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This scholarly biography details the life of an extraordinary woman
in an extraordinary society. Julia Augusti studies the life of the
only daughter of Augustus, the first Roman emperor, and the father
who sacrificed his daughter and her children in order to establish
a dynasty. Studying the abundant historical evidence available,
this biography studies each stage of Julia's life in remarkable
detail: her childhood - taken from her divorced mother to become
part of a complex and unstable family structure her youth - set
against the brilliant social and cultural life of the new Augustan
Rome her marriages - as tools for Augustus' plans for succession
Julia's violation of her father's moral regime, and the betrayal of
her absent husband. Reflecting new attitudes, and casting fresh
light on their social reality, this outstanding biography will
delight, entertain and inform anyone interested in this engaging
Classical figure.
This volume presents closely connected articles by Elaine Fantham,
which deal with Roman responses to Greek literature on three major
subjects: the history and criticism of Latin poetry and rhetoric,
women in Roman life and dramatic poetry and the poetic
representation of children in relation to their mothers and
teachers. The volume opens with papers on Roman comedy: Menaechmi,
Trinummus, Hautontimorumenos, papers on women of the demimonde in
Truculentus and Eunuchus, Cistellaria and Poenulus. The second part
deals with rhetoric, including the subject of imitation as a
stylistic feature, the study of performance comparing oratory and
comedy and of declamation. Papers on Ovid's Fasti include a study
of failed rape-scenes and papers concerned with women's cults. The
last part (Senecan tragedy, Lucan, Statius) focuses on Lucan's
Civil War and his treatment of Caesar as well as Statius' Thebaid
and Achilleid.
Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), one of the greatest of Italian
poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to
revive the cultural and moral excellence of ancient Greece and
Rome. This two-volume set contains an ample, representative sample
from his enormous and fascinating correspondence with all the
leading figures of his day, from popes, emperors, and kings to
younger contemporaries such as Cola di Rienzi and Giovanni
Boccaccio. The letters illustrate the remarkable story of
Petrarca's life in a Europe beset by war, plague, clerical
corruption, and political disintegration. The ninety-seven letters
in this selection, all freshly translated, cover the full range of
Petrarca's interests, including the rediscovery of lost classical
texts, the reform of the Church, the ideal prince, education in the
classics, and the revival of ancient moral philosophy. They include
Petrarca's imaginary correspondence with the ancient authors he
loved so well, and his autobiographical Letter to Posterity.
Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), one of the greatest of Italian
poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to
revive the cultural and moral excellence of ancient Greece and
Rome. This two-volume set contains an ample, representative sample
from his enormous and fascinating correspondence with all the
leading figures of his day, from popes, emperors, and kings to
younger contemporaries such as Cola di Rienzi and Giovanni
Boccaccio. The letters illustrate the remarkable story of
Petrarca's life in a Europe beset by war, plague, clerical
corruption, and political disintegration. The ninety-seven letters
in this selection, all freshly translated, cover the full range of
Petrarca's interests, including the rediscovery of lost classical
texts, the reform of the Church, the ideal prince, education in the
classics, and the revival of ancient moral philosophy. They include
Petrarca's imaginary correspondence with the ancient authors he
loved so well, and his autobiographical Letter to Posterity.
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Hardship and Happiness (Paperback)
Lucius Annaeus Seneca; Translated by Elaine Fantham, Harry M. Hine, James Ker, Gareth D. Williams
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher,
dramatist, statesman, and advisor to the emperor Nero, all during
the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius
Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of new
English-language translations of his works in eight accessible
volumes. Edited by Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C.
Nussbaum, this engaging collection helps restore Seneca-whose works
have been highly praised by modern authors from Desiderius Erasmus
to Ralph Waldo Emerson-to his rightful place among the classical
writers most widely studied in the humanities. Hardship and
Happiness collects a range of essays intended to instruct, from
consolations-works that offer comfort to someone who has suffered a
personal loss-to pieces on how to achieve happiness or tranquility
in the face of a difficult world. Expertly translated, the essays
will be read and used by undergraduate philosophy students and
experienced scholars alike.
