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Appian's Roman History
Empire and Civil War
Inbunden, 2015
1092 kr
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Appian of Alexandria lived in the early-to-mid second century AD, a time when the pax Romana flourished. His Roman History traced, through a series of ethnographic histories, the growth of Roman power throughout Italy and the Mediterranean World. But Appian also told the story of the civil wars …
Magnus Pius
Sextus Pompeius and the Transformation of the Roman Republic
Häftad, 2024
514 kr
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Sextus Pompeius Magnus Pius, son of Pompey the Great, fits uneasily - or not at all - into the grand narrative of the civil war of 49-31 BC. Modern scholars tend to exclude him or mention him without asking what or whom he represented. Ronald Syme, the father of international orthodoxy in this …
Ethnicity and Culture in Late Antiquity
Av Stephen Mitchell, Geoffrey Greatex
Inbunden, 2000
906 kr
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Latin Epic and Didactic Poetry
Genre, Tradition and Individuality
Av Monica Gale
Inbunden, 2004
946 kr
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How is it possible for a poet to find his own individual voice, when he is writing in a tradition so venerable and so constrained by convention as Roman epic? How do poets working in related genres - particularly didactic - conceptualize their relationship to the main epic tradition? The eleven …
Philosopher and Society in Late Antiquity
Essays in Honour of Peter Brown
Inbunden, 2005
875 kr
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The philosophers of Late Antiquity have sometimes appeared to be estranged from society. 'We must flee everything physical' is one of the most prominent ideas taken by Augustine from Platonic literature. This collection of new studies by leading writers on Late Antiquity treats both the principles …
Patterns in the Economy of Roman Asia Minor
Av Constantina Katsari, Stephen Mitchell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
947 kr
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Asia Minor under Rome was one of the wealthiest and most developed parts of the Empire, but there have been few modern studies of its economics. The twelve papers in this book, by an international team of scholars, work from literary texts, inscriptions, coinage and archaeology. They study the …
What's in a Name?
The Significance of Proper Names in Classical Latin Literature
Inbunden, 2007
946 kr
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Latin poets and prose writers of the classical period and later used - and withheld - names subtly and to important effect. Here, in eleven new essays, an eminent international cast explore themes which include 'speaking' names, often involving bilingual Latin/Greek play; the ways in which persons …
In Search of the Sorcerer's Apprentice
The Traditional Tales of Lucian's Lover of Lies
Inbunden, 2007
1058 kr
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In Search of the Sorcerer's Apprentice is the first book in English to be devoted to Lucian's Philopseudes or Lover of Lies (c. 170s AD). It comprises an extensive discussion, with full translation, of this engaging and satirical Greek text with its ten tales of magic and ghosts. One of these is …
Cicero on the Attack
Invective and Subversion in the Orations and Beyond
Av Joan Booth
Inbunden, 2007
914 kr
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Eight new essays, from a distinguished international cast, examine the techniques of Cicero's verbal aggression. Analysis includes political and forensic context but also Cicero's own formal theory of rhetoric and his debts to other genres, literary and dramatic.
Virgil the Partisan
A Study in the Re-Integration of Classics
Av Anton Powell
Inbunden, 2008
1058 kr
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This book locates the work of Virgil in the politics of his day. It examimes closely the logic and the literary genres of Virgil's poems. It rewrites, mainly from the Greek historians Appian and Dio, the political culture of a period frequently neglected or misunderstood, the decades following the …
Julius Caesar As Artful Reporter
The War Commentaries As Political Instruments
Av Kathryn Welch, Kathryn Welch m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
441 kr
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The writings of Julius Caesar have beguiled by their apparent simplicity. Generations of readers have been encouraged to see them as a limpid record of positive achievement. The contributors to this volume demonstrate that the appearance of simplicity is achieved by devious and accomplished art. In …
Vergil's Aeneid
Augustan Epic and Political Context
Av Hans-Peter Stahl, Hans-Peter Stahl
Häftad, 2009
574 kr
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The Aeneid may be considered a test case for diverging modern methods of criticism. Does the epic stand for the subordination of the individual in a hierarchically structured state, or is there below the imperial surface a cross-current of wider human appeal? Does the poet skillfully channel his …
Roman Perspectives
Studies in the Social, Political and Cultural History of the First to Fifth Centuries
Inbunden, 2010
947 kr
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The fifteen papers in this volume discuss issues of Roman social, cultural and political history from the foundation of the Principate to the age of barbarian settlements of the west. Working imaginatively from within the diverse evidence, they show the institutional continuity of the Roman empire …
Plutarch's Lives
Parallelism and Purpose
Av Noreen Humble, Noreen Humble
Inbunden, 2010
947 kr
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Plutarch's Parallel Lives were written to compare famous Greeks and Romans. This most obvious aspect of their parallelism is frequently ignored in the drive to mine Plutarch for historical fact. However, the eleven contributors to the present volume, who include most of the world's leading …
Velleius Paterculus
Making History
Inbunden, 2011
947 kr
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Velleius Paterculus' short work is the earliest surviving attempt on the part of a post-Augustan historian to survey the history of the res publica from its origins to his own times. In a period from which no other contemporary historical narrative survives in more than meagre fragments, Velleius' …
