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Afro-Greeks

Dialogues between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the Twentieth Century
Emily Greenwood
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Hardback,  Mar 2010 ISBN13: 9780199575244ISBN10: 019957524X Challenges simplistic notions of 'decolonization' by addressing the creative appropriation of Classics by Caribbean authors

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Conversing with Antiquity

English Poets and the Classics, from Shakespeare to Pope
David Hopkins
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Hardback,  Feb 2010 ISBN13: 9780199560349ISBN10: 019956034X Emphasizes reception of the classics as trans-historical dialogue and conversation

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Stand in the Trench, Achilles

Classical Receptions in British Poetry of the Great War
Elizabeth Vandiver
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Hardback,  Jan 2010 ISBN13: 9780199542741ISBN10: 0199542740 Exploring the importance of classics in the poetry of the First World War, Vandiver offers a new perspective on that poetry and on the history of classics in British culture.
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The Language of the Papyri

T. V. Evans, D. D. Obbink
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Hardback,  Jan 2010 ISBN13: 9780199237081ISBN10: 0199237085 Articulates a range of new methodological approaches to its subject
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Demosthenes the Orator

Douglas M. MacDowell
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Hardback,  Jan 2010 ISBN13: 9780199287192ISBN10: 0199287198 A comprehensive description and analysis of all the speeches of Demosthenes, the greatest of the Greek orators
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Writing, Performance, and Authority in Augustan Rome

Michele Lowrie
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Hardback,  Dec 2009 ISBN13: 9780199545674ISBN10: 0199545677 Explores the relation of Roman literary productions to the cultural life of the city.
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Romantic Antiquity

Rome in the British Imagination, 1789-1832
Jonathan Sachs
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Hardback,  Nov 2009 ISBN13: 9780195376128ISBN10: 0195376129 Romantic Antiquity examines how Romantic-period writers deploy Roman republican precedents to constitute their vision of fundamental aspects of literary and political modernity.

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Seneca and the Idea of Tragedy

Gregory A. Staley
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Hardback,  Nov 2009 ISBN13: 9780195387438ISBN10: 0195387430 A major new interpretation of Seneca the tragedian.
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Funny Words in Plautine Comedy

Michael Fontaine
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Hardback,  Nov 2009 ISBN13: 9780195341447ISBN10: 0195341449 Combining textual and literary evidence, this book argues that many Plautine jokes, puns, and names of characters were misunderstood in antiquity.
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The Deaths of Seneca

James Ker
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Hardback,  Oct 2009 ISBN13: 9780195387032ISBN10: 0195387031 In The Deaths of Seneca , James Ker offers the first comprehensive cultural history of Seneca's death scene, situating it in the Roman imagination and tracing its many subsequent interpretations.
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