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Simon Verdegem Plutarch's Life of Alcibiades
story, text and moralism
At the beginning of the second century AD, Plutarch of Chaeronea wrote a series of pairs of biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen. Their purpose is moral: the reader is invited to reflect on important ethical issues and to use the example of these great men from the past to improve his or her own conduct. This book offers the first full-scale commentary on the Life of Alcibiades. It examines how Plutarch's biography of one of classical Athens' most controversial politicians functions within the...
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Engels | 499 pagina's (PDF, 5,5 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Aulularia and other inversions of Plautus
First critical edition of Burmeister's newly discovered Aulularia. Joannes Burmeister of Lüneburg (1576-1638) was among the greatest Neo-Latin poets of the German Baroque. His masterpieces, now mostly lost, are Christian 'inversions' of the Classical Roman comedies of Plautus. With only minimal changes in language and none in meter, each transforms Plautus's pagan plays into comedies based on biblical themes. Fascinating in their own right, they also bring back to attention forgotten genres of Renaissance...
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Engels | Latijn | Duits | 292 pagina's (PDF, 1,9 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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John Barclay Icon animorum or The mirror of minds
Original Latin text with English translation on facing pages. In this essay from 1614 the Neo-Latin poet, translator, and commentator John Barclay describes the manners and mores of his European contemporaries. He derives the sources of an individual's peculiarities of behavior and temperament from the 'genius' - the individual character created by each person's upbringing, time of life, and profession. Barclay likewise describes each nation's genius, its national character, and provides some of...
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Engels | Latijn | 380 pagina's (PDF, 1,7 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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"Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?"
dedicating Latin works and motets in the sixteenth century; proceedings of the International conference held at the Academia Belgica, Rome, 18-20 August 2005
During the sixteenth century, the traditional act of dedicating a text took on a new meaning due to the wider dissemination of the printed book. As the dedication and other paratexts thus became an almost indispensable part of the publication, they merit careful examination by those who study the presentation and impact of any printed work in its context. Paratexts bridge the gap between the outside World of the reading public and the enclosed world of the book, and often present biographical information...
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Engels | Frans | 334 pagina's (PDF, 14 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Studies in Latin literature and epigraphy in Italian fascism
This book deals with the use of Latin as a literary and epigraphic language under Italian Fascism (1922-1943). The myth of Rome lay at the heart of Italian Fascist ideology, and the ancient language of Rome, too, played an important role in the regime's cultural politics. This collection deepens our understanding of 'Fascist Latinity', presents a range of previously little-known material, and opens up a number of new avenues of research. The chapters explore the pivotal role of Latin in constructing...
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Engels | PDF, 11 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2020
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The early modern cultures of neo-Latin drama
The vitality and power of expression of Neo-Latin Drama. The essays in this collection all illustrate the vitality of Neo-Latin drama in early modern Europe, arising from its productive combination of classical models with deep-rooted vernacular traditions. While the plays were often composed in the context of a school or university setting, the dramatists seldom neglected the need to appeal to a broad audience, including non-Latinists. Yet the use of Latin, and the ambiguity of a plurivocal literary...
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Engels | 232 pagina's (PDF, 2,9 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Juan Maldonado Spanish humanism on the verge of the picaresque: Juan Maldonado's Ludus chartarum, Pastor bonus, and Bacchanalia
The 16th-century humanist Juan Maldonado in his Latin essays foreshadows the Spanish picaresque. Like Erasmus, with whom he corresponded,Maldonado advocated the use of Latin in a wide-range of activities. Maldonado's Pastor Bonus, a lengthy open letter to a bishop, reviews in a vivid and satirical style the abuses of the churchmen in his diocese. His ludus chartarum is framed as a colloquium similar to Vives' on the subject, entertaining while teaching a Latin terminology for card playing. His Bacchanalia,...
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Latijn | Engels | 298 pagina's (PDF, 14 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Scottish Latin authors in print up to 1700
a short-title list
The first-ever bibliography of Scottish Latin authors in print. The work of the Latin writers of Scotland has suffered a neglect which its variety, copiousness, and intrinsic interest do not deserve. Their importance, and the importance of Latin as a literary language, is beginning to be recognized by scholars. Researchers from the universities of Glasgow and St. Andrews have now prepared the first-ever bibliography of Scottish Latin in print - unique both in its focus on the many works written in...
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Engels | 400 pagina's (PDF, 2 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Elaine Fantham Roman literary culture
from Cicero to Apuleius
Engels | 326 pagina's | Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD [etc.] | 1996
Gedrukt boek
Henk Schoonhoven Elegiae in Maecenatem
prolegomena, text and commentary
Engels | 215 pagina's | Bouma's boekhuis, Groningen | 1980
Gedrukt boek
M.M. van Assendelft | Aurelius Prudentius Clemens Sol ecce surgit igneus
a commentary on the morning and evening hymns of Prudentius: (Cathemerinon 1, 2, 5 and 6)
Engels | Latijn | 275 pagina's | Bouma's Boekhuis, Groningen | 1976
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Willem Petrus Basson Pivotal catologues in the Aeneid
Engels | 209 pagina's | Adolf M. Hakkert, Amsterdam | 1975
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G.A.A. Kortekaas Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri
prolegomena, text edition of the two principal Latin recensions, bibliography, indices and appendices
Non-fictie
Engels | Latijn | 472 pagina's | Bouma's boekhuis, Groningen | 1984
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C.L. Heesakkers | Janus Dousa | Victor Giselinus Praecidanea Dousana
materials for a biography of Janus Dousa Pater (1545-1604); his youth
Latijn | Engels | Holland Universiteits Pers, Amsterdam | 1976
Gedrukt boek
J. Wight Duff A literary history of Rome, from the origins to the close of the Golden Age
Engels | 536 pagina's | Ernest Benn, London | 1953
Gedrukt boek
M.M. van Assendelft Sol ecce surgit igneus
a commentary on the morning and evening hymns of Prudentius (Cathemerinon 1, 2, 5, and 6)
Engels | Latijn | 275 pagina's | Bouma's Boekhuis, Groningen | 1976
Gedrukt boek
Howard Jones Printing the classical text
Non-fictie
Engels | 225 pagina's | Hes & De Graaf Publishers, 't Goy-Houten | 2004
Gedrukt boek
Gian Biagio Conte Latin literature
a history
Engels | 827 pagina's | Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore [etc.] | 1994
Gedrukt boek