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Lee Fratantuono
Pompey's career in command began at a young age, taking control of his deceased father's legions in support of Sulla during the civil war with Marius. A precocious and ambitious…
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This book offers a comprehensive commentary on Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura, the earliest surviving full scale epic poem from ancient Rome.
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A Reading of Petronius' Satyricon offers a detailed literary commentary on one of the surviving masterpieces of classical literature, with a complete guide to Petronian scholarship.
Possibly the most important battle in Roman history, Actium drew the final curtain on the Roman Republic and ushered in the Roman Empire
Roman military adventures (and misadventures) in the ancient Middle East remain one of the less understood and appreciated facets of Roman conquest and imperial advance.
This is a long overdue study of all aspects of Lucullus life but with heavy emphasis on his military career, strategy and tactics
Detailed narrative and analysis of the campaigns of Diocletian's reign, including those of his three co-rulers in the tetrarchy.
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Madness Transformed: A Reading of OvidOs Metamorphoses is one of the most comprehensive studies available in English of one of the most majestic and perennially appealing of Roman epics. Students…
Aims to provide a guide to the entirety of Virgil’s Aeneid, with analysis of every scene and, in some cases, every line of crucial passages. This book offers some critical…
Providing a guide to the vast bibliography and scholarly apparatus that has grown around Virgil studies, this work offers a critical study of what Virgil’s purpose and intent may have…
Book XVI of Tacitus’ Annals is the last of the surviving books of the great Roman historian’s monumental account of the reigns of the emperors from Tiberius to Nero. The…
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Madness Triumphant: A Reading of Lucan’s Pharsalia offers the most detailed and comprehensive analysis of Lucan’s epic poem of the civil war between Caesar and Pompey to have appeared in…
Fratantuono, Lee
Compelling narrative account that seeks to reveal exactly what happened on that fateful day.
Ovid
Metamorphoses is an epic-style, narrative poem written in hexameters. Original, inventive and charming, the poem tells the stories of myths featuring transformations, from the creation of the universe to the…
This collection of essays, written by philologists, historians, epigraphers, palaeographers, archaeologists, and art historians, brings together the best of old and new traditions of classical study, from senior emeritus faculty…
Lee M. Fratantuono,R. Alden Smith
Virgil, Aeneid 8 provides the first full-scale commentary on one of the most important and popular books of the great epic of imperial Rome. The commentary is accompanied by a…
Fratantuono and Smith provide the first detailed consideration of Book 5 of Virgil’s Aeneid, with introduction, critical text, translation and commentary.
This volume provides a new critical text, translation, and exhaustive commentary on one of Virgil’s most famous books.
