Product Description: In this 1958 book all the evidence bearing on Mycenean influence in Italy was gathered together for the first time. This evidence consists almost entirely of Mycenean pottery found in south Italy, Sicily, and the Aeolian Islands. Earlier studies on the subject are reviewed in the light of this research and in relationship to Furumark's analysis and classification of Mycenean pottery, but the most important part of the book is devoted to Mycenean finds from the excavations at Lipari and Torre Catelluccia, and to the large amount of pottery, for the greater part unpublished, from Taranto...read more

Product Description: The Persae is the oldest of surviving plays and its subject matter is unique in ancient drama, since it is concerned with a recent historical event, the defeat of the Persians at Salamis; yet before the publication of this work in 1960, there had been no edition suitable for university students and scholars...read more

Product Description: Avec ses qualites certaines et ses defauts voyants, l'oeuvre poetique de John Skelton, laureat couronne par l'Universite d'Oxford, homme d'eglise et precepteur d'Henri VIII, marque un important relai entre Chaucer et Spencer, entre l'esprit medieval et l'esprit de la Renaissance...read more

Product Description: On l'a souvent dit: Samuel Taylor Coleridge fut le maitre intellectuel du mouvement romantique en Angleterre. Il est permis d'aller plus loin; on peut affirmer que ses idees, toujours stimulantes et fecondes, servies par une immense culture, une dialectique puissante, un verbe vigoureux, la magie d'un art evocateur, ont laisse leur empreinte profonde en philosophie, en critique, en esthetique, et sont a l'origine du grand courant idealiste qui traverse tout le dix-neuvieme siecle anglais...read more

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Product Description: L'objet de cette etude est une definition de la critique classique en Angleterre de 1660 a 1719 environ. Nous essaierons d'etablir les coordonnees et de tracer la courbe d'un mouvement d'idees, meconnu et complexe, qui a coincide, au moins partiellement, avec la crise de la conscience europeenne...read more

Product Description: Vox Latina A Guide to the Pronunciation of Classical Latin

Rome engulfed first her near neighbours, then Italy and finally much of the known world. Her expansion was so successful that the history and culture of her main rivals, the Samnites, is too often overlooked. The author describes Samnium and the language of the Samnites, then reconstructs their culture, religion, economy and governmental system. Professor Salmon discusses their policy in Italy and their relations with Rome. The subsequent description of the three Samnite Wars and the Pyrrhic War critically reinterprets the principally Roman evidence for the military history of Roman Italy. Professor Salmon presents evidence about Samnium in the political organisation and civilisation of Roman Italy, and includes an important discussion of the Social War from the Italian point of view rather than from the purely Roman viewpoint. Originally published in 1967, much of the evidence collected and interpreted by Professor Salmon in this study - involving art, archeaology, topography and literary sources - was not generally accessible at the time. A fresh insight was offered into the history of Republican Rome as well as Samnium itself.

The Tragedies of Ennius were theatrical adaptations of Attic originals. None has survived; but fragments of twenty-two of them can be found in the work of other writers. Dr Jocelyn prints all the identifiable fragments, substantial extracts from the works which quote them and, where necessary, a critical apparatus. The long introduction discusses the early history of Roman public spectacles; the physical conditions of the theatre in the third and second centuries; the effect these had on the poets who had to adapt the scripts of Attic tragedies; the general character of the Latin plays thus produced; and the fate of these scripts (particularly those of Ennius) in later antiquity. The commentary is both detailed and discursive. Besides glossing and interpreting in the usual way, it considers the problems of restoring individual fragments and of using these fragments to reconstruct both the plays from which they came and the Attic originals. It also elucidates the methods used by Ennius to reproduce the effects of language and style of the classical Athenian dramatists.

Product Description: Propertius, though his works are small in volume, is one of the foremost poets of the Augustan age and his writing has a certain appeal to modern tastes. Book II is especially suitable for the reader wanting a representative selection of Propertius' poetry...read more