Horace's Iambic Criticism (Mnemosyne, Supplements, #334)
by Timothy S Johnson
To date the positive value of Horace's iambic criticism has been underestimated, and overall Horace has been tamed too much. By examining the relationship of the iambic tradition with ritual, this book studies how Horace's Epodes are more than partisan (consolidating Octavian's victory by projecting hostilities onto powerless others) but meta-partisan (forming fractured entities into a diversified unity). As Horace moves through his iambics to lyrics (Epodes to Odes), he stages acts of aggressio...
Silius Italicus, Punica 2
Silius Italicus' Punica, a Latin epic poem on the second Punic war written at the end of the first century CE, is one of the few Roman historical epics to survive from antiquity. This volume represents the first full-length scholarly commentary in any language on Book 2 of the seventeen-book epic and accompanies a recent resurgence in scholarly interest in the Punica. It includes an extensive introduction to the poem's historical and literary contexts, along with the full Latin text and apparat...
Pope's Translation of Homer's Iliad
by Homer, Alexander Pope, and William Tappan
Gender And Lanquage In Chaucer
Catherine S. Cox considers the significance of gender in relation to language and poetics in ChaucerUs writing. Examining selections from "The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, The Legend of Good Women" and the ballades, she explores ChaucerUs concern with gender and language both within the context of 14th-century culture and in light of contemporary feminist and poststructuralist theory. (Poetry)
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by Decimus Magnus Ausonius
Ausonius (Decimus Magnus), ca. 310-ca. 395 CE, a doctor's son, was born at Burdigala (Bordeaux). After a good education in grammar and rhetoric and a short period during which he was an advocate, he took to teaching rhetoric in a school which he began in 334. Among his students was Paulinus, who was afterwards Bishop of Nola; and he seems to have become some sort of Christian himself. Thirty years later Ausonius was called by Emperor Valentinian to be tutor to Gratian, who subsequently as empero...
Metrische Analysen Zu Vergil Aeneis Buch II (Materialien Zu Metrik Und Stilistik, #14)
by Wilhelm Ott
Aeneis (Sammlung Tusculum) (Sammlung Tusculum / Tusculum Studienausgaben)
by Vergil
Hippota Nestor (Hellenic Studies, v. 37) (Hellenic Studies (HUP))
by Douglas G. Frame
This book is about the Homeric figure Nestor. This study is important because it reveals a level of deliberate irony in the Homeric poems that has hitherto not been suspected, and because Nestor's role in the poems, which is built on this irony, is a key to the circumstances of the poems' composition.Nestor's stories about the past, especially his own youth, often lack purpose on the surface of the poems, but with a slight shift of focus they provide a deep commentary on the present action of bo...
My Journey to Lhasa and the Super Human Life of Gesar of Ling
by Alexandra David-Neel
Metamorphose is a Latin narrative poem in fifteen books by the Roman poet Ovid, describing the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar within a loose mythico-historical framework. Completed in AD 8, it is recognized as a masterpiece of Golden Age Latin literature.
Das Vorklassische Lehrgedicht Der Romer (Kalliope - Studien Zur Griechischen Und Lateinischen Poesie, #4)
by Peter Kruschwitz and Matthias Schumacher