Classical languages / Classical literature 2016 229 x 152 mm 534pp 978-1-107-68441-6 Paperback £24.99 / US$37.99 Also available 978-0-521-51395-1 Hardback £88.00 / US$139.00 For all formats available, see
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An Introduction to the Composition and Analysis of Greek Prose Eleanor Dickey University of Reading
This work is aimed at university students and others who have a passive knowledge of ancient Greek and would like an active command of the language. It provides a structured review of grammar and syntax together with clear explanations, examples, and large numbers of exercises both with and without key. ‘Eleanor Dickey’s book is nothing short of a complete, stand-alone Greek prose composition course, one that touches on the sorts of skills and practice found in recent studies to be essential to language acquisition: alternating composition with reading and analysis of sentences in the target language, constant self-testing, engaging students’ recall, interleaving various types of exercises, regularly revisiting common structures, and recontextualizing important skills. There is simply no other Greek prose composition book like it.’ Ryan C. Fowler, Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania
Contents: Preface; Bibliography; Accentuation; 1. Articles; 2. Modifiers; 3. Tenses, voices, and agreement; 4. Cases; 5. Participles; 6. The structure of a Greek sentence: word order and connection; Review exercises; 7. Conditional, concessive, and potential clauses; 8. Relative clauses; 9. Pronouns; 10. Indirect statement; 11. Questions; Review exercises; 12. Purpose, fear, and effort; 13. Cause, result, and ‘on condition that’; 14. Comparison and negatives; 15. Commands, wishes, and prevention; 16. Temporal clauses; Review exercises; 17. Impersonal constructions and verbal adjectives; 18. Oratio obliqua; 19. Summary; 20. Consolidation; Appendices: A. Errors in Smyth’s Grammar; B. English tenses and their Greek equivalents (indicative only); C. Hints for analysing Greek sentences; D. English conditional clauses; E. A selection of terminologies for describing Greek
conditional sentences; F. Short, easily confused words; G. Partial answer key; H. The next step: prose composition as an art form; Principal parts; Vocabulary; Index to vocabulary. 2016 247 x 174 mm 316pp 978-0-521-76142-0 Hardback £71.99 / US$89.99 978-0-521-18425-0 Paperback £17.99 / US$29.99 For all formats available, see
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voices of Roman slaves to historians of theater and illuminates a major body of evidence for historians of slavery. 2017 228 x 152 mm 500pp 978-1-107-15231-1 Hardback c. £84.99 / c. US$135.00 Publication November 2017 For all formats available, see
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Claudian the Poet Clare Coombe
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Learning Latin the Ancient Way Latin Textbooks from the Ancient World Eleanor Dickey University of Reading
This book makes ancient Latin-learning materials usable by modern students for the first time. 2016 247 x 174 mm 200pp 4 b/w illus. 978-1-107-09360-7 Hardback £49.99 / US$79.99 978-1-107-47457-4 Paperback £17.99 / US$29.99 For all formats available, see
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Classical literature Simonides the Poet Intertextuality and Reception Richard Rawles University of Edinburgh
Simonides is tantalising and enigmatic, known both from fragments and from an extensive tradition of anecdotes. This book employs a diachronic approach. It first reads Simonidean fragments with attention to their intertextual relationship with earlier works and traditions, and then explores Simonides through his ancient reception. 2017 247 x 174 mm 320pp 978-1-107-14170-4 Hardback c. £64.99 / c. US$99.99 Publication December 2017 For all formats available, see
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Slave Theater in the Roman Republic Plautus and Popular Comedy Amy Richlin University of California, Los Angeles
This book reappraises this fourthcentury Latin poet’s use of storytelling and poetics for political propaganda. It argues that Claudian creates a Stilicho who is an epic hero, gigantic barbarians, and a universe under threat of chaos, and thereby retells the story of his patron, and convinces his audience of his political agenda. 2017 228 x 152 mm 248pp 978-1-107-05834-7 Hardback c. £64.99 / c. US$99.99 Publication October 2017 For all formats available, see
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Aesthetic Experiences and Classical Antiquity The Significance of Form in Narratives and Pictures Jonas Grethlein Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany
This study proposes a new dialogue between the fields of classics and aesthetics. It uses ancient narratives and pictures, comparing them with modern material, in order to explore the specific nature of aesthetic experience, arguing that the key lies in the form of the representation. 2017 247 x 174 mm 336pp 978-1-107-19265-2 Hardback c. £64.99 / c. US$99.99 Publication September 2017 For all formats available, see
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Antiquity and Cinema Affinities of Imagination Martin M. Winkler George Mason University, Virginia
This book offers a new approach to the creative affinities between ancient verbal and modern visual narratives. It examines screen adaptations of classical epic, tragedy, comedy, myth and history on the basis of ancient theories of drama and rhetoric, whilst demonstrating the undiminished vitality
As war ravaged Italy during 200 BC, slave actors made comedy from below. Based on the full corpus of early Roman comedy, this book brings the
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