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Author : June W. Allison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Conflict, Antithesis, and the Ancient Historian written by June W. Allison and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : June W. Allison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Conflict, Antithesis, and the Ancient Historian written by June W. Allison and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Erik Gunderson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521860547
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rhetoric written by Erik Gunderson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-09 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive overview of rhetorical practice and theory in Graeco-Roman antiquity, from Homer to early Christianity, aimed primarily at students and non-specialists. It examines the relationship between rhetoric and other, competing, verbal arts and also investigates the role of rhetoric in social and political life.
Author : Sallust
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191624624
Total Pages : 881 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Catiline's Conspiracy, The Jugurthine War, Histories written by Sallust and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'the glory of wealth and physical beauty is fluid and fragile; but virtue is held brilliant and eternal' The Roman historian Sallust lived through troubled times. He deplored the moral and political decline of the Republic, and in his two monographs he set out to exemplify the reasons for the years of civil strife. Catiline's Conspiracy is an account of the rebellion against the state led by the disaffected Catiline. For Sallust it was 'especially memorable because of the unprecedented nature of the crime and the danger it caused'. Rome's fight against the king of Numidia in The Jugurthine War is a graphic depiction of power struggles in Rome and brutal battles in Africa that eventually resulted in the capture of Jugurtha. Sallust's abrupt and distinctive style is the perfect vehicle for his moral urgency, bitter condemnation, and satirical cynicism. This new translation, which also includes Sallust's fragmentary Histories, captures his effects in an accessible English idiom, and provides a comprehensive introduction to his work as history and literature. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author : Christina S. Kraus
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191614092
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Ancient Historiography and Its Contexts written by Christina S. Kraus and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-05-20 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of studies on ancient (especially Latin) poetry and historiography, concentrating especially on the impact of rhetoric on both genres, and on the importance of considering the literature to illuminate the historical Roman context and the historical context to illuminate the literature. It takes the form of a tribute to Tony Woodman, Gildersleeve Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia, for whom twenty-one scholars have contributed essays reflecting the interests and approaches that have typified Woodman's own work. The authors that he has continuously illuminated - especially Velleius, Horace, Virgil, Sallust, and Tacitus - figure particularly prominently.
Author : Antonis Tsakmakis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110297752
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Thucydides Between History and Literature written by Antonis Tsakmakis and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together scholars from various areas (history, philology, linguistics, history of political ideas) and attempts a fresh survey of current trends in the analysis of Thucydides' historical narrative. Individual contributions range from a general outlook of Thucydides' historical and historiographical concepts to detailed analysis of narrative strategies, linguistic features and stylistic devices. Special attention is given to questions such as the representation of character, the role of individuals, the interaction between leaders and masses in Athenian democracy, the construction of speeches in Thucydides' work, etc. The analysis of language, style and narrative properties is related to the construction of meaning according to current standards of textual analysis and interpreation.
Author : J. T. Ramsey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199886466
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Sallust's Bellum Catilinae written by J. T. Ramsey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-27 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his Bellum Catilinae, C. Sallustius Crispus or Sallust (86-35/34 B.C.) recounts the dramatic events of 63 B.C., when a disgruntled and impoverished nobleman, L. Sergius Catilina, turned to armed revolution after two electoral defeats. Among his followers were a group of heavily indebted young aristocrats, the Roman poor, and a military force in the north of Italy. With his trademark archaizing style, Sallust skillfully captures the drama of the times, including an early morning attempt to assassinate the consul Cicero and two emotionally charged speeches, by Julius Caesar and Cato the Younger, in a senatorial debate over the fate of the arrested conspirators. Sallust wrote while the Roman Republic was being transformed into an empire during the turbulent first century B.C. The Bellum Catilinae is well-suited for second-year or advanced Latin study and provides a fitting introduction to the richness of Latin literature, while also pointing the way to a critical investigation of late-Republican government and historiography. Ramsey's introduction and commentary bring the text to life for Latin students. This new edition (updated since the 2007 printing) includes two maps and two city plans, an updated and now annotated bibliography, a list of divergences from the 1991 Oxford Classical Text of Sallust, and revisions in the introduction and commentary.
Author : Richard P. Thompson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567026450
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Keeping the Church in Its Place written by Richard P. Thompson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-11-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thompson's study uncovers descriptions of the church that emphasize certain characteristics presented in the opening scenes of the narrative: the blessing and presence of God, the unanimity of the believers, the communal caring for one another, and the proclamation of the gospel.
Author : John L. Moles
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004538720
Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book The Collected Papers of J.L. Moles written by John L. Moles and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the collected papers of one of the most important and influential scholars of the late 20th/early 21st century, with fundamental contributions to the fields of Cynic philosophy, Greco-Roman historiography and biography, and Roman poetry. This is volume 2.
