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Syntax of the Sentence
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 196.00New Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax: Syntax of the Sentence is the first of four volumes dealing with the long-term evolution of Latin syntax, roughly from the 4th century BCE up to the 6th century CE. There are six pivotal chapters in this volume, each dealing with a subject which is critical to the understanding of the syntactic system. Topics... more...
The Regional Diversification of Latin 200 BC - AD 600
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 186.00Most comprehensive examination of regional diversification in Latin from the earliest beginnings to late antiquity. more...
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...
The Language of Literature
BRILL 2007; US$ 144.00A collection of papers revealing the boundary between linguistic and literary approaches to classical texts. more...
Vox Latina
Cambridge University Press 1978; US$ 28.00This is a reissue in paperback of the second edition of Professor Allen's highly successful book on the pronunciation of Latin in Rome in the Golden Age. In the second edition the text of the first edition is reprinted virtually unchanged but is followed by a section of supplementary notes that deal with subsequent developments in the subject.... more...
Dialogus de Scaccario, and Constitutio Domus Regis
Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 198.99This new edition contains the texts and brand new translations of two key documents of twelfth-century English history. The Dialogus de Scaccario (Dialogue of the Exchequer) is a medieval financial manual written by a royal official, Richard fitzNigel: it describes the sources of royal revenue, details the functions of those collected money for the... more...
The Golden Ass
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2007; US$ 12.50Relihan uses alliteration and assonance, rhythm and rhyme, the occasional archaism, the rare neologism, and devices of punctuation and typography, to create a sparkling, luxurious, and readable translation that reproduces something of the linguistic and comic effects of the original Latin. 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...
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...









