"This is a superb new translation that is remarkably accurate to Plato's very difficult Greek, yet clear and highly readable. The notes are more helpful than those in any other available translation of the Laws since they contain both the information needed by the beginning student as well as analytical notes that include references to the secondary literature for the more advanced reader. For either the beginner or the scholar, this should be the preferred translation." -- Christopher Bobonich, Clarence Irving Lewis Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University

El criminal imaginado: Estetica, etica y politica en la ficcion latinoamericana (1990-2010) analiza peliculas y novelas donde los personajes principales son o se vuelven criminales. El protagonismo del delincuente en la cultura latinoamericana contemporanea desplaza al detective en su rol estelar del clasico policial ingles o estadounidense. Estas ficciones no buscan restablecer la ley y el orden, ya que el criminal imaginado indica el deseo de cambiar su entorno; por ello, transgrede las limitaciones de su genero, raza o clase social. Ahora bien, la produccion cultural reciente dista de ser uniforme. Por ello, este texto propone un espectro que comienza con objetos culturales sobre el narcotrafico, donde el criminal reune caracteristicas del criminal corporativo, el ganster y el noble bandido. En este retrato del narcotraficante, quien manda es el consumo y la circulacion de mercancias y capital. La gama de criminales imaginados continua con ficciones donde los delitos se deben principalmente a motivos politicos y culturales; es decir, el transgresor no intenta integrarse al capitalismo como el ganster ni sigue las leyes del mercado. Por el contrario, se trata de ladrones, secuestradores o prostitutas que prefieren relaciones de poder horizontal y construyen su propia etica. La gama estudiada en este trabajo termina con representaciones de crimenes politicos que buscan cambiar un sistema politico o economico, especificamente, ficciones sobre anarquistas y movimientos de liberacion nacional del siglo XX. En pocas palabras, la cultura visual y narrativa es un espejo que refleja algunas tendencias politicas, eticas y esteticas en Latinoamerica desde 1990.

Dracontius' work covers religious and profane poetry, including some short epics, which stand out from better-known versions of the myths, due to their variations, which are difficult to interpret. The relationship between the groups of works is disputed. Using the religious poetry, these studies initially deal with the main features of his worldview and ethics as well as his concepts of gods and myths, and examine in detail the extensive use of myths in the Laudes Dei. Using this as a basis and referring to the mythical traditions, the short epic Medea and De raptu Helenae are thoroughly analysed and interpreted. During this process the remaining profane poetry is considered and perspectives for its interpretation are demonstrated. Dracontius' approach to myth is no longer influenced by Christian rejection, allegorical appropriation or uncritical reverence of tradition, rather it is based on his new interpretations of the myths in religious and profane poetry as a synthesis of Christian world view and pagan culture. They bear witness to the altered relationship of Christians to these traditions in the late Classical period.

Llamenme el mexicano: Los almanaques y otras obras de Carlos de Sigueenza y Gongora presenta una vision fresca, iluminadora y provocativa de partes de la vida y escritos de Carlos de Sigueenza y Gongora poco conocidos o analizados hasta ahora. Seis de los almanaques escritos a mano por el y que aun existen en el Archivo General de la Nacion de Mexico forman el hilo conductor de este libro. Gracias a de ellos es posible, asimismo, un innovador analisis de dos de sus obras mejor conocidas: Parayso occidental e Infortunios de Alonzo Ramirez.

Christoph Martin Wieland war einer der umstrittensten Autoren des 18. Jahrhunderts. Fand er bei den Zeitgenossen zunachst uberwiegend Akzeptanz, geriet er unter den Angriffen der Klassiker und mehr noch der Romantiker als "frivol", "unmannlich" und vor allem als "undeutsch" zunehmend in Verruf. Diese fruhe Kritik marginalisierte den Autor, ehe ein groesseres Publikum ihn wirklich gelesen hatte. Die Studie rekonstruiert den Hauptstrom der vorurteilsgesattigten Wieland-Rezeption, der die Literaturgeschichten der Berichtszeit durchzieht, legt aber anhand vieler bislang unbeachteter Zeugnisse - etwa zur Aufnahme des Agathon-Romans - auch einen breiten Gegenstrom in der Literaturgeschichtsschreibung des 19. Jahrhunderts frei, der die hohe Anerkennung bezeugt, die Wieland, teils wohl gegen die Absicht der Kritiker selbst, auch im 19. Jahrhundert gezollt worden ist.

