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Horace's Satires have a distinctly dialogic quality - not for nothing does Horace himself choose to call these poems sermones, 'conversations'. Even when formally presented as monologues, the Satires seem to be speeches actively addressed to their...

Patience and Salvation in Third Century North Africa: A Christian Latin Reader features the entirety of Tertullian's To Martyrs and The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity, with selections from Cyprian's On the Good of Patience and a short appendix on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524863Author OvidFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 90g

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The ten speeches in this volume illustrate Cicero's entire career and exemplify all the major contexts for his oratory: before the senate, the people, and the courts. They illuminate the major political crises of Cicero's time and offer portraits of many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783954900220Author Malte LiesnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dr Ludwig ReichertPublisher Dr Ludwig ReichertWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 295mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524764Author Penelope RaineyFormat PaperbackImprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 80g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524474Author James W. HalpornFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 140g

Extensively field-tested and fine-tuned over many years, and designed specifically for a one-year course, JC McKeown's Classical Latin: An Introductory Course offers a thorough, fascinating, and playful grounding in Latin that combines the traditional...

ETYMA II is an undergraduate or advanced high school textbook for English vocabulary-building. It is divided into three parts, beginning with a brief history of foreign words in English, including information on families of languages, the Indo-European...

Studies on the Text of Macrobius' Saturnalia is a companion to new editions of Macrobius' encyclopedic dialogue that are to appear in the Loeb Classical Library and the Oxford Classical Texts series. The first chapter reports the results of a new survey...

The study of classical languages by earlier generations of English-speaking students was greatly facilitated by the study of English grammar in the schools, a tradition now out of favor but one that emphasized precisely the concepts, terms, and...

The articles in this volume treat issues in Hannah Rosen's many fields of scholarly interest. Most of the articles deal with subjects in Latin linguistics and philology; others treat Celtic linguistics and philology, while some combine the two. A number...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780137973903Author Charles Jenney, JrFormat HardbackPage Count 511Imprint Prentice HallPublisher Prentice HallWeight(grams) 930gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 198mm...

The final and most important book of Walter of Chatillon's Alexandreis is examined as a paradigm for both the compositional techniques and the meaning of the whole poem. These techniques are shown as being reliant on the medieval arts of composition, the...

This volume, first published in 1974, offers a selection of modern perspectives on Seneca, covering his prose treatises, his letters and his tragedies. For centuries literary and philosophical circles had to take Seneca seriously, even if they could not...

Latin Explorations, first published in 1963, offers a fresh approach to Roman poetry from Catullus to Ovid. Traditionally, the period is divided for specialist studies - Lyric, Epic and Elegy. In each of them, techniques of interpretation prevail,...

This study of Philostratus , first published in 1986, presents the Greek biographer's treatment of both sophists and holy men in the social and intellectual life of the early Roman Empire, which also displays his own distinctive literary personality as a...

Marcus Valerius Martialis, or Martial (born between 38 and 41 CE, died between 102 and 104 CE) is celebrated for his droll, frequently salacious, portrayal of Roman high and low society during the first century rule of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and...

Compiled by a team of experts in the field, this volume brings to view an array of Latin texts produced in British universities from c.1500 to 1700. It includes a comprehensive introduction to the production of Neo-Latin and Neo-Greek in the early modern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524405Author David KonstanFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 80g

In this volume, eminent scholar and translator Herbert W. Benario provides faithful, readable translations of three short works of Tacitus: Agricola-the fullest ancient account of Rome's conquest of Britain and of the public career of a senator in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524832Author EgeriaFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 150g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524498Author Francesco PetrarchFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 140g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524849Author Cynthia DamonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 80g

Ovid, Rome’s most cynical and worldly love poet, has not until recently been highly regarded among Latin poets. Now, however, his reputation is growing, and this volume is an important contribution to the re-establishment of Ovid’s claims to critical...

Written by veteran author and Latin teacher Ed DeHoratius, A Hackett Test Prep Manual for Use with AP (R) Latin addresses the difficulties students face preparing for the AP (R) Latin exam. Students just beginning to prepare for the exam, already...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226252551Author William FitzgeraldFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher University of Chicago PressWeight(grams) 133g

Book XVI of Tacitus' Annals is the last of the surviving books of the great Roman historian's monumental account of the reigns of the emperors from Tiberius to Nero. The unfinished book offers a stunning portrait of Nero in his last years, a man now free...

Compiled by a team of international experts, this volume showcases the best of the huge abundance of literature written in Latin in Europe from about 1500 to 1800. A general introduction provides readers with the context they need before diving into the...

Ovid's Metamorphoses is a Latin reader designed to partner existing elementary Latin textbooks.The book features thirty compelling stories, graduated in difficulty and adapted from Ovid's epic Metamorphoses into prose. The original poem contains many...

Selections from Aulus Gellius' Attic Nights, The Lives of Nepos, Phaedrus' Fables in verse, and some Caesar are carefully aimed to interest and challenge, but not overtax, the college student who is not yet ready for complicated readings in Latin.Book...

Thomas Campion, Milton, Crashaw, Herbert, Bourne, Walter Savage Landor - all these poets, between them spanning the period from the Elizabethan to the Victorian age, wrote a substantial body of Latin verse in addition to their better-known English...

Featuring a traditional, grammar-based approach, A New Latin Primer offers beginning students a solid overview of Latin grammar, syntax, and vocabulary. It provides concise, straightforward grammatical explanations and illustrates them with unadapted...

Latin Explorations, first published in 1963, offers a fresh approach to Roman poetry from Catullus to Ovid. Traditionally, the period is divided for specialist studies - Lyric, Epic and Elegy. In each of them, techniques of interpretation prevail,...

A new translation of, and commentary on, Cicero's defence of Publius Sestius against a charge of public violence. Pro Sestio is arguably the most important of Cicero's political speeches that survive from the nearly two decades separating the Speeches...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884142935Author George Boys-StonesFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint SBL PressPublisher SBL PressWeight(grams) 152g