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The circumstances that caused the development and functioning of Latin occasional literature in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania were of dual character: the theoretical background for the rise and development of occasional literature was formed by the Jesuit humanistic teaching method based on the study and imitation of the literature of classical antiquity. Practical conditions for functioning of occasional literature were determined by its application: the literature of this type reflected political and public life of the country and the mentality of the educated elite. Occasional literature served the purpose of the author's artistic self-expression and was a way of communicating with the public. Most active in the public life of 18th century Lithuania were Jesuits and Piarists, and their competitive interaction encouraged mutual innovations in education; the place and function of occasional literature in the curricula of the two congregations, however, did not essentially differ. The genre research of occasional literature has shown that Jesuits were the most productive monkhood of the time, and the most important part of its literature was constituted by panegyrics and other writings of the greeting character; whereas in response to the aesthetic requirements of the Age of Enlightenment, the Piarists prioritized the ode and the epigram as genres requiring more laconic ways of expression. From the point of view of genre development it is noteworthy that the main conventions of the genre still remained important in the Latin occasional literature of the 18th century, but it was no longer required from authors to comply precisely with the genre classification. The form was modified and the influence of a dedicatee's social status was significant to the artistic expression of the work.

The topic of the ruins, which already existed in Graeco-Latin literature, acquires new meanings in the Renaissance, especially due to problems with identity. In this sense, the poem attributed to Janus Vitalis has a fundamental role in the dissemination of this topic, of which there are many imitations. This paper analyses the Latin imitations of this text. The differences between these imitations highlight the literary, political and religious problems of the topic of the ruins in Neo-Latin literature. ; El tema de las ruinas, que existía ya en la literatura grecolatina, adquiere nuevas implicaciones en el Renacimiento, debido especialmente a la problemática de la identidad. Papel fundamental en este sentido juega en la difusión de esta temática el poema atribuido a Janus Vitalis, del que existen un gran número de imitaciones. El presente trabajo examina las imitaciones latinas de este texto. Las diferencias entre unas y otras ponen de manifiesto la problemática literaria, política y religiosa del tema de las ruinas en la literatura neolatina.

Maltese Literature written in the Maltese language is quite a young literature. Apart from the 15 Century Cantilena and the 17 century Sonetto by Giovan Francesco Buonamico, one has to wait until practically the 19 century for Maltese writers to start writing in Maltese. Basically, until this time, from 1530 onwards, Maltese writers had written the bulk of their work mainly in the Italian of Tuscany, even though Arabic (three Maltese poets writing in the 12 century at the Palermo court of Roger II), Latin (Giacomo Bondin, with his Latin epigrams and Luca D'Armenia's 1565, O Melita Infelix) and Sicilian (one poem in Marcello Attardo de Vagnoli's 17 century Canzoniere; two poems in the 19 century newspaper Nafras u Colombo) had also been sporadically made use of by established Maltese writers (Cassola, 2000: 2-4; Cassola, 2011: 58). ; peer-reviewed

Front Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Classical antiquity and the history of sexuality -- Chapter I: Sex, Latin and Renaissance humanism: 'A precious stone in a pile of dung' -- The difficulty of reading epigrams -- How to read Beccadelli? -- Chapter II: The Satyra Sotadica and the erotics of Latinity -- A man's world? -- Battle of the sexes -- Chorier's protean Latin -- Chapter III: Sexual enlightenment? From archaeology to science -- The nature of the phallus -- The priapic scholar -- Sexual medicine -- Sex, science and the classics -- Chapter IV: Sexology, historicism and Ancient Greece -- It's all Greek to me . . . -- Knowing about ancient Greece -- Chapter V: From the Tribad to Sappho -- Female traditions and Greek pederasty for women? -- So many Sapphos -- Chapter VI: Freud's Classical mythology -- History and myth -- Anthologies of desire: from the hermaphroditeto the phallic mother -- Authority and desire -- Some Suggestions for Further Reading -- Notes -- Index.

