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M. Cornelius Fronto was a Roman senator from North Africa, and the foremost Latin orator and legal advocate of the mid-second century A.D. Fronto's talent and fame led to his appointment as tutor to Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, the adoptive sons of the emperor Antoninus Pius, in the late 130s A.D.

Fronto's extant correspondence, discovered in the early nineteenth century, consists of around two hundred letters extending over a period of more than twenty-five years, from the late 130s to the mid-160s A.D. In this period, Fronto educated Marcus and Verus in the art of Latin...

This volume offers a systematic study of the use of literary quotations in Pliny's letters. By looking at exemplary quotations from Homer and Virgil, the author shows how Pliny uses quotations as a literary device to appeal to the intellectual background of his contemporary readership.

Virgil's "Aeneid" is the epic tale charting the origins of Rome and the trials of Aeneas on his divinely-prescribed mission to escape Troy and found a new city. Describing the mythological beginnings of the future Roman Empire, this complex and compassionate poem explores themes of war, humanity, gods, exile and the dictates of fate.
Robert Cowan's introduction to this most influential and elusive of poems is essential background reading for all who encounter or study the poem, whether in translation or in the original Latin. Including an overview of its poetic and historical...

Ovid: Metamorphosen

Lesefreundlicher Grodruck in 16-pt-Schrift

Edition Holzinger. Groformat, 216 x 279 mm

Berliner Ausgabe, 2015

Vollstandiger, durchgesehener Neusatz mit einer Biographie des Autors bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger

• Entstanden um 2-8 n. Chr. Der Text folgt der Ubersetzung von Reinhart Suchier.

Textgrundlage sind die Ausgaben:

• Ovidius Naso, Publius]: Ovids Metamorphosen. 3 Bde., Uber, Us. v. Reinhart Suchier, 5. Aufl. (Bd 2: 6. Aufl.), Berlin:...

In English, Latin, French, and Italian.

This book contains twenty-one essays written by the late Professor Jozef IJsewijn during the period 1966-1996. All essays were selected by his pupil Professor Gilbert Tournoy, who collaborated with him from the foundation of the Seminarium Philologiae Humanisticae in 1966 until his untimely death in 1998. IJewijn's essays are now published in one volume in homage to the most brilliant scholar in the field of Neo-Latin Studies of the twentieth century.

A number of essays focus on the life and/or work of a single humanist from the...