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Odyssey, The: Deluxe Edition
By: Homer; Fagles, Robert (trans.); Knox, Bernard (contrib.)
Published by: The Penguin Group (USA)
This is a new translation of Homer's epic about Odysseus and his encounters with both natural and divine forces on the ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War. It contains an introduction and notes by Bernard Knox.
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Price: $15.00
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Alexander the Great
By: Heckel, Waldemar; Yardley, J. C.
Published by: Blackwell Publishing, Ltd
At his death in 323 BC, Alexander the Great ruled an empire stretching from the Balkans to India, yet the best accounts we have of his life were written hundreds of years after his death. This book presents new translations of the most important ancient writings on Alexander's life and legacy.
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Price: $98.95
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The Ancient Critic at Work
By: Nünlist, René
Published by: Cambridge University Press
Shows the importance of the Greek scholia, the marginal and interlinear notes on manuscripts, for understanding ancient literary criticism.
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Price: $96.00
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Ancient Literacies
By: Johnson, William A; Parker, Holt N
Published by: Oxford University Press, USA
List of Illustrations. Abbreviations. List of Contributors. 1. Introduction. PART I Situating Literacies. 2. Writing, Reading, Public and Private "Literacies": Functional Literacy and Democratic Literacy in Greece. 3. Literacy or Literacies in Ancient Rome?. 4. Reading, Hearing, and Looking at Ephesos. 5. The Anecdote: Exploring the Boundaries between Oral and Literate Performance in the Second Sophistic. 6. Situating Literacy at Rome. PART II Books and Texts. 7. The Corrupted Boy and the Crowned Poet or the Material Reality and the Symbolic Status of the Literary Book at Rome. 8. The Impermanent Text in Catullus and Other Roman Poets. 9. Books and Reading Latin Poetry. PART III Institutions and Communities. 10. Papyrological Evidence for Book Collections and Libraries in the Roman Empire. 11. Bookshops in the Literary Culture of Rome. 12. Literary Literacy in Roman Pompeii: the Case of Virgil's Aeneid. 13. Constructing Elite Reading Communities in the High Empire. PART IV Bibliographical Essay. 14. Literacy Studies in Classics: The Last Twenty Years. PART V Epilogue. 15. Why Literacy Matters, Then and Now (May 30, 2006). Index locorum. General Index
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The Annals
By: Tacitus, Cornelius; Yardley, J. C. (trans.); Barrett, Anthony A.
Published by: OUP Oxford
The Annals is a gripping account of the Roman emperors Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero and the brutality that marked their reigns. Tacitus deplores their depravity, proof of the corrupting force of absolute power. J.C. Yardley's vivid and accurate translation is complemented by a thorough introduction and notes. - ;'He was atrocious in his brutality, but his lechery was kept hidden... In the end, he erupted into an orgy of crime and ignominy alike'. Such is Tacitus' obituary of Tiberius, and he is no less caustic in his opinion of the weak and cuckolded Claudius and the 'artist' Nero. The Annals is a gripping account of the Roman emperors who followed Augustus, the founder of the imperial system, and of the murders, sycophancy, plotting, and oppression that marked this period in Rome. Tacitus provides the earliest and most detailed account of Boudicca's rebellion in Britain, and his history also relates the great fire of Rome in. the reign of Nero, and the persecution of the Christians that followed. He deplores the depravity of the emperors, whose behaviour he sees as proof of the corrupting force of absolute power. J. C. Yardley's translation is vivid and accurate, and Anthony A. Barrett's introduction and notes provide invaluable historical and cultural context. -
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Apollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabulae
By: Trzaskoma, Stephen M.; Smith, R. Scott
Published by: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
By offering, for the first time in a single edition, complete English translations of Apollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabulae —the two most important surviving "handbooks" of classical mythography—this volume enables readers to compare the two's versions of the most important Greek and Roman myths. A General Introduction sets the Library and Fabulae into the wider context of ancient mythography; introductions to each text discuss in greater detail issues of authorship, aim, and influence. A general index, an index of people and geographic locations, and an index of authors and works cited by the mythographers are also included.
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Aristophanes
By: Russo, Carlo Ferdinando
Published by: Routledge
This is the classic book about Aristophanes. Russo examines the plays as libretti for actors and singers rather than as mere texts, and never loses sight of the stage.
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Price: $39.95
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The Art of Pliny's Letters
By: Marchesi, Ilaria
Published by: Cambridge University Press
First book to treat Pliny's epistles as a work of literature, illuminating contemporary cultural debates.
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Price: $79.00
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Behind a Mask or, A Woman's Power
By: MobileReference
Published by: MobileReference.com
Chapter I - JEAN MUIR "Has she come?" "No, Mamma, not yet." "I wish it were well over. The thought of it worries and excites me. A cushion for my back, Bella." And poor, peevish Mrs. Coventry sank into an easy chair with a nervous sigh and the air of a martyr, while her pretty daughter hovered about her with affectionate solicitude. "Who are they talking of, Lucia?" asked the languid young man lounging on a couch near his cousin, who bent over her tapestry work with a happy smile on her usually haughty face. "The new governess, Miss Muir. Shall I tell you about her?" . Intuitive navigation. . Text annotation and mark-up. .
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