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Classical constructions : papers in memory of Don Fowler, classicist and epicurean /

Classical Constructions is a collection of ground-breaking and scholarly papers on Latin literature by a number of distinguished Classicists, produced in memory of Don Fowler, who died in 1999 at the age of 46. The authors were all inspired by the desire to commemorate a beloved colleague and friend...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Heyworth, S. J., Fowler, Peta, Harrison, S. J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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  • Laocoon's point of view : walking the Roman way / Don Fowler
  • Life as play, life as a play : Montaigne and the epicureans / Phillip Mitsis
  • Bicycles, centaurs and man-faced ox-creatures : ontological instability in Lucretius / Gordon Campbell
  • Didaxis, rhetoric, and the law in Lucretius / Alessandro Schiesaro
  • Making an exemplum of yourself : Cicero and Augustus / Michèle Lowrie
  • Natura narratur : Tullius Laureas' elegy for Cicero (Pliny, Nat. 31.8) / Llewelyn Morgan
  • Contrasts / Philip Hardie
  • Horace's body, Horace's books / Joseph Farrell
  • Ovid among the conspiracy theorists / Stephen Hinds
  • Haec tum Roma fuit : past, present, and closure in Silius Italicus' Punica / Ben Tipping
  • Petrarch's Lucan and the Africa / Matthew Leigh
  • Translating antiquity : intertextuality, anachronism, and archaism / Deborah H. Roberts
  • Fiction, philosophy, and logical closure / Andrew Laird
  • From man to book : the close of Tacitus' Agricola / Stephen Harrison.