Horace

Roland Mayer

This edition provides current information and guidance on fundamental matters of language usage, poetic structure, and literary interpretation.

Carmina

Lucan

^DIn his De Bello Civili Lucan tells the story of the civilwar between Caesar and Pompey, dealing in Book VIII with thedefeat and death of the latter. This edition provides a literarycommentary to accompany the Latin text and the revised translationof J.D.Daff. The introduction covers the life of Lucan and theliterary revival of Nero's time, the meaning of Lucan's choice oftheme, a sketch of the form of the whole poem and the eighthbook's place within it, the rhetorical style and the transmissionof the text. A glossary of proper names, a select bibliographyand index complete this work which will be useful to students ofLatin literature and of the literary epic in particular. Latin text with translation, commentary and notes.

Civil War VIII

Phaedra is one of Seneca's most successful tragedies. This book introduces the reader to the complex dramatic and literary inheritance which Seneca appropriated and in his turn bequeathed, and he sets out some of the main lines of contemporary interpretation and performance practice for this play.

Seneca: Phaedra

James Noel Adams

Of the peoples of ancient Italy, only the Romans committed newly composed poems to writing, and for about 250 years Latin-speakers developed an impressive verse literature. The language had traditional resources of high style, e.g. alliteration, lexical and morphological archaism or grecism, and of course metaphor and word-order; and there were also less obvious resources in the technical vocabularies of law, philosophy, and medicine. The essays in this volume show how the poets in the classical period combined these elements, and so created a poetic medium that could comprehend satire, invective, erotic elegy, drama, lyric, and the grandest heroic epics. These wide-ranging studies will be essential reading for all students of Latin.

Roland Mayer

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