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Life, Love and Death in Latin Poetry
Inspired by Theodore Papanghelis' Propertius: A Hellenistic Poet on Love and Death (1987), this collective volume brings together seventeen contributions, written by an international team of experts, exploring the different ways in which Latin authors and some of their modern readers created narratives of life, love and death.
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Brussels warns of clampdown on European energy giants
The EU's hard-hitting stance opens up the possibility that big, vertically integrated energy companies on the Continent, such as Germany's E.ON, Gaz de France and Distrigas of Belgium, which transport and supply gas, may be forced to break themselves up. This could make it easier for companies to import gas into the UK and ease the pressure on UK prices, which have shot up in the winter months to levels far above those seen on the Continent. UK wholesale gas prices surged 40 per cent yesterday to 70p a therm, although this was blamed on a fire on the Bravo platform in the North Sea which forced Centrica to close down its Rough gas storage facility, which can supply about 10 per cent of the UK's peak demand. Centrica warned the additional cost for UK gas users this year could be pounds 10bn. Sir Roy Gardner, its chief executive, said: \"UK consumers are paying a very high price for the failure of member state governments to end the closed shop Europe's energy markets.\"
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Brussels warns of clampdown on European energy giants
The EU's hard-hitting stance opens up the possibility that big, vertically integrated energy companies on the Continent, such as Germany's E.ON, Gaz de France and Distrigas of Belgium, which transport and supply gas, may be forced to break themselves up. This could make it easier for companies to import gas into the UK and ease the pressure on UK prices, which have shot up in the winter months to levels far above those seen on the Continent. UK wholesale gas prices surged 40 per cent yesterday to 70p a therm, although this was blamed on a fire on the Bravo platform in the North Sea which forced Centrica to close down its Rough gas storage facility, which can supply about 10 per cent of the UK's peak demand. \"Ofgem calculates that British consumers paid pounds 1bn more than they needed to this winter because of the failure of the inter- connector between Belgium and the UK to operate properly and said the cost next winter could be pounds 3bn. But Centrica warned the additional cost for UK gas users this year could be pounds 10bn. Sir Roy Gardner, its chief executive, said: \"UK consumers are paying a very high price for the failure of member state governments to end the closed shop Europe's energy markets.\"
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Industry fury as Beckett retreats over UK carbon allowances
The allowance of 736 million tonnes was what the UK applied for when it submitted its draft national allocation plan to Brussels last April. In July, the Government asked for an increased allocation of 756 million tonnes after discovering it had underestimated the amount of carbon produced by the UK because of higher electricity demand and increasing use of gas and coal-fired power stations. The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said that it was \"disappointed\" at the Commission's refusal to allow an higher allocation. Defra also pointed out that the extra 20 million tonne allowance asked for amounted to only a 3 per cent increase in the UK's national allocation when it now estimates that UK emissions will exceed the allocation by 56 tonnes or 7.6 per cent.
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The Cambridge Companion to Horace
Horace is a central author in Latin literature. His work spans a wide range of genres, from iambus to satire, and odes to literary epistle, and he is just as much at home writing about love and wine as he is about philosophy and literary criticism. He also became a key literary figure in the regime of the Emperor Augustus. In this 2007 volume a superb international cast of contributors present a stimulating and accessible assessment of the poet, his work, its themes and its reception. This provides the orientation and coverage needed by non-specialists and students, but also suggests provoking perspectives from which specialists may benefit. Since the last general book on Horace was published half a century ago, there has been a sea-change in perceptions of his work and in the literary analysis of classical literature in general, and this territory is fully charted in this Companion.
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Intratextuality and Latin literature
Recent years have witnessed an increased interest in classical studies in the ways meaning is generated through the medium of intertextuality, namely how different texts of the same or different authors communicate and interact with each other.
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Seamus Heaney and the classics : Bann Valley muses
The death of Seamus Heaney in 2013 is an appropriate point to honour the Irish poet’s contribution to classical reception in modern poetry in English; this is the first volume dedicated to that subject, though occasional essays have appeared in the past. The volume comprises literary criticism by scholars of classical reception and literature in English, and has some input from critics who are also poets and from theatre practitioners on their interpretations and productions of Heaney’s versions of Greek drama; it combines well-known names with early-career contributors, and friends and collaborators of Heaney with those who admired him from afar. The papers focus on two main areas: Heaney’s fascination with Greek drama and myth, shown primarily in his two Sophoclean versions but also in his engagement with Hesiod, with Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, and with myths such as that of Antaeus, and his interest in Latin poetry, primarily in Virgil but also in Horace. A number of the papers cover the same material, but from different angles; for example, Heaney’s interest in Virgil is linked with the traditions of Irish poetry, his capacity as a translator, and his annotations in his own text of a standard translation, as well as being investigated in its long development over his poetic career, while his Greek dramas are considered as verbal poetry, as comments on Irish politics, and as stage-plays with concomitant issues of production and interpretation. Heaney’s posthumous translation of Aeneid VI comes in for considerable attention, and this will be the first volume to study this major work.
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Principles of environmental chemistry
Written by leading experts in the field, this book provides an in-depth introduction to the chemical processes influencing the atmosphere, freshwaters, salt waters and soils. Subsequent sections discuss the behavior of organic chemicals in the environment and environmental transfer between compartments such as air, soil and water. Also included, is a section on biogeochemical cycling, which is crucial in the understanding of the behavior of chemicals in the environment. Complete with worked examples, the book is aimed at advanced undergraduate and graduate chemistry students studying environmental chemistry.
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