 | 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...
 |  | 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...
|  | 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 ...
|  | 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...
|  | The Old Man Who Does As He Pleases
Publication Date: April 15, 1973Lu Yu (1125-1210), whose pen name was "The Old Man Who Does as He Pleases, " was among the most prolific of Chinese poets, having left behind a collection of close to ten thousand poems as well as miscellaneous prose writings. His poetry, often characterized by an intense patriotism, is also notable for its recurrent expression of a carefree enjoyment of life. Burton Watson has chosen, for this volume, sixty-three of Lu Yu's poems that work especially well in English, concentrating upon those that provide characteristic glimpses of the poet's daily life. In ad...
|  | 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 ...
|  | 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 ...
|  | 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...
|  | Catullus: Student Text
Publication Date: June 1996| ISBN-10: 0865162751 | ISBN-13: 978-0865162754Designed to prepare students to meet A.P. LatinLiterature Exam, the student text provides an annotated Latin text ofthe Catullus selections and a variety of excellent supports includingvocabulary, explanation of meters and figures of speech, and anintroduction to the life and poetry of Catullus.This edition incorporates 12 years of in-class use and successfulpreparation for the A.P. Latin Literature exam.An excellent and convenient resource, the TM is designed to helpteachers prepare students for the Catullus compo...
|  | 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....
|  | 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...
|  | 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 Shi King: The Old Poetry Classic of the Chinese a Close Metrical Translation with Annotations
Publication Date: March 1, 20041891. A collection of ancient Chinese poetry that represents the circumstances, thoughts, habits, joys and sorrows of persons of all classes of society in China more than 3,000 years ago, written in their own words. ...
|  | Congenial Souls: Reading Chaucer from Medieval to Postmodern (Medieval Cultures)
Publication Date: November 2, 2001| Series: Medieval Cultures (Book 30) John Dryden claimed to share a kindred spirit, a congenial soul, with Geoffrey Chaucer, and he was not alone. Reading critics reading Chaucer, Stephanie Trigg makes us privy to the special communities-modeled on the pilgrimage to Canterbury-that rose up around the author as commentators through the ages sought spiritual or emotional intimacy with him.Congenial Souls surveys the critical literature from the late Middle Ages to the contemporary period to show how editors and critics constructed various voices as a response...
|  | 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,...
|  | The Purgatorio (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
Publication Date: May 26, 2005| Series: Barnes & Noble Classics Purgatorio, by Dante Alighieri, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—...
|  | 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 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 ...
|  | 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...
|  | Minor Latin Poets, Volume I, Publilius Syrus. Elegies on Maecenas. Grattius. Calpurnius Siculus. Laus Pisonis. Einsiedeln Eclogues. Aetna (Loeb Classical Library No. 284)
Publication Date: January 1, 1934| ISBN-10: 0674993144 | ISBN-13: 978-0674993143| Edition: Revised This is the first 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; pa...
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