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ISBN: 9780521620888 - Rumour and Renown Rumour and Renown
Philip Hardie

ISBN10: 0521620880  ISBN13: 9780521620888
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 02 Feb 2012
Major study of the literary treatment of rumour and renown across the canon of authors from Homer to Alexander Pope. The Latin word fama means 'rumour', 'report', 'tradition', as well as modern English 'fame' or 'renown'. This magisterial and... More

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ISBN: 9780521775281 - The Cambridge Companion to Ovid The Cambridge Companion to Ovid
Hardie, Philip Philip Hardie

ISBN10: 0521775280  ISBN13: 9780521775281
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 02 May 2002
Accessible but exciting critical handbook on one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity. Ovid was one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity, and arguably the single most influential ancient poet for post-classical literature and... More

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ISBN: 9780521030922 - Ovid's Poetics of Illusion Ovid's Poetics of Illusion
Philip Hardie

ISBN10: 0521030927  ISBN13: 9780521030922
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 18 Jan 2007
A comprehensive treatment of the ways in which Ovid exploits illusion in his poetry. Ovid's poetry is haunted obsessively by a sense both of the living fullness of the texts and of the emptiness of these 'insubstantial pageants'. This major study... More

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ISBN: 9780521760416 - Lucretian Receptions Lucretian Receptions
Philip Hardie

ISBN10: 0521760410  ISBN13: 9780521760416
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 12 Nov 2009
Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, one of the greatest Latin poems, worked a powerful fascination on Virgil and Horace, and continued to be an important model for later poets in antiquity and after, including Milton. This innovative set of studies on the... More

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ISBN: 9781780762470 - The Last Trojan Hero The Last Trojan Hero
Philip Hardie

ISBN10: 178076247X  ISBN13: 9781780762470
Publisher: I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd I.B.Tauris
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Nov 2012
The resonant opening lines of Virgil's Aeneid rank among the most famous and consistently recited verses to have been passed down to later ages by antiquity. This title explores the many remarkable afterlives - ancient, medieval and modern ... More

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ISBN: 9780521762977 - Classical Literary Careers and Their Reception Classical Literary Careers and Their Reception
Philip Hardie, Helen Moore

ISBN10: 0521762979  ISBN13: 9780521762977
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 14 Oct 2010
This wide-ranging collection of essays on ancient Roman literary careers and their reception in later European literature, with contributions by leading experts. Starting from the three major Roman models for constructing a literary career... More

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ISBN: 9780199231249 - Paradox and the Marvellous in Augustan Literature and Culture Paradox and the Marvellous in Augustan Literature and Culture
Philip Hardie

ISBN10: 0199231249  ISBN13: 9780199231249
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 28 May 2009
This collection of essays examines the presence of what might be seen as an unclassical love of paradox and the marvellous in the literature and art of Augustan Rome, and shows that it is an important strain in the poetry of Virgil, Horace... More

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ISBN: 9780521359528 - Virgil: Aeneid Book IX (Bk.9) Virgil: Aeneid Book IX (Bk.9)
Virgil Philip R Hardie

ISBN10: 052135952X  ISBN13: 9780521359528
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 10 Nov 1994
The first major single-volume edition in English of the pivotal book in Virgil's Aeneid, featuring the expedition of Nisus and Euryalus. Aeneid IX marks the beginning of the full-scale narrative of the war between the Trojans and Turnus' Italians... More

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ISBN: 9780198146919 - Virgil's Virgil's "Aeneid"
Philip R Hardie

ISBN10: 0198146914  ISBN13: 9780198146919
Publisher: Oxford University Press Clarendon Press
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 11 May 1989
This is an original study which explores Virgil's poetic and mythical transformation of Roman imperialist ideology in the "Aeneid". The author aims to refute the popular modern theory that Virgil was anti-Augustan by discussing the depth and... More

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ISBN: 9780521612661 - The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius
Stuart Gillespie, Philip Hardie

ISBN10: 0521612667  ISBN13: 9780521612661
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 18 Oct 2007
Completely accessible but thought-provoking introduction to one of the greatest of Latin poets, Lucretius. Lucretius' didactic poem De rerum natura ('On the Nature of Things') is an impassioned and visionary presentation of the materialist... More