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The present study is a contribution to the ongoing debate of the marketisation of higher education and provides a detailed examination of the implications that the infiltration of promotional and corporate discourse in the discourse of higher education has for the construction of the universities’ and students’ identities. Having Critical Discourse Analysis as a departure point, it focuses on a critical examination of the language used by Lancaster University as an example of a marketised university, looking at three texts that are deemed highly promotional: the undergraduate and postgraduate prospectuses and the strategic plan document. It contains two interrelated analyses. The first is a linguistic and semantic analysis of the vocabulary used in the texts with the help of corpus linguistics. Based on an investigation of keywords, key semantic domains and attributive adjectives it attempts to shed light to the ways that Lancaster University constructs its identity. The second analysis borrows from Systemic Functional Linguistics concentrating on the grammar level of the texts in order to account for how the (prospective) students’ identity is constructed. The findings of the two analyses reveal the university’s attempt to create the image of a supportive service provider that offers vocationally-oriented education and the promise of a great university experience, at the same constructing its (potential) students as passive receivers of the university’s services.

This study constitutes the first modern book-length, in-depth critical analysis of Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.623–14.582. In this unit Ovid, by challenging openly the artistry of his great predecessor Vergil, redraws the parameters associated with the definition and appreciation of epic poetry. The book first introduces the methodological complexity of the Ovidian embrace strategy, and, subsequently, it reads the ‘little Aeneid’ closely, discussing the network of allusions to its prototype. It assesses the structure and thematics of each episode in the cluster, and traces the recurrence of prominent motifs throughout the Metamorphoses. Not least, it explores poetics, arguing that Ovid’s selective incorporation of the Aeneid reproduces the spirit and fundamental ideas of the model in an idiosyncratic sophisticated manner.

This book deals with the 'little Aeneid' in the Metamorphoses. Focusing mainly but not exclusively on Achilles, Papaioannou examines the deconstruction of the model of the Homeric hero and its reconstruction in Ovid's innovative epic. Poetics is the key to Papaioannou's interpretation as she analyzes Ovid's intertextual dialogue with the Homeric epics, an aspect that brings up a tension between the stability of traditional epic poetry and the mutability of Ovid's metamorphic work. While Papaioannou follows well-established trends in literary criticism that revolve around the dynamics of intertextuality and metapoetics, she reads Ovid's 'little Iliad' against the background of Homer's Iliad. She thus provides a thorough analysis of Ovid's reception of the Homeric epic that has been long overdue. (from BMCR's review of the book)

This book is the first translation of Plautus Miles Gloriosus and the first interpretive edition of the play in Greek. It is is also the first annotated edition of Miles Gloriosus since the 1963 Harvard UP edition, by Hammond, Mack and Moskalew.

From the BMCR 2012.07.17 review of the book: Jennifer Larson’s and Sophia Papaioannou’s papers are real gems in the volume. Larson offers an overview of multilingual inscriptions, focusing on the Bisitun inscription, the Rosetta Stone, and the Res Gestae, and argues that instead of precise equivalence each aims to address the localized needs of their target audiences. Papaioannou examines the Latin and Greek versions of the Res Gestae in depth and argues that non- obligatory differences between the two reveal a complex negotiation of political representations aimed at different populations. Larson draws upon functionalist translation theories, whereas Papaioannou uses discourse analysis, but their papers share many conclusions and complement each other nicely.

Contrary to the two other major Augustan writers who discussed the ori-gins of Rome, Vergil's Roman prehistory centers on the presence of Evander. An involuntary exile from the East (Greek Arcadia) who setded in Larium and instilled civilization and laws among the Italians, ...

The Laestrygonians attack Odysseus' ships. On mergunt ... merguntque, Bömer comments 'Geminatio intensiva', but none of the notes bearing on the subject scattered through his labyrinthine commentary (Heidelberg, 1969–86) offers anything like a real parallel to this instance. Here too the ...

VERGILIAN DIOMEDES REVISITED: THE RE-EVALUATION OF THE MAD ... Book 8 of the Aeneid opens with the Rutulian decision to send an embassy to 'the city of Diomedes' (Aen. 8.9) and ask the hero to join their cause. This Diomedes is indeed the celebrated Greek

VENULUS' UNSUCCESSFUL APPEAL TO DIOMEDES IN Aen. 11.243-295, inviting him to join the Rutulian forces in the war against Aeneas, is among the few Vergilian episodes recast at length in Ovid's Aeneid (Met. 14.457-511). The selection of the episode clearly relates to ...