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Iliad
By: Homer; Lombardo, Stanley (trans.); Murnaghan, Sheila (other)
Published by: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

Stanley Lombardo is Professor of Classics, University of Kansas. Sheila Murnaghan is Professor of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania. more...

Price: $11.95

Odyssey
By: Homer; Lombardo, Stanley (trans.); Murnaghan, Sheila (other)
Published by: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

Lombardo's Odyssey offers the distinctive speed, clarity, and boldness that so distinguished his 1997 Iliad . more...

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The Art of Love
By: Gibson, Roy (ed.); Green, Steven (ed.); Sharrock, Alison (ed.)
Published by: OUP Oxford

A collection of essays on Ovid's cycle of sophisticated and subversive didactic poems on love, The Art of Love and Cures for Love, written by leading scholars and offering a range of perspectives on the poetics, politics, and erotics of the poems. - ;The Art of Love celebrates the bi-millennium of Ovid's cycle of sophisticated and subversive didactic poems on love, traditionally assumed to have been brought to completion around AD 2. Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love) and Remedia Amoris (Cures for Love), which purport to teach young Roman men and women how to be good lovers, were partly responsible for the poet's exile from Rome under the emperor Augustus. None the less they exerted great. influence over ancient and later love poetry. This is the first collection in English devoted to the poems, and brings together many of the leading figures in the field of Latin literature and Ovidian studies from the British Isles, Germany, Italy, and the United States. It offers a range of perspectives on the poetics, politics, and erotics. of the poems, beginning with a critical survey of recent research, and concluding with papers on the ancient, medieval, and modern reception of the poems. - more...

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Birth Of Rhetoric
By: Wardy, Robert
Published by: Routledge

What is rhetoric? Is it the capacity to persuade? Or is it 'mere' rhetoric: the ability to get others to do what the speaker wants, regardless of what they want? Robert Wardy uses Gorgias at the centre of this book and the debate. more...

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Brill's companion to Cicero
By: May, J. (ed.)
Published by: Koninklijke Brill NV

This volume is intended as a companion to the study of Cicero's oratory and rhetoric, for both students and experts in the field. The book is arranged along roughly chronological lines and covers most aspects of Cicero's oratory and rhetoric. more...

Price: $272.00

Brill's companion to Ovid
By: Weiden Boyd, B. (ed.)
Published by: Koninklijke Brill NV

This volume on the Roman poet Ovid (43 BCE - 17 CE) contains articles by 14 international scholars. Contributions cover a wide range of topics, including a biographical essay, a survey of the major manuscripts and textual traditions, and a comprehensive discussion of Ovid's style more...

Price: $286.00

Caesar's Civil War
By: Batstone, William W.; Damon, Cynthia
Published by: Oxford University Press, USA

Editors' Foreword. Preliminary Note. Introduction. 1. Choices: Genre, Content, Style. 2. Structure as Argument in Civil War. 3. Taking Sides, Making Sides. 4. Mastering Victory. 5. Writing Fighting War. Epilogue: Surviving Failure more...

Price: $25.00

Cicero's Social and Political Thought
By: Wood, Neal
Published by: University of California Press

In this close examination of the social and political thought of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), Neal Wood focuses on Cicero's conceptions of state and government, showing that he is the father of constitutionalism, the archetype of the politically conservative mind, and the first to reflect extensively on politics as an activity. more...

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Cicero's style
By: Albrecht, M. von
Published by: Koninklijke Brill NV

An 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...

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Cicero's Topica
By: Reinhardt, Tobias (ed.)
Published by: OUP Oxford

Cicero's Topica is one of the canonical texts on ancient rhetorical theory. This is the first full-scale commentary on this work, and the first critical edition of the work that is informed by a full analysis of its transmission. - ;Cicero's Topica is one of the canonical texts on ancient rhetorical theory. This is the first full-scale commentary on this work, and the first critical edition that is informed by a full analysis of its transmission. Cicero recommends an Aristotelian theory of argumentation to an expert on Roman law. The introduction and the commentary seek to elucidate the exact origins of the theory of argument used by Cicero and explain how it works. Moreover, since Cicero's. suggestions for a reform of Roman civil law have parallels in similar efforts within the legal profession, Tobias Reinhardt considers how much common ground there is between Cicero and the jurists. - more...

Price: $65.00

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