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Published 2021
The Eight Books : A Complete English Translation /

: The Eight Books: A Complete English Translation is the first complete translation of the collected poems of Sohrab Sepehri (1928-1980), a major Iranian modernist poet and painter and yet under-translated into English. The introduction takes up Sepehri's famously difficult if languidly beautiful style to explain it as a series of appropriations of global modernisms in poetry and painting. It offers close readings of how Sepehri's modernism follows and breaks with the jagged rhythms of Nima Yushij (d.1960), Iran's inaugural modernist poet. In keeping with this modernist framing, the translations replicate Sepehri's rhymes where possible, his fluctuations between formal and colloquial registers, his syntactic distortions, and his embeddings of governmental and other jargons. It also includes Sepehri's autobiography.
: 1 online resource : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004472389
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Published 2022
Poul Martin Møller's "Thoughts on the Possibility of Proofs of Human Immortality" and Other Texts /

: A classicist, philosopher, and poet, Poul Martin Møller was an important figure in the Danish Golden Age. The traumatic event of the death of his wife led him to think more profoundly about the question of the immortality of the soul. In 1837 he published his most important philosophical treatise, "Thoughts on the Possibility of Proofs of Human Immortality," presented here in English for the first time. It was read and commented upon by the leading figures of the Golden Age, such as Søren Kierkegaard. It proved to be the last important work that Møller wrote before his death in March of 1838 at the age of 43.
: Poul Martin Møller published his most important philosophical treatise in 1837, "Thoughts on the Possibility of Proofs of Human Immortality." This is the first English translation of this work. : 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004517912
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Published 2003
Converging truths : Euripides' Ion and the Athenian quest for self-definition /

: This book is a study of the Ion of Euripides. Produced in a period of intense political crisis at Athens in 412 BC, this play went to the heart of Athenian self-perception but also highlighted the violent divine grace of Apollo, the intense emotional suffering of Kreousa, and Ion's insistent search for truth despite divine concealment. Informed by recent scholarship on Athenian ethnicity, this study shows how autochthony (claim to being earthborn) and Ionianism (Ionian character of Athens) are conceptually related with Apollo, father of Ion and god of the Delphic oracle where the play is set. Through careful analysis of the political, psychological, religious and poetic aspects of the play and use of modern critical theory, the Ion emerges as a polyphonic work expressing different and converging truths.
: Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of London, 1996. : 1 online resource (xiv, 231 pages) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-212) and index. : 9789004349988 : 0169-8958 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2000
A companion to the study of Virgil /

: This book is not yet another introduction to Virgil's poetry. The editor and three contributors offer a guide to the key problems and to the most intelligent discussions. They do not hesitate to point out what we do not know, and where more work needs to be done. Apart from ample discussion of the poems and the main issues they raise, the book offers chapters on the life of Virgil, his style, and his influence on late Latin epic.
: 1 online resource (xiv, 330 pages) : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004217591 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 1994
The mythic voice of Statius : power and politics in the Thebaid /

: This is the first thematic study of Statius' Thebaid to be published in monograph form in English in the past twenty years. It examines in detail the thematic design and intent of the Thebaid and considers the question of its contemporary relevance. The book focuses on the central theme of power - how it is exercised on the supernatural and human levels and the consequences of its pursuit and abuse in terms of the human condition. An ensuing discussion explores the political undercurrents of the epic. This discussion is in four main parts: (1) 'Use and Abuse of Supernatural Power'; (2) 'Pursuit and Abuse of Monarchal Power'; (3) 'Consequences of the Abuse of Power'; and (4) 'Political Relevance to Contemporary Rome'. The views expressed represent a fundamental departure from previous studies and constitute a critical reassessment of the Thebaid . The provision of translations makes the book accessible to the Latinless reader.
: 1 online resource (xiv, 198 pages) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-190) and indexes. : 9789004329416 : 0169-8958 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 1981
A commentary on Persius /

: Includes indexes. : 1 online resource (213 pages) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-208). : 9789004327825 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2002
Poetry for patrons : literary communication in the age of Domitian /

: A study of the phenomenon of literary patronage, both non-imperial and imperial, during the reign of the Roman emperor Domitian (81-96 A.D.). This work centres on the Epigrams of Martial and the Silvae of Statius. The book deals not only with the relationships between poets and patrons, but also with the audiences and the functions of patron-oriented poetry. It includes discussions of such topics as \'patronage\' versus \'friendship\', the poetic \'I\', the role of poetry at symposia and festivals, dedication and publication, the influence of rhetoric on poetry, and the poetic representation of imperial power. The book should prove of interest not only to specialists in Roman poetry, but also to ancient historians and to students of literary patronage in other cultures. All Latin and Greek is translated.
: Enlargement of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Leiden, 1995. : 1 online resource (xiv, 493 pages) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 445-469) and index. : 9789004351141 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 1975
A commentary on Virgil : Aeneid VIII /

