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  • af Marco Fantuzzi
    276,95 kr.

    In this volume (in Italian), Professor Marco Fantuzzi presents a critical text of the Adonidis Epitaphium by the Hellenistic Greek poet Bion of Smyrna, who worked between 130-120 BC and 57-55 BC. The text is accompanied by the first major commentary on this poet.

  • - Proceedings of the 1983 Manchester Colloquium
    af Jane H. M. Taylor
    276,95 kr.

    The study of medieval attitudes towards death, from sociological, historical, literary artistic and theological viewpoints, has long been a major scholarly preoccupation in France. The first British conference devoted to this field was the Eugene Vinaver Colloquium held in Manchester in March 1983; this volume contains its revised proceedings.

  • af Roger Wright
    390,95 kr.

    Late Latin and Early Romance presents a theory of the relationship between Latin and Romance during the period 400-1250.

  • - Greek and Roman Poetry: The Elder Pliny
     
    555,95 kr.

    PLLS 16 contains papers mainly arising from several Langford Colloquia held by the Department of Classics, Florida State University.

  • - Campaigning, Diplomacy and Development in Illyricum, Thace and the Northern World A.D. 527-65
    af Alexander Sarantis
    943,95 kr.

    Justinian's Balkan Wars reconstructs military and diplomatic relations between Justinian's eastern Roman Empire and the Germanic, Hunnic and Slavic peoples north of the Danube frontier. It uses contemporary sources to chart barbarian raids, imperial campaigns, and consolidation of the region by administrative reforms and infrastucture development.

  • af Eveline Krummen
    834,95 kr.

    In this pioneering study, first published in German as Pyrsos Hymnon. Festliche Gegenwart und mythisch-rituelle Tradition als Voraussetzung einer Pindarinterpretation (Isthmie 4, Pythie 5, Olympie 1 und 3). (1990), Eveline Krummen examines the related problems of the unity and the 'occasionality' of Pindaric epinicia.

  • - Amores. Volume I: Text and Prolegomena
    af J. C. McKeown
    446,95 kr.

    The first volume of this major commentary begins appropriately with Prolegomena, before offering a text of Ovid's Amores . The Prolegomena has eight chapters: Tenerorum Lusor Amorum; Doctrina; Recitation; Chronology; The Arrangement of the Poems; The Title; Metre; The Text.

  • - Amores. Text. Prolegomena and Commentary in Four Volumes. Vol III, A Commentary on Book Two
    af J. C. McKeown
    611,95 kr.

    Even in its incomplete form (the final volume is still in preparation), the Commentary on the Amores of Ovid has become a scholarly standard. The introductions to each elegy are succinct, readable and original, and take careful account of relevant modern discussions. The commentary is full of meticulous detail.

  • af Francis Cairns & Malcolm Heath
    446,95 kr.

    The latest volume in this series of papers from Britain's premier classics conference, contains 22 papers on Roman poetry and prose, Greek poetry, etymology and historiography. Contents include: Money-loving Romans (Andrew Erskine); Virgil: a paradoxical poet? (P.R.

  • - Greek Poetry, Drama, Prose: Roman Poetry
    af Francis Cairns & Malcolm Heath
    498,95 kr.

    PLLS 10 consists, as did earlier volumes in the series, in part of revised and usually expanded versions of papers presented at seminar meetings and in part of further papers contributed at the invitation of the editors.

  • - Roman comedy, Augustan poetry, historiography
    af Francis Cairns
    446,95 kr.

    The eighth volume of PLLS 8, under the distinguished editorship of Dr Roger Brock (University of Leeds) and Professor A.J. Woodman (Durham University), is dedicated to Ronald Martin for his 80th birthday. Many of the papers assembled in it reflect Ronald Martin's two main areas of scholarly endeavour, Latin comedy and Tacitus.

  • af D. J. Nodes
    222,95 kr.

    Up to the eighteenth century, the Latin biblical epic poets of late antiquity were much read, and were influential on various strands within European poetry. Milton's Paradise Lost is the culmination of the English branch of the tradition.

  • - formation and conduct from Diocletian to Anastasius
    af R. C. Blockley
    444,95 kr.

    The early Roman empire took a militaristic attitude towards its neighbours, but by the reign of Justinian a complex stance had evolved in which military force was tempered by diplomacy.

