First published in 1965, Cicero contains a number of assessments of Cicero's life and works, made by a group of scholars that includes some of the acknowledged experts in their particular field.
This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription for examinations in 2026 28 of Cicero's pro Roscio Amerino 5 (forsitan quaeratis ) 29 ( iugulandum vobis tradiderunt), and the A-Level (Group 2) prescription for examinations in 2027 28 of 29 (quid primum ) 32 (iuguletis aut condemnetis) and 37 (occidisse patrem ) 57 ( accusare possitis), giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction that also covers the prescribed material to be read in English for A Level.
This volume focuses on teaching Classics in carceral contexts in the US and offers an overview of the range of incarcerated adults, their circumstances, and the ways in which they are approaching and reinterpreting Greek and Roman texts.
This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription of Cicero's Philippic II sections 44 50 ( viri tui similis esses) and 78 (C.
Gathering together over 60 new and revised discussions of textual issues, this volume represents notorious problems in well-known texts from the classical era by authors including Horace, Ennius, and Vergil.
From the epic adventures of gods and heroes to tales of the world's beginning, this illustrated collection of myths and legends from Greece and Rome is a captivating exploration of the tales that shaped the ancient world.
Monsters in Greek literature are often thought of as creatures which exist in mythological narratives, however, as this book shows, they appear in a much broader range of ancient sources and are used in creation narratives, ethnographic texts, and biology to explore the limits of the human body and of the human world.
In The History of the Destruction of Troy, Dares the Phrygian boldly claimed to be an eyewitness to the Trojan War, while challenging the accounts of two of the ancient world's most canonical poets, Homer and Virgil.
Bringing together the study of the Greek classics and Indology, Arjuna-Odysseus provides a comparative analysis of the shared heritage of the Mahabharata and early Greek traditions presented in the texts of Homer and Hesiod.
The Poetry of Ennodius offers the first translation into English verse of the entire eclectic corpus of sacred and secular poetry by Magnus Felix Ennodius (c.
Die Arbeit untersucht die Konzepte von Reinigung und Reinheit in der Kaiserzeit und in der Spätantike anhand des Werks des Arztes Galen von Pergamon, der Texte der neuplatonischen Philosophen Plotin, Porphyrios und Jamblich und der Schriften der christlichen Theologen Nemesios von Emesa und Gregor von Nyssa.
The Poetry of Ennodius offers the first translation into English verse of the entire eclectic corpus of sacred and secular poetry by Magnus Felix Ennodius (c.
Die Figur des Herrschers in der mittelalterlichen Exempelliteratur des Okzidents steht im Hinblick auf Exemplarität und Transkulturalität im Zentrum der hispanistischen und germanistischen Studien dieses Bandes.
The book provides a global perspective of local government response towards the COVID-19 pandemic through the analysis of a sample of countries in all continents.
First published in 1968, Virgil's Aeneid is to help all who approach the long and difficult poem seriously (in Latin or in English) to read it with discerning appreciation.
This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription of Cicero's Pro Cluentio, sections 1 7 and 10 11, and the A-Level (Group 2) prescription of sections 27 32 and 35 37, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction that also covers the prescribed poems to be read in English for A Level.
Ammianus Marcellinus' Res Gestae holds a prominent position in modern studies of the emperor Julian as the fullest extant narrative of the reign of the last 'pagan' emperor.
