In Reading Death in Ancient Rome, Mario Erasmo considers both actual funerary rituals and their literary depictions in epic, elegy, epitaphs, drama, and prose works as a form of participatory theater
Keeping teachers up to date on recent developments in Latin scholarshipCatullus, Horace, Ovid, Cicero, and Vergil are the official Advanced Placement Program Latin authors as well as standard reading
Latinists of various stripes and related scholars present 14 papers, mostly on specific Latin texts or authors of the Middle Ages. Their topics include ethnogenesis and ethnic identity in Roman and ea
The study of Latin literature has generally focused on one of three periods: Roman Antiquity, the high Middle Ages, or the Golden Age of Humanism. The three-volume series beginning here starts a new p
In this bold work, Thomas Habinek offers an entirely new theoretical perspective on Roman cultural history. Although English words such as "literature" and "religion" have their origins in Latin, the
In this volume, we are offered a new perspective on Roman literature, based on the conviction that our present appreciation for it should be informed and influenced by how it was originally perceived.
This highly accessible, user-friendly work provides a fresh and illuminating introduction to the most important aspects of Latin prose and poetry. Readers are constantly encouraged to think for themse
This book is an attempt to coax Roman history closer to the bone, to the breath and matter of the living being. Drawing from a remarkable array of ancient and modern sources, Carlin Barton offers the
Western civilization is in many ways an outgrowth of the Roman Empire. The Classical Roman Reader, which contains a collection of some of the finest and most important writing of the Roman period, br
First published in two parts in 1977, the first edition of the Companion to Neo-Latin Studies appeared, filling a long-felt lacuna in the study of Neo-Latin literature. Both parts were subsequently re
Translated from Albrecht's (classical philology, U. of Heidelberg) 1994 second edition of Geschichte der r÷ischen Literatur , changing bibliographic references to English editions and translations of
Examines some neglected Latin texts produced during the thousand years after the end of most classicists' field-of-view in the fifth century, looking at what ideological values are explicitly encoded
