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Book cover for E. J. Kenney: The Cambridge History of Classical Literature

The Cambridge History of Classical Literature : Volume 2, Latin Literature, Part 4, the Early Principate

E. J. Kenney
Paperback - $96.95

A detailed portrait of the 'Silver' Age of Latin literature.

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Literature as a Mirror of Society

Holger Kiesow
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Book cover for Edward S. Lauterbach: The Transitional Age

The Transitional Age : British Literature 1880-1920

Edward S. Lauterbach
Hardcover - $106.95

Essays on significant developments of the era.

Book cover for Lucan: The Civil War (Pharsalia)

The Civil War (Pharsalia)

Lucan
Hardcover - $52.95

Lucan (M. Annaeus Lucanus, AD 39-65), son of wealthy M. Annaeus Mela and nephew of Seneca, was born at Corduba (Cordova) in Spain and was brought as a baby to Rome. In AD 60 at a festival in Emperor Nero's honour Lucan praised him in a panegyric and ...

Book cover for Titus Lucretius Carus: Lucretius

Lucretius : On the Nature of Things

Titus Lucretius Carus
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Lucretius's great poetical account of Epicurean philosophy aims at promoting spiritual tranquility, in part by dispelling fear of death. Revising Rouse's translation in 1975, Smith added full explanatory notes and a substantial Introduction.

Book cover for Sabine MacCormack: Shadows of Poetry

Shadows of Poetry : Vergil in the Mind of Augustine

Sabine MacCormack
Hardcover - $128.95

Imperial ceremony was a vital form of self-expression for late antique society. Sabine MacCormack examines the ceremonies of imperial arrivals, funerals, and coronations from the late third to the late sixth centuries A.D., as manifest in the officia ...

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Dora and Her Sisters

Catherine Mainland
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Book cover for Allen Mandelbaum: The Metamorphoses of Ovid

The Metamorphoses of Ovid

Allen Mandelbaum
Paperback - $32.95

The Metamorphoses is a treasury of classical myths, filtered through the worldly and far from reverent sensibility of the Roman poet Ovid (43 B.C-A.D.17).

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