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Rites of Passage in Ancient Greece
This volume reflects on liminality as it relates to initiatory themes in Greek literature and on literary works, especially tragedy, that represent heroes and heroines undergoing rites of passage. Featured works include Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound, Euripides' Ion and Iphigenia in Tauris, and Sophocles' Antigone and Women of Trachis.
Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy
This volume contains 20 papers that explore ancient notions and experiences of childhood around the Mediterranean, from prehistory to late antiquity.
The Labors of Aeneas
A humorous retelling of the adventures of Aeneas.
Horace
Student Text: Latin text of all AP poems Line-by-line notes, same page and facing vocabulary Description of all the meters used in the poems Figures of speech defined, with examples from the poems Extensive bibliography, including the latest in scholarship on Horace Teacher's Guide: Latin text in large, reproducible format Literal translation Sample tests Extensive, up-to-date bibliography.
Ghost Orchids
Poetry. "Phyllis Katz's poems are crucial to us for their intrinsic beauty, for their attention to eloquent detail, and for their capacity to stir our souls. Writing after the loss of her longtime spouse, she knows how--without self-pity or--glorification--to evoke our sorrow, but both in her person and in her poems, she also epitomizes a noble resilience. As she writes at one point, 'Now she begins to open, / expand to find a new language / beyond loneliness and grief.' GHOST ORCHIDS is more than merely lovely; it is exemplary."--Sydney Lea
The Children's Culture Reader
Examines children as creative and critical thinkers who shape society even as it shapes them Every major political and social dispute of the twentieth century has been fought on the backs of our children, from the economic reforms of the progressive era through the social readjustments of civil rights era and on to the current explosion of anxieties about everything from the national debt to the digital revolution. Far from noncombatants whom we seek to protect from the contamination posed by adult knowledge, children form the very basis on which we fight over the nature and values of our society, and over our hopes and fears for the future. Unfortunately, our understanding of childhood and ...
Excelability in Advanced Latin
A review of Latin grammar designed for advanced students preparing to take the SAT II, the NLE, and the A.P. Latin tests.
Ovid: A LEGAMUS Transitional Reader
This reader contains selections from Ovid, designed for students moving from elementary or intermediate Latin into reading the authentic Latin of Ovid. Passages are accompanied by pre-reading materials, grammatical exercises, complete vocabulary, notes designed for reading comprehension, and other reading aides. Introductory materials (including a section on the life of Ovid) and illustrations are included.
The Portrait of an Artist as a Pathographer: On Writing Illnesses and Illnesses in Writing
Focusing on the various intersections between illness and literature across time and space, The Portrait of an Artist as a Pathographer seeks to understand how ontological, phenomenological and epistemological experiences of illness have been dealt with and represented in literary writings and literary studies. In this volume, scholars from across the world have come together to understand how the pathological condition of being ill (the sufferers), as well as the pathologists dealing with the ill (the healers and caregivers), have shaped literary works. The language of medical science, with its jargon, and the language of the every day, with its emphasis on utility, prove equally insufficie...
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