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A chronological guide to influential Greek and Roman writers, Fifty Key Classical Authors is an invaluable introduction to the literature, philosophy and history of the ancient world. Including essays on Sappho, Polybius and Lucan, as well as on major figures such as Homer, Plato, Catullus and Cicero, this book is a vital tool for all students of classical civilization.
A chronological guide to influential Greek and Roman writers, Fifty Key Classical Authors is an invaluable introduction to the literature, philosophy and history of the ancient world. Including essays on Sappho, Polybius and Lucan, as well as on major figures such as Homer, Plato, Catullus and Cicero, this book is a vital tool for all students of classical civilization.
For many years the domain of specialists in early Latin, in complex
metres, and in the reconstruction of texts, Roman comedy is now
established in the mainstream of Classical literary criticism.
Where most books stress the original performance as the primary
location for the encountering of the plays, this book finds the
locus of meaning and appreciation in the activity of a reader,
albeit one whose manner of reading necessarily involves the
imaginative reconstruction of performance. The texts are treated,
and celebrated, as literary devices, with programmatic beginnings,
middles, ends, and intertexts. All the extant plays of Plautus and
Terence have at least a bit part in this book, which seeks to
expose the authors' fabulous artificiality and artifice, while
playing along with their differing but interrelated poses of
generic humility.
For many years the domain of specialists in early Latin, in complex
metres, and in the reconstruction of texts, Roman comedy has only
recently begun to establish itself in the mainstream of Classical
literary criticism. Where most recent books stress the original
performance as the primary location for the encountering of the
plays, this book finds the locus of meaning and appreciation in the
activity of a reader, albeit one whose manner of reading
necessarily involves the imaginative reconstruction of performance.
The texts are treated, and celebrated, as literary devices, with
programmatic beginnings, middles, ends, and intertexts. All the
extant plays of Plautus and Terence have at least a bit part in
this book, which seeks to expose the authors' fabulous
artificiality and artifice, while playing along with their
differing but interrelated poses of generic humility.
This collection of papers by an international team of contributors seeks to examine the various ways in which ancient authors and modern readers respond to the interrelations of Greek and Latin texts. The works studied in individual chapters vary widely in genre and historical period, with Plato and Cicero taking their places alongside Homer and Catullus.
The Art of Love celebrates the bi-millennium of Ovid's cycle of
sophisticated and subversive didactic poems on love, traditionally
assumed to have been brought to completion around AD 2. Ars
Amatoria (The Art of Love) and Remedia Amoris (Cures for Love),
which purport to teach young Roman men and women how to be good
lovers, were partly responsible for the poet's exile from Rome
under the emperor Augustus. None the less they exerted great
influence over ancient and later love poetry. This is the first
collection in English devoted to the poems, and brings together
many of the leading figures in the field of Latin literature and
Ovidian studies from the British Isles, Germany, Italy, and the
United States. It offers a range of perspectives on the poetics,
politics, and erotics of the poems, beginning with a critical
survey of recent research, and concluding with papers on the
ancient, medieval, and modern reception of the poems.
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