This text presents a clear and simple outline of Greek and Latin meters in order that the verse of the Greeks and Romans may be read as poetry. Although the Greek and Latin components are conceived as essentially independent, the arrangements of each section confirm in such a way as to facilitate the use of the two in conjunction. No comparable volume exists in English.

The Meters of Greek and Latin Poetry.

The Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 BC - Archilochus and Alcman, Sappho and Mimnermus, Anacreon, Simonides, and the rest - produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity, perfect in form, spontaneous in expression, reflecting all the joys and anxieties of their personal lives and of the societies in which they lived. This new poetic translation by a leading expert captures the nuances of meaning and the whole spirit of this poetry as never before. It is not merely a selection but covers all the surviving poems and intelligible fragments, apart from the works of Pindar and Bacchylides, and includes a number of pieces not previously translated. The Introduction gives a brief account of the poets, and explanatory Notes on the texts will be found at the end.

Greek Lyric Poetry: The Poems and Fragments of the Greek Iambic, Elegiac, and Melic Poets (Excluding Pindar and Bacchylides) Down to 450 BC.

The Oxford History of Byzantium is the only history to provide detailedcoverage of Byzantium from the Eastern Roman Empire to the fall ofConstantinople and assimilation into the Turkish Empire. Lively essays andbeautiful illustrations portray the emergence and development of a distinctivecivilization, covering the period from the fourth century to the mid-fifteenthcentury. The authors - all working at the cutting edge of their particularfields - outline the political history of the Byzantine state and bring to lifethe evolution of a colourful culture.In AD 324, the Emperor Constantine the Great chose Byzantion, an ancient Greekcolony at the mouth of the Thracian Bosphorous, as his imperial residence. Herenamed the place ‘Constaninopolis nova Roma’, ‘Constantinople, a new Rome’ andthe city (modern Istanbul) became the Eastern capital of the later Roman empire.The new Rome outlived the old and Constantine’s successors continued to regardthemselves as the legitimate emperors of Rome, just as their subjects calledthemselves Romaioi, or Romans long after they had forgotten the Latin language.In the sixteenth century, Western humanists gave this eastern Roman empire ruledfrom Constantinople the distinctive Latinized name of Byzantium.Against a backdrop of stories of emperors, intrigues, battles, and bishops, thisOxford History uncovers the hidden mechanisms - economic, social, anddemographic - that underlay the history of events. The authors explore everydaylife in cities and villages, manufacture and trade, art, machinery ofgovernment, the church as an instrument of state, minorities and languages,education, literary activity, beliefs and superstitions, monasticism,iconoclasm, the rise of Islam, and the fusion with Western, or Latin, culture.Byzantium linked the ancient and modern worlds, shaping traditions and handingdown to both Eastern and Western civilization a vibrant legacy.

The Oxford History of Byzantium.

Aceasta este o carte cum putine exista! Exceptionala, mai ales in varianta full!

Robert Henry Robins - The Byzantine Grammarians: Their Place in History.

This book address a number of interrelated themes over two hundred years and more in the political, religious, cultural, and social history of a broad but often neglected swathe of the European continent. It seeks - against the grain of conventional presentations - to apprehend the era from the later seventeenth to the later nineteenth century as a whole, and to demonstrate continuities, as well as casting light on key aspects of the evolution towards modern statehood and national awareness in Central Europe, and the crises of ancien-regime strucutres there in the face of new challenges at home and abroad.
Each of the essays - some of which specially written for this volume, and others available for the first time in English - is intended to be free-standing and accessible on its own; but they are also designed to fit together and demonstrate an overall coherence. Much attention is devoted to the Austrian or Habsburg lands, especially the interplay of the main territories which comprised them. A central issue here is the evoltuion of the kingdom of Hungary, from its full acquisition by the Habsburgs at the beginning of the period to the emergence of the dual Austro-Hungarian Monarchy at the end. But the chapters also range more boradly, both territorially and chronologically.
Though much of the scholarship underpinning this masterly exploration may be unfamiliar to many readers, this is a an elegantly written and stimulating collection, which reflects the exploratory and individual character of the essay as a genre.

Robert John Weston Evans - Austria, Hungary, and the Habsburgs: Essays on Central Europe, C.1683-1867.

Despre acest subiect, unul dintre preferatele mele, recomand cartea lui Andrew Wheatcroft, The Habsburgs. Embodying Empire (aparuta si in romaneste, intr-o traducere de doi lei, la Editura Vivaldi).