Collected Papers on Latin Literature

by Michael Winterbottom and R.G.M. Nisbet

This book collects twenty-six articles on a wide range of topics in Latin literature by the eminent scholar and former Professor of Latin at Oxford, Robin Nisbet. Some papers address the historical bearing of various literary works--Gallus on Caesar, Virgil and the Gospels, and Ovid in exile--while other papers focus more on issues of style, symbolism, and the poetic address. In articles on prose, Nisbet considers the reader's contribution to the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198149484
• ISBN13: 9780198149484
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 460 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"