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Nonius Marcellus: De Compendi CB (Book, Una Red Reprint of the 1st from 1903 ed.): "Lindsay" Nonius Marcellus: De Compendi CB (Book, Una Red Reprint of the 1st from 1903 ed.)
"Lindsay"
R3,334 Discovery Miles 33 340 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Die Bibliotheca Teubneriana, gegrundet 1849, ist die weltweit alteste, traditionsreichste und umfangreichste Editionsreihe griechischer und lateinischer Literatur von der Antike bis zur Neuzeit. Pro Jahr erscheinen 4-5 neue Editionen. Samtliche Ausgaben werden durch eine lateinische oder englische Praefatio erganzt. Die wissenschaftliche Betreuung der Reihe obliegt einem Team anerkannter Philologen: Gian Biagio Conte (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) Marcus Deufert (Universitat Leipzig) James Diggle (University of Cambridge) Donald J. Mastronarde (University of California, Berkeley) Franco Montanari (Universita di Genova) Heinz-Gunther Nesselrath (Georg-August-Universitat Goettingen) Oliver Primavesi (Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat Munchen) Michael D. Reeve (University of Cambridge) Richard J. Tarrant (Harvard University) Vergriffene Titel werden als Print-on-Demand-Nachdrucke wieder verfugbar gemacht. Zudem werden alle Neuerscheinungen der Bibliotheca Teubneriana parallel zur gedruckten Ausgabe auch als eBook angeboten. Die alteren Bande werden sukzessive ebenfalls als eBook bereitgestellt. Falls Sie einen vergriffenen Titel bestellen moechten, der noch nicht als Print-on-Demand angeboten wird, schreiben Sie uns an: [email protected] Samtliche in der Bibliotheca Teubneriana erschienenen Editionen lateinischer Texte sind in der Datenbank BTL Online elektronisch verfugbar.

Hrafns Saga Sveinbjarnarsonar (Hardcover): Gudrun P. Helgadottir Hrafns Saga Sveinbjarnarsonar (Hardcover)
Gudrun P. Helgadottir
R4,035 R2,976 Discovery Miles 29 760 Save R1,059 (26%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Hrafns saga Sveinbjarnarsonar is a prime source of information about people and affairs in Iceland from the 1180s to 1217, the beginning of the Sturlung Age, and the great period of creativity in Icelandic saga-writing. The first critical edition based on all the manuscripts currently available, the saga offers insightful information about daily life, seafaring, law, feud, medicine, superstition, and "sacramental" and "secular" attitudes. The volume is furnished with full textual notes, a detailed introduction, and a substantial commentary that clarifies points of content, language, and style.

Locating Latin American Women Writers - Cristina Peri Rossi, Rosario Ferre, Albalucia Angel, and Isabel Allende (Paperback):... Locating Latin American Women Writers - Cristina Peri Rossi, Rosario Ferre, Albalucia Angel, and Isabel Allende (Paperback)
Claire Lindsay
R810 Discovery Miles 8 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The end of the twentieth century witnessed a « boom in the production, publication, readership, and scholarship of women's writing from Latin America. In fact, the emergence of women writers is perhaps the most significant phenomenon of the « post-boom« period of Latin American literary history, a phenomenon that has been influenced in turn by the burgeoning development of a number of women's movements on the continent. Within this « boom« , the short story has become an increasingly popular genre amongst women writers. This book considers the location(s) of four major women writers - Cristina Peri Rossi, Rosario Ferre, Albalucia Angel, and Isabel Allende - and their short fiction within these changing literary and social contexts. Combining close textual analysis of their fiction with a consideration of the social, historical, and geographical contexts of literary production, this book is essential reading for students and scholars in Latin American studies, women's studies, and comparative literature.

Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War - Dialogues on Tradition (Hardcover): Jan Haywood, Naoise Mac Sweeney Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War - Dialogues on Tradition (Hardcover)
Jan Haywood, Naoise Mac Sweeney
R3,941 Discovery Miles 39 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this new volume, Jan Haywood and Naoise Mac Sweeney investigate the position of Homer's Iliad within the wider Trojan War tradition through a series of detailed case studies. From ancient Mesopotamia to twenty-first century America, these examples are drawn from a range of historical and cultural contexts; and from Athenian pot paintings to twelfth-century German scholarship, they engage with a range of different media and genres. Inspired by the dialogues inherent in the process of reception, the book adopts a dialogic structure. In each chapter, paired essays by Haywood and Mac Sweeney offer contrasting authorial voices addressing a single theme, thereby drawing out connections and dissonances between a diverse suite of classical and post-classical Iliadic receptions. The resulting book offers new insights, both into individual instances of Iliadic reception in particular historical contexts, but also into the workings of a complex story tradition. The centrality of the Iliad within the wider Trojan War tradition is shown to be a function of conscious engagement not only with Iliadic content, but also with Iliadic status and the iconic idea of the Homeric.

Civilisation and Authenticity - The Search for Cultural Uniqueness in the Narrative Fiction of Alejo Carpentier and Julio... Civilisation and Authenticity - The Search for Cultural Uniqueness in the Narrative Fiction of Alejo Carpentier and Julio Cortazar (Hardcover, New edition)
Eugenia Demuro
R1,872 Discovery Miles 18 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The question "What is Latin America?" has been at the heart of writing from and about Latin America from Columbus' conquest to present-day discussions and nationalising projects. What this belies is the inherent question "What is Latin America compared to Europe?" This book lays bare the underlying logic of a Latin Americanist discourse through some of the continent's most influential thinkers, including Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Jose Marti, Jose Enrique Rodo, Jose Vasconcelos, Fernando Ortiz, Roberto Fernandez Retamar, Nestor Garcia Canclini, and Walter Mignolo. Civilisation and Authenticity presents case studies of two of Latin America's most renowned and representative twentieth-century writers, the Cuban Alejo Carpentier and the Argentine Julio Cortazar and reveals how desire to define Latin America is entwined throughout their groundbreaking experimental novels, focusing on Carpentier's Los pasos perdidos (1953) and Cortazar's Rayuela (1963). New research into the poetics of these authors and jargon-free analyses of their fiction outline how the Latin Americanist discourse persists in both writers' representations of the Latin American landscape and people as either Europe's "authentic" and marvelous "Other", or its "civilised" and modern counterpart. Civilisation and Authenticity presents new research for experts on Carpentier and Cortazar and will be indispensable to students of Latin American literature. Its delineation of the Latin Americanist discourse makes it an ideal reference for anybody studying Latin American cultural studies.

The Fall of Icarus (Paperback, 73 Ed): Ovid The Fall of Icarus (Paperback, 73 Ed)
Ovid
R74 Discovery Miles 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky, he left his guide and soared upwards...' Ovid tells the tales of Theseus and the Minotaur, Daedalus and Icarus, the Calydonian Boar-Hunt, and many other famous myths. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Ovid (c.43 BCE-17 CE). Ovid's other works available in Penguin Classics are The Erotic Poems, Fasti, Heroides and Metamorphoses.

Dante's "Commedia" and the Liturgical Imagination (Paperback, New edition): Matthew Treherne Dante's "Commedia" and the Liturgical Imagination (Paperback, New edition)
Matthew Treherne
R1,486 Discovery Miles 14 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Medieval liturgical practice both expressed and helped shape habits of thought and imagination in ways which were deep and far-reaching, encompassing embodied, lived experience and the most sophisticated theological thought. This book argues that Dante, in common with his contemporaries, saw the liturgical rituals of the Church as a mode of religious practice which manifested what he considered to be the central truths regarding the relationship between God, human beings, and the world. It also shows how Dante's Commedia engages with medieval understandings of the sacraments, an idea which has been largely neglected in studies of Dante. Seen in this way, the poet's engagement with liturgy is central to the daring and highly original poetic project of the Commedia, shaping its treatment of time, its engagement with theology, and its portrayal of the soul's awakening to the condition of creation itself.

Andromache, Hecuba, Trojan Women (Paperback): Euripides Andromache, Hecuba, Trojan Women (Paperback)
Euripides; Translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien; Introduction by Ruth Scodel
R360 R339 Discovery Miles 3 390 Save R21 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Diane Arnson Svarlien's translation of Euripides' Andromache , Hecuba , and Trojan Women exhibits the same scholarly and poetic standards that have won praise for her Alcestis , Medea , Hippolytus . Ruth Scodel's Introduction examines the cultural and political context in which Euripides wrote, and provides analysis of the themes, structure, and characters of the plays included. Her notes offer expert guidance to readers encountering these works for the first time.

