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Cambridge University Press comedy
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Cambridge University Press Cicero Pro Sexto Roscio Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
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Cambridge University Press Homer Iliad Book 22 Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
Book SynopsisBook XXII recounts the climax of the Iliad: the fatal encounter between the main defender of Troy and the greatest warrior of the Greeks, which results in the death of Hector and Achilles' revenge for the death of his friend Patroclus. At the same time it adumbrates Achilles' own death and the fall of Troy. This edition will help students and scholars better appreciate this key part of the epic poem. The introduction summarises central debates in Homeric scholarship, such as the circumstances of composition and the literary interpretation of an oral poem, and offers synoptic discussions of the structure of the Iliad, the role of the narrator, similes and epithets. There is a separate section on language, which provides a compact list of the most frequent Homeric characteristics. The commentary offers up-to-date linguistic guidance, and elucidates narrative techniques, typical elements and central themes.Trade Review'De Jong's emphases are outlined in the preface. She says that she will focus on 'Homer's language …and his narrative style … In my own experience, she accomplishes a great deal more, bringing out meanings and connections that cast book 22 in an entirely fresh light and reveal this book's close connections to the Iliad as a whole. After reading this commentary, I felt I had experienced a thorough review and renewal of my Iliadic self.' Edith Foster, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; Text; Commentary.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Andrew Marvell Cambridge Companions to Literature
Book SynopsisAndrew Marvell is one of the greatest English lyric poets of the seventeenth century and one of its leading polemicists. This Companion brings a set of fresh questions and perspectives to bear on the varied career and diverse writings of a remarkable writer and elusive man. Drawing on important new editions of Marvell's poetry and of his prose, scholars of both history and literature examine Marvell's work in the contexts of Restoration politics and religion, and of the seventeenth-century publishing world in both manuscript and print. The essays, individually and collectively, address Marvell within his literary and cultural traditions and communities; his almost prescient sense of the economy and ecology of the country; his interest in visual arts and architecture; his opaque political and spiritual identities; his manners in controversy and polemic; the character of his erotic and transgressive imagination and his biography, still full of intriguing gaps.Trade Review".., it offers snapshots of contemporary approaches to Marvell's poetic and public career." --Recent Studies in the English RenaissanceTable of ContentsChronology; 1. Introduction Derek Hirst and Steven N. Zwicker; 2. The social modes of Marvell's poetry James Loxley; 3. Marvell and the literary past Paul Davis; 4. Borders and transitions in Marvell's poetry Matthew C. Augustine; 5. Thinking of gender Diane Purkiss; 6. Marvell and the designs of art Michael Schoenfeldt; 7. Andrew Marvell's citizenship Phil Withington; 8. The green Marvell Andrew McRae; 9. A Cromwellian centre? Joad Raymond; 10. The poet's religion John Spurr; 11. Adversarial Marvell Nicholas Von Maltzahn; 12. How to make a biography of Andrew Marvell Nigel Smith; Further reading; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Greek Laughter
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Cambridge University Press Longinus on the Sublime The Greek Text Edited After the Paris Manuscript
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Cambridge University Press C. Suetoni Tranquilli
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Cambridge University Press Terence Hecyra Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
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Cambridge University Press Nine Medieval Latin Plays 1 Cambridge Medieval Classics Series Number 1
Book SynopsisThis first volume of Cambridge Medieval Classics offers the text of nine of the most outstanding plays composed and performed in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the period of the finest flowering of medieval Latin drama. Newly edited and translated, the texts are given in both Latin and English, with detailed notes and apparatus to aid interpretation. They are selected to represent the range of dramatic achievement between about 1050 and 1180, when the use of sung play-texts, within a context of liturgical ceremony as well as for secular entertainment, was at its peak. The plays chosen are boldly inventive and compellingly imaginative, revealing the depth and range of the medieval dramatic mind. Included are works from France and Germany, a piece by Hildegard of Bingen, and the Passion Play from the Carmina Burana.Table of ContentsPreface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Eleventh-Century Plays: I. Sponsus (The Bridegroom); 2. Officium stelle (The Play of the Star); 3-4. Tres filie, Tres clerici (The Three Daughters and The Three Students); Twelfth-Century Plays: 5-6.Verses pascales de tres Maries, Versus de pelegrino (Easter Verses of the Three Maries and Verses about the Stranger); 7. Danielis ludus (The Play of Daniel); 8. Ordo Virtutum (The Play of the Virtues); 9. Ludus de passione (The Passion Play, from the Carmina Burana); Textual and Explanatory Notes.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Bede Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to the Old NorseIcelandic Saga Cambridge Introductions to Literature
Book SynopsisWith suggestions for further reading, detailed information about the Icelandic literary canon, and a map of medieval Iceland, this book is designed for students of medieval literature and assumes no prior knowledge of Scandinavian languages.Trade Review'Clunies Ross manages to provide just the sort of introduction to the sagas that any teacher of Old Norse (among those whose interest in the subject transcends the merely linguistic, at least) would wish their students to read, in a compact, accessible and attractively priced volume.' Saga-BookTable of ContentsA preface on practical issues; Glossary of technical terms; 1. Medieval Iceland; 2. What is an Old Norse-Icelandic saga?; 3. The genesis of the Icelandic saga; 4. Saga chronology; 5. Saga subjects and settings; 6. Saga mode, style and point of view; 7. Saga structures; 8. The material record: how we know the sagas; 9. Changing understandings of the sagas; Guide to further reading; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press Image and Text in GraecoRoman Antiquity
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Cambridge University Press Simile and Identity in Ovids Metamorphoses