Latin lives of Thomas More / Germain Marc'hadour -- Modern biographies of Sir Thomas More / Michael Ackland -- More's letters and "The comfort of the truth" / Alison V. Scott -- Humanism, female education, and myth : Erasmus, Vives, and More's To Candidus / A.D. Cousins -- Virtue, transformation, and exemplarity in The Lyfe of Johan Picus / L.E. Semmler -- Inhabiting time : Sir Thomas More's Historia Richardi Tertii / Arthur F. Kinney -- The epigrams of More and Erasmus : a literary diptych / Clarence H. Miller -- Erasmus and More : exploring vocations / Bruce Mansfield -- "Civitas philosophica" : ideas and community in Thomas More / Dominic Baker-Smith -- Utopia / Damian Grace -- The reluctant champion : More's Responsio ad Lutherum and Letter to Bugenhagen / Alistair Fox -- "The field is won" : an introduction to the Tower works / Seymour Baker House

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International audience ; The two famous metrical epitaphs engraved on the tomb of the Roman senator Maiorinus at Buṣr al-Ḥarīri, in southern Syria, have been included in 2014 in the fifteenth volume of the Inscriptions grecques et latines de la Syrie (IGLS), devoted to the Trachon Plateau. Both texts are republished here and commented on in light of a reappraisal of the Greek epigram, according to which the deceased was the relative or colleague of a "Kertos, very loyal to the emperors and irreproachable." Just like Maiorinus, who ended his career as a prefect of the praetorium in the East, Kertos (Certus) turns out to have been a senior official of the Roman state, who served under several emperors in the first half of the fourth century AD, probably Constantine and Constantius II. The same man also seemingly appears in the funerary epigram of a lawyer from Kolybrassos in Pamphylia. According to this poem, he may have held in civil administration a position higher than that of a provincial governor, perhaps as count of the East. The study of his career path and networks hints at the social and political rise of a distinguished family originating from the north of the Roman Provincia Arabia in Late Antiquity. ; Les deux célèbres épitaphes métriques gravées sur le tombeau du sénateur romain Maiorinus à Buṣr al-Ḥarīri, dans le sud de la Syrie actuelle, ont été reprises en 2014 dans le quinzième tome des Inscriptions grecques et latines de la Syrie (IGLS), consacré au plateau du Trachôn. Ces documents sont ici republiés et commentés à la lueur d'une nouvelle lecture de l'épigramme grecque, selon laquelle le défunt serait le parent ou le collègue d'un certain « Kertos, très fidèle aux empereurs et irréprochable ». Tout comme Maiorinus, qui a fini sa carrière comme préfet du prétoire en Orient, Kertos (Certus) se révèle ainsi avoir été un haut fonctionnaire de l'État romain, qui a servi sous le règne de plusieurs empereurs dans la première moitié du IVe siècle après J.-C., sans doute Constantin et Constance II. Le même homme semble également mentionné dans l'épigramme funéraire d'un juriste de Kolybrassos, en Pamphylie. D'après ce poème, il a pu occuper dans l'administration civile un poste supérieur à celui d'un gouverneur provincial, peut-être celui de comte d'Orient. L'étude de son parcours et de ses réseaux laisse entrevoir l'ascension sociale et politique d'une famille de notables originaire du nord de la province romaine d'Arabie dans l'Antiquité tardive.

