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Book The Poems of Exile

Download or read book The Poems of Exile written by Ovid and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-01-18 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is no small achievement. For the language-lover the translation provides elegant, flowing English verse, for the classicist it conveys close approximation to the Latin meaning coupled with a sense of the movement and rhythmic variety of Ovid's language"—Geraldine Herbert-Brown, editor of Ovid's Fasti: Historical Readings at its Bimillennium "This book fills a gap. There is no similar annotated English translation of Ovid's exile poetry. Thoroughly grounded in Ovidian scholarship, Green's introduction and notes are helpful and informative. The translation is accurate, idiomatic, and lively, closely imitating the Latin elegiac couplet and capturing Ovid's changing moods."—Karl Galinsky, author of Ovid's Metamorphoses: An Introduction to the Basic Aspects

Book Roman Poets of the Early Empire

Download or read book Roman Poets of the Early Empire written by Anthony James Boyle and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 1991 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic

Download or read book Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic written by Joseph Farrell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic focuses on the works of the major Augustan poets, Vergil, Horace, Propertius, and Ovid, and explores the under-studied aspect of their poetry, namely the way in which they constructed and investigated images of the Roman Republic and the Roman past.

Book Poems of Rome

    Book Details:
  • Author : Karl Kirchwey
  • Publisher : Everyman's Library
  • Release : 2018-04-03
  • ISBN : 1101908017
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book Poems of Rome written by Karl Kirchwey and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful hardcover Pocket Poets anthology of poems inspired by the art and architecture of the Eternal City. Poems of Rome ranges across the centuries and contains the work of poets from many cultures and times, from ancient Rome to contemporary America. Designed to accompany readers visiting the city--whether in person or in imagination--the book is divided into sections by place. Its pages lead the reader from the Roman Forum to the Colosseum, from the Vatican to the Villa Sciarra, from the Pantheon to the Palatine Hill, all seen through the eyes of poets who have been dazzled by these glorious sites for centuries. The poets range from Horace and Ovid to Pasolini and Pavese, and from Byron and Keats and Rilke to James Merrill, Adrienne Rich, Derek Walcott, and Jorie Graham, in a collection of international talent as scintillating as the great city itself.

Book Talking Books

Download or read book Talking Books written by G. O. Hutchinson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-08-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasing importance is being attached to how Greek and Latin books of poems were arranged, but such research has often been carried out with little attention to the physical fragments of actual ancient poetry-books. In this extensive study Gregory Hutchinson investigates the design of Greek and Latin books of poems in the light of papyri, including recent discoveries. A series of discussions of major poems and collections from two central periods of Greek and Latin literature is framed by a substantial and illustrated survey of poetry-books and reading, and by a more theoretical discussion of structures involving books. The main poets discussed are Callimachus, Apollonius, Posidippus, Catullus, Horace, and Ovid; a chapter on Latin didactic includes Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid, and Manilius.

Book The Roman Poetry of Love

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  • Author : Efrossini Spentzou
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 2013-10-24
  • ISBN : 1472502159
  • Pages : 137 pages

Download or read book The Roman Poetry of Love written by Efrossini Spentzou and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Focusing on a series of specific poems, the title portrays the development of the genre in the context of the Emperor Augustus' ascent to power, following recognizable threads through the texts to build an understanding of the relationship between this poetry and the increasingly totalising regime. Highlighting and examining the intense affectation of love in these poems, The Roman Poetry of Love explores the works not simply as an expression of a troubled male psychology, but also as a reflection of the overwhelming changes that swept through Rome and Italy in the transition from the late Republic to the Augustan Age.

Book The Roman Poets of the Republic

Download or read book The Roman Poets of the Republic written by William Young Sellar and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Persuasion  Rhetoric and Roman Poetry

Download or read book Persuasion Rhetoric and Roman Poetry written by Irene Peirano Garrison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a radical re-appraisal of rhetoric's relation to literature, with fresh insights into rhetorical sources and their reception in Roman poetry.

Book Odes

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  • Author : Horace
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1874
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 90 pages

Download or read book Odes written by Horace and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Roman Poems

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  • Author : Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • Publisher : City Lights Books
  • Release : 1986-06
  • ISBN : 9780872861879
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book Roman Poems written by Pier Paolo Pasolini and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 1986-06 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Italian film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini was first and always a poet-the most important civil poet, according to Alberto Moravia, in Italy in the second half of this century. His poems were at once deeply personal and passionately engaged in the political turmoil of his country. In 1949, after his homosexuality led the Italian Communist Party to expel him on charges of "moral and political unworthiness," Pasolini fled to Rome. This selection of poems from his early impoverished days on the outskirts of Rome to his last (with a backward longing glance at his native Frill) is at the center of his poetic and filmic vision of modern Italian life as an Inferno. Pier Paolo Pasolini was born in 1922 in Bologna. In addition to the films for which he is world famous, he wrote novels, poetry, and social and cultural criticism. He was murdered in 1975.

