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Oxford University Press A Commentary on Homers Odyssey Volume II Books IXXVI
Book SynopsisThis is the second instalment of a three-volume presentation in English of a commentary on Homer's "Odyssey", compiled by an international team of scholars. Introductions pay special attention to diction in the "Odyssey", and the tradition of epic diction in general.Trade Review'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'This is a very impressive work of technical scholarship ... by far the best work available on the subject in this format.' Greece & Rome, Vol XXXVII, No 1 April 1990'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
£47.99
Oxford University Press Horace Odes III Dulce Periculum
Book SynopsisThe aim of this book is to provide a translation and commentary which will help newcomers to Horace, whether or not they know Latin, to understand how the poetry works. This third book of Odes begins with the ''Roman odes'' in praise of Augustus, the ruthless politician who had won control over the whole known world. These poems should, therefore, interest historians as poetic presentations of an ideology, and students of literature as the work of a man who found ways of praising while asserting his independence. Part of his strategy is to follow the political odes with an array of poems on love, friendship, country life, religion, and on poetry, all of them filled with delight in life and a unique sense of humour.Trade ReviewDavid West takes a refreshing approach insofar as academic questions are sobered by looking at how the poems work as poems. * Quadrant No.405 *All of us who love Latin and its diverse literature are in West's debt for this series of books exploring some of the most challenging poems written in any language. * JACT Review *West's book has many strengths; his obvious and passionate admiration of Horace's poetic genius is foremost among them. He offers some powerful summaries of Horace's gifts, as well as accumulating evidence for a detailed defence of him against his critics ... The commentaries are written in a very accessible style ... There are plenty examples of humour to lighten the mood and many illuminating cross-references. * JACT Review *(Horace: Odes I: Carpe Diem) Professor West takes us closer to understanding his ancient master works. This may not be fashionable literary theory. It is better than that: to help us to understand a great poem is an act of creative poetry itself. * The Times *(Horace: Odes I: Carpe Diem) This book will be needed by all who know Horace. ... can new readers start here? Resoundingly, yes. They will gain a sound idea of what Horace means and how his poetry works, and these are achievements not to be obtained from other translations.
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Oxford University Press Homer
Book SynopsisIliad I provides the commentary and student aids lacking in larger volumes of Homer''s work. It contains a full Introduction designed to highlight the most important features of the text. There are sections on the Iliad and its qualities, the Homeric question, dating, oriental influences, style, gods, men, the transmission of the text, the scholia, the epic dialect, and metre. The Commentary, as well as containing material addressed to advanced readers, is also designed to be accessible to those who are new to Homer. To this end, Greek quotations in the Introduction and Commentary are translated, and technical discussions are marked off in square brackets (beginners may pass over them if they wish). The Greek text of Iliad I is printed with a facing English translation of a literal kind, primarily intended to help beginners to construe the Greek and there is also a full vocabulary list.Trade ReviewThis commentary is a welcome addition to the scholarly literature, and will undoubtedly serve its intended audience very well indeed. * Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review *Pulleyn's horizons are broad, his linguistic foundation impeccable, his enthusiasm and appreciation of Homer's art everywhere evident ... a great deal of hard work and hard thought has gone into this edition, which deserves to be widely used. * Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review *Pulleyn's intended readership are undergraduate students and readers who come to Homer for the first time after having been reared on Attic language and literature. These readers will certainly profit from Pulleyn's reliable translation and his thorough treatment of Homeric syntax ... the commentary offers much useful guidance in reading the original text. Readers will also profit from Pulleyn's full introduction, which addresses many of the long-standing problems of Homeric scholarship ... will be useful to readers wishing to tackle liad 1 in the original language. * Journal of Hellenic Studies *Informative introduction and rich commentary. * Greece & Rome *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Text and Translation ; Commentary ; Glossary ; General Index ; Index of Greek words
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OUP Oxford The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English
Book SynopsisThe study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. ''New'' texts (laws and penitentials, women''s writing, drama records), innovative fields and objects of study (the history of the book, the study of space and the body, medieval masculinities), and original ways of studying them (the Sociology of the Text, performance studies) have emerged. This has brought fresh vigour and impetus to medieval studies, and impacted significantly on cognate periods and areas. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English brings together the insights of these new fields and approaches with those of more familiar texts and methods of study, to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of medieval literature today. It also returns to first principles in posing fundamental questions about the nature, scope, and sTrade ReviewElisabeth Dutton's chapter 'Secular Drama' in The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English...provides an examination of the nature of secular medievaldrama in England against the dominant force of the mystery cycles, which have hitherto garnered the lion's share of critical attention. * Daisy Black and Sarah Brazil, The English Association *Table of ContentsPROLOGUE; LITERARY PRODUCTION; LITERARY CONSUMPTION; LITERATURE, CLERICAL, AND LAY; LITERARY REALITIES; COMPLEX IDENTITIES; LITERARY PLACE, SPACE, AND TIME; LITERARY JOURNEYS; EPILOGUE; INDEX OF MANUSCRIPTS; GENERAL INDEX
£34.99
Oxford University Press Otherworlds
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Oxford University Press, USA The Other Virgil Pessimistic Readings of the Aeneid in Early Modern Culture Classical Presences
Book SynopsisThe Other Virgil tells the story of how a classic like the Aeneid can say different things to different people. As a school text it was generally taught to support the values and ideals of a succession of postclassical societies, but between 1500 and 1800 a number of unusually sensitive readers responded to cues in the text that call into question what the poem appears to be supporting. This book focuses on the literary works written by these readers, to show how they used the Aeneid as a model for poems that probed and challenged the dominant values of their society, just as Virgil had done centuries before. Some of these poems are not as well known today as they should be, but others, like Milton''s Paradise Lost and Shakespeare''s The Tempest, are; in the latter case, the poems can be understood in new ways once their relationship to the ''other Virgil'' is made clear.Trade Reviewimportant, timely and well-written * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *The book [is] one which any student of Virgil will find durable valuableTable of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Marginalization ; 2. Colonization ; 3. Revolution ; Conclusion
£133.00
Oxford University Press, USA Humanism Reading and English Literature 14301530
Trade Review...this is a book which deserves close reading. * David Rundle, The English Historical Review *an impressively learned book... Wakelin shows an intimate knowledge not only of the texts themselves but the specific copies in which they circulated. * James P. Carley, Times Literary Supplement *an urbane and assiduous guide through a narrative that remains courageously true to the faltering beginnings, repeated dead ends, and often unclear aims that it recounts * Medium Aevum *A comprehensive study...complemented by a long and reader-friendly bibliography...one of the many merits of this book is the range and richness of information it offers on a literary production spanning well over a century and including many forgotten or obscure works. * Alessandra Petrina, The Review of English Studies *a wide-ranging, scholarly and thoroughly engaging book * Tamara Atkin, Notes and Queries *Table of Contents1. Introduction: humanism as reading ; 2. Duke Humfrey and other imaginary readers ; 3. Allusion, translation and mistranslation ; 4. William Worcester and the commonweal of readers ; 5. Print and the reproduction of humanist readers ; 6. Eloquence, reason and debate ; 7. Some Tudor readers and their freedom
£162.50
Oxford University Press Greek Lyric Poetry a Commentary on Selected Larger Pieces
