Munere mortis

Munere mortis

Author: Eftychia Bathrellou

Publisher: Cambridge Philological Society

Published: 2022-10-31

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 191370145X

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Colin Austin (1941–2010), Professor of Greek at Cambridge and distinguished editor of poetic texts, was renowned for the precision and brilliance of his scholarship. This collection of studies, offered by some of his pupils, aims to honor his memory. The papers combine philology and textual criticism with a strong interest in setting the works under examination in their literary and cultural context. Individual contributions are devoted to the establishment of the text of the comic poet Menander and the epigrammatist Posidippus of Pella, while one chapter offers a new critical edition of and the first detailed commentary on a number of erotic epigrams. Other essays explore poetic, performative and narratological features in Socratic works of Plato and Xenophon. The volume also includes an analysis of the trope of pathetic fallacy in the bucolic poem Epitaph for Bion and a study of the concept of ‘frigidity’ in ancient literary criticism.


The Red Wheelbarrow Poem of the Week 2016

The Red Wheelbarrow Poem of the Week 2016

Author: Red Wheelbarrow Poets

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-12-03

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 1365579859

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The Red Wheelbarrow Poets Poetry Workshop has been producing top-rate poetry at various locations in Rutherford, NJ for the last ten years. The book represents the work of poets both local and cosmopolitan. The poems can be free verse, confessional, formal, even haiku and sonnets, but one thing they share in common is that they pay close attention to the dictum of famed Rutherford poet William Carlos Williams: Look for the live language. You'll find it in the work of JOHN BARRALE, MILTON EHRLICH, MARK FOGARTY, RICHARD GREENE, CLAUDIA SEREA, ZORIDA MOHAMMED, ANTON YAKOVLEV, JANET KOLSTEIN, WAYNE L. MILLER and BOB MURKEN.


Unspoken Rome

Unspoken Rome

Author: Tom Geue

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-09-16

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 1108915884

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Latin literature is a hotbed of holes and erasures. Its sensitivity to politics leaves it ripe for repression of all sorts of names, places and historical events, while its dense allusivity appears to hide interpretative clues in a network of texts that only the reader's consciousness can make present. This volume showcases innovative approaches to the field of Latin literature, all of which are refracted through this prism of absence, which functions as a fundamental generative force both for the hermeneutics and the ongoing literary aftermath of these texts. Reviewing and working with various influential approaches to textual absence, the contributors to Unspoken Rome treat these texts as silent types, listening out for what they do not say, and how they do not speak, whilst also tracing the ill-defined borders within which scholars and modern authors are legitimized to fill in the silences around which they are built.


Catullus

Catullus

Author: Ian M. le M. Du Quesnay

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-10-18

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1139789120

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In this book, a sequel to Traditions and Contexts in the Poetry of Horace (Cambridge, 2002), ten leading Latin scholars provide specially commissioned in-depth discussions of the poetry of Catullus, one of ancient Rome's most favourite and best loved poets. Some chapters focus on the collection as a whole and the interrelationship of various poems; others deal with intertextuality and translation, and Catullus' response to his Greek predecessors, both classical and Hellenistic. Two of the key subjects are the communication of desire and the presentation of the real world. Some chapters provide analyses of individual poems, while others discuss how Catullus' poetry was read by Virgil and Ovid. A wide variety of critical approaches is on offer, and in the Epilogue the editors provide a provocative survey of the issues raised by the volume.


Latin Explorations (Routledge Revivals)

Latin Explorations (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Kenneth Quinn

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-17

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1317745876

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Latin Explorations, first published in 1963, offers a fresh approach to Roman poetry from Catullus to Ovid. Traditionally, the period is divided for specialist studies – Lyric, Epic and Elegy. In each of them, techniques of interpretation prevail, isolated from contemporary ideas about poetry and dominated by barriers between ‘textual’, ‘exegetical’ and ‘aesthetic’ criticism. Kenneth Quinn discerns in Roman poetry of this period the adolescence, maturity and decay of a single coherent tradition whose internal unity surpasses differences of form. His argument attempts to reverse the dissociation of purely academic research from appreciative criticism, whilst also incorporating the work of textual scholars. Each chapter is supported by a detailed analysis of the texts: nearly 700 lines of poetry are discussed and translated. Latin Explorations will be of significant value not only to students of the Classics, but also to the ‘Latinless’ general reader who is interested in Roman literature.


