Literary studies: ancient, classical Books
Cambridge University Press Herodotus Histories Book I
Book SynopsisIn the Histories, which could loosely be translated as ''Investigations'' or ''Researches,'' Herodotus tells how the Persian Empire began, grew, and then met defeat in Greece in his parents'' generation. Book 1 begins that story. It introduces both the world in which the Persian imperial war machine began to operate and then expanded, and Herodotus'' own procedures in undertaking the ambitious task he has set himself. This edition helps intermediate and advanced students to read the book in the original Greek and will also be of interest to advanced scholars. The Commentary provides information about dialect, grammatical forms, syntax, and other properties of his language. In addition, the Introduction and the Commentary engage in literary interpretation and explore Herodotus'' value as a historian, his immense curiosity, and the attention he devotes to the customs, beliefs, concrete realities, and myths of other cultures.Table of ContentsIntroduction: 1. Life of Herodotus; 2. Form and thought in Herodotus' Histories; 3. Ethnographies; 4. Herodotean Greek; 5. Text and critical apparatus; Herodotus: Histories; Outline of Book 1; Commentary; Bibliography; General index; Index of Greek words.
£39.34
Pan Macmillan The Aeneid
Book SynopsisThe Aeneid – thrilling, terrifying and poignant in equal measure – has inspired centuries of artists, writers and musicians.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is translated by J. W. Mackail and has an afterword by Coco Stevenson.Virgil’s epic tale tells the story of Aeneas, a Trojan hero, who flees his city after its fall, with his father Anchises and his young son Ascanius – for Aeneas is destined to found Rome and father the Roman race. As Aeneas journeys closer to his goal, he must first prove his worth and attain the maturity necessary for such an illustrious task. He battles raging storms in the Mediterranean, encounters the fearsome Cyclopes, falls in love with Dido, Queen of Carthage, travels into the Underworld and wages war in Italy.Trade ReviewThe Aeneid is suffused with a fascinating, upending sense that most of what goes gravely wrong on earth isn’t imputable to human agency -- Brad Leithauser * New York Times *Generally viewed as the pre-eminent masterpiece of the Western literary tradition -- Michael Dirda * Washington Post *
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Penguin Books Ltd Gisli Surssons Saga and the Saga of the People of
Book SynopsisThese sagas recount fierce feuds in which honour is fought for, sacrifice is demanded, and blood is shed. The fate of the characters at the centre of each saga, however, is very different. Gisli is a traditional Viking-age hero who is determined to exact revenge at any cost and whose death is tragic when it comes. In contrast his nephew, Snorri, represents a new generation and acts to strengthen the new social order. Taken together these sagas reveal the richness and variety of the saga tradition.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Penguin Books Ltd Greek Fiction Callirhoe Daphnis and Chloe Letters
Book SynopsisA collection of Greek fiction written between the first and fourth centuries AD'Callirhoe' is the stirring tale of star-crossed lovers Chaereas and Callirhoe, torn apart when she is kidnapped and sold as a slave, while 'Daphnis and Chloe' tells of a boy and girl abandoned at birth, who grow up to fall in love and battle pirates. Greek Fiction - also containing 'Letters of Chion', an early thriller about tyranny and a political assassination - is a fascinating glimpse into an alternative view of Ancient Greece's literary culture.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translat
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Penguin Books Ltd Annals
Book SynopsisA compelling new translation of a vital account of Roman historyWith clarity and vivid intensity, Tacitus's Annals recounts the pivotal events in Roman history from the years shortly before the death of Augustus to the death of Nero in 68 AD, including the reign of terror under the corrupt Tiberius, the great fire of Rome during the time of Nero, and the wars, poisonings, scandals, conspiracies, and murders that were part of imperial life. Despite Tacitus's claim that they were written objectively, the Annals is sharply critical of the emperors' excesses and fearful for the future of imperial Rome, while also filled with a longing for its past glories.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the
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Penguin Books Ltd Early Fiction in England From Geoffrey of
Book SynopsisA brilliant new anthology that shows how fiction was reinvented in the twelfth century after an absence of hundreds of years. Essential for all students of medieval literature, Early Fiction in England includes extracts by Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace, Marie de France, Chaucer and many others, in new translations and with illuminating introductions. Before the twelfth century, fiction had completely disappeared in Europe. In this important and provocative book, Laura Ashe shows how English writers brought it back, composing new tales about King Arthur, his knights and other heroes and heroines in Latin, French and English. Why did fiction disappear, and why did it come to life again to establish itself the dominant form of literature ever since? And what do we even mean by the term ''fiction''? Gathering extracts from the most important texts of the period by Wace, Marie de France, Chaucer and others, this volume offers an absorbing and surprising introduction to
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Oxford University Press Inc The Aeneid
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPowell's translation roves with the lows and highs of Vergil's Latin, matching the poem's emotive and stylistic variations turn for turn. With rich visual illustrations and explanatory notes on nearly every page, Powell's Aeneid offers a full immersion into the mythological and political workings of the poem: in short, a book both good to think with, and good to teach with. * Kirk Freudenburg, Yale University *Powell's translation does more than just allow the Latin-less reader to appreciate the artistry of Vergil; it gives a glimpse into why we are still reading Vergil and why this 'handbook of empire' * with all of the attendant ambiguities and complexities of that phraseis still relevant today.Leah Kronenberg, Rutgers University *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Book 1: The Shores of Africa ; Book 2: The Fall of Troy ; Book 3: Journey from Troy ; Book 4: The Death of Dido ; Book 5: Funeral Games ; Book 6: Descent into the Underworld ; Book 7: The Seeds of War ; Book 8: The Shield of Aeneas ; Book 9: Turnus Besieges the Trojan Camp ; Book 10: The Deaths of Pallas, Lausus, and Mezentius ; Book 11: The Mourning for Pallas and the Glory of Camilla ; Book 12: The Death of Turnus
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Oxford University Press Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts
Book SynopsisPerceptions of Medieval Manuscripts takes as its starting point an understanding that a medieval book is a whole object at every point of its long history. As such, medieval books can be studied most profitably in a holistic manner as objects-in-the-world. This means readers might profitably account for all aspects of the manuscript in their observations, from the main texts that dominate the codex to the marginal notes, glosses, names, and interventions made through time. This holistic approach allows us to tell the story of the book''s life from the moment of its production to its use, collection, breaking-up, and digitization--all aspects of what can be termed ''dynamic architextuality''.The ten chapters include detailed readings of texts that explain the processes of manuscript manufacture and writing, taking in invisible components of the book that show the joy and delight clearly felt by producers and consumers. Chapters investigate the filling of manuscripts'' blank spaces, presenting some texts never examined before, and assessing how books were conceived and understood to function. Manuscripts'' heft and solidness can be seen, too, in the depictions of miniature books in medieval illustrations. Early manuscripts thus become archives and witnesses to individual and collective memories, best read as ''relics of existence'', as Maurice Merleau-Ponty describes things. As such, it is urgent that practices fragmenting the manuscript through book-breaking or digital display are understood in the context of the book''s wholeness. Readers of this study will find chapters on multiple aspects of medieval bookness in the distant past, the present, and in the assurance of the future continuity of this most fascinating of cultural artefacts.Trade ReviewTreharne offers a useful...introduction to the manuscript book as object. * T. M. Izbicki, CHOICE *Like the rest of Treharne's trenchant and feeling work on manuscripts, this book is not to be ignored, but rather, as she suggests for medieval codices, held in close contact,imagined in a community of voices past and present, and allowed to speak for itself in all its multiplicity. * Rachel A. Wilson, Medieval Studies, Yale University, Comitatus *...conclusion issues a