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Oxford University Press, USA Funny Words in Plautine Comedy
Book SynopsisPlautus, Rome''s earliest extant poet, was acclaimed by ancient critics above all for his mastery of language and his felicitous jokes; and yet in modern times relatively little attention has been devoted to elucidating these elements fully. In Funny Words in Plautine Comedy, Michael Fontaine reassesses some of the premises and nature of Plautus'' comedies. Mixing textual and literary criticism, Fontaine argues that many of Plautus'' jokes and puns were misunderstood already in antiquity, and that with them the names and identities of some familiar characters were misconceived. Central to his study are issues of Plautine language, style, psychology, coherence of characterization, and irony. By examining the comedian''s tendency to make up and misuse words, Fontaine sheds new light on the close connection between Greek and Roman comedy. Considerable attention is also paid to Plautus'' audience and to the visual elements in his plays. The result is a reappraisal that will challenge many Trade ReviewEvery reader of this work will find out for himself what to accept, what to doubt and what to refuse. But all the scholars who are interested in Plautine comedy should read this innovative book. * Ancient History Bulletin Online Reviews *[this] book is beyond doubt an important contribution to Plautine scholarship. Fontaine's imaginative use of philology and textual criticism and his insistence that we rethink our assumptions about Plautine theater make for a most thought-provoking book. I strongly recommend it to anyone seriously interested in Roman comedy. * Dorota Dutsch, Eos *Table of Contents1. Verba Perplexabilia ; 2. Parapraxis and Parechesis ; 3. Equivocation and Other Ambiguities ; 4. Innuendo and the Audience ; 5. Double Entendre ; 6. Conclusion ; A Pundex ; Index Locorum ; General Index
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Oxford University Press The Metaphysics of Dantes Comedy
Book SynopsisDante''s metaphysics--his understanding of reality--is very different from our own. To present Dante''s ideas about the cosmos, or God, or salvation, or history, or poetry within the context of post-Enlightenment presuppositions, as is usually done, is thus to capture only imperfectly the essence of those ideas. The recovery of Dante''s metaphysics is essential, argues Christian Moevs, if we are to resolve what has been called the central problem in the interpretation of the Comedy . That problem is what to make of the Comedy ''s claim to the status of revelation, vision, or experiential record--as something more than imaginative literature. In this book Moevs offers the first sustained treatment of the metaphysical picture that grounds and motivates the Comedy , and of the relation between those metaphysics and Dante''s poetics. He carries this out through a detailed examination of three notoriously complex cantos of the Paradiso , read against the background of the Neoplatonic and Aristotelian tradition from which they arise. Moevs finds the key to the Comedy ''s metaphysics and poetics in the concept of creation, which implies three fundamental insights into the nature of reality: 1) The world (finite being) is radically contingent, dependent at every instant on what gives it being. 2) The relation between the world and the ground of its being is non-dualistic. (God is not a thing, and there is nothing the world is made of) 3) Human beings are radically free, unbound by the limits of nature, and thus can find all of time and space within themselves. These insights are the foundation of the pilgrim Dante''s journey from the center of the world to the Empyrean which contains it. For Dante, in sum, what we perceive as reality, the spatio-temporal world, is a creation or projection of conscious being, which can only be known as oneself. Moevs argues that self-knowledge is in fact the keystone of the Aristotelian and Neoplatonic philosophical tradition, and the essence of the Christian revelation in which that tradition culminates. Armed with this new understanding, Moevs is able to shed light on a series of perennial issues in the interpretation of the Comedy . In particular, it becomes clear that poetry coincides with theology and philosophy in the poem: Dante poeta cannot be distinguished from Dante theologus .Trade ReviewChristian Moevs's excellent book is the first sustained treatment of Dante's metaphysical thought, and of its application to his poetry. * Andrew Frisardi *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION: NONDUALITY AND SELF-KNOWLEDGE ; CONCLUSION: IS DANTE TELLING THE TRUTH? ; EPILOGUE: NO MIND, NO MATTER
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Oxford University Press Inc The Complete Sophocles
Book SynopsisBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. The volume brings together four major works by one of the greatest classical dramatists: Electra, translated by Anne Carson and Michael Shaw, a gripping story of revenge, manipulation, and the often tense conflict of the human spirit; Aias, translated by Herbert Golder and Richard Pevear, an account of the heroic suicide of the Trojan war hero better known as Ajax; Philoctetes, translated by Carl Phillips and Diskin Clay, a morally complex and penetrating play about the conflict between personal integrity and public duty; and The Women of Trachis, translated by C.K. Williams and Gregory W. Dickerson, an urgent tale of mutability in a universe of precipitouTable of ContentsElectra ; Aias ; Philoctetes ; The Women of Trachis
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OUP USA The Complete Euripides Volume IV
Book SynopsisCollected here for the first time in the series are three major plays by Euripides: Bacchae, translated by Reginald Gibbons and Charles Segal, a powerful examination of the horror and beauty of Dionysiac ecstasy; Herakles, translated by Tom Sleigh and Christian Wolff, a violent dramatization of the madness and exile of one of the most celebrated mythical figures; and The Phoenician Women, translated by Peter Burian and Brian Swamm, a disturbing interpretation of the fate of the House of Laios following the tragic fall of Oedipus. These three tragedies were originally available as single volumes. This volume retains the informative introductions and explanatory notes of the original editions and adds a single combined glossary and Greek line numbers.Table of ContentsBacchae ; Herakles ; The Phoenician Women
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Oxford University Press, USA The Memory of Love
Book SynopsisSurdas is unarguably the best known poet in Vrajbhasha, the most widely understood of the medieval Hindi literary dialects. He is the foremost Hindi poet of Krishna devotion and his verses are canonical in the Krishnaite tradition, which today is particularly vital in Western India. The verses are sung popularly throughout the Hindi-speaking regions. As with most legendary poet-singers in Indian oral tradition, Surdas''s authorship has been attributed to a great many verses. In his case, these constitute a very large corpus of devotional lyrics to Krishna, known in Hindi as the Sur Sagar, Sur''s Ocean. In this volume, Jack Hawley offers a selection of his charming translations of the most appealing of these poems, arranged according to such themes as Krishna growing up, the pangs and politics of love, and The Ramayana. Hawley''s monumental annotated translation and commentary on the full corpus of lyrics attributed to Surdas, accompanied by Kenneth Bryant''s edition of the complete VraTrade ReviewThe songs of Surdas are presented here with a radiant lyricism that gives the reader a direct encounter with the 'sun' of Hindi's poetic firmament. Each poem is given the space to stand alone as a fine lyrical moment, while being discreetly supported by Hawley's perceptive annotations. An added title contextualizes each song, and an authoritative introduction helps the reader understand the complex background from which this sublime poetry has emerged. * Rupert Snell, Associate Director, Hindi Urdu Flagship, University of Texas at Austin *Table of ContentsI. KRISHNA GROWING UP