Freud's Rome

Freud's Rome

Author: Ellen Oliensis

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-10-22

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 0521846617

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Examines the role of psychoanalysis within Latin literary studies, focusing on what psychoanalytic theory has to contribute to interpretation. The argument is organized around three key topics - mourning, motherhood, and the origins of sexual difference - and takes the poetry of Catullus, Virgil, and Ovid as its point of reference.


The Oxford Book of Poetry

The Oxford Book of Poetry

Author: Walt Whitman

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2023-11-26

Total Pages: 3772

ISBN-13:

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The Oxford poetry anthologies ('Oxford Books') are traditionally considered an establishment in attitude. They have been edited by well-known poets and distinguished academics. In the perspective of canon-formation, they have been retrospective and well-researched. Table of Contents: The Oxford Book of Latin Verse: Nvma Pompilivs The Arval Brotherhood Anonymous CN. Naevivs T. Maccivs Plavtvs Marcivs Vates Q. Ennivs M. Pacvvivs L. Accivs Pompilivs Valerivs Aeditvvs Q. Lvtativs Catvlvs Porcivs Licinvs Laevivs M. Fvrivs Bibacvlvs Oracvlvm M. Tvllivs Cicero C. Helvivs Cinna M. Tvllivs Lavrea Q. Tvllivs Cicero C. Ivlivs Caesar C. Licinivs Macer Calvvs T. Lvcretivs Carvs C. Valerivs Catvllvs L. Varivs C. Cilnivs Maecenas P. Vergilivs Maro Q. Horativs Flaccvs Albivs Tibvllvs Domitivs Marsvs Sextvs Propertivs Lygdamvs Svlpicia Panegyristae Messallae Cornelivs Severvs M. Manilivs Albinovanvs Pedo P. Ovidivs Naso... The Oxford Book of English Verse: Robert Mannyng of Brunne John Barbour Geoffrey Chaucer Thomas Hoccleve John Lydgate King James I of Scotland Robert Henryson William Dunbar Anonymous John Skelton Stephen Hawes Sir Thomas Wyatt Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey Nicholas Grimald Alexander Scott Robert Wever Richard Edwardes George Gascoigne... The Oxford Book of Ballads: Thomas the Rhymer Tam Lin Sir Cawline Sir Aldingar Cospatrick Willy's Lady The Queen of Elfland's Nourice Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight The Riddling Knight May Colvin The Wee Wee Man Alison Gross Kemp Owyne The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the Sea King Orfeo King Henry The Boy and the Mantle King Arthur and King Cornwall The Marriage of Sir Gawain... Modern Oxford Poetry: Oxford Poetry 1917 Oxford Poetry 1919 Oxford Poetry 1920 Oxford Poetry 1921 Oxford Lectures on Poetry: Poetry for Poetry's Sake The Sublime Hegel's Theory of Tragedy Wordsworth Shelley's View of Poetry The Long Poem in the Age of Wordsworth The Letters of Keats The Rejection of Falstaff Shakespeare's 'Antony and Cleopatra' Shakespeare the Man Shakespeare's Theatre and Audience


Living with a Dead Language

Living with a Dead Language

Author: Ann Patty

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2017-06-06

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1101980230

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“A delightful mix of grammar and growth, words and wonder.” – The Washington Post An entertaining exploration of the richness and relevance of the Latin language and literature, and an inspiring account of finding renewed purpose through learning something new and challenging After thirty-five years as a book editor in New York City, Ann Patty stopped working and moved to the country. Bored, aimless, and lost in the woods, she hoped to challenge her restless, word-loving brain by beginning a serious study of Latin at local colleges. As she begins to make sense of Latin grammar and syntax, her studies open unexpected windows into her own life. The louche poetry of Catullus calls up her early days in 1970s New York, Lucretius elucidates her intractable drivenness and her attraction to Buddhism, while Ovid’s verse conjures a delightful dimension to the flora and fauna that surround her. Women in Roman history, and an ancient tomb inscription give her new understanding and empathy for her tragic, long deceased mother. Finally, Virgil reconciles her to her new life—no longer an urban exile, but a rustic scholar, writer and teacher. Along the way, she meets an impassioned cast of characters: professors, students and classicists outside of academia who keep Latin very much alive. Written with humor, heart, and an infectious enthusiasm for words, Patty’s book is an object lesson in how learning and literature can transform the past and lead to an unexpected future.