Books written by Katharina Volk
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The Roman Republic of Letters: Scholarship, Philosophy, and Politics in the Age of Cicero and Caesar
An intellectual history of the late Roman Republic—and the senators who fought both scholarly debates and a civil war In The Roman Republic of Letters, Katharina Volk explores a fascinating chapter of intellectual history, focusing on the ...
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Roman Reflections: Studies in Latin Philosophy
Collection of 13 essays delivered at a conference held at Columbia University in March 2012.
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Forgotten Stars: Rediscovering Manilius' Astronomica
This is a collection of essays on the 'Astronomica' of Manilius, a poem which purports to teach the reader the art of astrology and the means by which an accurate horoscope may be cast.
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The Poetics of Latin Didactic: Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid, Manilius
This work offers a theoretical look at Latin didactic poems. It discusses the characteristics that make a poem didactic from the points of view of both theory and literary history, and traces the genre's history, from Hesiod to Roman times.
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Vergil's Georgics
A collection of ten classic essays on Vergil's Georgics, written between 1970 and 1999. The contributions represent recent developments in Vergilian scholarship, and are placed in context in a specially written Introduction.
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The Roman Republic of Letters: Scholarship, Philosophy, and Politics in the Age of Cicero and Caesar
... Philosophie und Lebenswelt in der Antike . Darmstadt : Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft . Piganiol , A. ( 1951 ) . “ Sur le Calendrier brontoscopique de Nigidius Figulus . ” In P. R. Coleman- Norton ( ed . ) , Studies in Roman ...