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Macbeth at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in St. Olaf's Castle, Savonlinna, Finland, in 2007]]
Gemeinsame Themen: Aeneas, Latin Epic poetry, Latin Didactic poetry, Agriculture
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4to. ff. [2] (blank), [1] (plates), [14] (prelims), pp. 246, 588, [192], ff. [2] (blank). Signatures: â4, ê4, î4, ô2, A-Z4, Aa-Gg4, Hh3, 2A-Z4, 2Aa-Zz4, Aaa-Zzz4, AAaa-DDdd4, EEee2, a-z4, aa4. Contemporary French calf. Gilt filet on boards’ edges. Gilded spine on 5 bars, red panel. Red edges. Signature “A.G.” on first blank. Manuscript note on second blank in French, stating this is a first…
Gemeinsame Themen: Aeneas, Latin Epic poetry, Latin Didactic poetry, Agriculture
Die Georgiken des Vergil, übersetzt von Thomas Neville, ..
Virgil's classic poem extols the virtues of work, describes the care of crops, trees, animals, and bees, and stresses the importance of moral values.
Gemeinsame Themen: Latin Didactic poetry, Agriculture, Country life, Legends
Virgils Eklogen: ins Englische übersetzt von W.L. Gent
"The Eclogues of Virgil gave definitive form to the pastoral mode, and these magically beautiful poems, so influential in so much subsequent literature, perhaps best exemplify what pastoral can do."--BOOK JACKET. "These songs made a world; it is a world all the more beautiful for being vulnerab1e to the intrusions of power and of natural calamity and loss."--BOOK JACKET.
"A bilingual edition,…
Gemeinsame Themen: Latin Didactic poetry, Agriculture, Country life, History and criticism
Von der Natur der Dinge
This is regarded as a seminal text of Epicurean science and philosophy. Epicurians discarded both the idea of immortality and the superstitious worship of wilful gods for a life of serene contentment in the available pleasures of nature. Lucretius (c100-c55BC), in elucidating this belief, steers the reader through an extraordinary breadth of subject matter, ranging from the indestructibility of…
Gemeinsame Themen: Latin Didactic poetry, Classical literature, Poetry, History
Der gefesselte Prometheus
An ancient Greek tragedy attributed to Aeschylus. The play follows the sufferings of the Titan Prometheus who has been fastened to a rock by Zeus as punishment for giving the knowledge of fire to mankind.
Gemeinsame Themen: Classical literature, History and criticism, Drama, History
Der goldene Esel
"These rhetorical texts by Apuleius, second-century Latin writer and author of the famous novel Metamorphoses or Golden Ass, have not been translated in English since 1909. They are some of the very few Latin speeches surviving from their period, and constitute important evidence for Latin and Roman North African social and intellectual culture in the second century A.D. They are the work of a…
Gemeinsame Themen: Classical literature, History and criticism
Romeo und Julia
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young Italian star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers.
Gemeinsame Themen: Classical literature, Drama, History
Pharsalia
"In this edition Professor Fantham offers the first full-scale commentary on the neglected second book of Lucan's epic poem on the war between Caesar and Pompey: De bello civili. Book II presents all three leading figures - Cato, Caesar and Pompey - in speech and action. It expresses the moral and political dilemma of civil war and portrays Pompey's loss of authority during his withdrawal from…
Gemeinsame Themen: Latin Epic poetry, Poetry, History
Fasti
"One of the fullest and most enjoyable sources of information on Roman myth and religion, the Fasti is both a calendar of daily rituals and a witty sequence of stories recounted in a variety of styles and genres, comic, tragic, elegiac, epic and erotic. Yet many of them contain uncomfortable political echoes. Augustus tried to control his subjects by imposing his own version of history and annual…
Gemeinsame Themen: Latin Didactic poetry, History and criticism, Poetry
Die Kinder am Bahnhof
When Father mysteriously goes away, the children and their mother leave their happy life in London to go and live in a small cottage in the country. 'The Three Chimneys' lies beside a railway track - a constant source of enjoyment to all three. They make friends with the Station Master and Perks the Porter, as well as the jovial 'Old Gentleman' who waves to them everyday from the train. But the…
Gemeinsame Themen: Country life, Drama, History