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Anger, Mercy, Revenge
Av Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Robert A Kaster m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
373 kr
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE - 65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and adviser to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The "Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca" is a fresh and compelling series of new English-language translations of his works …
Saturnalia, Volume II
Books 3–5
Av Macrobius, Robert A. Kaster
Inbunden, 2011
417 kr
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An antiquarian’s festival.The Saturnalia, Macrobius’ encyclopedic celebration of Roman culture written in the early fifth century AD, has been prized since the Renaissance as a treasure trove of otherwise unattested lore. Cast in the form of a dialogue, the Saturnalia treats subjects as diverse as …
Cicero: Brutus and Orator
Inbunden, 2020
2234 kr
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Cicero's Brutus and Orator constitute his final major statements on the history of Roman oratory and the nature of the ideal orator. In the Brutus he traces the development of political and judicial speech over the span of 150 years, from the early second century to 46 BCE, when both of these …
Cicero: Brutus and Orator
Häftad, 2020
549 kr
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Cicero's Brutus and Orator constitute his final major statements on the history of Roman oratory and the nature of the ideal orator. In the Brutus he traces the development of political and judicial speech over the span of 150 years, from the early second century to 46 BCE, when both of these …
Saturnalia, Volume I
Books 1–2
Av Macrobius, Robert A. Kaster
Inbunden, 2011
375 kr
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An antiquarian’s festival.The Saturnalia, Macrobius’ encyclopedic celebration of Roman culture written in the early fifth century AD, has been prized since the Renaissance as a treasure trove of otherwise unattested lore. Cast in the form of a dialogue, the Saturnalia treats subjects as diverse as …
Hope, Joy, and Affection in the Classical World
Av Ruth R. Caston, Robert A. Kaster
Inbunden, 2016
1689 kr
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The emotions have long been an interest for those studying ancient Greece and Rome. But while the last few decades have produced excellent studies of individual emotions and the different approaches to them by the major philosophical schools, the focus has been almost entirely on negative emotions. …
Hope, Joy, and Affection in the Classical World
Av Robert A. Kaster, Ruth R. Caston
E-bok, 2016
1392 kr
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The emotions have long been an interest for those studying ancient Greece and Rome. But while the last few decades have produced excellent studies of individual emotions and the different approaches to them by the major philosophical schools, the focus has been almost entirely on negative emotions. …
Hope, Joy, and Affection in the Classical World
Av Robert A. Kaster, Ruth R. Caston
E-bok, 2016
1392 kr
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The emotions have long been an interest for those studying ancient Greece and Rome. But while the last few decades have produced excellent studies of individual emotions and the different approaches to them by the major philosophical schools, the focus has been almost entirely on negative emotions. …
Serviani in Vergili Aeneidos libros IX-XII commentarii
Av Robert A. Kaster, Charles E. Murgia m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
3706 kr
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This edition of the Servian commentaries on Aeneid 9-12 was originally conceived as the final volume of the so-called "Harvard Servius", begun by Edward Kennard Rand and his students at Harvard in the 1920s. Nearly a century farther on, the projects vicissitudes are too well known and too complex …
Cicero: Brutus and Orator
E-bok, 2020
485 kr
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Cicero''s Brutus and Orator constitute his final major statements on the history of Roman oratory and the nature of the ideal orator. In the Brutus he traces the development of political and judicial speech over the span of 150 years, from the early second century to 46 BCE, when both of these …
Cicero: Brutus and Orator
E-bok, 2020
485 kr
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Cicero''s Brutus and Orator constitute his final major statements on the history of Roman oratory and the nature of the ideal orator. In the Brutus he traces the development of political and judicial speech over the span of 150 years, from the early second century to 46 BCE, when both of these …
Studies on the Text of Seneca's De beneficiis
Inbunden, 2021
1533 kr
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Studies on the Text of Seneca's De beneficiis is a companion volume to Kaster's Oxford Classical Texts critical edition of Seneca's De beneficiis, the first new edition in nearly a century. De beneficiis is the most detailed treatment surviving from antiquity of the proper ways to show favour to …
Emotion, Restraint, and Community in Ancient Rome
Inbunden, 2005
965 kr
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Emotion, Restraint, and Community examines the ways in which emotions, and talk about emotions, interacted with the ethics of the Roman upper classes in the late Republic and early Empire. By considering how various Roman forms of fear, dismay, indignation, and revulsion created an economy of …
Emotion, Restraint and Community in Ancient Rome
Häftad, 2007
748 kr
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Emotion, Restraint, and Community examines the ways in which emotions, and talk about emotions, interacted with the ethics of the Roman upper classes in the late Republic and early Empire. By considering how various Roman forms of fear, dismay, indignation, and revulsion created an economy of …
De Grammaticis et Rhetoribus
Av Suetonius, Robert A. Kaster
Inbunden, 1995
4760 kr
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Suetonius' biographical sketches of the teachers of "grammar" and rhetoric survive only in part and are fairly brief; yet it would be difficult to name another text of similar scope that is a more productive resource for the study of Roman cultural history in the classical period. For the early …