International audience ; The two famous metrical epitaphs engraved on the tomb of the Roman senator Maiorinus at Buṣr al-Ḥarīri, in southern Syria, have been included in 2014 in the fifteenth volume of the Inscriptions grecques et latines de la Syrie (IGLS), devoted to the Trachon Plateau. Both texts are republished here and commented on in light of a reappraisal of the Greek epigram, according to which the deceased was the relative or colleague of a "Kertos, very loyal to the emperors and irreproachable." Just like Maiorinus, who ended his career as a prefect of the praetorium in the East, Kertos (Certus) turns out to have been a senior official of the Roman state, who served under several emperors in the first half of the fourth century AD, probably Constantine and Constantius II. The same man also seemingly appears in the funerary epigram of a lawyer from Kolybrassos in Pamphylia. According to this poem, he may have held in civil administration a position higher than that of a provincial governor, perhaps as count of the East. The study of his career path and networks hints at the social and political rise of a distinguished family originating from the north of the Roman Provincia Arabia in Late Antiquity. ; Les deux célèbres épitaphes métriques gravées sur le tombeau du sénateur romain Maiorinus à Buṣr al-Ḥarīri, dans le sud de la Syrie actuelle, ont été reprises en 2014 dans le quinzième tome des Inscriptions grecques et latines de la Syrie (IGLS), consacré au plateau du Trachôn. Ces documents sont ici republiés et commentés à la lueur d'une nouvelle lecture de l'épigramme grecque, selon laquelle le défunt serait le parent ou le collègue d'un certain « Kertos, très fidèle aux empereurs et irréprochable ». Tout comme Maiorinus, qui a fini sa carrière comme préfet du prétoire en Orient, Kertos (Certus) se révèle ainsi avoir été un haut fonctionnaire de l'État romain, qui a servi sous le règne de plusieurs empereurs dans la première moitié du IVe siècle après J.-C., sans doute Constantin et Constance II. Le même homme semble également mentionné dans l'épigramme funéraire d'un juriste de Kolybrassos, en Pamphylie. D'après ce poème, il a pu occuper dans l'administration civile un poste supérieur à celui d'un gouverneur provincial, peut-être celui de comte d'Orient. L'étude de son parcours et de ses réseaux laisse entrevoir l'ascension sociale et politique d'une famille de notables originaire du nord de la province romaine d'Arabie dans l'Antiquité tardive.

International audience ; The two famous metrical epitaphs engraved on the tomb of the Roman senator Maiorinus at Buṣr al-Ḥarīri, in southern Syria, have been included in 2014 in the fifteenth volume of the Inscriptions grecques et latines de la Syrie (IGLS), devoted to the Trachon Plateau. Both texts are republished here and commented on in light of a reappraisal of the Greek epigram, according to which the deceased was the relative or colleague of a "Kertos, very loyal to the emperors and irreproachable." Just like Maiorinus, who ended his career as a prefect of the praetorium in the East, Kertos (Certus) turns out to have been a senior official of the Roman state, who served under several emperors in the first half of the fourth century AD, probably Constantine and Constantius II. The same man also seemingly appears in the funerary epigram of a lawyer from Kolybrassos in Pamphylia. According to this poem, he may have held in civil administration a position higher than that of a provincial governor, perhaps as count of the East. The study of his career path and networks hints at the social and political rise of a distinguished family originating from the north of the Roman Provincia Arabia in Late Antiquity. ; Les deux célèbres épitaphes métriques gravées sur le tombeau du sénateur romain Maiorinus à Buṣr al-Ḥarīri, dans le sud de la Syrie actuelle, ont été reprises en 2014 dans le quinzième tome des Inscriptions grecques et latines de la Syrie (IGLS), consacré au plateau du Trachôn. Ces documents sont ici republiés et commentés à la lueur d'une nouvelle lecture de l'épigramme grecque, selon laquelle le défunt serait le parent ou le collègue d'un certain « Kertos, très fidèle aux empereurs et irréprochable ». Tout comme Maiorinus, qui a fini sa carrière comme préfet du prétoire en Orient, Kertos (Certus) se révèle ainsi avoir été un haut fonctionnaire de l'État romain, qui a servi sous le règne de plusieurs empereurs dans la première moitié du IVe siècle après J.-C., sans doute Constantin et Constance II. Le même homme semble également mentionné dans l'épigramme funéraire d'un juriste de Kolybrassos, en Pamphylie. D'après ce poème, il a pu occuper dans l'administration civile un poste supérieur à celui d'un gouverneur provincial, peut-être celui de comte d'Orient. L'étude de son parcours et de ses réseaux laisse entrevoir l'ascension sociale et politique d'une famille de notables originaire du nord de la province romaine d'Arabie dans l'Antiquité tardive.

