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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Classical Literature Volume 1 Greek Literature Part 1 Early Greek Poetry
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Cambridge University Press The Shade of Homer
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Cambridge University Press Ovid Heroides Select Letters Select Epistles Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
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Cambridge University Press Perception Passion Dantes S
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Cambridge University Press Visible Song Transitional Literacy in Old English Verse 4 Cambridge Studies in AngloSaxon England Series Number 4
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Cambridge University Press Dante and Medieval Latin Traditions
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Cambridge University Press Antiphon
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Cambridge University Press Author and Audience in Latin Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Early History of Greed The Sin of Avarice in Early Medieval Thought and Literature 41 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 41
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Cambridge University Press Boccaccio Decameron Landmarks of World Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Metrical Grammar of Beowulf 5 Cambridge Studies in AngloSaxon England Series Number 5
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Cambridge University Press Hugh Primas and the Archpoet
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Cambridge University Press Ovid Renewed Ovidian Influences on Literature and Art from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century Author Charles Martindale published on April 2009
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Cambridge University Press Johannes de Hauvilla
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Cambridge University Press Johannes de Hauvilla Architrenius Cambridge Medieval Classics 3 Cambridge Medieval Classics Series Number 3
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Cambridge University Press Gottfried Von Strassburg
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Cambridge University Press Dreaming in the Middle Ages 14 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 14
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Cambridge University Press The Medieval Poet as Voyeur
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Cambridge University Press The Biblical Drama of Medieval Europe
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Cambridge University Press A History of AngloLatin Literature 1066 1422
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Cambridge University Press Chaucers Legendary Good Women 38 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 38
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Cambridge University Press Stone Lake
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Cambridge University Press The Irish Tradition in Old English Literature 6 Cambridge Studies in AngloSaxon England Series Number 6
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Cambridge University Press Camb Companion to Greek Tragedy
Book SynopsisThe twelve essays in this distinguished collection consider the importance of ancient Greek tragedy as a creative medium. The three main emphases are on tragedy as an institution in the civic life of ancient Greece; on critical interpretations of the texts; and on changing patterns of reception, adaption, and performance from antiquity to present.Trade Review'As a resource for teachers it is invaluable … Where else can such a wealth be found in one volume on tragedy?' JACT Review'Classical scholars will find much to think about … and their students will find it invaluable. [The] book contains chapters that will launch a thousand essays. One may only hope that non-classicists will also be encouraged to explore the world of tragedy.' The Times Literary Supplement'… an innovative and authoritative work which not only is easily the and paedagogically most useful handbook for the study of this most influential of Greek cultural productions; in addition, the contributors all forward the restless debate on tragedy and its heritage as they delineate it'. The Anglo-Hellenic ReviewTable of ContentsList of illustrations; List of contributors; Preface; Plan of the city of Athens; Part I. Tragedy as an Institution: The Historical Context: 1. 'Deep plays': theatre as process in Greek civic life Paul Cartledge; 2. A show for Dionysus P. E. Easterling; 3. The audience of Athenian tragedy Simon Goldhill; 4. The pictorial record Oliver Taplin; Part II. The Plays: 5. The sociology of Athenian tragedy Edith Hall; 6. The language of tragedy: rhetoric and communication Simon Goldhill; 7. Form and performance P. E. Easterling; 8. Myth into mythos: the shaping of tragic plots Peter Burian; Part III. Reception: 9. From repertoire to canon P. E. Easterling; 10. Tragedy adapted for stages and screens: the Renaissance to the present Peter Burian; 11. Tragedy in performance: nineteenth- and twentieth-century productions Fiona Macintosh; 12. Modern critical approaches Simon Goldhill; Glossary; Chronology; Texts, commentaries and translations; Works cited; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Ideas and Forms of Tragedy from Aristotle to the Middle Ages 18 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 18
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Cambridge University Press The Old English Lives of St Margaret 9
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Cambridge University Press Dante and the Mystical Tradition Bernard of Clairvaux in the Commedia 22 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 22
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Cambridge University Press Pindar Victory Odes Olympians 2 7 and 11 Nemean 4
Book SynopsisA presentation by Professor Willcock of seven of Pindar's extant poems celebrating the victories of athletes.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Greek lyric poetry; 2. Pindar's life and works; 3. The games; 4. The victors; 5. The genre; 6. Pindar's thought; 7. Pindar's style; 8. Pindar's language; 9. Metrical form; 10. The text and scholia; Pindar: Victory Odes: The Eleventh Olympian; The Seventh Isthmian; The Fourth Isthmian; The Third Isthmian; The Fourth Nemean; The Seventh Olympian; The Second Olympian; Commentary; Appendices; Bibliography; Indexes.
