 | Ted Hughes's Tales from Ovid (Faber Plays)
Publication Date: May 29, 2000| Series: Faber Plays A new dramatization for the stage of Ted Hughes's highly acclaimed translation of Ovid's MetamorphosesWhen it was published in 1997, Tales from Ovid was immediately recognized as the best rendering of Ovid in generations, a classic in its own right and a major book in Ted Hughes's oeuvre. For Hughes, one of the most admired and widely read poets of our day, had translated twenty-four of Ovid's stories--legends connected by their transformational motifs--with the elegance and passion that distinguished his own poems.His vigorous, fluid poetr...
 |  | Silvae (I Tatti Renaissance Library)
Publication Date: July 30, 2004| Series: I Tatti Renaissance Library (Book 14)Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance and a leading figure in the circle of Lorenzo de'Medici "il Magnifico" in Florence. His "Silvae" are poetical introductions to his courses in literature at the University of Florence, written in Latin hexameters. They not only contain some of the finest Latin poetry of the Renaissance, but also afford unique insight into the poetical credo of a brilliant scholar as he considers the works of his Greek and Latin predecessors as well ...
|  | Latin Poets and Roman Life (Bristol Classical Paperbacks.)
Publication Date: February 20, 2008| Series: Bristol Classical Paperbacks. This book studies the inter-relation of literature and life in the Augustan poets. The works of Virgil, Horace, Propertius and Ovid are characterized by a brilliant polish and a dazzling repertoire of devices for stylizing events and emotion; yet they remain convincing as a direct response to experience. Theories which deny that directness are criticized in this book as mistaken. The life of pleasure, in its kaleidoscopic variety -- eating, drinking, bathing, love -- is a central subject, but so is death. The book als...
|  | The New Sappho on Old Age: Textual and Philosophical Issues (Hellenic Studies)
Publication Date: March 31, 2010| ISBN-10: 0674032950 | ISBN-13: 978-0674032958 The world has long wished for more of Sappho’s poetry, which exists mostly in tantalizing fragments. So the apparent recovery in 2004 of a virtually intact poem by Sappho, only the fourth to have survived almost complete, has generated unprecedented excitement and discussion among scholarly and lay audiences alike. This volume is the first collection of essays in English devoted to discussion of the newly recovered Sappho poem and two other incomplete texts on the same papyri. Containing eleven new essa...
|  | The Collected Poems: with parallel Greek text (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: December 3, 2007| Series: Oxford World's Classics "A Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe." E. M. Forster's famous description of C. P. Cavafy--the most widely known and best loved modern Greek poet--perfectly captures the unique perspective Cavafy brought to bear on history and geography, sexuality and language.Cavafy wrote about people on the periphery, whose religious, ethnic and cultural identities are blurred, and he was one of the pioneers in expressing a specifically homosexual sensibility. His poems present...
|  | Baiae (I Tatti Renaissance Library)
Publication Date: June 30, 2006| Series: I Tatti Renaissance Library (Book 22) Giovanni Gioviano Pontano (1429-1503) was an important humanist and scholar of Renaissance Italy, the presiding spirit of the Accademia Pontaniana, and chief minister and tutor to the Aragonese Kings of Naples. He was also the most innovative and versatile Latin poet of Quattrocento Italy. His Two Books of Hendecasyllables, given the subtitle Baiae by their first editor Pietro Summonte, experiment brilliantly with the metrical form associated principally with the ancient Latin poet Catullus. The poems are the eleg...
|  | Singer of the Eclogues: A Study of Virgilian Pastoral
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|  | Minor Latin Poets, Volume II: Florus. Hadrian. Nemesianus. Reposianus. Tiberianus. Dicta Catonis. Phoenix. Avianus. Rutilius Namatianus. Others (Loeb Classical Library)
Publication Date: January 1, 1934| ISBN-10: 0674994787 | ISBN-13: 978-0674994782This is the second volume of an anthology of Latin poetry. The two-volume anthology covers a period of four and a half centuries, beginning with the work of the mime-writer Publilius Syrus, who flourished ca. 45 BCE, and ending with the graphic and charming poem of Rutilius Namatianus recording a sea voyage from Rome to Gaul in 416 CE. A wide variety of theme gives interest to the poems: hunting in a poem of Grattius; an inquiry into the causes of volcanic activity by the author of Aetna; pastoral poems by Ca...
|  | Metamorfosis (Letras Universales / Universal Writings) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: October 15, 2011| Series: Letras Universales / Universal Writings (Book 228) La metamorfosis, fuente de inspiración de poetas, humanistas y artistas de todas las épocas, es la más fecunda creación literaria de la antigüedad. Este extenso poema épico ofrece una espléndida muestra mitográfica arropada por un coherente marco filosófico. Doscientas cincuenta historias, mitos y leyendas que abarcan desde el nacimiento de la humanidad y la creación del mundo, en la era de los cataclismos, hasta la muerte y apoteosis de César....
|  | Virgil: Aeneid VII & VIII (Bristol Latin Texts Series) (Bks.7-8)
Publication Date: September 30, 2009| ISBN-10: 0862921716 | ISBN-13: 978-0862921712Latin text, with Latin-English vocabulary and notes in English. ...