Book SynopsisThis book presents a new text and a detailed commentary for many of the central pieces of Greek lyric poetry. For authors from Alcman to Simonides, the pieces chosen are usually the longest and best-preserved; a single large poem each is taken from Bacchylides and Pindar; two odes from tragedy illustrate the adoption of lyric into drama. The text and apparatus contain the results of fresh work on the papyri and numerous new suggestions. The commentary is chiefly literary, and there is an introduction to each poet which gives the works a context from a wide range of evidence. The book joins textual and literary criticism of the poets together, providing a close and sustained analysis of important poems across the genre, and enables the reader to see in detail the development and diversity of a remarkable body of poetry.Trade ReviewHutchinson succeeds in throwing a great deal of light on a number of exceedingly opaque texts. An immensely valuable if difficult book; appropriate for advanced graduate students and up. * Religious Studies Review *A fresh text and detailed commentary on twenty substantial (mostly fragmentary) pieces of archaic and classical lyric poetry. * Religious Studies Review *Rarely does one find such high standards of textual and literary criticism combined. No one working on any of the poetry included here can afford to neglect Hutchinson's commentary. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Hutchinson's close sensitive readings yield many perceptive suggestions ... all advanced students of archaic lyric will learn much from the abundance of material (linguistic, metrical, and comparative) assembled in Hutchinson's notes and his introductions to the individual poets. * Greece & Rome *A valuable contribution, not only to the understanding and appreciation of the poetry involved, but also of the poets themselves. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
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Oxford University Press Leviticus as Literature
Book SynopsisThis first full-scale account of Leviticus by a world-renowned anthropologist presents the biblical work as a literary masterpiece. Seen in an anthropological perspective Leviticus has a mystical structure which plots the book into three parts corresponding to the three parts of the desert tabernacle, which in turn corresponds to the parts of Mount Sinai. This completely new reading transforms the interpretation of the purity laws. The pig and other forbidden animals are not abhorrent, they command the same respect due to all God''s creatures. Boldly challenging several traditions of Bible criticism, Mary Douglas claims that Leviticus is not the narrow doctrine of a crabbed professional priesthood but a powerful intellectual statement about a religion which emphasizes God''s justice and compassion.Trade Reviewthe great anthropologist Mary Douglas's surprising rereading of a very old text,Leviticus as Literature makes a discarded classic zing with new life. * Valentine Cunningham, The Independent, 2000 *
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Clarendon Press Porphyry Introduction
Book SynopsisThe Introduction to philosophy written by Porphyry at the end of the second century AD is the most successful work of its kind ever to have been published. It was translated into most respectable languages, and for a millennium and a half every student of philosophy read it as his first text in the subject. Porphyry''s aim was modest: he intended to explain the meaning of five terms, ''genus'', ''species'', ''difference'', ''property'', and ''accident'' - terms which he took to be important to Aristotelian logic and metaphysics, and hence to philosophy in general. Thus in principle the Introduction is simple and elementary. In fact, there are sometimes difficulties and doubts on the surface of the text - and beneath the surface there are frequent depths or profundities. The work raises, directly or indirectly, a number of perennial philosophical questions. In addition, the Introduction became, in Boethius''s Latin translation, the point of reference for one of the longest-lasting of phTrade Review...it should soon become essential reading for every scholar in medieval and renaissance studies. * Alan R. Perreiah, Transcendent Philosophy *... notable contribution to the scholarship on post-classical philosophy ... shed[s] valuable light on what philosophy would have meant to the church fathers ... a fundamental text in logic from the ancient world. * Sobornost *Jonathan Barnes has done us a considerable service in his translation of Porphyry's brief but enormously important overview of the basic categories of philosophy, the Introduction ... in this book Barnes has produced a masterful commentary that elucidates the text in terms of philosophy, history and philology. * Sobornost *The commentary achieves much more than mere elucidation of Porphyry's words. It analyses his arguments, tracks down their (mostly Aristotelian) origins, and vigorously pursues their logical and metaphysical implications. Barnes' mastery of the field is breathtaking. * RHIZAI *A full-scale English commentary has been long overdue on this text of immense historical importance. What Barnes provides us with is more than that - it is the most complete and authoritative modern work on Porphyry's Introduction to date. * RHIZAI *All through, Barnes gives a refreshing sense of cleaning off the layers of varnish on a cherished heirloom. * Michael Trapp, Times Literary Supplement *... an excellent piece of work. * Michael Trapp, Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ; TRANSLATION ; COMMENTARY
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Oxford University Press Plautine Elements in Plautus
Book SynopsisEduard Fraenkel was one of the most influential classicists of the twentieth century. His Plautine Elements in Plautus (originally published in German in 1922) revolutionized the study of Roman comedy. This translation makes this seminal work accessible to an English-speaking readership for the first time.Trade ReviewDeeply satisfactory * Colin Leach, Notes and Queries *...one of the greatest works of classical scholarship. I do not review it, I salute it. * TLS *[this] monumental study has now, at long last been translated in to clear..English..Fraenkel makes a cohesive and still convincing case for the idea that Plautus' poetic vision is about giving voice to the voiceless. * London Review of Books *Thanks to this new translation...the audience who will be able to benefit from Fraenkel's deep and insightful knowledge will broaden much further. * Scholia Reviews *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Comparative openings of speeches ; 2. Transformation and identification motifs ; 3. Mythological material ; 4. Animating the inanimate ; 5. Expansion of the dialogue ; 6. Expansion of monologues ; 7. Implausibility in conversations ; 8. The predominance of the slave's role ; 9. 'Contaminated' plays ; 10. The nature and origins of the cantica ; 11. Plautus as a poet
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Oxford University Press Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy Volume XXII Summer 2002 22
Book SynopsisOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy presents original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The essays in this volume focus in particular on Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics.Trade ReviewReview from previous edition 'standard reading among specialists in ancient philosophy' * Brad Inwood, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of Contents1. 'Is the World One?' A New Interpretation of Plato's Parmenides ; 2. The One-and-Many Problems at Philebus 15 B ; 3. Demonstrative Science and the Science of Being qua Being ; 4. Aristotle's Definition of Soul and the Programme of the De anima ; 5. Locomotive Soul: The Parts of Soul in Aristotle's Scientific Works ; 6. On an Alleged Contradiction in Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics ; 7. Human Bonding and Oikeiosis in Roman Stoicism ; 8. Non-Rational Perception in the Stoics and Augustine ; Index Locorum
£130.00
Clarendon Press John Lydgates Fall of Princes
Book SynopsisThe Benedictine monk John Lydgate was the most admired poet of the fifteenth century. He received commissions from some of the most powerful men in the land (including Henry V); he is spoken of with constant admiration; manuscripts of his work are abundant; many of his poems were put into print by England''s earliest printers, ensuring that his influence extended well into the sixteenth century. The Fall of Princes, probably the longest poem in the language, is arguably Lydgate''s masterwork; yet, until now, it has received only cursory critical attention. This book offers the first extended discussion of the poem.The Fall of Princes accumulates accounts of nearly 500 figures from mythology and history (biblical, classical, and medieval) who have fallen from their positions of fame and power into obscurity, adversity, or poverty. In presenting these tragedies Lydgate probes the causes of the reversal of their fortunes; how far can the caprice of a blind Lady Fortune be blamed? How far Trade Review...astute close readings... Mortimer's monograph will be welcomed by the "new and open-minded audience" it addresses and will, I am sure, futher the Lydgate renaissance that is under way. * Karen A. Winstead, Speculum *a study that will be inestimably valuable...From start to finish, Mortimer's book is useful to the reader; it sets out not only to advance theses about the poem but also to enable and encourage future work. Such scholarly generosity makes this book essential reading for medievalists and Renaissance critics alike.Mortimer's evidence-led approach is impressive and convincing... * Medium AEvum *Mortimer's work represents a tremendous contribution to fifteenth-century studies. His careful scholarship and his treatment of such a wide variety of themes render his book essential reading for new and established Lydgate scholars alike, but it is above all his open and charitable attitude toward his subject - so unusual in much of Lydgate scholarship - which brings the monk and his text to life for the reader. For all those wishing to familiarize themselves with the origins, contexts, and influences of Lydgate's Fall of Princes, Mortimer's study is the place to start. * Mary Flannery, Notes and Queries *Related concerns are at the heart of Nigel Mortimer's study of The Fall of Princes (completed 1439), which examines how Lydgate blended "regiminal" literature (advice to rulers) with an ambiguous and ambivalent regard to spiritual and secular authorities. Mortimer's Lydgate is a slippery entity, adept at playing many changing political roles through his poetry. * Anthony Bale, Modern Philology *The array of information Mortimer brings together in this volume, as well as its thoroughgoing dependability, makes it an indispensible resource for all future scholarship on the poem...the volume's rigorous scholarship and extensive research findings make it an essential resource. * Journal of English and Germanic Philology *Table of Contents1. The Fortunes of John Lydgate ; 2. The French Context of the Fall of Princes ; 3. 'Lancastrian' Lydgate: Poet and Patron ; 4. Spiritual and Secular Authority in the Fall ; 5. 'When the Good Bleeds': Tragedy in the Fall of Princes ; 6. The Reception and Influence of the Fall
