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De Luxuria Propagata Romana Aetate Roman Luxury In Its Many Forms
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Book Synopsis De luxuria propagata romana aetate. Roman luxury in its many forms by : Lluís Pons Pujol
Download or read book De luxuria propagata romana aetate. Roman luxury in its many forms written by Lluís Pons Pujol and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-03-30 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on luxonomics, or the economy of luxury in Roman times, and how its study is an element that is essential to understanding the history of the period. Organised in chronological order, the evolution of the luxury economy is divided into areas of consumption, production, and criticism.
Book Synopsis Roman Luxuria by : Francesca Romana Berno
Download or read book Roman Luxuria written by Francesca Romana Berno and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-17 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In classical Latin, luxuria means 'desire for luxury'; it is linked with the ideas of excess and deviation from a standard. It is in most cases labelled as a vice which contrasts with the innate frugal nature of the Romans. Latin authors do not see it as endemic but as an import from the East in the aftermath of military conquests--and as a cause of fatal decline. Following these etymological and semantic origins, Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History discusses the influence of Greek culture on the Roman concept and the peculiar characteristics of Roman luxuria. It analyses Roman views on luxuria through close readings in historical order from Cato the Elder, who regards luxuria as the opposite of the ideal Roman way of life, to the Christian poet Prudentius, who represents it in an allegorical fight with Sobriety. The book attends both to key authors and to wider literary genres, such as historiography and satire. Particular consideration is given to the rhetorical device of personification, which can be traced from the first appearances of luxuria in Latin literature to those of late antiquity. Berno devotes detailed attention to Seneca the Younger, whose work is often preoccupied with this passion. Seneca both defends himself from the charge of luxuria and violently attacks it in others, describing it as the archenemy of a philosophical life. Along the centuries, the focus on luxuria shifts from the economic sphere (and the waste of money) to the erotic, to the extent that in the Christian world it becomes one of the Seven Capital Sins representing the vice of lust.
Book Synopsis The Romans Before Adversity. Forms of Reaction and Strategies to Manage Change by : Juan Manuel Bermúdez Lorenzo
Download or read book The Romans Before Adversity. Forms of Reaction and Strategies to Manage Change written by Juan Manuel Bermúdez Lorenzo and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Play of Allusion in the Historia Augusta by : David Rohrbacher
Download or read book The Play of Allusion in the Historia Augusta written by David Rohrbacher and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2016 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By turns outlandish, humorous, and scatological, the "Historia Augusta" is an eccentric compilation of biographies of the Roman emperors and usurpers of the second and third centuries. By analyzing it as literature rather than as history, David Rohrbacher offers a new and compelling explanation for this strange text that has long vexed scholars.
Book Synopsis The Rhetoric of Roman Transportation by : Jared Hudson
Download or read book The Rhetoric of Roman Transportation written by Jared Hudson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preamble : on the way -- Introduction : en route -- Making use : plaustrum -- Power steering : currus -- The other chariot : essedum -- Conveying women : carpentum -- Portable retreats : lectica -- Envoi : the end of the road.
Download or read book Ars amatoria written by Ovid and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ovid's Ars Amatoria has met with astonishingly varied fortunes down the centuries. Ten years after publication the book became a reason, or more probably a pretext, for the author's banishment from Rome. It was removed from public libraries, and more recently the poem suffered a virtual embargo in schools and universities. This is the first detailed English commentary on any part of the poem. Examined afresh, it emerges as the wittiest of Ovid's love poems, turning upside down the attitudes and conventions of orthodox love elegy. The work is full of psychological insight and is richly embroidered with details of contemporary Roman social and political life. This new paperback edition intends to bring out the spirit of provocative frivolity which was undeniably meant to irritate Roman traditionalists. The text of Kenney's Oxford Classical Text is reproduced and supplemented with a full introduction to the style and historical background the poem, as well as with a full commentary and appendices.
