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Literature and Religion at Rome : Cultures, Contexts, and Beliefs
D. C. Feeney
Paperback - $69.95
This book exploits recent reevaluations of Roman religion in order to argue in favor of taking the religious dimensions of Roman literature seriously, as important cultural work in their own right. Instead of seeing Roman religious and literary activ ...
Catullan Provocations
William Fitzgerald
Paperback - $59.95
Restoring to Catullus a provocative power that familiarity has tended to dim, this book argues that Catullus challenges us to think about the nature of lyric in new ways. Fitzgerald shows how Catullus's poetry reflects the conditions of its own consu ...
Slavery and the Roman Literary Imagination
William Fitzgerald
Paperback - $60.95
This book deals with the ways in which the ancient Roman literary imagination explored the phenomenon of slavery. It asks what the free imagination made of the experience of living with slaves, beings who both were and were not fellow humans. The boo ...
Epitome of Roman History
Florus
Hardcover - $52.95
Florus, born apparently in Africa, lived in Spain and in Rome in Hadrian's time. He wrote, in brief pointed rhetorical style, a summary of Roman history (especially wars) in two books in order to show the greatness and decline of Roman morals. It is ...
The Egyptian Hermes : A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind
Garth Fowden
Paperback - $57.95
Sage, scientist, and sorcerer, Hermes Trismegistus was the culture-hero of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt. A human (according to some) who had lived about the time of Moses, but now indisputably a god, he was credited with the authorship of numerous boo ...
Roman Constructions : Readings in Postmodern Latin
Don Fowler
Hardcover - $493.95
Roman Constructions collects together twelve published and unpublished papers on Latin literature and literary theory from 1989 to 1999. The papers share a common "postmodern" emphasis on the role of the modern scholar and critic in the construction, ...
Roman Historical Myths : The Regal Period in Augustan Literature
Matthew Fox
Hardcover - $397.95
This book offers a sophisticated analysis of the pervasive use of historical myth in some of the best-known writers of the Late Republic and Augustan periods, including Cicero, Livy, Virgil, Propertius, and Ovid. Looking at these writers' use of narr ...
Nos Tomamos La Palabra
Priscilla Gac-Artigas
Paperback - $86.95
College Reader: Critical Anthology of works by Latinamerican Women Writers for Advanced level of Spanish courses: Survey of Latinamerican Literature and Latinamerican Women Writers.