Journee d'etudes egeennes - Actes de la rencontre du 3 novembre 2012 a l'Universite de Geneve (English, French,... Journee d'etudes egeennes - Actes de la rencontre du 3 novembre 2012 a l'Universite de Geneve (English, French, Paperback, New edition)
Julien Beck
R1,569 Discovery Miles 15 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Cet ouvrage reunit une serie de travaux portant sur la prehistoire et la protohis-toire de la Grece et des regions avoisinantes. Presentes le temps d'une journee a l'Universite de Geneve, ils ont pour but d'illustrer toute la diversite des etudes egeennes, que ce soit sur le plan de la methode ou de l'etendue chronologique et geographique. Ils melent ainsi archeologie et philologie, dans un parcours qui va du Paleolithique au debut de l'Age du Fer et aborde Chypre, l'Anatolie ou encore l'Italie.

The Last Pharaoh and Other Plays (Hardcover): Wagdi Zeid The Last Pharaoh and Other Plays (Hardcover)
Wagdi Zeid
R592 R496 Discovery Miles 4 960 Save R96 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Akhnaton, a pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty, is about to challenge everything his people and culture hold dear in The Last Pharaoh. Before his rule, Egyptians lived a life of slavery under their rulers, who demanded abject submission. In a culture where rulers are revered as gods, change comes slowly, if at all. The pharaoh's grand vision of sweeping social reform is met with violent hostility by the priesthood and every other power player in the kingdom. When Akhnaton announces that he is, in fact, as mortal and fallible as his subjects, his proclamation inspires rivalries that would enthusiastically put his new mortality to the test. Neighbors struggle with questions of faith, morality, and the social order in Winter Dreams, a two-act play that could take place in any small town in America. When a child preacher stirs up old drama and rivalries, more questions than answers arise. Is he really the voice of God, or are other forces at work? The New Odyssey explores a darker future for humanity. In 1999-as the flames of the disastrous Third World War cool, and the fourth apocalyptic global war looms-a college professor summons Hesiod, Homer, and Shakespeare. He argues passionately to enlist their help in a bold plan to save humanity from its eventual destruction-at the hand of womankind. If he can get these three minds from humanity's past in on his scheme, there may be hope for mankind's future yet.

Critica - Textual Issues in Horace, Ennius, Vergil and Other Authors (Hardcover): Egil Kraggerud Critica - Textual Issues in Horace, Ennius, Vergil and Other Authors (Hardcover)
Egil Kraggerud
R4,297 Discovery Miles 42 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Gathering together over 60 new and revised discussions of textual issues, this volume represents notorious problems in well-known texts from the classical era by authors including Horace, Ennius, and Vergil. A follow-up to Vegiliana: Critical Studies on the Texts of Publius Vergilius Maro (2017), the volume includes major contributions to the discussion of Horace's Carmen IV 8 and IV 12, along with studies on Catullus Carmen 67 and Hadrian's Animula vagula, as well as a new contribution on Livy's text at IV 20 in connection with Cossus's spolia opima, and on Vergil's Aeneid 3. 147-152 and 11. 151-153. On Ennius, the author presents several new ideas on Ann. 42 Sk. and 220-22l, and in editing Horace, he suggests new principles for the critical apparatus and tries to find a balance by weighing both sides in several studies, comparing a conservative and a radical approach. Critica will be an important resource for students and scholars of Latin language and literature.

