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Cambridge University Press An Introduction to Wolframs Parzival
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Cambridge University Press Astronomicon
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Cambridge University Press Reading Virgil
Book SynopsisThis edition of the first two books of Virgil's twelve-book masterpiece the Aeneid is designed to provide all the help that someone who has finished an introductory course in Latin will need to read Virgil accurately, intelligently and with maximum benefit and pleasure.Trade Review"The accuracy and the rigor of both the line-by-line commentary and the paraphrase/discussion, the validity of the interpretation, the rich understanding and the clear explanation of Virgil's art along with the helpfulness of grammatical and lexical tools make this volume indispensable for those students and readers who are longing to read the first two books of the Virgilian masterpiece in the original language, and for those teachers who are looking for an easy and possibly pleasant approach to introduce their students to the Aeneid." --BMCR"Not only is Jones's Reading Virgil a wonderful addition to the AP Virgil curriculum, but students as well as seasoned readers of Virgil and the epic tradition will truly appreciate all the effort and care that went into producing this exquisite volume. We can hope that Jones will soon follow up with Reading Virgil for Aeneid III-XII." ---New England Classical JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction; Glossary of literary terms; Notes for the reader; Help with the text; Grammar; Metre and verse in the Aeneid; Bibliography; Maps; Book I. Aeneas' mission: from storm to refuge: topics for extended essays on Book I; Book II. Aeneas' account of the destruction of Ilium: topics for extended essays on Book II; Some views for general discussion; Appendix: other versions of the sack of Ilium; Total learning vocabulary.
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Cambridge University Press Nature Culture and the Origins of Greek Comedy
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Cambridge University Press Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages Translating Cultures 54 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 54
Book SynopsisThis collection of original essays is dedicated to exploring the intersections between medieval and postcolonial studies. Ranging across a variety of academic disciplines, from art history to cartography, and from Anglo-Saxon to Hispanic studies, this volume highlights the connections between medieval and postcolonial studies through the exploration of a theme common to both areas of study: translation as a mechanism of and metaphor for cultures in contact, confrontation and competition. Drawing upon the widespread medieval trope of the translation of empire and culture, this collection engages the concept of translation from its most narrow, lexicographic sense, to the broader applications of its literal meaning, to carry across. It carries the multilingual, multicultural realities of medieval studies to postcolonial analyses of the coercive and subversive powers of cultural translation, offering a set of case studies of translation as the transfer of language, culture and power.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: 'The application of postcolonial theory to the study of medieval texts has developed into something of a boom industry over the past five years, and this collection adds greatly to the case for the continued relevance of this approach … The unified nature of this collection is one of its chief virtues, constituting an extended interrogation of the role of translation, in the many senses of the term.' Modern PhilologyTable of ContentsPart I. Introduction: 1. A return to wonder Ananya Jahanara Kabir and Deanne Williams; Part II. The Afterlife of Rome: 2. Anglo-Saxon England and the postcolonial void Nicholas Howe; 3. Mapping the ends of Empire Alfred Hiatt; 4. 'On Fagne Flor': the post-colonial Beowulf, from Heorot to Heaney Seth Lerer; Part III. Orientalism Before 1600: 5. Alexander in the Orient: bodies and boundaries in the Roman de toute chevalerie Suzanne Conklin Akbari; 6. Gower's monster Deanne Williams; 7. Turks as Trojans, Trojans as Turks: visual imagery of the Trojan War and the politics of cultural identity in fifteenth-century Europe James Harper; Part IV. Memory and Nostalgia: 8. Analogy in translation: Imperial Rome, medieval England and British India Ananya Jahanara Kabir; 9. 'Au commencement était l'ile': the colonial formation of Joseph Bédier's Chanson de Roland Michelle R. Warren; 10. The protocolonial baroque of La Celestina Roland Greene; Epilogue: translations and transnationals: pre- and postcolonial Ato Quayson.
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Cambridge University Press Platos Meno
Book SynopsisThis edition of Plato's Meno has extensive preliminary chapters provided by Bluck, designed to truly enhance the reader's engagement with this ancient text. In the introductory chapters, he reviews the argument of the Meno, and summarises Plato's use of the hypothetical method in the Meno, the Phaedo and the Republic.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1. The argument of the Meno; 2. 'Recollection' in other dialogues; 3. Transmigration and 'recollection' before Plato; 4. The hypothetical method; 5. The date of the Meno; 6. The setting and the characters; 7. The evidence for the text; Text; commentary; Appendix; Select bibliography; Indices.
