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Author : Timothy Peter Wiseman
Publisher : Leicester University
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Cinna the Poet, and Other Roman Essays written by Timothy Peter Wiseman and published by Leicester University. This book was released on 1974 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Roy Dyck
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472113248
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (132 download)
Download or read book A Commentary on Cicero, De Legibus written by Andrew Roy Dyck and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Andrew R. Dyck's full commentary on this work is the first to appear in English or any other language for over a century. Whereas previous commentaries focused primarily on grammar and textual criticism, this one, while not neglecting those areas, insightfully relates the text to the trends, political, philosophical, and religious, of Cicero's times; identifies the influences on Cicero's thinking; and analyzes the relation of this theoretical treatise to his other utterances, public and private, of the time."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Timothy Peter Wiseman
Publisher : Leicester University
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Cinna the Poet, and Other Roman Essays written by Timothy Peter Wiseman and published by Leicester University. This book was released on 1974 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara K. Gold
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292705484
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Literary and Artistic Patronage in Ancient Rome written by Barbara K. Gold and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virgil, Horace, Catullus, Propertius—these are just a few of the poets whose work we would be without today were it not for the wealthy and powerful patrons upon whose support the Roman cultural establishment so greatly depended. Who were these patrons? What benefits did they give, to whom, and why? What effect did the support of such men as Maecenas and Pompey have on the lives and work of those who looked to them for aid? These questions and others are addressed in this volume, which explores all the important aspects of patronage—a topic crucial to the study of literature and art from Homer to the present day. The subject is approached from various vantage points: literary, artistic, historical. The essayists reach conclusions that dispel the many misconceptions about Roman patronage derived from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century models in England and Europe. An understanding of the workings of patronage is indispensable in helping us see how the Roman cultural establishment functioned in the four centuries of its flourishing and also in helping us read and enjoy specific poems and works of art. A book for all concerned with classical literature, art, and social history, Literary and Artistic Patronage in Ancient Rome not only deepens our understanding of the ancient world but also suggests important avenues for future exploration.
Author : Adrian S. Hollis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198146988
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (469 download)
Download or read book Fragments of Roman Poetry C.60 BC-AD 20 written by Adrian S. Hollis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An edition and translation of a collection of fragments of Roman poetry composed between 60 BC and AD 20, when Latin literature was at its height. Study of these fragmentary texts enables us better to appreciate surviving great poets such as Catullus and Virgil.
Author : Denis Feeney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108681891
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Explorations in Latin Literature: Volume 2, Elegy, Lyric and Other Topics written by Denis Feeney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denis Feeney is one of the most distinguished scholars of Latin literature and Roman culture in the world of the last half-century. These two volumes conveniently collect and present afresh all his major papers, covering a wide range of topics and interests. Ancient epic is a major focus, followed by Latin lyric, historiography and elegy. Ancient literary criticism and the technology of the book are recurrent themes. Many papers address the problems of literary responses to religion and ritual, with an interdisciplinary methodology drawing on comparative anthropology and religion. The transition from Republic to Empire and the emergence of the Augustan principate form the background to the majority of the papers, and the question of how literary texts are to be read in historical context is addressed throughout. All quotations from ancient and modern languages have now been translated and Stephen Hinds has contributed a foreword.
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009383329
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Late Republican Rome, 88–31 BC written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History series features offers a generous selection of primary texts on Late Republican Rome (88-31 BC), with accompanying maps, a glossary and note on the sources, concordances and appendices. It provides for the needs of students at schools and universities who are studying ancient history in English translation and has been written and reviewed by experienced teachers. The texts selected include extracts from the important literary sources as well as some key inscriptions, some of which were previously difficult for students to access.
Author : Marilyn B. Skinner
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814209370
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Catullus in Verona written by Marilyn B. Skinner and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gaius Valerius Catullus is one of Rome's greatest surviving poets and also one of the most popular Latin authors. Comprehensive treatments of his work have been hindered, however, by the problems posed by the Catutllan collection as it has come down to us. Although many scholars now believe that Catullus did publish his verse in one or more small volumes (libelli), the theory that these books were rearranged after his death means that individual pieces continue to be read and analyzed separately, without reference to their placement within the collection. Skinner challenges this theory of posthumous editorship by offering a unified reading of Catullus' elegiac poetry (poems 65-116 in our collection) and arguing that it constitutes what was once a separately circulated libellus whose authorial arrangement has been preserved intact. Purportedly issued from the poet's native city, Verona, to his Roman readership, the volume presents itself as a valedictory. This reading of the elegiac collection represents a major departure in Catullan studies. The methodological contention that Catullus' elegiac poems are better approached as a single cohesive poetic statement makes this book a valuable new contribution to Catullan scholarship.
Author : Hannah Čulík-Baird
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009033085
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Cicero and the Early Latin Poets written by Hannah Čulík-Baird and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writings of Cicero contain hundreds of quotations of Latin poetry. This book examines his citations of Latin poets writing in diverse poetic genres and demonstrates the importance of poetry as an ethical, historical, and linguistic resource in the late Roman Republic. Hannah Čulík-Baird studies Cicero's use of poetry in his letters, speeches, and philosophical works, contextualizing his practice within the broader intellectual trends of contemporary Rome. Cicero's quotations of the 'classic' Latin poets, such as Ennius, Pacuvius, Accius, and Lucilius, are responsible for preserving the most significant fragments of verse from the second century BCE. The book also therefore examines the process of fragmentation in classical antiquity, with particular attention to the relationship between quotation and fragmentation. The Appendices collect perceptible instances of poetic citation (Greek as well as Latin) in the Ciceronian corpus.