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Selected Letters (Paperback)
Seneca; Translated by Elaine Fantham
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R315
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Seneca's letters to his friend Lucilius are powerful moral essays
that also yield illuminating insight into Seneca's personal life
and the truly turbulent times in which he lived. One of the great
Stoic philosophers, Seneca here guides Lucilius' struggle to
achieve wisdom and serenity, uninfluenced by worldly emotions. He
advises his friend on how to do without what is superfluous,
whether in terms of happiness, riches, reputation, or the emotions.
The letters include literary discussions, moral exhortation,
exemplary heroes and episodes from Roman history, and a lurid
picture of contemporary luxury. And under Nero's chaotic reign, the
topic of death is never far away. This marvelous new translation by
eminent scholar Elaine Fantham offers the largest selection of
Seneca's letters currently available. Fantham's invaluable
introduction discusses Seneca's family and political career, his
many and varied writings, the nature of the letters as genuine
epistles or fiction, their philosophical concerns, and other social
and cultural aspects. Short head-notes to each letter summarize its
themes and parallels with other letters, opening a window on to
Seneca's world.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Georgics (Paperback)
Virgil; Translated by Peter Fallon; Introduction by Elaine Fantham
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Virgil's affectionate poem of the land brings us the
disappointments as well as the rewards of the countryman's
year-round devotion to his crops, his vines and olives, livestock
great and small, and the complex society of his bees. Part
agricultural manual, part political poem and allegory, The
Georgics' scenes are real and vivid, allowing the reader to feel
the sights, sounds, and textures of the ancient Italian
landscape.
This lauded new translation has been written by Peter Fallon, who,
as a farmer and a poet, is uniquely suited to the task. It is
coupled here with an introduction and notes by the classical
scholar Elaine Fantham. Fantham's introduction considers Virgil's
life and poetry in its historical context, while her notes gloss
the many classical and mythological allusions. The combination of a
faithful and lyrical translation with well-researched contextual
information makes this edition the best possible introduction to
Virgil's masterpiece. It is sure to delight all lovers of poetry
and Renaissance literature.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
The first of two volumes collecting the complete tragedies of
Seneca. Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi
Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, the Complete Works of Lucius
Annaeus Seneca series offers authoritative, modern English
translations of the writings of the Stoic philosopher and
playwright (4 BCE-65 CE). The two volumes of The Complete Tragedies
present all of his dramas, expertly rendered by preeminent scholars
and translators. This first volume contains Medea, The Phoenician
Women, Phaedra, The Trojan Women, and Octavia, the last of which
was written in emulation of Senecan tragedies and serves as a
unique example of political tragedy. The second volume includes
Oedipus, Hercules Mad, Hercules on Oeta, Thyestes, and Agamemnon.
High standards of accuracy, clarity, and style are maintained
throughout the translations, which render Seneca into verse with as
close a correspondence, line for line, to the original as possible,
and with special attention paid to meter and overall flow. In
addition, each tragedy is prefaced by an original translator's
introduction offering reflections on the work's context and
meaning. Notes are provided for the reader unfamiliar with the
culture and history of classical antiquity. Accordingly, The
Complete Tragedies will be of use to a general audience and
professionals alike, from the Latinless student to scholars and
instructors of comparative literature, classics, philosophy, drama,
and more.
Nero's reign (AD 54-68) witnessed some of the most memorable events
in Roman history, such as the rebellion of Boudica and the first
persecution of the Christians--not to mention Nero's murder of his
mother, his tyranny and extravagance, and his suicide, which
plunged the empire into civil war. The Emperor Nero gathers into a
single collection the major sources for Nero's life and rule,
providing students of Nero and ancient Rome with the most
authoritative and accessible reader there is. The Emperor Nero
features clear, contemporary translations of key literary sources
along with translations and explanations of representative
inscriptions and coins issued under Nero. The informative
introduction situates the emperor's reign within the history of the
Roman Empire, and the book's concise headnotes to chapters place
the source material in historical and biographical context.
