the other of philosophy, of what became the Platonic-Aristotelian orthodoxy in the history of western thought. Barbara Cassin's Sophistical Practice undertakes the Nietzschean task of reappraising the Sophists' enterprise and the lessons that their "other" conception of the Logos has for us, today: about the long suppressed feminine buried under the orthodox history of philosophy, about language and translation, about the meaning of a transitional justice (of the kind illustrated by post-apartheid South Africa) that demands not the absolute Platonic truth-in-itself but the sophistical "enough-truth-for" restoring communities fractured by hate and strife and giving them the sense of a future. This is a superb work of classical erudition at the service of the reflection on contemporary issues." -- -Soulemane Bachir Diagne Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Towards a New Topology of Philosophy I. Unusual Presocratics 1. Who's Afraid of the Sophists? Against Ethical Correctness 2. Speak if You Are a Man, or the Transcendantal Exclusion 3. Seeing Helen in Every Woman II. Sophistics, Rhetorics, Politics 4. Rhetorical Turns in Ancient Greece 5. Topos/Kairos, Two Modes of Invention 6. Time of Deliberation and Space of Power: Athens and Rome, the First Conflict III. Sophistical Trends in Political Philosophy 7. From Organism to Picnic: Which Consensus for Which City? 8. Aristotle With and Against Kant on the Idea of Nature 9. Paradigms of the Past in Arendt and Heidegger IV. Performance and Performative 10. How To Really Do Things With Words. Performance Before the Performative 11. The Performative Without Condition, A University Sans Appel (with Ph. Buttgen) 12. Genres and Genders. Woman/Philosopher: Identity as Strategy 13. Philosophizing in Languages V. "Enough of the Truth For" 14. "Enough of the Truth ForEL" On the Truth and Reconciliation Commission 15. Politics of Memory. On the Treatment of Hate 16. Google and Cultural Democracy 17. Relativity of Translation and Relativism Notes Index

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Book SynopsisOvid’s books of personal love elegies are arguably his most attractive work. This edition of Amores II offers a Latin text with parallel prose translation, and critical essays written especially for the reader with little or no Latin. For more advanced scholars, there is a line by line commentary on the Latin text and an apparatus criticus.Trade Review‘A distinguished addition to the excellent classical series... Booth is a sure and amused guide to the genre... Every reader will derive knowledge and pleasure from this book.’LACTTable of Contents PrefaceAddendum 1999Abbreviations and Index of Works CitedIntroduction I. ‘The glory of the Paelignian people’: Ovid and his poetic career’ II. ‘Poems a lass would like to hear’: love-elegy III. ‘Frivolous muse’: The Amores IV. What came naturally: Ovid’s elegiac style V. The text VI. The translationText, Translation and DiscussionsApparatus Criticus CommentaryGeneral Index

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Book SynopsisOvid’s poetical career reached its climax in his masterpiece, the Metamorphoses. This edition of Books I–IV offers the Latin text with facing translation and commentary. The notes trace Ovid’s sources and discuss how and why he adapted them. The history of Ovid’s influence on his successors in literature and art is also extensively treated.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionMetamorphoses - Latin Text and Parallel Translation Book I Book II Book III Book IVCommentaryAbbreviationsIndex

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Book SynopsisOvid’s masterpiece, Metamorphoses, is a treasure-house of mythology. The complete work has been edited in four volumes by D. E. Hill. Each volume stands alone, offering the Latin text with facing prose translation and notes tracing Ovid’s sources and his influence on literature and art. This volume, the second of four, contains Books V–VIII.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionMetamorphoses - Latin Text and Parallel Translation Book V Book VI Book VII Book VIIICommentaryBibliographyIndex

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