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The Sixteen Satires
Penguin Books Ltd 2004; Not AvailablePerhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55?138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer energy of everyday Roman life. In The Sixteen Satires he evokes a fascinating world of whores, fortune-tellers, boozy politicians, slick lawyers, shameless sycophants, ageing flirts and downtrodden teachers. A member of the traditional land-owning... more...
De Lingua Latina X
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1996; US$ 158.00De Lingua Latina X has never been so courageously edited nor so daringly translated as in this long-awaited sequel to Taylor’s Declinatio (SiHoLS 2). The editor’s intimate familiarity with both the extant archetype and Varro’s unique linguistic theory and practice make this volume indispensable for an understanding of LL X ,... more...
Aspects of Apuleius' Golden Ass
BRILL 2011; US$ 144.00The contributions to this volume on the Isis Book reassess current interpretations, highlight aspects of text, language, and style, and develop new lines of approach regarding the interpretation of this fascinating many-layered text, the last book of Apuleius? famous novel. more...
On the Nature of the Universe
OUP Oxford 1997; US$ 8.95`Therefore this terror and darkness of the mind Not by the sun's rays, nor the bright shafts of day, Must be dispersed, as is most necessary, But by the face of nature and her laws.' Lucretius' poem On the Nature of the Universe combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever written. With intense... more...
Work in Progress
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 73.99Work in Progress offers an in-depth study of the role of literary revision in the compositional practices and representational strategies of Roman authors at the end of the republic and the beginning of the principate. It focuses on Cicero, Horace, Quintilian, Martial, and Pliny the Younger, but also offers discussions of Isocrates, Plato, and Hellenistic... more...
Roman Lyric
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 182.00Francis Cairns has made well-known contributions to the study of Roman Epic and Elegy. Roman Lyric assembles his substantial body of work on Roman lyric, about 30 papers published over the period 1969 to 2010 in many European and American periodicals, themed volumes and Festschriften, along with some new papers.The volume is fully indexed and contains... more...
Ciceros »De re publica« im Unterricht
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2010; US$ 19.40Hauptbeschreibung In diesem Lehrerkommentar werden, auf die Unterrichtspraxis bezogen, die Texte interpretiert, die in der Ausgabe »De re publica« (Reihe Exempla ) enthalten sind. Dabei wird auf die Einordnung der ausgewählten Texte in den Zusammenhang des gesamten Werkes und auf die Darstellung der Gedankenentwicklung besonderer Wert gelegt.... more...
Valerius Flaccus' dramatische Erzähltechnik
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2011; US$ 64.69Hauptbeschreibung Der flavische Epiker Valerius Flaccus hat in der Forschung der letzten Jahrzehnte eine bemerkenswerte Beachtung gefunden. Gegenstand der vorliegenden Untersuchung ist die Frage nach dem grundlegenden Charakter seiner Kompositions- und Erzähltechnik. Valerius entpuppt sich als ein dramatischer Erzähler in der Nachfolge Vergils. ... more...
The Complete Poems of Tibullus
University of California Press 2012; US$ 19.95Tibullus is considered one of the finest exponents of Latin lyric in the golden age of Rome, during the Emperor Augustus?s reign, and his poetry retains its enduring beauty and appeal. Together these works provide an important document for anyone who seeks to understand Roman culture and sexuality and the origins of Western poetry. ? The new translation... more...
Propertius
Cambridge University Press 1987; US$ 32.00This book offers a detailed reading of some of the most stimulating and problematic of Propertius' elegies. more...