Suetonius: Lives of the Caesars & On Teachers of Grammar and Rhetoric (C. Suetoni Tranquilli De uita Caesarum libri VIII et De grammaticis et rhetoribus liber)
Inbunden, 2016
907 kr
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Oxford Classical Texts, also known as Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, provide authoritative, clear, and reliable editions of ancient texts.Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars-the collected biographies of the Roman Empire's first leaders-is an indispensable source for our understanding of …
Studies on the Text of Suetonius' De uita Caesarum
Av Robert A. Kaster, Robert A. Kaster
Inbunden, 2016
2250 kr
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Studies on the Text of Suetonius' De uita Caesarum is a companion volume to the critical edition of Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars in the Oxford Classical Texts series, edited by Robert Kaster. It provides detailed insight into the research and textual analysis behind the edition. Part I presents …
Seneca: De Beneficiis (L. Annaei Senecae De beneficiis: Libri VII, De clementia: Libri II, Apocolocyntosis)
Inbunden, 2022
983 kr
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This is the first new critical edition of De beneficiis in almost 100 years, based on a fresh examination of the extant archetype (N) and on more extensive familiarity with the later medieval and humanist manuscripts than any previous edition. Each work in the edition is provided with a critical …
Cicero: Tusculan Disputations (Marci Tulli Ciceronis Tusculanarum Disputationum)
Tusculan Disputations
Inbunden, 2026
758 kr
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This is a critical edition of Cicero's Tusculanae Disputationes, which presents in dialogue form his views on the fear of death and endurance of pain, on distress and a range of other emotions, and on the importance of virtue as the basis of the best human life. The first such edition to appear in …
Cicero: Tusculan Disputations (Marci Tulli Ciceronis Tusculanarum Disputationum)
E-bok, 2026
525 kr
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This is a critical edition of Cicero's Tusculanae Disputationes, which presents in dialogue form his views on the fear of death and endurance of pain, on distress and a range of other emotions, and on the importance of virtue as the basis of the best human life. The first such edition to appear in …
Cicero: Speech on Behalf of Publius Sestius
Av Marcus Tullius Cicero, Robert A. Kaster
Häftad, 2006
1092 kr
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A new translation of, and commentary on, Cicero's defence of Publius Sestius against a charge of public violence. Pro Sestio is arguably the most important of Cicero's political speeches that survive from the nearly two decades separating the Speeches against Catiline and the Second Philippic. Its …
Cicero: Speech on Behalf of Publius Sestius
Inbunden, 2006
3684 kr
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This volume contains a new translation of, and commentary on, Cicero's defense of Publius Sestius against a charge of public violence. Pro Sestio is arguably the most important of Cicero's political speeches that survive from the nearly two decades separating the Speeches against Catiline and the …
Macrobii Ambrosii Theodosii Saturnalia
Inbunden, 2011
1039 kr
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The Saturnalia, Macrobius' encyclopaedic celebration of Roman culture, has been prized since the Renaissance as a treasure trove of ancient lore, much of it otherwise unattested. Cast in the form of a dialogue and arranged (by modern editors) in seven books, it treats subjects as diverse as the …
Appian Way
Ghost Road, Queen of Roads
Häftad, 2014
167 kr
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To walk on remnants of the storied Appian Way today, from Rome to the heel of Italy, is to walk in the footsteps of ghosts. Our guide to those ghosts-and the layers of history they represent-is Robert A. Kaster. In The Appian Way, he brings a lifetime of studying Roman literature and history to his …
Appian Way
Ghost Road, Queen of Roads
Inbunden, 2012
220 kr
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The Roman poet Statius called the Via Appia "the Queen of Roads," and for nearly a thousand years that description held true, as countless travelers trod its path from the center of Rome to the heel of Italy. Today, the road is all but gone, destroyed by time, neglect, and the incursions of …
Anger, Mercy, Revenge
Av Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Robert A Kaster m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1124 kr
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE to 65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. Here, with the publication of "Anger, Mercy, Revenge" and "Natural Questions", the University of Chicago Press proudly …
Guardians of Language
The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity
Inbunden, 1988
947 kr
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What did it mean to be a professional teacher in the prestigious "liberal schools" - the schools of grammar and rhetoric - in late antiquity? How can we account for the abiding prestige of these schools, which remained substantially unchanged in their methods and standing despite the political and …
Guardians of Language
The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity
E-bok, 1988
482 kr
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What did it mean to be a professional teacher in the prestigious "liberal schools"—the schools of grammar and rhetoric—in late antiquity? How can we account for the abiding prestige of these schools, which remained substantially unchanged in their methods and standing despite the political and …
Saturnalia, Volume III
Books 6–7
Av Macrobius, Robert A. Kaster
Inbunden, 2011
375 kr
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An antiquarian’s festival.The Saturnalia, Macrobius’ encyclopedic celebration of Roman culture written in the early fifth century AD, has been prized since the Renaissance as a treasure trove of otherwise unattested lore. Cast in the form of a dialogue, the Saturnalia treats subjects as diverse as …
