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Building on the best-selling tradition of previous editions,
Classical Mythology, International Tenth Edition, is the most
comprehensive survey of classical mythology available. Featuring
the authors' clear and extensive translations of original sources,
it brings to life the myths and legends of Greece and Rome in a
lucid and engaging style. The text contains a wide variety of
faithfully translated passages from Greek and Latin sources,
including Homer, Hesiod, all the Homeric Hymns, Pindar, Aeschylus,
Sophocles, Euripides, Herodotus, Plato, Lucian, Lucretius, Vergil,
Ovid, and Seneca. Acclaimed authors Mark P.O. Morford and Robert J.
Lenardon- joined by new coauthor Michael Sham-incorporates a
dynamic combination of poetic narratives and enlightening
commentary to make the myths come alive for students. Offering
historical and cultural background on the myths (including evidence
from art and archaeology) they also provide ample interpretive
material and examine the enduring survival of classical mythology
and its influence in the fields of art, literature, music, dance,
and film.
In a vivid re-creation of late sixteenth-century Flemish
intellectual life, Mark Morford explores the intertwined careers of
one of the period's most influential thinkers and one of its most
original artists: Justus Lipsius and Peter Paul Rubens. He
investigates the scholarship of Lipsius (1547-1606), whose revival
of Roman Stoicism guided his contemporaries during the revolt of
the Netherlands from the rule of Spain and whose teaching prepared
future leaders in church and state. Maintaining that Lipsius'
thought reached Peter Paul Rubens through his brother, Philip
Rubens, Morford analyzes the artist's use of Stoic philosophical
and political allegory, beginning with his painting The Four
Philosophers. This book discusses the revival of Stoicism in
northern Europe, focusing on Lipsius' editions of Tacitus and
Seneca, his widely read handbooks on constancy and politics, and
his interaction with leading scholars and public figures. As his
letters reveal, Lipsius was inconsistent in his life and
unsuccessful in reconciling Stoicism with Catholic doctrine;
Rubens, although at first sympathetic to the doctrines of Lipsius,
is shown to have later transcended their limitations. Originally
published in 1991. 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.
In a vivid re-creation of late sixteenth-century Flemish
intellectual life, Mark Morford explores the intertwined careers of
one of the period's most influential thinkers and one of its most
original artists: Justus Lipsius and Peter Paul Rubens. He
investigates the scholarship of Lipsius (1547-1606), whose revival
of Roman Stoicism guided his contemporaries during the revolt of
the Netherlands from the rule of Spain and whose teaching prepared
future leaders in church and state. Maintaining that Lipsius'
thought reached Peter Paul Rubens through his brother, Philip
Rubens, Morford analyzes the artist's use of Stoic philosophical
and political allegory, beginning with his painting The Four
Philosophers. This book discusses the revival of Stoicism in
northern Europe, focusing on Lipsius' editions of Tacitus and
Seneca, his widely read handbooks on constancy and politics, and
his interaction with leading scholars and public figures. As his
letters reveal, Lipsius was inconsistent in his life and
unsuccessful in reconciling Stoicism with Catholic doctrine;
Rubens, although at first sympathetic to the doctrines of Lipsius,
is shown to have later transcended their limitations. Originally
published in 1991. 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.
Lucan's epic on the Civil War has dodged in and out of fashion.
Widely admired in the 17th and 18th centuries, it came in the 19th
and 20th to be criticised by comparison with Virgil's Aeneid. The
latter was established as the standard by which all other epic
poets fail. Lucan's besetting "fault" was seen as his reliance on
rhetoric. This work sets out to consider the rules of ancient
rhetoric as learned by Lucan and applied in his epic. Four themes
commmon to poetry and to the declamatory schools (tyranny, storms,
the occult and dreams) are closely analyzed in relation to the
poem, and the poem is itself set in the context of the Neronian
age.
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