 | The Eclogues of Virgil: A Translation (Latin and English Edition)
Publication Date: August 1999A new version, by the acclaimed translator of The Odes of Horace and Gilgamesh.The greatest poet of Rome's golden age, Virgil was born in 70 b.c. in northern Italy. His Eclogues-satirical, passionate, nostalgic-are among the most influential poems of love and pastoral fancy ever written. David Ferry-whose versions of the Odes of Horace and Gilgamesh established him as a master translator-skillfully captures the playfulness and tones of Virgil's magical verse. This bilingual edition includes concise, informative notes and an excellent Introduction.Praise for David...
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|  | Hellenistic Poetry: An Anthology (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)
Publication Date: September 15, 1990| Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics The main aim of this book is to bring Hellenistic poetry to life for the contemporary reader. The selection of poems reflects the wide range of poetic genres, styles, themes and moods of the period. It includes the author's translation of the complete "Argonautica" of Apollonius of Rhodes, and eight of Theocritus' "Idylls". There are translations of four hymns of Callimachus, as well as poems by Aratus, Bion, Herodas, Moschus, Pseudo-Moschus and a selection from the "Greek Anthology". This book may serve as a compani...
|  | Selected Philosophical Poems of Tommaso Campanella: A Bilingual Edition
Publication Date: March 30, 2011A contemporary of Giordano Bruno and Galileo, Tommaso Campanella (1568–1639) was a controversial philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet who was persecuted during the Inquisition and spent much of his adult life imprisoned because of his heterodox views. He is best known today for two works: The City of the Sun, a dialogue inspired by Plato’s Republic, in which he prophesies a vision of a unified, peaceful world governed by a theocratic monarchy; and his well-meaning Defense of Galileo, which may have done Galileo more harm than good because ...
|  | The New Posidippus: A Hellenistic Poetry Book
Publication Date: July 29, 2008| ISBN-10: 0199541663 | ISBN-13: 978-0199541669The Milan Papyrus ( P. Mil. Volg. VIII. 309), containing a collection of epigrams apparently all by Posidippus of Pella, provides one of the most exciting new additions to the corpus of Greek literature in decades. It not only contains over 100 previously unknown epigrams by one of the most prominent poets of the third century BC, but as an artefact it constitutes our earliest example of a Greek poetry book. In addition to a poetic translation of the entire corpus of Posidippus' poetry, this volume contains ess...
|  | De Rerum Natura (The Nature of Things): A Poetic Translation (Joan Palevsky Classic Literature Book)
Publication Date: August 6, 2008| Series: Joan Palevsky Classic Literature Book This elegant new translation at last restores the poetry to one of the greatest and most influential poems in the Western tradition. De Rerum Natura is Lucretius's majestic elaboration of Greek Epicurean physics and psychology in an epic that unfolds over the course of six books. This sumptuous account of a secular cosmos argues that the soul is mortal, that pleasure is the object of life, and that humanity has free will, among other ideas. Renowned author, translator, and poet David R. Slavitt has captured Lucre...
|  | Greek Poetry of the Imperial Period: An Anthology (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics - Imperial Library)
Publication Date: November 25, 1994| ISBN-10: 0521423139 | ISBN-13: 978-0521423137This book contains a selection of pagan Greek poetic texts ranging in date from the first to the sixth century A.D. It makes easily accessible for the first time work by poets hitherto neglected in Classical syllabuses. Genres represented include epic, epyllion, didactic, epigram, lyric and the verse fable. There is a brief general introduction, and in addition each section of detailed commentary is prefaced by a discussion of literary aspects of the poems and of their wider contexts. ...
|  | Virgil: Volume II. Aeneid, Books VII-XII. The Minor Poems (Loeb Classical Library)
Publication Date: June 1978| Series: Loeb Classical Library (Book 64) Virgil's classic poem, the Aeneid with additional minor poems, commentary and index. ...
|  | Statius' Silvae and the Poetics of Empire
Publication Date: January 14, 2010Statius' Silvae are argued in this book to be important social and literary productions. Traditionally derided as occasional and therefore inconsequential verse, they offer fascinating insight into the history, politics, art and literature of the Flavian period. They celebrate and explore in all its variety and ambiguity a flourishing literary and artistic culture which the condemnation of Domitian's memory after his assassination had largely suppressed. They deserve consideration for what they reveal about the role of poetry and patronage in imperial societ...
|  | Statius' Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War
Publication Date: November 19, 2009This study focuses on ways in which Statius' epic Thebaid, a poem about the civil war between Oedipus' sons Eteocles and Polynices, reflects the theme of internal discord in its narrative strategies. At the same time that Statius reworks the Homeric and Virgilian epic traditions, he engages with Hellenistic poetic ideals as exemplified by Callimachus and the Roman Callimachean poets, especially Ovid. The result is a tension between the impulse towards the generic expectations of warfare and the desire for delay and postponement of such conflict. Ultimately,...