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Oxford University Press, USA Aristophanes Acharnians
Book SynopsisAristophanes'' Acharnians was performed at the Lenaia festival in Athens in 425 BCE. The play is the story of an old peasant farmer, Dikaiopolis, who has grown so disgusted with the Peloponnesian War and the patent self-serving of the city''s leading politicians (abetted by the stupidity of his fellow-citizens) that he concludes a separate peace with the enemy. As a result, he gains access to an immense supply of wonderful things, including wine, eels, thrushes, and a pair of beautiful and compliant women. Whether he is a traitor and a villain, or simply the cleverest and most daring man in the city, is a matter of extensive debate within the play. Acharnians itself, at any rate, took first place and is generally regarded as one of Aristophanes'' two or three most brilliant surviving comedies. Olson offers the first complete new scholarly edition of the play in almost a century. The text and apparatus are based on a fresh examination of the papyri and manuscripts, many of which have neTrade ReviewReview from previous edition Review from other book by this author (Aristophanes ^(Peace ) O.'s commentary, while it shows fine all-round scholarship, ... is particularly strong on economic and social matters. * Alan Sommerstein, Journal of Hellenic Studies *(Aristophanes ^(Peace ) This edition will prompt fresh interest in a play that has been comparatively neglected - undeservedly, as it now seems. * Jeffrey Henderson, Religious Studies Review *(Aristophanes ^(Peace ) the Greek text is masterfully edited and for the first time based on a complete recension of the manuscripts; the comentary is richly informative on everything from the play's dramatic form and technique to its social and policital contexts. * Jeffrey Henderson, Religious Studies Review *excellent ... impressive coverage of linguistic, historical, and cultural aspects of the play ... a prodigious amount of information and good judgement. * Greece & Rome *
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Oxford University Press, USA Plotinus Cosmology
Book SynopsisIn Ennead II.1 (40) Plotinus is primarily concerned to argue for the everlastingness of the universe, the heavens, and the heavenly bodies as individual substances. Here he must grapple both with the philosophical issue of personal identity through time and with the rich tradition of cosmology which pitted the Platonists against the Aristotelians and Stoics. What results is a historically informed cosmological sketch explaining the constitution of the heavens as well as sublunar and celestial motion. This book contains an extensive introduction aimed at providing the necessary background in Platonic, Aristotelian, and Stoic cosmology, the text itself, and a line-by-line commentary designed to elucidate its philosophical, philological and historical details.Trade ReviewWilberding happily does not get drowned en detail, but masters it and subordinates it to lucid questions and transparent historical perspectives. A praiseworthy trait of Wilberding English-written commentary is his acquaintance with and his judicious use of secondary literature written not only in English, but also in German and French or even modern Greek. * Filip Karfik, Rhizai *a book that displays remarkable erudition, solid proficiency in both classical and contemporary languages. * Ermanno Bencivenga, Mind Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; The Text of Ennead II.1 ; Translation ; Commentary
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Oxford University Press, USA Cicero Speech on Behalf of Publius Sestius Clarendon Ancient History Series
Book SynopsisA new translation of, and commentary on, Cicero's defence of Publius Sestius against a charge of public violence. The speech provides any student of Rome with a fascinating way into the period and is also among the best introductions we have to traditional Republican values and ethics in action.Trade Review...constantly enlightening and extremely broad in its scope... * Bryn Mawr Reviews *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION; TRANSLATION: THE SPEECH ON BEHALF OF PUBLIUS SESTIUS; COMMENTARY
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Oxford University Press Porphyrys Introduction
Book SynopsisThe Introduction to philosophy written by Porphyry at the end of the second century AD is the most successful work of its kind ever to have been published. It was translated into most respectable languages, and for a millennium and a half every student of philosophy read it as his first text in the subject. Porphyry''s aim was modest: he intended to explain the meaning of five terms, ''genus'', ''species'', ''difference'', ''property'', and ''accident'' - terms which he took to be important to Aristotelian logic and metaphysics, and hence to philosophy in general. Thus in principle the Introduction is simple and elementary. In fact, there are sometimes difficulties and doubts on the surface of the text - and beneath the surface there are frequent depths or profundities. The work raises, directly or indirectly, a number of perennial philosophical questions. In addition, the Introduction became, in Boethius''s Latin translation, the point of reference for one of the longest-lasting of phTrade Review...it should soon become essential reading for every scholar in medieval and renaissance studies. * Alan R. Perreiah, Transcendent Philosophy *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ; TRANSLATION ; COMMENTARY
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Oxford University Press Christian Identity in the Jewish and GraecoRoman World
Book Synopsis''I am a Christian'' is the confession of the martyrs of early Christian texts and, no doubt, of many others; but what did this confession mean, and how was early Christian identity constructed? This innovative study sets the emergence of Christian identity in the first two centuries, as it is constructed by the broad range of surviving literature, within the wider context of Jewish and Graeco-Roman identity. It uses a number of models from contemporary constructionist views of identity formation to explore how what comes to be seen as ''Christian'' literature creates a sense of what to be ''a Christian'' means, and traces both continuities and discontinuities with the ways in which Jewish and Graeco-Roman identity were also being constructed through their texts. It seeks to acknowledge the centrality of texts in shaping early Christianity, historically as well as in our perception of it, while also exploring how we might move from those texts to the individuals and communities who preTrade ReviewReview from previous edition The book will, without a doubt, become a key one in the discussion of early Christian identity, but its rich exploration into Jewish identity makes it a serious contribution to that field as well ... Where Lieu's work often differs from much of the contemporary debate is the consistent clarity with which she sees the other side of the evdience ... This positive work will help focus much of the future debate. * BMCR *Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Emergence of Christian Identity ; 2. Text and Identity ; 3. History, Memory, and the Invention of Tradition ; 4. Boundaries ; 5. The Grammar of Practice ; 6. Embodiment and Gender ; 7. Space and Place ; 8. The Christian Race ; 9. 'The Other' ; 10. Made Not Born: Conclusions
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Oxford University Press, USA SEEING THE FACE SEEING THE SOUL Polemons Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam
Book SynopsisPolemon of Laodicea's Physiognomy explains how to detect someone's character from their appearance. The original 2nd-century text has been lost, but this collection of essays presents translations of the surviving Greek, Latin, and Arabic versions together with a series of masterly studies on the Physiognomy's origins, function, and legacy.Trade ReviewA huge effort...has gone into this beautifully produced, collaborative project on ancient Greek physiognomy and its reception in medieval Islamic society. * M F Burnyeat, Times Literary Supplement *Their book is many steps forward in the research on physiognomy in Classical Antiquity and the European and Islamic Middle Ages. From a number of different disciplines they have brought together, in one impressive volume, a great number of primary sources about Polemons work on physiognomy. They have excellently edited and translated these sources and they have evaluated them in a number of most enlightening essays. * Jan Just Witkam, Bibliotheca Orientalis *Table of ContentsI. ANTIQUITY; II. ISLAM; III. TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS
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Oxford University Press Cicero the Advocate
Book SynopsisA collection of contributions by prominent Ciceronian scholars on Cicero''s forensic speeches as examples of advocacy designed to secure a verdict, setting the speeches in the context of the Roman court system and of ancient rhetoric, discussing the nature of advocacy ancient and modern, analysing Cicero''s various techniques of persuasion, and examining a number of speeches in detail as case studies.Trade ReviewReview from previous edition 'Cicero the Advocate - he's back, he's bad, and he's taking names!' Or so the voice-over for the trailer would growl, if this surprisingly feisty volume were a summer blockbuster coming to a movie screen near you . . . Not quite a decade after his collection Cicero the Philosopher helped make 1995 a watershed in the re-evaluation of that portion of the oeuvre, Jonathan Powell has joined with Jeremy Paterson to produce a worthy successor. The standard maintained is uniformly high, and excellence is not uncommon. We can hope that Oxford will provide a paperback version sooner rather than later, at a price teachers and even their students can actually afford. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Skilled editors and a team of experts offer what is effectively an `Oxford Companion to Cicero's Forensic Speeches' - and a boon companion it is . . . Highly recommended. * Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; I. THEMES ; 1. Legal Procedure in Cicero's Time ; 2. Self-Reference in Cicero's Forensic Speeches ; 3. A Volscian Mafia? Cicero and his Italian Clients in the Forensic Speeches ; 4. Allusion in Cicero's Narratives ; 5. Cicero and the Law ; 6. The Rhetoric of Character in the Roman Courts ; 7. Audience Expectations, Invective, and Proof ; 8. Cicero's Perorations ; II. CASE STUDIES ; 9. Being Economical with the Truth: What Really Happened at Lampsacus (Verrines II 1) ; 10. Repetition and Structure in a Civil Law Speech: The Pro Caecina ; 11. The Advocate as a Professional: The Role of the Patronus in Cicero's Pro Cluentio ; 12. Literature and Persuasion in Pro Archia ; 13. De Domo sua: Legal Problem and Structure ; 14. The Dilemma of Cicero's Speech for Ligarius ; EPILOGUE ; 15. Cicero and the Modern Advocate
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Oxford University Press Inc Poetics of Late Latin Literature
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Oxford University Press Ajax Dilemma
Book SynopsisWe live in a world where CEOs give themselves million dollar bonuses even as their companies go bankrupt and ordinary workers are laid off; where athletes make millions while teachers struggle to survive; a world, in short, where rewards are often unfairly meted out. In The Ajax Dilemma, Paul Woodruff examines one of today''s most pressing moral issues: how to distribute rewards and public recognition without damaging the social fabric. How should we honor those whose behavior and achievement is essential to our overall success? Is it fair or right to lavish rewards on the superstar at the expense of the hardworking rank-and-file? How do we distinguish an impartial fairness from what is truly just? Woodruff builds his answer to these questions around the ancient conflict between Ajax and Odysseus over the armor of the slain warrior Achilles. King Agamemnon arranges a speech contest to decide the issue. Ajax, the loyal workhorse, loses the contest, and the priceless armor, to Odysseus, Trade ReviewThe timing is excellent for The Ajax Dilemma: Justice, Fairness and Rewards...this little book makes a worthy contribution to the issue of how to distribute rewards in both government and business. In this age, the story of Ajax is sure to resonate with many. * Nancy F. Koehn, The New York Times *Table of ContentsPart One Introductory ; Ajax ; What's at Stake: Rewards, Booty, and Incentives ; Part Two The Story of Ajax ; Part Three Learning from the Ajax Story ; A New Approach to Justice and Compassion ; The Myth ; Caring About Ajax ; The Storytellers ; The Contest: What Went Wrong ; Part Four Justice as Human Wisdom ; Bad Losers ; Compassion ; Fairness ; The Fairness Trap ; Good Things and their Doubles ; Justice ; Anger: Justice in the Soul ; Honor and Respect ; Wisdom ; Leadership ; The Answer: How to Survive the Dilemma ; Afterword ; Ajax and Odysseus: From Battlefield to Boardroom, by C. Cale McDowell
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Oxford University Press Inc The Classical Tradition
Book SynopsisA monumental work of literary scholarship, reissued with a legacy-establishing foreword by Harold Bloom.Trade Review"Solidly grounded and solidly built...[Highet] deals with every period, every movement, every individual, and every separate work as an interesting special case for which he tries to find the special explanation."--The New Yorker "An excellent outline...[an] intelligent, erudite, perceptive interpretation...a book for the times."--The Nation "It is Highet's appreciate of good literature...which gives a special charm to his book...[It] will be read with gratitude by many."--Times Literary Supplement "Having reread Gilbert Highet's The Classical Tradition, I am once again under its spell. The book, like Curtius' European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, is a monument to a certain moment of mid-20th-century classicism, deeply humane, fundamentally conservative, committed to putting back together what seemed like the shattered pieces of Western civilization in the wake of Nazi barbarism. It is its vast scope, its capacious overview, that gives it its power."--Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University "More than sixty years after Gilbert Highet's book first appeared, it remains the best single guide to the whole afterlife of Greek and Latin literature. The Classical Tradition does full justice to the complexity of this millenial story: Highet shows us both how ancient books shaped later readers, and how medieval and modern writers used classical elements to build their own, distinctive literatures. Learned, epigrammatic, and humanely opinionated, Highet's book is as readable as it is comprehensive."--Anthony Grafton, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsForeword ; Preface ; Abbreviations ; Chapter 1: Introduction ; Chapter 2: The Dark Ages: English Literature ; Chapter 3: The Middle Ages: French Literature ; Chapter 4: Dante and Pagan Antiquity ; Chapter 5: Towards the Renaissance: Petrarch, Boccaccio, Chaucer ; Chapter 6: The Renaissance: Translation ; Chapter 7: The Renaissance: Drama ; Chapter 8: The Renaissance: Epic ; Chapter 9: The Renaissance: Pastoral and Romance ; Chapter 10: Rabelais and Montaigne ; Chapter 11: Shakespeare ; Chapter 12: The Renaissance and Afterwards: Lyric Poetry ; Chapter 13: Transition ; Chapter 14: The Battle of the Books ; Chapter 15: A Note on Baroque
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Oxford University Press Lucan De Bello Ciuili Book 1
Book SynopsisA comprehensive new edition, including introduction, text with apparatus criticus, and commentary, of the Latin text of the first book of Lucan's De Bello Civili, an important and influential epic poem written in the 60s AD, which recounts the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey in the years 49-45 BC.Trade Reviewthis edition is likely to be a very valuable resource to the student and scholar of Lucan (and of post-Augustan epic) for many years to come. * Adam Marshall, Trinity College Dublin *this is a very impressive and useful commentary on a very important book of Roman epic poetry, one that was sorely needed. I have little doubt that it will become the standard commentary on BC I and that it will hold that distinction for quite some time. * Tim Stover, Journal of Roman Studies *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ; M. ANNAEI LVCANI BELLO CIVILI LIBER PRIMUS ; COMMENTARY
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Oxford University Press, USA Estoire Des Engleis History of the English
Book SynopsisEstoire des Engleis is a rhymed chronicle of English history written in the British Isles in the 12th century. It is the oldest surviving example of historiography in the French vernacular, and is presented here in full with a facing-page translation in modern English prose and extensive explanatory notes.Trade ReviewThe field of Anglo-Norman ... owes a very great deal to Professor Short, and this secure and definitive edition, which benefits from all of Short's vast scholarship and learning while remaining entirely accessibly to those who may wish to begin work on the text, is to be welcomed with real gratitude. * Laura Ashe, English Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Text & Translation ; Notes to the Text ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press The Agamemnon of Aeschylus
