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Francis Cairns has made well-known contributions to the study of Roman Epic and Elegy. Papers on Catullus and Horace assembles his substantial body of work on Roman Lyric -about 30papers published between 1969 and 2010 in many European and American periodicals, themed volumes and Festschriften, along with somenew papers. Many aspects of the lyric poetry of Catullus and Horace are treated in this collection. Particular emphasis is given to the political and religious interests of both poets, to their interactions with their contemporaries, to the learning' which informs their poetry, and to their generic practices. Philological problems of text and interpretation are treated pari passu, as are relevant aesthetic questions. The volume is fully indexed and contains a composite bibliography and addenda and corrigenda.Papers on Catullus and Horace will make access to this body of important scholarly material easier and more convenient for scholars and students of Latin poetry.
Papers of the Leeds International Latin Seminar, Sixth Volume continues the series begun with the five volumes of Papers of the Liverpool Latin Seminar. Like the earlier volumes, it includes some of the papers, in revised form, presented at meetings of the Seminar, together with other contributions.
PLLS 10 consists, as did earlier volumes in the series, in part of revised and usually expanded versions of papers presented at seminar meetings and in part of further papers contributed at the invitation of the editors.
The eighth volume of PLLS 8, under the distinguished editorship of Dr Roger Brock (University of Leeds) and Professor A.J. Woodman (Durham University), is dedicated to Ronald Martin for his 80th birthday. Many of the papers assembled in it reflect Ronald Martin's two main areas of scholarly endeavour, Latin comedy and Tacitus.
This collection of fourteen papers focuses on Classical poetry and historiography, with contributions coming from scholars from all over the UK and America.
Volume 5 of PLLS was the last of the Liverpool series of seminar volumes. Between 1975 and 1985 the Liverpool Latin Seminar held 52 ordinary meetings and 4 colloquia, involving altogether 156 papers and participants from all over the world.
Julius Caesar changed world history by inaugurating the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. This themed volume of PLLS handles the important and controversial problem of Caesar's own attitudes to 'liberty' and 'autocracy'.
Original in conception and powerful in scope, Generic Composition in Greek and Roman Poetry remains one of the most important books on early Greek, Hellenistic and Roman poetry in a generation.
Tibullus was one of the leading poets of Augustan Rome. Professor Cairns examines in detail aspects of Tibullus' poetic craftsmanship - his learning, his interest in the meanings of words, his use of suspense and deception, his control of the structures of his elegies - and demonstrates the original qualities of Tibullus' verse.
An examination of the main characters in the Aeneid - Aeneas himself, Dido and Turnus - in the light of Virgil's contemporary Augustan political and literary ideology. The characters and the plot and incident of the epic are seen as embodying and exemplifying the ancient ideals of kingship.
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