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The Complete Odes and Epodes : With the Centennial Hymn
Horace
Paperback - $24.95
Hoace's Odes- allusive and exquisitely crafted poems of politics and the all-too-fleeting pleasure of friendship, love and wine- are without parallel in their influence on European literature. The Epodes, by contrast, are most notable for their coars ...
The Complete Odes and Satires of Horace
Horace
Paperback - $36.95
Horace has long been revered as the supreme lyric poet of the Augustan Age. In his perceptive introduction to this translation of Horace's Odes and Satires, Sidney Alexander engagingly spells out how the poet expresses values and traditions that rema ...
A Companion to the Study of Virgil :
Nicholas Horsfall
Hardcover - $316.95
"A Companion to the Study of Virgil is not yet another introduction to Virgil's poetry, nor is it the thinking man's version of the bibliographies in ANRW. The editor and three outside contributors offer a guide both to the key problems and to the mo ...
Latin Literature from Seneca to Juvenal : A Critical Study
G. O. Hutchinson
Hardcover - $397.95
This book explores central aspects of a key period in Latin literature. The study is unusual in embracing both poetry and prose, and in offering close literary discussion of a large number of particular passages. It is not a history, but a selective ...
Hemingway's Critical Heritage Then and Now
Csaba Ilys
Paperback - $127.95
Critics were divided on Hemingway's merit but the critical reception was mostly positive. In the beginnings his reputation was better in America. Later critics rejected Hemingway but in Europe he was still beloved. It is an interesting thing that som ...
Virgil's Experience ' Nature and History; Times, Names, and Places '
Richard Jenkyns
Hardcover - $523.95
This book studies Virgil's ideas of nature, history, sense of nation, and sense of identity, combined with the study of attitudes towards nature throughout antiquity. Blending literature with history, and in the case of Lucretius, philosophy, it offe ...
Juvenal : Satires Book I
Juvenal
Paperback - $75.95
This volume presents a new commentary on the first book of satires of the Roman satirist Juvenal. In the Introduction Braund situates Juvenal within the genre of satire and demonstrates his originality in creating an angry character who declaims in t ...
Juvenal : The Satires
Juvenal
Paperback - $66.95
This volume presents a new commentary on the first book of satires of the Roman satirist Juvenal.
The Arts of Love : Five Studies in the Discourse of Roman Love Elegy
Duncan F. Kennedy
Paperback - $54.95
This book examines the love elegies of the Roman poets Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid from the point of view of the way the meanings attributed to the poems arise out of the interests and preoccupations of the cultural situation in which they are read ...
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature : Volume 2, Latin Literature, Part 1, the Early Republic
E. J. Kenney
Paperback - $69.95
In the third century BC Rome embarked on the expansion which was ultimately to leave her mistress of the Mediterranean world. As part of that expansion a national literature arose, springing from the union of native linguistic energy with Greek liter ...