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Rome and Persia at War, 502-532
The first modern account of the conflict between the eastern Roman Empire and the Sasanian kingdom. Greatrex traces the background to the war, investigating relations between …
Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar 13
These 13 papers by an international group of scholars examine Greek and Roman poetry and prose.
Bacchylides
Among the works of the fifth-century BC lyric poet Bacchylides are epinician odes celebrating victors in the cycle of Greek Games, which were occasions of major political, …
Vergil's Aeneid and the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius
Virgil's debt to Homer is well known but, as this detailed and specialised analysis demonstrates, Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica , itself influenced by Homer, was a more …
The History of Menander the Guardsman. Introductory essay, text, translation and historiographical notes
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 …
Jerome on Virginity
This is a major new commentary on Jerome's Libellus de virginitate servanda , the first in any language to be devoted to this work. Written in Rome in 384, this treatise sets out …
Ovid Heroides 16 and 17
Ovid's Heroides , letters in elegiac verse supposedly penned by famous mythological lovers, have attracted renewed scholarly attention over the past twenty or so years. Heroides …
Ancient Biography: Identity through Lives
Biography, Identity and Religion: Federicomaria Muccioli gives a useful brief history of divinisation in biographical writing and discusses Plutarch’s depiction of ruler cult in …
Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar, Volume 16, 2016
PLLS 16 contains papers mainly arising from several Langford Colloquia held by the Department of Classics, Florida State University. Contents The Elder Pliny S. Citroni Marchetti …
Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar, 15, 2012
The fifteenth volume of PLLS (and the fifth in the Langford series) contains major papers on early Greek epic and tragedy, aspects of ekphrasis, Roman republican culture and …