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  • Horace (Routledge Revivals)

    by C.D.N. Costa ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Two thousand years after his death Horace is still recognised as a unique poet, having exerted marked influence on later European literature. This collection, first published in 1973, explores the different aspects of Horace’s poetic achievement in his main works: the Odes, Epistles¸ Satires and Ars Poetica.The essays, written by internationally-known scholars, include a discussion of the three ... Read more

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  • Seneca (Routledge Revivals)

    by Costa C.D.N. ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This volume, first published in 1974, offers a selection of modern perspectives on Seneca, covering his prose treatises, his letters and his tragedies.For centuries literary and philosophical circles had to take Seneca seriously, even if they could not always respect him, and although his reputation has fluctuated, there has been a revival of interest in his achievements. Accordingly, a large part ... Read more

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    Practice Passages for Latin Verse Translation and Comprehension

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    Ovid Unseens provides a bank of 80 practice passages of Latin verse, half elegiac and half hexameter.Taken from across Ovid's works, including the Metamorphoses, Fasti, Heroides, Amores and Tristia, the passages help build students' knowledge and confidence in a notoriously difficult element of Latin language learning.Every passage begins with an introduction, outlining the basic story and theme ... Read more

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  • Latin Stories

    A GCSE Reader

    Latin Stories is an ideal first reader for students of Latin. It offers 100 self-contained passages of manageable length, chosen for their intrinsic interest and adapted from a wide range of ancient authors. Generous help is given, with a short introduction to each story and glossing of all proper names and non-GCSE vocabulary. The collection will also be attractive to older students beginning or ... Read more

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  • Greek Marseille and Mediterranean Celtic Region

    Series Book 20 - Lang Classical Studies
    This unique collection of essays contains a synthesis of recent works by distinguished archaeologists and historians in their field, illuminating extensive research in the Southern Gaul and on the territory of the Greek city of Marseille.Investigating the occupation of Massalia territory before the foundation of the Greek city to the Roman period, these findings provide an overview of the diverse ... Read more

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  • The Iliad

    (The Stephen Mitchell Translation)

    by Homer ...
    Translated by Stephen Mitchell ...
    TOLSTOY CALLED THE ILIAD A miracle; Goethe said that it always thrust him into a state of astonishment. Homer’s story is thrilling, and his Greek is perhaps the most beautiful poetry ever sung or written. But until now, even the best English translations haven’t been able to re-create the energy and simplicity, the speed, grace, and pulsing rhythm of the original.In Stephen Mitchell’s Iliad, the ... Read more

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  • The Latin Poetry of English Poets (Routledge Revivals)

    by J. Binns ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Thomas Campion, Milton, Crashaw, Herbert, Bourne, Walter Savage Landor – all these poets, between them spanning the period from the Elizabethan to the Victorian age, wrote a substantial body of Latin verse in addition to their better-known English poetry, representing part of the vast and almost unexplored body of Neo-Latin literature which appealed to an international reading public throughout ... Read more

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  • Ovid (Routledge Revivals)

    by J. Binns ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Ovid, Rome’s most cynical and worldly love poet, has not until recently been highly regarded among Latin poets. Now, however, his reputation is growing, and this volume is an important contribution to the re-establishment of Ovid’s claims to critical attention.This collection of essays ranges over a wide variety of themes and works: Ovid’s development of the Elegiac tradition handed down to him ... Read more

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    by Malcolm Scott ...
    Series Book 25 - Romanticism and after in France / Le Romantisme et après en France
    This reassessment of Chateaubriand’s literary and political achievements, offered as an intellectual biography of the writer, is centred on the concept of change and Chateaubriand’s emotional suspicion of change, arising both from mistrust of his own inconstancy and from the personal and collective suffering of the French Revolution. His aversion to change spread beyond politics to religion and ... Read more

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  • Metamorphoses

    Translated by E. J. Kenney ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The modern, unacademic idiom of A.D. Melville's translation opens the way to a fresh understanding of Ovid's unique and elusive vision of reality. ... Read more

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  • Henry Totting of Oyta: Three Sermons of a Late Medieval Intellectual

    De passione Domini - De assumpcione beate Virginis Marie - De nativitate Iohannis Baptiste

    The book presents Henry Totting of Oyta (d. 1397), a late medieval intellectual who was active in Erfurt, Prague, Paris, and Vienna. In spite of the fact that he is a well-known figure, the majority of his works remain unedited in manuscripts. The authors analyse and provide the first editions of three of his sermons: On the Passion, On the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and On the ... Read more

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  • Occupying Space in Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Ireland

    Series Book 4 - Court Cultures of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
    This collection offers a range of interdisciplinary viewpoints on the occupation of space and theories of place in Britain and Ireland throughout the medieval and early modern periods. It considers space in both its physical and abstract sense, exploring literature, history, art, manuscript studies, religion, geography and archaeology. The buildings and ruins still occupying our urban and rural ... Read more

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