Classical Language & Literature Books

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1. Virgil's Homeric Lens

   By Edan Dekel

   This book reevaluates the traditional view of the Aeneid’s relationship to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. Almost since the death of Virgil, there has been an assumption that the Aeneid breaks into two discrete halves: Virgil’s "Odyssey," and Virgil’s "Iliad." Although modified in various ways over the...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-89040-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Classical Literature: An Introduction

   Edited by Neil Croally, Roy Hyde

   Classical Literature: An Introduction provides a series of essays on the essential aspects of Greek and Latin literature. In conjunction with contextualizing introductions, the material is presented chronologically, by genre and, where appropriate, by author. The book ranges from Homer to the...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-46813-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Greek Tragedy

   By H.D.F. Kitto

   ‘Criticism, it seems to me, can without discredit begin with what’s in the poet’s head, without inquiring how it got there.’ Why did Aeschylus characterize differently from Sophocles? Why did Sophocles introduce the third actor? Why did Euripides not make better plots? So asks H.D.F Kitto in his...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-61019-3 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Aspects of Roman History 82BC–AD14: A Source-based Approach

   By Mark Davies, Hilary Swain

   Aspects of Roman History 82BC–AD14 examines the political and military history of Rome and its empire in the Ciceronian and Augustan ages. It is an indispensable introduction to this central period of Roman History for all students of Roman history, from pre-university to undergraduate level....

   May 2010 | 978-0-415-49694-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. Pliny on Art and Society: The Elder Pliny's Chapters On The History Of Art

   By Jacob Isager

   Pliny sketches a theory of advancing moral decline and extravagance, in the course of which he gives a detailed account of six centuries of classical art and a fascinating sketch of the world of the rich Roman collector. Isager's is the first full treatment of this subject for over a hundred years....

   April 2010 | 978-0-415-58901-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. Prophecy and Sibylline Imagery in the Renaissance: Shakespeare’s Sibyls

   By Jessica L. Malay

   This book restores the rich tradition of the Sibyls to the position of prominence they once held in the culture and society of the English Renaissance. The sibyls — figures from classical antiquity — played important roles in literature, scholarship and art of the period, exerting a powerful...

   April 2010 | 978-0-415-87792-3 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Three Plays by Aristophanes: Staging Women, 2nd Edition

   By Jeffrey Henderson

   These three plays by the great comic playwright Aristophanes (c. 446-386 BCE), the well-known Lysistrata, and the less familiar Women at the Thesmophoria and Assemblywomen, are the earliest surviving portrayals of contemporary women in the European literary tradition. These plays provide a unique...

   February 2010 | 978-0-415-87131-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Ctesias' 'History of Persia': Tales of the Orient

   By LLoyd Llewellyn-Jones, James Robson

   Towards the end of the fifth century BC Ctesias of Cnidus wrote his 23 book History of Persia. Ctesias is a remarkable figure: he lived and worked in the Persian court and, as a doctor, tended to the world’s most powerful kings and queens. His position gave him special insight into the workings of...

   November 2009 | 978-0-415-36411-9 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Latin for the Illiterati, Second Edition: A Modern Guide to an Ancient Language

   By Jon R. Stone

   This revised and updated edition includes a brand new foreword by Richard LaFleur and more than fifteen hundred new entries and abbreviations. Organized alphabetically within the categories of verba (common words and expressions), dicta (common phrases and familiar sayings), and abbreviations,...

   June 2009 | 978-0-415-77767-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    The Roman Garden: Space, Sense, and Society

    By Katharine T. von Stackelberg

    This innovative book is the first comprehensive study of ancient Roman gardens to combine literary and archaeological evidence with contemporary space theory. It applies a variety of interdisciplinary methods including access analysis, literary and gender theory to offer a critical framework for...

    June 2009 | 978-0-415-43823-0 | Hardback (Routledge)