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Cambridge University Press Trinity and Incarnation in AngloSaxon Art and Thought 21 Cambridge Studies in AngloSaxon England Series Number 21
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Cambridge University Press The Composition of Old English Poetry
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Cambridge University Press Covenant and Republic
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance By Roberta L Krueger published July 2000
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Cambridge University Press Poetry as Performance
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Cambridge University Press Literature and Religion at Rome
Book SynopsisThis book exploits recent reevaluations of Roman religion in order to argue in favor of taking the religious dimensions of Roman literature seriously, as important cultural work in their own right. Instead of seeing Roman religious and literary activity as derivative and parasitic upon Greek originals, the book questions the romanticizing biases of classical studies, and argues for the power and creativity of the Romans in their engagements with Greek culture.Trade Review'This … useful book … brings to the fore some of the main theoretical positions taken by current investigators of Roman religion, literature and culture … Its detailed case studies of cultural interaction between literature and religion genuinely illuminate.' The Times Literary Supplement'A gripping read, Literature and Religion at Rome assumes a relaxed discourse despite the complexity of its concepts, ensuring that otherwise complicated themes and issues discussed are presented with clarity and originality.' The Australian National Review' … compact but immensely rewarding … this is a provocative and successful theoretical work which throws into high relief a raft of traditional assumptions which have proved impediments to modern understanding.' Prudentia'Like the other volumes in the series, Hinds' Allusion and Intertext and Feeney's Literature and Religion at Rome are well written and well edited brief introductions to a significant area of scholarly research in Latin literature, designed simultaneously to incorporate and explain recent scholarship in the field and to serve as a protreptic to others.' PhoenixTable of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1. Belief; 2. Myth; 3. Divinity; 4. Ritual; 5. Epilogue: knowledge; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Theocritus and the Archaeology of Greek Poetry
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Cambridge University Press Two Old English Apocrypha and their Manuscript Source
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Cambridge University Press The Literature of Misogyny in Medieval Spain The Arcipreste de Talavera and the Spill 10 Cambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature Series Number 10
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Cambridge University Press Seizures of the Will 11 Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Series Number 11
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Cambridge University Press Allusion and Intertext
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Cambridge University Press Texts and the Self in the Twelfth Century 30 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 30
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Cambridge University Press Horace and the Rhetoric of Authority
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Cambridge University Press Bion of Smyrna The Fragments and the Adonis 33 Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries Series Number 33
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Cambridge University Press Herodotus Histories Book VIII 8 Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
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Cambridge University Press The Troubadours
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Cambridge University Press The Troubadours
Book SynopsisThis book offers a general introduction to the dazzling world of the troubadours. Its sixteen newly-commissioned essays discuss the development of troubadour song, the main trends in troubadour scholarship, and the reception of troubadour poetry. Appendices offer an invaluable guide to troubadours, technical vocabulary, research tools and surviving manuscripts.Trade Review"All readers of troubadour poetry can profit from this well-devised, stimulating book." SpeculumTable of ContentsPreface: How to use this book; Introduction Simon Gaunt and Sarah Kay; 1. Courtly culture in medieval Occitania Ruth Harvey; 2. Fin' amor and the development of the courtly canso Linda Paterson; 3. Moral and satirical poetry Catherine Léglu; 4. Early troubadours: Guilhem IX to Bernart de Ventadorn Stephen G. Nichols; 5. The classical period: Raimbaut d'Aurenga to Arnaut Daniel Gérard Gouiran; 6. Later troubadours Michael Routledge; 7. The trobairitz Tilde Sankovitch; 8. Italian and Catalan troubadours Miriam Cabré; 9. Music and versification Margaret Switten; 10. Rhetoric and hermeneutics Sarah Spence; 11. Intertextuality and dialogism in the troubadours Maria Luisa Meneghetti; 12. The troubadours at play: irony, parody and burlesque Don Monson; 13. Desire and subjectivity Sarah Kay; 14. Orality and writing: the text of the troubadour poem Simon Gaunt; 15 The Chansonniers as books William Burgwinkle; 16. Troubadour lyric and Old French narrative Sylvia Huot; Appendices; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Aristophanes
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Cambridge University Press Heresy and Literacy 10001530 23 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 23
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Cambridge University Press Women Literature Britain 11501500 17 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 17
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Cambridge University Press Tacitus Histories Book I 1 Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
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Cambridge University Press Fighting for Rome
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Cambridge University Press The Roman Cultural Revolution
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Cambridge University Press The Apocryphal Gospels of Mary in AngloSaxon England 26 Cambridge Studies in AngloSaxon England Series Number 26
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Cambridge University Press Aratus
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Cambridge University Press Horace
Book SynopsisAn edition with introduction and commentary of Horace's Carmen Saeculare and fourth book of Odes. Horace's return to lyric combines poems focusing alternately on the political and the personal, revealing a dynamic tension between the two. Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students as well as being important for scholars.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Carmen Saeculare; Odes IV; Commentary.
