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Virgilian Geopoetics - The Poetics And Politics Of Space In The Aeneid

by Alessandro (New York University) Barchiesi

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 This is the final volume in a highly influential series which has transformed the study of Roman literature. Like its predecessors, it aims to improve the dialogue between ancient studies and the development of dynamic models of interpretation, with its emphasis on ecocriticism and on the narrative construction of space.
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Texts, Editors, And Readers - Methods And Problems In Latin Textual Criticism

by Richard Tarrant

33,13€ + 10% CARD

 Re-examines the most traditional area of classical scholarship, offering critical assessments of the current state of the field, its methods and controversies, and the challenges it faces. Useful both to classicists who are not textual critics and to non-classicists interested in issues of editing.
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Texts, Editors, And Readers - Methods And Problems In Latin Textual Criticism

by Richard Tarrant

33,13€ + 10% CARD

 Re-examines the most traditional area of classical scholarship, offering critical assessments of the current state of the field, its methods and controversies, and the challenges it faces. Useful both to classicists who are not textual critics and to non-classicists interested in issues of editing.
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Texts, Editors, And Readers - Methods And Problems In Latin Textual Criticism

by Richard (Harvard University, Massachusetts) Tarrant

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 Re-examines the most traditional area of classical scholarship, offering critical assessments of the current state of the field, its methods and controversies, and the challenges it faces. Useful both to classicists who are not textual critics and to non-classicists interested in issues of editing.
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Texts, Editors, And Readers - Methods And Problems In Latin Textual Criticism

by Richard (Harvard University, Massachusetts) Tarrant

33,80€ + 10% CARD

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 Re-examines the most traditional area of classical scholarship, offering critical assessments of the current state of the field, its methods and controversies, and the challenges it faces. Useful both to classicists who are not textual critics and to non-classicists interested in issues of editing.
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Freud'S Rome - Psychoanalysis And Latin Poetry

by Ellen (University Of California, Berkeley) Oliensis

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 Examines the role of psychoanalysis within Latin literary studies, focusing on what psychoanalytic theory has to contribute to interpretation. The argument is organized around three key topics - mourning, motherhood, and the origins of sexual difference - and takes the poetry of Catullus, Virgil, and Ovid as its point of reference.
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The Shadow Of Callimachus - Studies In The Reception Of Hellenistic Poetry At Rome

by Richard (University Of Cambridge) Hunter

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 Examines the Roman reaction to, and adoption of, the Greek poetry of the last three pre-Christian centuries. The critical readings offered embrace not just the central figures of Callimachus, Theocritus and Apollonius of Rhodes but the full scope of what remains of Hellenistic poetry.
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Inconsistency In Roman Epic - Studies In Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid And Lucan

by James J. (University Of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) O'Hara

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 How should we react as readers and as critics when two passages in a literary work contradict one another? Classicists once assumed that all inconsistencies in ancient texts needed to be amended, explained away, or lamented. This book explores the possibility of interpreting inconsistencies in Roman epic.
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Inconsistency In Roman Epic - Studies In Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid And Lucan

by James J. (University Of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) O'Hara

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 How should we react as readers and as critics when two passages in a literary work contradict one another? Classicists once assumed that all inconsistencies in ancient texts needed to be amended, explained away, or lamented. This book explores the possibility of interpreting inconsistencies in Roman epic.
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Literature And Religion At Rome - Cultures, Contexts, And Beliefs

by Denis (Princeton University, New Jersey) Feeney

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 This sophisticated and important short study of Roman religion examines the vital importance of Roman literature within the dynamic religious culture.
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Writing Rome - Textual Approaches To The City

by Catharine (University Of Bristol) Edwards

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 What did the city of Rome mean to ancient Romans? The writings of Roman writers Cicero, Virgil, Juvenal and others, have played a vital part in determining responses to the city both in their own time and in later centuries. This book explores a wide range of descriptions of the city from later periods as well as from antiquity.
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Allusion And Intertext - Dynamics Of Appropriation In Roman Poetry

by Stephen (University Of Washington) Hinds

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 This fascinating 1998 book examines how the poets of classical Rome found artistic inspiration in the words and themes of their poetic predecessors. It combines traditional classical approaches with modern literary-theoretical devices.
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Empire And Memory - The Representation Of The Roman Republic In Imperial Culture

by Alain M. (University Of Washington) Gowing

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 This book explores how the memory of the Roman Republic manifested itself over the course of the early Empire (AD 14â€"117). Case-studies are presented of major imperial authors and key monuments in order to trace the relationship between memory and history in Roman thought.
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Allusion And Intertext - Dynamics Of Appropriation In Roman Poetry

by Stephen (University Of Washington) Hinds

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 This fascinating 1998 book examines how the poets of classical Rome found artistic inspiration in the words and themes of their poetic predecessors. It combines traditional classical approaches with modern literary-theoretical devices.
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Slavery And The Roman Literary Imagination

by William (University Of Cambridge) Fitzgerald

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 This book deals with the ways in which the Roman literary imagination explored the phenomenon of slavery. It discusses the ideological relation of Roman literature to the institution of slavery, and the ways in which slavery provided a metaphor for other relationships and experiences, and in particular for literature itself.
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The Arts Of Love - Five Studies In The Discourse Of Roman Love Elegy

by Duncan F. Kennedy

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 This book examines the love elegies of the Roman poets Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid from the point of view of the way the meanings attributed to the poems arise out of the interests and preoccupations of the cultural situation in which they are read.
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Latin Language And Latin Culture - From Ancient To Modern Times

by Joseph (University Of Pennsylvania) Farrell

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 A examination of stereotypical ideas about the Latin language and their effect on how Latin literature is read. The book offers a different view of Latin as a language and as a vehicle for cultural practice. The argument ranges over texts in Latin from antiquity to the twentieth century.
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The Epic Successors Of Virgil - A Study In The Dynamics Of A Tradition

by Philip Hardie

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 A critically sophisticated introduction to the epic tradition of the early Roman empire.
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Language Planning And Language Use

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 This is a detailed analysis of Welsh-language use, based on data collected in 1996. It is one of the first detailed empirical studies of a European minority language, and brings to the analysis an innovative and challenging blend of philosophy, sociolinguistics, history and economics.
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A Visit To The Holy Land

by Ida Pfeiffer

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Empire And Memory - The Representation Of The Roman Republic In Imperial Culture

by Alain M. (University Of Washington) Gowing

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 This book explores how the memory of the Roman Republic manifested itself over the course of the early Empire (AD 14â€"117). Case-studies are presented of major imperial authors and key monuments in order to trace the relationship between memory and history in Roman thought.

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