Kategoria BISAC: Poetry >> Ancient & Classical

This book discusses Lucretius' refutation of Heraclitus, Empedocles, Anaxagoras and other, unnamed thinkers in De Rerum Natura 1, 635-920. Chapter 1 argues that in DRN I 635-920 Lucretius was following an Epicurean source, which in turn depended on Theophrastean doxography. Chapter 2 shows that books 14 and 15 of Epicurus' On Nature were not Lucretius' source-text. Chapter 3 discusses how lines 635-920 fit in the structure of book 1 and whether Lucretius' source is more likely to have been Epicurus himself or a neo-Epicurean. Chapter 4 focuses on Lucretius' own additions...

Now and Rome is about the way that sovereign power regulates the movement of information and the movement of bodies through space and time. Through a series of readings of three key Latin literary texts alongside six contemporary cultural theorists, Ika Willis argues for an understanding of sovereignty as a system which enforces certain rules for legibility, transmission and circulation on both information and bodies, redefining the relationship between the 'virtual' and the 'material'.

This book is both innovative and important in that it brings together several key strands...

Nemesians Lehrgedicht uber die Jagd, 283/84 n. Chr. in Nordafrika entstanden und den Kaisern Carinus und Numerian gewidmet, orientiert sich in Aufbau und Konzeption an Vergils Georgica, dem klassischen Gattungsmodell; in der Auffasssung von der Jagd als einem gefahrlosen Freizeitsport bietet das Werk einen unheroischen Gegenentwurf zu fruheren Jagdgedichten.

Die hier vorgelegte kritische Neuedition beruht auf einer in situ vorgenommenen Aufnahme aller Handschriften. Der ausfuhrliche Kommentar erortert alle philologischen Detailprobleme (Sprache, Metrik, Textherstellung)...

The third-century BC Greek poet Herodas had been all but forgotten until a papyrus of eight of his Mimiambs (plus fragments) turned up in the Egyptian desert at the end of the 19th century. They have since been translated into various modern languages and supplied with scholarly commentaries. This book is the first to attempt to reproduce in English Herodas' 'choliambic' or 'limping' metre (sic) - distinctive for its signatory reversed final foot, a variant on the standard Greek iambic trimeter.
The present volume provides an accessible introduction to Herodas and his Mimiambs...