|  | Ursus et Porcus: The Bear and the Pig (Latin Edition)
Publication Date: June 15, 2008Ursus et Porcus is the first of the four-book 'I Am Reading Latin Stories' Series. By illustrations and a simple Latin story using only 35 words it tells of animals in the forest finding friendship and co-operation.Special Features* Original artwork* complete glossary of words with pronunciation guide and English derivatives* simple grammar explanation* questions to answer* English translationAlso available:Octavus Octopus: Octavus the Octopus - ISBN 9780865166981I am Reading Latin Stories - Set of Four Books - ISBN 9780865167032For over 30 years Bolchazy-Cardu...
|  | Medieval English Verse (Classics)
Release Date: January 30, 1964| Series: Classics Short narrative poems, religious and secular lyrics, and moral, political, and comic verses are all included in this comprehensive collection of works from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. ...
|  | Ovid With Love: Selections from Ars Amatoria Books I and II (Bk. 1) (Bk. 1 & 2)
Publication Date: June 1, 1982| ISBN-10: 0865160155 | ISBN-13: 978-0865160156This book contains 770 lines from Ars Amatoria, Books I and II, a full introduction on Ovid's life, 148 pages of vocabulary, and commentary that offers insights on Ovid's stylistic choices. The notes provide a wealth of information on Roman customs, mythology, history, and literary tradition.Also available:Ovid: Selections from Ars Amatoria Remedia Amoris - ISBN 0865163952Ovid: Metamorphoses, Book I - ISBN 0865160406For over 30 years Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers has produced the highest quality Latin and ancient...
|  | Lucretius and the Modern World (Classical Inter/Faces)
Publication Date: November 1, 2000| ISBN-10: 0715628828 | ISBN-13: 978-0715628829Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things, one of the glories of Latin literature, provides a vivid poetic exposition of the doctrines of the Greek atomist, Epicurus. The poem played a crucial role in the reinvention of science in the seventeenth century, its influence on the French Enlightenment was powerful and pervasive, and it became a major battlefield in the wars of religion with science in nineteenth-century England. But in the twentieth century, despite its vital contributions to modern thought and c...
|  | Old Norse Poems
Publication Date: March 9, 2010THE GROUP of poems offered in this volume comprises practically all the more considerable (non-Skaldic) verse material not in the Edda. Indeed, it has been subtitled "the most important non-skaldic verse not included in the poetic edda". It is a supplement to the Edda and it shows, even better than that remarkable collection, the wealth of independent poetic inventions and forms that flourished in the Scandinavian North before and immediately after the introduction of Christianity, especially when we bear in mind that much has been irretrievably lost.As to the ...
|  | Satires of Rome: Threatening Poses from Lucilius to Juvenal
Publication Date: November 26, 2001The first complete study of Roman verse satire to appear since 1976 provides a fresh and exciting survey of the field. Rather than describing satire's history as a series of discrete achievements, it relates those achievements to one another in such a way that, in the movement from Lucilius, to Horace, to Persius, to Juvenal, we are made to sense, and see performed, the increasing pressure of imperial oversight in ancient Rome. ...
|  | Both English and Latin: Bilingualism and Biculturalism in Milton s Neo-Latin Writings: Transactions, APS (Vol. 102, Part 1)
Publication Date: May 1, 2012This study examines the interplay of Latin and English in a selection of John Milton s neo-Latin writings. It argues that this interplay is indicative of an inherent bilingualism that proceeds hand-in-hand with a self-fashioning that is bicultural in essence. Interlingual flexibility ultimately proved central to the poet of Paradise Lost, an epic uniquely characterized by its Latinate vernacular and its vernacular Latinitas. Author Estelle Haan (Sheehan) is Professor of English and Neo-Latin Studies at The Queen s University of Belfast. She is a well-known and we...
|  | God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages (Middle Ages Series)
Publication Date: October 2002| Series: Middle Ages Series "A wonderful book that makes a very big, new interdisciplinary argument. It will have as marked an effect on the field of medieval religious studies as anything published in the last few decades."--Nicholas Watson, Harvard University "Barbara Newman has always insisted upon the necessity of reading medieval culture as a text whose demands are matched by its rewards. . . . With ...
|  | Orlando Furioso: A New Verse Translation
Publication Date: November 15, 2009 The appearance of David R. Slavitt’s translation of Orlando Furioso (“Mad Orlando”), one of the great literary achievements of the Italian Renaissance, is a publishing event. With this lively new verse translation, Slavitt introduces readers to Ariosto’s now neglected masterpiece—a poem whose impact on Western literature can scarcely be exaggerated. It was a major influence on Spenser’s Faerie Queene. William Shakespeare borrowed one of its plots. Voltaire called it the equal of the Iliad, the Odyssey, and Don Quixote co...
|  | Constructing Literature in the Roman Republic
Publication Date: July 21, 2011How the Romans came to have a literature reflecting native and foreign impulses, and how it formed a legacy for subsequent generations have become central questions in the cultural history of the Republic. This book explores the development of Roman literary sensibility from early interest in epic and drama, through invention of satire and eventual enshrining of books in public collections important to Horace and Ovid. The "early" literature is seen to be a product less of the mid-Republic, when poetic texts began to circulate, than of the late Republic, when t...
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