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2002ref. 25296Cambridge University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Hardcover. Scholar's name to ffep Robert Brown. Else very light shelfwear to book. Faint shelfwear to DJ with 1 tiny chip to base of DJ spine; Statius' Silvae are argued in this book to be important social and literary productions. Traditionally derided as occasional and therefore inconsequential verse they offer fascinating insight into the history politics art and literature of the Flavian period. They celebrate and explore in all its variety and ambiguity a flourishing literary and artistic culture which the condemnation of Domitian's memory after his assassination had largely suppressed. They deserve consideration for what they reveal about the role of poetry and patronage in imperial society as well as about imperial art and architecture.; 366 pages . 2002. 052180891X . Cambridge University Press hardcover
1954ref. 25298Istituto Di Filogia Classica. Very Good. Softcover. Scholar's name to ffep Robert Brown. Pages are tanned. Browning to wraps.; Università Di Genova - Facoltà Di Lettere; 243 pages . 1954. Istituto Di Filogia Classica paperback
2000ref. 25316Cambridge University Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Hardcover. Very Minor shelfwear to DJ else fine.; This book studies the structure and origins of De Rerum Natura On the nature of things the great first-century BC poem by Lucretius. By showing how he worked from the literary model set by the Greek poet Empedocles but under the philosophical inspiration of the Greek philosopher Epicurus the book seeks to characterise Lucretius' unique poetic achivement. It is addressed to those interested both in Latin poetry and in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy.; 252 pages . 2000. 0521570328 . Cambridge University Press hardcover
1990ref. 25333Princeton University Press. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. Hardcover. Scholar's name to ffep Robert Brown. Else book is fine. DJ has very faint shelfwear.; In a fresh interpretation of Lucretius's On the Nature of Things Charles Segal reveals this great poetical account of Epicurean philosophy as an important and profound document for the history of Western attitudes toward death. He shows that this poem aimed at promoting spiritual tranquillity confronts two anxieties about death not addressed in Epicurus's abstract treatment--the fear of the process of dying and the fear of nothingness. Lucretius Segal argues deals more specifically with the body in dying because he draws on the Roman concern with corporeality as well as on the rich traditions of epic and tragic poetry on mortality.; Princeton Legacy Library; 291 pages . 1990. 0691068267 . Princeton University Press hardcover
2000ref. 25275Cambridge University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Hardcover. Scholar's name to ffep Robert Brown. Very light pencil marginalia to a few pages else book is fine. DJ has minor creasing along edges with 1 tiny chip.; Virgil's agricultural poem the Georgics forms part of a long tradition of didactic epic going back to the archaic poet Hesiod. This book explores the relationship between the Georgics and earlier works in the didactic tradition particularly Lucretius' De Rerum Natura "On the Nature of Things". It is the first comprehensive study of Virgil's use of Lucretian themes imagery ideas and language; it also proposes a new reading of the poem as a whole as a confrontation between the Epicurean philosophy of Lucretius and the opposing world views of his predecessors.; 336 pages . 2000. 0521781116 . Cambridge University Press hardcover
2001ref. 25274Cambridge University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Hardcover. Scholar's name to ffep Robert Brown. Light bump to lower edge of front board. DJ has minor edgewear with 1 small tear.; This book examines the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments in the past two millennia. It focuses on the emperor Augustus in the poetry of Virgil detects in the poets and grammarians of antiquity pro- and anti-Augustan readings studies Dryden's 1697 Royalist translation and also naive American translation. It scrutinizes nineteenth-century philology's rewriting or excision of troubling readings and covers readings by both supporters and opponents of fascism and National Socialism. Finally it examines how successive ages have made the Aeneid conform to their upbeat expectations of this poet.; 346 pages . 2001. 0521782880 . Cambridge University Press hardcover
2012ref. 25453Oxford University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Hardcover. Scholar's name to ffep Robert Brown. Very faint bump to 1 corner else book is fine. DJ has light shelfwear.; The twenty-eight essays in this handbook represent the best current thinking in the study of Latin language and literature in the Middle Ages. Contributing authors--both senior scholars and gifted younger thinkers among them--not only illuminate the field as traditionally defined but also offer fresh insights into broader questions of literary history cultural interaction world literature and language in history and society. Their studies vividly illustrate the field's complexities on a wide range of topics including canonicity literary styles and genres and the materiality of manuscript culture. At the same time they suggest future possibilities for the necessarily provisional and open-ended work essential to the pursuit of medieval Latin studies. The overall approach of The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature makes this volume an essential resource for students of the ancient world interested in the prolonged after-life of the classical period's cultural complexes for medieval historians for scholars of other medieval literary traditions and for all those interested in delving more deeply into the fascinating more-than-millennium-long passage between the ancient Mediterranean world and what we consider modernity.; Oxford Handbooks; 672 pages . 2012. 0195394011 . Oxford University Press hardcover