: Includes indexes. : 1 online resource (xxv, 211 pages) : Includes bibliographical references (p. xi-xiii). : 9789004327443 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 1999
Three Aeginetan odes of Pindar : a commentary on Nemean V, Nemean III and Pythian VIII /

: A study of three epinicia of Pindar, which have in common that they celebrate victories of Aeginetan athletes and that they respond to the contemporary political situation in Aegina and to circumstances of the victory. The primary objective of this book is to provide an interpretation of each of the three odes as meaningful, coherent works of the literary art. For each ode, it provides a commentary in which problems of text and interpretation are discussed in detail, a structural and metrical analysis, and an interpretative essay, in which the observations of detail are brought together in order to provide an answer to the question as to how the ode at hand could have functioned as a coherent, meaningful epinicion . The introduction addresses questions of method and provides a description of Pindar's style.
: 1 online resource (xii, 721 pages) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 667-698) and indexes. : 9789004351240 : 0169-8958 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 1994
Statius Thebaid VII : a commentary /

: The epic poem the Thebaid by P. Papinius Statius, written about AD 80 to 92, deals with the fraternal strife between Oedipus' sons Eteocles and Polynices for the mastery of Thebes. Book VII describes the forced march of the Seven and their arrival at Thebes, Jocasta's vain attempt at mediation and Amphiaraus' spectacular katabasis . This book is the first which deals with Thebaid VII since Barth (1664) and Amar andamp; Lemaire (1825-30). Apart from being a commentary in the philological sense, it examines in close detail the poet's mannered style and analyses the text as a system of intertextual references. In addition to Homer and Vergil, specific passages from Euripides, Lucan, Seneca and especially Valerius Flaccus were exploited by Statius to create his challenging imitation. The identification of these sources offers the key to interpret and evaluate the poet's artistic intentions. The Introduction discusses Statius' technique of multiple imitation. The information brought together has been made easily accessible by full indexes and an appendix listing the passages imitated by Statius.
: 1 online resource (xlii, 462 pages) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 424-434) and indexes. : 9789004329393 : 0169-8958 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 1994
Studies in Euripides' Orestes /

: This work challenges recent critical assessments that emphasize the allegedly subversive elements in Euripides' play. The Orestes is found to present a curious mélange of early and late Euripidean features, resulting in a drama where the tragic potential of Orestes' predicament becomes lost amid the moral, political and situational chaos that dominates the late Euripidean stage. Throughout, emphasis is placed on reading the Orestes in light of Greek stage conventions and the poet's own practice. Of particular interest are: an original examination, in light of Greek rhetorical practice, of Orestes' agon with Tyndareus; an analysis of the Phrygian's monody as a cunning hybrid of Timothean nome and traditional messenger speech; and a re-evaluation of the play's troubling deus ex machina.
: Rev. version of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Toronto, 1990. : 1 online resource (xiii, 364 pages) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-357) and index. : 9789004329249 : 0169-8958 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 1977
A bibliography of Petronius /

: Includes indexes. : 1 online resource (x, 239 pages, [2] leaves of plates) : facsimiles. : 9789004327481 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2015
Proba the Prophet : the Christian Virgilian Cento of Faltonia Betitia Proba /

: In Proba the Prophet: The Christian Virgilian Cento of Faltonia Betitia Proba Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed offers an in-depth study and reappraisal of the Cento of Proba and its reception. Proba's poem belongs to the few extant Latin texts from Antiquity penned by a woman writer, and one of the oldest Christian Latin poems. Schottenius Cullhed surveys and challenges common preconceptions and biographical constructions of the poem's author and early readers, and examines their impact on interpretations and evaluations of the text. The author also develops and puts to use an alternative model for understanding the poem and convincingly shows how the Virgilian source texts form a complex net of internal and external biblical typologies within the Cento .
: 1 online resource (262 pages) : illustrations. : Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-253) and indexes. : 9789004289482 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 1986
The Eclogues and Cynegetica of Nemesianus /

: Although editions of Nemesianus have been surprisingly numerous, very few have contributed appreciably to our understanding of this author, and most texts have been based on a very limited number of manuscripts. There has been no commentary of any length since that of Burman (1731) and there has never before been one in English covering the whole corpus. This book is an attempt to remedy those deficiencies. The text is the first to have been based on an examination of all the known manuscripts, and a detailed and accurate apparatus criticus is provided. The textual history of both poems is thoroughly discussed. The question of the authenticity of the Eclogues is examined and Nemesianus' authorship is held to be proved. The commentary is mainly concerned with textual and grammatical matters. There is also a bibliography.
: English and Latin.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--University of London). : 1 online resource (197 pages) : illustrations. : Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-195) and index. : 9789004328235 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2022
L'Intrigue dénouée. Mythe, littérature et communauté dans la pensée de Jean-Luc Nancy /

