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Horror in Classical Antiquity and Beyond

This open-access volume is the first to explore systematically and comprehensively the concept and category of 'horror' in antiquity. The contributors retrieve the ancient grammar of horror by paying equa…

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Manuel Reith
Die Fabel bei Horaz

Studien zu Literatur und Erkenntnis - Band 27

Obwohl in der Forschung wiederholt auf das Vorkommen von Fabeln in der lateinischen Literatur vor Phaedrus hingewiesen wurde, fehlt bislang eine vertiefende Untersuchung dieser Texte. Manuel Reith nimmt s…

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Erich Neumann,
Amor and Psyche

A mythic journey of psychological transformation and the development of the selfThe renowned tale of Amor and Psyche, from Apuleius's second-century Latin novel The Golden Ass , is one of the most charmin…

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David Kovacs
Euripides: Electra

This volume presents a newly edited text of Euripides' Electra with a scene-by-scene and line-by-line commentary that addresses a wide variety of questions, including the nature of Euripidean tragedy. In …

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Nancy Felson
Regarding Penelope

In this updated and expanded second edition of Regarding Penelope, Nancy Felson explores the relationship between Homer's construction of Penelope and his more general approach to poetic production and re…

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Sallust: Bellum Catilinae

Sallust is the first Roman historian whose work has survived, and his Bellum Catilinae is an excellent text for students. It provides a riveting narrative of a significant event in an important period of …

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Die Olympiasieger der Antike

Sammlung Tusculum

Since 1923 the Sammlung Tusculum has published authoritative editions of Greek and Latin works together with a German translation. The original texts are comprehensively annotated, and feature an introduc…

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Sallust: Bellum Catilinae

Sallust is the first Roman historian whose work has survived, and his Bellum Catilinae is an excellent text for students. It provides a riveting narrative of a significant event in an important period of …

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Reinventing Cicero

Exploring the reception of an influential phase in the life of the orator and politician Cicero, this volume focuses on the legacy of his public speeches and political writings that were made between 60-5…

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Ovid: Heroides

Ovid's Heroides ('Letters from Heroines') are one of the most remarkable works of classical literature. Written towards the end of the first century BCE, they take the form of verse letters written for th…

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Leah O'Hearn
Akrasia and the Catullan Lover

Exploring how the Roman poet Catullus portrays erotic desire as a problem of self-control, Leah O'Hearn argues that Catullus presents himself as a lover plagued by akrasia (the failure to act on better ju…

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Paul Allen Miller
Truth and Enjoyment in Cicero

Truth and Enjoyment in Cicero offers a fundamental re-examination of the relation between truth and enjoyment as understood in the traditional confrontation between rhetoric and philosophy in Cicero. His …

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Katherine Krauss
Exemplarity and Allusion in Macrobius' Saturnalia

This book builds a new framework for interpreting the use of classical source material in Macrobius' Saturnalia . It argues that the Saturnalia , an educational dialogue long dismissed as a nostalgic comp…

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The Oxford Critical Guide to Tacitus

The Oxford Critical Guide to Tacitus presents eighteen chapters surveying individual works and books by Tacitus. Each chapter approaches a work or book as a unit, addressing important interpretive issues …

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Apuleius: Fragmentary Works (Apulei Madaurensis Operum Deperditorum Reliquiae)

This edition of Apuleius's fragmentary works presents sixty-two items, along with a larger set of dubious items, with critical apparatus. An extensive editorial preface surveys all the works either lost o…

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Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity

Why should classical antiquity matter to Irish migration? Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity argues that ancient Greece and Rome have shaped Irish migration narratives from the earliest texts to the…

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Duncan F Kennedy
The Emergence of Ontological Styles of Thinking in Ancient Greece

This book presents an innovative theoretical framework for exploring the intellectual culture of ancient Greece in the period 450-350 BC. The bewildering questions and surprising opportunities posed by em…

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Celsiana Warwick
Gendered Voices in the Iliad

This book explores the ways in which theIliad constructs competing gendered voices that comment on the value system of the poem's warrior society. Prominent within the poem is a discourse of warrior mascu…

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Cicero: Tusculan Disputations (Marci Tulli Ciceronis Tusculanarum Disputationum)

This is a critical edition of Cicero's Tusculanae Disputationes , which presents in dialogue form his views on the fear of death and endurance of pain, on distress and a range of other emotions, and on th…

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Richard Armstrong, Alexandra Lianeri
A Companion to Translations Studies and Ancient Epic

A COMPANION TO THE TRANSLATION OF CLASSICAL EPICThe first volume of its kind to integrate trends in Translation Studies with Classical Reception StudiesA Companion to the Translation of Classical Epic pro…

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