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Landmarks in Classical Literature is the final volume in a set of three books about the major authors of Western literature and their works from Classical times until the early twentieth century. In this volume, Philip Gaskell introduces the work of the greatest writers of Classical Greece and Rome in translation. The book begins with prehistory and the age of the Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey; and looks at later lyric poets such as Sappho and Pindar. There follows the great age of classical Greece, of miraculous art and pristine democracy, with Sophocles and his fellow-dramatists, the historians Herodotus and Thucydides, and Plato's fascinating Socratic dialogues. After a brief consideration of the next, Hellenistic, period of Greek culture which included the work of the pastoral poet Theocritus, the book moves on to the golden age of Roman literature. Here are the poets and thinkers of late-Republican and early Imperial Rome, a turbulent period of war and grandeur, including Julius Caesar, soldier, historian, and dictator; Cicero, politician, lawyer, and letter-writer; the poets Virgil (of the Aeneid), Horace, and Ovid; and Tacitus, the greatest Roman historian.There are chapters covering politics and society, religion, culture and the arts, language, warfare, economics, technology and philosophy to enable the reader to understand and appreciate the literature in its various contexts. Advice about reading the classics in translation, and the form and pronunciation of classical names and metre in classical verse is provided from the outset, and guidance on the best translations is given. An appendix provides more specialised information on the survival of ancient texts and textual scholarship.Key FeaturesIntroduces the best and most important literature of ancient Greece and RomeClearly and engagingly written for readers with no prior knowledge of the period, or of Greek or LatinSets the authors and their works in their historical contexts

Classical literature --- History and criticism.

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Classical philology. --- Classical literature --- Indo-European languages. --- History and criticism. --- Romero Cruz, Francisco.

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Classical philology --- Classical literature --- Humanists --- Study and teaching --- History --- History and criticism --- Barzizza, Gasparino, --- Italy --- Intellectual life

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This third volume of the History of the Graeco-Latin Fable offers a complete inventory and documentation of the Classical fable tradition in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The original Spanish edition (1987) has been considerably enlarged with numerous supplementary references and less than 350 new fables. The present edition uniquely refers to fables in more than 20 different languages, not only in Greek and Latin, but also in other Oriental and Western languages such as Sumerian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Sanskrit, Egyptian, Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, Armenian, Circassian, Slavonian, Albanian, Spanish, Italian, English, French, German, and Dutch, thus paving the way for studies of comparative literature. The book is conveniently concluded with elaborate indexes of fable characters, passages included, and numeration systems of other contributions in the field.

Classical Latin literature --- History --- Fables, Classical --- -Classical fables --- History and criticism --- -History and criticism --- Fables classiques --- Classical literature --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Classical fables --- Fables, Classical - History and criticism. --- Fables, Classical. --- Fables grecques --- Fables latines

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Women and the Rise of the Novel, 1405-1726 is the first theoretical study of early modern women's contribution to the rise of the novel. Named in its first edition an 'Outstanding Academic Book of the Year,' by Choice, this second, expanded edition includes two new chapters that extend its scope to include philosophical writings and memoirs.

Women and literature. --- Frame-stories --- History and criticism. --- Sex. --- European literature. --- European literature --- Literature. --- Classical literature. --- Literature, Ancient. --- Fiction. --- Gender Studies. --- European Literature. --- Early Modern and Renaissance Literature. --- Classical and Antique Literature. --- Fiction Literature.