Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Ancient and Classical

This useful school edition of all four of Cicero's speeches against Catiline consists of a concise but thorough and very useful Introduction giving background on Cicero, Roman history, the history of the Catilinarian conspiracies and a chronological table, the full Latin text interspersed with brief English summaries, and Notes on the text to aid translation. The book is completed by an Index of Names.

This new collection of essays, commissioned from a range of scholars across the world, takes as its theme the reception of Rome's greatest poet in a time of profound cultural change. Amid the rise of Christianity, the changing status of the city of Rome, and the emergence of new governing classes, Vergil remained a bedrock of Roman education and identity. This volume considers the different ways in which Vergil was read, understood and appropriated; by poets, commentators, Church fathers, orators and historians. The introduction outlines the cultural and historical contexts. Twelve...

This useful school edition of Ovid's "Metamorphoses Book VIII," first published in the "Macmillan Modern School Classics" series in 1940, contains a short Introduction (covering Ovid's life, the "Metamorphoses" in general, the myths contained in "Book VIII," and a section on metre), the Latin text, detailed Notes on the text to aid translation, and a Vocabulary.

This important study, the first in a new series on "Classical Diaspora," explores the reception of classical antiquity in Russian poetry with a particular focus on the writings of several significant twentieth-century poets: Innokentii Annenskii, Viacheslav Ivanov, Marina Tsvetaeva, Osip Mandelshtam and Joseph Brodsky. These poets' engagement with the classics is analysed within the wider context of Russia's relationship with Greco-Roman heritage as a gateway to European culture. The earlier phase of the development of classical reception in Russian poetry is traced from Antiokh Kantemir...

In Book I of the "Aeneid," Aeneas is shipwrecked on the coast of North Africa, near where the Phoenician queen Dido is building a city that will become Carthage. Aeneas and Dido meet. Their doomed love is set against Aeneas' destiny as founding father of Rome.
Edited by Keith Maclennan, this volume makes Virgil's work more accessible to today's students, by setting it in its literary and historical context and taking account of the most recent scholarship and critical approaches to Virgil. The edition includes a full introduction which covers Virgil's life and writings, his literary...

The subject of Aristotle's On the Heavens, Books 3-4, is the four elements of earth, air, fire and water, which exist below the heavens. Book 3, in chapters 1 to 7, frequently criticizes the Presocratic philosophers. Because of this Simplicius' commentary is one of our main sources of quotations of the Presocratics. Mueller's translation gains added importance from its enabling us to see the context which guided Simplicius' selection of Presocratic texts to quote. Simplicius also criticizes the lost commentary of the leading Aristotelian commentator, Alexander, and thereby gives us...