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Product Description: First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
By Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz (editor) and Amy Richlin (editor)

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9781138139848 | Routledge, April 27, 2016, cover price $165.00 | About this edition: First published in 1993.
9780415906456 | Routledge, June 1, 1993, cover price $59.95

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9780415906463 | Routledge, June 1, 1993, cover price $48.95

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9780415532402 | 4th edition (Routledge, July 22, 2013), cover price $130.00
9781880393345 | 3 edition (Routledge, March 1, 2003), cover price $131.00

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9780415532419 | 4th edition (Routledge, July 23, 2013), cover price $65.95
9781880393352 | 3 edition (Routledge, March 1, 2003), cover price $57.95
9781880393192 | 2nd edition (Hermagoras Pr, January 1, 1995), cover price $34.50

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Offers translations of the principal Greek and Latin texts of ancient literary criticism, including writings of Aristotle, Horace, Tacitus, Plato, and Plutarch

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9780192818300, titled "Classical Literary Criticism" | Rev edition (Oxford Univ Pr, January 1, 1990), cover price $6.95 | also contains Classical Literary Criticism | About this edition: Offers translations of the principal Greek and Latin texts of ancient literary criticism, including writings of Aristotle, Horace, Tacitus, Plato, and Plutarch

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Product Description: This volume provides, in translation, the principal texts of literary criticism, including Aristotle's Poetics, Horace's Art of Poetry, Longinus' on Sublimity, Tacitus' Dialogues, and extracts from Plato and Plutarch.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe...read more

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9780199549818 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 1, 2008, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: This volume provides, in translation, the principal texts of literary criticism, including Aristotle's Poetics, Horace's Art of Poetry, Longinus' on Sublimity, Tacitus' Dialogues, and extracts from Plato and Plutarch.

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Product Description: The volume makes widely available some important scholarship on the canonical texts of ancient rhetoric and poetics. While there are numerous studies of general trends in classical criticism, this collection offers direct discussions of primary sources, which provide a useful companion to the Russell and Winterbottom anthology, Ancient Literary Criticism...read more
By Andrew Laird (editor)

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9780199258659 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, October 19, 2006, cover price $265.00 | About this edition: The volume makes widely available some important scholarship on the canonical texts of ancient rhetoric and poetics.

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Product Description: This landmark collection presents a wide variety of viewpoints on the value and role of reception theory within the modern discipline of classics. A pioneering collection, looking at the role reception theory plays, or could play, within the modern discipline of classics...read more
By William Batstone (contributor), Katie Fleming (contributor), Simon Goldhill (contributor), Charles Martindale (editor) and Richard F. Thomas (editor)

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9781405131469 | 1 edition (Blackwell Pub, August 18, 2006), cover price $150.95 | About this edition: This landmark collection presents a wide variety of viewpoints on the value and role of reception theory within the modern discipline of classics.

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9781405131452 | 1 edition (Blackwell Pub, August 18, 2006), cover price $60.95 | About this edition: This landmark collection presents a wide variety of viewpoints on the value and role of reception theory within the modern discipline of classics.

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Product Description: The volume makes widely available some important scholarship on the canonical texts of ancient rhetoric and poetics. While there are numerous studies of general trends in classical criticism, this collection offers direct discussions of primary sources, which provide a useful companion to the Russell and Winterbottom anthology, Ancient Literary Criticism...read more
By Andrew Laird (editor)

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9780199258666 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, June 29, 2006, cover price $98.00 | About this edition: The volume makes widely available some important scholarship on the canonical texts of ancient rhetoric and poetics.

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Product Description: This is the story of how Western literature first developed its distinctive taste for the kind of tight, economical plotting still employed in modern fiction and cinema. The book shows how this taste was formed in Greco-Roman antiquity out of a series of revolutions in storytelling, centered on Homer, early tragedy, Hellenistic comedy, and the Greek love-novels of the early centuries AD...read more

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9780521771764 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $99.99

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9780521604451 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 30, 2004, cover price $44.99 | About this edition: This is the story of how Western literature first developed its distinctive taste for the kind of tight, economical plotting still employed in modern fiction and cinema.

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Product Description: As distinct from the extant studies of ancient canonical texts, which focus either on literary (Greco-Roman) or religious (Judeo-Christian) canons, the present volume aims at bridging between these two fields by proposing the first comparative study of canon...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9789004126657 | Brill Academic Pub, April 1, 2003, cover price $164.00 | About this edition: As distinct from the extant studies of ancient canonical texts, which focus either on literary (Greco-Roman) or religious (Judeo-Christian) canons, the present volume aims at bridging between these two fields by proposing the first comparative study of canon.

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Product Description: How should I interpret a classical text? However I interpret it, someone else will so do differently, and even the nature of the interpreter's task is a matter of dispute; consensus is not a realistic prospect. Malcolm Heath sees the inevitability of such disagreements, not as a problem to be deplored, but as a constructive force, at once an essential part of the process of enquiry and a reflection of the endless diversity of the questions that interest the readers of classical texts...read more

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9780715631744 | Bristol Classical Pr, March 1, 2003, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: How should I interpret a classical text?