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Oxford University Press Inc Clodia Metelli
Book SynopsisClodia Metelli: The Tribune''s Sister is the first full-length biography of a Roman aristocrat whose colorful life, as described by her contemporaries, has inspired numerous modern works of popular fiction, art, and poetry. Clodia, widow of the consul Metellus Celer, was one of several prominent females who made a mark on history during the last decades of the Roman Republic. As the eldest sister of the populist demagogue P. Clodius Pulcher, she used her wealth and position to advance her brother''s political goals. For that she was brutally reviled by Clodius'' enemy, the orator M. Tullius Cicero, in a speech painting her as a scheming, debauched whore. Clodia may also have been the alluring mistress celebrated in the love poetry of Catullus, whom he calls Lesbia in homage to Sappho and depicts as beautiful, witty, but also false and corrupt. From Cicero''s letters, finally, we receive glimpses of a very different woman, a great lady at her leisure. This study examines Clodia in the cTrade ReviewThis book is well-presented and well-written * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *This book ... is highly readable for its comments on the social and political history of the time, as well as an insight into the literary works of Catullus and Cicero. As a commentary on a key Republican family, it works as an in-depth case study of Late Republican life. * Kate Hammond, Journal of Roman Studies *Table of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ABBREVIATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; GENEALOGIES OF CLODIA METELLI AND HER SIBLINGS; MAPS; INTRODUCTION; AFTERWORD: A WOMAN IN A MAN'S WORLD; ENDNOTES; WORKS CITED
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Oxford University Press, USA Romantic Antiquity
Book SynopsisWhile scholars have long noted the fascination with Roman literature and history expressed by many preeminent British cultural figures of the early and middle-eighteenth century, they have only sparingly commented on the increasingly vexed role Rome played during the subsequent Romantic period. This critical oversight has skewed our understanding of British Romanticism as being either a full-scale rejection of classical precedents or an embrace of Greece at the expense of Rome. In contrast, Romantic Antiquity argues that Rome is relevant to the Romantic period not as the continuation of an earlier neoclassicism, but rather as a concept that is simultaneously transformed and transformative: transformed in the sense that new models of historical thinking produced a changed understandings of historicity itself and therefore a way to comprehend changes associated with modernity. The book positions Rome as central to a variety of literary events, including the British response to the FrenchTrade ReviewIt is a confident, authoritative examination of the uses to which Rome was put in Romanticism: how the legacy of the Roman republic was debated, manipulated, and fought over, and its relevance to concepts of nation and political ideology. * Felicity James and Eliza OBrien, Years Work in English Studies *an impressive contribution * Matthew Hiscock, Journal of Roman Studies *Table of ContentsPART I: POLITICAL WRITING AND THE NOVEL; PART II: POETRY; PART III: DRAMA
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Oxford University Press Inc Magic Witchcraft and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds
Trade ReviewThis is a marvelous book, in every sense of the word. For one thing, it is full of marvel? * marvelous stories of ghostly and magical happenings.... a reference source that everyone researching this field will be delighted to possess.Journal of Scientific Exploration *Table of ContentsPreface ; Abbreviations ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Greek Sorcerers ; 3. Alien Sorcerers ; 4. The Rivals of Jesus ; 5. Medea and Circe ; 6. Witches in Greek Literature ; 7. Witches in Latin Literature ; 8. Ghosts ; 9. Necromancy ; 10. Curses ; 11. Erotic Magic ; 12. Voodoo Dolls and Magical Images ; 13. Amulets ; 14. Magic and the Law ; 15. Supplementary Texts ; Bibliographies ; Indices
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Oxford University Press, USA Seneca and the Idea of Tragedy
Book SynopsisAs both a literary genre and a view of life, tragedy has from the very beginning spurred a dialogue between poetry and philosophy. Plato famously banned tragedians from his ideal community because he believed that their representations of vicious behavior could deform minds. Aristotle set out to answer Plato''s objections, arguing that fiction offers a faithful image of the truth and that it promotes emotional health through the mechanism of catharsis. Aristotle''s definition of tragedy actually had its greatest impact not on Greek tragedy itself but on later Latin literature, beginning with the tragedies of the Roman poet and Stoic philosopher Seneca (4 BC - AD 65). Scholarship over the last fifty years, however, has increasingly sought to identify in Seneca''s prose writings a Platonic poetics which is antagonistic toward tragedy and which might therefore explain why Seneca''s plays seem so often to present the failure of Stoicism. As Gregory Staley argues in this book, when Senecan Trade ReviewImpressive and stimulating * William Fitzgerald. Times Literary Supplement *a valuable addition to the debate concerning the relationship between Seneca's tragedies and his philosophic works. * Christopher Star, Journal of Roman Studies *Table of ContentsPREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION: THE IDEA OF TRAGEDY; CONCLUSION: STOIC TRAGEDY; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
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Oxford University Press Inc The Complete Euripides Volume I Trojan Women and
Book SynopsisTrade Reviewthe poets in these volumes communicate a freshness and vitality ... The vivid and responsive re-creations are a clear first-choice recommendation for the general reader * James Morwood, Classical Review *Table of ContentsAndromache (Susan Stewart, Princeton University; Wesley D. Smith, University of Pennsylvania) ; Hecuba (Janet Lembke, poet and translator; Kenneth J. Reckford, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) ; Trojan Women (Peter Burian and Alan Shapiro) ; Rhesos (Richard Emil Braun, University of Alberta in Edmonton)
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Oxford University Press Inc The Complete Euripides Volume II Electra and
