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`My present intention is to clear myself of any suspicion of
partiality by presenting the views of the generality of
philosophers concerning the nature of the gods.' Cicero's
philosophical works are now exciting renewed interest, in part
because he provides vital evidence of the views of the (largely
lost) Greek philosophers of the Hellenistic age, and partly because
of the light he casts on the intellectual life of first century
Rome. The Nature of the Gods is a text of central significance,
presenting a detailed account of the theologies of the Epicureans
and of the Stoics, together with the critical objections to these
doctrines raised by the Academic school. When these Greek theories
of deity are translated into the Roman context, a fascinating clash
of ideologies results. This fine translation by P. G. Walsh
includes a summary of the Text, and an Index and Glossary of Names.
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Complete Letters (Paperback)
Pliny the Younger; Translated by P.G. Walsh
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In these letters to his friends and relations, Pliny the Younger,
lawyer, author, and natural philosopher, provides a fascinating
insight into Roman life in the period 97 to 112 AD. Part
autobiography, part social history, they document the career and
interests of a senator and leading imperial official whose friends
include the historians Tacitus and Suetonius. Pliny's letters cover
a wide range of topics, from the contemporary political scene to
domestic affairs, the educational system, the rituals and conduct
of Roman religion, the treatment of slaves, and the phenomena of
nature. He describes in vivid detail the eruption of Vesuvius,
which killed his uncle, and the daily routines of a well-to-do
Roman in the courts and at leisure, in the city, or enjoying rural
pursuits at his country estates.
This is a lively new translation by eminent scholar Peter Walsh,
based on the Oxford Classical Text and drawing on the latest
scholarship. In his introduction, Walsh considers the political
background of the letters, the span of Pliny's career, the range of
topics covered in the letters, and Pliny's literary style.
Invaluable notes identify the letters' recipients and explain
allusions to historical events and terms. A general index is
supplemented by two specific indexes on aspects of social life and
Pliny's correspondents. This classic will make great reading for
those with an interest in classical literature and ancient history.
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authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
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The Golden Ass (Paperback)
Apuleius; Translated by P.G. Walsh
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The Golden Ass is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable
Latin novel - the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived in
its entirety. It tells the story of Lucius, whose curiosity and
fascination for sex and magic result in his transformation into an
ass. After suffering a series of trials and humiliations, he is
ultimately transformed back into human shape by the kindness of the
Goddess Isis. Blending romantic adventure, fable, and religious
testament, The Golden Ass is one of the truly seminal books of
European literature, of intrinsic interest as a novel in its own
right, and one of the earliest examples of the picaresque. This new
translation is at once faithful to the meaning of the Latin, whilst
reproducing all the exuberant gaiety of the original. ABOUT THE
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Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship,
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features, including expert introductions by leading authorities,
helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for
further study, and much more.
'How I wish that you had invited me to that most attractive feast
on the Ides of March!' Cicero lived through some of the most
turbulent years in the history of Rome, and witnessed at first-hand
the overthrow of the republic and its replacement by a tyranny. His
letters to friends and family are an astonishingly detailed record
of daily life and politics in Rome. This selection, covering the
years 68-43 BC, not merely documents in detail Cicero's career but
simultaneously provides a month-by-month record of the final
collapse of the Roman senatorial government. The letters provide
from the inside a vivid picture of events from the high point of
Cicero's consulship of 63, through the humiliation of his exile and
subsequent subjection to the dynasts, to the assassination of
Caesar in 44, and Cicero's brief hour of glory in leading
senatorial resistance to the tyranny of Mark Antony. In P. G.
Walsh's lively new translation, Cicero's correspondence once more
brings alive the excitement and danger of ancient Rome. ABOUT THE
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features, including expert introductions by leading authorities,
helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for
further study, and much more.
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The Satyricon (Paperback)
Petronius; Edited by P.G. Walsh
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`The language is refined, the smile not grave, My honest tongue
recounts how men behave.' The Satyricon is the most celebrated work
of fiction to have survived from the ancient world. It can be
described as the first realistic novel, the father of the
picaresque genre, and recounts the sleazy progress of a pair of
literature scholars as they wander through the cities of the
southern Mediterranean. En route they encounter type-figures the
author wickedly satirizes - a teacher in higher education, a
libidinous priest, a vulgar freedman turned millionaire, a manic
poet, a superstitious sea-captain and a femme fatale. The novel has
fascinated the literary world of Europe ever since, evoking praise
for its elegant and hilarious description of the underside of Roman
society, but also condemnation for some of its lewder subjects.
This new and lively translation by P.G. Walsh captures the gaiety
of the original, and the edition is supplemented by his superb
Introduction giving an account of the plot, the various scholarly
interpretations and the later history of its literary influcence.
There are also extensive and detailed notes which serve to
illuminate the reading of a text rich in literary in-jokes and
allusion. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's
Classics has made available the widest range of literature from
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wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions
by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text,
up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
On Obligations (De officiis) was written by Cicero in late 44 BC
after the assassination of Julius Caesar to provide principles of
behaviour for aspiring politicians. It explores the apparent
tensions between honourable conduct and expediency in public life,
and the right and wrong ways of attaining political leadership. The
principles of honourable behaviour are based on the Stoic virtues
of wisdom, justice, magnanimity, and propriety; in Cicero's view
the intrinsically useful is always identical with the honourable.
Cicero's famous treatise has played a seminal role in the formation
of ethical values in western Christendom. Adopted by the
fourth-century Christian humanists, it beame transmuted into the
moral code of the high Middle Ages. Thereafter, in the Renaissance
from the time of Petrarch, and in the Age of Enlightenment that
followed, it was given central prominence in discussion of the
government of states. Today, when corruption and conflict in
political life are the focus of so much public attention, On
Obligations is still the foremost guide to good conduct. ABOUT THE
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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,
helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for
further study, and much more.
