Roman Poetry and Prose, Greek Poetry, Etymology, Historiography

• Author(s): Francis Cairns, Malcolm Heath,
• Publisher: F. Cairns
• Pages: 350
• ISBN_10: 0905205901
  ISBN_13: 9780905205908
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General , Literary Collections / Ancient & Classical , Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical ,

Description:... The latest volume in this series of papers from Britain's premier classics conference, contains 22 papers on Roman poetry and prose, Greek poetry, etymology and historiography. Contents include: Money-loving Romans (Andrew Erskine); Virgil: a paradoxical poet? (P.R.Hardie); Herodotus warns the Athenians (John Moles); The magic of names: some etymologies in the Cyranides (David Bain).