Book SynopsisThis commentary discusses Aeschylus'' play Agamemnon (458 BC), which is one of the most popular of the surviving ancient Greek tragedies, and is the first to be published in English since 1958. It is designed particularly to help students who are tackling Aeschylus in the original Greek for the first time, and includes a reprint of D. L. Page''s Oxford Classical Text of the play.The introduction defines the place of Agamemnon within the Oresteia trilogy as a whole, and the historical context in which the plays were produced. It discusses Aeschylus'' handling of the traditional myth and the main ideas which underpin his overall design: such as the development of justice and the nature of human responsibility; and it emphasizes how the power of words, seen as ominous speech-acts which can determine future events, makes a central contribution to the play''s dramatic momentum. Separate sections explore Aeschylus'' use of theatrical resources, the role of the chorus, and the solo charactersTrade ReviewDavid Raeburn and Oliver Thomas have made a difficult but rewarding play accessible to students with this the first commentary on Aeschylus' Agamemnon to be published in English since 1958. It offers an impressively wide-ranging introduction to the play that also sets it in the broader context of the Oresteia as a whole. Raeburn and Thomas prove to be dependable guides who offer judicious readings of difficult passages; they are even-handed in presenting variant readings or interpretations, and provide the resources necessary for readers to engage with scholarly debate. * Eric Dugdale, Classical Journal *Table of ContentsABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; TEXT; COMMENTARY; APPENDIX: SOUND AND RHYTHM; WORKS CITED; INDEX
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Oxford University Press Medieval Grammar and Rhetoric
Book SynopsisMedieval Grammar and Rhetoric: Language Arts and Literary Theory, AD 300-1475 contributes to two fields, the history of the language arts and the history of literary theory. It brings together essential sources in the disciplines of grammar and rhetoric which were used to understand literary form and language and teach literary composition. Grammar and rhetoric, the language disciplines, formed the basis of any education from antiquity through the Middle Ages, no matter what future career a student would want to pursue. Because literature was also the subject matter of grammatical teaching, and because rhetorical teaching gave great attention to literary form, these were also the disciplines that would prepare students for an understanding of literary language and form. These arts constituted the abiding theoretical toolbox for anyone engaged in a life of letters.The book brings together more than fifty primary texts from the medieval history of grammar and rhetoric, well over half of Trade ReviewMonumental ... In their heroic labour of translation and scholarship, Copeland and Sluiter provide an entrée to the millennium of pedagogy that formed countless priests, monks, bishops, intellectuals, courtiers and secular bureaucrats. * Barbara Newman, London Review of Books *Table of ContentsPART 1 ARTS OF LANGUAGE, AD CA. 300-CA. 950; PART 2 DOSSIERS ON THE ABLATIVE ABSOLUTE AND ETYMOLOGY; PART 3 SCIENCES AND CURRICULA OF LANGUAGE IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY; SECTION 4 PEDAGOGIES OF GRAMMAR AND RHETORIC, CA. 1150-1280; PART 6 RECEPTIONS OF THE TRADITIONS: THE LANGUAGE ARTS AND POETICS IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES, CA. 1369-CA. 1475
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Oxford University Press Essays on Being
Book SynopsisThis volume presents a series of essays published by Charles Kahn over a period of forty years, in which he seeks to explicate the ancient Greek concept of Being. He addresses two distinct but intimately related problems, one linguistic and one historical and philosophical. The linguistic problem concerns the theory of the Greek verb einai, ''to be'': how to replace the conventional but misleading distinction between copula and existential verb with a more adequate theoretical account. The philosophical problem is in principle quite distinct: to understand how the concept of Being became the central topic in Greek philosophy from Parmenides to Aristotle. But these two problems converge on what Kahn calls the veridical use of einai. In the earlier papers he takes that connection between the verb and the concept of truth to be the key to the central role of Being in Greek philosophy. In the later papers he interprets the veridical in terms of a more general semantic function of the verb,Trade ReviewReview from previous edition always engaging and often provocative * Jonathan Barnes, Mind *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. The Greek verb 'to be' and the concept of Being ; 2. The terminology for copula and existence ; 3. Why existence does not emerge as a distinct concept in Greek philosophy ; 4. Some philosophical uses of 'to be' in Plato ; 5. A return to the verb 'to be' and the concept of Being ; 6. The thesis of Parmenides ; 7. Being in Parmenides and Plato ; 8. Parmenides and Plato once more ; Postscript on Parmenides: Parmenides and physics. The direction of the chariot ride in the proem. The epistemic preference for Fire.
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Oxford University Press Libraries Before Alexandria
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OUP Oxford Eetso 340 Two Revisions of Rolles English Psalter Comm Rel Cant Vol 1
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Oxford University Press Suetonius
Book SynopsisSuetonius'' Life of Augustus is the most commonly read ancient account of the life of Rome''s first emperor, presenting a mass of historical and biographical detail about both his public and personal lives. This volume provides the first large-scale commentary on Suetonius'' work in English, drawing out what is unique about Suetonius'' information, discussing how it relates to other ancient accounts, and assessing its historical reliability. The commentary is the first to be accessible to readers without any knowledge of Latin or Greek due to its use of English lemmata, while the new translation remains faithful to the original Latin. Accompanied by an introduction which investigates the career of Suetonius, the date of the Lives of the Caesars, the structure of the Life of Augustus, the various sources utilized by Suetonius, and the way in which the reader should approach this complex text, the commentary also looks to examine Suetonius'' work not just as a repository of facts, but asTrade Reviewabsolutely invaluable for anyone interested in a major source for the life of the first Roman emperor * Peter Jones, Classics for All *an essential addition to the Roman historian's bookshelf * Arthur J Pomeroy, Acta Classica *To absorb the sheer range of published scholarship relating both to such a well-trodden text and to the lengthy career of Augustus is a daunting task, but Wardle. has shown that it can be done. In the commentary itself he synthesises clearly, evaluates judiciously and offers perceptive insights of his own: for example, noting Suetonius' tragic framing of the reversals in Augustus' family fortunes (416). His practice of not only referencing and discussing but often quoting the most relevant comparative or contextualising primary sources will be greatly appreciated by undergraduates in particular. He is also refreshingly forthright about the limitations of what we can glean from any of them * Penelope J. Goodman, Journal of Roman Studies *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION; TRANSLATION; COMMENTARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
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Oxford University Press, USA Aristotle as Poet
Book SynopsisAristotle is known as a philosopher and as a theorist of poetry, but he was also a composer of songs and verse. This is the first comprehensive study of Aristotle''s poetic activity, interpreting his remaining fragments in relation to the earlier poetic tradition and to the literary culture of his time. Its centerpiece is a study of the single complete ode to survive, a song commemorating Hermias of Atarneus, Aristotle''s father-in-law and patron in the 340''s BCE. This remarkable text is said to have embroiled the philosopher in charges of impiety and so is studied both from a literary perspective and in its political and religious contexts.Aristotle''s literary antecedents are studied with an unprecedented fullness that considers the entire range of Greek poetic forms, including poems by Sappho, Pindar, and Sophocles, and prose texts as well. Apart from its interest as a complex and subtle poem, the Song for Hermias is noteworthy as one of the first Greek lyrics for which we have subTrade ReviewAndrew Ford shows us...that Aristotle's two complete surviving poems...are well-worth knowing. Indeed, as Ford brilliantly demonstrates, they offer a unique window onto poetic production and reception in the classical era.... In Ford's able hands, these become paradigmatic texts, through which he provides us with an object lesson in how to read a Greek poem. * CJ-Online, a service of The Classical Journal *Table of ContentsABBREVIATIONS; BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Oxford University Press Inc The Complete Aeschylus
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.Aeschylus'' Oresteia, the only ancient tragic trilogy to survive, is one of the great foundational texts of Western culture. It begins with Agamemnon, which describes Agamemnon''s return from the Trojan War and his murder at the hands of his wife Clytemnestra, continues with her murder by their son Orestes in Libation Bearers, and concludes with Orestes'' acquittal at a court founded by Athena in Eumenides. The trilogy thus traces the evolution of justice in human society from blood vengeance to the rule of law, Aeschylus'' contribution to a Greek legend steeped in murder, adultery, human sacrifice, cannibalism, and endless intrigue. This new translationTable of ContentsBIBLIOGRAPHY
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Oxford University Press Callimachus
