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1st edition, 1992. A bright, tidy copy in tight binding. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Near Fine. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold) else Book is fine. Very Minor shelfwear to DJ; The relationship between the author and his audience has received much critical attention from scholars in non-classical disciplines yet the nature of much ancient literature and of its 'publication' meant that audiences in ancient times were more immediate to their authors than in the modern world. This book contains essays by distinguished scholars on the various means by which Latin authors communicated effectively with their audiences. The authors and works covered are Cicero, Catullus, Lucretius, Propertius, Horace's Odes, Virgil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Senecan tragedy, Persius, Pliny's letters, Tacitus' Annals and medieval love lyric. Contributors have provided detailed analyses of particular passages in order to throw light on the many different ways in which authors catered for their audiences by fulfilling, manipulating and thwarting their expectations; and in an epilogue the editors have drawn together the issues raised by these contributions and have attempted to place them in an appropriate critical context.; 292 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. Former owner's name to ffep else Book is fine. Very Minor shelfwear to DJ; The relationship between the author and his audience has received much critical attention from scholars in non-classical disciplines yet the nature of much ancient literature and of its 'publication' meant that audiences in ancient times were more immediate to their authors than in the modern world. This book contains essays by distinguished scholars on the various means by which Latin authors communicated effectively with their audiences. The authors and works covered are Cicero, Catullus, Lucretius, Propertius, Horace's Odes, Virgil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Senecan tragedy, Persius, Pliny's letters, Tacitus' Annals and medieval love lyric. Contributors have provided detailed analyses of particular passages in order to throw light on the many different ways in which authors catered for their audiences by fulfilling, manipulating and thwarting their expectations; and in an epilogue the editors have drawn together the issues raised by these contributions and have attempted to place them in an appropriate critical context.; 292 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2 corners lightly bumped. Else minor shelfwear to book. DJ has small tears and chippin to spine ends and upper corners.; The relationship between the author and his audience has received much critical attention from scholars in non-classical disciplines yet the nature of much ancient literature and of its 'publication' meant that audiences in ancient times were more immediate to their authors than in the modern world. This book contains essays by distinguished scholars on the various means by which Latin authors communicated effectively with their audiences. The authors and works covered are Cicero, Catullus, Lucretius, Propertius, Horace's Odes, Virgil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Senecan tragedy, Persius, Pliny's letters, Tacitus' Annals and medieval love lyric. Contributors have provided detailed analyses of particular passages in order to throw light on the many different ways in which authors catered for their audiences by fulfilling, manipulating and thwarting their expectations; and in an epilogue the editors have drawn together the issues raised by these contributions and have attempted to place them in an appropriate critical context.; 292 pages.…

1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 126pp, owner's bookplate of Richard Sachs, inscription on endpaper from the editor ('Johnnie'), otherwise clean and sound, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 2nd printing. Octavo hc w/jacket in mylar, 448pp, black cloth, gilt spine titles, tight binding, clean throughout, clean boards with sharp corners, Fine Jacket is clean and tight with touches of edge wear, Near Fine.

London, Inst. of Classical Studies, 2013. 133 pp. Orig. softcover. (Bulletin of the Inst. of Classical Studies, suppl. 123).