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Author | : Steven J. Green |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2018-03-09 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0191093432 |
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Grattius' Cynegetica, a Roman didactic poem on hunting with dogs, is the author's only surviving work, though it reaches us now in an incomplete form. Thanks to a passing reference by Ovid in his Epistulae ex Ponto it can confidently be dated to the Augustan period, and yet while his literary contemporaries have been and continue to be subjects of academic scrutiny, Grattius is seldom read and remains almost completely unappreciated in classical and literary scholarship. This volume is the first book-length study of Grattius in English or any other language and sets out to rehabilitate the neglected poet by making him and his work accessible to a wide audience. Prefaced by an introduction to the poet and his work, as well as the Latin text of Cynegetica and a new English translation, it presents a broad collection of interpretive essays from an international team of scholars. These essays explore the poem within its literary, intellectual, and socio-political contexts and look forward to Grattius' (more charitable) posthumous reception in Europe in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. As a whole they aim to reveal his enduring relevance for the tradition of didactic poetry and the study of other Augustan poetry and culture, and to provide an impetus for future discussions.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 634 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Classical philology |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : H.J. Williams |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2018-07-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004328238 |
Download The Eclogues and Cynegetica of Nemesianus Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Although editions of Nemesianus have been surprisingly numerous, very few have contributed appreciably to our understanding of this author, and most texts have been based on a very limited number of manuscripts. There has been no commentary of any length since that of Burman (1731) and there has never before been one in English covering the whole corpus. This book is an attempt to remedy those deficiencies. The text is the first to have been based on an examination of all the known manuscripts, and a detailed and accurate apparatus criticus is provided. The textual history of both poems is thoroughly discussed. The question of the authenticity of the Eclogues is examined and Nemesianus' authorship is held to be proved. The commentary is mainly concerned with textual and grammatical matters. There is also a bibliography.
Author | : C. M. C. Green |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521851589 |
Download Roman Religion and the Cult of Diana at Aricia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The sanctuary dedicated to Diana at Aricia flourished from the Bronze age to the second century CE. From its archaic beginnings in the wooded crater beside the lake known as the 'mirror of Dianea' it grew into a grand Hellenistic-style complex that attracted crowds of pilgrims and the sick. Diana was also believed to confer power on leaders. This book examines the history of Diana's cult and healing sanctuary, which remained a significant and wealthy religious center for more than a thousand years. It sheds new light on Diana herself, on the use of rational as well as ritual healing in the sanctuary, on the subtle distinctions between Latin religious sensibility and the more austere Roman practice, and on the interpenetration of cult and politics in Latin and Roman history.
Author | : Lilah Grace Canevaro |
Publisher | : Classical Press of Wales |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2019-12-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1910589918 |
Download Didactic Poetry of Greece, Rome and Beyond Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Here a team of established scholars offers new perspectives on poetic texts of wisdom, learning and teaching related to the great line of Greek and Latin poems descended from Hesiod. In previous scholarship, a drive to classify Greek and Latin didactic poetry has engaged with the near-total absence in ancient literary criticism of explicit discussion of didactic as a discrete genre. The present volume approaches didactic poetry from different perspectives: the diachronic, mapping the development of didactic through changing social and political landscapes (from Homer and Hesiod to Neo-Latin didactic); and the comparative, setting the Graeco-Roman tradition against a wider backdrop (including ancient near-eastern and contemporary African traditions). The issues raised include knowledge in its relation to power; the cognitive strategies of the didactic text; ethics and poetics; the interplay of obscurity and clarity, playfulness and solemnity; the authority of the teacher.
Author | : Moses Hadas |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1952-03-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780231514873 |
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Author | : Timothy Schneider |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2003-05-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0595279406 |
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Young Garrett Darby lived a pleasant life with his mother and father in the Scottish Highlands. That life becomes a memory when Garrett is taken captive by people who call themselves Romans. Garrett eventually discovers that this new home could be more appealing than he originally thought. This happiness proves to be temporary. His life is turned upside down a second time when he finds himself on the wrong end of a political conspiracy. Garrett is again forced to abandon his friends, his family, his home, his Heartland.
Author | : John Wight Duff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 724 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Latin literature |
ISBN | : |
Download A Literary History of Rome from the Origins to the Close of the Golden Age Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Christiane Reitz |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 2756 |
Release | : 2019-12-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110492598 |
Download Structures of Epic Poetry Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This compendium (4 vols.) studies the continuity, flexibility, and variation of structural elements in epic narratives. It provides an overview of the structural patterns of epic poetry by means of a standardized, stringent terminology. Both diachronic developments and changes within individual epics are scrutinized in order to provide a comprehensive structural approach and a key to intra- and intertextual characteristics of ancient epic poetry.
Author | : Kelli Stanley |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2011-02-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1429993030 |
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The Curse-Maker is the sequel to he award-winning Nox Dormienda, the first book of the Roman noir series created by Kelli Stanley (City of Dragons). Wedding impeccably researched history to prose and themes reminiscent of classic hard-boiled writers, The Curse-Maker is a thrilling and suspenseful journey into a dark corner of Roman Britain you've never seen before. When Roman physician Arcturus and his stunning wife, Gwyna, arrive at Bath for a holiday, a dead body is floating in the sacred spring. It turns out that the murdered man is a curse-maker whose invocations actually come true, and as murder follows murder, it looks like there's now a curse on Arcturus. This is an exciting and exotic story of a spa town where people go to heal...only to wind up dead. And it takes the doctor-investigator on a dark road -- into Roman cemeteries, silver mines, and underground water tunnels -- to comprehend the twisted mind of a killer bent on revenge.