Cambridge Latin Anthology
Title | Cambridge Latin Anthology PDF eBook |
Author | Cambridge School Classics Project |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2001-07-02 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780521808873 |
A classic anthology for GCSE. The eight thematic sections of poetry include works by Catullus, Horace, Lucretius, martial, Ovid, Petronius, Seneca and Virgil. The eight sections of adapted prose include sections from Apuleius, Caesar, Cicero, Pliny, Sallust, Tacitus, and the Acts of the Apostles in the Vulgate. Glosses and other explanations are provided opposite each of the texts, and the writing is illustrated throughout by paintings and photographs of artifacts in the Roman world. For the student, there is a complete vocabulary at the end of the book. For the teacher, there is an accompanying handbook giving additional suggestions for discussions in the classroom.
Cambridge Latin Anthology
Title | Cambridge Latin Anthology PDF eBook |
Author | Cambridge School Classics Project |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 1996-08-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780521578776 |
A classic anthology for GCSE. The eight thematic sections of poetry include works by Catullus, Horace, Lucretius, martial, Ovid, Petronius, Seneca and Virgil. The eight sections of adapted prose include sections from Apuleius, Caesar, Cicero, Pliny, Sallust, Tacitus, and the Acts of the Apostles in the Vulgate. Glosses and other explanations are provided opposite each of the texts, and the writing is illustrated throughout by paintings and photographs of artifacts in the Roman world. For the student, there is a complete vocabulary at the end of the book. For the teacher, there is an accompanying handbook giving additional suggestions for discussions in the classroom.
Greek and Latin Letters
Title | Greek and Latin Letters PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Trapp |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 2003-03-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521499439 |
The 78 letters in this Anthology (41 Greek, 36 Latin and 1 bilingual, with facing English translation) are selected both for their intrinsic interest, and to illustrate the range of functions letters performed in the ancient world. Dating from between c. 500 BC and c. 400 AD, they include naive and high-style, 'real' and 'fictitious', and classical and patristic items: Cicero, Horace, Ovid, Seneca, Pliny, Julian, Basil and Augustine are juxtaposed with Phalaris, Diogenes, Chion, and the authors of letters on lead, wood, papyrus and stone. Four final items exemplify ancient epistolary theory. The Commentary, besides providing contextual and linguistic assistance, draws attention to specifically epistolary features and to different stylistic levels of Greek and Latin represented. Epistolary topics and formulae are discussed in the Introduction, which also provides biographical and bibliographical information on all texts and authors included, and a history of letter-writing and letter-reading in antiquity.
A Hellenistic Anthology
Title | A Hellenistic Anthology PDF eBook |
Author | Neil Hopkinson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 1988-02-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521314251 |
A wide representative range of poetry, including hymns, didactic verse, pastoral poetry, epigrams and epics is supplemented by a cultural and historical introduction and commentary clarifying problems of language and text.
A Hellenistic Anthology
Title | A Hellenistic Anthology PDF eBook |
Author | Neil Hopkinson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 363 |
Release | 2020-10-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108472400 |
An annotated selection of Hellenistic Greek poetic texts, thoroughly updated and substantially expanded in this second edition.
An Anthology of Informal Latin, 200 BC–AD 900
Title | An Anthology of Informal Latin, 200 BC–AD 900 PDF eBook |
Author | J. N. Adams |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 1053 |
Release | 2016-09-26 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1316673251 |
This book contains over fifty passages of Latin from 200 BC to AD 900, each with translation and linguistic commentary. It is not intended as an elementary reader (though suitable for university courses), but as an illustrative history of Latin covering more than a millennium, with almost every century represented. Conventional histories cite constructions out of context, whereas this work gives a sense of the period, genre, stylistic aims and idiosyncrasies of specific passages. 'Informal' texts, particularly if they portray talk, reflect linguistic variety and change better than texts adhering to classicising norms. Some of the texts are recent discoveries or little known. Writing tablets are well represented, as are literary and technical texts down to the early medieval period, when striking changes appear. The commentaries identify innovations, discontinuities and phenomena of long duration. Readers will learn much about the diversity and development of Latin.
Greek Poetry of the Imperial Period
Title | Greek Poetry of the Imperial Period PDF eBook |
Author | Neil Hopkinson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 1994-09-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521423137 |
This book contains a selection of pagan Greek poetic texts ranging in date from the first to the sixth century AD. It makes easily accessible for the first time work by poets such as Quintus Smyrnaeus, Nonnus, Musaeus and Babrius hitherto neglected in Classical syllabuses. Genres represented include epic, epyllion, didactic, epigram, lyric and the verse fable. There is a brief general introduction, and in addition each section of detailed commentary is prefaced by a discussion of literary aspects of the poems and of their wider contexts. The book is intended primarily for undergraduate and graduate students of Greek, but will be of interest also to Classical scholars.