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This book deals with the ways in which the ancient Roman literary imagination explored the phenomenon of slavery. It asks what the free imagination made of the experience of living with slaves, beings who both were and were not fellow humans. The book covers the full range of Roman literature, and is arranged thematically. It discusses the ideological relation of Roman literature to the institution of slavery, and also the ways in which slavery provided a metaphor for other relationships and experiences, and in particular for literature itself.
In this age of the sound bite, what sort of author could be more
relevant than a master of the epigram? Martial, the most
influential epigrammatist of classical antiquity, was just such a
virtuoso of the form, but despite his pertinence to today's
culture, his work has been largely neglected in contemporary
scholarship. Arguing that Martial is a major author who deserves
more sustained attention, William Fitzgerald provides an insightful
tour of his works, shedding new and much-needed light on the Roman
poet's world-and how it might speak to our own. Writing in the late
first century CE-when the epigram was firmly embedded in the social
life of the Roman elite-Martial published his poems in a series of
books that were widely read and enjoyed. Exploring what it means to
read such a collection of epigrams, Fitzgerald examines the
paradoxical relationship between the self-enclosed epigram and the
book of poems that is more than the sum of its parts. And he goes
on to show how Martial, by imagining these books being displayed in
shops and shipped across the empire to admiring readers,
prophetically behaved like a modern author. Chock-full of epigrams
itself-in both Latin and English versions-Fitzgerald's study will
delight classicists, literary scholars, and anyone who appreciates
an ingenious witticism.
Ennius Perennis: The Annals and Beyond is a collection of eight
essays by an international group of scholars on different aspects
of the poetry and legacy of Quintus Ennius (239-169 BC). Ennius'
epic poem The Annals and his many other works, including tragedies,
satires and epigrams, survive only in mystifying fragments, but his
influence on Latin poetry was enormous. He is now beginning to be
appreciated, thanks both to excellent critical editions and to more
enlightened literary and historical approaches, as a complex and
varied poet and a fascinating representative of an era of intense
cultural and political change. While they acknowledge the extent to
which later authors are responsible for creating a misleading
perception of Ennius as monolithic, jingoistic and clumsy, these
essays also reflect on what can be said about the nature and aims
of his work, given the limitations of our evidence. Subjects
discussed include Cicero's "invention" of Ennius, the part played
by the cor (heart) in unifying Ennius' literary project, the
possibility of "further voices" and a role for women in Ennius,
Virgil's fraught "father-son" relationship with his epic
predecessor and Ennius' later reincarnation in the works of Horace
and Petrarch. The collection is likely to appeal to all who are
interested in Latin literature, literary history or reception
studies.
The idea of variety may seem too diffuse, obvious, or nebulous to
be worth scrutinizing, but modern usage masks the rich history of
the term. This book examines the meaning, value, and practice of
variety from the vantage point of Latin literature and its
reception and reveals the enduring importance of the concept up to
the present day. William Fitzgerald looks at the definition and use
of the Latin term varietas and how it has played out in different
works and with different authors. He shows that, starting with the
Romans, variety has played a key role in our thinking about nature,
rhetoric, creativity, pleasure, aesthetics, and empire. From the
lyric to elegy and satire, the concept of variety has helped to
characterize and distinguish different genres. Arguing that the
ancient Roman ideas and controversies about the value of variety
have had a significant afterlife up to our own time, Fitzgerald
reveals how modern understandings of diversity and choice derive
from what is ultimately an ancient concept.
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Invasion (Paperback)
William Fitzgerald Jenkins
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Discovery Miles 3 000
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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1850 Edition.
1850. With notes and an introductory discourse. This work is
designed primarily for the use of the Senior Sophisters in college,
but was trusted to be a satisfactory textbook for introduction
young students to the study of Aristotle's ethics. The Greek is
printed from Bekke's text. It aims to give the reader a view of
Aristotle's most finished delineation of the purely moral virtues.
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