2012ref. 25493Editions Errance. Very Good with no dust jacket. Hardcover. Corners bumped with faint crease through some pages.; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 282 pages . 2012. 2877724980 . Editions Errance hardcover
1977ref. 25513B. G. Teubner. Good with no dust jacket. Hardcover. Pencil notes and underlining to some pages. Spine cover is worn with small tears and fraying to ends and wavy. Corners edgeworn. Scholar's name to ffep Robert Brown. Endpapers tanned.; Xxviii 419 pp; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 419 pages . 1977. B. G. Teubner hardcover
1970ref. 25521B. G. Teubner. Very Good with no dust jacket. Hardcover. Very Minor shelfwear. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover Robert Brown.; Text in Latin; Apparatus in Latin.; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 192 pages . 1970. B. G. Teubner hardcover
1858ref. 25566Leipzig: Bernhardi Tauchnitz. Very Good- with no dust jacket. Hardcover. Book has been smartly rebound in 1/2 medium brown cloth with dark brown boards. Lower Corners lightly bumped. Minor shelfwear to boards. Some pages browned with light foxing. Former owner's names in ink to ffep.; Text is in Greek. Editorial Matter in Latin. Lxiv 356 pp; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 699 pages . 1858. Bernhardi Tauchnitz hardcover
1855ref. 25565Liepzig: Bernhardi Tauchnitz. Good with no dust jacket. Hardcover. Two volumes bound in one books. 1/4 green leatherette spine with marbled brown boards. Small stain to spine. Rubbing to boards. Corners edgeworn. Some pencil marginalia and notes to a few pages. Pages browned with some foxing. A few institution stamps. Still an attractive book.; 2 volumes bound in 1 books. Text is in Latin. Editorial Matter in Latin. V1: 1855 lxx 332 pp V2: 1855 xiv 367 pp; 2 Volumes Bound in 1 Book; 1-2; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 699 pages . 1855. Bernhardi Tauchnitz hardcover
1912ref. 25609Oxford University Press. Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Scholar's name to ffep Robert Brown. Rear hinge cracked but holding. Front hinge just starting. Former owner's on ffep. Corners rouned. Small tears to cloth along lower edge of rear board. Minor edgewear to 1 corner. Minor rubbing to boards. Slight fraying to spine ends. Else VG.; History and Progress of Greek and Latin Palaeography from the earliest periods represented by surviving manuscripts down to the close of the fifteenth century". The core of the book is a selection of 250 facsimiles of manuscripts ranging from Greek cursive papyri to the book-hands of the 15th century and from Roman cursive writing on tablets and papyri through a succession of Latin book-hands as employed in medieval documents throughout Europe.; 600 pages . 1912. Oxford University Press hardcover
1989ref. 25602Oxford Clarendon Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Hardcover. Small tear to foreedge of 1 page 1 cm with minor creasing to a few pages. DJ has minor edgewear with small sticker stain to rear panel.; This volume gathers together eighteen essays including 'Have we Homer's Iliad' 'Landscape in Greek Poetry' 'The Two Voices of Virgil's Aeneid' 'Thucydides' Use of Abstract Language' three posthumous works on Virgil Thucydides and Homer and his famous introduction to his father Milman Parry's classic book The Making of Homeric Verse which he wrote just before his death.; 1 x 9 x 6 Inches; 352 pages; This book presents the collected papers of Adam Parry a brilliant young classical scholar who died prematurely in 1971. A professor at Yale and lecturer in London he wrote a number of highly respected articles in major classics journals on subjects ranging from Homer his special interest to Attic tragedy Thucydides Plato and Virgil. . 1989. 0198148925 . Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover
1944ref. 25614C. Marzorati. Good. Softcover. Wraps are browned and chipping with small tears. V1: a couple of faint dampstains to front wrap. Pages browned. V2: pages tanned. Some pencil notes and underlining. Chipping to base of spines with a little loss of spine cover. Good to VG.; V1: 1944 . V2: 1946; Collezione Filologica 4; 1-2; 237 pages . 1944. C. Marzorati paperback
1937ref. 25615Cambridge University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. Second Edition. Hardcover. Minor Sunning to spines. Endpapers tanned. Former owner's name to inner covers in ink J. H. Day. Lower corners very lightly bumped on a few vols. Faint rubbing to boards.; Second Edition with Addenda. Lxxv 1 125 1 xxxi 1 138 1 xlviii 2 78 1 xvii 1 142 1 xlvi 2 139 pp.; 5 Volume Set COMPLETE; Marcus Manilius M Manilii 1st century A. D. Roman poet and astrologer. The Astronomicon contains the earliest appearance of astrological systems of Houses. Housman's is considered the authoritative edition. Introduction in English. Latin apparatus. . 1937. Cambridge University Press hardcover
