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Cicero on the Emotions
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 27.50The third and fourth books of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations deal with the nature and management of human emotion: first grief, then the emotions in general. In lively and accessible style, Cicero presents the insights of Greek philosophers on the subject, reporting the views of Epicureans and Peripatetics and giving a detailed account of the Stoic... more...
Catullus, Cicero, and a Society of Patrons
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 86.00Studies the distinctly 'late Republican' socio-textual culture recorded by this period's two most influential authors, Catullus and Cicero. more...
Classical Latin
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2010; US$ 34.00Extensively field-tested and fine-tuned over many years, and designed specifically for a one-year course, JC McKeown's Classical Latin: An Introductory Course offers a thorough, fascinating, and playful grounding in Latin that combines the traditional grammatical method with the reading approach. more...
Scribblers, Sculptors, and Scribes
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 14.99From one of the country?s leading Latinists, this all new reader is the perfect complement to any Latin program, and the first collection of entirely authentic, unadapted classical Latin texts that beginning students, from the very first day of their introduction to Latin, can read, enjoy, and profit from. more...
L. Iuni Moderati Columellae Res Rustica
OUP Oxford 2010; US$ 98.99For readers of the mid-first century CE, Columella compiled a comprehensive curriculum of the agricultural discipline, aiming to cover every aspect of the field that might effect economic profit and environmental stewardship. Columella combines traditional Roman moralism with an interest in experimental practices and a plea for sound fiscal sense;... more...
Wheelock's Latin Reader, 2e
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 16.99Originally intended by Professor Frederic M. Wheelock as a sequel to Wheelock's Latin, his classic introductory Latin textbook, Wheelock's Latin Reader, newly revised and updated by Richard A. LaFleur, is the ideal text for any intermediate-level Latin course. You'll find a rich selection of of prose and poetry from a wide range of classical authors,... more...
Seneca the Elder
Cambridge University Press 1981; US$ 68.00A study of Seneca's literary criticism. more...
Medieval Reading
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 40.00This book argues for a radically new approach to the history of reading and literacy in the Middle Ages. more...
Augustine's Way into the Will
OUP Oxford 2006; US$ 109.99Augustine's dialogue De libero arbitrio (On Free Choice) is, with his Confessions and City of God, one of his most important and widely read works. It contains one of the earliest accounts of the concept of 'free will' in the history of philosophy. Composed during a key period in Augustine's early career, between his conversion to Christianity... more...
The Blackwell History of the Latin Language
Wiley 2011; US$ 43.95This text makes use of contemporary work in linguistics to provide up-to-date commentary on the development of Latin, from its prehistoric origins in the Indo-European language family, through the earliest texts, to the creation of the Classical Language of Cicero and Vergil, and examines the impact of the spread of spoken Latin through the Roman Empire.... more...