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Cambridge University Press Horace Odes IV and Carmen Saeculare
An edition with introduction and commentary of Horace's Carmen Saeculare and fourth book of Odes. Horace's return to lyric combines poems focusing alternately on the political and the personal, revealing a dynamic tension between the two. Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students as well as being important for scholars.
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Cambridge University Press Seneca De Otio De Brevitate Vitae Cambridge Greek
Book SynopsisThis edition, the first modern one in English, introduces undergraduates and more advanced students to the therapeutic possibilities of Seneca's Stoic philosophy. The short treatises De otio and De brevitate vitae balance each other by representing different but complementary aspects of Senecan philosophy: in De otio, one's duty to the 'active' life, in De brevitate vitae, one's duty to oneself in reclaiming life from the impositions made upon the self. The provocative Senecan message is to promote introspection in life, and to suggest the benefits of an inner existence of the personal. In addition to its literary and linguistic emphasis, this edition tries to advertize the means by which Seneca conveys the attractions of his therapeutic 'philosophy'.Trade Review"...scholarly and comprehensive...will be useful (indeed, essential) for Senecan scholars and their graduate students." -Mark Morford, University of Virginia, The Classical Outlook"This excellent addition to the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics fills a great void and is hence welcome indeed." -R. Scott Smith, University of New Hampshire, New England Classical Journal"The two works included in this volume are complementary and contain a great deal of interest to students of Roman culture and ancient philosophy." -Classical World"The volume would...make an attractive choice for study even at the undergraduate level, for the two dialogues offered here are among the most accessible of Seneca's shorter works." -Margaret Graver, Department of Classics, Dartmouth College, Ancient PhilosophyTable of ContentsIntroduction; L. ANNAEI SENECAE DE OTIO; DE BREVITATE VITAE; Commentary.
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Cambridge University Press Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry VIII Literary Culture and the Arts of Deceit 18 Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Series Number 18
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Cambridge University Press Language and Stage in Medieval and Renaissance England
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Cambridge University Press Beowulf and Old Germanic Metre 23 Cambridge Studies in AngloSaxon England Series Number 23
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Cambridge University Press Euripides
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Cambridge University Press Herodotus Histories Book IX 9 Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
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Cambridge University Press Suetonius Diuus Claudius
Book SynopsisThe first-century emperor Claudius did not leave the fledgling Roman Empire as he had found it: his contribution was to turn its developing institutions into an imperial tradition. But the ancient sources represent him as an odd personality - active but manipulated by his inferiors, at once distracted and awkward and cruel. Suetonius' biography is a rich offering of both solid fact and the prejudicial anecdotes that his contemporaries and the generation that followed thought worth repeating, raw material for exploring the man and his reign. This commentary provides context for the text's abundant information, but form is not neglected, and attention is given to Suetonius' intelligent and conscious marshalling of his material, and guidance offered to students reading the biographer's often densely compressed style. This is the first English commentary on the Claudius Life to deal with both historical and stylistic issues.Trade Review'Hurley brings us the first English commentary on Suetonius' Life of Claudius to deal with both historical and stylistic issues … Hurley's commentary situates the Life of Claudius squarely at the centre of our attention and enriches our understanding of the Principate, the author, and the emperor.' Journal of Roman StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: 1. Suetonius and his career; 2. Biography and De uita Caesarum; 3. Claudius and his story; 4. Structure and style; 5. Text and afterlife; C. SVETONI TRANQVILLI DE VITA CAESARVM LIBER V DIVVS CLAVDIVS; Commentary.
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Cambridge University Press Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger
Book SynopsisSituates Pliny's Letters within the letter-writing tradition, offers new readings of favourite letters, and emphasises the importance of understanding letters within the context of original books or informal 'cycles'. For advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars interested in the study of ancient letters and imperial Latin literature.Trade Review'Gibson and Morello's volume offers a welcome contribution to recent scholarship on the letters of Pliny the Younger ... [provides] a fresh perspective on Pliny the Younger's letters … The textual analyses will appeal to many and the highly accessible appendices are broadly useful … The greatest contribution of this volume may be the authors' insistence that (re)reading Pliny's letters both linearly and selectively will proffer the greatest appreciation for Pliny's conscientious attention to the organization and thematic development of his epistolary collection. Moreover, Gibson and Morello's reading strategies will significantly benefit readers embarking anew on (re)reading the letters.' Noelle Zeiner-Carmichael, The Journal of Roman StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Reading a life: Letters, Book 1; 2. Reading a book: Letters, Book 6; 3. Epistolary models: Cicero and Seneca; 4. Pliny's elders and betters: the Elder Pliny, Vestricius Spurinna, Corellius Rufus, Verginius Rufus; 5. Pliny's peers: reading for the addressee; 6. Otium: how to manage leisure; 7. Reading the Villa Letters: 9.7, 2.17, 5.6; 8. The grand design: how to read a collection; Appendix 1. A Pliny timeline, and the great Comum inscription; Appendix 2. Letters 1-9: catalogue of contents and addressees; Appendix 3. Popular topics in the Letters: bibliographical help; Appendix 4. Index of main characters in the Letters.