Book SynopsisCallimachus was arguably the most important poet of the Hellenistic age, for two reasons: his engagement with previous theorists of poetry and his wide-ranging poetic experimentation. Of his poetic oeuvre, which exceeded what we now have of Theocritus, Aratus, Posidippus, and Apollonius combined, only his six hymns and around fifty of his epigrams have survived intact. His enormously influential Aetia, the collection of Iambi, the Hecale, and all of his prose output have been reduced to a handful of citations in later Greek lexica and handbooks or papyrus fragments. In recent years excellent commentaries and synthetic studies of the Aetia, the Iambi, and the Hecale have appeared or are about to appear. But there is no modern study in English of the collection of hymns. And while there are excellent commentaries in English on three of the hymns (Apollo, Athena, Demeter), the commentaries on Zeus and on Delos are limited in scope, and there is no commentary at all on the Artemis hymn. SyTrade Review[Stephens] has now given us a welcome ... entry into a relatively unfamiliar part of the Parnassian grove occupied by Callimachus. * Colin Leach, Classics for All *this volume provides a needed and accessible edition of the collection. Stephens's scholarship and sensitivity to Callimachus's poetry suffuse every page. Invaluable for those interested in Hellenistic poetry; important for students of mythology, history of religion, and Greek literature ... Highly recommended * P. E. Ojennus, CHOICE *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ; Maps ; Introduction ; 1. Hymn to Zeus ; 2. Hymn to Apollo ; 3. Hymn to Artemis ; 4. Hymn to Delos ; 5. Hymn to Athena or The Bath of Pallas ; 6. Hymn to Demeter ; Works Cited ; Index Locorum ; General Index
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OUP USA The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology
Book SynopsisThousands of texts, written over a period of three thousand years on papyri and potsherds, in Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew, Persian, and other languages, have transformed our knowledge of many aspects of life in the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology provides an introduction to the world of these ancient documents and literary texts, ranging from the raw materials of writing to the languages used, from the history of papyrology to its future, and from practical help in reading papyri to frank opinions about the nature of the work of papyrologists. This volume, the first major reference work on papyrology written in English, takes account of the important changes experienced by the discipline within especially the last thirty years. Including new work by twenty-seven international experts and more than one hundred illustrations, The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology will serve as an invaluable guide to the subject.Trade ReviewThe Oxford Handbook of Papyrology is a wonderful volum? * a celebration of a vast and important discipline written by experts drawn from every part of it. This immense progress in our knowledge is laid out lucidly and presented in a very lively manner by a team of international contributors. The volume is well organized and well-indexed; its contents document a great broadening in the scope of papyrology over the past fifty years.Richard Janko, Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsContributors ; Figures ; Abbreviations ; Internet Resources ; Introduction, Roger S. Bagnall ; 1. Writing Materials in the Ancient World, Adam Bulow-Jacobsen ; 2. The Finds of Papyri, Helene Cuvigny ; 3. The History of the Discipline, James G. Keenan ; 4. Conservation of Ancient Papyrus Materials, Jaakko Frosen ; 5. Greek and Latin Writing in the Papyri, Guglielmo Cavallo ; 6. The Greek and Latin Languages in the Papyri, Eleanor Dickey ; 7. Abbreviations and Symbols, Nikolaos Gonis ; 8. Practical Help, Roger S. Bagnall ; 9. Editing a Papyrus, Paul Schubert ; 10. Archives and Dossiers, Katelijn Vandorpe ; 11. The Ancient Book, William A. Johnson ; 12. Papyrology and Ancient Literature, Timothy T. Renner ; 13. The Special Case of Herculaneum, David Sider ; 14. Education in the Papyri, Raffaella Cribiore ; 15. Mathematics, Science and Medicine in the Papyri, Alexander Jones ; 16. The Range of Documentary Texts, Bernhard Palme ; 17. The Multilingual Environment of Persian and Ptolemaic Egypt, Dorothy J. Thompson ; 18. The Multilingual Environment of Late Antique Egypt , Jean-Luc Fournet ; 19. Arabic Papyri and Islamic Egypt, Petra M. Sijpesteijn ; 20. The Papyrology of the Near East, Jean Gascou ; 21. Writing Histories from the Papyri, Todd M. Hickey ; 22. Geography and Administration in Egypt, Maria Rosaria Falivene ; 23. Law in Greco-Roman Egypt, Uri Yiftach-Firanko ; 24. Egyptian Religion and Magic in the Papyri, Willy Clarysse ; 25. Christianity in the Papyri, David G. Martinez ; 26. Manichaeism and Gnosticism in the Papyri, Cornelia Romer ; 27. The Future of Papyrology, Peter van Minnen ; Index
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Oxford University Press, USA Srinatha
Book SynopsisDavid Shulman and Velcheru Narayana Rao offer a groundbreaking cultural biography of Srinatha, arguably the most creative figure in the thousand-year history of Telugu literature. This fourteenth- and fifteenth-century poet revolutionized the classical tradition and effectively created the classical genre of sustained, thematically focused, coherent large-scale compositions. Some of his works are proto-novellas: self-consciously fictional, focused on the development of characters, and endowed with compelling, fast-paced plots. Though entirely rooted in the cultural world of medieval south India, Srinatha is a poet of universal resonance and relevance. Srinatha: The Poet who Made Gods and Kings provides extended translations of Srinatha''s major works and shows how the poet bridged gaps between oral (improvised) poetry and fixed literary works; between Telugu and the classical, pan-Indian language of Sanskrit; and between local and trans-local cultural contexts. Srinatha is a protean fiTrade ReviewIt is impossible to slap a label on this book. It begins as a biography (a rare genre for this culture) of Srinatha , a poet who lived in Andhra, in South India, in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. But then it goes on to combine hardheaded historical contextualization with a generous appreciation of the rich web of legends about Srinatha, all informed by lyrical translations and brilliant readings of his poems.... The works of Srinatha , like this work of Shulman and Narayana Rao, are playful, rejoicing in comic incongruity and exuberant excess, no holds barred. The authors rightly insist that you do not need to know Telugu to read this book and that readers will recognize here much that resonates with their knowledge of other great literatures. It's a great read. * Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, University of Chicago *Table of ContentsPreface ; 1. Introduction ; 2. What Happens When a Poem is Translated into a Poem? ; 3. Building in Sound ; 4. A Novella in Two Voices ; 5. Afterlife ; 6. Conclusion ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press Cicero in Letters
Book SynopsisCicero in Letters is a guide to the first extensive correspondence that survives from the Greco-Roman world. The more than eight hundred letters of Cicero that are its core provided literary models for subsequent letter writers from Pliny to Petrarch to Samuel Johnson and beyond. The collection also includes some one hundred letters by Cicero''s contemporaries. The letters they exchanged provide unique insight into the experience of the Roman political class at the turning point between Republican and imperial rule. The first part of this study analyzes effects of the milieu in which the letters were written. The lack of an organized postal system limited the correspondence that Cicero and his contemporaries could conduct and influenced what they were willing to write about. Their chief motive for exchanging letters was to protect political relationships until they could resume their customary, face-to-face association in Rome. Romans did not normally sign letters, much less write themTrade ReviewWhite is a splendid guide to the strategies of Cicero's letters and to the social values and motives underpinning those strategies. * William Fitzgerald, Times Literary Supplement *One of the outstanding virtues of this fine book is that within it we seem to hear the living voices of the last generation of the Republic. Through his elegant and colloquial translations and accompanying elucidation [White} gives us a vivid sense of how elite discourse was carried on at this critical moment * Ann Vasaly, Classical Review *a valuable treatment of Cicero ... Whites book is conversational and dialogic, engaging the reader at every stage with its processes of development. * Eleanor Brooke, Phoenix *Table of ContentsPreface ; I. Reading the Letters from the Outside In ; 1. Constraints and Biases in Roman Letter-Writing ; 2. The Editing of the Collection ; 3. Frames of the Letter ; II. Epistolary Preoccupations ; 4. The Letters and Literature ; 5. Giving and Getting Advice by Letter ; 6. Letter-Writing and Leadership ; Afterword: The Collection in Hindsight ; Appendix 1: Quantifying the Letter Corpus ; Appendix 2: Contemporary Works Mentioned in the Letters ; Bibliography of Titles Cited
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Oxford University Press Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire
Book SynopsisIn Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire, William Johnson examines the system and culture of reading among the elite in second-century Rome. The investigation proceeds in case-study fashion using the principal surviving witnesses, beginning with the communities of Pliny and Tacitus (with a look at Pliny''s teacher, Quintilian) from the time of the emperor Trajan. Johnson then moves on to explore elite reading during the era of the Antonines, including the medical community around Galen, the philological community around Gellius and Fronto (with a look at the curious reading habits of Fronto''s pupil Marcus Aurelius), and the intellectual communities lampooned by the satirist Lucian. Along the way, evidence from the papyri is deployed to help to understand better and more concretely both the mechanics of reading, and the social interactions that surrounded the ancient book. The result is a rich cultural history of individual reading communities that differentiate themselvTrade Reviewa fascinating and useful study * Francesca Sapsford, Rosetta *An engaging work of cultural history. * Gail Trimble, Times Literary Supplement *this book deserves to find a wide readership - and not only within the narrow reading communities of professional classicists and historians. * Charles W. Henrick, Sehepunkte *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ; 1. Reading as a Sociocultural System ; 2. The Pragmatics of Reading ; 3. Pliny and the Construction of Literary Culture ; 4. Pliny, Tacitus, and the Dialogus de oratoribus ; 5. Doctors and Intellectuals: Galen's Reading Community ; 6. Aulus Gellius: The Life of the Litteratus ; 7. Fronto and Aurelius: Contubernium and Solitary Reader ; 8. Lucian's Insufficient Intellectual ; 9. The Papyri: Scholars and Reading Communities in Graeco-Roman Egypt ; 10. Conclusion ; References ; Index
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Oxford University Press Ciceros Pro L. Murena Oratio
Book SynopsisCicero''s speech on behalf of L. Lucinius Murena, newly elected to the consulship of 62 BCE but immediately prosecuted for electoral bribery, is especially famous for its digressions and valuable for its insights into the complex political wrangles of the late 60s. It is, however, a speech more commonly excerpted and cited than read in its entirety, though whether the absence of an English-language commentary is a cause or effect of that situation remains uncertain. In short, a pedagogical commentary on this important and strange speech is long overdue. Distinguished Latinist Elaine Fantham''s commentary is noteworthy for its ability to elucidate not only the rhetorical structure of this speech but the rationale behind Cicero''s strategic decisions in creating that structure. It also calls attention to the stylistic features like word choice, rhetorical figures, and rhythmic effects that make the speech so effective, and explains with care and precision the political, social, and histoTrade Review[I]t contains much that will be of use and interest to advanced students and scholars * Katherine A. Liong, Exemplaria Classica *Table of ContentsMap ; Introduction ; Commentary ; Appendix: Related Texts ; Bibliography ; Index of Names and Places
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The University of Chicago Press Penelopes Bones
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Looking East English Writing and the Ottoman Empire Before 1800
Book SynopsisLooking East examines how English encounters with the Ottoman Empire helped shape national identities and imperial ambitions. Engagingly written in an accessible style, this book demonstrates how the so-called 'conflict of civilizations' separating the Muslim East from the Christian West is a false and dangerous myth.Trade Review'Looking East sweeps aside the distortions of centuries of national history to reveal how our identity has been shaped by the myriad contacts between Britons and Ottomans' - Dr Caroline Finkel, author of Osman's Dream: A History of the Ottoman Empire 'Looking East is a major contribution to the scholarship on English- and Scottish- interaction with the Ottoman world. The picture Gerald MacLean presents is far more complex and interesting than the somewhat simplistic image of East-West relations usually given by Edward Said and his followers. Instead of the old model of a straightforward binary dualism, MacLean has followed in the footsteps of Nabil Matar to present a Mediterranean world where what he calls 'mutuality, dialogue and reciprocity' predominate and where a significant number of Englishmen Turn'd Turk. This scholarly, surprising, erudite and quizzically humourous book looks set to change the way we think about early British interaction with the Muslim world.' - William Dalrymple, author of In Xanadu and From the Holy Mountain 'succinct and accessible Maclean continues to alert us to fascinating materials in the archive.' Ros Ballaster, Review of English StudiesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Islam, the Ottomans and Early Modern England PART 1: BEGINNINGS The English Encounter the Ottoman World The English Abroad: Travellers, Traders, Captives and Colonists in the Ottoman Mediterranean Performing East and Captive Agency PART 2: WRITING THE OTTOMAN WORLD On Turning Turk, or Trying to: National Identity in Robert Daborne's A Christian Turn'd Turke The Sultan's Beasts: Encountering Ottoman Fauna The Making of the British Imperial Subject PART 3: SOME LITERARY IMPACTS Learn of a Turk: Restoration Culture and the Ottoman Empire A View from the West: Young American Writing about the Maghrib A View from the East: Don Juan in England Epilogue
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Palgrave MacMillan Us The AngloScottish Border and the Shaping of Identity 13001600 The New Middle Ages
Book SynopsisThe Anglo-Scottish Border and the Shaping of Identity, 1350-1600 explores the roles that Scotland and England play in one another's imaginations. This collection of essays brings together eminent scholars and emerging voices from the frequently divergent fields of English and Scottish medieval studies.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Writing Across the Borders; M. P. Bruce & K. H. Terrell The Borderlands of Satire: Linked, Opposed, and Exchanged Political Poetry During the Scottish and English Wars of the Early Fourteenth Century; A. Galloway Sovereign Exception: Pre-National Consolidation in The Taill of Rauf Coilyear; R. P. Schiff Friend or Foe? Negotiating the Anglo-Scottish Border in Sir Thomas Gray's Scalacronica and Richard Holland's Buke of the Howlat; K.Ash Anglo-Scottish Relations in John Hardyng's Chronicle; S.L.Peverley The Border, England, and the English in some Older Scots Lyric and Occasional Poems; J.Martin The Border Writes Back; R.F.Green Passing the Book: The Scottish Shaping of Chaucer's Dream States in Bodleian Library, MS Arch. Selden. B.24; K.Murray Lydgate Mauscripts and Prints in Late Medieval Scotland; W.H.E.Sweet What Happened to Rhyme Royal in Scotland?; R.J.Goldstein 'Rois red and quhit, resplendent of colour': Margaret Tudor and Scotland's Floricultural Future in William Dunbar's Poetry; C.Honeyman The Scottish Identity of Gavin Douglas; N.Royan Afterword; L.O.A.Fradenburg
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Saint Margaret Queen of the Scots A Life in Perspective The New Middle Ages
Book SynopsisMargaret, saint and 11th-century Queen of the Scots, remains an often-cited yet little-understood historical figure. Keene's analysis of sources in terms of both time and place – including her Life of Saint Margaret , translated for the first time – allows for an informed understanding of the forces that shaped this captivating woman.Trade Review“Saint Margaret, Queen of Scots: A Life in Perspective will prove to be an exceptionally valuable resource for those working both on St. Margaret and on early medieval queeuship and female sainthood more generally. Keene's work will also surely pave the way for even more much-needed scholarship on ‘the other queen of Scots’ … .” (Emily Wingfield, Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, Vol. 167 (252), 2015)Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. A Noble and Unknowable Lineage 2. An Exile in Hungary 3. An Anglo-Saxon Princess 4. A Wife of the King 5. A Queen of the Scots 6. A Pious Woman 7. The Cornerstone of Margaret's Cult 8. A Dynastic Saint 9. A Canonized Saint Conclusion Appendix: Translation of the Dunferline Vita
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Penguin Books Ltd A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages
Book SynopsisFrom the medieval bazaars of Tabriz, to the mysterious island of Caldihe, where sheep were said to grow on trees, Anthony Bale brings history alive in A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages, inviting the reader to travel across a medieval world punctuated with miraculous wonders and long-lost landmarks. Journeying alongside scholars, spies and saints, from western Europe to the Far East, the Antipodes, and the ends of the world, this is no ordinary travel guide, containing everything from profane pilgrim badges, Venetian laxatives and flying coffins to encounters with bandits and trysts with princesses.Using previously untranslated contemporary accounts from as far and wide as Turkey, Iceland, Armenia, north Africa, and Russia, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages is a living atlas that blurs the distinction between real and imagined places, offering the reader a vivid and unforgettable insight into how medieval people understood their world.Trade ReviewA stunning book . . . weird and wonderful and quietly hilarious, but the enormous fun of this book would not be possible without solid graft — Bale’s dogged research and his diligent crafting of perfect prose -- Gerard deGroot * The Times *Superb . . . In his remarkable and expertly executed prose, Bale demonstrates his skill as a historian in his handling of the expansive source material available . . . The micro personal experiences told against the backdrop of macro topography is a Herculean task and one that is undertaken with immense passion and knowledge. A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages is a stunning example of the point where true scholarship meets popular history -- Helen Carr * Engelsberg Ideas *An enthralling account