Martial's Epigrams

2008-10-30 Poetry

Author : Garry Wills
Release : 2008-10-30
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 282/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Martial's Epigrams written by Garry Wills. This book was released on 2008-10-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of literature's greatest satirists, Martial earned his livelihood by excoriating the follies and vices of Roman society and its emperors, and set a pattern that satirists have admired across the ages. For the first time, readers can enjoy an English translation of these rhymes that does not sacrifice the cleverly constructed effects of Martial's short and shapely thrusts. Martial's Epigrams "bespeaks a great scholar at play" (The New York Times Book Review), makes for addictive reading, and is a perfect, if naughty, gift. Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What the Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017.

Gendered Dynamics in Latin Love Poetry

2005-11-18 Business & Economics

Author : Ronnie Ancona
Release : 2005-11-18
Genre : Business & Economics
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Download or read book Gendered Dynamics in Latin Love Poetry written by Ronnie Ancona. This book was released on 2005-11-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, Latin love poetry has become a significant site for feminist and other literary critics studying conceptions of gender and sexuality in ancient Roman culture. This new volume, the first to focus specifically on gender dynamics in Latin love poetry, moves beyond the polarized critical positions that argue that this poetry either confirms traditional gender roles or subverts them. Rather, the essays in the collection explore the ways in which Latin erotic texts can have both effects, shifting power back and forth between male and female. If there is one conclusion that emerges, it is that the dynamics of gender in Latin amatory poetry do not map in any single way onto the cultural and historical norms of Roman society. In fact, as several essays show, there is a dialectical relationship between this poetry and Roman cultural practices. By complicating the views of gender dynamics in Latin love poetry, this exciting new scholarship will stimulate further debates in classical studies and literary criticism with its fresh perspectives.

Early Modern Latin Love Poetry

2023-03-27 Literary Criticism

Author : Paul White
Release : 2023-03-27
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 076/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Early Modern Latin Love Poetry written by Paul White. This book was released on 2023-03-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume sheds new light on the extraordinary richness and variety of love poetry written in Latin from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. It shows how Latin love poets reworked classical Roman and Greek models, and engaged in dialogue with mediaeval and contemporary vernacular traditions of poetry. They used the poetic language of love in Latin to reflect and comment on wider social, ethical and literary issues, and reconfigured its codes of representation in response to changing conceptions of love in the philosophical and religious spheres. Their poetry often aligned itself with dominant discourses of power and gender, but it could also be subtly subversive or even openly transgressive.

Greek and Latin Love

2021-09-07 Literary Criticism

Author : Thea S. Thorsen
Release : 2021-09-07
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 613/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Greek and Latin Love written by Thea S. Thorsen. This book was released on 2021-09-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is often claimed that the kind of love that is variously deemed 'romantic' or 'true' did not exist in antiquity. Yet, ancient literature abounds with stories that seem to adhere precisely to this kind of love. This volume focuses on such literature and the concepts of love it espouses. The volume differs from and challenges much existing classical scholarship which has traditionally privileged the theme of sex over love and prose-genres over those of poetry. By conversely focusing on love and poetry, the present volume freshly explores central poets in ancient literature, such Homer, Sappho, Terence, Catullus, Virgil, Horace and Ovid, alongside less canonized, such as the anonymous poet of The Lament for Bion, Philodemus and Sulpicia. The chapters, which are written by world-leading as well as younger scholars, reveal that Greek and Latin concepts of love seem interconnected, that such love is as relevant for hetero- as homoerotic couples, and that such ideas of love follow the mainstream of poetry throughout antiquity. In addition to the general reader interested in the history of love, this volume is relevant for students and scholars of the ancient world and the poetic tradition.

Latin Erotic Elegy and the Shaping of Sixteenth-Century English Love Poetry

2019-08-29 Literary Criticism

Author : Linda Grant
Release : 2019-08-29
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 866/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Latin Erotic Elegy and the Shaping of Sixteenth-Century English Love Poetry written by Linda Grant. This book was released on 2019-08-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interdisciplinary in approach and methodologically sophisticated, this book explores the dynamic reception of Latin erotic elegy in Renaissance love poetry.

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