Kategoria BISAC: Poetry >> Ancient & Classical

• The first general introduction to Ovid written in English in over 20 years, offering the very latest Ovidian scholarship
• Discusses the complete works of Ovid
• Accessible writing and a thematic approach make this text ideal for a broad audience
• A current revival in Ovid makes this timely edition highly...

• Offers a fresh, comprehensive introduction to Virgil in translation
• Explores the historical context in which Virgil wrote and lived
• Discusses the manuscript tradition of Virgil
• Traces the poet's literary influence on later authors and his impact on the arts
• Includes suggestions for further readings

Perhaps no other classical text has proved its versatility so much as Ovid's epic poem. A staple of undergraduate courses in Classical Studies, Latin, English and Comparative Literature, Metamorphoses is arguably one of the most important, canonical Latin texts and certainly among the most widely read and studied.Ovid's 'Metamorphoses': A Reader's Guide is the ideal companion to this epic classical text offering guidance on: - Literary, historical and cultural context- Key themes- Reading the text- Reception and influence- Further reading

Perhaps no other classical text has proved its versatility so much as Ovid's epic poem. A staple of undergraduate courses in Classical Studies, Latin, English and Comparative Literature, Metamorphoses is arguably one of the most important, canonical Latin texts and certainly among the most widely read and studied.

Ovid's 'Metamorphoses': A Reader's Guide is the ideal companion to this epic classical text offering guidance on:
- Literary, historical and cultural context
- Key themes
- Reading the text
- Reception and influence
- Further reading

Why has the myth of Pygmalion and his ivory statue proved so inspirational for writers, artists, philosophers, scientists, and directors and creators of films and television series? The 'authorised' version of the story appears in the epic poem of transformations, Metamorphoses, by the first-century CE Latin poet Ovid; in which the bard Orpheus narrates the legend of the sculptor king of Cyprus whose beautiful carved woman was brought to life by the goddess Venus.
Focusing on screen storylines with a Pygmalion subtext, from silent cinema to Buffy the Vampire Slayer and...

The Roman Poetry of Love explores the formation of a key literary genre in a troubled historical and political setting. The short-lived genre of Latin love elegy produced spectacular, multi-faceted and often difficult poetry. Its proponents Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid remain to this day some of the most influential poetic voices of Western civilisation.

This accessible introduction combines aesthetic analysis with socio-political context to provide a concise but comprehensive portrait of the Roman elegy, its main participants and its cultural and political milieu....

Das Jahrbuch und die Begleitreihe Millennium-Studien wollen Grenzen uberschreiten, Grenzen zwischen den Epochen und regionalen Raumen wie auch Grenzen zwischen den Disziplinen. Millennium ist international, transdisziplinar und epochenubergreifend ausgerichtet. Das Herausgebergremium und der Beirat reprasentieren ein breites Spektrum von Fachern: Kunst- und literaturwissenschaftliche Beitrage kommen ebenso zu ihrem Rechtwie historische, theologische und philosophische, Beitrage zu den lateinischen und griechischen Kulturen ebenso wie zu den orientalischen.

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Latin Explorations, first published in 1968, " "offers a fresh approach to Roman poetry from Catullus to Ovid. Traditionally, the period is divided for specialist studies Lyric, Epic and Elegy. In each of them, techniques of interpretation prevail, isolated from contemporary ideas about poetry and dominated by barriers between textual, exegetical and aesthetic criticism.

Kenneth Quinn discerns in Roman poetry of this period the adolescence, maturity and decay of a single coherent tradition whose internal unity surpasses differences of form. His argument attempts to reverse the...