-- Introduction on Catullus and his literary/historical/social context -- Line-by-line vocabulary grammatical, and background notes, same page and facing -- Description of all the meters -- Metrical terms tropes, and rhetorical figures defined, with examples from the Catullus poems -- Extensive bibliography -- Second Latin text of poems without ...
-- Introduction on Horace and his times -- Latin text of poems -- Line-by-line notes, same page and facing vocabulary -- Description of all the meters used in the poems -- Figures of speech defined, with examples from the poems -- Extensive bibliography, including the latest in scholarship on Horace
In Horace's "Odes" love cannot last. Is the poet unromantic, as some critics claim? Is he merely realistic? Or is he, as Ronnie Ancona contends, relating the erotic to time in a more complex and interesting way than either of these positions allows? Rejecting both the notion that Horace fails as a love poet because he undermines the romantic ideal ...
In recent decades, Latin love poetry has become a significant site for feminist and other literary critics studying conceptions of gender and sexuality in ancient Roman culture. This new volume, the first to specifically focus on gender dynamics in Latin love poetry, moves beyond the polarized critical positions that argue that this poetry either ...
Ronni Ancona is fed up with football: the way it dominates TV, takes over men's brains and scuppers any chance of romance. And so, for the sake of women everywhere, Ronni concocts an experiment to see if a man can be made to give up the very thing he claims he cannot live without. But who would agree to be Ronni's guinea-pig? Surely not her ex ...
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