|  | The Racing Tribe
Publication Date: May 17, 2005 It is generally assumed that anthropologists do their research in remote and uncomfortable parts of the world--places with monsoons, mud huts, and malaria. In this volume, social anthropologist Kate Fox has taken on an altogether more enjoyable assignment, the study of the arcane world of British horseracing. For Fox, field research meant wandering around racetracks in a pink hat and high heels (standard tribal costume) rather than braving killer insects and primitive sanitation. Instead of an amorphous racing crowd, the author finds a complete subculture with ...
|  | Roman Food Poems: A Modern Translation
Publication Date: March 1, 2002It is quite bizarre that a culture so besotted with food and all things relating to the stomach and the senses should have left but one cookery book. The curious, therefore, must resort to other sources of inspiration for information about the Romans at table. Not least among these sources is the poetry of men such as Horace, Martial, Juvenal, Catullus, Ovid, Livy and Seneca, here translated with grace and aplomb by the Latin scholar and poet Alistair Elliot. This work contains the Latin and English as parallels on facing pages.Alistair Elliot is a classical te...
|  | Select Papyri, Volume II, Public Documents: Codes and Regulations, Edicts and Orders, Public Announcements, Reports of Meetings, Judicial Business, ... and Others (Loeb Classical Library No. 282)
Publication Date: January 1, 1934| ISBN-10: 0674993128 | ISBN-13: 978-0674993129This volume presents papyri relating to public business of various kinds in Egypt from the middle of the 3rd century BCE to 710 CE, thus including affairs in that country first when it was ruled by the Greek Ptolemaic kings, secondly when it was a Roman province. The earliest examples date from the reign of King Ptolemy II Philadelphus and the latest from the government by the Arabs after their conquest of Egypt in 639–641 CE.The papyri chosen were all sent by persons in office (from king, Roman emperor,...
|  | Knight's Tale (The Complete Classics)
Publication Date: September 30, 2006| ISBN-10: 9626344156 | ISBN-13: 978-9626344156| Edition: Unabridged The Knight's Tale of medieval wars and chivalry is the first tale told to the pilgrims as they set out to Canterbury. It concerns Theseus, returning from fighting at Thebes, two brother knights Palamon and Arcite, imprisoned but yearning for their loves. But the real hero of this recording is Richard Bebb who, with the help of Professor Derek Brewer, the leading expert on Chaucerian pronunciation, make the original Middle English not only comprehensible to the modern ear, but exciting...
|  | Codex Ashmole 61: A Compiliation of Popular Middle English Verse
Publication Date: December 30, 2008The goal of the Middle English Texts Series is to make available to teachers and students texts which occupy an important place in the literary and cultural canon but which have not been readily available in student editions.The focus is upon literature adjacent to that normally in print, which teachers need in compiling the syllabuses they wish to teach.The editions maintain the linguistic integrity of the original work but within the parameters of modern reading conventions.The project is sponsored by the Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages and...
|  | Amores, Medicamina Faciei Femineae, Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris (Oxford Classical Texts) (Latin Edition)
Publication Date: September 15, 1994| ISBN-10: 0198149697 | ISBN-13: 978-0198149699| Edition: 2 Since it first appeared in 1961 this has been the standard critical edition of Ovid's love poems. For this new edition the text has been thoroughly revised to take account of published scholarship and the further thoughts of the editor. Conjectures have been admitted to both text and apparatus criticus more freely than in the first edition. Punctuation has been improved, spelling has been normalized, and the long poems have been paragraphed. The apparatus criticus now incorporates the reading ...
|  | Odes And Epodes (Latin Edition)
Publication Date: October 4, 2011This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy ...
|  | Select Papyri, Volume III (Loeb Classical Library No. 360)
Publication Date: January 1, 1941| ISBN-10: 0674993977 | ISBN-13: 978-0674993976| Edition: Revised The papyri found in Egypt have yielded fragments large and small of ancient literary authors. We include in this volume from the 5th–4th centuries BCE fragments of two tragedies (one a satyr play by Aeschylus); of five by Sophocles; of ten by Euripides; of one by Ion; and of some plays not assignable. From Old Comedy, 5th century, we have fragments of one play each of Epicharmus, Cratinus, Pherecrates, Eupolis, and Plato; some fragments of Aristophanes; and unassignable fragments. From...
|  | The Iliad - Complete and Unabridged (Collector's Library)
Publication Date: September 1, 2011The Iliad is one of the finest of all the great works that have been handed down to us from Classical Antiquity. Paris, a Trojan prince, having won Helen as his prize for judging a beauty contest between the goddesses Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite, abducted her from her Greek husband Menelaus and transported her to Troy. The Greeks, enraged by this audacity and devastated by the loss of the most beautiful woman in the world, set sail to Troy and began the long siege of the city. The Iliad narrates the events ten years into the war, describing the anger of Ach...
|  | Avodah: Ancient Poems for Yom Kippur (Penn State Library of Jewish Literature)
Publication Date: November 1, 2012| Series: Penn State Library of Jewish Literature Avodah: Ancient Poems for Yom Kippur is the first major translation of one of the most important genres of the lost literature of the ancient synagogue. Known as the Avodah piyyutim, this liturgical poetry was composed by the synagogue poets of fifth- to ninth-century Palestine and sung in the synagogues on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Although it was suppressed by generations of rabbis, its ornamental beauty and deep exploration of sacred stories ensured its popularity for centuries. Piyyut literature c...
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