This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Aeneid Book XII, lines 1-106, 614-727, and the A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Aeneid Book XII, lines 728-952, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction that also covers the prescribed text to be read in English for A Level. Aeneid XII is the final book of Virgil's Roman epic. The war fought between Aeneas' refugee Trojans and the people of Latium here reaches a bloody, moving climax. The OCR selection contains two scenes of rich emotion focussed on the Italian war-leader Turnus as he reacts to military defeat and crisis, followed by the full narrative of the decisive single combat between Turnus and Aeneas with which the poem concludes. This is one of the great passages in Latin literature - grand in content and style, complex and challenging in its subject matter. Resources are available on the Companion Website.

This volume contains four essays by Lennart Hakanson written between 1976 and 1982 that were never published because of his death. Hakanson offers a general presentation of the argumenta in the Pseudo-Quintilian Declamationes maiores, investigates their most important literary models (Cicero, Seneca, Declamationes minores), and explores the history of their transmission."

Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 B.C.), known in English as Virgil, was perhaps the single greatest poet of the Roman empire--a friend to the emperor Augustus and the beneficiary of wealthy and powerful patrons. Most famous for his epic of the founding of Rome, the "Aeneid," he wrote two other collections of poems: the "Georgics" and the "Bucolics," or "Eclogues."The "Eclogues" were Virgil's first published poems. Ancient sources say that he spent three years composing and revising them at about the age of thirty. Though these poems begin a sequence that continues with the "Georgics" and culminates in the "Aeneid," they are no less elegant in style or less profound in insight than the later, more extensive works. These intricate and highly polished variations on the idea of the pastoral poem, as practiced by earlier Greek poets, mix political, social, historical, artistic, and moral commentary in musical Latin that exerted a profound influence on subsequent Western poetry.Poet Len Krisak's vibrant metric translation captures the music of Virgil's richly textured verse by employing rhyme and other sonic devices. The result is English poetry rather than translated prose. Presenting the English on facing pages with the original Latin, "Virgil's Eclogues" also features an introduction by scholar Gregson Davis that situates the poems in the time in which they were created.

Los poderes de la palabra: El improperio en la cultura hispanica del Siglo de Oro es una obra interdisciplinar, fruto del encuentro de areas cientificas diversas, que aborda el estudio de las manifestaciones de la violencia verbal en la Espana de los siglos XVI y XVII. Desde la autenticidad de los libelos infamatorios, o desde la oralidad cotidiana recogida en procesos legales, la perspectiva historica recupera denuestos, blasfemias y maldiciones, e interpreta su valor sociohistorico en los entresijos de la sociedad aurisecular. El analisis literario se adentra en la rica y variada produccion de este tiempo para analizar las manifestaciones de la agresion verbal (pullas, motes, insultos, burlas, acusaciones) y gestual que ofrecen autos sacramentales, comedias, villancicos, poesias cancioneriles, satiricas o religiosas; o bien descubre, en las relaciones verbales entre figuras literarias del Siglo de Oro espanol, los testimonios mas ingeniosos del improperio. El examen lingueistico reconoce, a partir de fuentes literarias y no literarias, los ambitos conceptuales del insulto en espanol clasico, y describe los recursos lexicos, morfosintacticos y pragmaticos empleados para la ofensa, los procedimientos intensificadores y los modos de insertar voces injuriosas y expresiones maldicientes.

The Steinepigramme aus dem griechischen Osten (Stone epigrams from the Greek East) contains material from Asia Minor and the Orient, and provide texts carved in stone in an edition which includes translations, critical apparatus, commentary and bibliography. In volumes 1-4, 2122 Greek and Latin texts from Asia Minor and the Orient, of the period up to the 7th century A.D., have been reproduced, translated, annotated, and illustrated (approximately 700 illustrations). The index volume contains indexes of places, poems, poem beginnings, subjects, a concordance and above all, a list of personal names (pages 202 - 309) - Inscriptions are the best source of names (approximately 8000 occurring in our epigrams). Volume 5 also contains Addenda et Corrigenda (pages 17-49) with 29 new epigrams and an index of all additions and corrections (pages 1-16) with short additions.

This edition of Neidhart's lieder is not only a popular and widely-accepted reader much used in classes on the author, it also presents the text in its standard form, i.e. the form in which it is usually cited today. The revisions of this long-established edition since 1984 have all contained a critical apparatus notable for its elucidation of the relationship of the text to Aoeberlieferung R crucial for our image of Neidhart, and the extant melodies. This is the fifth revised edition. The text has been re-examined, the bibliography updated and errors removed.