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    The Greek Poetry of Summons and Invitation

    Francis Cairns

    This is the first book-length study of the poetic invitations and summonses of Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Greece. They are found in epic, lyric, drama, epigram and inscriptions, and are…

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    Roman History in Roman Poetry

    The nineteenth volume of Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar explores aspects of how historical and historiographical concerns were represented in or affected by Roman poetry. The essays range in…

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    Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar 18: Roman Poetry, Republican and Imperial

    After a long period in which the late Republican and Augustan poets were the main focus of scholarship in Latin poetry, more attention is now being given to earlier Republican…

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    Roman Lyric: Collected Papers on Catullus and Horace

    Francis Cairns

    Roman Lyric assembles his substantial body of work on Roman lyric, about 30 papers published over the period 1969 to 2010 in many European and American periodicals, themed volumes and…

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    Virgil’s Augustan Epic

    Francis Cairns

    An examination of the main characters in the Aeneid - Aeneas himself, Dido and Turnus - in the light of Virgil’s contemporary Augustan political and literary ideology. The characters and…

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    Virgil’s Augustan Epic

    Francis Cairns

    An examination of the main characters in the Aeneid - Aeneas himself, Dido and Turnus - in the light of Virgil’s contemporary Augustan political and literary ideology. The characters and…

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    Generic Composition in Greek and Roman Poetry

    Francis Cairns

    Original in conception and powerful in scope, Generic Composition in Greek and Roman Poetry remains one of the most important books on early Greek, Hellenistic and Roman poetry in a…

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    Tibullus: A Hellenistic Poet at Rome

    Francis Cairns

    Tibullus was one of the leading poets of Augustan Rome. Professor Cairns examines in detail aspects of Tibullus’ poetic craftsmanship - his learning, his interest in the meanings of words…

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    Sextus Propertius: The Augustan Elegist

    Francis Cairns (Florida State University)

    In 30-15 BC Sextus Propertius composed at Rome four books of elegies which exhibit an unparalleled richness of themes, concepts and language. This book relates Propertius’ elegies to his family…

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    Hellenistic Epigram: Contexts of Exploration

    Francis Cairns (Florida State University)

    This book offers scholars and students of Hellenistic and Roman literature an overview of Hellenistic epigram. In fourteen themed chapters, it foregrounds the literary, linguistic, historical, epigraphic, social, political, ethnic…

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    Hellenistic Epigram: Contexts of Exploration

    Francis Cairns (Florida State University)

    This book offers scholars and students of Hellenistic and Roman literature an overview of Hellenistic epigram. In fourteen themed chapters, it foregrounds the literary, linguistic, historical, epigraphic, social, political, ethnic…

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    Sextus Propertius: The Augustan Elegist

    Francis Cairns (Florida State University)

    In 30-15 BC Sextus Propertius composed at Rome four books of elegies which exhibit an unparalleled richness of themes, concepts and language. This book relates Propertius’ elegies to his family…

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    Ancient Biography: Identity through Lives: Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar, Volume 17, 2017

    Ancient Biography contains revised versions of most of the papers given at the Colloquium Narrating Lives: Biography and Identity in Antiquity (held in 2015 at Florida State University), along with…

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    Albert Arbitration: Lord Cairn’s Decisions, Part 1 (1872)

    Francis Savage Reilly

    ""Albert Arbitration: Lord Cairn's Decisions, Part 1 (1872)"" is a legal book written by Francis Savage Reilly. The book is based on the arbitration case of Albert v. The London…

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    Albert Arbitration: Lord Cairn’s Decisions, Part 1 (1872)

    Francis Savage Reilly

    This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…

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