Author: Elaine Fantham

Elaine Fantham provides here a fresh Latin text of Seneca’s Traodes and an English version, with an extensive introduction and critical commentary–the first separate treatment of the play in English …

Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature (Series Editors: Kathleen Coleman and Richard Rutherford) introduces individual works of Greek and Latin literature to readers who are approaching them for t …

‘A countryman cleaves earth with his crooked plough. Such is the labourof his life. So he sustains his native land …’Virgil’s affectionate poem of the land does not admit brief excerpts, any more t …

The Roman World of Cicero’s De Oratore aims to provide an accessible study of Cicero’s first and fullest dialogue, on the ideal orator-statesman. It illustrates the dialogue’s achievement as a reflec …

‘You ask what is the proper measure of wealth? The best measure is to have what is necessary, and next best, to have enough. Keep well!’ The letters written by the Stoic philosopher and tragedian Sen …

‘A countryman cleaves earth with his crooked plough. Such is the labourof his life. So he sustains his native land …’Virgil’s affectionate poem of the land does not admit brief excerpts, any more t …

‘You ask what is the proper measure of wealth? The best measure is to have what is necessary, and next best, to have enough. Keep well!’ The letters written by the Stoic philosopher and tragedian Sen …

‘Arms and the man I sing of Troy…’So begins one of the greatest works of literature in any language. Written by the Roman poet Virgil more than two thousand years ago, the story of Aeneas’ seven-ye …

Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature (Series Editors: Kathleen Coleman and Richard Rutherford) introduces individual works of Greek and Latin literature to readers who are approaching them for t …

Information about women is scattered throughout the fragmented mosaic of ancient history: the vivid poetry of Sappho survived antiquity on remnants of damaged papyrus; the inscription on a beautiful …

Information about women is scattered throughout the fragmented mosaic of ancient history: the vivid poetry of Sappho survived antiquity on remnants of damaged papyrus; the inscription on a beautiful …

Cicero’s speech on behalf of L. Lucinius Murena, newly elected to the consulship of 62 BCE but immediately prosecuted for electoral bribery, is especially famous for its digressions and valuable for …

This scholarly biography details the life of an extraordinary woman in an extraordinary society. Julia Augusti studies the life of the only daughter of Augustus, the first Roman emperor, and the fath …

This scholarly biography details the life of an extraordinary woman in an extraordinary society. Julia Augusti studies the life of the only daughter of Augustus, the first Roman emperor, and the fath …

This scholarly biography details the life of an extraordinary woman in an extraordinary society. Julia Augusti studies the life of the only daughter of Augustus, the first Roman emperor, and the fath …

Nero’s reign (AD 54-68) witnessed some of the most memorable events in Roman history, such as the rebellion of Boudica and the first persecution of the Christians-not to mention Nero’s murder of his …

Assembled for the young Prince William of Cleves, Erasmus’ Apophthegmata consists of thousands of sayings and anecdotes collected from Greek and Latin literature for the moral education of the future …

Assembled for the young Prince William of Cleves, Erasmus’ Apophthegmata consists of thousands of sayings and anecdotes collected from Greek and Latin literature for the moral education of the future …

This final volume in the Literary and Educational Writings contains diverse woks spanning a generation. They demonstrate Erasmus” skill in applying classical rhetoric to contemporary Christian needs …

Based on Elaine Fantham”s 2004 Robson lectures, Latin Poets and Italian Gods reconstructs the response of Roman poets in the late republic and Augustan age to the rural cults of central Italy. Study …

Of all stylistic devices, imagery has the greatest appeal to the imagination, but is also the most likely to offend, either by staleness or by tasteless excess. This volume establishes some of the li …

Of all stylistic devices, imagery has the greatest appeal to the imagination, but is also the most likely to offend, either by staleness or by tasteless excess. This volume establishes some of the li …

This volume presents closely connected articles by Elaine Fantham, which deal with Roman responses to Greek literature on three major subjects: the history and criticism of Latin poetry and rhetoric, …

Diese Sozialgeschichte der klassischen römischen Literatur setzt Standards für alle herkömmlichen Literaturgeschichten. Wer waren die Leserinnen und Leser? Welche Bildung hatten sie und wie kamen sie …

This new edition broadens the scope of Fantham’s study of literary production and its reception in Rome.Scholars of ancient literature have often focused on the works and lives of major authors rathe …