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Jonathan S Burgess
The Travels of Odysseus

The Travels of Odysseus employs the theme of travel to explore the Odyssey and its contexts. After an introductory chapter, Chapter 2 provides analysis of the "wanderings" or Apologos of Odysseu…

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Laura Jansen
Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics

Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics examines the role the Greco-Roman classics play in Susan Sontag's intellectual and literary achievement. The collected chapters consider Sontag as a case of a thinker in…

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Raphaële Garrod
François Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention

François Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention: Ingenious Animation explores the medical poetics of inventive, embodied thinking or ingenuity instantiated in Rabelais's Gargantua and, mostl…

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C M van der Keur
Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 13

This volume presents the first full-scale literary and linguistic analysis of the entire Punica 13. It includes the text and facing English translation, along with notes on syntax, textual criticism, styl…

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Maria Nasioula
By Heart or from the Scroll

Grammatika vases, one of the most distinctive varieties of Hellenistic relief pottery, present modern scholars with compelling research opportunities, as they document the reception of ancient Greek liter…

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Emily Gowers
Rome's Patron

The story of Maecenas and his role in the evolution and continuing legacy of ancient Roman poetry and cultureAn unelected statesman with exceptional powers, a patron of the arts and a luxury-loving friend…

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Luca Graverini
Reader Immersion in Latin Prose and Verse Narrative

This book introduces contemporary critical perspectives to the study of ancient Latin narrative texts, demonstrating how they encourage their readers to experience the fictional world and its inhabitants-…

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Jessica H Clark
Women in Fragments

How have we gained knowledge about women in the ancient Roman Republic? Roman historians were uniformly male, as were most historians of ancient Rome until quite recently. In the historiography handed dow…

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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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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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Cathy Shrank
Dialogue in Late Medieval and Early Modern England, C. 1400-1680

This book is the first major study of dialogue in England from the fifteenth to the late seventeenth century: a 'golden age' of dialogue, and a crucial period for its development. The spread of humanist e…

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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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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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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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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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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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Eric Csapo, Peter Wilson
A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 Bc: Volume 1, the Theatre Festivals of Athens: Documents with Translation and Commentary

This is the first volume of A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 BC and focuses exclusively on the theatre festivals in the city of Athens. It presents and discusses in detail all the docum…

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Phil Cousineau
The Wisdom of the Odyssey

An accessible companion to Homer's Odyssey that illuminates its timeless lessons on change, resilience, and the search for home, written by acclaimed mythographer and cultural historian Phil Cousineau. Fo…

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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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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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