Wordplay and Powerplay in Latin Poetry 9783110475876, 9783110472523

Wordplay and Powerplay in Latin Poetry 9783110475876, 9783110472523

The political allegiances of major Roman poets have been notoriously difficult to pin down, in part because they often s

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The Muse at Play: Riddles and Wordplay in Greek and Latin Poetry 3110270005, 9783110270006

Riddles and other word games are widespread in classical literature and played a crucial role in shaping Greek and Roman

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The Muse at Play : Riddles and Wordplay in Greek and Latin Poetry 3110270005, 978-3-11-027000-6, 978-3-11-027061-7, 3110270617

In May 2011, a conference on riddles and word games in Greek and Latin poetry took place at the Institute of Classical S

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Life, Love and Death in Latin Poetry 9783110596182, 9783110587760

Inspired by Theodore Papanghelis’ Propertius: A Hellenistic Poet on Love and Death (1987), this collective volume brings

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Life, Love and Death in Latin Poetry 9783110596182, 9783110587760

Inspired by Theodore Papanghelis’ Propertius: A Hellenistic Poet on Love and Death (1987), this collective volume brings

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Classicism and Christianity in Late Antique Latin Poetry 0520968425, 9780520968424

After centuries of near silence, Latin poetry underwent a renaissance in the late fourth and fifth centuries CE evidence

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Travel, Geography, and Empire in Latin Poetry 0367638045, 9780367638047

This volume considers representations of space and movement in sources ranging from Roman comedy to late antique verse t

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Exclusus Amator: A Study in Latin Love Poetry

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The Influence of a Stress Accent in Latin Poetry 9780231897600

Presents a condensed summation of evidence with regard to a stress accent in Latin to establish an explanation to reconc

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Neo-Latin Poetry in the British Isles 9781472539946, 9781780930145

Investigation of the Latin poetry produced by British poets from the sixteenth century onwards affords an indispensible

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