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  • Early Latin

    Constructs, Diversity, Reception

    Edited by J. N. Adams, Anna Chahoud, Giuseppe Pezzini ...
    This is the most detailed and comprehensive study to date of early Latin language, literary and non-literary, featuring twenty-nine chapters by an international team of scholars. 'Early Latin' is interpreted liberally as extending from the period of early inscriptions through to the first quarter of the first century BC. Classical Latin features significantly in the volume, although in a ... Read more

    $164.99 CAD

  • The Augustan Space

    The Poetics of Geography, Topography and Monumentality

    Edited by Monica R. Gale, Anna Chahoud ...
    Augustus famously boasted that, having inherited a city of brick, he bequeathed a city of marble; but the transformation of the City's physical fabric is only one aspect of a pervasive concern with geography, topography and monumentality that dominates Augustan culture and – in particular – Augustan poetry and poetics. Contributors to the present volume bring a range of approaches to bear on the ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • Colloquial and Literary Latin

    Edited by Eleanor Dickey, Anna Chahoud ...
    What is colloquial Latin? What can we learn about it from Roman literature, and how does an understanding of colloquial Latin enhance our appreciation of literature? This book sets out to answer such questions, beginning with examinations of how the term 'colloquial' has been used by linguists and by classicists (and how its Latin equivalents were used by the Romans) and continuing with exciting ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

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  • Reading Roman Friendship

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    This book invites us to approach friendship not as something that simply is, but as something performed in and through language. Roman friendship is read across a wide spectrum of Latin texts, from Catullus' poetry to Petronius' Satyricon to the philosophical writings of Cicero and Seneca, from letters exchanged by the Emperor Marcus Aurelius and his beloved teacher Fronto, to those written by men ... Read more

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  • Latin Verse Satire

    An Anthology and Reader

    Edited by Paul Allen Miller ...
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  • The Roman Republic of Letters

    Scholarship, Philosophy, and Politics in the Age of Cicero and Caesar

    by Katharina Volk ...
    An intellectual history of the late Roman Republic—and the senators who fought both scholarly debates and a civil warIn The Roman Republic of Letters, Katharina Volk explores a fascinating chapter of intellectual history, focusing on the literary senators of the mid-first century BCE who came to blows over the future of Rome even as they debated philosophy, history, political theory, linguistics, ... Read more

    $48.39 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Catullus

    Edited by Ian Du Quesnay, Tony Woodman ...
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    Catullus is one of the most popular poets to survive from classical antiquity. Above all others he seems to speak to modern readers with a modern voice. The distinguished contributors to this Companion discuss the principal subjects which drew Catullus' affection and disgust, above all his famous affair with the woman he calls 'Lesbia', and situate him in the social, historical and intellectual ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Latin Literature and its Transmission

    Edited by Richard Hunter, S. P. Oakley ...
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    This is a series of innovative studies in the textual and literary criticism of Latin literature, exploring how these two branches of the discipline are mutually supportive. The contributors include many leading scholars in the field. Individual essays are devoted to Catullus, Cicero, Horace, Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus and Virgil, and there are also essays on the Renaissance reception of Virgil and ... Read more

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  • Social Variation and the Latin Language

    by J. N. Adams ...
    Languages show variations according to the social class of speakers and Latin was no exception, as readers of Petronius are aware. The Romance languages have traditionally been regarded as developing out of a 'language of the common people' (Vulgar Latin), but studies of modern languages demonstrate that linguistic change does not merely come, in the social sense, 'from below'. There is change ... Read more

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  • The Rhetoric of the Roman Fake

    Latin Pseudepigrapha in Context

    by Irene Peirano ...
    Previous scholarship on classical pseudepigrapha has generally aimed at proving issues of attribution and dating of individual works, with little or no attention paid to the texts as literary artefacts. Instead, this book looks at Latin fakes as sophisticated products of a literary culture in which collaborative practices of supplementation, recasting and role-play were the absolute cornerstones ... Read more

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  • Carpe Diem

    The Poetics of Presence in Greek and Latin Literature

    by Robert A. Rohland ...
    Series series Cambridge Classical Studies
    Carpe diem – 'eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die!' – is a prominent motif throughout ancient literature and beyond. This is the first book-length examination of its significance and demonstrates that close analysis can make a key contribution to a question that is central to literary studies in and beyond Classics: how can poetry give us the almost magical impression that something is ... Read more

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