vital plea not simply for thick description of and detailed metadata on these digital objects but also-critically-for expert engagement with the public in articulating the perspective on manuscripts that these digitized objects present. * Sonja Drimmer, Manuscript Studies *Elaine Treharne shows her unparalleled expertise in manuscript research, early textuality and other related areas in Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts. The volume's wide ambit testifies to it being the product of long reflection and work...it is an outstanding and welcome contribution to the ample field of Medieval Studies and will be of interest not only to scholars and students but also to general readers, who may feel curious to peruse inspiring academic books like the one reviewed here. * Laura Esteban-Segura, University of Málaga, Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature *Table of Contents1: 'A Profit to People': Introduction 2: 'Fingers folded me': Making the Book 3: 'Covered me with tracks': Writing the Book 4: 'People will use me': Book as Archive 5: 'My name is famous': Presence in the Book 6: 'In spirit the wiser': Invisible Things in the Book 7: 'Covered with protecting boards': Representing the Book 8: 'Cut by the edge of the knife': Libricide and the Modern Book Trade 9: 'More true and better': Digital Fragmentation and Frameworks of Understanding 10: Bookending þa wuldorgesteald, 'the wondrous edifice' Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Nigel of Longchamp Speculum Stultorum Oxford
Book SynopsisAn edition and English translation of the Speculum Stultorum (The Mirror for Fools), a long Latin beast epic written near the end of the twelfth century by a monk of Christ Church, Canterbury. It is not only a milestone in the history of medieval beast epic, but a rich source of information about contemporary life and events at Canterbury.Table of ContentsPreface Sigla Earlier Editions and Translations of the Speculum Stultorum This Edition: Editorial Conventions Headings Translation and Notes INTRODUCTION Text and Context The Poem The Date The Motive The Manuscripts Textual Transmission: The Manuscript Groups Nigel's Metre and Style SPECULUM STULTORUM APPENDICES APPENDIX A: The Interpolation on the Mendicant Friars APPENDIX B: Epistola ad Willelmum in Vienna 3467 APPENDIX C: Borrowings from the Speculum Stultorum in Gower's Vox Clamantis APPENDIX D: England and Sicily MANUSCRIPT DESCRIPTIONS
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Oxford University Press Roman de Brut
Book Synopsis''Whoever wishes to hear about, and to know about, kings and heirs, about who first ruled England and which kings it had, Master Wace, who is telling the truth about this, has translated this.''Wace''s Roman de Brut (1155) can be seen as the gateway to the history of the Britons for both French and English speakers of the time, and thus to Arthurian history, as the first complete Old French adaptation of Geoffrey of Monmouth''s Latin History of the Kings of Britain (late 1130s), in which Arthur appears for the first time as king of the Britons. The Roman de Brut was a foundational work, an inspiration for a series of anonymous verse Bruts of the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries and for the Anglo-Norman Prose Brut -- the most widely read French vernacular text on this material in medieval England -- as well as a forerunner of the Middle English Brut tradition, including Layamon''s Brut (c. 1200). Wace''s poem thus inaugurates and shapes Brut traditions, including Arthurian tales, iTable of ContentsIntroduction Note on the Text Select Bibliography Summary of the Text ROMAN DE BRUT Explanatory Notes Manuscripts Glossary Index of Personal Names Index of Geographical Names
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Oxford University Press The Middle English Book
Book SynopsisThe monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue--in literature, theology, and philosophy, in social, political, jurisprudential, and intellectual history, the history of art, and the history of science--but also that combines these subjects productively. It offers innovative studies on topics that may include, but are not limited to, manuscript and book history; languages and literatures of the global Middle Ages; race and the post-colonial; the digital humanities, media and performance; music; medicine; the history of affect and the emotions; the literature and practices of devotion; the theory and history of gender and sexuality, ecocriticism and the environment; theories of aesthetics; medievalism.The Middle English Book addresses a series of questions about the copying and cirTrade Review...this book's insights into literary culture have the potential to enrich approaches to bibliographic studies beyond the field. * The Review of English Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Nomenclature 2: The Elaborate Book 3: The Streamlined Book 4: The Evolving Book 5: The D. I. Y. Book 6: The Proliferation of Scribes, I 7: The Proliferation of Scribes, II Conclusion Coda Appendix: The Manuscripts in My Corpus
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Oxford University Press Inc Theocritus Space Absence and Desire
Book SynopsisTheocritus: Space, Absence, and Desire discusses many of Theocritus''s Idylls with emphasis on how these poems construct space--its contours and borders, along with the people, animals, and objects that fill it--and the equally important role of absence. Drawing on spatial theory from anthropology and cultural geography, author William G. Thalmann studies each poem in itself and in its connections with other poems, so that a loose coherence emerges among them. Spatially, the Ptolemaic empire provides a setting and reference point for the various types of Idylls (bucolic, urban, mythological, and encomiastic poems), in ways that help legitimate it. In all the idylls, however, space is constructed selectively from particular perspectives, so that it reflects and shapes people''s relations with each other and humans'' relations with nature. The bucolic Idylls in particular raise questions about being in and out of place and relations between self and other that would have been important under the conditions of mobility and intercultural contact in the early Hellenistic period. Yet theirs is a fictional world, defined more by its margins than by its center, and visions of fullness and presence of nature are always distanced from the reader. Absence is constitutive of this world, just as absence of the beloved is the precondition for the desire of bucolic characters and prompts their singing. Their desire mirrors the desire of readers for the absent bucolic world that the poems arouse and that keeps them reading.Trade ReviewThalmann offers a brilliant reading of the Theocritean corpus through the lens of space and location. Treating both realistic subjects under Ptolemaic rule and imaginary characters dwelling in bucolic space, Thalmann focuses on the dynamic of absence and desire as Theocritus' overarching theme. A pleasure to read! * Kathryn Gutzwiller, University of Cincinnati *This is a nuanced discussion of Theocritean bucolic space: how it differs from urban, agricultural, marine, and mythological realms, and the ways in which boundary dynamics inform the texts of the received corpus. A fitting successor to his work on the Argonautica. * Susan Stephens, Stanford University *Altogether this book is a delight; Thalmann effectively uses the idea of imaginative spaces to illuminate Theocritus' creation of his bucolic world while keeping the focus on the poetry, not the theory. At the same time, he engages contemporary concerns in Hellenistic poetry: the poetry book, engagement with contemporary politics, particularly the Ptolemaic Empire and Alexandrian self-consciousness. * Classical Journal-Online *Both scholarly and accessible, the study fills a need for a current book-length treatment of Theocritus and contributes to important themes in Hellenistic poetry more broadly. * Choice *[Thalmann] has authored an elegant and sensitive study that repays close engagement. It is a necessary read for anyone seriously interested in the study of Theocritus. * Classical Review *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Note on Text and Transliteration Chapter 1: Theocritean Spaces 1: The Bucolic and Urban Poems Chapter 2: Theocritean Spaces 2: Mythological and Encomiastic Space Chapter 3: The Poetics of Absence Chapter 4: On the Margins of Bucolic Chapter 5: Conclusion References Indexes
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Clarendon Press Unity in Greek Poetics
Book SynopsisThe aim of this book is to reconstruct ancient Greek assumptions about literary unity. It discusses some literary examples, but its main concern is with ancient secondary texts - literary theory and criticism, undertaking a systematic survey from Plato and Aristotle down to the later Neoplatonists.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Plato; Fourth-century rhetoric; Aristotle; Epic after Aristotle; Dionysus and historiography; Later rhetoric; The Homeric Scholia; The Neoplatonist Turn; Some post-classical developments; Conclusion; Appendices: A. Epeisodion before Aristotle; B. Other poetic scholia; Bibliography; Indexes
£123.50
Oxford University Press Plato Opera Vol. II
Book Synopsis(Par., Phil., Symp., Phdr.; Alc. I, II, Hipp., Am.) Edited by J. Burnet.
