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For many years the domain of specialists in early Latin, in complex metres, and in the reconstruction of texts, Roman comedy is now established in the mainstream of Classical literary criticism. Where most books stress the original performance as the primary location for the encountering of the plays, this book finds the locus of meaning and appreciation in the activity of a reader, albeit one whose manner of reading necessarily involves the imaginative reconstruction of performance. The texts are treated, and celebrated, as literary devices, with programmatic beginnings, middles, ends, and intertexts. All the extant plays of Plautus and Terence have at least a bit part in this book, which seeks to expose the authors' fabulous artificiality and artifice, while playing along with their differing but interrelated poses of generic humility.

Plautus, Titus Maccius --- Terentius Afer, Publius --- Latin drama (Comedy) --- Comédie latine --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Terence --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Plaute, --- Térence --- History and criticism --- Criticism and interpretation --- Comédie latine --- Plaute --- Plauto, Tito Maccio --- Terenz --- Terenzio Afro, Publio --- Afer, Publius Terentius --- Terentius, P. --- Afro, Publio Terencio --- Terencjusz --- Terent︠s︡iĭ, Publiĭ --- Terencio --- Terencio Afro, Publio --- Terentios --- Terenzio --- Terentius Apher, Publius --- Apher, Publius Terentius --- טרנטיוס --- Plavt, Tit Makt︠s︡iĭ --- Plautus, M. Accius --- Plautus --- Plautus, M. Attius --- Plautus, Marcus Actius --- Plautus, Marcus Accius --- Plautus, Marcus Attius --- Plauto, Marco Accio --- Plautos, Titos Makkios --- פלאוטוס --- Comedia latina --- Historia y crítica --- Crítica e interpretación --- Terenci --- Terenci, Publi --- Tereci Àfer, Publi --- Terencio, Publio --- Terencio Africano, P. --- Terencio Afer, Publio --- Plauto --- Plauto, T. M. --- Plauto, Tito Macio --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Latin drama (Comedy) - History and criticism --- Plautus, Titus Maccius - Criticism and interpretation --- Terence - Criticism and interpretation --- Plaute, 254-184 av JC --- Térence 190-159 av JC --- Terentius

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The volume unites the three aspects - poetry, philosophy, and science - found in Lucretius' 'De Rerum Natura'. With ten original essays and an analytical introduction, the volume aims not only to combine different approaches within single covers but to offer responses to the poem by experts from all three scholarly backgrounds.

Didactic poetry, Classical --- Poésie didactique classique --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Lucretius Carus, Titus. --- Lucretius Carus, Titus --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Poésie didactique classique --- Pre-Socratic philosophers --- Pre-Socratics --- Presocratic philosophers --- Presocratics --- Philosophers --- Lucrèce --- Lukrez --- Lukrecjusz Karus, Tytus --- Lukret︠s︡iĭ Kar, Tit --- Lucrezio, Tito --- Lucrèce --- Lucrez --- Lucrecio Caro, T. --- Caro, T. Lucrecio --- Carus, Titus Lucretius --- Lucretius --- Lucrezio Caro, Tito --- Lucrecio --- Lucreti Cari, T. --- Lucreci --- לוקרציוס קרוס, טיטוס --- Epic poetry --- Lucrezio

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"Unlike many studies of the family in the ancient world, this volume presents readings of mothers in classical literature, including philosophical and epigraphic writing as well as poetic texts. Rather than relying on a male viewpoint, the essays offer a female perspective on the lifecycle of motherhood. Although almost all ancient authors are men, this book nevertheless aims to unpack carefully the role of the mother--not as projected by the son or other male relations, but from a woman's own experiences--in order to better understand how they perceived themselves and their families. Because the primary interest is in the mothers themselves, rather than the authors of the texts in which they appear, the work is organized according to the lifecycle of motherhood instead of the traditional structure of the chronology of male authors. The chronology of the male authors ranges from classical Greece to late antiquity, while the motherly lifecycle ranges from pre-conception to the commemoration of offspring who have died before their mothers."--

Classical literature --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Mothers in literature --- Ancient philosophy --- Greek philosophy --- Philosophy, Greek --- Philosophy, Roman --- Roman philosophy --- History and criticism --- E-books --- Philosophy, Ancient. --- Mothers in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Aethra. --- Hecyra. --- Jocasta. --- Juno. --- Mothers. --- Octavia. --- Thetis. --- Venus. --- children. --- classics. --- family relationships in ancient Greece and Rome. --- feminism. --- literature. --- maternity. --- motherhood. --- philosophy.

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The Art of Love celebrates the bi-millennium of Ovid's cycle of sophisticated and subversive didactic poems on love, traditionally assumed to have been brought to completion around AD 2. Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love) and Remedia Amoris (Cures for Love), which purport to teach young Roman men and women how to be good lovers, were partly responsible for the poet's exile from Rome under the emperor Augustus. None the less they exerted great influence over ancient and later love poetry. This is the first collection in English devoted to the poems, and brings together many of the leading figures in the field of Latin literature and Ovidian studies from the British Isles, Germany, Italy, and the United States. It offers a range of perspectives on the poetics, politics, and erotics of the poems, beginning with a critical survey of recent research, and concluding with papers on the ancient, medieval, and modern reception of the poems.

Didactic poetry, Latin --- Erotic poetry, Latin --- Love in literature. --- Seduction in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Ovid, --- Love in literature --- Seduction in literature --- History and criticism

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Inspired by Theodore Papanghelis' Propertius: A Hellenistic Poet on Love and Death (1987), this collective volume brings together seventeen contributions, written by an international team of experts, exploring the different ways in which Latin authors and some of their modern readers created narratives of life, love and death. Taken together the papers offer stimulating readings of Latin texts over many centuries, examined in a variety of genres and from various perspectives: poetics and authorial self-fashioning; intertextuality; fiction and 'reality'; gender and queer studies; narratological readings; temporality and aesthetics; genre and meta-genre; structures of the narrative and transgression of boundaries on the ideological and the formalistic level; reception; meta-dramatic and feminist accounts-the female voice. Overall, the articles offer rich insights into the handling and development of these narratives from Classical Greece through Rome up to modern English poetry.

E-books --- Latin poetry --- History and criticism. --- Death in literature. --- Latin poetry. --- Life in literature. --- Love in literature. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Latin literature. --- intertextuality. --- narratology. --- reception.