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Cambridge University Press Hebrew Scholarship and the Medieval World
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Cambridge University Press Plutarch How to Study Poetry De audiendis poetis Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy
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Cambridge University Press Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society
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Cambridge University Press Fiction and History in England 10661200 68 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 68
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Cambridge University Press Women Readers in the Middle Ages
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Cambridge University Press Strabos Cultural Geography
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Cambridge University Press The Poetry of Praise 69 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 69
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Cambridge University Press Bronzino Renaissance Painter as Poet
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Cambridge University Press Platos Examination of Pleasure
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Cambridge University Press Literature and Heresy in the Age of Chaucer 71 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 71
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Cambridge University Press Abusive Mouths in Classical Athens
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Cambridge University Press The Assumed Authorial Unity of Luke and Acts
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch Cambridge Companions to Literature
Book SynopsisPetrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 1304â74), best known for his influential collection of Italian lyric poetry dedicated to his beloved Laura, was also a remarkable classical scholar, a deeply religious thinker and a philosopher of secular ethics. In this wide-ranging study, chapters by leading scholars view Petrarch's life through his works, from the epic Africa to the Letter to Posterity, from the Canzoniere to the vernacular epic Triumphi. Petrarch is revealed as the heir to the converging influences of classical cultural and medieval Christianity, but also to his great vernacular precursor, Dante, and his friend, collaborator and sly critic, Boccaccio. Particular attention is given to Petrach's profound influence on the Humanist movement and on the courtly cult of vernacular love poetry, while raising important questions as to the validity of the distinction between medieval and modern and what is lost in attempting to classify this elusive figure.Table of ContentsChronology; Introduction Albert Russell Ascoli and Unn Falkeid; Part I. Lives of Petrarch: 1. Poetry in motion Theodore J. Cachey, Jr; 2. Petrarch and his friends Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski; Part II. Petrarch's Works: Italian: 3. Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta: structure and narrative Peter Hainsworth; 4. Making the Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta Luca Marcozzi; 5. Petrarch's Singular Love Lyric Ullrich Langer; 6. The Triumphi Zygmunt G. Barański; Part III. Petrarch's Works: Latin: 7. The Latin hexameter works Ronald L. Martinez; 8. The defense of poetry in the Secretum Victoria Kahn; 9. De Vita Solitaria and De Otio Religioso: the perspective of the guest Unn Falkeid; 10. Epistolary Petrarch Albert Russell Ascoli; Part IV. Petrarch's Interlocutors: 11. Petrarch and the Ancients Gur Zak; 12. Petrarch and the vernacular Lyric past Olivia Holmes; 13. Petrarch's adversaries: the Invectives David Marsh; Part V. Petrarch's Afterlife: 14. Petrarch and the Humanists Timothy Kircher; 15. Bembo and Italian Petrarchism Stefano Jossa; 16. Female Petrarchists Ann Rosalind Jones; 17. Spanish, French, and English Petrarchism William J. Kennedy; Part VI. Conclusion: 18. Petrarch's confrontation with modernity Giuseppe Mazzotta; Guide to further reading.
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Cambridge University Press Pliny the Younger Epistles Book Ii Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
Book SynopsisPliny the Younger's nine-book Epistles is a masterpiece of Roman prose. Often mined as a historical and pedagogical sourcebook, this collection of 'private' letters is now finding recognition as a rich and rewarding work in its own right. The second book is a typically varied yet taut suite of miniatures, including among its twenty letters the trial of Marius Priscus and Pliny's famous portrait of his Laurentine villa. This edition, the first to address a complete book of Epistles in over a century, presents a Latin text together with an introduction and commentary intended for students, teachers and scholars. With clear linguistic explanations and full literary analysis, it invites readers to a fresh appreciation of Pliny's lettered art.Trade Review'… a sophisticated resource for mature academics and a catalyst for invigorating classroom discussion for students.' Noelle Zeiner-Carmichael, Bryn Mawr Classical Review'… sets an extraordinarily high standard … a tour de force … an exceptional commentary.' Jacqueline Carlon, Classical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; Text; Commentary.