Praise and Blame in Roman Republican Rhetoric
Av Ralph Covino, Christopher B. R. Smith m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
947 kr
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Cicero, and others in the Roman Republic, were masters of both invective and panegyric, two hugely important genres in ancient oratory, which influenced the later theory and practice of rhetoric. The papers in this volume address strategies of vituperation and eulogy within the Republic, and …
Emperor and Author
The Writings of Julian the 'Apostate'
Av Nicholas Baker-Brian, Sean Tougher
Inbunden, 2012
1219 kr
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This volume offers the first comprehensive analysis in English of all the writings of Julian (r. AD 361-363), the last pagan emperor of Rome, noted for his frontal and self-conscious challenge to Christianity. The book also contains treatments of Julian's laws, inscriptions, coinage, as well as his …
Plutarch and History
Eighteen Studies
Häftad, 2011
586 kr
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Much of ancient history can only be written thanks to evidence supplied by Plutarch. The historical methods and qualities of this vital source were for long subjected to little systematic analysis. However, over the last two decades an authoritative and profoundly influential set of studies has …
Virgil the Partisan
A Study in the Re-Integration of Classics
Av Anton Powell
Häftad, 1905
574 kr
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Since its first appearance in 2008, this book has changed the landscape of Virgilian studies. Analysing closely the logic and the literary genres of Virgil's three poems, it politely confronts the modern orthodoxy that Virgil signalled distaste for the methods of his ruler, Octavian-Augustus. It …
Poetry Underpinning Power
Vergil's Aeneid: the Epic for Emperor Augustus
Inbunden, 2016
1302 kr
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In recent decades, international research on Virgil has been marked, if not dominated, by the ideas of the 'Harvard school' and similar trends, according to which the poet was engaged in an elaborate work of subtle subversion, directed against the new ruler of the Roman world, Octavian-Augustus. …
Ancient Lives of Virgil
Literary and Historical Studies
Av Anton Powell, Philip Hardie
Inbunden, 2017
1139 kr
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The Ancient Lives of the poet Virgil, written in prose or verse, are of great, though controversial, influence. They have often been scorned by modern critics, for trying to construct biography of the poet from allegorical reading of his poems. Yet some elements of the Lives are trusted, and …
Coins of the Roman Revolution (49 BC-AD 14)
Evidence Without Hindsight
Av Anton Powell, Andrew Burnett
Inbunden, 2020
947 kr
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Coins of the best-known Roman revolutionary era allow rival pretenders to speak to us directly. After the deaths of Caesar and Cicero (in 44 and 43BC) hardly one word has been reliably transmitted to us from even the two most powerful opponents of Octavian: Mark Antony and Sextus Pompeius – except …
Ciris. a Poem from the Appendix Vergiliana
Introduction, Text, Apparatus Criticus, Translation and Commentary
Inbunden, 2020
1139 kr
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The Ciris is a small-scale epic poem which relates the myth of Scylla, daughter of king Nisus of Megara, who betrayed her homeland for love and was transformed into a sea-bird, ciris. It is one of the poems in the Appendix Vergiliana, a collection that has been ascribed to Virgil as his carmina …
Foreigners at Rome
Citizens and Strangers
Av David Noy
Häftad, 2022
514 kr
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The Tiber has been joined by the Orontes'. So wrote the Roman satirist Juvenal, in a complaint about immigration to the Empire's capital. Rome was constantly sustained by immigrants. Some were voluntary - craftworkers, soldiers, teachers and intellectuals. Countless others came as slaves. What …
Seneca in Performance
Häftad, 2023
493 kr
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The plays of Seneca the Younger, minister and philosopher under Nero, are today increasingly studied, appreciated and performed. Here, in twelve new papers from a distinguished international cast, scholars explore established questions, such as whether the plays were written for the stage, and …
Dirae. a Poem from the Appendix Vergiliana
Introduction, Text, Translation and Commentary
Inbunden, 2024
1139 kr
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The Dirae is a curse uttered, in bucolic hexameters, by an Italian farmer against his former estate – confiscated to enable the settlement of Caesarian veterans in the aftermath of the battle of Philippi: this commentary is the first work, in eighty years, to offer a systematic exploration of the …
Plutarch and His Intellectual World
Häftad, 2024
493 kr
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Plutarch's writings, for long treated in a fragmentary way as a source for earlier periods, are now increasingly studied in their own right. The thirteen original essays in this volume range over Plutarch's relations with his contemporaries and his engagement in philosophical debate, his views on …
Catullus
A Textual Reappraisal
Häftad, 2007
574 kr
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The poems of Catullus have notoriously been subjected to numerous accidental corruptions. This work represents a radical reappraisal of his text. It recommends some six hundred changes to the Oxford Text of R.A.B. Mynors; many of these proposals are easily accessible elsewhere, but many are either …
Lost Memoirs of Augustus and the Development of Roman Autobiography
Av C. Smith, Powell, A. m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
493 kr
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Augustus' Memoirs, written probably in the mid 20s BC, might have been one of the most revealing texts of Roman history - had they survived. Far longer than his surviving Res Gestae, the Memoirs seem to date from a period at which the wounds of Rome's civil wars were fresh, and the emperor's …
