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Disclosure and Discretion in Roman Astrology
Manilius and his Augustan Contemporaries
E-bok, 2014
1283 kr
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In light of modern scepticism towards the practice, it is easy to overlook just how important a role astrology played in the career of Rome''s first Emperor, Augustus. Augustus'' enthusiasm for employing astrological predictions and symbols to cement his own position of power was matched by an …
Grattius
Hunting an Augustan Poet
E-bok, 2018
1392 kr
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Grattius'' Cynegetica , a Roman didactic poem on hunting with dogs, is the author''s only surviving work, though it reaches us now in an incomplete form. Thanks to a passing reference by Ovid in his Epistulae ex Ponto it can confidently be dated to the Augustan period, and yet while his literary …
Grattius
Hunting an Augustan Poet
E-bok, 2018
1392 kr
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Grattius'' Cynegetica , a Roman didactic poem on hunting with dogs, is the author''s only surviving work, though it reaches us now in an incomplete form. Thanks to a passing reference by Ovid in his Epistulae ex Ponto it can confidently be dated to the Augustan period, and yet while his literary …
Grattius
Hunting an Augustan Poet
Inbunden, 2018
2125 kr
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Grattius' Cynegetica, a Roman didactic poem on hunting with dogs, is the author's only surviving work, though it reaches us now in an incomplete form. Thanks to a passing reference by Ovid in his Epistulae ex Ponto it can confidently be dated to the Augustan period, and yet while his literary …
Ilias Latina
Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary
Inbunden, 2025
3306 kr
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The Ilias Latina, the title coined by Emil Baehrens in his 1881 edition, is a condensed version of Homer's Iliad spanning 1,070 verses of Latin hexameter. It was likely composed during the latter part of the principate of Nero (c. AD 60–65).The poem has long suffered the scholarly status of …
Ilias Latina
Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary
E-bok, 2025
2305 kr
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The Ilias Latina , the title coined by Emil Baehrens in his 1881 edition, is a condensed version of Homer''s Iliad spanning 1,070 verses of Latin hexameter. It was likely composed during the latter part of the principate of Nero (c. AD 60–65). The poem has long suffered the scholarly status of …
Forgotten Stars
Rediscovering Manilius' Astronomica
Av Steven J. Green, Katharina Volk
Inbunden, 2011
1853 kr
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The Astronomica of Manilius is a poem in five books, at least partly written under the Emperor Augustus, which purports to teach the reader the art of astrology and the means by which an accurate horoscope may be cast. It is, therefore, a text from the classical age of Roman literature which deals …
Disclosure and Discretion in Roman Astrology
Manilius and his Augustan Contemporaries
Inbunden, 2014
1576 kr
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In light of modern scepticism towards the practice, it is easy to overlook just how important a role astrology played in the career of Rome's first Emperor, Augustus. Augustus' enthusiasm for employing astrological predictions and symbols to cement his own position of power was matched by an …
Quiet Soliloquies Inside a Wanderer's Mind
E-bok, 2011
33 kr
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The path of a young man''s mind within himself and his spiritual world.
