How to Cope: An Ancient Guide to Enduring Hardship

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How to Cope: An Ancient Guide to Enduring HardshipAncient Wisdom for Modern Readers A vivid and accessible new translation of essential selections from Boethiuss Consolation of Philosophya moving classic about facing lifes worst events with courage and hope. What do you do when your life has fallen apart? Fifteen hundred years ago, a Roman nobleman named Boethius (ca. 480524 CE) asked this question as he was sitting in a prison cell waiting to die, accusedprobably unjustlyof treason. Boethius had

and soaring flights of eloquence

there is also a practical section on the Ovidian hexameter and (as one might expect from an editor who is himself a consummate translator of Latin poetry) a sensitive section on translations of the Metamorphoses

such as having sex until you’re sick of it

the Greek leaders take the horrific decision to sacrifice a princess to gain favour from the gods in their mission to Troy

himself a friend of Tacitus and patron of Suetonius

on the successful appeal by the daughters of Danaus to the king and people of Argos for protection against a forced marriage to their cousins (whom they will later murder

and they have much to say about them

Zeus is determined to get revenge

the literary languages in poetry and prose

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Stephen Halliwell makes this seminal work newly accessible with a reliable text and a translation that is both accurate and readable

commentary and vocabulary

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