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Oxford University Press Historiae
Book SynopsisThucydides Historiae Vol. I: Books I-IV
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Oxford University Press AB Urbe Condita
Book SynopsisLivy Ab Urbe Condita Books I-V
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Clarendon Press Miasma
Book SynopsisAnyone who has sampled even a few of the most commonly read Greek texts will have encountered pollution. The pollution of bloodshed is a frequent theme of tragedy: Orestes is driven mad; Oedipus brings plague upon all Thebes. In historical texts we find cities intervening in the internal affairs of others to `drive out the pollution'', or making war on account of it. Political orators represent their opponents as polluting demons. Purity is a constant concern in ritual texts, and any Greek underwent many small purifications in his everyday life. Certain abnormal religious movements of the archaic age made `purification'' the path to felicity in the afterlife. First published in hardback in 1983, Miasma is the first work in English to treat this theme in detail.Trade Review`This book is packed with information, most lucidly and judiciously presented, and should be of great interest not only to Classicists (who often know less of this important area than they should), but to anthropologists and sociologists in general (a knowledge of Greek is not required, since everything essential is translated)." Hermathena`anyone who seriously wishes to know about Greek ethics and culture will need to refer to this book' London Review of Books`[Parker's] substantial and important book has set new standards of perceptiveness and subtlety, quite apart from its sheer learning, in this difficult but rich and revealing field of study.' Times Literary Supplement
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Oxford University Press A Commentary on Thucydides Volume I Books I III
Book SynopsisThis is the first volume of a three-volume historical and literary commentary on the eight books of Thucydides, the great fifth-century BC historian of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta. Of the three books covered in this volume, Book I presents Thucydides'' aims in writing the work and the historical background to the war. Books II and III describe the main events of the first five years of the war (431-426) and include Pericles'' funeral oration, the plague of Athens, the revolt of Mytilene, the destruction of Plataea, and civil war in Corcyra. Thucydides intended his work to be `an everlasting possession'' and the continuing importance of his work is undisputed. Simon Hornblower''s commentary, by translating every passage or phrase of Greek commented on, for the first time allows the reader with little or no Greek to appreciate the detail of Thucydides'' thought and subject-matter. It is the first complete commentary written by a single author this century and exploresTrade Reviewfor its attention to detail, its balanced judgements, and its broad scope, this commentary will become a standard work...it is historically authoritative and historiographically penetrating. Readers at all levels have much to learn from this book, and will appreciate its clear and careful discussions of the many literary masterpieces in Thucydides. Classics Journala model for anyone who wants to get to grips with that great historian: detailed scholarship combined with breadth and lucidity, and the Greek translated into English, too. It is the model on which all future commentaries should be based. The Timesan excellent commentary...it is also an interesting guide to how ancient Greek literature and history have been read and interpreted in the generation from 1960 to 1990. Times Literary SupplementA work at the highest scholarly level...it will play an important role in future research Gnomon
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Oxford University Press Aristophanis Fabvlae I 1 Oxford Classical Texts
Book SynopsisA new edition of Aristophanes, replacing the previous OCT (1900-1). It incorporates a better picture of the transmission of the text from antiquity, and more accurate reports of manuscript readings.
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Oxford University Press Suetonius the Biographer Studies in Roman Lives
Book SynopsisThe biographer Suetonius is one of the most fascinating writers of ancient Rome, but he is rarely afforded serious critical attention. This volume of new essays focuses on the various aspects of Suetonius'' work, from his lost writing on Roman courtesans to his imperial portraits of the Caesars.Beginning with an introduction that assesses the originality of Suetonius as a writer and situates the essays within the context of debates and controversies over his biographical form, the collection addresses the issues surrounding his style, themes, and early influence on literature in three parts. The first part discusses formal features of Suetonian biography, such as his literary techniques, manners of citation and quotation, and devices of allusion and closure. The middle section is devoted to readings of the individual Lives, treating several topics - from Suetonius'' decision to begin his collection with Julius Caesar, to fictional elements in his death scene of the emperor Caligula, toTrade ReviewTristan Power and Roy Gibson, the editors of this new collection of thirteen lively essays, Suetonius the Biographer, seek to put the author in the spotlight by directing the critical focus squarely back to his craft as a biographer. By meeting Suetonius on his own terms, the contributors aim to clarify how and why he is an innovative writer still worth reading today . . . as this stimulating collection of essays demonstrates, looking below the surface of Suetonius's text into the inner workings of the author's mind is richly rewarding. * Rhiannon Ash, Times Literary Supplement *Excellent collection of essays . . . There are no weak links in the essays, and the choice of material is a thought-provoking pointer to how those Suetonian times have changed . . . The volume as a whole is certainly an important further step in dismantling that caricature, and all readers and browsers will learn a lot. * Christopher Pelling, Classical Review *[T]he most thorough and successful attempt to date to recover Suetonius as an innovative biographer . . . This is an unusually excellent edited volume. While diverse and occasionally divergent, the papers overall make a strong case for the artful biographer. Their thoughtful arrangement, along with Power's introduction, enhances their impact. Established fans of Suetonius will cheer, and new ones should join them. * Josiah Osgood, Sehepunkte *This engaging volume succeeds in advancing our understanding of Suetonius . . . The thirteen essays are well-edited and coherently organized, concluding with a rich bibliography and generous indexes. Scholars and students interested in biography and early imperial history will want to take note of this stimulating publication. * Salvador Bartera, Classical World *Power and Gibson and their contributors have given us what is often a demanding read, but certainly something that for students of Suetonius demands to be read. * David Wardle, Histos *A welcome addition to English-language scholarship on Suetonius, his literary style, his contributions to the genre of biography, and his subsequent reception . . . the editors have done a good job of establishing connections between the chapters and teasing out key themes that should inform and enrich our assessment of Suetonius in future scholarship . . . attentive readers will return to Suetonius more thoughtfully and cautiously in future sittings. * Mark Bradley, Journal of Roman Studies *By offering scholarship on the DVC that employs a wide variety of approaches and includes successful forays beyond the DVC's borders, Suetonius the Biographer expands our awareness of the myriad of possibilites for future work on this under-estimated author. That there can be great care, artistry, and purpose to be explored in works that, to the casual reader, may seem at times to be compilations of mere data (however quirky) is something we are just beginning to appreciate in such authors as Pliny the Elder and Suetonius. Suetonius the Biographer piques one's appetite for the next modest spate of Suetonian monograph(s). * Trevor S. Luke, Classical Journal Online *Table of ContentsList of Contributors Editions and Abbreviations Tristan Power: Introduction: The Originality of Suetonius Part I: Formal Features 1: Donna W. Hurley: Suetonius' Rubric Sandwich 2: Cynthia Damon: Suetonius the Ventriloquist 3: Tristan Power: The Endings of Suetonius' Caesars Part II: Reading the Lives 4: John Henderson: Was Suetonius' Julius a Caesar? 5: Rebecca Langlands: Exemplary Influences and Augustus' Pernicious Moral Legacy 6: Erik Gunderson: E.g. Augustus: exemplum in the Augustus and Tiberius 7: Donna W. Hurley: Rhetorics of Assassination: Ironic Reversal and the Emperor Gaius 8: W. Jeffrey Tatum: Another Look at Suetonius' Titus 9: Jean-Michel Hulls: The Mirror in the Text: Privacy, Performance, and the Power of Suetonius' Domitian Part III: Biographical Thresholds 10: Roy K. Gibson: Suetonius and the uiri illustres of Pliny the Younger 11: Tristan Power: Suetonius' Famous Courtesans 12: T. P. Wiseman: Suetonius and the Origin of Pantomime 13: Jamie Wood: Suetonius and the De uita Caesarum in the Carolingian Empire Bibliography Index Locorum General Index