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Cambridge University Press Reconsidering Tu Fu
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Cambridge University Press Pastoral and the Poetics of SelfContradiction
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Cambridge University Press The Forensic Stage
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature
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Cambridge University Press Medieval Listening and Reading
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Cambridge University Press Horace
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Cambridge University Press Literature and Domestic Travel in Early Modern England
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Cambridge University Press The Poetic Art of Aldhelm 8 Cambridge Studies in AngloSaxon England Series Number 8
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Cambridge University Press Myth and Poetry in Lucretius
Book SynopsisThis book attempts to provide a more positive assessment of Lucretius' aims and methodology by considering the poet's attitude to myth, and the role which it plays in the De Rerum Natura, against the background of earlier and contemporary views.Trade Review"What makes her [Gale] discussion exciting, at least for this reader, is the sense that this complex of ideas remains vital after two millennia; it is far more robust and viable than notions of aestheticism, art for art's sake, or the autonomous text." Classical Views"Gale offers a rigorous reading and well-worked out theory of the use of the divine images in a work that is repudiating divinity. Her exploration and meticulous examination of the structural elements of his poem offers a theory of meaning much more sophisticated than usually attributed to the poet and that shows how Lucretius anticipated much of modern science and philosophy." The Reader's Review"Gale readily acknowledges the debts of this many-sided study to previous scholarship, but her lively, useful, and illuminating book has more than repaid its debt by establishing a coherent relationship between Lucretian epistemology and poetics, which does not simply extenuate but vindicates the honey on the cup." Phoenix"This is an important book on a topic of continuing discussion. It offers some creative ways of treating Lucretius' combination of myth and poetry as what he surely meant it to be: a realization of the true meaning of his Master's thought." Bryn Mawr Classical Review"This is, quite simply, a superb book, the merits of which I haven't the space to expound properly, nor is it possible to engage the author in the many particulars which one should very much like to argue. Gale has provided a deep and intelligent study of what must be conceded to be matters of crucial concern in understanding Lucretius....she is thorough, judicious and fair to those scholars with whom she takes issue....she writes pleasingly well: it is a genuine pleasure to see literature and philosophy discussed with such clarity. This book very much belongs on the same shelf as Diskin Clay's Lucretius and Epicurus and Philip Hardie's Cosmos and Imperium." W. Jeffery Tatum, Classical WorldTable of ContentsPreface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The philosophical background: Greek myth and mythology; 2. The cultural background: myth and belief in late Republican Rome; 3. The literary background: the De Rerum Natura as epic; 4. Lucretius' theory of myth; 5. Latent myth in the De Rerum Natura; 6. The proem and the plague; Conclusion: myth as a poetic and philosophical tool; Bibliography; General Index; Index of passages cited.
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Cambridge University Press Banished Voices
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Cambridge University Press Horace
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Cambridge University Press Criticism and Dissent in the Middle Ages
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Cambridge University Press Horace Satires Book I Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
Book SynopsisHorace's first book of Satires is his debut work, a document of one man's self-fashioning on the cusp between republic and empire, and a pivotal text in the history of Roman satire. It wrestles with the problem of how to define and assimilate satire and justifies the poet's own position in a suspicious society. The commentary gives full weight to the dense texture of these poems while helping readers interpret their most cryptic aspects and appreciate their technical finesse. The introduction puts Horace in context as late-Republican newcomer and a vital figure in the development of satire, and discusses the structure and meaning of Satires I, literary and philosophical influences, style, metre, transmission and Horace's rich afterlife. Each poem is followed by an essay offering overall interpretation. This work is designed for upper-level students and scholars of classics but contains much of interest to specialists in later European literature.Trade Review'Gowers is a brilliant critic … Any sentence chosen at random would illustrate her critical perceptiveness and penetration, and the deftness, liveliness and sheer interest to be found in the way she writes.' Exemplaria Classica'Emily Gowers' new Green and Yellow commentary does far more than bring things up to date. It innovates, and opens pathways for fresh interrogation. By combining the best of the solid philological and historical gains made by the great nineteenth- and twentieth-century commentaries in French, German and Italian, with the best of recent cultural and literary-critical scholarship (primarily in English), Gowers has managed to produce something that the field has not, in fact, ever seen: an impressively full and thought-provoking commentary in English on the first book of Horace's Sermones … Gowers' points of emphasis are well chosen and well balanced … [her] note on 'numerus'… is itself worth the price of the book … outstanding …' Kirk Freudenburg, The Journal of Roman Studies'Everyone who reads satire comes to it with different interests, and Gowers accordingly gives space to a variety of topics and avenues of investigation in her essays and notes … She is particularly talented at exposing the relationship between the anecdotal poems 7-9 and unpacking the various messages that are embedded in Horace's dense verse. These pieces reward readers with a tantalizing … glimpse into the historical poet's lived experience.' Jayne Knight, MnemosyneTable of ContentsIntroduction; Text; Commentary.
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Cambridge University Press Seneca Selected Letters
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Cambridge University Press Virgil in Medieval England
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Cambridge University Press The Text of the Old Testament in AngloSaxon England 15 Cambridge Studies in AngloSaxon England Series Number 15
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Cambridge University Press A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey
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Cambridge University Press Euripidean Polemic
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Cambridge University Press The Textuality of Old English Poetry 13 Cambridge Studies in AngloSaxon England Series Number 13
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Cambridge University Press Reading Old English Texts
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