Book Synopsis A Text-book of Church History by : Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler
Download or read book A Text-book of Church History written by Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pliny's Defense of Empire by : Thomas R. Laehn
Download or read book Pliny's Defense of Empire written by Thomas R. Laehn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite perennial interest in Pliny the Elder’s Natural History, the world’s first encyclopedia, as a record of the prodigious, the quotidian, and the useful in Rome in the first century AD, for centuries Pliny has been derided as little more than an inept compiler of facts and marvels intellectually incapable of formulating a cogent argument supported through the selective marshaling of his materials. In Pliny’s Defense of Empire, Laehn offers a radical reinterpretation of the architecture of Pliny’s encyclopedia, exposing fundamental errors in the inherited understanding of the text traceable to its initial reception in ancient Rome. Recognition of the text’s true structure reveals that Pliny’s encyclopedia is in fact a first-rate work of political philosophy constituting an apology for Roman imperial expansionism grounded in a sophisticated account of human nature. Correcting the accreted errors and prejudices of nearly 2,000 years of faulty Plinian scholarship, Laehn critically examines one of the most persuasive apologies for the Roman Empire ever written and succeeds in rehabilitating the Elder Pliny as one of the world’s greatest political thinkers. An excellent resource and a must read for scholars in political theory, philosophy, and classical studies.
Book Synopsis Augustine and the Art of Ruling in the Carolingian Imperial Period by : Sophia Moesch
Download or read book Augustine and the Art of Ruling in the Carolingian Imperial Period written by Sophia Moesch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781351116022, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 licence. DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351116022 Published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. This volume is an investigation of how Augustine was received in the Carolingian period, and the elements of his thought which had an impact on Carolingian ideas of ‘state’, rulership and ethics. It focuses on Alcuin of York and Hincmar of Rheims, authors and political advisers to Charlemagne and to Charles the Bald, respectively. It examines how they used Augustinian political thought and ethics, as manifested in the De civitate Dei, to give more weight to their advice. A comparative approach sheds light on the differences between Charlemagne’s reign and that of his grandson. It scrutinizes Alcuin’s and Hincmar’s discussions of empire, rulership and the moral conduct of political agents during which both drew on the De civitate Dei, although each came away with a different understanding. By means of a philological–historical approach, the book offers a deeper reading and treats the Latin texts as political discourses defined by content and language.
Book Synopsis Vergil's Georgics by : Katharina Volk
Download or read book Vergil's Georgics written by Katharina Volk and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2008-08-21 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of ten classic essays on Vergil's Georgics, written between 1970 and 1999. The contributions represent recent developments in Vergilian scholarship, and are placed in context in a specially written Introduction.
Download or read book Ovid Recalled written by L. P. Wilkinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1955, this introductory text was created for the general reader or students of the classics seeking a greater understanding of Ovid.
Download or read book Horace written by Horace and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Antiquity Recovered by : Victoria C. Gardner Coates
Download or read book Antiquity Recovered written by Victoria C. Gardner Coates and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Antiquity Recovered' presents 13 diverse essays that trace how perceptions of the past have changed over the course of three centuries of excavations. They range in subject from a reassessment of the contents of the library at Herculaneum's Villa of the Papyri, to the symbolic appearance of the ancient world in classic films.
Book Synopsis Ovid's Fasti - With an English Translation by : James George Frazer, Sir
Download or read book Ovid's Fasti - With an English Translation written by James George Frazer, Sir and published by Domville -Fife Press. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Book Synopsis Epigraphy in the Digital Age by : Isabel Velázquez Soriano
Download or read book Epigraphy in the Digital Age written by Isabel Velázquez Soriano and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents epigraphic research using digital and computational tools, comparing the outcomes of both well-established and newer projects to consider the most innovative investigative trends. Papers consider open-access databases, SfM Photogrammetry and Digital Image Modelling applied to textual restoration, Linked Open Data, and more.
Download or read book The Age of Alexander written by Plutarch and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plutarch's parallel biographies of the great men in Greek and Roman history are cornerstones of European literature, drawn on by writers and statesmen since the Renaissance, most notably by Shakespeare. This selection provides intimate glimpses into the lives of these men, depicting, as he put it, 'those actions which illuminate the workings of the soul'. We learn why the mild Artaxerxes forced the killer of his usurping brother to undergo the horrific 'death of two boats'; why the noble Dion repeatedly risked his life for the ungrateful mobs of Syracuse; why Demosthenes delivered a funeral oration for the soldiers he had deserted in battle; and why Alexander, the most enigmatic of tyrants, self-destructed after conquering half the world.
Download or read book Franco-Gallia written by Francis Hotoman and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Franco-Gallia by Francis Hotoman
