De Raptu Prosperpinae (Oxford Classical Monographs) [Hardcover]

Claudian (Author), Claire Gruzelier (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0198147775 | ISBN-13: 978-0198147770 | Publication Date: April 22, 1993

Claudian was one of the last great Latin poets of the classical tradition, writing in the fourth century A.D. This simplified text of his poem, De Raptu Prosperpinae, has a facing-page translation to make the work more accessible to non-specialists. This book sets Claudian in his rightful place as a distinctive creative writer of late antiquity with the roots of the whole classical tradition before him. In addition to an incisive commentary, the book includes a text designed to simplify Hall's apparatus.

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"Gruzelier's translation...is smooth, careful to reflect the Latin without excessive paraphrase, and an effective rendering of Claudian's stylistic idiosyncrasies....An excellent text and resource for use in history, art, and literature in translation courses that concentrate upon or extend into the Late Antique period."--The Classical Outlook

"A long overdue and most welcome addition to the stock of critical writing on late antique literature. Gruzelier offers readers a non-nonsense introduction, a well-chosen and independent-minded text, a remarkably user-friendly apparatus, a straightforward translation, and, above all, well over two hundred pages of accurate and helpful notes....Indispensable for future students of the poem."--Bryn Mawn Classical Review

Language Notes

Text: English, Latin (translation)
Original Language: Latin

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 344 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (April 22, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0198147775
• ISBN-13: 978-0198147770
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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4.0 out of 5 stars Worthwhile, but not worth the price, November 1, 2011

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This review is from: De Raptu Prosperpinae (Oxford Classical Monographs) (Hardcover)

I'm doing an evil thing, reviewing a book I haven't read.

I'd like to know why academic books are priced so high on Amazon (though seldom quite THIS high). I take it academic publishers are content with their library sales, and offer their books here just as a gesture, and not much of a gesture at that. We can't even "look inside," as we can with ordinary Amazon offerings.

Given any kind of discretion at all, like not copying the title page, one could probably get this book for half price by Xeroxing it at a library. Ordering it blind by mail order is nearly out of the question, and I assume it sells very little indeed that way.

What exactly is going on?