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Cambridge University Press Reading Roman Comedy
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Cambridge University Press Homers Trojan Theater
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Cambridge University Press The Virgin Mary in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Literature and Popular Culture
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Cambridge University Press Classical Literary Careers and their Reception
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Cambridge University Press Homer
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Cambridge University Press Aristophanes and the Poetics of Competition
Book SynopsisAthenian comic drama was written for performance at festivals honouring the god Dionysos. Through dramatic action and open discourse, poets sought to engage their rivals and impress the audience, all in an effort to obtain victory in the competitions. This book uses that competitive performance context as an interpretive framework within which to understand the thematic interests shaping the plots and poetic quality of Aristophanes'' plays in particular, and of Old Comedy in general. Studying five individual plays from the Aristophanic corpus as well as fragments of other comic poets, it reveals the competitive poetics distinctive to each. It also traces thematic connections with other poetic traditions, especially epic, lyric, and tragedy, and thereby seeks to place competitive poetics within broader trends in Greek literature.Trade Review'… this book is a thoroughly researched, imaginative and engaging piece of scholarship which deserves a prominent place in Aristophanic studies.' Emmanuela Bakola, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; Dedication; Abbreviations; Proagon; 1. From Thamyris to Aristophanes: the competitive poetics of the comic parabasis; 2. The competitive partnership of Aristophanes and Dikaiopolis in Acharnians; 3. Aristophanes' poetic tropaion: competitive didaskalia and contest records in Knights; 4. Intertextual biography in the rivalry of Cratinus and Aristophanes; 5. Aristophanes' Clouds-palinode; 6. Dionysos and dionysia in Frogs; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Reception and the Classics An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Classical Tradition 36 Yale Classical Studies Series Number 36
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Cambridge University Press Perceptions of Horace
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Cambridge University Press Tragic Pathos
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Plutarch
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Cambridge University Press Plautus
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Cambridge University Press Texts Editors and Readers
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Cambridge University Press The Art of Euripides
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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 Artisans and Narrative Craft in Late Medieval England
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Cambridge University Press Arabic Literature in the PostClassical Period
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Cambridge University Press The Classical Plot and the Invention of Western Narrative
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Cambridge University Press Longus Daphnis and Chloe
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Cambridge University Press Longus Daphnis and Chloe
Book SynopsisLongus'' Daphnis and Chloe is arguably our finest surviving Greek novel. Written under the Roman Empire and engaging with romantic, pastoral and rhetorical themes, the story and characterisation have captured the imaginations of artists over the centuries. Despite a growing interest in ancient novels over the past half-century, this is the first full commentary to address Longus'' linguistic texture and its implications for his literary aspirations, as well as his narrative skills and intertextuality with earlier Greek writers. The commentary provides a detailed analysis of Longus'' Greek and its relation to other Greek prose and poetry of the second century AD and earlier, and emphasises the construction and style of the original text, drawing out key points for clarification and discussion. A wide-ranging introduction ensures that this book will be an indispensable guide for teachers and students of all levels who are looking to engage with Longus'' writing.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The text and the story; 2. Longus' poetic intertexts; 3. Longus' exploitation of earlier prose texts; 4. Poetic elements in Longus' prose?; 5. Religion; 6. City and country; 7. Art and nature; 8. Style and language; 9. Syntax; 10. Choice of words; 11. Longus' non-Attic lexicon and date; 12. Reception and transmission; 13. The text and commentary; ΛΟΓΓΟΥ ΠΟΙΜΕΝΙΚΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΚΑΤΑ ΔΑΦΝΙΝ ΚΑΙ ΧΛΟΗΝ; Commentary.
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Cambridge University Press Slavery and the Roman Literary Imagination Roman Literature and its Contexts
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Cambridge University Press Thucydides and Internal War
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Cambridge University Press Fictions of Identity in Medieval France 43 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 43
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Cambridge University Press Hebrew Scholarship and the Medieval World
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Cambridge University Press Virgil and the Augustan Reception
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Womens Writing
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Cambridge University Press The Poetry of Franois Villon Text and Context 68 Cambridge Studies in French Series Number 68
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Cambridge University Press The Play of Character in Platos Dialogues
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Cambridge University Press Ancient Epistolary Fictions
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Cambridge University Press Ovids Poetics of Illusion
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Cambridge University Press Satires of Rome
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Cambridge University Press Ovid
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Cambridge University Press Women Reading and Piety in Late Medieval England 46 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 46
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Homer
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Cambridge University Press Ovid Ars Amatoria Book III 40 Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries Series Number 40
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