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Vergil'S Aeneid - Augustan Epic And Political Context

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 A collection of 14 papers in which contributors use diverging critical methods on a selection of extracts from Vergil's epic, with the examination of political references in the work being prominent, as well as the question of the Aeneid's central meaning.
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Magnus Pius - Sextus Pompeius And The Transformation Of The Roman Republic

by Kathryn (University Of Sydney, Australia) Welch

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 Welch places Sextus Pompeius at the centre of Rome's transition from Republic to Empire and so reveals an ideological landscape very different from 20th-century representations.
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Plutarch And His Intellectual World

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 A collection of original essays examining Plutarch's writings, ranging over Plutarch's relations with his contemporaries and his engagement in philosophical debate, as well as his views on social issues such as education and gender.
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Dirae. A Poem From The Appendix Vergiliana - Introduction, Text, Translation And Commentary

by Boris Kayachev

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 An exploration of Dirae, a pastoral poem from the Appendix Vergiliana, that includes the Latin text, an English translation, and line-by-line commentary.
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Sparta In Plutarch'S Lives

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 Plutarch (born before AD 50, died after AD 120) is the ancient author who has arguably contributed more than any other to the popular conception of Sparta. Writing under the Roman Empire, at a time when the glory days of ancient Sparta were already long in the past, Plutarch represents a milestone in Sparta's mythologisation, but at the same time is a vital source for our historical understanding of Sparta. In this volume, eight scholars from around the world come together to consider Plutarch's understanding and presentation of Sparta, his flaws and significance as an historical source, and his development of Sparta as a resonant subject and theme within his bestknown work, the Parallel Lives. This book is the latest in a series which the Classical Press of Wales is publishing on major sources for Sparta. Volumes on Xenophon and Sparta (Powell & Richer 2020) and Thucydides and Sparta (Powell & Debnar 2021) have already been released, and a further volume on Herodotus and Sparta is currently in preparation
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Seneca In Performance

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Foreigners At Rome - Citizens And Strangers

by David Noy

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Ciris. A Poem From The Appendix Vergiliana - Introduction, Text, Apparatus Criticus, Translation And Commentary

by Boris Kayachev

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Foreigners At Rome - Citizens And Strangers

by David Noy

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 Rome was constantly sustained by immigrants. What happened to them after their arrival? Did they try to keep contact with their homelands? Did they form distinctive communities within Rome? Utilising inscriptions and literature, this book studies the experiences of newcomers to the capital.
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In Search Of The Sorcerer'S Apprentice - The Traditional Tales Of Lucian'S Lover Of Lies

by Daniel Ogden

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 Deals with the Lucian's "Philopseudes or Lover of Lies". This book comprises a discussion, with translation, on this engaging and satirical Greek text with its ten tales of magic and ghosts. One of these is the famous story of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", and this conveys the flavour of the rest.
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Latin Epic And Didactic Poetry - Genre, Tradition And Individuality

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 The epic was a daunting genre for Latin poets and audiences alike, with poets well aware that they were part of a tradition in which innovation had to be carefully balanced with the elements laid down by their Greek forbears.
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Seneca In Performance

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 Seneca the Younger wrote plays in the time of Nero. This book explores, amongst other questions, the playwright's subtleties of characterisation, his relation to contemporary Roman spectacle and art - and the problems arising in translating him to modern text or stage.
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Coins Of The Roman Revolution, 49 Bc-Ad 14 - Evidence Without Hindsight

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 The long revolutionary age, which culminated in the autocracy of Octavian-Augustus, is one of Roman history's most richly documented periods â€" and most misrepresented.
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Ciris - A Poem From The Appendix Vergiliana

