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Amanda Holton
Rhyme and the Construction of Love in English Lyric 1300-1579

This book, underpinned by a database, demonstrates that rhyme is not a superficial decorative feature but rather a powerful force which fundamentally determines subject-matter. It focuses on the relations…

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Darcy A Krasne
Structuring the Cosmos in Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica

Structuring the Cosmos in Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica offers a comprehensive reading of a Latin epic from the Flavian period of ancient Rome (69-96 CE). It centers intertextuality- the study of verbal …

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Linda Freedman
The Myth of the Fall in Nineteenth-Century Literature

The Myth of the Fall in Nineteenth-Century Literature offers fresh close readings of both canonical and less well-known works and is divided into two parts, fiction-making and nation-building, addressing …

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Mario Telò,
Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler

"Considering Butler's "tragic trilogy"-a set of interventions on Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Bacchae, and Aeschylus's Eumenides-this book seeks to understand not just how Butler uses an…

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David W F Stifler
Lucian and the Atticists

This book focuses on Lucian of Samosata, a Syrian writer of the Greek language in the second century CE, and his engagement with contemporary debates regarding the form and register of language best suite…

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Alison Keith
Sulpicia

This is the first full-length biography of Sulpicia, the earliest extant female author of classical Latin poetry. Unmentioned by her contemporaries, Sulpicia belonged to the pinnacle of the Roman aristocr…

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Afroditi Angelopoulou
The Body and the Senses in Greek Tragedy

The Body and the Senses in Greek Tragedy is the first book to approach the corporeality of Greek drama in terms of its capacity to involve audiences in the construction of meaning, not only on an affectiv…

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T E Franklinos
Propertius' Cynthia

Propertius' Cynthia considers Propertius' metapoetic and intra- and intertextual habits and their relationship with the repetitious amatory discourse that he fashions for himself with his beloved, Cynthia.

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Alison Keith
Sulpicia

This is the first full-length biography of Sulpicia, the earliest extant female author of classical Latin poetry. Unmentioned by her contemporaries, Sulpicia belonged to the pinnacle of the Roman aristocr…

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Ekphrasis in Ancient and Modern Literature

**This volume examines the interaction between literary and visual representation through ekphrasis in contemporary poetry and ancient literature, viewing ekphrasis as a dynamic and evolving concept rathe…

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Melanie Racette-Campbell
The Crisis of Masculinity in the Age of Augustus

The political rupture caused by the ascension of Augustus Caesar in ancient Rome, which ended the centuries-old Republic, had drastic consequences for the performance and understanding of masculinity in a…

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A Companion to Ancient Education

A Companion to Ancient Education presents a series of essays from leading specialists in the field that represent the most up-to-date scholarship relating to the rise and spread of educational practices a…

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Patrick Cheney
Placing Elysium in Renaissance Britain

Cheney explores the literary trope of Elysium from ancient Greek poetry to the English Renaissance, with attention to its place in cartography and the geographies of the sixteenth century, and with emphas…

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The Classical Reception and Impact of Wonder Woman in Comics and Film

Provides a wide range of scholarly approaches to the superhero character of Wonder Woman across comic books and film.

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Emily Hauser
How Women Became Poets

How the idea of the author was born in the battleground of genderWhen Sappho sang her songs, the only word that existed to describe a poet was a male one---aoidos , or "singer-man." The most fam…

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Massimiliano Riviera
Richard Barnfield and Queer Classicism in Elizabethan England

Richard Barnfield and Queer Classicism in Elizabethan England offers a comprehensive reappraisal of the work of Richard Barnfield, the Elizabethan writer who authored homoerotic and pastoral poetry during…

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Camilla Caporicci
The Song of Songs and Its Tradition in Renaissance Love Lyric

Traditionally attributed to King Solomon and called by Rabbi Aqiva the "Holy of Holies" among sacred Scriptures (Mishnah, Yadayim 3:5), the Song of Songs is one of the most fascinating and contr…

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Euripides,
Medea

A Student Edition of Euripides' play, which accessibly unpacks Greek tragedy in its social context, issues of translation and adaptation, and performance approaches over the centuries.Euripides' play Mede…

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Laura Loporcaro
Reading Quintilian

Reading Quintilian analyses how didactic authority is created in Quintilian's Institutio oratoria . Laura Loporcaro argues that the implementation in the Institutio of the same rhetorical strategies it de…

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Emily Wilson
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea

How do we give old words new voices? What must a translator lose - and might she gain - when she moves between languages, bringing ancient stories to modern life?Reflecting on the inspiration, interpretat…

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