This book applies an SFL-inspired, multi-dimensional approach to Latin linguistics, offering fresh insights into Latin narrative tenses while addressing challenges posed by its closed-corpus nature....Loe edasi...
The first of its kind, this book presents a wide range of passages exploring many aspects of the Greco-Roman watery world: physics, philosophy, weather, medicine, marine biology, religion and mythology, infrastructure, sailing, and mercantile activi...Loe edasi...
The Routledge Pocket Guide to Legal Latin is an invaluable legal reference tool, providing a quick and informative guide to Latin words and phrases commonly used in legal settings....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1926, this volume analyses the history of irony in ancient writers such as Homer and Lucian and how the use of Irony in modern literature has been shaped and coloured by the Ironical tradition. The works of Tacitus, Shakespea...Loe edasi...
A Study in Creative History (1932) aims to present the main movements of thought as they emerge clearly into history. The book offers the view that the main developments prior to 500 B.C. were the emergence of the Prophetic school in Israel, of Mazd...Loe edasi...
Lucians writings raise questions about the nature of reading and viewing the lives of others; this book explores these questions through close readings of Lucians best-known dialogues and stories such as Hermotimus, Charon, Icaromenippus, Nigrinus,...Loe edasi...
This book offers a fresh look at Hesiods concept of a Golden Age. It analyses the ways in which classical philosophers explored it and traces the many creative interactions with it in literature from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Age of Goet...Loe edasi...
This volume addresses the important literary phenomenon of generic enrichment in Plutarchs Parallel Lives, examining the ways in which features of other genres are deployed and incorporated in Plutarchs biographies and the effects of this on the tex...Loe edasi...
This book explores Antigone and her many reconceptualizations from antiquity to the present, examining key themes, modern analysis, and postmodern receptions of the heroine in the arts and society. Suitable for students and scholars of classical lit...Loe edasi...
This book moves beyond the debate on wisdom literature, ongoing in Biblical Studies, demonstrating the productivity of wisdom as a literary category. Featuring work by scholars of Egyptology, Classics, Biblical and Near Eastern Studies, it offers fr...Loe edasi...
This book offers the first systematic, up-to-date, cross-cultural, and detailed study of semi-volitional bodily behaviour (sneezing, spitting, coughing, burping, vomiting, defecating, etc.) in the classical world....Loe edasi...
This book explores the ways in which the origins of time, of the gods, and processes associated with time were conceptualised in antiquity, examining a variety of ancient sources from across the ancient world and addressing issues surrounding the so...Loe edasi...
Its chapters framed by the editors deeply researched introduction and theorist Caroline Levines reflective afterword model both theoretical analysis and close reading of drama, lyric, and prose polemic, while encompassing generic, metrical, rhetoric...Loe edasi...
This volume explores emotion and its importance in Polybius conception of history, his writing of historiography, and the benefits of this understanding to readers of history....Loe edasi...
First published in 1983, Spensers Faerie Queene and the Cult of Elizabeth presents The Faerie Queene as a central document in the cult of Elizabeth....Loe edasi...
First published in 1967, Latin Biography contains chapters on Nepos, Plutarch and Suetonius, the three best-known Classical biographers. There are also accounts of the less-familiar works of Q. Curtius Rufus and the author or authors of the Histori...Loe edasi...
First published in 1965, Cicero contains a number of assessments of Ciceros political career, his character, his oratory, philosophy and poems, and his influence on subsequent literature and scholarship....Loe edasi...
This is the first full-length volume in English that focuses on the historiographical section of the Mirabilia and is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of the text, and of Greek philosophy, historiography, and literature more broadly....Loe edasi...
First published in 1968, Virgils Aeneid is to help all who approach the long and difficult poem seriously (in Latin or in English) to read it with discerning appreciation....Loe edasi...
