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  • Sermo Iurisby Ulrich C. J. Gebhardt

    BRILL 2009; US$ 200.00

    This book is concerned with legal language in non-legal Latin literature. Examining the use of legal discourse as a poetical means, it provides fresh vistas on Augustan poetry and explores the potential for the poetic transformation of a technical language. Dieses Buch untersucht den Gebrauch der rAmischen Rechtssprache in nichtfachsprachlichen Texten.... more...

  • R. O. A. M. Lyneby R. O. A. M. Lyne

    OUP Oxford 2007; US$ 164.99

    This volume presents a wide range of pieces from a world-class Latinist which displays both his diverse interests as a scholar and his consistent concern with Augustan texts, their language and literary texture. The range of articles, written over more than three decades and including one previously unpublished piece, covers the same connected territory... more...

  • Ars Romanaby Frank Wittchow

    Universitätsverlag Winter 2012; US$ 71.17

    Hauptbeschreibung Die Vorstellung, dass 'fides' der Maßstab politischer Ethik zu sein habe, wird von vielen römischen Autoren transportiert. Der Historiker Livius bezeichnet daher die List als die am "wenigsten römische Kunst", 'ars minime Romana'. Doch die Kultur der Römer, die sich an so vielen Werten zu orientieren scheint, hat möglicherweise... more...

  • Die Literatur im Zeitalter Nerosby Christiane Reitz

    WBG - Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2012; US$ 12.94

    Hauptbeschreibung In der Regierungszeit des Kaisers Nero (54 - 68 n.Chr.) erleben viele literarische Gattungen eine Blüte oder Renaissance. Für das Epos beschreitet Lucan neue Wege. Seneca verdanken wir die einzigen Tragödien, die aus dem römischen Altertum erhalten sind. Der Roman des Petronius stellt nicht nur ein schillerndes Sittengemälde, sondern... more...

  • Noscendi Nilum Cupidoby Eleni Manolaraki

    De Gruyter 2012; US$ 154.00

    What significations did Egypt have for the Romans a century after Actium and afterwards? How did Greek imperial authors respond to the Roman fascination with the Nile? This book explores Egypt?s aftermath beyond the hostility of Augustan rhetoric, and Greek and Roman topoi of Egyptian ?barbarism?. Set against history and material culture, Julio-Claudian,... more...

  • Tragicorum Romanorum Fragmenta. Vol. Iby Markus Schauer

    Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2012; US$ 97.04

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  • Expurgating the Classicsby Stephen Harrison

    Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 280.00

    In the first collection to be devoted to this subject, a distinguished cast of contributors explores expurgation in both Greek and Latin authors in ancient and modern times. The major focus is on the period from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, with chapters ranging from early Greek lyric and Aristophanes through Lucretius, Horace, Martial... more...

  • Die römische Liebeselegieby Niklas Holzberg

    WBG - Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2012; US$ 17.25

    Hauptbeschreibung Die erotische Dichtung der römischen Elegiker Gallus, Properz, Tibull, Pseudo-Tibull und Ovid wird vorgestellt. Dabei werden die Elegiensammlungen jeweils als Ganzes betrachtet. Die Werkanalyse orientiert sich an der Abfolge der Gedichte in den einzelnen Büchern und verweilt länger bei besonders wichtigen Texten. Auf diese Weise... more...

  • Slavery and the Roman Literary Imaginationby William Fitzgerald; Denis Feeney; Stephen Hinds

    Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 28.00

    This book deals with the ways in which the Roman literary imagination explored the phenomenon of slavery. It discusses the ideological relation of Roman literature to the institution of slavery, and the ways in which slavery provided a metaphor for other relationships and experiences, and in particular for literature itself. more...

  • The Garden of Priapusby Amy Richlin

    Oxford University Press 1992; US$ 59.99

    Using literary and feminist methodology, this study argues that an attitude of sexual aggressiveness in defence served as a model for Roman satire. The author suggests that aggressive sexual humour reinforced Roman aggressive behaviour on both the individual and societal levels. more...