Book SynopsisBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. This volume collects Euripides'' Electra (translated by Janet Lembke and Kenneth J. Reckford), an exciting story of vengeance that counterposes suspense and horror with comic realism; Orestes (John Peck and Frank Nisetich), the tragedy of a young man who kills his mother to avenge her murder of his father; Iphigenia in Tauris (Richmond Lattimore), a delicately written and beautifully contrived Euripidean romance; and Iphigeneia at Aulis (W. S. Merwin and George E. Dimock, Jr.), a compelling look at the devastating consequence of man''s inhumanity to man. This volume reprints the informative introductions and notes of the original editions, and adds a single combined glossary and Greek line numbers.Trade Reviewthe poets in these volumes communicate a freshness and vitality ... The vivid and responsive re-creations are a clear first-choice recommendation for the general reader * James Morwood, Classical Review *Table of ContentsElectra (Janet Lembke, poet and translator; Kenneth J. Reckford, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) ; Orestes (John Peck, poet; Frank Nisetich, University of Massachusetts, Boston) ; Iphigenia in Tauris (the late Richmond Lattimore, poet and translator) ; Iphigeneia at Aulis (W. S. Merwin, poet and translator; George E. Dimock, Jr., author)
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Oxford University Press The Complete Euripides
Book SynopsisThis volume collects for the first time four plays of Euripides in the acclaimed Greek Tragedy in New Translations series, each previously published individually: Alcestis, Medea, Helen, and Cyclops.Table of ContentsEditors' Foreword ; Alcestis the Late William Arrowsmith, founder of the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series ; Introduction ; Alcestis ; Notes ; Medea, Michael Collier, University of Maryland; Georgia Machemer, Duke University ; Introduction ; Medea ; Notes ; Helen, Peter Burian ; Introduction ; Helen ; Notes ; Cyclops, Heather McHugh, University of Washington; David Konstan, Brown University ; Introduction ; Cyclops ; Notes ; Glossary ; For Further Reading
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OUP USA The Complete Euripides
Table of ContentsHippolytos ; Suppliant Women ; Ion ; The Children of Herakles
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OUP USA The Complete Sophocles
Book SynopsisThis volume collects for the first time three of Sophocles most moving tragedies, all set in mythical Thebes: Oedipus the King, perhaps the most powerful of all Greek tragedies; Oedipus at Colonus, a story that reveals the reversals and paradoxes that define moral life; and Antigone, a touchstone of thinking about human conflict and human tragedy, the role of the divine in human life, and the degree to which men and women are the creators of their own destiny.Table of ContentsOEDIPUS THE KING ; Introduction ; Oedipus the King ; Notes ; OEDIPUS AT COLONUS ; Introduction ; Oedipus at Colonus ; Notes ; ANTIGONE ; Introduction ; Antigone ; Notes ; GLOSSARY ; FOR FURTHER READING
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Clarendon Press The Poetic Edda
Book SynopsisThis volume presents a wholly new edition of five of the most brilliant and celebrated poems of the Poetic Edda: ''The Sibyl''s Prophecy'', ''The Rigmarole of Rigr'', ''Wayland''s Poem'', ''Skirnir''s Lay'', and ''Loki''s Quarrel''. New textual readings and interpretations are established. New light is shed on the Franks Casket and on King Alfred''s interest in Wayland; new links are found between the Viking and Christian worlds. A close translation accompanies the text to give the non-specialist reader a transparent and rhythmic sense of the original. For each poem the sequence of ideas is traced in the introduction and the interpretation substantiated by a detailed commentary. Much consideration is given to the themes of the poems and the ancient ideas in which they are rooted: analogues come from many sources - Irish, Anglo-Saxon, Sanskrit, African, and Finnish. The excellence and variety of the poems give a rare insight into the genius of oral poets of the Viking age.Trade ReviewHer textual analysis is ... excellent and challenging, and her notes on the manuscript tradition illuminating her comments are instructive ... the work is a remarkable achievement, throwing new light on the background and composition of the texts examined: the comments are most instructive, and the discussions open new perspectives. An outstanding book, henceforth indispensable for all students of the Poetic Edda. * Dr Edgar Polome, The Journal of Indo-European Studies *For lovers of the Poetic Edda, this volume will be a prized possession, enabling scholars and amateur enthusiasts alike to enter with ease into the daunting world of mythological poems... this is an edition of great power and potential influence... from now on it is likely that most English-speaking readers of the Poetic Edda will wish to take Edda II for their authoritative of Voluspa and the other poems. * Richard North, Saga-Book *Table of Contents[ALL FIVE POEMS DIVIDED INTO CONTENTS, TEXT AND TRANSLATION, INTRODUCTION, COMMENTARY ON THE TEXT; VOLUSPA ALSO FEATURING AN APPENDIX: BALDRS DRAUMAR TEXT, TRANSLATION, AND COMMENTARY; VOLUNDARKVIDA ALSO FEATURING AN INDEX OF PERSONAL NAMES]
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Oxford University Press An Introduction to Old Norse
Book SynopsisAn Introduction to Old NorseTrade ReviewThis is a superlative textbook for the teaching of Old Icelandic (language and literature). * R. Mark Scowscroft, Catholic University of America *
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Oxford University Press Oxford Guides to Chaucer
Book SynopsisThe three Oxford Guides to Chaucer are written by scholars of international repute, with the purpose of summarizing what is known about his work and offering interpretations based on recent advances in both historical knowledge and theoretical understanding.Barry Windeatt''s contribution to the series offers students the most comprehensive introduction to Troilus and Criseyde yet produced. It includes the fullest and most convenient account of Chjauser''s use of sources, the first exteded analysis of the poem''s generic originality, and an invaluable commentary on all aspects of the poem that is Chaucer''s most ambitious single achievement - its structure, themes, characterization, and style. It also contains a survey of literary responses to Troilus in the three centuries following Chaucer''s death. Combining the informative substance of a reference book with the coherence of a critical reading, the Guide has taken its place as the standard introduction to Troilus and Criseyde.Trade Reviewcarefully written ... deeply learned ... sensible and judicious ... with monumental patience and humility Windeatt has served Chaucer and his students well * Notes and Queries *provides a rich compendium of knowledge ... highly recommended * Choice *
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Clarendon Press Middle English Literature 11001400 Oxford History of English Literature
Book SynopsisThe Oxford History of English Literature is reissued in its entirety. For the purposes of the reissue certain of the volumes have been retitled and the series has been renumbered.Trade Review`It is extremely useful to have this comprehensive, authoritative survey available in paperback.' Dr W. R. J. Barron, Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester`.. excellent survey of the subject by a well-known scholar and is particularly useful in that it covers areas which are otherwise rather neglected. I shall be recommending that the libarary purchase multiple copies, and I shall be including it on students' reading lists.' Dr H L Spencer, Lecturer, University of BristolTable of ContentsPastoral and comedy; verse, didactic and Homiletic; Layamon; history in verse; romances; the poems of the Gawain manuscript; prose; lyrics; Gower; Langland.