1937ref. 25616Cambridge University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. Second Edition. Hardcover. Vol. 3 has very small chip along upper edge of rear board. Vol 5 has very light bump to 1 corner. Vols range from VG to NF.; Second Edition with Addenda. Lxxv 1 125 1 xxxi 1 138 1 xlviii 2 78 1 xvii 1 142 1 xlvi 2 139 pp.; 5 Volume Set COMPLETE; Marcus Manilius M Manilii 1st century A. D. Roman poet and astrologer. The Astronomicon contains the earliest appearance of astrological systems of Houses. Housman's is considered the authoritative edition. Introduction in English. Latin apparatus. . 1937. Cambridge University Press hardcover
1974ref. 25638E. J. Brill. Fine with no dust jacket. Hardcover. Roma Aeterna 7; 113 pages . 1974. 9004038604 . E. J. Brill hardcover
1974ref. 25634E. J. Brill. Fine with no dust jacket. Hardcover. Isbn: 9004039686; Roma Aeterna 8; 254 pages . 1974. E. J. Brill hardcover
1988ref. 25641John Benjamins Publishing Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. Hardcover. Edgewear to corners and spine ends. Spine a bit sunned.; The purpose of this study is to provide a description of the Greek particle per as it occurs in the text of Homer. As such it is a contribution to the study of Ancient Greek in general and of the Greek' particles in particular. But the work transgresses the boundaries of Greek linguistics' proper. First the discussion of per as a scalar article contributes to the discussion of scalar phenomena in general. Second as a description of a linguistic feature in the Iliad and Odyssey metrical texts of oral-formulaic origin this study is also an essay in the relation between linguistics on the one hand and formulas and metre on the other.; 318 pages . 1988. 1556190468 . John Benjamins Publishing Company hardcover
1978ref. 25635E. J. Brill. Fine with no dust jacket. Hardcover. Roma Aeterna 10; 212 pages . 1978. 9004056076 . E. J. Brill hardcover
2002ref. 25752Cambridge University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Hardcover. Scholar's name to ffep Robert Brown. Else book is fine. DJ has minor edgewear along top edge with a couple of tiny tears.; This major study of Ovid's poetry is the first significant analysis of the importance of illusion and the conjuring presence throughout his work. Modern theoretical approaches examine the topic from the points of view of poetics and rhetoric aesthetics the psychology of desire philosophy religion and politics. There are also case studies of the reception of Ovid's poetics of illusion in Renaissance and modern literature and art. The book will interest those studying Latin and later European literature. Foreign language sections are accompanied by English translations.; 376 pages . 2002. 0521800870 . Cambridge University Press hardcover
1998ref. 25688Cambridge University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Hardcover. Light bump to 1 corner. Scholar's name to ffep Robert Brown. DJ has minor creasing along top edge with 2 small tears.; Ths book is an advanced introduction to Horace that treats his whole poetic career and all of the genres in which he worked. Oliensis focuses on the social dimensions of Horace's poetry considering how Horace shaped his poems and his books to promote his authority while also paying deference to his eminent patrons. The combination of scope social emphasis and theoretically informed close readings is what distinguishes this book from other current treatments of Horace.; 256 pages . 1998. 0521573157 . Cambridge University Press hardcover
1995ref. 25753Oxford University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Hardcover. Scholar's name to ffep Robert Brown. Else book is fine. DJ has minor shelfwear and 1 minor scratch.; This is an edited collection by a distinguished team of scholars on the philosopher and poet Philodemus of Gadara ca. 110-40 BC. The discovery of his library at Herculaneum and the editing and gradual publication of the material has reawakened interest in the philosophical and historical importance of his work. Philodemus presents us with a poetic theory of interest in itself and several of his treatises provide us with instances of how poetry was seen as providing moral paradigms and guidance. These essays explore the many facets of Philodemus's work and the relationship between them offering a critical survey of recent trends and developments in scholarship on Philodemus in particular and Hellenistic literary theory in general.; 336 pages . 1995. 0195088158 . Oxford University Press hardcover
2002ref. 25763Cambridge University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. Hardcover. Scholar's name to ffep Robert Brown. Spine slant. Pencilling to some pages. Small scratch to cloth of front board.; A Companion to one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity and arguably the single most influential ancient poet for post-classical literature and culture is long overdue. Chapters by leading authorities discuss the backgrounds and contexts for Ovid the individual works and his influence on later literature and art. Coverage of essential information is combined with exciting new critical approaches. The book is essential reading for all interested in Ovid and his influence.; Cambridge Companions to Literature; 428 pages . 2002. 0521772818 . Cambridge University Press hardcover
