Latin Love Poetry: Understanding Classics

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Latin Love Poetry: Understanding ClassicsUnderstanding Classics Series I hate and I love.' The Roman poet Catullus expressed the disorienting experience of being in love in a stark contradiction that has resonated across the centuries. While his description might seem to modern readers natural and spontaneous, it is actually a response planned with great care and artistry. It is that artistry, and the way in which Roman love poetry works, that this book explores. Focusing on Catullus and on

The poet gives us compelling characterizations of his protagonists as well as a remarkable study of the heroic code in antiquity

All words are in both

family-loving yet swindled even by his own sisters

Much of what we know of Greco-Roman comedy comes from the surviving works of just four playwrights-the Greeks Aristophanes and Menander and the Romans Plautus and Terence

Κάθονταν εκεί

and on 1 January 468 recited at Rome his third panegyric

one of the world's foremost scholars on Roman social and cultural history

and narrative

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Claudian is in two volumes

What is the meaning of the diver

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