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Cambridge University Press Europides Phaethon 12 Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries Series Number 12
Book SynopsisThe surviving text of the fragmentary Phaethon of Euripides depends chiefly on two sources: two pages from a Euripidean manuscript, written about A.D. 500, and a papyrus of the third century B.C., which contains a substantial part of the parodos. These sources are supplemented by a number of citations in classical authors and by a recently published fragmentary hypothesis. Professor Diggle has examined all the manuscript evidence and offers many decipherments. He gives a text of the play and of the hypothesis, an exegetical commentary, prolegomena and appendices, in which he discusses the treatment of the Phaethon myth in classical literature and attempts a reconstruction of the plot of the play.Table of ContentsList of Plates; Preface; Abbreviations; Prolegomena; Text; Commentary; Appendixes; Bibliography; Index verborum; Index of passages discussed; Subject index; Greek index.
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Cambridge University Press Language Sexuality Narrative
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Cambridge University Press The Annals of Tacitus Volume 2 Annals 1.5581 and Annals 2
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Cambridge University Press Incerti Auctoris Aetna 2 Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries Series Number 2
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Cambridge University Press Eubulus The Fragments The Fragments 24 Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries Series Number 24
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Cambridge University Press The Argonautica of Apollonius
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Cambridge University Press The Classical Plot and the Invention of Western Narrative
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Cambridge University Press Euripides Phoenissae 29 Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries Series Number 29
Book SynopsisThis volume provides a thorough philological and dramatic commentary on Euripides' Phoenissae, the first detailed commentary in English since 1911. Phoenissae is of special interest both as a specimen of late Euripidean dramaturgy, and as the subject of longstanding disputes over the extent of interpolation and rewriting to be detected in it. This commentary aims to offer a balanced treatment of issues of language, style, structure, and dramatic technique as well as to explain the reasons for and uncertainties of the constitution of the text. The introduction treats the play's structure and themes, the possible date, the features of the original production, the varied background of Theban myth against which Euripides' choices and innovations may be judged, and general issues relevant to the problem of interpolation. The Greek text is that of the author's 1988 Teubner edition.Trade Review"The finest commentary ever written by an American on a Greek tragedy. Breadth is extraordinary." Religious Studies Review"This handsomely produced volume tips the scales as the heavyweight among Euripidean commentaries. It is a major philological achievement, which vastly enhances understanding of the play." Justina Gregory, AJP"Superb...Mastronarde has brought readers of Medea up to date, set out for us the scholarly discussion while cogently advancing it, and given us the tools to make our own judgements." Hardy Hansen, Classical WorldTable of ContentsIntroduction: 1. The play; 2. The problem of date and companion plays; 3. Features of the original production; 4. Thebaid myth and Phoenissae; 5. The Peisander scholion and Chrysippus; 6. The problem of interpolation; 7. The text; Phoenissae; Commentary; Appendix: The poetic topography of Thebes; Abbreviations and Bibliography; Indexes.
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Cambridge University Press Medieval Reading Grammar Rhetoric and the Classical Text Author Suzanne Reynolds published on July 2004
Book SynopsisThis book argues for a radically new approach to the history of reading and literacy in the Middle Ages. It investigates the use of complex literary texts as the basis of elementary instruction in the Latin language and, using medieval teachers' notes (glosses) on a classical text (Horace's Satires) and a selection of other unpublished manuscript materials, it demonstrates that the reading of classical literature was profoundly shaped by the demands of acquiring Latin literacy through the arts of grammar and rhetoric. The resolutely literal readings of Latin texts found in these educational and institutional contexts call for a reassessment of the relationship of Latin and vernacular discourses in medieval culture, and of some central notions in medieval hermeneutics, notably allegory and authorial intention.Trade Review' … a thought-provoking and erudite work to be warmly welcomed and thoroughly recommended'. The Review of English Studies'This is an original, stimulating book which will be useful to all scholars working on reading and literacy in the Middle Ages.' PeritiaTable of Contents1. Introduction; Part I. Contents for reading: 2. Learning to read: the classics and the curriculum; 3. Reading and the trivium arts; Part II. Reading Practice: 4. Origins and mythologies: the invention of language and meaning; 5. Reading word by word (1): the role of the vernacular; 6. Reading word by word (2): grammatical and rhetorical approaches; 7. From words to the phrase: the problem of syntax; 8. Government: the theory and practice of a grammatical concept; 9. Rival orders of syntax: vernacular, natural and artificial; 10. From the phrase to the text: grammatical and rhetorical approaches again; 11. Naked intention: satire and a new kind of literal reading; 12. Literacy: a new model for the classical text in the middle ages?; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Dante Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press Martial
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Cambridge University Press The Forensic Stage
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Cambridge University Press Aratus Phaenomena 34 Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries Series Number 34
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