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Ovid : Fasti Book IV
Ovid
Paperback - $80.95
Book IV of Ovid's celebration of the calendar and the associated legends of the Roman year treats the month of April, a particularly happy phase of the Augustan ceremonial year. Around the festival of Venus and the anniversary of the foundation of Ro ...
Ovid : Heroides
Ovid
Paperback - $75.95
A commentary on seven of Ovid's twenty-one epistles in elegiac verse.
Roman Lives : A Selection of Eight Lives
Plutarch
Paperback - $24.95
In the eight lives of this collection Plutarch introduces the reader to the major figures and periods of classical Rome. He portrays virtues to be emulated and vices to be avoided, but his purpose is also implicitly to educate and warn those in his o ...
Virgil's Aeneid : Interpretation and Influence
Michael C. J. Putnam
Paperback - $65.95
In this collection of twelve of his essays, distinguished Virgil scholar Michael Putnam examines the "Aeneid" from several different interpretive angles. He identifies the themes that permeate the epic, provides detailed interpretations of its indivi ...
Texts and Transmission : A Survey of the Latin Classics
Leighton D. Reynolds
Hardcover - $985.95
This alphabetically arranged handbook presents a series of concise and up-to-date accounts of the manuscript tradition and transmission of Latin texts. All authors and texts down to Apuleius which have their own independent transmission are included, ...
The Garden of Priapus : Sexuality and Aggression in Roman Humor
Amy Richlin
Paperback - $113.95
Statues of the god Priapus stood in Roman gardens to warn potential thieves that the god would rape them if they attempted to steal from him. In this book, Richlin argues that the attitude of sexual aggressiveness in defense of a bounded area serves ...