  • - Citation, invention and narrative art
    af Detlev Fehling
    388,95 kr.

    Professor Fehling's important study of source-citations in Herodotus first appeared in German in 1971 ( Die Quellenangaben bei Herodot ). It proved controversial at the time, setting its face as it did against the general trend of Herodotean studies over the preceding few decades.

  • - Health and Sickness in Ancient Rome; Greek and Roman Poetry and Historiography
     
    667,95 kr.

    Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar 14 contains (in revised, usually enlarged, and annotated form) papers presented at Langford Seminars of the Department of Classics of The Florida State University over the years 2004 to 2008, together with supplementary articles contributed at the request of the editors.

  • - Eunapius, Olympiodorus, Priscus and Malchus
    af R. C. Blockley
    388,95 kr.

    This volume constitutes a work of fundamental importance for historians of the period. Part One analyzes the background, opinions, and historiography of each of the four writers, with particular emphasis on recovering from the fragments the original structure of their works.

  • - Hellenistic Greek and Augustan Latin Poetry; Flavian and post-Flavian Latin Poetry; Greek and Roman Prose
     
    611,95 kr.

    These 13 papers by an international group of scholars examine Greek and Roman poetry and prose.

  • af Robert Maltby
    1.108,95 kr.

    This lexicon provides as comprehensive as possible a list of explicit etymologies of Latin words found in Latin and Greek writers from the time of Varro to Isidore of Seville. Robert Maltby has extracted from glossaries and scholia as well as the standard ancient etymological source books.

  • af R. C. Blockley
    667,95 kr.

    Almost all of the very little we know of Menander comes from the preface of his History. Having studied the law, Menander did not become an advocate, preferring instead to become a 'man-about-town'.

  • - Politics and Empire in the Late Roman World
    af Fiona K. Haarer
    723,95 kr.

    When Anastasius I came to the throne in 491, the Late Roman Empire was in severe difficulty. Internal instability, exacerbated by the dominance of the unpopular Isaurians in Constantinople, resulted in a struggling economy, hostile relations with Persia, the abandonment of Italy to a barbarian king, and doctrinal schisms.

  • - Greek and Roman Poetry, Greek and Roman Historiography
    af Francis Cairns
    498,95 kr.

    This collection of fourteen papers focuses on Classical poetry and historiography, with contributions coming from scholars from all over the UK and America.

  • - Caesar against Liberty? Perspectives on his Autocracy
    af Francis Cairns & E. Fantham
    418,95 kr.

    Julius Caesar changed world history by inaugurating the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. This themed volume of PLLS handles the important and controversial problem of Caesar's own attitudes to 'liberty' and 'autocracy'.

  • af Francis Cairns
    498,95 kr.

    Volume 5 of PLLS was the last of the Liverpool series of seminar volumes. Between 1975 and 1985 the Liverpool Latin Seminar held 52 ordinary meetings and 4 colloquia, involving altogether 156 papers and participants from all over the world.

  • af Joan M. Frayn
    278,95 kr.

    For this study of sheep-rearing in Roman Italy, Dr. Frayn presents and evaluates material from epigraphy, law, literature, archaeology, painting and sculpture to illuminate the social life of shepherd communities.

  • af A. Hardie
    334,95 kr.

    Although writing in Latin, Statius (first-century AD) was, by origin and training, a Greek poet, and his collection of "occasional" poems, the Silvae, are a Roman extension of contemporary trends in Greek display poetry. No reading of the Silvae can be accurate without an understanding of this Graeco-Roman poetic milieu.

  • - Text, Translation and Commentary
    af William Barr
    104,95 kr.

    Claudius Claudianus (fl. circa 400 AD) was one of the last major poets of the Roman Empire. Highly regarded by his contemporaries, he is one of the great transmitters of Latin culture to Medieval Europe. The Panegyric on the IVth Consulate of the Emperor Honorius, written for an important state occasion, ranks among his major works.

  • - Vergil & Roman Elegy; Medieval Latin Poetry and Prose; Greek Lyric
    af Francis Cairns
    276,95 kr.

  • - Classical Latin Poetry; Medieval Latin Poetry; Greek Poetry
    af Francis Cairns
    250,95 kr.

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