Epic, Novel and the Progress of Antiquity Ahuvia Kahane This book rethinks the characterization of two highly contrastive forms of ancient literary tradition – epic and novel – and re-frames their function as dynamic points of reference in the history of ideas and in our understanding of the interface between antiquity and the modern. Ahuvia Kahane sets out to construct a new understanding of epic and novel in antiquity as part of a more fragile, dynamic framework, governed by intertextuality and openness on the one hand, and by fragmented interpretive traditions on the other. AHUVIA KAHANE is Professor of Greek and Director of the Humanities and Arts Research Centre at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. UK October 2014 • US December 2014 160 pages PB 9780715636770 • £14.99 / $25.95 Series: Classical Inter/Faces
Adonis The Myth of the Dying God in the Italian Renaissance Carlo Caruso In this detailed treatment of the myth of Adonis in post-Classical times, Carlo Caruso provides an overview of the main texts in Latin and in the vernacular, which secured for the Adonis myth a unique place in the Early Modern revival of Classical mythology. While providing this general outline of the myth’s fortunes in the Early Modern age, the book also addresses three points of primary interest, on which most of the original research included in the work has been conducted. First, the myth’s earliest significant revival in the age of Italian Humanism. Secondly, the diffusion of syncretistic interpretations of the Adonis myth by means of authoritative sixteenthcentury mythological encyclopaedias. Thirdly, the allegorical/political use of the Adonis myth in G.B. Marino’s (1569-1625) Adone. CARLO CARUSO is Head of Italian at the University of Durham, UK. UK August 2013 • US October 2013 224 pages • 7 bw illus HB 9781780932149 • £65.00 / $112.00
Expurgating the Classics Editing Out in Latin and Greek Edited by Stephen Harrison & Christopher Stray In the first collection to be devoted to this subject, a distinguished cast of contributors explores expurgation in both Greek and Latin authors in ancient and modern times. The major focus is on the period from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, with chapters ranging from early Greek lyric and Aristophanes through Lucretius, Horace, Martial and Catullus to the expurgation of schoolboy texts, the Loeb Classical Library and the Penguin Classics. The contributors draw on evidence from the papers of editors, and on material in publishing archives. The introduction discusses both the different types of expurgation, and how it differs from related phenomena such as censorship.
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STEPHEN HARRISON is Professor of Latin Literature, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, UK. CHRISTOPHER STRAY is Honorary Research Fellow, Department of History and Classics, Swansea University, and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Classics, University of London, UK. UK August 2012 • US October 2012 240 pages HB 9781849668927 • £65.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781472503008 • £19.99 / 23.99 Library eBook 9781472502995 • £65.00 / $120.00 Sold by IPM in the US
Paris: The ‘New Rome’ of Napoleon I Diana Rowell Napoleon I employed a myriad of media through which to promote his propaganda and his universal hegemony. Classical Rome was central to his ambitious visions for the transformation of Paris into an imperial metropolis. This volume evaluates how the Roman world influenced Napoleonic Paris, and how Napoleon promoted his authority by appropriating Rome’s triumphal architecture and its associated symbolism. The volume shows how consideration of Louis XIV’s legacy is crucial to understanding the evolution of Napoleon’s fascination with imperial Rome. It also charts Napoleon’s manipulation of the populist rhetoric of Republican France (and Rome) as he moved from being a general fighting for the Revolutionary cause to become the ‘absolute’ ruler of a new empire. DIANA ROWELL is an independent scholar. She worked at the British School at Rome before completing her doctoral study at the University of Reading, UK. UK August 2012 • US October 2012 224 pages • 26 bw illus HB 9781441135186 • £65.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781441128836 • £19.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441126030 • £65.00 / $120.00
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