The Interpretation of Nizami's Cultural Heritage in the Contemporary Period - Shared past and cultural legacy in the... The Interpretation of Nizami's Cultural Heritage in the Contemporary Period - Shared past and cultural legacy in the transition from the prism of national literature criteria (Paperback, New edition)
Rahilya Geybullayeva, Christine van Ruymbeke
R2,273 Discovery Miles 22 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book fills a void in the field of pre-modern literature written in Persian. It is the first scholarly publication in English language on and around the poet Nizami Ganjavi written by important Western and Non-Western scholars, enriching the field with an awareness of their knowledge and research interests. The multidisciplinary volume initiates a much-needed dialogue it initiates a much-needed dialogue between the metropolitan and postcolonial academic points of view. By the example of Nizami's poems it shows how different academic circles interpret Medieval authors in relation to modern-day national identity and national cultures. Unlike in Europe and USA, in the USSR citizenship and ethnicity, like two modern official different criteria of identity, became a stumbling block in the division of cultural heritage of the past. Irredentism is a central topic in the post-Soviet Union world and gives a voice to the peripheral rather than to the metropolis with its colonial arguments. The richness and usefulness of this volume is that the contributions that take this innovative standpoint are put side by side with others, which remain within the traditional literary analysis and examine Nizami's creative thoughts on human, society, women, or justice.

Forefathers' Eve (Hardcover): Adam Mickiewicz Forefathers' Eve (Hardcover)
Adam Mickiewicz
R962 R805 Discovery Miles 8 050 Save R157 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Estate Management and Symposium (Paperback): Xenophon Estate Management and Symposium (Paperback)
Xenophon; Edited by Emily Baragwanath; Translated by Anthony Verity
R274 R209 Discovery Miles 2 090 Save R65 (24%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Xenophon was acknowledged in Antiquity as a philosopher, a historian (third in the triad of great Classical historians, alongside Herodotus and Thucydides), and a literary artist. His narrative was appreciated for its literary qualities including its charm, wit, vigour, and sweetness (for which he was hailed as 'Attic Muse': Diogenes Laertius, 2.6.57). The Oeconomicus describes Socrates conversing on the topic of successful management of one's oikos (household, estate). The focus is a well-to-do Athenian household, which proves a testing ground for the moral qualities or 'gentlemanliness' of the male head of household, but also a space in which the role and agency of women turns out to be key. Symposium shifts to the male space of the men's quarters of the private home, to describe an evening of conversation and entertainment at the house of an Athenian plutocrat. Far from being simply a lighthearted affair, the conversation probes timeless questions regarding wisdom, love, and female capacity, and over it looms the deadly serious matter of Socrates' trial and death. Both works are rich sources for Athenian social history of the Classical period. Oeconomicus in particular offers insights on the role and status of women in Ancient Athens. Xenophon doesn't, however, passively reflect the social realities he saw around him or supply snapshots of historical actuality.

Virgil, Aeneid II: A Selection (Paperback): Dominic Jones Virgil, Aeneid II: A Selection (Paperback)
Dominic Jones
R512 Discovery Miles 5 120 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Virgil's Aeneid Book 2, lines 40-249 and the A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Book 2, lines 268-317, 370-558, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction that also covers the prescribed material to be read in English for A Level. Book II of Virgil's Aeneid is the story of how Troy fell and how Aeneas escaped with his family and his city's gods. It is a narrative relayed in retrospect by Aeneas as a refugee at the court of Queen Dido in Carthage, and the OCR selection covers the book's first two thirds: the Wooden Horse episode, and the chaos which ensues - including the dramatic murder of King Priam. Virgil depicts war in all its ugly complexity, and Aeneas' response to this - as combatant in Troy, as exile in Carthage - is central to the poem's early exposition. Supporting resources are available on the Companion Website: https://www.bloomsbury.pub/OCR-editions-2024-2026

OCR Anthology for Classical Greek AS and A Level: 2024-2026 (Paperback): Sam Baddeley, Benedict Gravell, Charlie Paterson,... OCR Anthology for Classical Greek AS and A Level: 2024-2026 (Paperback)
Sam Baddeley, Benedict Gravell, Charlie Paterson, Stuart R. Thomson, Neil Treble, …
R918 Discovery Miles 9 180 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Greek AS and A-Level set text prescriptions for 2024-26 giving full Greek text, commentary and vocabulary and a detailed introduction for each text that also covers the prescription to be read in English for A Level. The texts covered are: AS and A Level Groups 1&3 Herodotus, Histories, Book 1, 1-6, 8-13 and 19-22 Plato, Republic, Book 1, 327a to 332b Homer, Iliad, Book 16, lines 20-47, 644-867 Euripides, Hippolytus, 284-361, 391-524 A Level Groups 2&4 Herodotus, Histories, Book 7: 34-35, 38-39, 45-52, 101-105 Plato, Republic, Book 1, 336b to 337a7 and 338a4 to end of 342 Plutarch, Life of Anthony, 76-86 Homer, Iliad, Book 24, lines 349-595 Euripides, Hippolytus, 601-624, 627-633, 638-662, 664-668, 682-731, 885-911, 914-1028, 1030-1035 Aristophanes, Frogs, 1-208 and 830-874 Supplementary resources are available on the Companion Website: https://www.bloomsbury.pub/OCR-editions-2024-2026.