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Oxford University Press A Middle English Translation from Petrarchs
Book SynopsisThis is the first printed edition of a landmark work in the history of English humanism and perhaps English drama: a translation of part of Petrarch''s Secretum into English verse. Copied at Winchester Cathedral in 1487, it is only the third work by Petrarch to be translated into English and is the most accurate and extensive translation from his work before the 1530s. It offers an insight into early English responses to humanist learning, with its balance of classical and religious ideas, and to the cosmopolitan and urbane taste of fifteenth-century English churchmen in the century before the Reformation. It might bear witness to the inventiveness of English poetry in a period with few such records; and, as Secretum is a dialogue, it might even be counted an early English secular work for performance. The edition has detailed explanatory notes and a glossary, revealing its verbal inventiveness and the translator''s familiarity with Chaucerian verse traditions. It has an extensive introduction, relating it to literary culture at Winchester at the time and to the manuscripts of Petrarch''s Latin Secretum in England at the time.Trade ReviewThis is a valuable addition to the canon of fifteenth-century English poetry, but above all a fascinating example of the craft of the late medieval translator. * Nicholas Mann, Translation and Literature *
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Oxford University Press Ovid
Book SynopsisVivam is the very last word of Ovid''s masterpiece, the Metamorphoses: I shall live. If we''re still reading it two millennia after Ovid''s death, this is by definition a remarkably accurate prophecy. Ovid was not the only ancient author with aspirations to be read for eternity, but no poet of the Greco-Roman world has had a deeper or more lasting impact on subsequent literature and art than he can claim. In the present day no Greek or Roman poet is as accessible, to artists, writers, or the general reader: Ovid''s voice remains a compellingly contemporary one, as modern as it seemed to his contemporaries in Augustan Rome. But Ovid was also a man of his time, his own story fatally entwined with that of the first emperor Augustus, and the poetry he wrote channels in its own way the cultural and political upheavals of the contemporary city, its public life, sexual mores, religion, and urban landscape, while also exploiting the superbly rich store of poetic convention that Greek literature and his Roman predecessors had bequeathed to him. This Very Short Introduction explains Ovid''s background, social and literary, and introduces his poetry, on love, metamorphosis, Roman festivals, and his own exile, a restlessly innovative oeuvre driven by the irrepressible ingenium or wit for which he was famous. Llewelyn Morgan also explores Ovid''s immense influence on later literature and art, spanning from Shakespeare to Bernini. Throughout, Ovid''s poetry is revealed as enduringly scintillating, his personal story compelling, and the issues his life and poetry raise of continuing relevance and interest.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Trade ReviewIt is hard to imagine a VSI volume on Ovid that could be better executed in terms of the balance it achieves between its breadth of vision, on the one hand, and its eye for particularity, on the other. * Gareth Williams, Columbia University , Romantic Review *It has to be said immediately that the publishers have found a first-class writer-academic for the job of describing Ovid's character and range, and explaining the appeal of 'this scintillating Roman poet'. * Giles Dawson, Freelance Classics teacher, Oxfordshire, The Journal of Classics Teaching *Ovid has found a kindred spirit in Llewellyn Morgan, who has succeeded in telling the story of the most brilliantly playful of Roman poets in 111 pages, touching all the bases and producing a pleasantly readable libellus. * Katharina Volk, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Short but eye opening book. * Tom Holland, New Statesman *A crisp, sparkling distillation of long thought. * Michael Wood, Comfort Classics *This one is a really loving account of Ovid, with a very simple structure. It takes you through his major works, with the Metamorphoses obviously at the centre. [...] It's a wonderful little book. I can't think of a better introduction to the work of this figure who is, arguably, the single most influential poet of antiquity. * Paul Lay, FiveBooks *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations 1: Introduction: P. Ovidius Naso 2: Love Poetry 3: Letters of the Heroines 4: Metamorphoses 5: Fasti 6: Exile Poetry Further reading Index
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Oxford University Press Cicero Post Reditum Speeches Introduction Text
Book SynopsisThe high point in Cicero''s life (according to his own assessment), his reaching the consulship at the earliest opportunity in 63 BCE and his successful confrontation of the Catilinarian Conspiracy during that year, was soon followed by a backlash, which made Cicero withdraw from Rome in 58 to 57 BCE. Upon return to Rome from this absence (traditionally called ''exile'' by a term Cicero himself never uses in this context), Cicero delivered two speeches, in the Senate and before the People respectively, to express his gratitude for his recall and to establish himself again as a respected senior statesmen. This volume offers the first-full scale commentary in English, including a revised Latin text and a fresh English translation, on these speeches, which have suffered from neglect in scholarship and doubts about their authenticity. This book outlines their particular nature, the characteristics of their specific oratorical genre and their importance as documents of Cicero''s techniques as an orator and of the strategies of presenting himself. In addition, the book includes the spurious speech, Pridie quam in exilium iret, that Cicero supposedly gave on the eve of his departure. Thus, offering the first proper study of this speech, this volume presents all oratorical material related to Cicero''s departure from and return to Rome in a single volume and enables direct comparison between speeches now confirmed to be genuine and a later spurious speech, which also gives insights into the reception history of Cicero''s works. This book will therefore be an essential tool especially for Classicists and Ancient Historians interested in Cicero, in exile literature and in the history of the Roman Republic and Roman oratory.Trade Review... achievement in making these speeches more accessible than ever before to anglophone readers. * Andrew R. Dyck, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *... achievement in making these speeches more accessible than ever before to anglophone readers. * Andrew R. Dyck, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of Contents1: INTRODUCTION 1.1: Previous scholarship and this commentary 1.2: The historical background 1.3: Cicero's Post reditum speeches 1.4: The spurious Oratio pridie quam in exilium iret 1.5: Text and translation 2: LATIN TEXT AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION 2.1: Testimonia 2.2: M. Tulli Ciceronis post reditum in senatu oratio 2.3: M. Tulli Ciceronis post reditum ad Quirites oratio 2.4: [M. Tulli Ciceronis] Oratio pridie quam in exilium iret 3: COMMENTARY 3.1: Testimonia 3.2: M. Tulli Ciceronis post reditum in senatu oratio 3.3: M. Tulli Ciceronis post reditum ad Quirites oratio 3.4: [M. Tulli Ciceronis] Oratio pridie quam in exilium iret References and Abbreviatoins
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Oxford University Press Poet of the Medieval Modern
