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Author: Ian Du Quesnay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-04-29
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1107193567
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Comprehensive coverage, accessible to students and non-specialists, of one of the most popular poets of classical antiquity.
Author: Marilyn B. Skinner
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2010-12-23
Total Pages: 626
ISBN-13: 1444393782
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this companion, international scholars provide a comprehensive overview that reflects the most recent trends in Catullan studies. Explores the work of Catullus, one of the best Roman ‘lyric poets’ Provides discussions about production, genre, style, and reception, as well as interpretive essays on key poems and groups of poems Grounds Catullus in the socio-historical world around him Chapters challenge received wisdom, present original readings, and suggest new interpretations of biographical evidence
Author: Ian Du Quesnay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-04-29
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1108151914
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Catullus is one of the most popular poets to survive from classical antiquity. Above all others he seems to speak to modern readers with a modern voice. The distinguished contributors to this Companion discuss the principal subjects which drew Catullus' affection and disgust, above all his famous affair with the woman he calls 'Lesbia', and situate him in the social, historical and intellectual context of first-century BC Rome. One of the so-called 'new poets', Catullus had a profound effect on subsequent Latin poetry, and this is explored especially for the Augustan age and the late first century AD. A significant part of the volume is concerned with Catullus' survival into the modern world. There are discussions both of the manuscript tradition and of the interpretative scholarship which has been devoted to his poetry, as well as his reception by renaissance and later poets. Students in particular will appreciate this book.
Author: Philip R. Hardie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-05-02
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780521775281
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ovid was one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity, and arguably the single most influential ancient poet for post-classical literature and culture. In this Cambridge Companion, chapters by leading authorities from Europe and North America discuss the backgrounds and contexts for Ovid, the individual works, and his influence on later literature and art. Coverage of essential information is combined with exciting critical approaches. This Companion is designed both as an accessible handbook for the general reader who wishes to learn about Ovid, and as a series of stimulating essays for students of Latin poetry and of the classical tradition.
Author: Ian M. le M. Du Quesnay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-10-18
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1107000831
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides specially commissioned in-depth discussions of the poetry of Catullus from ten leading Latin scholars.
Author: Charles Martindale
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-10-02
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780521498852
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature, art, and politics. This Companion is designed as an indispensable guide for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of an author critical to so many disciplines. It consists of essays by seventeen scholars from Britain, the USA, Ireland and Italy which offer a range of different perspectives both traditional and innovative on Virgil's works, and a renewed sense of why Virgil matters today. The Companion is divided into four main sections, focussing on reception, genre, context, and form. This ground-breaking book not only provides a wealth of material for an informed reading but also offers sophisticated insights which point to the shape of Virgilian scholarship and criticism to come.
Author: Thea S. Thorsen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-11-21
Total Pages: 455
ISBN-13: 0521765366
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Latin love elegy is one of the most important poetic genres in the Augustan era, also known as the golden age of Roman literature. This volume brings together leading scholars from Australia, Europe and North America to present and explore the Greek and Roman backdrop for Latin love elegy, the individual Latin love elegists (both the canonical and the non-canonical), their poems and influence on writers in later times. The book is designed as an accessible introduction for the general reader interested in Latin love elegy and the history of love and lament in Western literature, as well as a collection of critically stimulating essays for students and scholars of Latin poetry and of the classical tradition.
Author: David Wray
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-09-06
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1139429698
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book applies comparative cultural and literary models to a reading of Catullus' poems as social performances of a 'poetics of manhood': a competitively, often outrageously, self-allusive bid for recognition and admiration. Earlier readings of Catullus, based on Romantic and Modernist notions of 'lyric' poetry, have tended to focus on the relationship with Lesbia and to ignore the majority of the shorter poems, which are instead directed at other men. Professor Wray approaches these poems in the light of more recent models for understanding male social interaction in the premodern Mediterranean, placing them in their specifically Roman historical context while bringing out their strikingly 'postmodern' qualities. The result is an alternative way of reading the fiercely aggressive and delicately refined agonism performed in Catullus' shorter poems. All Latin and Greek quoted is supplied with an English translation.
Author: Harriet I. Flower
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-06-23
Total Pages: 519
ISBN-13: 1107032245
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This second edition examines all aspects of Roman history, and contains a new introduction, three new chapters and updated bibliographies.
Author: Stuart Gillespie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-10-18
Total Pages: 612
ISBN-13: 1139827529
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Lucretius' didactic poem De rerum natura ('On the Nature of Things') is an impassioned and visionary presentation of the materialist philosophy of Epicurus, and one of the most powerful poetic texts of antiquity. After its rediscovery in 1417 it became a controversial and seminal work in successive phases of literary history, the history of science, and the Enlightenment. In this 2007 Cambridge Companion experts in the history of literature, philosophy and science discuss the poem in its ancient contexts and in its reception both as a literary text and as a vehicle for progressive ideas. The Companion is designed both as an accessible handbook for the general reader who wishes to learn about Lucretius, and as a series of stimulating essays for students of classical antiquity and its reception. It is completely accessible to the reader who has only read Lucretius in translation.
