This edition offers a 35-page introduction, text with facing English translation, notes elucidating literary, mythical, geographical and botanical topics, and a word-index of the poem.
First the author differentiates the various types of curses found in ancient poetry; this is followed by a chronological examination of the curses, from archaic and classical Greece to Hellenistic and Roman times.
J.W. Binns has examined almost all the numerous books written in Latin and printed in England during the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.
J.W. Binns has examined almost all the numerous books written in Latin and printed in England during the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.
This work will be a valuable resource for scholars and students of Roman elegy and other literature of the Augustan age."--BOOK JACKET.
Fracastori, Girolamo / Syphilis.
Almost all of the very little we know of Menander comes from the preface of his History. Having studied the law, Menander did not become an advocate, preferring instead to become a 'man-about-town'.
Almost all of the very little we know of Menander comes from the preface of his History. Having studied the law, Menander did not become an advocate, preferring instead to become a 'man-about-town'.
Almost all of the very little we know of Menander comes from the preface of his History. Having studied the law, Menander did not become an advocate, preferring instead to become a 'man-about-town'.
This all adds up to a very thorough and incisive study of how under Augustus the republic finally died and the principate was born.