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Grattius’ Cynegetica, a Roman didactic poem on hunting with dogs, is the author’s only surviving work, though it reaches us now in an incomplete form. Thanks to a passing reference by Ovid in his Epi …

This volume explores the spatial framework of Herodotus’ Histories, the Greek historian’s account of Persian imperialism in the sixth and fifth century BC and its culmination in a series of grand exp …

Harper Collins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.A green horse great and tall;A steed full stiff to guide, In broidered bridle all He worthily bestrides Datin …

This compendium (4 vols.) studies the continuity, flexibility, and variation of structural elements in epic narratives. It provides an overview of the structural patterns of epic poetry by means of a …

What is literature made from? During the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries, this question preoccupied the English court poets, who often claimed that their poems were not original creati …

The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. As with the Iliad, the poem is …

The Solitary Sphere in the Age of Virgil uses an enriched tripartite model of Roman culture-touching not only the public and the private, but also the solitary-in order to present a radical re-interp …