"No serious Latinist will deny the probability that Statius will again emerge from the current scholarly re-evaluation of Silver Age Epic as the great poet he seemed to the finest spirits of High Middle Ages and Renaissance, rather than as the pale imitator of Virgil he appeared to the censorious criticism of the nineteenth century, obsessed as it was with its twin heresies of originality and inevitable progress." (Tanner, R G 1986. Epic Tradition and Epigram in Statius ANRW II 32.5, 3020) Publius Papinius Statius (c.AD 40-96) is best known for his occasional poetry, the Silvae, which is in scholarly vogue at present. He also composed a monumental twelve-book epic, little known until this century, concerning the myth of the Seven Against Thebes, as well as beginning a poem, popular in the Middle Ages, intended to chronicle the full career of the hero, Achilles. Death prevented the completion of the latter work, so that there are only 1127 lines extant. I here undertake an evaluation of female characterisation in the Thebaid and Achilleid, as a positive contribution to the rehabilitation programme described in the quotation above. Because Statius' poetry properly observes the ancient literary convention of imitatio, an examination of any feature thereof necessarily first takes account of the treatment of these myths before Statius. Although there is no precise literary precedent for the Achilleid, there are various possible Greek and Roman sources for the Thebaid, among them Euripides' Phoenissae and Hypsipyle, Apollonius' Argonautica and Seneca's Phoenissae. Naturally Homer's Iliad provided many of the poetical techniques for depicting the pathos of young warriors killed in battle and the subsequent grief of their relatives. A vital consideration, given Statius' reputation as a "pale imitator of Virgil", is to identify the influence of the Aeneid on Statius' techniques of characterisation, as well as to assess his usage of Virgilian style and phraseology. An equally significant contribution to Statius' presentation of women, and one of especial importance for the Achilleid, is made by Ovidian poetry, particularly the Metamorphoses and Heroides. To a lesser extent Statius was influenced by contemporary Latin epics: Valerius Flaccus' mythological Argonautica, Lucan's politico-historical Pharsalia and Silius Italicus' Punica. In analysing the presentation of heroines and goddesses in the Thebaid, little attempt is made to divine a method or spirit of characterisation "common" to both poems. Rather, the contrast between the portrayal of female personality in the two epics emphasises the very different tone of each: the distinctly comic tone of the Achilleid is reflected in the light-hearted portrayal of the three main characters Thetis, Deidamia and Achilles; on the other hand, the tragic atmosphere of the Thebaid is reflected in the intense portrayal of the chief female characters, Argia, Antigone, Jocasta and Hypsipyle. Insofar as it is ever valid or possible to expect literature to reflect the "real" perceptions and ideals of author and audience, I make some brief attempt to set Statius' treatment of his female characters against the prevailing attitudes and socio-cultural norms of his day. Statius' portrayal of women in his Silvae is of some relevance here, though chiefly the poems are to be regarded as literary texts rather than sociological documents.

Front Matter /Jeremy McInerney and Ineke Sluiter -- General Introduction /Jeremy McInerney and Ineke Sluiter -- Mount Etna in the Greco-Roman imaginaire: Culture and Liquid Fire /Richard Buxton -- Strabo's Mountains /Jason König -- Mountain, Myth, and Territory: Teuthrania as Focal Point in the Landscape of Pergamon /Christina G. Williamson -- Diving Underground: Giving Meaning to Subterranean Rivers /Julie Baleriaux -- Experience and Stimmung: Landscapes of the Underworld in Seneca's Plays /Kathrin Winter -- Birds around the Temple: Constructing a Sacred Environment /Margaret M. Miles -- Juno Sospita and the draco: Myth, Image, and Ritual in the Landscape of the Alban Hills /Rianne Hermans -- Charismatic Landscapes? Scenes from Central Greece under Roman Rule /Betsey A. Robinson -- Heritage in the Landscape: The 'Heroic Tumuli' in the Troad Region /Elizabeth Minchin -- Land at Peace and Sea at War: Landscape and the Memory of Actium in Greek Epigrams and Propertius' Elegies /Bettina Reitz-Joosse -- Thessaly as an Intertextual Landscape of Civil War in Latin Poetry /Annemarie Ambühl -- Migration and Landscapes of Value in Attica /Danielle L. Kellogg -- Songs of Homecoming: Sites of Victories and Celebrations in Pindar's Victory Odes /Maša Ćulumović -- The Mythical Landscapers of Augustan Rome /Lissa Crofton-Sleigh -- Polyvalent Tomi: Ovid's Landscape of Relegation and the Romanization of the Black Sea Region /Christoph Pieper -- Stones, Names, Stories, and Bodies: Pausanias before the Walls of Seven-Gated Thebes /Greta Hawes -- Indexes /Jeremy McInerney and Ineke Sluiter.