Medea - A New Translation (Paperback): Euripides Medea - A New Translation (Paperback)
Euripides; Translated by Charles Martin; Introduction by A. E Stallings
R268 Discovery Miles 2 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Renowned poet and acclaimed translator Charles Martin faithfully captures Euripides's dramatic tone and style in this searing tale of revenge and sacrifice. The Medea of Euripides is one of the greatest of all Greek tragedies and arguably the one with the most significance today. A barbarian woman brought to Corinth and there abandoned by her Greek husband, Medea seeks vengeance on Jason and is willing to strike out against his new wife and family-even slaughtering the sons she has born him. At its center is Medea herself, a character who refuses definition: Is she a hero, a witch, a psychopath, a goddess? All that can be said for certain is that she is a woman who has loved, has suffered, and will stop at nothing for vengeance. In this stunning translation, poet Charles Martin captures the rhythms of Euripides' original text through contemporary rhyme and meter that speak directly to modern readers. An introduction by classicist and poet A.E. Stallings examines the complex and multifaceted Medea in patriarchal ancient Greece. Perfect in and out of the classroom as well as for theatrical performance, this faithful translation succeeds like no other.

Kings and Consuls - Eight Essays on Roman History, Historiography, and Political Thought (Paperback, New edition): James... Kings and Consuls - Eight Essays on Roman History, Historiography, and Political Thought (Paperback, New edition)
James Richardson
R1,323 Discovery Miles 13 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From the beginning, kings ruled Rome; Lucius Brutus established freedom and the consulship. So wrote the Roman historian Tacitus in the second century AD, but the view was orthodox. It is still widely accepted today. But how could the Romans of later times have possibly known anything about the origins of Rome, the rule and subsequent expulsion of their kings or the creation of the Republic when all those events took place centuries before anyone wrote any account of them? And just how useful are those later accounts, those few that happen to survive, when the Romans not only viewed the past in light of the present but also retold stories of past events in ways designed to meet contemporary needs? This book attempts to assess what the Romans wrote about the early development of their state. While it may not, in the end, be possible to say very much about archaic Rome, it is certainly possible to draw conclusions about later political ideas and their influence on what the Romans said about their past, about the writing of history at Rome and about the role that stories of past events could play even centuries later.

