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Michael Grant (21 November 1914 – 4 October 2004) was an English classicist, a numismatist, and author of numerous books on ancient history. [1] His 1956 translation of Tacitus's Annals of Imperial Rome remains a standard of the work.
Tolkien and the Classical World is a 2021 scholarly collection of essays on the influence from ancient Greek and Roman civilisations on J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth writings, especially The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings. It is edited by Hamish Williams, with an afterword by Graham Shipley that comments on the book and its themes ...
Old English: Petres Haran Saga [14] The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit: Beatrix Potter: A. A. Brunn: Fyrnlore Bookmearsing: 2018 Middle English: The Aventures of Alys in Wondyr Lond [13] Alice in Wonderland: Lewis Carroll: Brian S. Lee: Evertype: 2013 Middle English: The litel prynce [1 ...
Under the inspiration drawn from the book series specializing in publishing classical texts exclusively in the original languages, such as the Bibliotheca Teubneriana, established in 1849 or the Oxford Classical Texts book series, founded in 1894, [2] the Loeb Classical Library was conceived and initially funded by the Jewish-German-American banker and philanthropist James Loeb (1867–1933).
The poem chronicles the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar in a mythico-historical framework comprising over 250 myths, 15 books, and 11,995 lines. Although it meets some of the criteria for an epic , the poem defies simple genre classification because of its varying themes and tones.
Its earliest published translation into any language (French) did not occur until 1650; in English — although earlier partial or unpublished translations exist — the first complete translation to be published was that of Thomas Creech, in heroic couplets, in 1682. Only a few more English translations appeared over the next two centuries ...
Classical World is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Johns Hopkins University Press on behalf of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States. The journal focuses on scholarly works pertaining to Greek and Roman literature, history, traditions, as well as the history of classical scholarship.
The only comparable publishing ventures producing authoritative scholarly reference editions of numerous ancient authors, are the Oxford Classical Texts and the Collection Budé (whose volumes also include facing-page French translations with notes; the Loeb Classical Library, with facing-page English translations and notes, aims at a more ...