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Cicero's style
BRILL 2003; US$ 156.00An analysis of Cicero's style, covering differences of literary genres, nuances of style in individual works, and chronological development. There is an account of fixed elements typical of Cicero's diction, and interpretative studies discuss the relationship of style and context in the orations. more...
Interpretationen und Unterrichtsvorschläge zu Ovids »Metamorphosen«
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2011; US$ 17.25Hauptbeschreibung In diesem Lehrerkommentar sind alle in der EXEMPLA-Ausgabe enthaltenen Texte sorgfältig interpretiert. Die Interpretationen stützen sich auf die wissenschaftliche Forschung und sind ausgerichtet auf die Bedürfnisse der Schule. Für Tafelbilder und die Berücksichtigung der Rezeption von bildender Kunst, Oper und Film werden ebenso... more...
Geschichte der römischen Literatur
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 280.00This volume, which has now been published in eight languages, provides an overview of all Latin literature, from its beginnings to Boethius. ?Literature? is understood in the ancient sense, that is it also includes rhetoric, history, philosophy and specialised sciences. Particular attention is paid to the continued influence of Latin literature up... more...
Second Sophistic
Taylor and Francis 1993; US$ 49.95Sophism was the single most important movement in second century literature: prose of that period came to be written as entertainment rather than confined to historical subjects. Graham Anderson shows how the Greek sophists' skills in public speaking enabled them to perform effectively across a variety of activities. As he presents the sophists' roles... more...
Cretan Women
Oxford University Press, UK 2006; US$ 134.99Rebecca Armstrong investigates the myths of three Cretan women - King Minos' wife, Pasiphae, and their daughters Ariadne and Phaedra - as they appear in Latin poetry of the late Republic and early Empire. She offers detailed readings of the most prominent treatments of the stories, alongside a thematic investigation of the ideas of memory, wildness,... more...
Brill's Companion to Lucan
BRILL 2011; US$ 247.00The present collection samples the most current approaches to Lucan?s poem, its themes, its dialogue with other texts, its reception in medieval and early modern literature, and its relevance to audiences of all times. more...
A Commentary on Lucan, "De bello civili" IV
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 196.00Lucan?s epic on the civil war that ended the Republic was written in the Early Empire, under Nero, a hundred years after the events it narrates. Book 4 focuses on two major campaigns out of Italy, first in Spain, then in Africa. Paolo Asso?s commentary privileges aspects of poetics, rhetoric, language and literary genre, and speaks not only to readers... more...
Curtius Rufus
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 59.99A translation, with detailed commentary, of Book 10 of Curtius Rufus' Histories, a major Roman source on the end of the reign of Alexander the Great. The Introduction establishes a profile of Curtius, and his agenda as a historian. Both translation and commentary are designed for the reader without Latin. - ;This book presents a translation, with... more...
A Companion to Terence
Wiley 2013; US$ 195.00A comprehensive collection of essays by leading scholars in the field that address, in a single volume, several key issues in interpreting Terence offering a detailed study of Terence’s plays and situating them in their socio-historical context, as well as documenting their reception through to present day • The first comprehensive... more...