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Clarendon Press Euthyphro Apology of Socrates and Crito
Book SynopsisEuthyphro; Apology of Socrates; CritoTrade ReviewLikely to be the standard edition of these dialogues for some time to come. * The Times (London) *
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Clarendon Press The Greek Anthology From Meleager to Planudes
Book SynopsisThe Greek Anthology is one of the great books of European literature. This study adds a wealth of new information about its growth from the earliest papyrus anthologies down to the rediscovery in 1606 of the Palatine Anthology (AP), our principal source for the entire history of the Greek epigram, from Simonides to the Byzantine age.Trade Reviewbrilliant new book ... Cameron surveys the whole history ... [and] brings to it new finds, new research and a systematic rigour rarely seen before ... Large parts of Cameron's book consist of detailed analysis, crisply and lucidly set out ... But there is much more here than textual genealogy ... Even by Alan Cameron's standards, this is a tour de force of plenary learning and incisive intelligence. * Times Literary Supplement *brilliant new book, Cameron brings to it new finds, new research and a systematic rigour rarely seen before.Large parts of Cameron's book consisit of detailed analysis, crisply and lucidly set out. Even by Alan Cameron's standards, this is a tour de force of plenary learning and incisive intelligence * Times Literary Supplement *This is an immensely erudite study, with a very great deal that is new. Cameron himself calls it 'austere', but that fails to do justice to his patient pursuit and logical asessment of clue after clue, which have all the fascination of a good detective story. * Jenny March, Greece and Rome *it is a book of great learning...this is a book of extraordinary learning. One is amazed at the chalcentery which drives Cameron to trace the intricate relations between the epitomes of Cephalas' anthology and its sources. It has never been done before, and he has many original things to say. There is at the moment no other remotely similar guide to the text. * W J Slater, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *a study of the evolution of the Greek Anthology from its beginnings to the rediscovery of the Palatine Anthology in 1606. The theme is a vast and complicated one ... This lengthy book, written with verve and occasional flashes of humour, is a masterly treatment of the theme and is certain to be the standard work for a long time to come. By his exhaustive use of the evidence C. has illuminated the growth of the Greek Anthology as never before and by his probing questions and stimulating hypotheses has set the agenda for much future research in the field. * John A. Madden, University College, Galway, The Classical Revie, Volume XLIV, No. 2 1994 *Table of ContentsEpigram and anthology; the "Garlands" and the "Cycle"; some dates; Rufinus, Diogenian, Ausonium - a 4th century Greek anthology; the palatine manuscript and its scribes; cephalas; the "Syllogae Minores"; the "Appendix Barbenino-Vaticana"; Laurentianus XXX11. 16; the "Sylloge Parisina"; the "Sylloge Euphemiana"; the Suda; Arethas and Cephalas; Constantine Porphyrogenitus; AP xv, Constantine the Rhodian, and J. Appendices: Marc. gr. 481 and BM Add. 16409; BM Add. 16409 and Par. gr. 2744; the two exemplars of Marc. gr. 481; Laur. 91.8 and 32.50; the "Soros"; Planudea 1V - Urbinas gr. 125; P. Oxy. 3724; the Peplos.
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Oxford University Press Iliad IX
Book Synopsis'Book Nine' is the turning point in the plot of the 'Iliad' and the tragedy of 'Achilles'. In this book, Jasper Griffin provides an informative introduction, text, and commentary for students, discussing the problems and the achievements of this particularly rich and rewarding part of the poem. All quotations in the commentary are translated.Trade ReviewAn excellent contribution to Homeric studies by a seasoned scholar. Highly recommended to beginning and experienced readers. * Religious Studies Review *'...a highly suitable introduction for students new to Homer, and one of the greatest merits of Griffin's excellent edition is the conviction with which he argues for its importance in the structure of the poem...this is a thoroughly reliable edition, and it can be recommended not only to beginners in Homer but also to more advanced scholars.' * A.F.Garvie, Univ. of Glasgow, Jnl. of Hellenic Studies 118 (1998), 208 *
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Oxford University Press The Homeric Hymn To Demeter
Book SynopsisThe Homeric Hymn to DemeterTrade ReviewOffers an incomparable approach to understanding archaic Greek poetry and religion....Richardson shows a good knowledge of the archeological and artistic evidence and a sure control of the relevant comparative material both from Greece and the Near East. The result is the best presentation of the Eleusinian cult available...this book is a treasure, well worth its cost. * Athenaeum *
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Clarendon Press The Stagecraft of Aeschylus The Dramatic Use of Exits and Entrances in Greek Tragedy Clarendon Paperbacks
Book SynopsisThe visual effect of the staging of Aeschylus'' plays was an essential part of their impact. And yet all that survives today are the scripts. Imagination, helped by anachronistic sources, has played the chief role for those dealing with the dramaturgy of Aeschylus'' works, and the result has usually been stages crowded with extras and equipment.In this book, the author approaches the subject from a completely different angle. He clears the stage and looks for clues of Aeschylus'' stagecraft in the texts of the plays themselves. He concentrates his study in an analysis of the exits and entrances in Aeschylus'' works with constant reference to the practice of Sophocles and Euripides as well. His arguments and conclusions are fascinating and thought-provoking, and make the book indispensable for anyone interested in ancient Greek drama and its staging.Trade Review'A fascinating commentary. Every controversial passage (and there are many) is discussed with incisive intelligence, great learning, and also good-humoured respect for opposing views.' Bernard Knox, Times Literary Supplement'Dr Taplin has made Greek tragedy more vivid and more accessible to us all, to the professional classicist, to the historian of the stage, and to would-be performers of ancient drama. Mark Griffith, Phoenix'This substantial and original work of scholarship is essential for anyone who wants to gain a serious understanding of Greek tragedy in performance. It is the combination of the attempted reconstruction of the stage-action with sustained, perceptive reading of the plays in the light of this reconstruction that gives this study its specific value.' Christopher Gill, University of Exeter, Theatre Research International Autmun '90Table of ContentsPersai; seven against Thebes; Hiketides; Prometheus; Aganemnon; Choephoroi; Eumenides.
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Clarendon Press Gorgias
Book SynopsisThis paperback edition of Dodds''s standard edition of Plato''s Gorgias is designed to meet the needs both of undergraduates and professional scholars. The text and apparatus criticus are based on a fresh survey of the evidence: two major manuscripts are here for the first time fully collated, and account has been taken both of new papyri and of the exceptionally rich indirect tradition. The text is supplemented by a full introduction giving details on the subject and structure of the dialogue, its characters and intended historical setting, the real date of composition, and the background to Plato and Athens at the time of composition. The commentary, besides explaining Platonic usages and discussing textual points, aims to treat the historical, philosphical, and literary questions which arise from the text.Trade Review`Professor Dodds's fine edition (which both fairly overhauls the manuscript tradition and supplies a commentary as wide-ranging as it is perspicacious) fills a gap untouched in this country since 1890 ... The Gorgias should have a special appeal to contemporary students, and to historians no less than philosophers.' Times Literary Supplement `The admired qualities of [Dodd's works], a scholarship both exact and deep, an economy and lucidity in exposition (Dodds has few rivals in saying much in the fewest words with absolute clarity), and an immense level-headedness and sobriety which - combined with the sharpest acumen and independence of judgement in the handling of evidence - is never seduced by the charm of fantasy, all these once more characterize his edition of the Gorgias.' Philosophical QuarterlyTable of ContentsPart 1 The dialogue: subject and structure; personages and period; date of composition - the relative date, the absolute date; Plato and Athens. Part 2 The evidence for the text: the medieval manuscripts - the first family B T W and P, the second family F, the Byzantine recensions; the Papyri; ancient commentaries - Olympiodorus, the scholia; the indirect tradition.
