Kategoria BISAC: Poetry >> Ancient & Classical

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...

At the Sherborne symposium, Katherine Barker commissioned a performance of Aldhelm's Carmen rhythmicum by a rune-singer and an instrumentalist. The large audience at Sherborne were transfixed by the experience of listening, with the text and a translation before...

Der vorliegende Text wurde aus Martin L. Wests Ilias-Edition in der Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana (Stuttgart/Leipzig/Munchen 1998/2000) ubernommen. Fur die Belange des Kommentars hat Martin West den apparatus criticus neu gestaltet und die wichtigsten Hinweise zur Textgestaltung im untenstehenden Abschnitt 'Orthographisches' (S. X-XVI) zusammengefat; der Testimonien-Apparat konnte hier entfallen. Einen Abri der Uberlieferungsgeschichte bietet das Kapitel 'Zur Geschichte des Textes' (GT) im Prolegomena-Band. - Eine typographische Besonderheit der vorliegenden...

Ovid and his influence are studied in classrooms as various as his poetry, and this Approaches volume aims to help instructors in those diverse teaching environments. Part 1, "Materials," is fittingly collaborative and features brief overviews designed to give nonspecialists background on the more challenging aspects of teaching Ovid. Contributors examine his life and legacy, religion, and relation to the visual arts as well as his afterlife in the Latin classroom, in various translations, and in the Ovide moralise. The editors detail the contexts in which Ovid is taught, identify...

The bucolic natives are aware of the presence of Rome, and Virgil himself is free to enter their world. Virgil's bucolic space is, in many ways, a poetic replication of the public and private gardens of his Roman audience - enclosed green spaces which afforded the citizen sheltered social and cultural activities, temporary respite from the turbulence of public life, and a tamed landscape in which to play out the tensions between the simple ideal and the complexities of reality. 'Virgil's Garden' looks at the 'Eclogues' in terms of the relationship between its contents and its cultural...