Latin Lyric and Elegiac Poetry, first published almost 25 years ago, offered students accurate and poetic translations of poems from the sudden flowering of lyric and elegy in Rome at the end of the Republic and in the first decades of... more
Latin Lyric and Elegiac Poetry, first published almost 25 years ago, offered students accurate and poetic translations of poems from the sudden flowering of lyric and elegy in Rome at the end of the Republic and in the first decades of the Augustan principate. Now updated in this second edition, the volume has been re-edited with both revised and new translations and an updated commentary and bibliography for readers in a new century, ensuring that this much-valued anthology remains useful and relevant to a new generation of students studying ancient literature and western civilization. The volume features an expanded selection of newly translated poetry including:
fresh Catullus translations, with a greater selection including Poem 64
fresh Sulpicia translations and the five poems of the "Garland of Sulpicia"
six new Propertius poems
new and revised selections from Tibullus, Ovid and Horace.
The second edition reflects changing interests and modes of reading while remaining true to the power of the poetry that has influenced the literature of many cultures. The combination of accurate and vibrant translations with thorough commentary makes this an invaluable anthology for those interested in poetry, world literature, Roman civilization, and the history of ideas and sexuality, allowing readers to compare different poets' responses to politics, love and sex, literary innovation, self, and society.
... The principal media for self-expression and personal assertion set very definite constraints on what could be ... that, while Catullus fumes, his once-loved Lesbia is actively involved with new lovers ... he calls Attis, who sails... more
... The principal media for self-expression and personal assertion set very definite constraints on what could be ... that, while Catullus fumes, his once-loved Lesbia is actively involved with new lovers ... he calls Attis, who sails across to the coast of Asia Minor, plunges enthusias-tically ...
The Roman military established a distinct army culture which not only gave soldiers citizenship but also an identity built on the idea of soldiers as agents of the Empire. By placing provincial soldiers into a strictly " Roman "... more
The Roman military established a distinct army culture which not only gave soldiers citizenship but also an identity built on the idea of soldiers as agents of the Empire. By placing provincial soldiers into a strictly " Roman " environment, the military imbued the soldiers with a new collective identity through the institution of language. The structure of the army created soldiers and veterans who defined themselves as uniquely " Roman " — separate from the population of the provinces in every aspect of life including tradition, allegiance, and even nomenclature. Pannonia is a particularly interesting example of this phenomenon because it was so separated from Rome's actual culture, leisure, and politics. This allows an examination of a 1 culture, previously unaltered by Roman bias, changed primarily through the influence of the military presence in the area. Ultimately, the army in Pannonia took in recruits from the 2 provinces and used organized Latin to transform the identities of the soldiers into a manufactured Cuff, David Benjamin. The Auxilia in Roman Britain and the Two Germanies from Augustus to Caracalla: Family, 1 Religion and 'Romanization.' Doctoral thesis, 2010. Cuff discusses Haverfield's conclusion that it was easier for Rome to influence the areas that were " not yet civilized " than the areas that already had an established culture (27). Pannonia is essentially a blank slate. Pannonia was such a tribal province that its population was easily influenced by the imposition of a grand culture. Pannonia as a province easily assimilated to the civilization that the Romans presented to them. However, areas like Greece and other eastern cultures already had established histories and collective identities that bound them together and separated them from the Empire. While they may have been under imperial rule, they certainly did not identify with Rome and its culture like those of Pannonia did. This paper will not use the term " Romanization " due to the indefinable nature of the concept and the likely 2 misguided assumption that this was a conscious goal of the Empire to force the provincial population to become " Roman. " " Romanization " seems to be an easy umbrella term that is used to encompass a myriad of factors in the Empire and the provinces; when using this term, scholars (such as Misic) are often caught up in defining the term rather than arguing their actual point. Therefore, I will avoid this terminology and instead maintain focus on the influence and impact of Roman army culture on the soldiers and the surrounding communities.
concepts and questions about the nature of language. These respective fields do intersect and interact with one another; however, due to specialization of scholars, there is little communication between fields and even less between... more
concepts and questions about the nature of language. These respective fields do intersect and interact with one another; however, due to specialization of scholars, there is little communication between fields and even less between academic theorists and actual language teachers, which hinders practical application of research. Second Language Acquisition Theory (SLA) is a subfield of Applied Linguistics, a theoretical discipline which seeks to answer questions about how language interacts with reallife. Rod Ellis jokingly calls Second Language Acquisition a “parasitic discipline,” meaning that it uses concepts and methodologies taken from a variety of social and scientific fields in order to investigate L2 acquisition. SLA theorists especially draw from cognitive sociology, 1 anthropology, and neuropsychology (in addition to the foundational field of linguistics) in order to compose their theories. Although SLA formally began as a social science in the late 1960s and Ellis, Underst...
