Studies in Latin Language and Literature Paperback / softback
by Thomas Cole, David Ross
Part of the Yale Classical Studies series
Paperback / softback
Description
This book covers a wide range of subjects from Latin literature and language to textual history and criticism.
E. D. Francis gives a history of the words prae and pro, as adverb, preposition and prefix.
H. D. Jocelyn surveys the distribution and differing uses of quotations from Greek poetry in Cicero's prose writings and D.
F. S. Thomson takes a fresh look at the manuscript tradition of Catullus.
The remaining six articles deal with later authors and are divided equally between the poets and the historians: a reading of Horace's Roman Odes and their relation to the other odes in which he addressed the Roman people; a demonstration of the internal coherence of a Tibullan elegy and two Juvenal satires; a review of disputed readings in the OCT of Livy IX; an analysis of the structure of the prologues to the Annals, Histories and Agricola to cast light on Tacitus' intentions; and a critical review of Tacitus' portrait of Germanicus, generally viewed in a sympathetic light but debated by D.
O. Ross.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:252 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:10/12/2009
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- ISBN:9780521124614
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:252 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:10/12/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521124614