Passages are accompanied by detailed notes and are organized around
events, such as the Great Fire of Rome, or by topic, such as Nero's
relationships with his wives. Complex events like the war with
Parthia--split up among several chapters in Tacitus's Annals--are
brought together in continuous narratives, making this the most
comprehensible and user-friendly sourcebook on Nero available.
Elaine Fantham provides here a fresh Latin text of Seneca's Traodes
and an English version, with an extensive introduction and critical
commentary--the first separate treatment of the play in English
since Kingery's 1908 edition. Arguing that the Troades was not
intended for stage production, the author also discusses the
atmosphere of Rome at the time the play was written, when both
political and poetic life were felt to be in decline. Although
Seneca's plays reflect his experience of tyranny, corruption, and
compromise, they are enriched by his contract with the nobler world
of poetry. Demonstrating how Seneca loved and imitated the Augustan
poets, Professor Fantham reveals the originality that is part of
his imitation. Professor Fantham discusses not only the particular
characteristics of Seneca's generation but the interplay of his
moral and poetic concerns in relationship to his subject--the
Trojan captivity.By analyzing his reactions to accounts of this
theme in Homer, Euripides, and Augustan epic, she explains his
methods and motives in composition. Comparison of the play with
Seneca's other works and with other drama exposes some
inconsistency, formulaic writing, and excess of ingenuity. It also
reveals the influence of epic in loosening his dramtic form and
makes apparent his immense vitality. Elaine Fantham is Professor of
Classics at the University of Toronto and author of Comparative
Studies in the Republican Latin Imagery (Toronto). Originally
published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
Elaine Fantham provides here a fresh Latin text of Seneca's Traodes
and an English version, with an extensive introduction and critical
commentary--the first separate treatment of the play in English
since Kingery's 1908 edition. Arguing that the Troades was not
intended for stage production, the author also discusses the
atmosphere of Rome at the time the play was written, when both
political and poetic life were felt to be in decline. Although
Seneca's plays reflect his experience of tyranny, corruption, and
compromise, they are enriched by his contract with the nobler world
of poetry. Demonstrating how Seneca loved and imitated the Augustan
poets, Professor Fantham reveals the originality that is part of
his imitation. Professor Fantham discusses not only the particular
characteristics of Seneca's generation but the interplay of his
moral and poetic concerns in relationship to his subject--the
Trojan captivity.By analyzing his reactions to accounts of this
theme in Homer, Euripides, and Augustan epic, she explains his
methods and motives in composition. Comparison of the play with
Seneca's other works and with other drama exposes some
inconsistency, formulaic writing, and excess of ingenuity. It also
reveals the influence of epic in loosening his dramtic form and
makes apparent his immense vitality. Elaine Fantham is Professor of
Classics at the University of Toronto and author of Comparative
Studies in the Republican Latin Imagery (Toronto). Originally
published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
Of all stylistic devices, imagery has the greatest appeal to the
imagination, but is also the most likely to offend, either by
staleness or by tasteless excess. This volume establishes some of
the limitations which govern figurative language in Latin speech
and prose by exploring such questions as these: From what physical
or social contexts is Latin imagery derived? To what extent is it
influenced by the primacy of Greek as a cultural language and the
derivation of the earliest Latin literature from Greek models? How
are the metaphors expressed in terms of syntax, through verb, noun,
adjective, or a combination of syntactical forms? How are the form
and content of imagery related to the literary genre? In this study
Professor Fantham analyses in detail the conservative imagery of
Terence and of Cicero's letters, contrasting this naturalistic
language with the fantasies of Plautus and the formalization of
Cicero's speeches. A separate chapter on the de Oratore shows how
the thematic and structural use of metaphor and analogy provide
balance and continuity, giving Latin prose imagery its full role in
a mature classical work of art. Numerous illustrative passages from
Greek New Comedy, Terence, Plautus, and Cicero are reproduced in
the text.
Based on Elaine Fantham's 2004 Robson lectures, Latin Poets and
Italian Gods reconstructs the response of Roman poets in the late
republic and Augustan age to the rural cults of central Italy.