Author : Simon Hornblower
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415065577
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Greek World, 479-323 BC written by Simon Hornblower and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at areas of the Mediterranean world in which Greek culture flourished in the fifth and fourth centuries BC
Author : Simon Hornblower
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134963866
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book The Greek World 479-323BC written by Simon Hornblower and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main aim of this book is to do justice to all the areas of the Mediterranean world in which Greek culture flourished in the fifth and the fourth centuries BC.
Author : James McLaren
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781850758914
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (589 download)
Download or read book Turbulent Times? written by James McLaren and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1998-03-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you contend with Josephus's interpretation of events when undertaking historical inquiry? Taking as a test case the presentation of Judaea in the first century CE, McLaren argues that existing scholarship fails to achieve conceptual independence from Josephus. It simply repeats Josephus's presentation of a society engulfed in an escalating turmoil that allegedly culminated in the revolt of 66-70 CE. A new strategy is offered here by applying a case-study approach and formulating open-ended questions. In so doing, McLaren calls for an entirely fresh appraisal of the situation in Judaea and other areas where Josephus serves as a major source.
Author : Martin Ostwald
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472102976
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Nomodeiktes written by Martin Ostwald and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating discussions of fifth-century Athens and its modern interpretation
Author : Brian Breed
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199780226
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Citizens of Discord written by Brian Breed and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-26 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil wars, more than other wars, sear themselves into the memory of societies that suffer them. This is particularly true at Rome, where in a period of 150 years the Romans fought four epochal wars against themselves. The present volume brings together exciting new perspectives on the subject by an international group of distinguished contributors. The basis of the investigation is broad, encompassing literary texts, documentary texts, and material culture, spanning the Greek and Roman worlds. Attention is devoted not only to Rome's four major conflicts from the period between the 80s BC and AD 69, but the frame extends to engage conflicts both previous and much later, as well as post-classical constructions of the theme of civil war at Rome. Divided into four sections, the first ("Beginnings, Endings") addresses the basic questions of when civil war began in Rome and when it ended. "Cycles" is concerned with civil war as a recurrent phenomenon without end. "Aftermath" focuses on attempts to put civil war in the past, or, conversely, to claim the legacy of past civil wars, for better or worse. Finally, the section "Afterlife" provides views of Rome's civil wars from more distant perspectives, from those found in Augustan lyric and elegy to those in much later post-classical literary responses. As a whole, the collection sheds new light on the ways in which the Roman civil wars were perceived, experienced, and represented across a variety of media and historical periods.
Author : A. G. G. Gibson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191057975
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Robert Graves and the Classical Tradition written by A. G. G. Gibson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poet Robert Graves' use of material from classical sources has been contentious to scholars for many years, with a number of classicists baulking at his interpretation of myth and his novelization of history, and questioning its academic value. This collection of essays provides the latest scholarship on Graves' historical fiction (for example in I, Claudius and Count Belisarius) and his use of mythical figures in his poetry, as well as an examination of his controversial retelling of the Greek Myths. The essays explore Graves' unique perspective and expand our understanding of his works within their original context, while at the same time considering their relevance in how we comprehend the ancient world.
Author : Emily Baragwanath
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019155233X
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Motivation and Narrative in Herodotus written by Emily Baragwanath and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-05-15 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his extraordinary story of the defence of Greece against the Persian invasions of 490-480 BC, Herodotus sought to communicate not only what happened, but also the background of thoughts and perceptions that shaped those events and became critical to their interpretation afterwards. Much as the contemporary sophists strove to discover truth about the invisible, Herodotus was acutely concerned to uncover hidden human motivations, whose depiction was vital to his project of recounting and explaining the past. Emily Baragwanath explores the sophisticated narrative techniques with which Herodotus represented this most elusive variety of historical knowledge. Thus he was able to tell a lucid story of the past while nonetheless exposing the methodological and epistemological challenges it presented. Baragwanath illustrates and analyses a range of these techniques over the course of a wide selection of Herodotus' most intriguing narratives - from those on Athenian democracy and tyranny to Leonidas and Thermopylae - and thus supplies a method for reading the Histories more generally.
Author : Jan Felix Gaertner
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN 13 : 3647253006
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (472 download)
Download or read book Caesar and the Bellum Alexandrinum written by Jan Felix Gaertner and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2013-09-18 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Das Bellum Alexandrinum beschreibt die Ereignisse des römischen Bürgerkriegs zwischen 49 und 47 v.Chr. und berichtet von Caesars Aufenthalt im ägyptischen Alexandria und seiner Auseinandersetzung mit Ptolemaios XIII. Die beiden Autoren widmen sich in diesem Buch vor allem den bisher weitgehend unerforschten Aspekten der literarischen Technik sowie den Bezügen des Bellum Alexandrinum zur griechischen und frühen römischen Historiografie. Zugleich bietet das Buch aber auch eine detaillierte Untersuchung der Sprache und rekonstruiert die Umstände der Entstehung. Es zeigt, dass der Bericht aus mehreren Einzelberichten zusammengefügt wurde, die sich sprachlich, inhaltlich und erzähltechnisch deutlich voneinander unterscheiden.
