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      Frederick Ahl’s new translation captures the excitement, poetic energy, and intellectual force of Virgil’s epic poem in a way that has never been done before. Echoing the Virgilian hexameter the…

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      Literarisches Leben im antiken Rom: Sozialgeschichte der roemischen Literatur von Cicero bis Apuleius

      Elaine Fantham

      Diese Sozialgeschichte der klassischen roemischen Literatur setzt Standards fur alle herkoemmlichen Literaturgeschichten. Wer waren die Leserinnen und Leser? Welche Bildung hatten sie und wie kamen sie an die Bucher? Unter…

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      Roman Readings: Roman response to Greek literature from Plautus to Statius and Quintilian

      Elaine Fantham

      Presents closely connected articles, which deal with Roman responses to Greek literature on three major subjects: the history and criticism of Latin poetry and rhetoric, women in Roman life and…

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      Roman Literary Culture: From Plautus to Macrobius

      Elaine Fantham

      This edition includes a new preface and an updated bibliography.

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      Seneca’s Troades: A Literary Introduction with Text, Translation and Commentary

      Elaine Fantham

      The Description for this book, Seneca’s Troades A Literary Introduction with Text, Translation and Commentary, will be forthcoming.

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      Latin Poets and Italian Gods

      Elaine Fantham

      Latin Poets and Italian Gods reconstructs the response of Roman poets in the late republic and Augustan age to the rural cults of central Italy.

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      Latin Poets and Italian Gods

      Elaine Fantham

      Latin Poets and Italian Gods reconstructs the response of Roman poets in the late republic and Augustan age to the rural cults of central Italy.

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      Seneca’s Troades: A Literary Introduction with Text, Translation and Commentary

      Elaine Fantham

      The Description for this book, Seneca’s Troades A Literary Introduction with Text, Translation and Commentary, will be forthcoming.

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      The Roman World of Cicero’s De Oratore

      Elaine Fantham

      Provides an introduction to Cicero’s political and cultural world, illustrating, by its analysis of his imaginary dialogue between statesmen, how he introduced the principles of Greek philosophy and rhetoric into…

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      The Roman World of Cicero’s De Oratore

      Elaine Fantham

      Offers an introduction to Cicero’s political and cultural world, and illustrates, by its analysis of his imaginary dialogue between statesmen, how he introduced the principles of Greek philosophy and rhetoric…

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      Roman Literary Culture: From Plautus to Macrobius

      Elaine Fantham

      This edition includes a new preface and an updated bibliography.

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      Selected Letters

      Seneca

      This is the largest selection of Stoic philosopher and tragedian Seneca’s letters currently available. In them Seneca advises his friend Lucilius on how to do without what is superfluous, whether…

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      Lucan: De bello civili Book II

      Lucan

      A full-scale commentary on the second book of Lucan’s epic poem De bello civili.

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      Ovid: Fasti Book IV

      Ovid

      The first English language commentary on any book of the Fasti since Frazer’s five volume edition and annotated Loeb of 1929/31.

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      Julia Augusti

      Elaine Fantham (Formerly at Princeton University, USA)

      Elaine Fantham studies the life of Augustus’ only child, Julia, in a time of radical social, political and dynastic change which brought her from successful marriage and motherhood, to disgrace…

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      Julia Augusti

      Elaine Fantham (Formerly at Princeton University, USA)

      Elaine Fantham studies the life of Augustus’ only child, Julia, in a time of radical social, political and dynastic change which brought her from successful marriage and motherhood, to disgrace…

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      Collected Works of Erasmus: Literary and Educational Writings 7

      Desiderius Erasmus

      This final volume in the Literary and Educational Writings contains diverse woks spanning a generation.

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      Selected Letters, Volume 1

      Francesco Petrarca

      Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), one of the greatest of Italian poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive the cultural and moral excellence of ancient Greece and…

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      Selected Letters, Volume 2

      Francesco Petrarca

      Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), one of the greatest of Italian poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive the cultural and moral excellence of ancient Greece and…

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      Ovid’s  Metamorphoses

      Elaine Fantham (Giger Professor of Latin Emerita, Princeton University)

      This introduction considers how Ovid defined and shaped his narrative ‘Metamorphoses’, its cultural context, and its vivid depictions of the cruelty of jealous gods, the pathos of human love, and…

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      Ovid’s  Metamorphoses

      Elaine Fantham (Giger Professor of Latin Emerita, Princeton University)

      This introduction considers how Ovid defined and shaped his narrative ‘Metamorphoses’, its cultural context, and its vivid depictions of the cruelty of jealous gods, the pathos of human love, and…

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      Georgics

      Virgil

      Part agricultural manual, part political poem and allegory, the Georgics’ scenes are real and vivid, and the poet-farmer Peter Fallon restores to life the sights, sounds, and textures of the…

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      Comparative Studies in Republican Latin Imagery

      Giger Professor of Latin Elaine Fantham (Princeton University (Emerita))

      This volume establishes some of the limitations governing figurative language in Latin speech and prose, analysing the conservative imagery of Terence and of Cicero’s letters, contrasting this naturalistic language with…

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      Cicero’s Pro L. Murena Oratio

      Elaine Fantham (Former Giger Professor of Latin, Former Giger Professor of Latin, Princeton University)

      This text provides a long-overdue pedagogical commentary on Cicero’s Pro L. Muerna Oratio

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      Cicero’s Pro L. Murena Oratio

      Elaine Fantham (Former Giger Professor of Latin, Former Giger Professor of Latin, Princeton University)

      This text provides a long-overdue pedagogical commentary on Cicero’s Pro L. Muerna Oratio

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      The Emperor Nero: A Guide to the Ancient Sources

      Nero’s reign (AD 54-68) witnessed some of the most memorable events in Roman history, such as the rebellion of Boudica and the first persecution of the Christians–not to mention Nero’s…

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      Collected Works of Erasmus: Apophthegmata

      Desiderius Erasmus

      Assembled for the young Prince William of Cleves, Erasmus’ Apophthegmata consists of thousands of sayings and anecdotes collected from Greek and Latin literature for the moral education of the future…

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      The Complete Tragedies, Volume 1: Medea, The Phoenician Women, Phaedra, The Trojan Women, Octavia

      Lucius Annaeus Seneca

      Volume 1 contains the following plays attributed to Seneca: Medea, The Phoenician Women, Phaedra, The Trojan Women, Octavia–obviously it has a slightly female spin.

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      Women in the Classical World: Image and Text

      Elaine Fantham,Helene Peet Foley,Natalie Boymel Kampen,Sarah B. Pomeroy,H. A. Shapiro

      Women in the Classical World gathers primary written and visual sources on the lives of ancient women and presents them in a chronological sequence, within their historical and cultural contexts.

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      Hardship and Happiness

      Lucius Annaeus Seneca

      Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. This is a…

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      Hardship and Happiness

      Lucius Annaeus Seneca

      This volume collects all the remaining essays by Seneca not already published in the series [Consolato ad Marciam (Hine), Consolato ad Polybium (Hine), Consolato ad Helviam (Williams), De otio (Williams)…

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      Change Me: Stories of Sexual Transformation from Ovid

      Jane Alison (University of Virginia),Elaine Fantham,Alison Keith (University of Toronto)

      Jane Alison, the critically acclaimed author of The Love Artist, now takes on an equally demanding and in some ways more rigorous challenge: translating substantial portions of the Metamorphoses, Ovid’s…

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