Study of Roman gods is often limited to the grand equivalents of
the Olympian Greek deities such as Jupiter, Mars, and Juno.
However, real-life Italians gave a lot of their affection and
loyalty to humbler gods with no Greek equivalent: local nymphs who
supplied healing waters, the great Tiber river and other lesser
rivers, the lusty garden god Priapus, and more. Latin Poets and
Italian Gods surveys the representation of these old country gods
in poets from Plautus to Statius. Fantham offers historical and
epigraphic evidence of worship offered to these colourful lesser
spirits and reveals the emotional importance of local Italian
deities to the sophisticated poets of the Augustan age.
Cicero's speech on behalf of L. Lucinius Murena, newly elected to
the consulship of 62 BCE but immediately prosecuted for electoral
bribery, is especially famous for its digressions and valuable for
its insights into the complex political wrangles of the late 60s.
It is, however, a speech more commonly excerpted and cited than
read in its entirety, though whether the absence of an
English-language commentary is a cause or effect of that situation
remains uncertain. In short, a pedagogical commentary on this
important and strange speech is long overdue. Distinguished
Latinist Elaine Fantham's commentary is noteworthy for its ability
to elucidate not only the rhetorical structure of this speech but
the rationale behind Cicero's strategic decisions in creating that
structure. It also calls attention to the stylistic features like
word choice, rhetorical figures, and rhythmic effects that make the
speech so effective, and explains with care and precision the
political, social, and historical considerations that shaped the
prosecution and defense of the somewhat hapless defendant. This
commentary includes the kind of grammatical explication required to
make its riches accessible to undergraduate students of Latin.
The Roman World of Cicero's De Oratore aims to provide an
accessible study of Cicero's first and fullest dialogue, on the
ideal orator-statesman. It illustrates the dialogue's achievement
as a reflection of a civilized way of life and a brilliantly
constructed literary unity, and considers the contribution made by
Cicero's recommendations to the development of rhetoric and higher
education at Rome. Because Cicero deliberately set his extended
conversation in the generation of his childhood teachers, a study
of the dialogue in its historical setting can show how the
political and cultural life of this earlier period differed from
Cicero's personal experience of the collapse of senatorial
government, when the overwhelming power of the "first triumvirate"
forced him into political silence in the last decade of the
republic. After an introductory chapter reviewing Cicero's position
on return from exile, chapters include a comparative study of the
careers of M. Antonius and L. Licinius Crassus, protagonists of the
dialogue, a discussion of Cicero's response to Plato's criticisms
of rhetoric in the Gorgias and Phaedrus, and his debt to
Aristotle's Rhetoric, analysis of the dialogue's treatment of Roman
civil law, existing Latin literature and historical writing,
Strabo's survey of the sources and application of humor, political
eloquence in senate and contio, theories of diction and style, and
the techniques of oral delivery. An epilogue looks briefly at
Cicero's De re publica and Tacitus' Dialogus de oratoribus as
reflections on the transformation of oratory and free (if
oligarchic) republican government by debate to meet the context of
the new autocracy.
Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature (Series Editors: Kathleen
Coleman and Richard Rutherford) introduces individual works of
Greek and Latin literature to readers who are approaching them for
the first time. Each volume sets the work in its literary and
historical context, and aims to offer a balanced and engaging
assessment of its content, artistry, and purpose. A brief survey of
the influence of the work upon subsequent generations is included
to demonstrate its enduring relevance and power. All quotations
from the original are translated into English.
Ovid's Metamorphoses have been seen as both the culmination of and
a revolution in the classical epic tradition, transferring
narrative interest from war to love and fantasy. This introduction
considers how Ovid found and shaped his narrative from the creation
of the world to his own sophisticated times, illustrating the
cruelty of jealous gods, the pathos of human love, and the
imaginative fantasy of flight, monsters, magic, and illusion.
Elaine Fantham introduces the reader not only to this marvelous and
complex narrative poem, but to the Greek and Roman traditions
behind Ovid's tales of transformation and a selection of the images
and texts that it inspired.
