Ocean Untouched and Untried - The Tudor Translations of Livy

The early modern period saw the study of classical history flourish. This study explores the early modern translations of Livy, the single most important Roman historian for the development of politics and culture in Renaissance Europe.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: The European Reception of Livy (1469-1600)


• 2: Anthony Cope's Livy: Tudor Propaganda and War with Scotland


• 3: Roman History and the Status of Women: The Struggle over Livy in the English Querelle des Femmes


• 4: Livy's Lucretia in English Poetry and Prose: William Painter's Palace of Pleasure and Shakespeare's Lucrece


• 5: Shakespeare's Macbeth and Livy's Legendary Rome


• 6: Philemon Holland's Livy and Sir Frances Nethersole's Problemes: A Tudor Translation in the English Civil War

About the author

John-Mark Philo completed his studies at Oxford and has recently undertaken a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of East Anglia. He is currently a Research Fellow at Harvard University's Villa I Tatti undertaking a project on Italian libraries of the Renaissance and their Anglo-Scottish visitors. He is especially interested in early-modern engagements with the classics.

Summary

The early modern period saw the study of classical history flourish. This study explores the early modern translations of Livy, the single most important Roman historian for the development of politics and culture in Renaissance Europe.

Additional text

This is a work of outstanding literary scholarship, neither niche nor merely antiquarian.

Product details

• Authors: John-Mark Philo, John-Mark (Research Fellow Philo
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.03.2020
• EAN: 9780198857983
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885798-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Oxford English Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Classical texts, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Ancient, classical and medieval texts