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Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag berieben, Verschmutzung auf Kopfschnitt, sonst sehr gut und innen sauber / dust jacket rubbed, soiling on top edge, otherwise very good and clean inside. - This book contains twenty-six articles, including three hitherto unpublished, on a wide range of topics in Latin literature by R. G. M. Nisbet, who was Corpus Christi Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford from 1970 to 1992. Some handle literary themes with a historical bearing: Gallus� elegiacs on Caesar and �Lycoris�, rediscovered in 1978; the relation of Virgil�s fourth Eclogue to Isaiah; Horace as an eye-witness of the battle of Actium; the causes of Ovid�s exile and his poetic response. Other papers discuss Virgil�s bucolic style; symbolism in Seneca�s tragedies; how poems by Horace and Statius are coloured by the characteristics of their addressees. Articles on prose consider the reader�s contribution to the understanding of Cicero�s speeches and the use of rhythm to determine the punctuation of Latin sentences. Many textual conjectures are proposed on familiar Latin authors, notably Catullus, Horace, and Juvenal; other papers discuss Housman�s Juvenal and �how textual conjectures are made�. The book ends with a criticism of the current tendency to exaggerate the ambiguities of Roman poetry. / CONTENTS Foreword by Michael Winterbottom 1. Notes on Horace, Epistles i 2. Review and Discussion of K. M�ller (ed.), Petronii Arbitri Satyricon and W. V. Clausen (ed.), A. Persi Flacci et D. luni Iuvenalis Saturae 3. Felicitas at Surrentum (Statius, Sihae 2. 2) 4. Virgil�s Fourth Eclogue-. Easterners and Westerners 5. Notes on the Text of Catullus 6. Elegiacs by Gallus from Qasr Ibrim 7. Aeneas Imperator-, Roman Generalship in an Epic Context 8. Sidere Clarior (Horace, Carrn. 3. 1. 42) 9. �Great and Lesser Bear� (Ovid, Tristia 4. 3) 10. Horace�s Epodes and History 11. Sacrilege in Egypt (Lucan 9. 150-61) 12. Review of D. R. Shackleton Bailey (ed.), Q. Horati Flacci Opera 13. The Oak and the Axe: Symbolism in Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 1618 ff. 14. Pyrrha among Roses: Real Life and Poetic Imagination in Augustan Rome (Review and discussion of J. Griffin, Latin Poets and Roman Life') 15. Notes on the Text and Interpretation of Juvenal 16. Footnotes on Horace 17. On Housman�s Juvenal 18. The Dating of Seneca�s Tragedies, with Special Reference to Thyestes 19. Cola and Clausulae in Cicero�s Speeches 20. The Style of Virgil�s Eclogues 21. How Textual Conjectures are Made 22. The Orator and the Reader: Manipulation and Response in Cicero�s Fifth Verrine 23. Adolescens Puer (Virgil, Ecologues 4. 28-30) 24. Four Conjectures on Catullus 64 25. The Survivors: Old-Style Literary Men in the Triumviral Period 26. Tying down Proteus: The Limitations of Ambiguity and Cross-Reference in Horace�s Odes Addenda Bibliography of R G. M. Nisbet Index Nominum et Rerum Index Verborum Index Locorum. ISBN 9780198149484