Ilias Latina: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Steven J. GreenSeries:Pseudepigrapha LatinaPublish date:8/16/2025Pages:432
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780198870777ISBN-10:198870779UPC:9780198870777Book Category:Literary Collections, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Ancient, Classical & Medieval, Ancient and Classical, PoetrySize:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.6513Product ID:SC7ARVTKCW
Ilias Latina: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary
The Ilias Latina, the title coined by Emil Baehrens in his 1881 edition, is a condensed version of Homer's Iliad spanning 1,070 verses of Latin hexameter. It was likely composed during the latter part of the principate of Nero (c. AD 60-65). The poem has long suffered the scholarly status of second-order poetry, the sort of imitative, 'translation' work that a Roman might compose at the beginning...
Series: Pseudepigrapha Latina
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780198870777ISBN-10:198870779UPC:9780198870777Book Category:Literary Collections, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Ancient, Classical & Medieval, Ancient and Classical, PoetrySize:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.6513Product ID:SC7ARVTKCW
Steven J. Green, Associate Professor, Department of English, Linguistics, and Theatre Studies, National University of Singapore, and Yale-NUS College Singapore Steven J. Green specializes in Roman literature and culture in the first centuries BC and AD, and is particularly interested in those texts that are typically overlooked, unread, or unappreciated by modern readers. His major research has...
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