Collected Papers on Latin Literature

Collected Papers on Latin Literature
Author: R. G. M. Nisbet
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 472
Release: 1995
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Other papers discuss Virgil's bucolic style; symbolism in Seneca's tragedies; how poems by Horace and Statius are coloured by the characteristics of their addresses. Articles on prose consider the reader's contribution to the understanding of Cicero's speeches and the use of rhythm to determine the punctuation of Latin sentences. Many textual conjectures are proposed on familiar Latin authors, notably Catullus, Horace, and Juvenal; other papers discuss Housman's Juvenal and 'how textual conjectures are made'.

Collected Papers on Suetonius

Collected Papers on Suetonius
Author: Tristan Power
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2021-06-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000400417

This collection of essays by a leading authority on Suetonius, one of our most significant historical sources for the early Roman Empire, provides an in-depth examination of his works, whose literary value has in the past been overlooked. Although Suetonius is well known for his Lives of emperors such as Caligula and Nero, he is rarely studied in his own right, aside from grammatical or textual commentaries. This is the first volume by an expert on the author to make him accessible to a wider audience, looking at his biographies not only of emperors but also poets, and discovering new contemporary evidence for Jesus from one of Suetonius’ first-century sources. Other writers discussed include Homer, Sophocles, Catullus, Virgil, Horace, Curtius Rufus, Josephus, Plutarch, Pliny the Younger, Tacitus, Juvenal, and Cassius Dio. The book contains thirty-two papers in all, eleven of which are new, which examine Suetonius’ neglected historical value and literary skills, and offer textual conjectures on both the Illustrious Men and Lives of the Caesars. It also has a new introduction and represents over a dozen years of research on an essential Latin source for Roman history. Collected Papers on Suetonius provides an invaluable resource for students and researchers working on Suetonius. It also has broader significance for anyone studying Roman imperial history and culture, Latin literature, and classical historiography.

Collected Papers on Latin Literature

Collected Papers on Latin Literature
Author: Robin George Murdoch Nisbet
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023
Genre: Latin literature
ISBN: 9781383005448

This volume contains a series of articles on a wide range of topics in Latin literature by the eminent scholar and former Professor of Latin at Oxford University, Robin Nisbet. Original and at times controversial, this collection represents the best of a provocative thinker's work.

The Layers of the Text

The Layers of the Text
Author: Richard Hunter
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 924
Release: 2021-10-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 311074757X

This volume collects the most recent essays of Richard Hunter, one of the world's leading experts in the field of Greek and Latin literature. The essays range across all periods of ancient literature from Homer to late antiquity, with a particular focus not just on the texts in their original contexts, but also on how they were interpreted and exploited for both literary and more broadly cultural purposes later in antiquity. Taken together, the essays sketch a picture of a continuous tradition of critical and historical engagement with the literature of the past from the period of Aristophanes and then Plato and Aristotle in classical Athens to the rich prose literature of the Second Sophistic. Richard Hunter's earlier essays are collected in On Coming After (Berlin 2008).

R. O. A. M. Lyne: Collected Papers on Latin Poetry

R. O. A. M. Lyne: Collected Papers on Latin Poetry
Author: R. O. A. M. Lyne
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2007-05-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0191525367

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 - largely Virgil, Horace, and elegy. R. O. A. M. Lyne's consistent approach of close reading means that the articles form a coherent whole, while his compelling style as an engaged literary analyst ensures that these are not dry or forbidding pieces.

The Oxford Book of Latin American Essays

The Oxford Book of Latin American Essays
Author: Ilan Stavans
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 536
Release: 1997
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

An intriguing collection of more than 70 Latin American essays, some never before translated into English, gives us the whole spectrum of concerns that have animated some of the greatest writers of our time--from Andres Bello, Pablo Neruda, and Alfonso Reyes to Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Rosario Ferre--an assembly confident, ingenious, aware.

Latin Literature

Latin Literature
Author: Michael Grant
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 687
Release: 2015-04-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0141398124

A classic introduction to Latin literature, with translations of the best passages from Virgil, Livy, Ovid, Seneca and many others. This classic anthology traces the development of Latin literature from the early Republican works of Cicero and Catullus, to the writers of the Empire such as Lucan and Petronius, to the later writings of St Augustine. The selections cover comedy and epic, history and philosophy, in prose and in verse, and each passage is prefaced by an introduction to the author and his influence. The translators range across history from Alexander Pope and Lord Byron to contemporaries. The result is a broad and brilliant overview of the civilization of Rome and its Empire - an ideal introduction to Latin literature. Michael Grant was born in 1914. He served as an intelligence officer during the Second World War, and subsequently held academic posts at the universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Khartoum and Belfast. Over his lifetime, he published nearly fifty books on the ancient world, ranging from studies of Roman coinage, to biographies of Caesar, Nero and Jesus, to books on Ancient Israel and the Middle Ages. Many of his translations were published in Penguin Classics. Professor Grant moved to Italy in 1966, where he spent most of the rest of his life until his death in 2004.

Defining Genre and Gender in Latin Literature

Defining Genre and Gender in Latin Literature
Author: Garth Tissol
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2005
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780820478296

The Roman confrontation and assimilation of Greek literature entailed a scrutiny, critique, and adaptation of generic assumptions. This book considers the ways in which major genres - among them comedy, lyric, elegy, epic, and the novel - were redefined to accommodate Roman concerns and the ways in which gender plays a role in generic definition and authorial self-definition. Both of these areas of research have been important to William S. Anderson throughout his career. This collection of essays by his students helps readers to understand the nature of Roman literary self-definition, as it honors Professor Anderson's own achievements in this field.

The Production of Space in Latin Literature

The Production of Space in Latin Literature
Author: William Fitzgerald
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 0198768095

Recent decades have seen a marked shift in approaches to cultural analysis with the advent of the 'spatial turn' in the humanities and social sciences. This volume applies the insights and approaches of this paradigm to the Roman engagement with space, exploring its representation and manipulation in Latin literature.

R. O. A. M. Lyne: Collected Papers on Latin Poetry

R. O. A. M. Lyne: Collected Papers on Latin Poetry
Author: R. O. A. M. Lyne
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2007-05-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0199203962

A generous selection from more than three decades of scholarly articles by a world-class scholar and interpreter of Latin poetry which displays both his diverse interests and his concern with the texts of first-century BC Augustan poets, their language and literary texture.