Book IV of the Fasti, Ovid's celebration of the Roman calendar and
its associated legends, is the book of April and honours the
festivals of Venus, Cybele, Ceres, and their cult, as well as the
traditional date of the foundation of Rome and many religious and
civic anniversaries. Elaine Fantham accompanies her commentary with
a revised text and an extended introduction. Besides including
surveys of language, style, versification, and textual
transmission, the introduction looks at the shifting generic
traditions of Greek and Roman elegy, and situates Ovid's composite
poem in its Augustan literary and historical context. Other
sections explain the recurring religious, astronomical and dynastic
material of the Fasti. It has been a particular concern to relate
features of Book IV to the other books of the Fasti and to Ovid's
other elegiac works, and the Metamorphoses.
This edition offers the first full-scale commentary on the neglected second book of Lucan's epic poem on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey: De bello civili. It pays particular attention to Lucan's inheritance from Virgil's Augustan epic and response to its challenge. The introduction gives a general account of Lucan's life and work, a discussion of his narrative, a survey of language, style and meter, and a brief history of the text. The commentary offers assistance with grammar and translation and aims to provide the political, historical and geographical background to Lucan's epic narrative.
Written by a team of distinguished Classical scholars and art historians, this book is the only study that integrates the wide range of materials on the women of ancient Greece and Rome into one accessible volume. Women in the Classical World gathers the most important primary written and visual sources on the lives of ancient women and presents them in a chronological sequence, within their historical and cultural contexts.
This scholarly biography details the life of an extraordinary woman
in an extraordinary society. Julia Augusti studies the life of the
only daughter of Augustus, the first Roman emperor, and the father
who sacrificed his daughter and her children in order to establish
a dynasty. Studying the abundant historical evidence available,
this biography studies each stage of Julia's life in remarkable
detail: her childhood - taken from her divorced mother to become
part of a complex and unstable family structure her youth - set
against the brilliant social and cultural life of the new Augustan
Rome her marriages - as tools for Augustus' plans for succession
Julia's violation of her father's moral regime, and the betrayal of
her absent husband. Reflecting new attitudes, and casting fresh
light on their social reality, this outstanding biography will
delight, entertain and inform anyone interested in this engaging
Classical figure.
Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature (Series Editors: Kathleen
Coleman and Richard Rutherford) introduces individual works of
Greek and Latin literature to readers who are approaching them for
the first time. Each volume sets the work in its literary and
historical context, and aims to offer a balanced and engaging
assessment of its content, artistry, and purpose. A brief survey of
the influence of the work upon subsequent generations is included
to demonstrate its enduring relevance and power. All quotations
from the original are translated into English.
Ovid's Metamorphoses have been seen as both the culmination of and
a revolution in the classical epic tradition, transferring
narrative interest from war to love and fantasy. This introduction
considers how Ovid found and shaped his narrative from the creation
of the world to his own sophisticated times, illustrating the
cruelty of jealous gods, the pathos of human love, and the
imaginative fantasy of flight, monsters, magic, and illusion.
Elaine Fantham introduces the reader not only to this marvelous and
complex narrative poem, but to the Greek and Roman traditions
behind Ovid's tales of transformation and a selection of the images
and texts that it inspired.
De oratore is Cicero's most ambitious and original work. Written at
the height of his oratorical powers in 55 BC, in the form of a
literary dialogue, it goes far beyond "rhetoric" as it was taught
in antiquity. It addresses the question of the skills and knowledge
of the consummate orator, and pays particular attention to the
hotly debated issue of the relationship between oratory and
philosophy. This is the final volume of the
"Leeman-Pinkster-Commentary" on "De oratore" recently dubbed "one
of the great resources of modern Ciceronian scholarship." It covers
the important second half of the third book, which contains
Cicero's final statement on the relationship between oratory and
philosophy; a discussion of the stylistic topics of word choice,
prose rhythm, figures of speech, and appropriateness of style; and
a discussion of oratorical delivery.
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