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Clarendon Press Lysistrata
Book SynopsisIn addition to its many topical references to social life, religion, and politics in classical Athens, the Lysistrata is one of our best sources for the life of women in antiquity: unlike epic, tragedy, and oratory, Attic comedy draws its characters and plots from everyday life and provides a unique glimpse into the situation of everyday Athenians.Henderson''s standard edition of Aristophanes'' play provides much new evidence for those working on anthropological and sociological aspects of Athens, as well as those working in traditional philological fields. The text is brought fully up to date with the advances made in Aristophanic scholarship over the past sixty years. In particular, it is the first to report all the manuscripts, papyri, and testimonial sources of the text, offering a new account of its history and a detailed review of the transmission of the Aristophanic corpus as a whole. Henderson''s text and apparatus criticus is supplemented by a full Introduction giving details Trade Review`This is a very satisfying work, fully alert to matters linguistic, epigraphic, paratragic, and so forth, and provided with an extremely good index (the sub-headings ... will be very useful).' Greece and Rome`This is an excellent book (both in contents and layout), and a much needed one...Henderson has rendered a signal service in increasing understanding of this comic masterpiece.' Choice`well worthy of OUP's outstanding series ... this method of study would give a keen sixth-form or undergraduate student, with or without a knowledge of the language, a balanced and well-rounded knowledge of the play and its context ... An edition of Lysistrata which meets all criteria of scholarship has been long overdue and Henderson satisfies on all counts. The commentary is very detailed and painstakingly researched.' Peter Hartley, JACT ReviewH. offers attention to many aspects of language, vase paintings, structural features, and the significance and general comic use of metres...offers the first full report of all the MSS and testimonial sources...provides persuasive attributions of speeches. * The Journal of Hellenic Studies 113 *Table of ContentsAbbreviations; Introduction; Lysistrata and the events of 411; The character of the play; Dramatis personae; Production; The Spartan dialect; The history of the text; Notes on lyric analyses; Sigla; Hypotheses; Dramatis personae; Text; Commentary; Indexes
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Clarendon Press Horace Opera
Book SynopsisThe Oxford Classical Texts, or Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, are renowned for their reliability and presentation. The series consists of a text without commentary but with a brief apparatus criticus at the front of each page. There are now over 100 volumes, representing the greater part of classical Greek and Latin literature. The aim of the series remains that of including the works of all the principal classical authors. Although this has been largely accomplished, new volumes are still being published to fill the remaining gaps, and old editions are being revised in the light of recent research or replaced.
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Clarendon Press Aidos The Psychology and Ethics of Honour and Shame in Ancient Greek Literature
Book SynopsisCommonly rendered "shame", "modesty" and "respect", "aidos" is one of the most difficult Greek words to translate. In this work, Cairns traces the history and development of this central concept of Greek moral discourse, across the range of Greek literature.Trade Review'He has written an important book which worthily extends the work of such writers as Arthur Adkins (Merit and Responsibility, 1960) and Eric Dodds (The Greeks and the Irrational, 1951) ... is scrupulous and acute, and discussion of primary evidence is buttressed by a massive array of well-organised secondary material. The texture of Cairn's scholarship is dense, but his style is clear and direct ... this book is a very distinguished achievement.' Times Higher Education Supplement'long and interesting a book' M.J. Edwards, New College, Oxford, The Classical Review, XLIII, No. 2, 1993'Cairns's study of the concept of "aidos" is an impressive achievement...conveys a complex impression of an important concept and its operations over a range of authors and contexts, and offers readings of passages and whole works which will need to be taken into account in future discussions.' V J Gray, Prudentia, Vol XXV, No 2 November 1993one's final response to this excellent book must be extremely positive, and one may conclude with the hope that Cairns may now turn his attention to such further areas and issues; he has given so much that one longs for more * N.R.E. Fisher, University of Wales, Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences, Volume 33 (2) Spring 1997 *Table of ContentsIntroduction; Aidos in Homer; From Hesiod to the Fifth Century; Aeschylus; Sophocles; Euripides; The Sophists, Plato, and aristotle; References; Glossary; Index of Principal Passages; General Index.
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Oxford University Press A Commentary on Homers Odyssey Volume I Introduction and Books IVIII
Book SynopsisThese are the first two of a three-volume commentary on the Odyssey, compiled by an international team of scholars, making the most up-to-date and authoritative scholarship available in paperback. Questions of text, dialect, the poems relation to the Iliad, and the epic tradition in general are discussed by acknowledged experts in the field.Trade Review` the sheer range, penetration, authority, and readability of the notes to this volume make one's ears flap in purest gratitude; and the introductory essays to each book are models of incisive scholarship' The TimesFrom the reviews of the Italian edition: `The commentary is eminently clear and controlled.... For clear exegesis of the text and discussion of problems both [West and Hainsworth] are admirable. We have the first fruits of the new edition of the Odyssey, based on up-to-date linguistic, papyrological, and formulaic scholarship.' M. M. Willcock, Journal of Hellenic Studies `The main part of the new book is without doubt the commentary. Here we have a work the richness, independence, and judiciousness of which cannot be sufficiently admired. It is not a replacement for ... other existing commentaries, but a continuation on a higher level. On page after page we meet sensible interpretations and an authoritative presentation of current scholarship with comprehensive bibliography covering all aspects of research.... We have reason to rejoice and be grateful and await the forthcoming volumes with impatience.' H. van Thiel, Classical Review`What is so admirable about Oxford's new commentary on the Odyssey is that it provides pure protein in highly edible form: high scholarship has become haute cuisine.' Peter Jones, The Times'models of clarity ... fascinating reading ... it presents a bracing challenge and you have to work to get at the genuine riches it contains' Martin Thorpe, Shrewsbury Sixth Form College, JACT Review'The authors have made excellent use of the chance to improve what was already a first-class monument of useful scholarship, especially in adding cross-references, bibliography and indices ... this superb achievement will do much to stimulate Homeric scholarship.' Richard Janko, University of California, Los Angeles, Journal of Hellenic Studies, CX, 1990
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Clarendon Press Hippolytos
Book SynopsisEuripides'' Hippolytos tells of an honourable youth''s tragic death, contrived by his father in the false belief that his son had seduced his new wife. This edition of the play is intended for students and scholars alike. The detailed commentary deals with textual problems in full, but wherever possible the editor has sought to explain the text adopted before discussing the reasons for its adoption. It also includes a close analysis of the lyric metres, and discussion of the play''s subject-matter and dramatic context.The text is based on new collations of the medieval manuscripts (two of them hitherto uncollated) and on all known papyri. The Introduction contains a reappraisal, in the light of the evidence of the papyri, of the history of the text in antiquity, and advances a new account of the relationship between the medieval manuscripts. There is also a full discussion of the early history of the legend and of the two lost tragedies on the same theme.Trade Review`profoundly learned and supremely intelligent book ... a truly great achievement' Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Journal of Hellenic Studies`This book ... deserves the careful attention of everyone seriously interested in Greek literature.' Journal of Hellenic Studies'celebrated edition ... I can think of no better advertisement for this type of scholarship which may be unfashionable but still has so much to offer.' Greece & Rome, April 1993
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Clarendon Press The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
Book SynopsisMarcus Aurelius, Roman emperor from AD 161 to 180, is renowned for his just rule at home and for his long frontier wars. But his lasting claim to fame rests on the work known as the Meditations - a bedside book of reflections and self-admonitions composed in Greek (the language of philosophy) during his last years and partly while on campaign. These sparse notes, intended for the author''s eyes alone, give unique access to the mind of an ancient ruler; they also contain many passages of pungent epigram and poetic imagery. In this study, Dr Rutherford seeks to make the Meditations more approachable to the modern reader by explaining the historical and philosophical background, charting the main themes and tendencies of Marcus'' thought, and relating stylistic detail to the intellectual and moral outlook of the author.Trade Review`brings the philosopher-emperor persuasively back into the reckoning as a complex but accessible thinker of genuine distinction' Peter Jones, The Times`only the eye of love could have discerned all that is here so ingeniously and persuasively conveyed to the reader. For these volumes, R. deserves gratitude from all of us and, from the Emperor, a chapter to himself in Book I of the "Meditations".' Classical Review`[Rutherford's] reading of both the ancient and the modern literature is exceptionally wide-ranging; he has provided a compendious source of reference for any student of the Meditations' Times Literary Supplement'outstanding for careful analysis, elegance and the astonishing range and depth of learning with which he finds precedents or analogies for the substance and style of Marcus' reflections' P.A. Brunt, Brasenose College, Oxford, Journal of Roman Studies, LXXX, 90'This fine and highly learned study will without doubt and deservedly be the standard-work on the subject for many years to come ... R., in his striving for revealing the richness of Marcus' Meditations, has produced an extremely varied and rich monograph himself, which will render good service to a broad range of classical studies.' Paul M.M. Leunissen, Mnemosyne, Vol. XLV, Fasc. 1 (1992)Table of ContentsAbbreviated titles for works of reference; other conventions; Marcus Aurelius: A biographical note; The form and functions of the Meditations; The first book: Literary and cultural background; The first book: An ethical self-portrait; Aspects of style and thought; Marcus Aurelius and the supernatural; Life and death in the religion of Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius; Envoi.
