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  • Rhetoric at Romeby M. L. Clarke

    Routledge 1996; US$ 38.95

    This new edition of M.L. Clarke's 1953 classics study of Roman rhetoric incorporates corrections and a new introduction by D.H. Berry. The bibliography has been substantially updated and supplemented by suggestions for further reading. more...

  • Roman Epicby Anthony J. Boyle

    Routledge 1996; US$ 125.00

    Distinguished Latinists examine the formation and evolution of Roman epic from its beginnings in the third century BC to the high Italian Renaissance. more...

  • Roman Eloquenceby William J. Dominik

    Routledge 1997; US$ 39.95

    This accessible and critically up-to-date volume will be of interest to Classicists, literary theorists and anyone concerned with the origins, development and influence of Roman rhetorical theory and practice. more...

  • Latin Fictionby Heinz Hofmann

    Routledge 2004; US$ 34.95

    A distinguished collection of papers offering the widest available introduction to fiction in Latin, from Petronius to Middle Ages, and including Christian as well as pagan novels. more...

  • Declamation, Paternity, and Roman Identityby Erik Gunderson

    Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 50.00

    For centuries declamation was a staple of education and cultured literary life in the Roman world. This book radically re-evaluates the genre, its social import, and its place in the history of the Western self. It will interest specialists in classics, rhetoric, queer studies, and psychoanalytic literary criticism. more...

  • Engendering Romeby A. M. Keith; Denis Feeney; Stephen Hinds

    Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 33.00

    This study examines the role of female characters in Roman epic poetry. Its five chapters argue that the feminised landscapes, militaristic women, and beautiful female corpses of the Roman epic tradition should be interpreted in conjunction with the use of the genre by ancient educators. more...

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

    Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 27.00

    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...

  • Satires of Romeby Kirk Freudenburg

    Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 38.00

    The first complete study of Roman verse satire to appear since 1976, this book provides a fresh and exciting survey of the field. It studies Rome's satirists individually, in their proper order, and relates their achievements to the separate social and political environs of each writer's own age. more...

  • Learned Girls and Male Persuasionby Sharon Lynn James

    University of California Press 2003; US$ 60.00

    This study transforms our understanding of Roman love elegy, an important and complex corpus of poetry that flourished in the late first century b.c.e. Sharon L. James reads key poems by Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid for the first time from the perspective of the woman to whom they are addressed?the docta puella, or learned girl, the poet's beloved. By interpreting the poetry not, as has always been done, from the stance of the elite male writers?as plaint and confession?but rather from the viewpoint of the women?thus as persuasion and attempted manipulation?James reveals strategies and substance that no one has listened for before. more...

  • Roman Honorby Carlin A. Barton

    University of California Press 2001; US$ 15.95

    This book is an attempt to coax Roman history closer to the bone, to the breath and matter of the living being. Drawing from a remarkable array of ancient and modern sources, Carlin Barton offers the most complex understanding to date of the emotional and spiritual life of the ancient Romans. more...