The story of Jason and the Argonauts is one of the best known of ancient Greek myths and has captivated people for over two and a half thousand years. Focusing on Medea's attempts to resist her love for Jason, Book 7 of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica presents one of the most attractive and engaging episodes in all of Greco-Roman epic: the key moment when Jason and Medea fall in love and when Jason, with Medea's help, yokes the king's fire-breathing bulls, sows the dragon's teeth, and compels the earthborn men to destroy themselves. Although versions of the story of the Argo's journey from Greece to the Black Sea had been told by many earlier poets, this Roman account of the myth differs from its predecessors in important ways. First, Valerius presents the Argo as the first ship and the voyage as a decisive turning point in human history: the Argo's breaking down of natural barriers will lead to interchange between human communities and to a sequence of empires, culminating of course in that of the Romans. Second, Valerius constantly foreshadows other parts of Medea's myth, most notably the explosion of violence in Corinth well known to Valerius' audience and to us from the Medea tragedies of Euripides and Seneca. Third, and most important, Valerius concentrates attention on the inner workings of Medea's mind as she fights against the combined efforts of two goddesses who ultimately compel her to betray her father and help Jason to win the golden fleece. This new edition of Argonautica 7 offers the first detailed commentary on this book of the poem in English, as well as a substantial introduction intended to be as accessible to as many readers as possible, a new Latin text, and a facing-page prose translation. The commentary is primarily literary, emphasizing Valerius' engagement with the epic tradition and with earlier treatments of the Medea story, as well as the elegance and power of his poetry, and is intended to be of use to scholars and students at all levels of study

Valerius Flaccus: Argonautica, Book 7: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary (Oxford Commentaries on Flavian Poetry)

Literature & Fiction

Davis, P.J.

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

The Mathematics of Matrices

Science & Math

Davis, Philip J.

Mathematics

John Wiley and Sons, Inc.

Written in Nero's Rome in about AD 62, Seneca's Thyestes is one of the greatest and most influential of classical tragedies. As the bloodiest work in the Greco-Roman canon, Thyestes was long reviled for its depiction of savage violence and for its representation of human bestiality. Peter Davis argues that the play needs to be understood as the response of a major politician, philosopher and tragic poet to the increasingly tyrannical rule of the emperor. In this companion he explores key aspects of the play, including the circumstances of its composition, its performance history and its impact on subsequent dramatists, including Shakespeare and Jonson.

Seneca: Thyestes (Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy)

Bristol Classical Press

"Ovid and Augustus" deals with one of the most contentious issues in the study of Roman literature, the relationship between Augustan literary texts and Augustan politics. One of the central facts of Ovid's life is that he was exiled to the shores of the Black Sea. The poet himself tells us that he was being punished because of a poem and a mistake. Although the mistake is unknowable, we do have the poem, "Art of Love". Here, Peter Davis reads all of Ovid's early works (the erotic poetry: "Heroides", "Amores", "Art of Love", "Cures for Love") against their political context, and argues that they challenge the Augustan regime's political ideology and resist the Augustan conception of what it was to be Roman.

Ovid and Augustus

Bristol Classical Pr

In the future, sophisticated aliens will compile our written memoirs and present them on a show intended to be both educational and entertaining, called, "An Alien's Guide To Speaking Earthling Thoroughly." The marketplace for episodes of this show will look a lot like the Amazon, or Apple online stores look in 2017, only, these aliens will have the ability to "absorb" all the different chapters in fractions of a second. The aliens will file this volume, the one on P.J. Davis, somewhere deep, hidden under a strangely named theme, like, "Male Earthlings With Miscellaneous Names." P.J's writings will then be re-buried, and re-classified as the 52,575th entry under the subcategory "Paul Davis." Then, they'll be divided into eighteen pieces, totaling 76, 713 words (1.4% italicized) and made ready for..."absorption."Note: Printed version is highly flammable.

An Alien's Guide To Speaking Earthling Thoroughly

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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