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Oxford University Press A Commentary on Horace Odes Book II
Book SynopsisAims to provide the reader with the background knowledge of conventional forms and topics needed to fully appreciate every aspect of Horace's "Odes". The text focuses on "Book II" of the "Odes", which contains poems predominantly concerned with philosophy, conduct and friendship.Trade Review`The present volume fully lives up to the very high expectations aroused by the first ... its users will find it a constant source of information, criticism, stimulus, and understanding.' Journal of Roman Studies`One cannot praise sufficiently highly the assiduous scholarship that has gone into the making of the commentary.' JACT Bulletin
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Clarendon Press Inventing the Barbarian
Book SynopsisIncest, polygamy, murder, sacrilege, impalement, castration, female power, and despotism: these are some of the images by which the Greek tragedians defined the non-Greek, `barbarian'' world. This book explains for the first time the reasons behind their singular fascination with barbarians. It sets the plays against the historical background of the Panhellenic wars against Persia and the establishment of an Athenian empire based on democracy and slavery. Contemporary anthropology and political philosophy is discussed, revealing how the poets conceptualized the barbarian as the negative embodiment of Athenian civic ideals. By comparing the treatment of foreigners in Homer and tragedy, it shows that the new dimension which the idea of the barbarian had brought to the tragic theatre radically affected the past, and enriched the tragedians'' repertoire of aural and visual effects. The invented barbarian of the tragic stage was a powerful cultural expression of Greek xenophobia and chauvinTrade Review`she sets out the important considerations with great clarity ... this is a thorough, well-researched and broadly convincing book ... an impressive piece of work.' Classical Review`Dr Hall offers a careful survey of the archaic background, enlivened by much shrewd observation. It is no criticism of this learned and lively book to observe that it suggests more questions than it answers.' Times Literary Supplement`a most impressive analysis of ancient Greek ethnocentrism' Greece & Rome'H. presents her case with great skill and learning. Her scholarship is meticulous but not stodgy, and the argument is constantly enriched with references to comparative material on ethnicity drawn from a wide range of historical and social contexts'. R.G.A. Buxton, Journal of Hellinic Studies'.'a beautiful book which developed out of the author's PhD-thesis. It is elegantly produced, provided with an elaborate bibliography, an index of passages cited and a general index ... well-argued and carefully referenced text ... an important contribution to both Athenian history and Persian history.' Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, De Novis Libris JudiciaTable of ContentsAcknowldgements; Preface; Editions and abbreviations; Setting the stage; Inventing Persia; The barbarian enters myth; An Athenian rhetoric; The polarity deconstructed; Bibliography; Index
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Clarendon Press A Historical Commentary on Arrians History of Alexander Volume 1 Books IIII 01
Book SynopsisA Historical Commentary on Arrian's History of Alexander Volume I. Books I-III
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Oxford University Press, USA Plutarch Caesar Translated with an Introduction and Commentary Clarendon Ancient History Series
Book SynopsisPlutarch's Life of Caesar deals with the best known Roman of them all, Julius Caesar, and covers virtually all of the major events of the last generation of the Republic. Pelling's volume gives a new translation of the Life, together with an introduction and commentary, while also acknowledging the literary aspects of the narrative.Trade Reviewa commentary that will remain an indispensable resource for historians and historiographers alike â and which constitutes something of a reproof to anyone insisting that history and historiography are incompatible enterprises. * W. Jeffrey Tatum, Journal of Roman Studies *[an] awe-filling, exemplar of how decades of excellent scholarship have produced a book that will be in use for many decades, and generations, to come. * Brad L. Cook, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of ContentsLIST OF MAPS ; ABBREVIATIONS ; INTRODUCTION ; 1. Plutarch and the Caesars ; 2. TheLife of Caesar ; a) Biography and History ; b) Alexander and Caesar: Pair and Series ; 3. Sources and Methods ; a) Gathering the Material ; b) The Sources ; c) Remoulding the Material ; 4. Plutarch and Roman Politics ; 5. Caesar and Julius Caesar: Plutarch and Shakespeare ; TRANSLATION ; COMMENTARY ; INDEXES ; Names ; General Index
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Oxford University Press A Commentary on Homers Odyssey Volume III Books XVIIXXIV
Book SynopsisThis is the third and final volume of a presentation in English of a commentary on Homer's Odyssey compiled by an international team of scholars and published in Italian under the auspices of the Fondazione Lorenzo Valla. This volume contains commentaries by J. A. Russo (books xvii-xx), M. Fernandez-Galiano (xxi-xxii), and A. Heubeck (xxiii-xxiv)Trade ReviewPraise for Volumes I and II: `The sheer range, penetration, authority, and readability ... make one's ears flap in purest gratitude.' The Times`What is so admirable about Oxford's new commentary on the Odyssey is that it provides pure protein in a highly edible form: high scholarship has become haute cuisine.' The Times
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Clarendon Press Georgics
Book SynopsisVirgil''s Georgics, by common consent one of the greatest poems in western literature, purports to be a didactic poem on agriculture, but its true subject is man and his place in literature and society. It is also a landmark in the use of the natural world as material for literature, and in the history of man''s attitude towards his environment. The object of this commentary is to present the poet''s meaning and (as far as possible) his choice of expression in the hope of achieving fuller understanding and enjoyment of the poetry. The volume includes the late Sir Roger''s Oxford Classical Text of the Georgics together with apparatus criticus, as well as an appendix of Greek sources. After Mynors''s death (in 1989) R. G. M. Nisbet added a short Preface to the Commentary and compiled an index.Trade Reviewlong-awaited commentary ... invaluable * Classical Outlook *in this great and glowing commentary he has given us a sunlit view of one of the richest poems ever written * David West, The Times *
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Clarendon Press Studies on the Derveni Papyrus
Book SynopsisThe Derveni Papyrus was discovered earlier this century and is the oldest literary papyrus ever found. Studies on the Derveni Papyrus includes a full and reliable translation of the text, a range of articles by leading European and American classicists, and a complete bibliography. This will be the standard reference work on the subject for years to come.Trade ReviewEach of these essays is a notable contribution to our understanding of the papyrus. The volume as a whole marks an important milestone in the rather unfortunate history of the Derveni papyrus. * John A. Palmer, The Classical Review *Performs a great srvice ... It includes the first ever English translation of the whole papyrus ... The essays comprise a useful survey of scholarship on the papyrus. The standard of the contributions is high, and the book will be indispensable for further study. * Times Literary Supplement *Brings the papyrus firmly into mainstream ancient philosophy, to be taken seriously as a fascinating glimpse into the intellectual market-place of the time. * Phronesis *This extremely valuable book is highly recommended for scholars from a number of disciplines. This is the only book (so far) dedicated to the Derveni papyrus; otherwise, articles on the subject are scattered far and wide. For this reason, and because of the crucial importance of the papyrus, I have no hesitation in recommending this book. - Robin Waterfield-Heythrop Journal Vol.40 No.3 July 1999
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Clarendon Press Frogs