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 The Ciris is a small scale epic poem which relates the myth of Scylla, daughter of king Nisus of Megara, who betrayed her homeland for love, and was transformed into a sea-bird. It is one of the poems in the Appendix Vergiliana, a collection that has been ascribed to Virgil as his carmina minora. Earlier scholarship has mostly been concerned to prove that the Ciris is not by Virgil, and then to demonstrate that it is a late and derivative composition of little intrinsic merit. The present book argues that Ciris was composed by a contemporary of Virgil, a product of the golden age of Latin poetry. It aims to bring the poem to the attention of modern readers and to rescue it from ill-deserved neglect. The introduction presents detailed linguistic, literary and historical arguments in support of this early composition date and offers a state-of-the-art account of the textual witnesses and the manuscript tradition. The critical text and apparatus are based on a systematic, first-hand analysis of manuscript evidence as well as the rigorous application of text-critical methods. The new text, as close to the original Ciris as can be achieved, includes over one-hundred and fifty changes from previous editions. By engaging with textual scholarship on the poem from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century, the line-by-line commentary provides a comprehensive guide to the numerous textual problems, and is an important contribution to the stylistic and linguistic analysis of golden-age Latin poetry.
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Coins Of The Roman Revolution (49 Bc-Ad 14) - Evidence Without Hindsight

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 The long revolutionary age, which culminated in the autocracy of Octavian-Augustus, is one of Roman history's most richly documented periods â€" and most misrepresented.
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The Ancient Lives Of Virgil - Literary And Historical Studies

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Plutarch And His Intellectual World

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 Plutarch's writings, for long treated in a fragmentary way as a source for earlier periods, are now increasingly studied in their own right. The thirteen original essays in this volume range over Plutarch's relations with his contemporaries and his engagement in philosophical debate, his views on social issues such as education and gender, his modes of expression and his construction of argument. Also treated here are Plutarch's understanding and use of his antecedents, literary and historical, and the sophisticated techniques with which he conveyed his own vision. It is a theme of the present book that the writings of Plutarch should be seen as the product of a single, extraordinarily capacious, intelligence.
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Catullus - A Textual Reappraisal

by J. M. Trappes-Lomax

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 The poems of Catullus have notoriously been subjected to numerous accidental corruptions. This work represents a reappraisal of his text. It recommends some 600 changes to the Oxford Text of "R A B Mynors". It suggests that Catullus' text was also subjected to significant deliberate change, much of it probably dating back to classical antiquity.
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Cicero On The Attack - Invective And Subversion In The Orations And Beyond

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 Includes essays that examine the techniques of Cicero's verbal aggression.
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The Lost Memoirs Of Augustus

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 "Augustus' Memoirs", written probably in the mid 20s BC, might have been one of the most revealing texts of Roman history - had they survived. This book features a study of the subject. It reconstructs aspects of the work, its importance for historians, and its relation to Roman literary genre.
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Virgil The Partisan - A Study In The Re-Integration Of Classics

by Anton Powell

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 Since its first appearance in 2008, this book has changed the landscape of Virgilian studies. Analysing closely the logic and the literary genres of Virgil's three poems, it politely confronts the modern orthodoxy that Virgil signalled distaste for the methods of his ruler, Octavian-Augustus.
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Julius Caesar As Artful Reporter - The War Commentaries As Political Instruments

by Kathryn Welch

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 The War Commentaries as Political Instruments. Nine contributions demonstrate that the appearance of simplicity in Julius Caesars writings is achieved through subtle skill in the selection of style, language and content, which promotes Caesar and downplays Roman enemies. Contents The publication of De Bello Gallico T. P. Wiseman Ratio and Romanitas in the Bellum Gallicum L. G.
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Vergil'S Aeneid - Augustan Epic And Political Context

by Hans-Peter Stahl

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 A collection of 14 papers in which contributors use diverging critical methods on a selection of extracts from Vergil's epic, with the examination of political references in the work being prominent, as well as the question of the Aeneid's central meaning.
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What'S In A Name? - The Significance Of Proper Names In Classical Latin Literature

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 Latin poets and prose writers of the classical period and later used - and withheld - names subtly and to important effect. This book explores themes which include 'speaking' names, often involving bilingual Latin/Greek play; the ways in which persons and objects are named in contexts of invective or endearment; and more.
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