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Cambridge University Press The Manuscript Tradition of Polybius
Book SynopsisIn this 1965 text, Dr Moore divides the extant manuscripts of Polybius, the second century BC Greek historian of Rome, into their families, and demonstrates their relationship to each other. He considers the three traditions separately, and in each he describes the manuscripts briefly and discusses their relevant history.Table of ContentsList of plates; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; List of abbreviations; Part I. The Manuscripts of Polybius, Books I-V: Conspectus of sigla; 1. The previous editions of Polybius; 2. The manuscript tradition of Books I-V; 3. Appendix to the manuscript tradition of Books I-V: the excerpt De Figura Italiae; Part II. The 'Excerpta Antiqua' from Polybius, Books VI-XVIII: Conspectus of sigla; 4. The Excerpta Antiqua from Books VI-XVIII; 5. The Excerpta Antiqua from Books VII-XVIII; 6. The Excerpta Antiqua from Books, VI, XVIII and X; 7. The Editio Princeps of Books VI-XVIII; 8. The manuscripts containing small parts of the Excerpta Antiqua; Part III. The Constantine Excerpts; Conspectus of sigla; 9. The Constantine excerpts; 10. The titles from the Constantine excerpts which survive in a single manuscript; 11. The Excerpta de Legationibus; 12. The Excerpta de Legationibus Gentium ad Romanos; 13. The Excerpta de Legationibus ad Gentes; 14. Appendix to the consideration of the Excerpta de Legationibus; 15. The relationship between the Constantine excerpts and the other manuscripts of Polybius; Part IV. The Tradition: 16. The archetype and the tradition; Appendix; Bibliography; Indices.
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Cambridge University Press Alexis
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Cambridge University Press Platos Charmides
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Cambridge University Press Socrates and Philosophy in the Dialogues of Plato
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Cambridge University Press Character Narrator and Simile in the Iliad
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Cambridge University Press Troilus and Criseyde
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Cambridge University Press Homer on the Gods and Human Virtue Creating the Foundations of Classical Civilization
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Cambridge University Press Authorship and Cultural Identity in Early Greece and China
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Cambridge University Press Homer between History and Fiction in Imperial Greek Literature
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Cambridge University Press Relative Chronology in Early Greek Epic Poetry
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Cambridge University Press Classical Greek Rhetorical Theory and the Disciplining of Discourse
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Cambridge University Press The Model of Poesy
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Cambridge University Press The Philosophy of Antiochus
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Cambridge University Press Ancient Philosophical Poetics Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press Quoting Speech in Early English Studies in English Language
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Cambridge University Press Imagining an English Reading Public 11501400
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Cambridge University Press Reading Herodotus
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Cambridge University Press The Narrator in Archaic Greek and Hellenistic Poetry
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Cambridge University Press Ammianus Marcellinus
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Cambridge University Press Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry
Book SynopsisThis study explores the Greek poetry of the third and second centuries BC and its reception and influence at Rome. Close readings of the most familiar poetry of the age are set alongside considerations of newly published texts, providing a different perspective on the literary practices of the period.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: '… this invaluable and endlessly engaging book splendidly reflects their scholarly priorities and pleasures.' Journal of Classics TeachingReview of the hardback: '… a book so full that it defies summary. … will undoubtedly become an indispensable starting-point for many generations of students and scholars, presenting as it does the culmination of many years' thinking and writing on the part of both of its distinguished authors.' Hermathena'Wary of generalization that only simplify or obscure, Fantuzzi and Hunter are right to have invested most of their energy in the scrutiny of details; it has enable them to produce the most formidable synthesis of Hellenistic poetic developments yet written.' The Times Literary SupplementTable of Contents1. Performance and genre; 2. The aetiology of Callimachus' Aitia; 3. The Argonautica of Apollonius and epic tradition; 4. Theocritus and the bucolic genre; 5. Epic in a minor key; 6. The style of Hellenistic epic; 7. The epigram; 8. The languages of praise; 9. Hellenistic drama; 10. Roman epilogue.
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Cambridge University Press An Enquiry Into the Transmission of the Plays of Euripides
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Cambridge University Press Irony in the Medieval Romance
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Cambridge University Press Seneca the Elder
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Cambridge University Press The Prioresss Tale the Tale of Sir Thopas
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Cambridge University Press AngloIrish Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Iliad
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Cambridge University Press Arabic Literature to the End of the Umayyad Period
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