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Ancient Epistolary Fictions
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 68.00The first comprehensive look at the use of imaginary letters in Greek literature. The book challenges the notion that Ovid 'invented' the fictional letter form in the Heroides, and considers a wealth of Greek antecedents for the later European epistolary novel tradition. more...
Latin Language and Latin Culture
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 34.00A examination of stereotypical ideas about the Latin language and their effect on how Latin literature is read. The book offers a different view of Latin as a language and as a vehicle for cultural practice. The argument ranges over texts in Latin from antiquity to the twentieth century. more...
Poetry and philosophy in the Middle Ages
BRILL 2001; US$ 182.00This collection of essays, written to honour Professor Peter Dronke on his retirement, addresses the question of the relationship between poetry and philosophy in the Middle Ages. more...
FOF Companion to Classical Drama
Infobase Publishing 2005; US$ 75.00Examines the history and development of ancient Greek and Roman drama from the late 6th century BCE through the 1st century CE. Entries cover the 80 complete plays that survived from the classical era; the major authors; the background, characters, and themes of the dramas; and the conventions and practices of their respective theaters. more...
An Introduction to Ancient Greek
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2007; US$ 29.95C.A.E. Luschnig's An Introduction to Ancient Greek: A Literary Approach prepares students to read Greek in less than a year by presenting basic traditional grammar without frills and by introducing real Greek written by ancient Greeks, from the first day of study. The second edition retains all the features of the first but is more streamlined, easier... more...
An Independent Study Guide to Reading Greek
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 30.00Updated guide and answer-book for those using the second edition of Reading Greek. more...
Antike U Abendland 2007
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2007; US$ 246.00The ANTIKE UND ABENDLAND yearbook was founded immediately after the Second World War by Bruno Snell as a forum for interdisciplinary discussion of topics from Antiquity and the history of their later effects. The Editorial Board contains representatives from the disciplines of Classical Studies, Ancient History, Germanic Studies, Romance Studies... more...
Die Erfindung des Menschen
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 266.00The work presents a comprehensive account of autobiographical writing in Early Modern Humanism. It deals in particular with autobiographical writings in Modern Latin from the 14th cent. until about 1600. The main authors are Petrarch, Alberti, Pius. II, Campano, Erasmus, Eobanus Hessus, Marullo, Cardano, Joseph Scaliger, Lipsius. The work demonstrates... more...
The Republic
The Floating Press 2009; US$ 4.95The Republic is Plato's most famous work and one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy and politics. The characters in this Socratic dialogue - including Socrates himself - discuss whether the just or unjust man is happier. They are the philosopher-kings of imagined cities and they also discuss the nature of philosophy and the soul among other... more...
Inleiding tot de Latijnse syntaxis
Amsterdam University Press 2008; US$ 23.05The ultimate textbook for latin syntax based on a successful teaching method. more...









