The Student's Catullus places its emphasis on understanding the original Latin text rather than merely translating it into English. A complete Latin-English vocabulary explains the meaning of Catullus' words; notes to each poem illuminate the meaning of his language, with explanations of word choice, word order, sound effects, and metric artistry. ...
Providing a comprehensive overview of nine successive stages of Greek sexual culture, this illustrated book serves as a guide to the origins of our complex attitudes regarding marriage, the rights of women, homosexuality, and the role of eroticism in culture. 115 illustrations.
Originally published in 1870, Personal Beauty contains many Victorian recipes for health and beauty along with valuable and unusual advice for attaining physical perfection.
The Roman confrontation and assimilation of Greek literature entailed a scrutiny, critique, and adaptation of generic assumptions. This book considers the ways in which major genres--among them comedy, lyric, elegy, epic, and the novel--were redefined to accommodate Roman concerns and the ways in which gender plays a role in generic definition and ...
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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark ...
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