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  • Juvenal and the Satiric Emotions

    In his sixteen verse Satires, Juvenal explores the emotional provocations and pleasures associated with social criticism and mockery. He makes use of traditional generic elements such as the first-person speaker, moral diatribe, narrative, and literary allusion to create this new satiric preoccupation and theme. Juvenal defines the satirist figure as an emotional agent who dramatizes his own ... Read more

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  • Figuring Genre in Roman Satire

    Series series Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies
    Satirists are social critics, but they are also products of society. Horace, Persius, and Juvenal, the verse satirists of ancient Rome, exploit this double identity to produce their colorful commentaries on social life and behavior. In a fresh comparative study that combines literary and cultural analysis, Catherine Keane reveals how the satirists create such a vivid and incisive portrayal of the ... Read more

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    FINALIST--2008 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZEIn The Essential Writings of Machiavelli, Peter Constantine has assembled a comprehensive collection that shows the true depth and breadth of a great Renaissance thinker. Refreshingly accessible, these superb new translations are faithful to Machiavelli’s original, beautifully crafted writings.The volume features essays that appear in English for the first time, ... Read more

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  • Mythology (75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition)

    Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

    This deluxe edition of the world's most beloved, bestselling classic on Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology is stunningly illustrated with specially commissioned full-color plates and a beautiful gold-bordered pages.Since its original publication in 1942, Edith Hamilton's Mythology has sold millions of copies throughout the world and established itself as a perennial bestseller. For nearly 80 years, ... Read more

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  • Why Homer Matters

    by Adam Nicolson ...
    "Adam Nicolson writes popular books as popular books used to be, a breeze rather than a scholarly sweat, but humanely erudite, elegantly written, passionately felt…and his excitement is contagious."—James Wood, The New YorkerAdam Nicolson sees the Iliad and the Odyssey as the foundation myths of Greek—and our—consciousness, collapsing the passage of 4,000 years and making the distant past of the ... Read more

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  • Harvard Classics Vol. 2: Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius (Illustrated Edition)

    *Includes Platos The Apology of Socrates, Crito, and Phaedo, The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, and fragments attributed to him, Marcus Aurelius The Meditations, and George Longs M. Aurelius Antoninus and The Philosophy of Antoninus. The Harvard Classics series is an incredible collection of the most important literary works, compiled by Charles Eliot (1834 1926), then president of Harvard ... Read more

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  • The Civil Wars

    Appian of Alexandria (95 165 A.D.), was a Roman historian, known for his only surviving work, Roman History. The Civil Wars is a series of books from Roman History describing the many civil wars during Roman history between men like Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great, as well as Octavian and Mark Antony. It is considered one of the best resources on this period. This edition is translated by ... Read more

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  • The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition

    From Plato to Denys

    by Andrew Louth ...
    Scholars of the patristic era have paid more attention to the dogmatic tradition in their period than to the development of Christian mystical theology. Andrew Louth aims to redress the balance. Recognizing that the intellectual form of this tradition was decisively influenced by Platonic ideas of the soul's relationship to God, Louth begins with an examination of Plato and Platonism. The ... Read more

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  • Classical Literature

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    The writings of the Greeks and Romans form the bedrock of Western culture. Inventing the molds for histories, tragedies, and philosophies, while pioneering radical new forms of epic and poetry, the Greeks and Romans created the literary world we still inhabit today. Writing with verve and insight, distinguished classicist Richard Jenkyns explores a thousand years of classical civilization, ... Read more

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  • Narrative and Identity in the Ancient Greek Novel

    Returning Romance

    by Tim Whitmarsh ...
    Series series Greek Culture in the Roman World
    The Greek romance was for the Roman period what epic was for the Archaic period or drama for the Classical: the central literary vehicle for articulating ideas about the relationship between self and community. This book offers a reading of the romance both as a distinctive narrative form (using a range of narrative theories) and as a paradigmatic expression of identity (social, sexual and ... Read more

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  • Dictionary of Classical Mythology

    Jenny March’s acclaimed Dictionary of Classical Mythology, first published in 1998 but long out of print, has been extensively revised and expanded including a completely new set of beautiful line-drawing illustrations for this Oxbow edition. It is a comprehensive A – Z guide to Greek and Roman mythology. All major myths, legends and fables are here, including gods and goddesses, heroes and ... Read more

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  • Greek Mythology

    A Traveler's Guide from Mount Olympus to Troy

    A hands-on traveler's guide to the enthralling tales of Greek mythology, organized around the cities and landscapes where the events are setThe Greek myths have a universal appeal, beyond the time and physical place in which they were created. But many are firmly rooted in specific landscapes: the city of Thebes and mountain range Cithaeron dominate the tale of Oedipus; the city of Mycenae broods ... Read more

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