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  • Bucólicasby Virgilio

    Edhasa 1753; US$ 6.13

    Las Bucólicas (o Églogas) no constituyen únicamente una colección de poemas, sino un poema total en sí mismo, cuidadosamente estructurado en un esquema simétrico. En boca de sus pastores, personajes cultos y refinados que desentonan con lo rústico del fondo, el poeta aborda temas tan variados como la poesía, la música, la belleza, la naturaleza, la... more...

  • P. Ovidii Nasonis "Epistula ex Ponto" III 1by Beatrice Larosa

    De Gruyter 2012; US$ 112.00

    The Epistula ex Ponto III 1 sums up the leitmotives of Ovid?s poetry of exile. This linguistic-philological commentary reveals intertextual connections with the author?s other writings, with the previous Latin love poetry as well as with the ways of Ciceronian and Horatian decorum. more...

  • A Companion to Persius and Juvenalby Susanna Braund; Josiah Osgood

    Wiley 2012; US$ 195.00

    A Companion to Persius and Juvenal breaks new ground in its in-depth focus on both authors as "satiric successors"; detailed individual contributions suggest original perspectives on their work, and provide an in-depth exploration of Persius' and Juvenal's afterlives. Provides detailed and up-to-date guidance on the texts and contexts of Persius... more...

  • Sexualmoral und politische Stabilitätby Maike Steenblock

    De Gruyter 2013; US$ 140.00

    In the literature of the late Roman Republic, political change was accompanied by a loosening of tradition concepts of sexual morality and gender. Investigating texts from Lucilius to Ovid, the author shows that the subjects of masculinity and effeminatio are closely tied to political discourse in every literary genre of the time. more...

  • Aeneid 1?6by Vergil; Randall Ganiban; Christine Perkell; James J. O'Hara; James Farrell; Patricia A. Johnston

    Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Co. 2013; US$ 21.95

    The first of a two-volume edition of Vergil's Aeneid, Aeneid 1?6 is part of a new series of Vergil commentaries from Focus which provides aid in translating while also elucidating the stylistic and interpretive issues. Includes introduction, complete Latin text, commentary, glossary, and appendix on meter. Individual editions of the Aeneid ... more...

  • The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satireby Kirk Freudenburg

    Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 30.00

    Explores the development of Roman satire in antiquity and of its reception in later centuries. more...

  • T. Maccius Plautus. Cistellariaby Walter Stockert

    C.H. Beck 2012; US$ 78.72

    Hauptbeschreibung Die «Cistellaria» des Plautus ist die römische Bearbeitung einer berühmten Komödie Menanders. Im Zentrum der Handlung steht hier eine junge Frau, die als Baby ausgesetzt wurde und seither im Prostituiertenmilieu lebt. Sie wird von ihren Eltern, reichen Bürgern Sikyons, wiedergefunden und darf nun ihren vornehmen Liebhaber heiraten.... more...

  • Juvenal and the Satiric Genreby Frederick Jones; David Taylor

    Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 31.99

    While claiming to stand outside literature altogether, Roman verse satire was the most aggressively literary of Roman genres, Juvenal's particularly so. In the opening lines of the corpus, his performance creates an arena in which the various genres of his Graeco-Roman cultural inheritance jostle to be heard, and are suppressed by his own generic... more...

  • Casina, Amphitryon, Captivi, Pseudolusby Plautus; David Christenson

    Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Co. 2013; US$ 11.95

    This text provides modern, close translations of the following Plautus comedic plays: Casina, Amphitryon, Captivi and Pseudolus. more...

  • Menaechmiby Plautus; David Christenson

    Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Co. 2013; US$ 6.95

    The play Menaechmi provides an introduction to the world of Roman comedy from one of its best practitioners, Plautus. As with all Focus translations, the emphasis is on an inexpensive, readable edition that is close to the original, with an extensive introduction, notes and appendices. more...