Book SynopsisAmong extant Greek comedies, the Frogs is unique for the light it throws on classical Greek attitudes to tragedy and to literature in general. Sir Kenneth Dover''s edition, with a full introduction and extensive commentary, has been the most comprehensive edition available, drawing together the relevant scholarship that had accumulated on the subject. The general purpose and character of the abridged version remains the same: to provide a helpful guide on a difficult author for students who wish to translate the play, or need to interpret it for performance. In this edition, nothing relevant to the performance of the play on stage has been sacrificed although information on manuscripts and discussion of the history of the text have been pared to a minimum, and arguments on controversial points have been abbreviated. Where relevant, conclusions reached in the original edition have been changed in the light of work done by others since 1993. The inclusion of a vocabulary should reduce thTrade ReviewThe Commentary is admirably suited to being read alongside the text. The MSS are described in an Olympian treatment of the history of the text with a thoroughness not encountered before ... A commentary of characteristic brilliance. * A.M. Bowie, Queen's College, Oxford, The Classical Review, XLV, 2, '95 *
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Clarendon Press The East Face of Helicon
Book SynopsisOver the last sixty years scholars have increasingly become aware of links connecting early Greek poetry with the literatures of the ancient Near East. Martin West's book far surpasses previous studies in comprehensiveness, demonstrating these links with massive and detailed documentation and showing they are much more fundamental and pervasive than has hitherto been acknowledged.Trade ReviewAn impressive and substantial volume ... The book is very readable and OT scholars can learn much from it * Journal for the Study of the Old Testament *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ; Note on the transcription of oriental languages ; Note on chronologies ; 1. Aegean and Orient ; 2. Ancient Literatures of Western Asia ; 3. Of Heaven and Earth ; 4. Ars Poetica ; 5. A Form of Words ; 6. Hesiod ; 7. The Iliad ; 8. The Odyssey ; 9. Myths and Legends of Heroes ; 10. The Lyric Poets ; 11. Aeschylus ; 12. The Question of Transmission ; Bibliography ; Indexes
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Oxford University Press, USA Medical Latin in the Roman Empire Oxford Classical Monographs
Book SynopsisWhat are the possible and preferred means of extending the vocabulary in Latin at the beginning and end of the Roman Empire? This book addresses this question with reference to the language of medicine and so offers the first systematic account of a part of this large, rich, and largely unworked field.Trade ReviewLangslow's work is an important contribution to our understanding of the field. * Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review *This is one of the most thoroughgoing attempts to place Latin lexicological studies on a quantitive basis. * Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review *... an unusual air of intellectual dialogue within the work, and a sense that this area of Latin linguistics has made real progress since the mid-1980s. This book both summarizes this progress and builds on it; it offers a range of new approaches to technical languages, potentially applicable to other branches of Latin and indeed to other languages as well. In doing so, [Langslow] gives a fine example of how classical philology can go on contributing to debate within modern general linguistics. * Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review *Very welcome linguistical study of terminology in Latin medical texts. * Medical History *The author must be praised for combining the tasks of a linguist with those of a classicist. * Medical History *The book and the three indexes included in the appendix will be used as an essential reference tool for future research. * Medical History *
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Oxford University Press Shakespeare and Ovid
Book SynopsisThis is the first comprehensive account of the relationship between Shakespeare and his favourite poet, Ovid.Jonathan Bate examines the full range of Shakespeare''s work, identifying Ovid''s presence not only in the narrative poems and pastoral comedies, but also in the Sonnets and mature tragedies. He shows how profoundly creative Ovid''s influence was, from the raped Lavinia''s turning of the pages of the Metamorphoses in Titus Andronicus, and the staging of Pyramus and Thisbe in A Midsummer Night''s Dream, to the reanimation of Hermione''s statue in The Winter''s Tale and Prospero''s renunciation of his magic in The Tempest. The Heroides are shown to have been vital to Shakespeare''s female characters, but it is the Metamorphoses which animate Professor Bate''s book, just as they animated the whole of Shakespeare''s career.This original and elegantly written book reveals Shakespeare as an extraordinarily sophisticated reader of Ovidian myth and as a metamorphic artist as fluid and nTrade ReviewThis fascinating book introduces us to yet another dimension of his genius. It also wipes out the memory of static classroom excerpts and reveals Ovid in his full splendour. * Patrick Leigh Fermor, "Books of the Year", Spectator *Bate is, again and again, brilliant ... This is literary criticism of the highest order. * A. D. Nuttall, London Review of Books *"The clarity and detail of argument, and elegance of style, make this a delightful book ... Bate's work is grounded in a solid historical knowledge of the period ... Bate has produced a fine synoptic treatment, which deserves the widest possible readership." Isabella Wheater, Oxford, Review of English Studies, 1999We have needed and awaited the definitive book on Shakespeare and Ovid for many years now. It is here and it is brilliant ... Literary criticism came in with The Iron Age, but now and then someone comes along and does it so nimbly, profoundly, and movingly, that one may suppose it was an art of The Silver Age, lost in the interim and newly discovered. Jonathan Bate's book is like that. * Charles Whitworth, Cahiers Elisabëthains *
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Oxford University Press Bedes Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Book SynopsisBede''s Ecclesiastical History of the English People was completed in 731 and still ranks among the most popular of history books. By the end of the eighth century, copies of it were to be found in many parts of England and on the Continent, some of which are still extant. If it were not for Bede''s History we should know little about the Anglo-Saxon invasion and the beginnings of Christianity in England, and such familiar names as Edwin and Oswald, Cuthbert and Chad, Hilda and Caedmon would be almost forgotten. First published in 1969, Colgrave and Mynors''s edition made use for the first time of the mid-eighth-century manuscript now in Leningrad, provided a survey of the extant manuscripts, and a new translation; it also brought up to date Plummer''s invaluable edition. This revised edition takes into account J.M. Wallace-Hadrill''s Bede''s Ecclesiastical History of the English People: A Historical Commentary (Oxford Medieval Texts, 1988), enabling the reader to use the two in conj
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Clarendon Press The Wine Song in Classical Arabic Poetry ABU Nuwas and the Literary Tradition Oxford Oriental Monographs
Book SynopsisThis book traces the history of classical Arabic wine poetry from its origins in the sixth century to its heyday in Baghdad at the turn of the ninth century. The focus is on the wine songs of the great Abú Nuwás (d. c.813) whose compositions are analysed within the context of the various related genres of classical Arabic poetry.Trade ReviewIntellectually stimulating and very thorough demonstration of Abu Nuwas's profound dependence on his predecessor's work. * TLS *This work presents the reader with a rigorously critical analysis of an important genre of Arabic poetry ... The presentation of this volume is of the very highest standards ... we must express our gratitude to Kennedy and to the Clarendon Press (and to the Oxford Oriental Monograph series in which this book appears) for providing us with the luxury of such an accomplished and attractive study of one of the Arabic language's most celebrated poets. * Roger Allen, Middle East Journal *
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Oxford University Press An Introduction to Platos Republic
Book SynopsisThis book aims to make the `Republic' accessible and intelligible to those coming to it for the first time, or with little or no philosophical background, but it also contains much of interest to the more advanced student.
