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The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World
Recipient of the Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit from the American Philological Association in 1975. The Goodwin Award is the only honor for scholarly achievement given by the Association. It is presented at the Annual Meeting for an outstanding contribution to classical scholarship published by a member of the association within a period of three years before the ending of the preceding calendar year. "A remarkable and valuable achievement, balanced in judgment and attractively presented." Journal of Roman Studies, "This book is a reissue of the important 1972 work on the development of Greek and Latin oratory and rhetorical theory... Many students of the classics, and people interested in later European literatures as well, will find themselves turning to it again and again." The Times Literary Supplement
In search of Homeric Ithaca
Odysseus was notoriously vague about where he lived. Ithaca was the place, he said, but his description of its whereabouts was a mixture of geography and poetry. Tradition says that it was the modern island of Ithaki in the Ionian Sea. Other theories, however, have placed it elsewhere. This book takes a close look at the traditional view, and at some of the other theories. The author examines the Odyssey in detail, draws on ancient and modern scholarly texts (some translated into English for the first time), reproduces antique and contemporary maps, and satellite imagery, quotes from the accounts of earlier travellers and topographers, sails the Ionian Sea, and above all, walks the landscape...
Undergraduate Prize Essays
V. 3: Whiteman, H.B. Neutrality. 1941. v. 4: Tenenbaum, E.A. National socialism vs.internatioanl capitalism. 1942. v. 5: Richardson, Lawrence. Poetical theory in republican Rome. 1944. v. 6: Worchester, Dean K. The life and times of Thomas Turner of East Hoathly; 1948.
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