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		Oxford Readings in Ovid
				Literature
		Peter E Knox (Edited by)
		Oxford 2006		Qty
		Illustrated
		Published Price £35.00		Our Price £8.99
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		Pindar and the Cult of Heroes
				Literature
		Bruno Currie
		Oxford University Press 2005 487 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0199277249
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	Bruno Currie combines literary criticism with cultural history in this re-examination of Pindar's victory odes. Exploring 5th century practices relating to heroization and the hero cult of historical persons, he shows that readers of Pindar must take into account the posthumous heroization of a number of the great men who are commemorated in his poetry. The book includes a study in detail of five odes where the subject is compared to heroes and mythical figures of the past. Oxford Classical Monographs.
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		The Languages of Aristophanes
		Aspects of Linguistic Variation in Classical Attic Greek		Literature
		Andreas Willi
		Oxford University Press 2007 370 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0199215103
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	Andreas Willi demonstrates how the characters in Aristophanes' comedies are distinguished by their use of different registers, sociolects and idiolects - particularly religious, sophistic, scientific and technical language and the speech of female and foreign characters. His analysis enriches the literary study of these plays and offers some fresh observations on the cultural and sociolinguistic context. The book also includes a useful appendix detailing the principal features of Aristophanes' Attic Greek.
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		Greek Lyric Poetry
		A Commentary on Selected Larger Pieces		Literature
		GO Hutchinson
		Oxford University Press 2001 532 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0199265828
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	GO Hutchinson discusses 20 examples of lyric verse, with Bacchylides and Pindar represented by a single large poem, and Sophocles and Euripides by one tragic ode; other authors, from Alcman to Simonides, are represented by their longest and best preserved fragments. Offering a newly constituted text (based on fresh examination of the papyri) and a textual and literary commentary, Greek Lyric Poetry provides a close analysis of the genre, its development and diversity.
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		Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays
				Literature
		Daniel Mendelsohn
		Oxford University Press 2005 257 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0199278040
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	This study of Euripides' Suppliant Women and Children of Herakles, known for their uncharacteristic qualities of patriotism and propaganda, demonstrate the plays' intellectual complexity and offers a range of insights into the Greek conception of gender and the Athenean ideology of civic identity.
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		The Elder Pliny on the Human Animal
		Natural History: Book Seven		Literature
		Mary Beagon (Translated by)
		Oxford University Press 2005 515 pages		Qty
		Paperback 019927701X
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		A Commentary on Thucydides
		Volume II: Books IV-V. 24		Literature
		Simon Hornblower
		Oxford University Press 2004 520 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0199276250
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	The second volume of Hornblower's historical and literary commentary on Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War covers the period from 425 to 421 BCE, beginning with the Pylos-Sphakteria narrative and ending with the Peace of Nikias and the alliance between Athens and Sparta. Hornblower's lengthy introduction discusses such issues as Thucydides' presentation of Brasidas, his use of direct and indirect speech, and his relation to his predecessor Herodotus. All Greek quoted is translated.
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		Cicero's Topica
		Edited, with an Introduction, Translation and Commentary by		Literature
		Tobias Reinhardt
		Oxford University Press 2006 450 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0199207712
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	The Topica, a rhetorical treatise by Rome's greatest orator, applies Aristotelian theory to the first century BCE Roman legal context, showing how arguments can be described and methodically generated. Reinhardt's commentary includes a critical edition of the text, which fully analyses the whole of the complicated manuscript tradition for the first time, as well as a translation, notes on philosophical, rhetorical and legal matters and an attempt to reconstruct Cicero's main source.
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		Cicero on Divination
		De Dininatione Book 1		Literature
		David Wardle (Translated by)
		Oxford University Press 2006 469 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0199297924
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	Cicero's philosophical dialogue De Divinatione is presented as a conversation between Cicero and his brother Quintus, who, in Book 1, gives mythological and historical examples and explains the arguments used by Greek philosophers to prove the validity of divination. Wardle's detailed commentary - which is accessible to those with no knowledge of Latin or Greek - includes a translation of the whole book and an introduction discussing the sources and purpose of Cicero's work and Graeco-Roman beliefs about divination.
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		Decimi Magni Ausinii opera
		Recognovit brevique annotatione critica instruxit		Literature
		RPH Green
		Oxford University Press 1999 316 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198150393
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	The works of 4th century CE author Ausonius comprise an exceptional variety of prose and verse, from the famous long poem on the Moselle to brief epigrams and prose summaries of Homer. Green's Oxford Classical Text offers a new edition of the complete Latin text of Ausonius, with critical apparatus and an introduction (in English) on the manuscript tradition.
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		Oxford Readings in the Attic Orators
				Literature
		Edwin Carawan (Edited by)
		Oxford University Press 2007 450 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0199279926
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	The large corpus of 4th century lawcourt speeches provides valuable evidence for Athenian daily life and popular attitudes. The 14 essays collected in this volume (four of which appear in English for the first time) have been published over the past five decades and address three important issues, namely the relation between theory and practice; the way in which argumentation is affected by legal procedure and demands for proof; and the character of the jury in democratic Athens.
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		Asconius: Commentaries on Speeches of Cicero
		Commentaries on Speeches of Cicero		Literature
		RG Lewis (Translated by)
		Oxford University Press 2006 358 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0199290520
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	Writing about a century after Cicero, Quintus Asconius Pedianus compiled his commentaries on the great orator's speeches to help his own young sons read the texts and to guide them through the obscurities of late Republican legal and constitutional practice. The five extant commentaries are therefore a valuable source for the turbulent political background to Cicero's life. Lewis's volume includes the Latin text with a facing translation, a commentary, glossary of technical terms and index.
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		The Tragic Idea
				Literature
		Vassilis Lambropoulos
		Duckworth 2006 158 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0715635581
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	Since the early years of Romanticism the term 'tragedy' has been used in a range of contexts outside the theatre, although these wider modern senses would have been unrecognizable to ancient authors such as Aristotle. The Tragic Idea traces the evolution of the concept over the last two centuries, with chapters on 32 thinkers, from Hume and Schiller to Walter Benjamin and Heidegger, showing how tragedy has changed from a genre into a philosophical and anthropological debate about the meaning of life.
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		Rome and the Literature of Gardens
				Literature
		Victoria Emma Pagan
		Duckworth 2006 160 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0715635069
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	Examining the part played by gardens in the works of Columella, Horace, Tacitus and Augustine, this book examines how gardens are presented as places of physical and metaphysical transformation and transgression. The final chapter discusses Tom Stoppard's plays Arcadia and The Invention of Love, in which these ideas are reincarnated.
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		Nation, Empire, Decline
		Studies in Rhetorical Continuity from the Romans to the Modern Era		Literature
		Nancy Shumate
		Duckworth 2006 191 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0715635514
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	Comparing the rhetorical strategies of four Latin literary texts (by Juvenal, Horace and Tacitus) with articulations of similar themes in the 19th and 20th centuries, Nancy Shumate highlights the extent to which modern nationalist and colonialist discourses draw on tropes and structures created in the Roman imperial period.
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