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  • - Roman Poetry, Republican and Imperial
     
    717,95 kr.

    After a long period in which the late Republican and Augustan poets were the main focus of scholarship in Latin poetry, more attention is now being given to earlier Republican literature, and even more to the poets of what used to be called disparagingly the 'Silver Age'.

  • af Geoffrey Greatrex
    668,95 kr.

    The first modern account of the conflict between the eastern Roman Empire and the Sasanian kingdom. Greatrex traces the background to the war, investigating relations between Rome and Persia, the state of Roman defences in the East, and the chaotic situation in Persia at the end of the 5th century.

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    607,95 kr.

    The fifteenth volume of PLLS (and the fifth in the Langford series) contains major papers on early Greek epic and tragedy, aspects of ekphrasis, Roman republican culture and politics, and astrology in the imperial period.

  • - Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar, Volume 17, 2017
     
    552,95 kr.

    Ancient Biography contains revised versions of most of the papers given at the Colloquium Narrating Lives: Biography and Identity in Antiquity (held in 2015 at Florida State University), along with contributions from other scholars in the fields of biographical writing and identity. A combined bibliography and indexes are included.

  • - A Commentary on the Libellus de virginitate servanda (Letter 22)
    af Neil Adkin
    833,95 kr.

    This is a major new commentary on Jerome's Libellus de virginitate servanda , the first in any language to be devoted to this work. Written in Rome in 384, this treatise sets out the manner of life appropriate to a Christian virgin.

  • - Greek and Roman Poetry: The Elder Pliny
     
    552,95 kr.

    PLLS 16 contains papers mainly arising from several Langford Colloquia held by the Department of Classics, Florida State University.

  • - Health and Sickness in Ancient Rome; Greek and Roman Poetry and Historiography
     
    662,95 kr.

    Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar 14 contains (in revised, usually enlarged, and annotated form) papers presented at Langford Seminars of the Department of Classics of The Florida State University over the years 2004 to 2008, together with supplementary articles contributed at the request of the editors.

  • - Eunapius, Olympiodorus, Priscus and Malchus
    af R. C. Blockley
    387,95 kr.

    This volume constitutes a work of fundamental importance for historians of the period. Part One analyzes the background, opinions, and historiography of each of the four writers, with particular emphasis on recovering from the fragments the original structure of their works.

  • - Hellenistic Greek and Augustan Latin Poetry; Flavian and post-Flavian Latin Poetry; Greek and Roman Prose
     
    607,95 kr.

    These 13 papers by an international group of scholars examine Greek and Roman poetry and prose.

  • af R. C. Blockley
    662,95 kr.

    Almost all of the very little we know of Menander comes from the preface of his History. Having studied the law, Menander did not become an advocate, preferring instead to become a 'man-about-town'.

  • - Politics and Empire in the Late Roman World
    af Fiona K. Haarer
    717,95 kr.

    When Anastasius I came to the throne in 491, the Late Roman Empire was in severe difficulty. Internal instability, exacerbated by the dominance of the unpopular Isaurians in Constantinople, resulted in a struggling economy, hostile relations with Persia, the abandonment of Italy to a barbarian king, and doctrinal schisms.

  • - Greek and Roman Poetry, Greek and Roman Historiography
    af Francis Cairns
    497,95 kr.

    This collection of fourteen papers focuses on Classical poetry and historiography, with contributions coming from scholars from all over the UK and America.

  • - Caesar against Liberty? Perspectives on his Autocracy
    af Francis Cairns & E. Fantham
    417,95 kr.

    Julius Caesar changed world history by inaugurating the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. This themed volume of PLLS handles the important and controversial problem of Caesar's own attitudes to 'liberty' and 'autocracy'.

  • af D. L. Cairns
    877,95 kr.

    Among the works of the fifth-century BC lyric poet Bacchylides are epinician odes celebrating victors in the cycle of Greek Games, which were occasions of major political, cultural and religious significance in the Greek world. Fourteen of Bacchylides' epinician odes survive wholly or in part.

  • - Elegies. Text, Introduction and Commentary by Robert Maltby
    af Robert Maltby
    822,95 kr.

    A new edition of the Augustan poet Albius Tibullus and a major commentary by Robert Maltby, the first in English since K F Smith (1913) to treat Tibullus' entire oeuvre within a single cover. It takes full account of up-to-date scholarship on this learned, elegant and, until recently, much underestimated poet.

  • af Damien Nelis
    767,95 kr.

    Virgil's debt to Homer is well known but, as this detailed and specialised analysis demonstrates, Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica , itself influenced by Homer, was a more immediate source.

  • - Introduction, Text and Commentary
    af Andreas Michalopoulos
    877,95 kr.

    Ovid's Heroides , letters in elegiac verse supposedly penned by famous mythological lovers, have attracted renewed scholarly attention over the past twenty or so years. Heroides 16 and 17, the letters exchanged by Paris and Helen, are the subject of this volume.

  • - Text, Translation and Historiographical Notes
    af R. C. Blockley
    822,95 kr.

    This volume is the much larger companion to Roger Blockley's similarly-titled monograph, published in 1981 (ARCA 6). The earlier volume gave a commented conspectus of the fragments, and essays on the individual historians. In vol. II the texts themselves are printed, with English translations and historiographical notes.

  • - The Curse Poetry of Antiquity
    af Lindsay Watson
    387,95 kr.

    A fundamental study of curses from a literary point of view. First the author differentiates the various types of curses found in ancient poetry; this is followed by a chronological examination of the curses, from archaic and classical Greece to Hellenistic and Roman times.

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