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Product Description: Mikhail Bakhtin's critical and theoretical experiments have inspired original work in the humanities and social sciences, but Bakhtin and the Classics is the first book to focus on the relationship between Bakhtin and classical studies, the discipline in which Bakhtin himself was trained...read more

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9780810119055 | Northwestern Univ Pr, January 30, 2002, cover price $89.95 | About this edition: Mikhail Bakhtin's critical and theoretical experiments have inspired original work in the humanities and social sciences, but Bakhtin and the Classics is the first book to focus on the relationship between Bakhtin and classical studies, the discipline in which Bakhtin himself was trained.

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9780810119062 | Northwestern Univ Pr, December 1, 2001, cover price $29.95

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Critiques the cultural conservatives' teaching of Classical Greek literature as ahistorical and distorted by politics, and offers a more complex view of ancient Greek politics, sex, and religion. (view table of contents)

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9780814719466 | New York Univ Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Critiques the cultural conservatives' teaching of Classical Greek literature as ahistorical and distorted by politics, and offers a more complex view of ancient Greek politics, sex, and religion.

By Mary Depew (editor) and Dirk Obbink (editor)

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9780674003385 | Harvard Univ Center for Hellenic, December 30, 2000, cover price $82.00

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9780195130355 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, July 13, 2000, cover price $150.00

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Product Description: "Antiquity, which is claimed to have invented literature, philosophy, and history, humanism, human rights, and democracy, is called upon to vouch for us, the Europeans of today, in the face of the passing centuries, by demonstrating that our own civilization cannot possibly be mortal since it is civilization itself...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780801858642 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, June 1, 1999, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: "Antiquity, which is claimed to have invented literature, philosophy, and history, humanism, human rights, and democracy, is called upon to vouch for us, the Europeans of today, in the face of the passing centuries, by demonstrating that our own civilization cannot possibly be mortal since it is civilization itself.

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Product Description: This book offers a sustained reading of the social function of the body of texts we identify as 'ancient literary criticism' with major implications for how we understand this discourse and also modern criticism and literary theory...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780198150763 | Clarendon Pr, April 15, 1999, cover price $210.00 | About this edition: This book offers a sustained reading of the social function of the body of texts we identify as 'ancient literary criticism' with major implications for how we understand this discourse and also modern criticism and literary theory.

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Product Description: Classical Rhetorical Theory provides a clear, integrated, and coherent discussion of classical Greek rhetorical theories. Arguing that the premises of early Greek rhetorical theory continue to illuminate contemporary rhetorical practices, the authors examine classical rhetorical theory in both historical and conceptual terms...read more

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9780205564330 | Allyn & Bacon, March 16, 1999, cover price $108.80 | About this edition: Classical Rhetorical Theory provides a clear, integrated, and coherent discussion of classical Greek rhetorical theories.

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9780395849958 | Houghton Mifflin College Div, March 1, 1999, cover price $78.76 | About this edition: Classical Rhetorical Theory provides a clear, integrated, and coherent discussion of classical Greek rhetorical theories.

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Product Description: This excellent and accessible work includes many major texts in translation: Aristotle's Poetics, Longinus' On Sublimity, Horace's Art of Poetry, Tacitus' Dialogues, and extracts from Plato and Plutarch. Based on the highly praised Ancient Literary Criticism (OUP, 1972), it contains a new introduction and explanatory notes, and will be of enormous value to students both of Latin and Greek and of literary criticism and theory...read more
By D. A. Russell (editor) and M. Winterbottom (editor)

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9780192839008 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 19, 1998, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: This excellent and accessible work includes many major texts in translation: Aristotle's Poetics, Longinus' On Sublimity, Horace's Art of Poetry, Tacitus' Dialogues, and extracts from Plato and Plutarch.
9780192818300 | Rev edition (Oxford Univ Pr, January 1, 1990), cover price $6.95 | also contains Like an Everlasting Signet Ring: Generosity in the Book of Sirach | About this edition: Offers translations of the principal Greek and Latin texts of ancient literary criticism, including writings of Aristotle, Horace, Tacitus, Plato, and Plutarch

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Product Description: In this collection of provocative essays, historians and literary theorists assess the influence of Michel Foucault, particularly his History of Sexuality, on the study of classics. Foucault's famous work presents a bold theory of sexuality for both ancient and modern times, and yet until now it has remained under-explored and insufficiently analyzed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By David H. J. Larmour (editor), Paul Allen Miller (editor) and Charles Platter (editor)

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9780691016801 | Princeton Univ Pr, December 1, 1997, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: In this collection of provocative essays, historians and literary theorists assess the influence of Michel Foucault, particularly his History of Sexuality, on the study of classics.

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9780691016795 | Princeton Univ Pr, December 8, 1997, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: In this collection of provocative essays, historians and literary theorists assess the influence of Michel Foucault, particularly his History of Sexuality, on the study of classics.

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Product Description: The study of closure has played a significant part in contemporary literary criticism and is implicated in many of its concerns, from psychological aspects of the search for an end in narrative to the order imposed upon a text by politics or culture...read more
By Francis M. Dunn (editor), Don Fowler (editor) and Deborah H. Roberts (editor)

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9780691044521 | Princeton Univ Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $72.00 | About this edition: The study of closure has played a significant part in contemporary literary criticism and is implicated in many of its concerns, from psychological aspects of the search for an end in narrative to the order imposed upon a text by politics or culture.

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