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What are the secrets to a contented life? One of Rome's greatest and most influential poets, Horace (65-8 BCE) has been cherished by readers for more than two thousand years not only for his wit, style, and reflections on Roman society, but also for his wisdom about how to live …
Classical Scholarship and Its History: From the Renaissance to the Present. Essays in Ho…
by Hall, Edith, Harrison, Stephen, Stray, Christopher, Clarke, Michael, Pelling, Christopher, Elsner, Jaś, Kaster, Robert A., Butterfield, David, Shuttleworth Kraus, Christina, Gibson, Roy, Briggs, Ward, Hallett, Judith P., Clackson, James, Hardwick, Lorna, Whitaker, Graham
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It is unusual for a single scholar practically to reorient an entire sub-field of study, but this is what Chris Stray has done for the history of UK classical scholarship. His remarkable combination of interests in the sociology of scholars and scholarship, in the history of the…
The first collection dedicated to the subject of expurgation in the classics, exploring the strategies used to deal with obscene and other textual material in conflict with Christian and other post-classical values.
The first collection dedicated to the subject of expurgation in the classics, exploring the strategies used to deal with obscene and other textual material in conflict with Christian and other post-classical values
Horace's 'Odes' remain among the most widely read works of classical literature. This volume constitutes the first substantial commentary for a generation on this book, and presents Horace's poems for a new cohort of modern students and scholars. The introduction focusses on the…