Book SynopsisThe early Middle Ages provided twentieth-century poets with the material to re-imagine and rework local, religious, and national identities in their writing. Poet of the Medieval Modern focuses on a key figure within this tradition, the Anglo-Welsh poet and artist David Jones (1895-1974): representing the first extended study of the influence of early medieval English culture and history on Jones and his novel-length late modernist poem The Anathemata (1952). Jones''s second major poetic project after In Parenthesis (1937), The Anathemata fuses Jones''s visual and verbal arts to write a Catholic history of Britain as told through the history of man-as-artist. Drawing on unpublished archival material including manuscripts, sketches, correspondence, and, most significantly, the marginalia from David Jones''s Library, this volume reads with Jones in order to trouble the distinction between poetry and scholarship. Placing this underappreciated figure firmly at the centre of new developmentTrade ReviewPoet of the Medieval Modern is a welcome and necessary study of how Old English language and history enabled Jones to think through his artistic, religious, and cultural preoccupations. * Paul Robichaud, Albertus Magnus College, Modern Philology *Poet of the Medieval Modern is an impressive and worthwhile read for its original archival research,...While this monograph will most deeply interest Jones scholars, other readers interested in modernist engagements with early medieval texts and modernist re-imaginings of history will find themselves rewarded with fresh insights into both topics through the extraordinary depth of Jones's poetry. * Journal of Modern Literature *Table of ContentsIntroduction: 'Accidents of long past history': Medieval Modern Anglo-Welsh Identities 1: Reading with David Jones: The Anglo-Saxon Library and the Palimpsest of the Poem 2: An Alfredian Reading Project: The Literary Preface and the Reshaping of a British Catholic Community 3: A Poetic Historiography of the Early English Settlements: Reading History with David Jones in 'Angle-Land' 4: 'He'll latin-runes tellan in his horror-coat standing': Saint Guthlac and the Lost Narrative of the Britons in the Early Medieval Fenland 5: 'The Axile Tree': Northumbria, Anglo-Welsh Christian Tradition, and the Ruthwell Monument Conclusion Appendix 1: The Anglo-Saxon Library Appendix 2: Compounds with Old English Roots in The Anathemata Appendix 3: Lines 39-41 of The Dream of the Rood cited in correspondence Appendix 4: Extracts from two letters on the Catholic Church in the Twentieth Century and the Augustinian Conversion Bibliography
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Oxford University Press The Arts of Disruption
Book SynopsisThe monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue - in literature, theology, and philosophy, in social, political, jurisprudential, and intellectual history, the history of art, and the history of science - but also that combines these subjects productively. It offers innovative studies on topics that may include, but are not limited to, manuscript and book history; languages and literatures of the global Middle Ages; race and the post-colonial; the digital humanities, media and performance; music; medicine; the history of affect and the emotions; the literature and practices of devotion; the theory and history of gender and sexuality, ecocriticism and the environment; theories of aesthetics; medievalism.The Arts of Disruption: Allegory and Piers Plowman offers a series of new readings of the allegorical poem Piers Plowman: but it is also a book about allegory. It argues not just that there are distinctively disruptive ''arts'' that occur in allegory, but that allegory, because it is interested in the difficulty of making meaning, is itself a disruptive art. The book approaches this topic via the study of five medieval allegorical narrative structures that exploit diegetic conflict and disruption. Although very different, they all bring together contrasting descriptions of spiritual process, in order to develop new understanding and excite moral or devotional change. These five structures are: the paradiastolic ''hypocritical figure'' (such as vices masked by being made to look like ''adjacent'' virtues), personification debate, violent language and gestures of apophasis, narratives of bodily decline, and grail romance. Each appears in a range of texts, which the book explores, along with other connected materials in medieval rhetoric, logic, grammar, spiritual thought, ethics, medicine, and romance iconography. These allegorical narrative structures appear radically transformed in Piers Plowman, where the poem makes further meaning out of the friction between them. Much of the allegorical work of the poem occurs at the points of their intersection, and within the conceptual gaps that open up between them. Ranging across a wide variety of medieval allegorical texts, the book shows from many perspectives allegory''s juxtaposition of the heterogeneous and its questioning of supposed continuities.Trade ReviewZeeman offers significant and often surprising illuminations of Langland's poem by juxtaposing its most insistent structures with their parallels in adjacent discourses. * Rebecca Davis, University of California, Irvine, STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Allegory and Undoing Excursus: Personifications in Dialogue and Debate Part 1 1: The Hypocritical Figure 2: Ethical Adjacency in Piers Plowman Part 2 3: Animate Oppositions 4: Opposition and Debate in Piers Plowman Part 3 5: Anger, Insult, and Rebuff 6: Sharp Words and Violent Gestures in Piers Plowman Part 4 7: Natural Entropy and Piers Plowman 8: The Sad Vices Part 5 9: Piers Plowman and the Grail Romances 10: Tales of Piers and Perceval: Langland, Romance Aventure, and Doing well Conclusion: Undoing Well Appendix: Langland and Marguerite Porete
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Oxford University Press Father Chaucer
Book SynopsisThe monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue in literature, theology, and philosophy, in social, political, jurisprudential, and intellectual history, the history of art, and the history of science but also that combines these subjects productively. It offers innovative studies on topics that may include, but are not limited to, manuscript and book history; languages and literatures of the global Middle Ages; race and the post-colonial; the digital humanities, media and performance; music; medicine; the history of affect and the emotions; the literature and practices of devotion; the theory and history of gender and sexuality, ecocriticism and the environment; theories of aesthetics; medievalism. Geoffrey Chaucer has long been lauded as the Father of English Poetry. For later aTrade Reviewher overall argument, that The Canterbury Tales insistently deauthorizes paternal authority, is convincing and at times compelling. Critics should find many of her readings useful. * Thomas Prendergast, Speculum *Seal assures us that despite Chaucer's clear-eyed sense of the inevitable losses and imperfections of generation, he nevertheless understands it as an essential human activity. Memory and authority may be fragile and limited, but they are not therefore to be abandoned entirely, and the pilgrims, the frame, and the tales themselves show us Chaucer's sense of the appeal and the uncertainty of both paternity and poetry... Father Chaucer offers a new angle on Chaucer's undoubted fascination with authority of various kinds... * Claire M. Waters, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Volume 42, 2020 *Samantha Katz Seal upends conventional thinking on the supportive structures of the patriarchy ... [her] work challenges accepted conventions in ways that are both surprising and long overdue. * The Year's Work in English Studies, Vol. 100.1 *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Dream of Father Chaucer Part I. On Certainty 1: Sexual Exegetics and the Female Text 2: The Uneasy Institution: Lineage and the Wife of Bath Part II. On Creation 3: Uncertain Labor: Conception and the Problem of Productivity 4: Adultery's Heirs: Multiplying Excess Part III: On Likeness 5: Almost Heirs: Daughters and Disappointments 6: Father Chaucer's Heirs
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Oxford University Press The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England
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Oxford University Press Apuleius Fragmentary Works Apulei Madaurensis Operum deperditorum reliquiae
Book SynopsisThis edition of Apuleius''s fragmentary works includes 62 items which, based on the most up-to-date scholarship, can be attributed with reasonable certainty to the ''lost Apuleius''. In most cases, identifying the ipsissima verba of the author is difficult or impossible, and even the methodological validity of such an attempt remains open to debate. Following established precedents, no distinction is drawn between testimonia and fragmenta; instead, a single consecutive numbering system is adopted for the various reliquiae. These are drawn from sources in Latin and Greek, as well as in Syriac, Arabic, and Armenian. Passages known from oriental languages are presented here in a Latin back-translation, specially prepared for this edition. Each entry includes a pre-apparatus (wherever applicable) and a selective but meticulous apparatus criticus. For certain Greek and Latin sources still lacking a reliable modern edition, the principal relevant manuscripts have been reexamined. This edition is further enriched by 161 purported ''new fragments'' of Apuleius embedded in Niccolò Perotti''s Cornu Copiae, a hitherto scarcely accessible set of dubious items which merit greater scholarly attention. An extensive praefatio (in Latin) surveys all the works either lost or falsely attributed to Apuleius, while also detailing the principles and methods underlying this edition.