L'argent Des Autres (French, Paperback): Emile Gaboriau L'argent Des Autres (French, Paperback)
Emile Gaboriau
R539 Discovery Miles 5 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Jahresbericht UEber Die Fortschritte Der Classischen Alterthumswissenschaft, Herausg. Von C. Bursian. Continued as Lustrum.... Jahresbericht UEber Die Fortschritte Der Classischen Alterthumswissenschaft, Herausg. Von C. Bursian. Continued as Lustrum. Beiblatt Entitled Bibliotheca Philologica Classica. Suppl. Entitled Biographisches Jahrbuch Fur Alterthumskunde (Alterthumswissensch (German, Paperback)
Conrad Bursian
R903 Discovery Miles 9 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Il Martiro Di Brescia - Narrazione Documentata (Italian, Paperback): Felice Venosta Il Martiro Di Brescia - Narrazione Documentata (Italian, Paperback)
Felice Venosta
R383 Discovery Miles 3 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
De Civitate Dei Libri Xxii, V CB (Book, Reprint of the 5th 1981 ed.): Augustine De Civitate Dei Libri Xxii, V CB (Book, Reprint of the 5th 1981 ed.)
Augustine
R5,522 Discovery Miles 55 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Bibliotheca Teubneriana, established in 1849, has evolved into the world's most venerable and extensive series of editions of Greek and Latin literature, ranging from classical to Neo-Latin texts. Some 4-5 new editions are published every year. A team of renowned scholars in the field of Classical Philology acts as advisory board: Gian Biagio Conte (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) Marcus Deufert (Universitat Leipzig) James Diggle (University of Cambridge) Donald J. Mastronarde (University of California, Berkeley) Franco Montanari (Universita di Genova) Heinz-Gunther Nesselrath (Georg-August-Universitat Goettingen) Dirk Obbink (University of Oxford) Oliver Primavesi (Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat Munchen) Michael D. Reeve (University of Cambridge) Richard J. Tarrant (Harvard University) Formerly out-of-print editions are offered as print-on-demand reprints. Furthermore, all new books in the Bibliotheca Teubneriana series are published as eBooks. The older volumes of the series are being successively digitized and made available as eBooks. If you are interested in ordering an out-of-print edition, which hasn't been yet made available as print-on-demand reprint, please contact us: [email protected] All editions of Latin texts published in the Bibliotheca Teubneriana are collected in the online database BTL Online.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Paperback): Jessie Weston Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Paperback)
Jessie Weston
R150 Discovery Miles 1 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. A green horse great and tall; A steed full stiff to guide, In broidered bridle all He worthily bestrides Dating from around 1400 and composed by an anonymous writer, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was first translated and published almost 200 years ago. Its epic nature has not been dimmed by time: the classic story of a knight on a green steed challenging Sir Gawain to a monumental wager, it is a strange tale full of decapitations, seduction and magic. Soon to be brought to the big screen, Sir Gawain is one of the earliest great stories of English literature.

Pollastra and the Origins of Twelfth Night - Parthenio, commedia (1516) with an English Translation (Paperback): Louise George... Pollastra and the Origins of Twelfth Night - Parthenio, commedia (1516) with an English Translation (Paperback)
Louise George Clubb
R1,218 Discovery Miles 12 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Pollastra and the Origins of Twelfth Night addresses two closely linked and increasingly studied issues: the nature of the relation of Shakespeare's plays to Italian culture, and the technology of modern theater invented in Renaissance Italy. The discovery of forgotten works by Giovanni Lappoli, known as Pollastra, led to publication in Italy in 1993 in a limited edition of the Italian texts with supplemental scholarship by the authors, entitled Romance and Aretine Humanism in Sienese Comedy. One of those texts, the comedy Parthenio, has escaped the attention of theater bibliographers, because it was quickly sold out in its time and only a handful of copies are known to exist today. Yet it played an important part in the birth of Italian Renaissance drama and of modern comedy in general, in that it was the immediate predecessor and source of Gl'Ingannati, arguably the most famous comedy of the Italian Renaissance and certainly the most imitated, translated, adapted all over Europe. The best known of its progeny is Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Much has been written in Italy and England about Gl'Ingannati and Shakespeare's debt to it, but nothing at all about Parthenio. This volume provides the first English translation (with the original Italian on facing pages); and presents for an international audience the theatrical scholarship from the 1993 book Romance and Aretine Humanism in Sienese Comedy, augmented with new findings.

Cicero's Catilinarians (Hardcover): D.H. Berry Cicero's Catilinarians (Hardcover)
D.H. Berry
R2,401 Discovery Miles 24 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Catilinarians are a set of four speeches that Cicero, while consul in 63 BC, delivered before the senate and the Roman people against the conspirator Catiline and his followers. Or are they? Cicero did not publish the speeches until three years later, and he substantially revised them before publication, rewriting some passages and adding others, all with the aim of justifying the action he had taken against the conspirators and memorializing his own role in the suppression of the conspiracy. How, then, should we interpret these speeches as literature? Can we treat them as representing what Cicero actually said? Or do we have to read them merely as political pamphlets from a later time? In this, the first book-length discussion of these famous speeches, D. H. Berry clarifies what the speeches actually are and explains how he believes we should approach them. In addition, the book contains a full and up-to-date account of the Catilinarian conspiracy and a survey of the influence that the story of Catiline has had on writers such as Sallust and Virgil, Ben Jonson and Henrik Ibsen, from antiquity to the present day.

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