Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History
Author : Carl Deroux
Publisher :
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 49,68 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Latin literature
ISBN :
A Companion to Ovid
Author : Peter E. Knox
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 40,68 MB
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1118556666
Book Description
A Companion to Ovid is a comprehensive overview of one of the most influential poets of classical antiquity. Features more than 30 newly commissioned chapters by noted scholars writing in their areas of specialization Illuminates various aspects of Ovid's work, such as production, genre, and style Presents interpretive essays on key poems and collections of poems Includes detailed discussions of Ovid's primary literary influences and his reception in English literature Provides a chronology of key literary and historical events during Ovid's lifetime
T. Calpurnius Siculus
Author : Evangelos Karakasis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 49,84 MB
Release : 2016-10-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110472694
Book Description
T. Calpurnius Siculus: A Pastoral Poet in Neronian Rome is the first ever detailed examination of the whole of Calpurnius' pastoral corpus in English. It aims to offer an overall picture of Calpurnius’ epigonal and generically transcending poetics and meta-poetics through a thorough comparative analysis of the generic interfaces between the bucolic host genre (as bequeathed to Siculus from Theocritus to Vergil) and various generic modes which operate in Calpurnius’ eclogues, such as epic, panegyric, elegiac, didactic/georgic. The analysis includes themes/motifs, intertexts and allusion, narrative sequences, diction and metre as well as meta-generic/meta-poetic signs, including Calpurnius' redirection and inversion of the Callimachean-neoteric poetological meta-language. The study’s interests also revolve around the ways in which Neronian ideology and imperial politics inform the pastoral narrative and often account for the formalistic change discerned as well as the manner in which Post-Classical diction functions as a targeted, self-conscious linguistic tell-tale of generic evolution. The book is intended for students or scholars working on or interested in Roman pastoral and its generic evolution as well as Neronian Literature.
Virgil, Aeneid 5
Author : Lee M. Fratantuono
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 15,22 MB
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004301283
Book Description
Virgil’s Aeneid 5 has long been among the more neglected sections of the poet’s epic of Augustan Rome. Book 5 opens the second movement of the poem, the middle section of the Aeneid that sees the Trojans poised between the old world of Phrygia and the new destiny in Italy. The present volume fills a significant gap in Virgilian studies by offering the first full-scale commentary in any language on this key book in the explication of the poet’s grand consideration of the meaning of Trojan versus Roman identity. A new critical text (based on first hand examination of the manuscripts) is accompanied by a prose translation and detailed commentary. The notes provide in depth analysis of literary, historical, and lexical matters; the introduction situates Book 5 both in the context of the epic and the larger tradition of heroic poetry.
Virgil's Eclogues and the Art of Fiction
Author : Raymond Kania
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 49,46 MB
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1107080851
Book Description
A new, comprehensive study of Virgil's Eclogues that reinterprets an ancient text and genre as imaginative fiction.
Song Exchange in Roman Pastoral
Author : Evangelos Karakasis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 12,18 MB
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 311022707X
Book Description
Agonistic or friendly song exchange in idyllic settings forms the very heart of Roman pastoral. It is also a key means of metapoetic stance-taking on the part of the long line of authors who have cultivated this “traditional” genre. The present book examines the motif of song exchange in Roman bucolic poetry under this double aspect: as a central theme with established or constantly forming sub-themes and paraphernalia (thus providing a comprehensive listing, description and analysis of such scenes in the totality of Roman literature), and as the locus where, thanks to its very traditionality, innovative generic tendencies are most easily expressed. Starting from Vergil, and continuing with Calpurnius Siculus, the Einsiedeln Eclogues and Nemesianus, the book focuses on how politics, panegyric, elegy, heroic and didactic poetry function as guest genres within the pastoral host genre, by tracing in detail the evolution of a wide variety of literary, linguistic, stylistic and metrical features.
Re-Wiring The Ancient Novel, 2 Volume set
Author : Edmund Cueva
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 773 pages
File Size : 20,32 MB
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9492444690
Book Description
The Fifth International Conference on the Ancient Novel, which was held in Houston, Texas, in the fall of 2015, brought together scholars and students of the ancient novel from all over the world in order to share new and significant developments about this fascinating field of study and its important place in the field of Classical Studies. The essays contained in these two volumes are clear evidence that the ancient novel has become a valuable part of the Classics canon and its scholarly attempts to understand the ancient Graeco-Roman world.
Fronto: Selected Letters
Author : Marcus Cornelius Fronto
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,39 MB
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1780934424
Book Description
Selected letters written by the Roman senator and orator M. Cornelius Fronto in translation and accompanied by in-depth commentary notes, offering a unique insight into the late second century A.D Roman world.
From Latin to Romance
Author : Adam Ledgeway
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 50,9 MB
Release : 2012-05-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199584376
Book Description
This book examines grammatical changes during the transition from Latin to the Romance languages and the factors proposed to explain them. It challenges orthodoxy, presents new perspectives on language change, structure, and variation, and will appeal equally to Romance linguists, Latinists, philologists, and historical linguists of all persuasions.
The Collapse of Rome
Author : Gareth C. Sampson
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 25,48 MB
Release : 2013-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1473826853
Book Description
The fall and rise of ancient Rome from more than two decades of internal conflict, as its aristocracy took up arms against each other. By the early first century BC, the Roman Republic had already carved itself a massive empire and was easily the most powerful state in the Mediterranean. Roman armies had marched victoriously over enemies far and wide, but the Roman heartland was soon to feel the tramp of armies on campaign as the Republic was convulsed by civil war and rival warlords vied for supremacy, sounding the first death knell of the Republican system. At the center of the conflict was the rivalry between Marius, victor of the Jugurthine and Northern wars, and his former subordinate, Sulla. But, as Gareth Sampson points out in this new analysis, the situation was much more complex than the traditional view portrays it and the scope of the First Civil War both wider and longer. This narrative and analysis of a critical and bloody period in Roman history will make an ideal sequel to the author’s Crisis of Rome (and a prequel to his first book, The Defeat of Rome). “A very readable insight into a period of Roman history that is very important but a mystery to most people.”—Firetrench