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Oxford University Press Greek Thought
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Oxford University Press, USA The Boastful Chef The Discourse of Food in
Book SynopsisThis is a book about Greek culture. It explains why Greek comedy picked out food in particular as a cultural marker. Hundreds of comic fragments are quoted in translation. The development of comedy is explored together with comic creativity as poets sought to represent 'reality' (figs or cooking-pots) on the stage.Trade ReviewThis is a fascinating and original book, spiced with liberal quotations (all translated) from comic fragments alongside discussion of the plays of Aristophanes and Menander * Greece & Rome *Offers a more multi-sided approach to ancient cooking and its practitioners than any other available * Simon Goldhill, Times Literary Supplement *A scholarly book * Simon Goldhill, Times Literary Supplement *
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Oxford University Press, USA A Commentary on Horaces Epodes
Book SynopsisHorace's "Epodes" reflect as no other work of Latin poetry does the crisis afflicting Rome in the 40s and 30s BC, as it passed from a republican to a monarchical system. In its 17 poems, various bogeys which were perceived as instrumental to societal breakdown are outspokenly attacked.Trade Review... this is truly a painstaking work of great scholarship and will be the authoritative commentary on the Epodes for the foreseeable future ... it will be a treasure house for readers of a very wide range of classical authors whose work impinges, however tangentially, on the Epodes ... Oxford University Press should be congratulated on the beautiful appearance of this work with generous margins and clear text. * Greece & Rome *... one of the many joys of this work is that in those places where one feels reservations about Watson's literary judgement, he supplies, via meticulous referencing and generously full summaries of rival interpretations, an excellent starting point for dissenting readings. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *... as a display of classical scholarship the work is formidable and it will remain the point of departure for all serious work on the Epodes for decades to come. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *... indispensable for the mature student of Latin poetry. * The Journal of Classics Teaching *[The book] offers an impressively wide-ranging display of classical scholarship. * Emily Gowers, Times Literary Supplement *Watson is excellent on up-to-date discussion of the specifically magical poems in the light of recent research. * Emily Gowers, Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ; Historical Background ; Literary Background ; The Epode-book ; Style ; Poetic quality ; Numeros ... secutus ; Conspectus of metres ; Text ; COMMENTARY ON EPODES 1-17
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Oxford University Press, USA Oxford Readings In Lucretius Oxford Readings In
Book SynopsisA collection of important scholarly articles on the Roman poet Lucretius, whose philosophical epic, the De Rerum Natura or On the Nature of the Universe (c.55 BC), seeks to convince its readers of the validity of the rationalist theories of Epicurus. An Introduction contextualizes the essays, and all Greek and Latin is translated.Trade ReviewAll the papers here are good... and some are outstanding * Gordon Campbell, The Classical Review *a great success and will be a trusty companion to the DRN for both novices and more experienced scholars. * Katharina Volk, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. The Sources of Lucretius' Inspiration ; 3. The Empedoclean Opening ; 4. Lucretius' Venus and Stoic Zeus ; 5. Epicurus' Triumph of the Mind ; 6. The Presocratics in Book 1 of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura ; 7. Distant Views: The Imagery of Lucretius 2 ; 8. Lucretius the Epicurean: On the History of Man ; 9. Lucretius' Interpretation of the Plague ; 10. Lucretian Conclusions ; 11. The Conclusions of the Six Books of Lucretius ; 12. Seeing the Invisible: A Study of Lucretius' Use of Analogy in De Rerum Natura ; 13. Lucretius and Epic ; 14. Doctus Lucretius ; 15. Lucretius and Callimachus ; 16. Pattern of Sound and Atomic Theory in Lucretius ; 17. The Significant Name in Lucretius ; 18. Making a Text of the Universe: Perspectives on Discursive Order in Lucretius ; 19. Lucretius and Politics
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Oxford University Press Christian Identity in the Jewish and GraecoRoman
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 Review...a valuable overview of identity formation in antiquity in a manner informed by the social sciences. * Biblical Theology Bulletin *...this book and the topics it raises deserve considerable attention, and the author's incorporation of insights from the social sciences is commendable. * Biblical Theology Bulletin *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 Rethinking Augustines Early Theology
Book SynopsisCarol Harrison counters the assumption that Augustine of Hippo''s (354-430) theology underwent a revolutionary transformation around the time he was consecrated Bishop in 396. Instead, she argues that there is a fundamental continuity in his thought and practice from the moment of his conversion in 386. The book thereby challenges the general scholarly trend to begin reading Augustine with his Confessions (396), which were begun ten years after his conversion, and refocuses attention on his earlier works, which undergird his whole theological system.Trade ReviewI would cordially recommend reading this study...Seldom I have read such a fierce defence of Augustine in recent literature. Harrison offers the reader a brilliant anthology of the early Augustine and is as such a valuable thematic introduction in the writing and thinking og Augustine before 396. But the monograph is much more, it is a meritorious overview of the several key elements in the continuity and a lesson in understanding how the central features of Augustine's conversion remain fruiytfully present in his thinking. * Anthony Dupont Ars Disputandi *...sheds a helpful light on the entirety of Augustine's writing ... lucid and cogently argued study of some of Augustine's least-known works. * Edward Dowler, New Directions *this is a seminal work, the best of Harrison's three distinguished volumes on the architect of Western Christendom. * Mark Edwards, Church Times *a valuable corrective ... her re-assertion of elements of continuity is welcome. * The Tablet *Table of ContentsPART I ; PART II
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Oxford University Press Georgics
Book Synopsis''A countryman cleaves earth with his crooked plough. Such is the labourof his life. So he sustains his native land ...''Virgil''s affectionate poem of the land does not admit brief excerpts, any more than the labour of the farmer can easily be shortened. His verse, descriptive and narrative, brings us the disappointments as well as the rewards of the countryman''s year-round devotion to his crops, his vines and olives, livestock great and small, and the complex society of bees. Part agricultural manual, part political poem and allegory, the Georgics'' scenes are real and vivid, and the poet-farmer Peter Fallon makes us feel the sights, sounds, and textures of the ancient Italian landscape.''the combination of truth to the words Virgil wrote, natural vernacular speech and a general at-homeness on the land make Fallon''s an inspired translation'' Seamus Heaney, Irish Times''magnificent new translation...Fallon is the perfect translator for the Georgics'' Bernard O''Donoghue, Times LiterTrade ReviewReview from previous edition 'the combination of truth to the words Virgil wrote, natural vernacular speech and a general at-homeness on the land make Fallon's an inspired translation' * Seamus Heaney, Irish Times *'magnificent new translation...Fallon is the perfect translator for the Georgics' * Bernard O'Donoghue, Times Literary Supplement *'supple and assured new translation' * Jonathan Bate, TLS Books of the Year *
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Oxford University Press Medieval Literature
Book SynopsisThis Very Short Introduction provides a compelling account of the emergence of the earliest literature in Britain and Ireland, including English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Norman. Introducing the reader to some of the greatest poetry, prose and drama ever written, Elaine Treharne discusses the historical and intellectual background to these works, and considers the physical production of the manuscripts and the earliest beginnings of print culture. Covering both well-known texts, such as Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales and the Mabinogion, as well as texts that are much less familiar, such as sermons, saints'' lives, lyrics and histories, Treharne discusses major themes such as sin and salvation, kingship and authority, myth and the monstrous, and provides a full, but brief, account of one of the major periods in literary history.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Table of ContentsTIMELINE; TERMS AND GENRES; FURTHER READING; INDEX
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Oxford University Press, USA The Odyssey
