Fantham, Elaine — Comparative Studies in Republican Latin Imagery

Toronto, Canada, University of Toronto Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the series, Phoenix Supplementary Volume, #10. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, bound in brick-red cloth over boards, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Price-clipped paper dust wrapper present, but with edge-wear at top, chipping to rear panel bottom and split to front fold. from the personal library of the noted English historian of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, Professor Peter Morris Green two of whose final books will be published by the University of California Press in the Fall of 2025. He passed away at age 99 while working on a final translation of the works of Herodotus, his favorite historian. His review in onion-skin type-script is laid in. Fantham analyses the conservative imagery of Terence and of Cicero's letters, two Roman giants of literature and public life, "contrasting this naturalistic language with the fantasies of Plautus and the formalization of Cicero's speeches. Numerous illustrative passages from Greek New Comedy, Terence, Plautus, and Cicero are reproduced in the text" (publisher's blurb). Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. x [2], 4-222 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Poor,