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An Ocean Untouched and Untried - The Tudor Translations of Livy (Hardcover)
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An Ocean Untouched and Untried - The Tudor Translations of Livy (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford English Monographs
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The early modern period saw the study of classical history
flourish. From debates over the rights of women to the sources of
Shakespeare's plays, the Greco-Roman historians played a central
role in the period's political, cultural, and literary
achievements. An Ocean Untouched and Untried: The Tudor
Translations of Livy explores the early modern translations of
Livy, the single most important Roman historian for the development
of politics and culture in Renaissance Europe. It examines the
influence exerted by Livy's history of Rome, the Ab Urbe Condita,
in some of the most pressing debates of the day, from Tudor foreign
policy to arguments concerning the merits of monarchy at the height
of the English Civil War. An Ocean Untouched and Untried examines
Livy's initial reception into print in Europe, outlining the
attempts of his earliest editors to impose a critical order onto
his enormous work. It then considers the respective translations
undertaken by Anthony Cope, William Thomas, William Painter, and
Philemon Holland, comparing each translation in detail to the Latin
original and highlighting the changes that Livy's history
experienced in each process. It explores the wider impact of Livy
on popular forms of literature in the period, especially the plays
and poetry of Shakespeare, and demonstrate the Livy played a
fundamental though underexplored role in the development of
vernacular literature, historiography, and political thought in
early modern England.
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