Book SynopsisThe Odyssey is one of the world's greatest and best loved poems. It has inspired painters, poets, sculptors, and screenwriters; and now Barry Powell, one of the twenty-first century's leading Homeric scholars, has given us a powerful new translation.Trade ReviewMagnetically readable. * Booklist, starred review *[A] clear and energetic translation.... Staying true to Homer's poetic rhythms, Powell avoids the modified iambic lines found in Lattimore's, Fagles's, and Mitchell's works. He also avoids Lombardo's tendency to cast Homer in contemporary language and Fitzgerald's anachronisms. This fine version of The Iliad has a feel for the Greek. * Library Journal *With swift, transparent language that rings both ancient and modern, Barry Powell gives readers anew all of the rage, pleasure, pathos, and humor that are Homer's Iliad - a reading experience richly illumined by the insightful commentary and plentiful images accompanying the text. * Jane Alison, author of The Love-Artist *This translation is the complete package. A lucid and accessible introduction gives a general audience what they need to appreciate the nature of this extraordinary poem, and the translation itself is admirably energetic, readable, and direct. Powell's style is individual and self-assured, and his lines cry out to be read aloud. Just as in the original, the pace never lets up and the events of that long-lost past flash by. It is a remarkable achievement, one that fully deserves to rank with any of the current contenders. * Denis Feeney, Princeton University *Barry Powell's clever translation is simple and energetic: sometimes coarse, sometimes flowing, it is always poetically engaged. He lays bare the semantic background of Homer through felicitous phrasing and delivers us a Dark-Age epic, one more suggestive of Norse sagas than the cultural milieu of archaic Ionia. Fresh and eminently readable, Powell's Iliad is likely to stay. * Margalit Finkelberg, editor of The Homer Encyclopedia *Barry Powell, the master of classical mythology, has done it again - a powerful translation of the poem that started European literature. His muscular verses are faithful to the original Greek but bring the characters to life. This is a page-turner, bound to become the new standard. * Ian Morris, author of Why the West Rules - For Now *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Book 1: Telemachos in Ithaca ; Book 2: Telemachos Calls an Assembly ; Book 3: Telemachos in Pylos ; Book 4: Telemachos in Sparta ; Book 5: Odysseus and Kalypso ; Book 6: Odysseus and Nausicaa ; Book 7: Odysseus in the Phaeacian Court ; Book 8: The Stranger in Town ; Book 9: Odysseus in the Cave of Cyclops ; Book 10: Odysseus and Kirke ; Book 11: Odysseus in the Underworld ; Book 12: Odysseus on the Island of the Sun ; Book 13: Home at Last ; Book 14: Odysseus in the Pig Herder's Hut ; Book 15: The Pig Herder's Tale ; Book 16: Father and Son ; Book 17: The Faithful Dog Argos ; Book 18: Presents from the Suitors ; Book 19: Odysseus' Scar ; Book 20: A Vision of Doom ; Book 21: The Contest of the Bow ; Book 22: The Slaughter of the Suitors ; Book 23: Husband and Wife ; Book 24: Father and Son
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Oxford University Press Inc Forgery and Counterforgery
Book SynopsisForgery and Counter-Forgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics by Bart Ehrman, the New York Times best-selling author of Misquoting Jesus and recognized authority on early Christianity, is the first major contemporary work on forgery in early Christian literature. It examines the motivation and function behind Christian literary forgeries. Ehrman guides readers through Christian literary forgeries of the first four centuries CE while providing coverage of other ancient texts. He asks why early Christians lied about themselves when writing polemical works; and then answers by showing how unknown Christian authors used forgeries to defend their own faith and attack other interpretations of early Christianity. He further asks why many scholars resist acknowledging their forgeries; and he answers that the forgeries uncomfortably call into question the authority of the New Testament. The book is essential reading for those interested in early Christianity and the New TeTrade ReviewFew books have so effectively challenged the basis of scriptural authority in Christianity. * London Review of Books *This is a rich study on a broad range of documents ... that will stimulate further, needed research. * Ilaria L.E. Ramelli, Filologia Neotestamentaria *Table of ContentsTable of Contents ; Acknowledgments ; Chapter One: Introduction ; PART ONE: FORGERY IN THE GRECO-ROMAN WORLD ; Chapter Two: Forgers, Critics, and Deceived Deceivers ; Chapter Three: Terms and Taxonomies ; Chapter Four: Forgery in Antiquity: Aspects of the Broader Phenomenon ; Chapter Five: Forgery in Antiquity: Motives, Techniques, Intentions, Justifications, and Criteria of Detection ; PART TWO: FORGERY IN EARLY CHRISTIAN POLEMICS ; Chapter Six: Introduction to Forgery and Counter-forgery in Early Christian Polemics ; Chapter Seven: Early Pauline Forgeries Dealing with Eschatology ; Chapter Eight: Later Forgeries Dealing with Eschatology ; Chapter Nine: Forgeries in Support of Paul and His Authority ; Chapter Ten: Forgeries in Opposition to Paul and His Message ; Chapter Eleven: Anti-Jewish Forgeries ; Chapter Twelve: Forgeries involving Church Organization and Leadership ; Chapter Thirteen: Forgeries involving Debates over the Flesh ; Chapter Fourteen: Forgeries Arising from Later Theological Controversies ; Chapter Fifteen: Apologetic Forgeries ; Chapter Sixteen: Lies and Deception In the Cause of Truth ; Bibliography
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The University of Chicago Press Martial The World of the Epigram
Book SynopsisIn an age of sound bite, what sort of author could be relevant than a master of epigram? Martial, the influential epigrammatist of classical antiquity, was just such a virtuoso of form, but despite his pertinence to culture, his work has been neglected. This book provides an insightful tour of his works, shedding light on Roman poet's world.Trade Review"An exceptionally intelligent account of Martial and his poetic project. With his lucid and insightful analyses, William Fitzgerald persuasively argues that, far from being a poet for intermittent sampling, Martial offers us a significant voice in the history of Latin letters. Fitzgerald rises admirably to the challenge that Martial has bequeathed to posterity." - Shadi Bartsch, University of Chicago"
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The University of Chicago Press The Complete Danteworlds
Book SynopsisA guide to the Divine Comedy that provides readers with a map of the entire poem, from the lowest circle of Hell to the highest sphere of Paradise. It charts a simultaneously geographical and textual journey, canto by canto, region by region, adhering closely to the path taken by Dante himself through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise.
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The University of Chicago Press The Aeneid
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A marvel throughout. . . . The advantages of Ferry's version seem obvious to me: regularity of meter, clarity of image, simplicity of language, understatement of the horrific. Throughout, Ferry maintains a coolness even amid the most terrible drama. It is as if he were writing not in our still-Romantic (even if post-Romantic) personal vein, but altogether in another mode: a classical, fatalistic one, to be sure, but also one in which emotion and achievement matter communally." * New York Review of Books *"The shining merit of his version is a kind of transparency: somehow he has managed without losing tone, to efface himself, so that as slight a barrier as possible is put between the reader and a poem from another and distant world. . . . Ferry's is now the best modern version of the Aeneid, both for its loyalty to the original and for its naturalness to itself. . . . This translation has a youthful suppleness and flexibility." * Times Literary Supplement *"Ferry more than succeeds in capturing the stateliness, as his rendering of the Proem, the epic’s introductory lines, into English blank verse shows . . . . Ferry's creamily elegant rendering of the epic, which tries to 'correct' the text’s oddness, is likely to leave you wondering why critics both ancient and modern have scratched their heads over Virgil’s verse . . ." -- Daniel Mendelsohn * The New Yorker *"Do we need, in 2017, another version of the Aeneid? . . . If it comes from the hand of David Ferry, one of America’s few great working nonagenarian poets, the answer is a resounding yes." -- Willard Spiegelman * The Wall Street Journal *"Ferry's Aeneid can be read with excitement and pleasure." -- Michael Dirda * Washington Post *". . . . sanguine and accessible. The lines are animated by a poet’s grace and rhythm. Beyond the beauty of the language, the epic remains timely, detailing the grave cost of empire. 