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Category : Dictionaries, Polyglot
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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A New Dictionary of Quotations from the Greek, Latin, and Modern Languages
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Category : Dictionaries, Polyglot
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Category : Dictionaries, Polyglot
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Martial
Author: William Fitzgerald
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226252558
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 269
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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.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226252558
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 269
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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.
Cambridge Essays
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Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Languages : en
Pages : 416
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The Midland Monthly Magazine
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Languages : en
Pages : 1212
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Languages : en
Pages : 1212
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The Midland Monthly
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Category : North America
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Category : North America
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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The Works of Lord Byron
Author: George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
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Languages : en
Pages : 774
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Languages : en
Pages : 774
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Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385398266
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385398266
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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The New Monthly Magazine
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 734
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 734
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The Builder
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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A New Dictionary of Quotations from the Greek, Latin and Modern Languages, translated into English and occasionally accompanied with illustrations, historical, poetical, and anecdotical. By the author of "Live and Learn" ... With an extensive index, referring to every important word
Author: DICTIONARY.
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Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Languages : en
Pages : 546
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