Author : Llewelyn Morgan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521651660
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Patterns of Redemption in Virgil's Georgics written by Llewelyn Morgan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-02 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the time of this book's first publication in 1999, orthodoxy interpreted the Georgics as a statement of profound ambivalence towards Octavian and his claim to be Rome's saviour after the catastrophe of the civil wars. This book takes issue with the model of the subtly subversive poet. It argues that in the turbulent political circumstances which obtained at the time of the poem's composition, Virgil's preoccupation with violent conflict has a highly optimistic import. Octavian's brutal conduct in the civil wars is subjected to a searching analysis, but is ultimately vindicated, refigured as a paradoxically constructive violence analogous to blood sacrifice or Romulus' fratricide of Remus. The vindication of Octavian also has strictly literary implications for Virgil. The close of the poem sees Virgil asserting his mastery of the Homeric mode of poetry and the providential world-view it was thought to embody.
Author : T. P. Wiseman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009235729
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Catullan Questions Revisited written by T. P. Wiseman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catullan Questions Revisited offers a new insight into the brilliant poet who loved an aristocratic girl, attacked Julius Caesar and became a satirical playwright. Insisting on scrupulous use of the primary sources, Peter Wiseman combines textual, historical and even archaeological evidence to explode the orthodox view of Catullus' life and work. 'Lesbia' was not a woman in her thirties, as has been believed for 150 years, but a girl only recently married; Catullus' poems were written for performance, private or public, and it was only in 54 BC, at what he saw as the turning-point of his life, that he collected their texts into a sequence of probably seven volumes. His subsequent literary career, equally successful but much less well attested, was as a 'mime'-dramatist. This book is intended for everyone who is interested in poetry and history, and who does not believe that literary texts exist in a vacuum.
Author : David Wray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139429698
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Catullus and the Poetics of Roman Manhood written by David Wray and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book applies comparative cultural and literary models to a reading of Catullus' poems as social performances of a 'poetics of manhood': a competitively, often outrageously, self-allusive bid for recognition and admiration. Earlier readings of Catullus, based on Romantic and Modernist notions of 'lyric' poetry, have tended to focus on the relationship with Lesbia and to ignore the majority of the shorter poems, which are instead directed at other men. Professor Wray approaches these poems in the light of more recent models for understanding male social interaction in the premodern Mediterranean, placing them in their specifically Roman historical context while bringing out their strikingly 'postmodern' qualities. The result is an alternative way of reading the fiercely aggressive and delicately refined agonism performed in Catullus' shorter poems. All Latin and Greek quoted is supplied with an English translation.
Author : Stephen Harrison
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405137371
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Latin Literature written by Stephen Harrison and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Latin Literature gives an authoritativeaccount of Latin literature from its beginnings in the thirdcentury BC through to the end of the second century AD. Provides expert overview of the main periods of Latin literaryhistory, major genres, and key themes Covers all the major Latin works of prose and poetry, fromEnnius to Augustine, including Lucretius, Cicero, Catullus, Livy,Vergil, Seneca, and Apuleius Includes invaluable reference material – dictionaryentries on authors, chronological chart of political and literaryhistory, and an annotated bibliography Serves as both a discursive literary history and a generalreference book
Author : Basil Dufallo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197571786
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)
Download or read book Disorienting Empire written by Basil Dufallo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Double vision : Plautus's Menaechmi and Rome's nascent empire -- Wayward sons and wandering Bacchic revels : Terence's Heautontimorumenos -- Wandering atoms, Roman error, and poetic tradition in Lucretius -- Catullan wanderings : traversing the empire, traversing the self -- Caesar's mistakes and Horace's errores : publicizing Octavian's authority in satires, book 1 -- Epilogue: The Aeneid's reorientations.
Author : Henriette van der Blom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108606156
Total Pages : 764 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Institutions and Ideology in Republican Rome written by Henriette van der Blom and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a distinguished international group of researchers to explore public speech in Republican Rome in its institutional and ideological contexts. The focus throughout is on the interaction between argument, speaker, delivery and action. The chapters consider how speeches acted alongside other factors - such as the identity of the speaker, his alliances, the deployment of invective against opponents, physical location and appearance of other members of the audience, and non-rhetorical threats or incentives - to affect the beliefs and behaviour of the audience. Together they offer a range of approaches to these issues and bring attention back to the content of public speech in Republican Rome as well as its form and occurrence. The book will be of interest not only to ancient historians, but also to those working on ancient oratory and to historians and political theorists working on public speech.
Author : Harriet I. Flower
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199240241
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Ancestor Masks and Aristocratic Power in Roman Culture written by Harriet I. Flower and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first comprehensive study of Roman ancestor masks in English, Harriet Flower explains the reasons behind the use of wax masks in the commemoration of politically prominent family members by the elite society of Rome. Flower traces the functional evolution of ancestor masks, from theirfirst attested appearance in the third century BC to their last mention in the sixth century AD, through the examination of literary sources in both prose and verse, legal texts, epigraphy, archaeology, numismatics, and art. It is by putting these masks, which were worn by actors at the funerals ofthe deceased, into their legal, social, and political context that Flower is able to elucidate their central position in the media of the time and their special meaning as symbols of power and prestige.
Author : Monica R. Gale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521451352
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Myth and Poetry in Lucretius written by Monica R. Gale and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-03-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts to provide a more positive assessment of Lucretius' aims and methodology by considering the poet's attitude to myth, and the role which it plays in the De Rerum Natura, against the background of earlier and contemporary views.
