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J.C. McKeown's offers commentary on Ovid's Amores, covering the first eight elegies of Book III.

Biography, Identity and Religion: Federicomaria Muccioli gives a useful brief history of divinisation in biographical writing and discusses Plutarch¿s depiction of ruler cult in these terms, Daniel Harris-McCoy deals with accounts of dreams in biographical works and their influence on Artemidorus, Jennifer Rea compares the ways in which women are biographized, the early Christian martyr St. Perpetua, and the twentieth-century Christa McAuliffe...

A collection of c.200 etymologies and etymological complexes in Ovid's Metamorphoses. The list includes brief contextual information, evidence from ancient grammarians, discussion of the artistic function of the wordplay and examples of its use in the works of Ovid and other Latin poets. In the introduction, Michalopoulos outlines the conceptual framework and describes etymological techniques, particularly those typical of Ovid.

A collection of fourteen papers that focuses on classical poetry and historiography, with contributions from scholars from the UK and America.

J. Gordon Howie's seminal papers on Homer, Hesiod, Sappho, Pindar, Euripides, Thucydides, and Xenophon document the vitality and influence of cultural and intellectual patterns first visible in early Greek epic and lyric, and reveal the impact of those patterns on Attic drama and on the Greek historians. A focal figure in this process, and throughout Howie's papers, is Pindar, who transmitted his poetic past while transforming it in ways that ...

This volume constitutes a work of fundamental importance for historians of the period. Part One analyzes the background, opinions, and historiography of each of the four writers, with particular emphasis on recovering from the fragments the original structure of their works. Part Two presents an annotated conspectus, based on close study of all relevant writings, ancient and modern. Reprint of the 1981 edition.

In this pioneering study, first published in German as Pyrsos Hymnon. Festliche Gegenwart und mythisch-rituelle Tradition als Voraussetzung einer Pindarinterpretation (Isthmie 4, Pythie 5, Olympie 1 und 3) (1990), Eveline Krummen examines the related problems of the unity (or intelligibility and cohesion) and the ¿occasionality¿ (the heuristic importance of the original performance situation) of Pindaric epinicia. She uses various approaches -...

The study of medieval attitudes towards death, from sociological, historical, literary artistic and theological viewpoints, has long been a major scholarly preoccupation in France. The first British conference devoted to this field was the Eug¿ Vinaver Colloquium held in Manchester in March 1983, this volume contains its revised proceedings. Covering a broad range of disciplines (history, literature, theatre, theology among others) and a diver...

PLLS 16 contains papers mainly arising from several Langford Colloquia held by the Department of Classics, Florida State University. Contents The Elder Pliny S. Citroni Marchetti (Universit¿i Firenze):¿Cicero as Role-Model in the Self-Definition of Pliny the Elder¿ Trevor Murphy (University of California, Berkeley): ¿Notes from Underground: the Curious Katabasis of Dionysodorus¿ Eugenia Lao: ¿Taxonomic Organization in Pliny¿s Natural History¿ ...

This lexicon provides as comprehensive as possible a list of explicit etymologies of Latin words found in Latin and Greek writers from the time of Varro to Isidore of Seville. Robert Maltby has extracted from glossaries and scholia as well as the standard ancient etymological source books. His policy of quoting extensively, rather than summarizing, reveals the relationships between the various sources and the reasoning behind many of their ety...

It would be difficult to overstate the importance of Aristotle for a number of intellectual disciplines from Antiquity into the Middle Ages and beyond. However, Aristotle's philosophical ideas - both in themselves and as they were re-worked by later commentators - remain a subject of lively debate among contemporary philosophers and scholars. Form and Universal in Aristotle is a contribution to this controversy, offering the first full-length ...

Sextus Aurelius Victor was an imperial bureaucrat whose life spanned most of the fourth century AD. Harry Bird describes how Victor, a man of humble African origin, acquired by virtue of his education and personal qualities a consular governorship in Pannonia and the urban prefecture at Rome. Victor's short historical monograph, the De Caesaribus , reveals his attitudes towards education, culture, history and politics - attitudes which probabl...

The Brazilian Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1839, is regarded as the greatest Latin-American novelist of the nineteenth century. Dom Casmurro (1899) is one of his most important works. Its narrator, Bento, who is also its central character, sets out to convince the reader, on insufficient grounds, of the adultery of his wife, Capitu. The complexity and irony which results from this mode of presentation have led crit...

Although writing in Latin, Statius (first-century AD) was, by origin and training, a Greek poet, and his collection of occasional poems, the Silvae, are a Roman extension of contemporary trends in Greek display poetry. No reading of the Silvae can be accurate without an understanding of this Graeco-Roman poetic milieu. This book therefore begins with a reconstruction of the professional background to the Silvae - the festival circuit, the cond...

The eighth volume of PLLS 8, under the distinguished editorship of Dr Roger Brock (University of Leeds) and Professor A.J. Woodman (Durham University), is dedicated to Ronald Martin for his 80th birthday. Many of the papers assembled in it reflect Ronald Martin's two main areas of scholarly endeavour, Latin comedy and Tacitus.

Throughout his life the major Spanish novelist Benito Perez Gald¿s (1843-1920) took a keen interest in the visual arts. Parts I and II of this book discuss Gald¿s's art journalism and his artistic contributions to the illustrated edition of the historical novels. But the main focus (part III) is on references to the visual arts and pictorial landscapes, particularly in the serie contempor¿a, the contemporary social novels. Such allusions often...

The 1987 The Vinaver Colloquium on Racine, held in Manchester in 1987, brought together an international gathering of scholars, whose contributions ranged over a variety of topics, including lexis, prosody and musicality, theatrical technique and tragic vision, ritual and mythic inspiration. The collected papers, firmly modern in their different approaches, are a fruitful continuation of Eug¿ Vinaver's own work on Racine. Papers in French are ...

Peru, which in this century has produced world-renowned novelists of the stature of Mario Vargas Llosa and Jos¿ar¿ Arguedas, and poets such as the avant-garde C¿rVallejo, possesses a distinctive and varied literary culture of great intrinsic value. Peru's Spanish colonial past connects it to the mainstream of Western literature, but native traditions have survived and continue to flourish, both in Quechua and in Spanish. Attempts to evade the ...

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Emilia Pardo Baz¿ born in the north-west Spanish region of Galicia in 1851, remained active as a prolific novelist, short-story writer and literary critic almost up to her death in 1921. David Henn examines Baz¿s main thematic concerns in her first decade as a novelist: social tensions, environment and heredity as influences on character, the Feminist Question and the narrative portrayal of the female, political controversies. She is revealed ...