"Walsh's book should be a "vade mecum" for anyone who would teach
the "Carmina Burana" on any level and be of considerable value in
general to medievalists, comparatists, and those in related
disciplines."--"New England Classical Newsletter and Journal"
"Teachers, students, and any reader interested in medieval lyric
will find this volume a clear and useful approach to intrinsically
interesting texts."--"Renaissance Quarterly"
"The most scholarly and most helpful presentation of a group of
these captivating lyrics that has yet appeared in English."--Peter
Dronke, University of Cambridge
"A superb volume, fully worthy of these famous but often
misunderstood poems. P. G. Walsh's unmatched erudition in Latin
literature furnishes lucid grammatical explanations, incisive
analysis of goliardic literary values and technique, and
illuminating references to ancient and medieval parallels. His
prose translations make the poems accessible also to those with
little or no Latin."--Janet M. Martin, Princeton University
The Summa Theologiae ranks among the greatest documents of the
Christian Church, and is a landmark of medieval western thought. It
provides the framework for Catholic studies in systematic theology
and for a classical Christian philosophy, and is regularly
consulted by scholars of all faiths and none, across a range of
academic disciplines. This paperback reissue of the classic
Latin/English edition first published by the English Dominicans in
the 1960s and 1970s, in the wake of the Second Vatican Council, has
been undertaken in response to regular requests from readers and
librarians around the world for the entire series of 61 volumes to
be made available again. The original text is unchanged, except for
the correction of a small number of typographical errors.
De bono coniugali and De sancta virginitate were written in the same year (AD 401). In them Augustine rebuffs the Manichees, who argued that marriage was evil, and the followers of Jovinian, who argued that the married state was as meritorious as that of virginity. The first work analyses why marriage is good, and the second why virginity is a higher good. Both are closely related to present-day controversies amongst theologians and social historians. This edition includes the Latin text, a new translation, an introduction, and explanatory notes.
The Consolation of Philosophy was composed when its author was awaiting execution on a charge of treason. It outlines the true good at which we should aim: not wealth, high position, or worldly fame, but the knowledge of God, our end and our beginning. Professor Walsh has included an introduction and explanatory notes which combined with his new translation make the text accessible to general readers and scholars alike.
"The Satyricon" of Petronius and the "Metamorphoses" (or "The
Golden Ass") of Apuleius are the only novels written at Rome before
AD 200 to have survived. The genre is the comic romance, the
literature of relaxation in the ancient world. This study defines
the genre and sets it in the context of other forms of fiction of
the period. It shows that both Petronius and Apuleius introduced
important innovations into the traditional comic romance. A
critical study of "The Satyricon" is included, with a separate
chapter on Trimalchio's feast, a central comic episode of the book.
"The Golden Ass" is similarly examined, again with special analysis
of its centre piece, the story of Cupid and Psyche. The book
assesses the later influence of the two novels on the mainstream of
European picaresque fiction.
The De Amore of Andreas Capellanus (Andre the Chaplain), composed
in France in the 1180s, is celebrated as the first comprehensive
discussion of theory of courtly love. The book is believed to have
been intended to portray conditions at Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine's
court at Poitiers between 1170 and 1174, and written the request of
her daughter, Countess Marie of Troyes. As such, it is important
for its connections to themes of contemporary Latin lyric, in
troubadour poetry and in the French romances of Chretien de Troyes.
Thereafter its influence spread throughout Western Europe, so that
the treatise is of fundamental importance for students of medieval
and renaissance English, French, Italian and Spanish. In this
comprehensive edition, P.G. Walsh includes Trojel's Latin text with
his own facing English translation with explanatory notes,
commentary and indexes, along with introduction which sets the
treatise in its contemporary context and assesses its purpose and
importance.
Presented in their original medieval Latin and with commentary and
notes in English, this is a translation of thirty poems from
Carmina Burana. The Carmina Burana is a collection of poems, songs
and sung religious drama from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
Often described as the work of wandering scholars, it actually
contains many pieces by famous clerics of the period. The verses
are lively, uninhibited celebrations of the joys of wine, women and
gambling, but there are also serious poems on the pains of love and
the moral corruption of the Church.
Cicero's philosophical works are now exciting renewed interest and
more generous appreciation, in part because he provides vital
evidence of the views of the (largely lost) Greek philosophers of
the Hellenistic age, and partly because of the light he casts on
the intellectual life of first-century Rome. Hellenistic philosophy
has in recent years atrracted growing interest from academic
philosophers in Europe and North America. The Nature of the Gods is
a document of central significance in this area, for it presents a
detailed account of the theologies of the Epicureans and of the
Stoics, together with the critical objections to these doctrines
raised by the Academic school. hen these Greek theories of deity
are translated into the Roman context, a fascinating clash of
ideologies results.
Book XXI of Livy's history of Rome is one of the most frequently
read either in its entirety or in extracts, for it includes
Carthaginian campaigns in Spain and Hannibal's momentous crossing
of the Alps to invade Italy.P.G. Walsh's edition, originally
published by the University Tutorial Press, is designed
specifically for use by students at A-Level. The commentary
explains points of historical and literary importance, and
elucidates grammatical peculiarities and passages of unusual
difficulty. The introduction sets Livy in the context of Roman
historiography as a whole, and deals in particular with Book XXI.
There is a full vocabulary as well as an index of names and
illustrative maps and plans.
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