Book Poetic Autonomy in Ancient Rome

Download or read book Poetic Autonomy in Ancient Rome written by Luke Roman and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Poetic Autonomy in Ancient Rome, Luke Roman offers a major new approach to the study of ancient Roman poetry. A key term in the modern interpretation of art and literature, 'aesthetic autonomy' refers to the idea that the work of art belongs to a realm of its own, separate from ordinary activities and detached from quotidian interests. While scholars have often insisted that aesthetic autonomy is an exclusively modern concept and cannot be applied to other historical periods, the book argues that poets in ancient Rome employed a 'rhetoric of autonomy' to define their position within Roman society and establish the distinctive value of their work. This study of the Roman rhetoric of poetic autonomy includes an examination of poetic self-representation in first-person genres from the late republic to the early empire. Looking closely at the works of Lucilius, Catullus, Propertius, Horace, Virgil, Tibullus, Ovid, Statius, Martial, and Juvenal, Poetic Autonomy in Ancient Rome affords fresh insight into ancient literary texts and reinvigorates the dialogue between ancient and modern aesthetics.

Book Ovid s Homer

    Book Details:
  • Author : Barbara Weiden Boyd
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 0190680040
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Ovid s Homer written by Barbara Weiden Boyd and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ovid's Homer examines the Latin poet's engagement with the Homeric poems throughout his career. Boyd offers detailed analysis of Ovid's reading and reinterpretation of a range of Homeric episodes and characters from both epics, and demonstrates the pervasive presence of Homer in Ovid's work. The resulting intertextuality, articulated as a poetics of paternity or a poetics of desire, is particularly marked in scenes that have a history of scholiastic interest or critical intervention; Ovid repeatedly asserts his mastery as Homeric reader and critic through his creative response to alternative readings, and in the process renews Homeric narrative for a sophisticated Roman readership. Boyd offers new insight into the dynamics of a literary tradition, illuminating a previously underappreciated aspect of Ovidian intertextuality.

Book Monsters and Monstrosity in Augustan Poetry

Download or read book Monsters and Monstrosity in Augustan Poetry written by Dunstan Lowe and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important contribution to the growing interdisciplinary field of monster studies

Book Women Poets in Ancient Greece and Rome

Download or read book Women Poets in Ancient Greece and Rome written by Ellen Greene and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Greek society was largely male-dominated, it gave rise to a strong tradition of female authorship. Women poets of ancient Greece and Rome have long fascinated readers, even though much of their poetry survives only in fragmentary form. This pathbreaking volume is the first collection of essays to examine virtually all surviving poetry by Greek and Roman women. It elevates the status of the poems by demonstrating their depth and artistry. Edited and with an introduction by Ellen Greene, the volume covers a broad time span, beginning with Sappho (ca. 630 b.c.e.) in archaic Greece and extending to Sulpicia (first century B.C.E.) in Augustan Rome. In their analyses, the contributors situate the female poets in an established male tradition, but they also reveal their distinctly “feminine” perspectives. Despite relying on literary convention, the female poets often defy cultural norms, speaking in their own voices and transcending their positions as objects of derision in male-authored texts. In their innovative reworkings of established forms, women poets of ancient Greece and Rome are not mere imitators but creators of a distinct and original body of work.

Book The Satires of Juvenal

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  • Author : Decio Junio Juvenal
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1739
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 438 pages

Download or read book The Satires of Juvenal written by Decio Junio Juvenal and published by . This book was released on 1739 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Apollo  Augustus  and the Poets

Download or read book Apollo Augustus and the Poets written by John F. Miller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive treatment of the reflections by Augustan poets on Apollo as an imperial icon.

Book The Roman Poets of the Republic

Download or read book The Roman Poets of the Republic written by W. Y. Sellar and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-09-18 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The Roman Poets of the Republic' by W. Y. Sellar, readers are taken on a profound journey through the poetry of ancient Rome during the Republic era. Sellar meticulously analyzes and interprets the works of poets such as Ennius, Naevius, and Accius, providing valuable insights into the literary style and themes of their poetry. This scholarly work delves deep into the historical and cultural context of the Roman Republic, shedding light on the influence of politics, war, and societal norms on the poetry of the time. The book is written in a scholarly and engaging manner, making it a valuable resource for students and enthusiasts of classical literature. Sellar's attention to detail and critical analysis make this book a must-read for anyone interested in the poetry of ancient Rome.W. Y. Sellar, a distinguished scholar of Latin literature, brings his expertise to 'The Roman Poets of the Republic' to offer a comprehensive study of the poetry produced during the Roman Republic. With an in-depth understanding of the historical and literary nuances of the period, Sellar provides readers with a nuanced perspective on the works of these renowned poets. His meticulous research and keen insights make this book a standout in the field of classical literature studies.'The Roman Poets of the Republic' by W. Y. Sellar is a fascinating and enlightening exploration of ancient Roman poetry that will appeal to readers with a passion for classical literature. Whether you are a student of Latin literature or simply a lover of poetry, this book offers a compelling glimpse into the rich cultural tapestry of Rome's literary past.