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Classical literature literature as it has been conceived of in the West. 2015 228 x 152 mm 382pp 4 tables 978-1-107-11663-4 Hardback £74.99 / US$120.00 For all formats available, see
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Livy’s Political Philosophy Power and Personality in Early Rome Ann Vasaly Boston University
Challenging the common perception of Livy as an apolitical moralist, this book explores the political implications of the first pentad of his history of Rome. Ann Vasaly argues that Livy intended to convey crucial lessons about how the Roman republic flourished in the past and how it could be revived. 2015 247 x 174 mm 217pp 978-1-107-06567-3 Hardback £55.00 / US$90.00 For all formats available, see
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The Greek Epic Cycle and its Ancient Reception A Companion Edited by Marco Fantuzzi
Georg Danek, Maria Noussia-Fantuzzi, Ian Rutherford, Alan Sommerstein, Evina Sistakou, Michael Squire, Ursula Gärtner, Gianpiero Rosati, Charles McNelis, David F. Elmer, Silvio Bär, Manuel Baumbach 2015 247 x 174 mm 690pp 29 b/w illus. 1 table 978-1-107-01259-2 Hardback £120.00 / US$195.00 For all formats available, see
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Costume in the Comedies of Aristophanes Gwendolyn Compton-Engle John Carroll University
This book interprets the handling of costume in the plays of the ancient Greek comic playwright Aristophanes, using as evidence the surviving plays as well as vase-paintings and terracotta figurines. This book fills a gap in the study of ancient Greek drama, focusing on performance, gender, and the body. 2015 253 x 177 mm 210pp 31 b/w illus. 1 table 978-1-107-08379-0 Hardback £65.00 / US$99.00 For all formats available, see
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to consider his work from a fresh perspective. ‘The bawdy poet Catullus wrote in the late Roman Republic, in Latin, but he will always belong to the world at large and to the present tense – rowdy, randy, excoriating, funny, acrobatic and endlessly vernacular. He is our shameless poet of the lockerroom boast and the licentious manabout-town. He sings in the gossipy, fierce voices of Eros and Id without apology, and we love him for this particular exhibition of the glory of the human spirit. Catullus is so much of the present tense that his poetry requires the fresh transfusion of retranslation on a regular basis, needs a booster shot of the vernacular to restore the rose to his cheeks. In these fine new translations, Jeffrey Thomson and Jeannine Uzzi perfectly catch the lively Catullan blend of eloquence and vulgarity. Thus, Catullus, and his poems, get to party one more time.’ Tony Hoagland, poet and writer
Contents: Introduction; The poems; Notes. 2015 198 x 129 mm 220pp 978-1-107-02855-5 Hardback £39.99 / US$69.99 978-1-107-68213-9 Paperback £14.99 / US$24.99 For all formats available, see
Stesichorus in Context Edited by P. J. Finglass
Columbia University, New York
University of Nottingham
and Christos Tsagalis
and Adrian Kelly
University of Thessaloniki, Greece
University of Oxford
The poems of the Epic Cycle are assumed to be the reworking of myths and narratives which had their roots in an oral tradition predating that of many of the myths and narratives which took their present form in the Iliad and the Odyssey. The remains of these texts allow us to investigate diachronic aspects of epic diction as well as the extent of variation within it on the part of individual authors – two of the most important questions in modern research on archaic epic. They also help to illuminate the early history of Greek mythology. Access to the poems, however, has been thwarted by their current fragmentary state. This volume provides the scholarly community and graduate students with a thorough critical foundation for reading and interpreting them.
This book presents ten new essays on aspects of the Greek poet Stesichorus, whose works have only recently been rediscovered. It will appeal to everybody interested in Greek poetry and its influence, and in the recovery of longlost texts.
Contributors: Marco Fantuzzi, Christos Tsagalis, Jonathan Burgess, Gregory Nagy, John M. Foley, Justin Arft, Martin L. West, Wolfgang Kullmann, Margalit Finkelberg, Alberto Bernabé, Antonios Rengakos, David Konstan, Thomas H. Carpenter, Gianbattista D’alessio, Ettore Cingano, José B. TorresGuerra, Ettore Cingano, Andrea Debiasi, Bruno Currie, Adrian Kelly, Patrick Finglass,
University of Maine, Farmington
2015 247 x 174 mm 222pp 978-1-107-06973-2 Hardback £69.99 / US$110.00 For all formats available, see
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The Poems of Catullus An Annotated Translation Edited and translated by Jeannine Diddle Uzzi University of Southern Maine
Translated by Jeffrey Thomson
The Roman poet Catullus is one of the most popular and frequently studied ancient authors. This new translation presents the poems as contemporary and concise with an energy and pace that both enhance Catullus’ appeal for non-specialists and challenge specialists
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Antiquity Now The Classical World in the Contemporary American Imagination Thomas E. Jenkins Trinity University, Texas
Through the lens of reception studies, Antiquity Now examines the ideological uses of the classical world in contemporary media, including surprising new developments in comic books, film, drama and fiction. This book will be valuable to scholars and students of American, classical and cultural studies. 2015 247 x 174 mm 260pp 25 b/w illus. 978-0-521-19626-0 Hardback £64.99 / US$99.99 For all formats available, see
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Classical Myths in Italian Renaissance Painting Luba Freedman Hebrew University of Jerusalem
This book retraces the development of classical imagery in the visual arts of the Italian Renaissance. The extant artifacts of Roman antiquity, in addition to the