The Poetry of Ennodius offers the first translation into English verse of the entire eclectic corpus of sacred and secular poetry by Magnus Felix Ennodius (c. 473/4–521 CE), amply supplemented by detailed notes that elucidate the literary and cultural references essential for understanding this poet.
Ennodius' poetry offers the reader a remarkable window into how Roman literary culture continued to thrive in the aftermath of the traditional ""fall"" of Rome in 476 CE. A prolific writer of prose and poetry, Ennodius played an active role in the political and ecclesiastical disputes of Ostrogothic Italy, and he stands as an important exemplar of late antique literary culture. Readers of this volume will encounter esteemed bishops, delicate objects, pets, stately churches, fools, villains, and more in vivid panegyrics, travelogues, hymns, epistles, and epigrams found in the sweeping poetic archive assembled after Ennodius' death. From the grandiose ""Declamation for the anniversary of the holy and most blessed Bishop Epiphanius in his 30th year as bishop of Pavia"" to self-depricating descriptions of silverware that bears the poet's image, Ennodius' poetry sports with the expectations of his audience, composing verse that modulates from the beautiful to the conventional to the stunningly unusual, while always displaying an intimate knowledge of the literary traditions in which he writes and a deep engagement with previous authors, both from the distant classical past and the contemporary world of late antique prose and poetry. Through these poems, the reader can gain an appreciation of the intellectual and aesthetic world of an important bishop (and future saint) in the early sixth-century CE.
Featuring a lucid line-by-line verse translation from the Latin and extensive notes—both firsts in English—richly introduced by a scholarly introduction to Ennodius, his works, and era, and complemented by a comprehensive bibliography, The Poetry of Ennodius makes these works accessible for the first time to readers unfamiliar with Latin as well as those seeking a guide into the labyrinthine literary world of this challenging but rewarding poet. Students of the classics, late antique and medieval history, comparative literature, and early Christianity, as well as any independent reader interested in the enduring presence of classical Latin verse, will benefit from this book.

--IX. Underwoods [cont.] Leges convivales. Translations from the Latin poets. Explorata: or, Discoveries. The English grammar. Miscellaneous pieces and conversations. An interlude, etc. Conversations with William Drummond. Jonsonus virbius: or, The memory of Ben Jonson, revived by the friends of the muses, 1638. Additional notes. Glossorial index. ; --VI. The magnetic lady. A tale of a tub. The sad shepherd; or, A tale of Robin Hood. The fall of Mortimer. The case is altered. Part of King James's entertainment in passing to his coronation. A panegyre on the happy entrance of James, our Sovereign, to his first High Session of Parliament. The satyr. The penates. The entertainment of the two kings of Great Britain and Denmark at the Theobalds. An entertainment of King James and Queen Anne at Theobalds. / --VII. Masques at Court.--VIII. [Masques, cont.] An expostulation with Inigo Jones. Love's welcome at Welbeck. Love's welcome at Bolsover. Epigrams. The forest. Underwoods: consisting of divers poems. ; --I. Prefatory notice. Memoirs of Ben Jonson. Proof of Ben Jonson's malignity, from the commentators on Shakespeare. Ancient commendatory verses on Ben Jonson. Portraits of Jonson. Every man in his humour.--II. Every man out of his humour. Cynthia's revels. The poetaster. Additional notes.---III. Sejanus his fall. Volpone; or, The fox. Epicœne; or, The silent woman.--IV. The alchemist. Catilene. Bartholomew fair.--V. The Devil is an ass. The staple of news. The new inn; or, The Light Heart. Ode (to himself) An answer to the ode (by Owen Feltham) An answer to Ben Jonson's ode (by T. Randolph) To Ben Jonson (by T. Carew) Ode to Ben Jonson (by J. Cleveland) ; Photocopy. ; Mode of access: Internet.