Author: A. J. Woodman
Publisher: Cambridge Philological Society
ISBN: 0956838197
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201
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This volume of essays is intended to commemorate the eminent Latin scholar David West, best known for his work on Lucretius, Horace, Virgil and Shakespeare. The contributors – Francis Cairns, Ian Du Quesnay, Bruce Gibson, Alex Hardie, Stephen Harrison, John Moles and Tony Woodman – have aimed to produce close readings of classical texts, paying due attention to historical context and literary tradition in the manner adopted by David West himself. The authors covered are Empedocles, Antisthenes, Callimachus, Lutatius Catulus, Catullus, Horace (Epodes and Odes), Propertius, Virgil (Aeneid), Dio Chrysostom and Hildebert of Lavardin.
Author: Anthony John Woodman
Publisher: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Volume
ISBN: 9780956838155
Category : Latin poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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In this memorial volume for David West, the texts of six Latin poets (Lutatius Catulus, Catullus, Horace, Propertius, Virgil, and Hildebert of Lavardin) are analyzed by seven leading scholars: Francis Cairns, Ian Du Quesnay, Bruce Gibson, Alex Hardie, Stephen Harrison, John Moles, and Tony Woodman.
Author: Roland Mayer
Publisher: British Academy
ISBN: 9780197261781
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Of the peoples of ancient Italy, only the Romans committed newly composed poems to writing, and for about 250 years Latin-speakers developed an impressive verse literature. The language had traditional resources of high style, e.g. alliteration, lexical and morphological archaism or grecism, and of course metaphor and word-order; and there were also less obvious resources in the technical vocabularies of law, philosophy, and medicine. The essays in this volume show how the poets in the classical period combined these elements, and so created a poetic medium that could comprehend satire, invective, erotic elegy, drama, lyric, and the grandest heroic epics. These wide-ranging studies will be essential reading for all students of Latin.
Author: Robert Yelverton Tyrrell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin language
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Author: William Fitzgerald
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199657866
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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This is a book about poetry, language, and classical antiquity, and explains to the reader with little or no Latin how the language works as a unique vehicle for poetic expression. Fitzgerald guides the reader through samples of Latin poetry to give a sense of how the individual poems feel in Latin and what makes Latin poetry worth reading.
Author: Anthony John Woodman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521205328
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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1974 study of Latin poetry designed to encourage fresh readings and to illustrate critical approaches to the literature.
Author: Christopher M. Dawson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521073952
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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A volume dedicated to studies in Latin poetry, beginning with an examination of Saturnian verse and ending with an investigation into how much Ovid actually knew of the law, and how he exploited this knowledge with piquancy and inventiveness in his writings.
Author: Robert Yelverton Tyrrell
Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9780353944046
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Author: Leon Josiah Richardson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin language
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Author: Phillip Mitsis
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110475871
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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The political allegiances of major Roman poets have been notoriously difficult to pin down, in part because they often shift the onus of political interpretation from themselves to their readers. By the same token, it is often difficult to assess their authorial powerplays in the etymologies, puns, anagrams, telestichs, and acronyms that feature prominently in their poetry. It is the premise of this volume that the contexts of composition, performance, and reception play a critical role in constructing poetic voices as either politically favorable or dissenting, and however much the individual scholars in this volume disagree among themselves, their readings try to do justice collectively to poetry’s power to shape political realities. The book is aimed not only at scholars of Roman poetry, politics, and philosophy, but also at those working in later literary and political traditions influenced by Rome's greatest poets.
