Oxford Readings in the Roman Novel
Oxford Readings in the Roman Novel

Author: S. J. Harrison

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9780198721741

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"Those articles in the collection which concern Petronius' Satyrica include a general interpretation of this fragmentary and problematic text, an exploration of its narrative technique, its relationship to Menippean satire and to recently discovered Greek novel papyri, and the issue of its realism."--BOOK JACKET. "On Apuleius' Metamorphoses, the collection includes pieces on narrative and ideological unity, an exploration of its narrative technique, its relationship to religion and Platonism, to epic and to the Greek ass stories, and to historical realism."--Jacket.

Oxford Readings in Tacitus
Oxford Readings in Tacitus

Author: Rhiannon Ash

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-06-21

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 0199285098

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This collection is designed to reflect the main trends in scholarship on the Roman historian of the early empire, Tacitus, particularly as they have developed over the last century. Covering the whole of Tacitus' works, it begins with a comprehensive introduction which sets the selected scholarship and Roman author in context.

Oxford Readings in the Greek Novel
Oxford Readings in the Greek Novel

Author: Simon Swain

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13:

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This book comprises a new and exciting collection of critical work on the ancient Greek novel. It offers students and researchers twelve of the most influential studies of recent years together with an introduction, by the editor, which explores the nature of the Greek novel in its historical context. The most important Greek quotations have been rendered into English making these texts easily accessible to readers without Greek.

Talking Books
Talking Books

Author: G. O. Hutchinson

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2008-08-14

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0191557498

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Increasing importance is being attached to how Greek and Latin books of poems were arranged, but such research has often been carried out with little attention to the physical fragments of actual ancient poetry-books. In this extensive study Gregory Hutchinson investigates the design of Greek and Latin books of poems in the light of papyri, including recent discoveries. A series of discussions of major poems and collections from two central periods of Greek and Latin literature is framed by a substantial and illustrated survey of poetry-books and reading, and by a more theoretical discussion of structures involving books. The main poets discussed are Callimachus, Apollonius, Posidippus, Catullus, Horace, and Ovid; a chapter on Latin didactic includes Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid, and Manilius.

The Greek and the Roman Novel
The Greek and the Roman Novel

Author: Michael Paschalis

Publisher: Barkhuis

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 907792227X

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"'Lyric' in contemporary literary criticism is a term as elusive as it is suggestive. It exists both as an adjective, expressing a poetic quality, and as a noun denoting a poetic mode, and both are notoriously difficult to define. It is this protean quality that has allowed 'lyric' to become a powerful creative stimulus for both poets and theorists. A foundational period for today's sense of 'lyric' was the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century"--

Reading Roman Pride
Reading Roman Pride

Author: Yelena Baraz

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2020-10-09

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 019753161X

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Pride is pervasive in Roman texts, as an emotion and a political and social concept implicated in ideas of power. This study examines Roman discourse of pride from two distinct complementary perspectives. The first is based on scripts, mini-stories told to illustrate what pride is, how it arises and develops, and where it fits within the Roman emotional landscape. The second is semantic, and draws attention to differences between terms within the pride field. The peculiar feature of Roman pride that emerges is that it appears exclusively as a negative emotion, attributed externally and condemned, up to the Augustan period. This previously unnoticed lack of expression of positive pride in republican discourse is a result of the way the Roman republican elite articulates its values as anti-monarchical and is committed, within the governing class, to power-sharing and a kind of equality. The book explores this uniquely Roman articulation of pride attributed to people, places, and institutions and traces the partial rehabilitation of pride that begins in the texts of the Augustan poets at the time of great political change. Reading for pride produces innovative readings of texts that range from Plautus to Ausonius, with major focus on Cicero, Livy, Vergil, and other Augustan poets.

Livy
Livy

Author: Jane D. Chaplin

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2009-05-07

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 0191569410

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The essays in this volume have been selected and arranged to provide students with an introduction to the historiographial study of the Roman historian Livy. All classics in their own right, the eighteen articles included here work together to present a picture of this creative and acutely observant historian writing during the Augustan principate. The editors have provided an introductory guide to previous Livian scholarship, which contextualizes each essay; each is also followed by an addendum providing further context and selected suggestions for further reading.

Seneca
Seneca

Author: John G. Fitch

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2008-02-07

Total Pages: 445

ISBN-13: 0199282080

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Statesman, dramatist, philosopher, and prose stylist, Seneca was a leading figure in the Roman Empire in the first century AD. This volume is a collection of outstanding articles written about him during the last four decades, with a new introduction which places the articles within the context of recent academic thought and criticism.

Oxford Readings in Vergil's Aeneid
Oxford Readings in Vergil's Aeneid

Author: S. J. Harrison

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Published: 1933

Total Pages: 477

ISBN-13: 9780198143888

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A supplement to standard reading for undergraduate courses in ancient epic poetry, and Vergil in particular. Especial attention has been paid to include useful essays from sources which are rare, out of print, or otherwise difficult to obtain, although care has also been taken to include material which is regularly specified on reading lists.

Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence
Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence

Author: Erich Segal

Publisher: Oxford Readings in Classical S

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13:

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This book documents the origins of modern comedy by examining the evolution of "New Comedy," the Greek genre of which the works of Menander are the only surviving example. It looks at the quiet domestic dramas of Menander, the farces of Plautus, and the comedies of Terence. An authoritative Introduction sets the papers, which are by leading experts in their field, in context and explores connections between them thus examining the legacy for modern comedies. All Latin and Greek is translated.