: Cet ouvrage est la première étude systématique du rapport entre communauté et littérature dans la pensée de Jean-Luc Nancy. L'auteure développe la thèse originale que cette relation doit être comprise comme une refonte du mythe. Traversant l'œuvre de Nancy dans son intégralité, elle démontre de façon incomparable comment s'articulent les questions centrales de la communauté et de la littérature. De plus, en faisant ce lien en termes de « mythe », ce livre situe l'œuvre de Nancy dans une tradition plus large, allant du romantisme allemand aux théories contemporaines de la pertinence sociale de la littérature. This is the first book to provide a systematic investigation of the relation between community and literature in the work of Jean-Luc Nancy. It develops the original claim that this relation has to be understood as a rethinking of myth. Traversing the entirety of Nancy's vast oeuvre, the author offers an incomparable account of the ways in which Nancy's central questions of community and literature are linked together. Moreover, by putting this linkage in terms of 'myth', this book situates Nancy's work within a larger tradition, leading from German Romanticism to contemporary theories of the social relevance of literature.
: Cet ouvrage est le premier à proposer une recherche systématique du rapport entre communauté et littérature dans la pensée de Jean-Luc Nancy. L'auteure développe la thèse originale que cette relation doit être comprise comme une refonte du mythe.This is the first book to provide a systematic investigation of the relation between community and literature in the work of Jean-Luc Nancy. The author develops the original claim that this relation has to be understood as a rethinking of myth. : 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004518674
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Published 1992
The rhetoric of gender terms : 'man', 'woman', and the portrayal of character in Latin prose /

: The aim of this work is to recover classical Roman assumptions about women on the basis of the surviving linguistic data. The author provides a control to her study of the connotations of the major Latin words for women in the form of a corresponding examination of how Roman authors use the various words for men. The resulting analysis throws light not only on Roman gender vocabulary but also on Roman cultural perceptions of class, moral worth and nationality. Furthermore, the author's detailed discussions of strictly linguistic evidence enable her to offer several original and persuasive insights about the traditional Latin literary representation of women. Understanding the connotative range of gender terms such as homo , vir , femina , mulier also reveals the value judgments made by ancient authors on male and female behaviour and can even be applied as a tool of historical analysis.
: 1 online resource (x, 216 pages) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-208) and index. : 9789004329164 : 0169-8958 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2000
Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, Book VI : a commentary /

: In spite of an increased interest over the last ten years in the 1st century AD Roman poet Valerius Flaccus, involving the production of several commentaries, part of his work Argonautica was still lacking a modern commentary. This book gives a full philological and literary commentary of the turbulent book VI of the Argonautica . The Silver Latin author's peculiar phraseology and choice of words is highlighted. Where possible the poem is interpreted in the context of the other Silver Latin epic poets.
: 1 online resource (xii, 310 pages) : illustrations. : Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-294) and indexes. : 9789004351158 : 0169-8958 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 1995
Lygdamus : Corpus Tibullianum III. 1-6: Lygdami elegiarum liber /

: This volume is an in-depth study of the short poetic cycle of Lygdamus, one of the authors included in Book III of the Corpus Tibullianum . The Introduction analyzes the controversial quaestio Lygdamea (identity and dating of the poet), the relationship between Lygdamus and his beloved, Neaera, the incorporation of his poems into the Corpus Tibullianum , and the manuscript tradition. This is followed by a rigorous critical edition (taking fully into account the earliest editions and conjectures). Finally, there is a detailed and exhaustive line-by-line and word-by-word commentary on each poem, paying particular attention to elegiac terms and motifs. This is the first comprehensive study of the work of Lygdamus, considered as a poet with his own literary identity.
: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Seville), 1993. : 1 online resource (627 pages) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 531-550) and index. : 9789004329805 : 0169-8958 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2003
Virgil, Aeneid 11 : a commentary /

: This is the first comprehensive commentary on Aeneid 11. The commentary treats fully matters of linguistic and textual interpretation, metre and prosody, grammar, lexicon and idiom, of Roman behaviour, social and ritual, as well as Virgil's sources and the literary tradition. New critical approaches and developments in Virgilian studies have been taken into account with economy and fairness. The Latin text is presented with a facing English translation. The commentary is followed by an appendix on Penthesilea and the Epic Cycle and a second appendix which discusses the weaknesses of Aeneid 11. The book concludes with English and Latin indices. In approach and learning, this commentary continues Nicholas Horsfall's impressive work as a commentator and will advance our understanding of the Aeneid and the poet Virgil.
: 1 online resource (xxvii, 505 pages) : Includes bibliographical references and indexes. : 9789004349971 : 0169-8958 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 1997
Quaestiones propertianae /

: This comprehensive study deals with the major critical problems of one of the most difficult authors of Latin literature. It examines in a systematic fashion the two major factors which have been assumed to be responsible for the state of the transmitted text of Propertius: dislocation and interpolation. It also covers a large number of notorious cases of verbal corruption and discusses problems of the manuscript tradition on the basis of the most recent research. Beyond questions of textual criticism and history in the narrow sense the book provides also important exegetical remarks on many Propertian passages and deals in a separate chapter with problems of book and poem structure.
: 1 online resource (xviii, 172 pages) : Includes bibliographical references (p. xiii-xviii) and indexes. : 9789004329928 : 0169-8958 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.