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Clarendon Press Beowulf
Book SynopsisBeowulf, the major surviving poem in Old English, is composed in a language that is rich but often difficult. This fully annotated edition makes the poem more accessible in its original language, while at the same time providing the materials necessary for its detailed study at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.To facilitate understanding and fluent reading of the poem, the Old English text of Beowulf is here accompanied by an extensive running glossary which includes the greater part of the vocabulary of the poem. Words that occur more than once are glossed on each occasion. The inclusion of marginal glosses will enable readers who may be at an early stage in the study of Old English to cope more easily with the complex vocabulary of the poem. But this edition is not meant only for those who are approaching Old English for the first time; it is designed to be suitable for students at any stage, and those who are already familiar with Old English will find the marginal glossesTrade Review`This will surely be the standard edition of Beowulf' Dr Margaret Connolly, University College, Cork`very student user-friendly' Dr J. A. George, Uninversity of Dundee`it will be most useful and exactly the kind of student edition that has long been needed' Dr William Marx, University of Wales, Lampeter`This up-to-date edition it a godsend.' Peter J. Lucas, University College, DublinWe have long been waiting for it.' Professor Dr Heinz Bergner, Justus-Liebig-Universitat Giessenpresents its familiar material in a conspicuously rejuvenated way...This edition follows a current trend towards providing most of the material necessary for the study of a major work within a single volume...The introduction has detailed and authoritative discussions of all the major aspects of the poem, apart from general critical interpretation, for which the reader is referred to items in the extensive bibliography. * English *This fully annotated edition makes the poem Beowulf more accessible in its original language, and provides the materials necessary for its detailed study by those new to Old English. * The Medieval World *Students working through Beowulf in the original language for the first time ... may find themselves grateful for this compact, efficient, and inexpensive introduction to the poem. Every part of Jack's text is presented with meticulous accuracy - a welcome virtue in publications of this kind. References are brief but apt, expert, and up-to-date. * John D. Niles, University of California, Berkeley, Speculum - A Journal of Medieval Studies, Jan 1997 *
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Clarendon Press Choephori
Book SynopsisProduced in 458 BC, Aeschylus'' Choephori stands as the second play in the Oresteian trilogy. The bloodshed begun in the first play with the murder of Agamemnon by his wife Clytemnestra is here continued when Agamemnon''s son Orestes avenges his father''s death by killing Clytemnestra. It is not until the third and final play, Eumenides, that peace is restored to the family of the Atreiadae.This edition (first published in hardback in 1986) takes into account the large amount of recent research on the play and tackles the problems presented by an unusually corrupt text. The introduction discusses the pre-Aeschylean ''Orestes'' tradition in literature (from Homer to Pindar) and art (representations on vases and reliefs), as well as the place of Choephori within the Oresteia, its imagery and dramatic structure, the questions of staging the play, and the manuscript tradition. Much of the commentary looks at problems of style, dramatic technique, and interpretation of the play, and before Trade Review'Meticulous and profound scholarship, wide familiarity with relevant work, painstaking attention to detail: all these are to be seen in profusion ... this work of genuine scholarship can only be welcomed as an outstanding, and outstandingly produced, long-needed edition from the Clarendon Press.' J. H. C. Leach, Times Literary Supplement'[Garvie's] commentary is immensely thorough, open-minded and sober.' Greece and Rome'Particularly valuable is the treatment of the myth before Aeschylus ... the combination of literary and archaeological evidence fills a serious gap left by previous commentators, and will be useful also to those reading or teaching the other plays of the trilogy.' R. A. S. Seaford, JACT Bulletin'The need for a detailed, up-to-date commentary on the play was clear, and it is fully met by this solid and substantial work...a fine and valuable commentary.' Martin L. West GnomonTable of ContentsText. Commentary. Metrical appendix.
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Clarendon Press A Commentary on Herodotus in Two Volumes With Introduction and Appendixes Volume 2 Books VIX
Book SynopsisHerodotus has been called by Cicero and other ancient critics `the father of history''. He was in fact the first to make the events of the past the subject of research and verification (historie) and then relate their consequences to the present. The main subject of his Histories is the struggle between Persia and Greece from the time of Croesus to that of Xerxes; added to this are frequent digressions, varying in length, giving a wealth of information on customs and cultures of people foreign to the Greeks.The new paperback edition of How and Wells''s standard commentary on the Histories (in print continuously since 1912) deals with the last five books (out of nine) covering Sparta under King Cleomenes, the Battles of Marathon, Thermopylae, and Salamis, and the final rout of the Persians at Plataea in 479 BC. The detailed commentary, though of interest to the scholar, is aimed primarily at the student: short summaries introduce the subject-matter of sections of the text, and there are eight appendixes addressing problems raised in the commentary. This volume also contains an index to the complete commentary.Table of ContentsCommentary on books V - IX; Appendices 16-22; Herodotus on Tyranny; Sparta under King Cleomenes (520-490 BC); Marathon; Numbers of the armies and fleets (480-479 BC); The campaign of 480 BC; Salamis; The campaigns of 479 BC; Arms, tactics, and strategy in the Persian War; Additional notes; Index (to both volumes)
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