of medieval travellers . . . [Bale's] enthusiasm is infectious . . . this is a work of serious scholarship -- Rosemary Goring * Scottish Herald *Ambitious, sweeping across continents with a keen eye for detail . . . moves fluidly between travelogue and scholarly text, imaginative literature and nonfiction . . . In a way that imaginative fiction arguably cannot, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages brings us close to the past it experiences and allows us to be transformed in the process -- Imogen Marchant * TLS *A joyful, erudite book, and a global Middle Ages for our times. Journeying from a monastery in Wiltshire to Ethiopia, India and China, Anthony Bale reinvents the period through its intrepid travellers, and in the process redefines the period -- Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in 12 MapsIntrepid, entertaining, and unfailingly curious, he has now travelled far and wide in their company; balancing sympathy with scepticism, he marvellously reconfigures the contours of our forebears' knowledge -- Marina WarnerRich and wonderful. This is the world as you have never seen it before - and as it will never be seen again. And it's more surprising, extraordinary and bizarre than anything you can possibly imagine -- Ian Mortimer, author of The Time-Traveller’s Guide to Medieval EnglandA fascinating read . . . a new fact to be discovered on every page, written with enthusiasm and wisdom -- Reverend Kate BottleyMasterful, panoramic, beautifully written and vividly imagined, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages is a book to be savoured -- Dr Helen Castor, author of Blood and Roses and She-WolvesAnthony Bale's fascinating book immerses us in all the experiences of medieval travel . . . An enthralling journey into the past and across the world, packed with incidents that any reader will find deliciously exotic, yet wryly familiar. Like the most memorable journeys, this book takes us to barely imaginable places - but the most remarkable thing we find may be ourselves -- Seb Falk, author of The Light AgesThis is a gorgeous and fascinating storybook and a richly satisfying journey into the medieval mind . . . All this rests on his prodigious knowledge of the least expected sources. Bale opens a whole scholarly library of smells, tastes and terrors and makes a living parade of them -- Michael Pye, author of The Edge of the WorldA Travel Guide to the Middle Ages is an exhilarating and erudite combination of historical learning and imagination, which guides the reader on a wondrous journey through the real and fantastical worlds of the late Middle Ages . . . Bale reveals the humanity, mundanity, and marvels of travel, from brothels and latrines to statues and spectacular sites -- Elizabeth Boyle, author of Fierce AppetitesA Lonely Planet book for the medieval traveller . . . In this deeply researched but witty and readable guide, Anthony Bale brings us face-to-face with medieval travel – the sights and smells, the thrill and the homesickness – in a way that feels instantly recognisable even at so many centuries’ distance -- Dennis Duncan, author of IndexA Travel Guide to the Middle Ages ingeniously offers the reader two experiences at once. We travel with Europeans of those centuries as they travelled across the Eurasian landmass, and sometimes beyond; but we also travel to them, to their workshops, homes, libraries, towns squares, where they imagined and prepared for travel, and where they told their tales upon return . . . This travel guide is arranged not by time or places, but by encounters and experiences, just as travel is and should be. Anthony Bale seems transformed by his prodigious scholarship and travel, and this edifying and entertaining book is the proof -- Professor Miri Rubin, author of Cities of StrangersThis endlessly delightful book replicates the promises and pleasures of real travel, as we bump into and then lose sight of familiar faces in unfamiliar places. Anthony Bale is an adroit, companionable, and non-judgmental host on the road; he wears his deep knowledge lightly -- James Simpson, Professor of English at Harvard UniversityVivid, exciting and astonishing, Anthony Bale's medieval world is one populated by marvels and fantasies. Bale's exploration, told through the many travellers' texts produced in the later Middle Ages, is beautiful, gripping and fascinating, and informed always by gentle and empathetic reflection upon what it means to be a fragile human being in motion through strange lands, both then and now -- John Arnold, Professor of Medieval History at the University of Cambridge
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University of Notre Dame Press Genius to Improve an Invention
Book SynopsisThe Genius to Improve an Invention derives its title from John Dryden's phrase for the British tendency to take up literary masterpieces from the past and perfect them. Distinguished literary scholar Piero Boitani adopts Dryden's notion as a framework for exploring ways in which classical and medieval texts, scenes, and themes have been rewritten by modern authors.Boitani focuses on a concept of literary transition that takes into account both T.S. Eliot's idea of tradition and individual talent and Harold Bloom's anxiety of influence. In five elegant essays he examines a wide range of authors and texts, including Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Voltaire, Goethe, Sartre, Dante, and Keats. Appearing for the first time in an English translation, The Genius to Improve an Invention will appeal to anyone interested in the Western literary tradition.Trade Review“The book’s linguistic vicissitudes are intriguingly appropriate to its topic, which is the (mostly) translingual commerce between literary texts in which the difference evident in imitation can be understood as an inspired improvement." -- American Journal of Philology“Boitani’s slim book more than lives up to its unique production history in the extraordinary range of its subjects and insights. It is the kind of book that great men of letters once wrote.... [The Genius to Improve an Invention], once opened, it is a book almost impossible to put down.” -- Medium Aevum“This book deserves the attention of all who are interested in the processes of literary continuity and change.” -- Frank Kermode, King’s College, Cambridge University“The Genius to Improve an Invention is both substantial and graceful–a fascinating journey through some of the greatest works of Western literature, with a guide who is at once learned and entertaining, impassioned and moving.” -- Jill Mann“The Genius to Improve an Invention is supported with a thorough theoretical awareness and a flexible intelligence enabling Boitani to move comfortably within a vast array of texts and thus take the reader on a fascinating literary journey. Through his pressing and detailed argumentations, the author suggests original approaches to some of the great works of European literature—each of them is considered as a solution to a specific problem and, at the same time, as a probative argument in favor of applied rationality. Reading these essays calls to mind what Henry James once said, ‘all the pieces of the game [are] on the table together and each unconfusedly and contributively placed, as triumphantly scientific.’” -- Mario Lavagetto, University of Bologna
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University of Notre Dame Press The Uses of Darkness
Book SynopsisGod's image as Judge can engender shame and guilt in women. This study explores the underworld journeys of women like Demeter and Psyche, and their reflections in works by such women as Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf, arguing that the tradition they represent has much to offer modern Christians.Trade Review“Gagné explores women's psychological and spiritual journeys through the lens of three ancient myths and modern literature. Many feminists seek to recover the goddess of preliterary civilizations. Gagné claims that the literary myths of underworld journeys of the goddesses Innana, Demeter/Persephone, and Psyche are integral to her wholeness as a Christian woman. She says that Innana illustrates that one cannot move from powerless to compassionate without first venting anger, while Demeter/Persephone shows that the discovery of wholeness is never once-and-for-all; Psyche demonstrates the struggle to discover self within passionate relationships. Gagné is convinced these stories are useful because they integrate sexuality and suffering, leading to a new experience of God. Explaining how these themes are explored in the works of Sylvia Plath, Joan Didion, Mary Gordon, Virginia Woolf, and other authors, she concludes with reflections drawn from the diary of Etta Hillesum—a woman who exemplified the underworld experiences and encountered God. Erudite and well written, this book offers a fresh perspective for Christian feminist-heirs to a tradition that has distanced bodily experience from spiritualities. Those unfamiliar with the literature that Gagné refers to will have limited appreciation of the study—those who know it will find her work masterful. For libraries supporting women's studies, literature, and spirituality; upper-division undergraduates and above.” —Choice * Choice *“Three Years of Writing, twelve years of teaching a course on the “Woman’s Journey,” and a lifetime of intense introspection have resulted in a hypnotic, ...monolog that describes the author’s journey towards achieving an edifiying sense of self-knowledge.” —Utopian Studies
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Pennsylvania State University Press The Iliad the Ramayana and the Work of Religion
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Pennsylvania State University Press Telling Tales
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