'Every act of translation is an act of interpretation,' writes Ferry in an opening note, and this new take is a welcome one." -- Nina MacLaughlin * The Boston Globe *"An extraordinary new translation of Virgil's classic." -- Scott Esposito * Literary Hub *"Ferry's Aeneid has many strengths. He avoids over-the-top images not fairly located in the text, and sticks close to the prose translations he cites in his introductory comments. He also tries to include everything of significance in the original, avoiding egregious cuts made to improve the aesthetics of a line or the narrative flow. The language and syntax are generally straightforward, and it is easy to imagine using this translation in a classroom." * Claremont Review of Books *"Though elegant, The Aeneid is also rough, then, and elegance and roughness abound in Ferry’s completion of his work with Virgil. . . . The Aeneid is entirely distinctive, of personal and literary rather than popular and oral origins, a cornerstone of not just culture but also of calculated art. Ferry conveys its power even more than its majesty." * Booklist *“National Book Award–winning poet and translator Ferry takes up the Aeneid with engaging results. . . . An elegant and fluent version highly recommended for serious general readers.” * Library Journal *"From the long view and vantage of his own advanced age, Ferry has crafted an Aeneid not so much 'for the ages' (one never knows if that might be), but rather from and of our age in a manner not merely contemporary, but contemporaneous in spirit to what Virgil knew of war then, and remarkably what it still entails two millennia later. This not only enlivens for us a great classical poem, it also allows us to see our world as still classical in its demise and answering demeanor, no matter the drones that hover above. Loss, courage, blind rage, catastrophe, and chaos are the stuff of any age; David Ferry has held a finely polished mirror up to our own." -- Peter Filkins * New Criterion *"Ferry's version gains by its simplicity of language. . . . In Ferry's version, there’s a notable balance of an eloquent sensibility and a narrative simplicity—both of which Virgil’s epic demands, often simultaneously." * Rain Taxi *"Ferry’s chosen 'instrument,' as he calls it in his note on meter—a rough pentameter most of the time, and iambic by preference—is by turns subtle, flexible, and strong. . . . the poem has cumulative power" * The Hudson Review *"David Ferry’s translation serves Virgil as no other modern translation I know. . . . To read Ferry’s translation with loving kindness is to read a poet thinking about the poem he is translating while also producing a beautiful poem that stands, not as a substitute for Virgil, but as a genuine poem in its own right." -- Owen Boynton * Essays In Criticism *"An outstanding achievement." -- Susan Kristol * Weekly Standard *"Ferry's rendition of The Aeneid has allowed me to look at this epic with fresh eyes and as a result has given me a new enthusiasm and excitement for The Aeneid which I never thought would be possible . . . At an age when most literary and academic careers are winding down, Ferry has done his very best and most ambitious work." * Open Letters Monthly *"David Ferry’s new translation from the University of Chicago Press transported me back to what it was like reading [the Aeneid] for the first time. . . . Ferry’s translation of the Aeneid beautifully captures the world and morals that so inspired me years ago. His work has the rare effect of actually capturing the reader away." -- Brian K. Miller * The University Bookman *"This is an astonishing bit of translation that typifies the level of Ferry’s sensibility and craft." -- Drew Swinger * Poetry Daily *"Designed for the reader with no Latin who yet wishes to engage with the Aeneid." * Classics for All *"What stands out most is Ferry’s effective use of repetition just as Virgil did, resulting in some exciting new possible interpretations." -- Juliet O’Brien * Journal of Classics Teaching *Table of ContentsPreface A Note on Meter A Note on the Translation The Aeneid Book One Book Two Book Three Book Four Book Five Book Six Book Seven Book Eight Book Nine Book Ten Book Eleven Book Twelve Acknowledgments
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The University of Chicago Press The Complete Tragedies Volume 2
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsSeneca and His WorldOedipusTranslated by Susanna BraundTranslator’s Introduction OedipusHercules MadTranslated by David KonstanTranslator’s Introduction Hercules FurensHercules on OetaTranslated by David KonstanTranslator’s Introduction Hercules OetaeusThyestesTranslated by Shadi BartschTranslator’s Introduction ThyestesAgamemnonTranslated by Susanna Braund Translator’s Introduction AgamemnonNotes Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Complete Tragedies Volume 1
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsSeneca and His WorldMedeaTranslated by Shadi BartschTranslator’s Introduction MedeaThe Phoenician WomenTranslated by Susanna BraundTranslator’s Introduction PhoenissaePhaedraTranslated by Shadi BartschTranslator’s Introduction PhaedraThe Trojan WomenTranslated by Alex DresslerTranslator’s Introduction TroadesOctaviaTranslated by Elaine FanthamTranslator’s Introduction OctaviaNotes
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The University of Chicago Press Waste and the Wasters
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking examination of ecological thought in medieval England. While the scale of today's crisis is unprecedented, environmental catastrophe is nothing new. Waste and the Wasters studies the late Middle Ages, when a convergence of land contraction, soil depletion, climate change, pollution, and plague subsumed Western Europe. In a culture lacking formal scientific methods, the task of explaining and coming to grips with what was happening fell to medieval poets. The poems they wrote used the terms waste or wasters to anchor trenchant critiques of people's unsustainable relationships with the world around them and with each other. In this book, Eleanor Johnson shows how poetry helped medieval people understand and navigate the ecosystemic crisesboth material and spiritualof their time.Trade Review"One of those rare academic books that remixes a collection of ideas—medieval poetry, land management, weather, bees, God’s vengeance, and climate change—in a style that’s eminently readable, bringing the past to life and connecting it to the present in one engaging sentence after another." * The Christian Century *“Waste and the Wasters deftly maps the contours of ecosystemic imagination in medieval England through close engagement with one of its major vehicles: poetry. Johnson’s compelling study shows the importance of dealing with premodern sources in all their complexity as they work to make sense of the dense relational landscape that they inhabit and their responsibilities within it." -- Brooke Holmes, Princeton University“Literary scholars in the Anthropocene can’t help but notice precarity, both precarity of time (there may not be much left!) and discursive precarity (does our discipline have much to offer?). Enter Eleanor Johnson. When we finish reading this vigorously conversational book, the ecosystem of our discipline will find refreshing new networks within which to work.” -- James Simpson, Harvard University“A beautiful and urgent essay on ecosystemic thought in late medieval England that is also a call to action on the climate catastrophe now unfolding. Look to art, says Johnson, when there’s no organized vocabulary for expressions of ecosystemic peril. Look to medieval poetry to find complex and ethical ruminations on what it is to waste and to be a waster, both critical communal problems tying individuals to larger concepts of social justice. In our current eco-meltdown, this book will emphatically not waste anyone’s time.” -- Carolyn Dinshaw, New York UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction / Thinking and Talking Ecosystemically Chapter One / The Five Disasters Facing Medieval Ecosystems Chapter Two / The Laws of Waste: The Bible and the Common Law Chapter Three / Waste in Sermons and Penitential Manuals: The Unjust Steward Chapter Four / Winner and Waster: The Imperilment of the Land Chapter Five / Wasters and Workers in Piers Plowman: Famine and Food Insecurity Chapter Six / Chaucer’s Yeoman’s Wasting Body: Pollution and Contagion Chapter Seven / The Wasted Lands of the Green Knight, and the Wasting of Camelot: Climate Change, Climate Revenge Chapter Eight / Gardens, Bees, and Wastours: Political Waste and the Fantasy of Sustainability Chapter Nine / Aftermath: From Wasting to Waste Matter Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Fragments and Assemblages
Book SynopsisExpands the ways in which we interpret medieval manuscripts, examining the formal characteristics of both physical manuscripts and literary works. In this book, the author argues that manuscript compilations from fourteenth-century London reward interpretation as both assemblages and fragments.Trade ReviewJulia Boffey, Times Literary Supplement "[Bahr's] attractively written, often witty book, informed by a wide range of scholarship, elegantly demonstrates one way of using material form in the service of critical analysis." James Simpson, Harvard University "Arthur Bahr's scholarship is deeply learned and technically skillful, as he invests codicology with the larger promises of formalism. But have no fear: Bahr's prose sparkles with intellectual delicacy, energy, and pleasure. This is scholarship voiced in an especially agreeable and distinctive way. I enjoyed reading Fragments and Assemblages enormously." Maura Nolan, University of California, Berkeley) "An original and creative new account of fourteenth-century writing, one with which all scholars of late-medieval literature will want to engage."
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Columbia University Press An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds
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MR - University of Notre Dame Press Petrarchs Penitential Psalms and Prayers
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University of Notre Dame Press Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento
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