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Author : Anton Daniël Leeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book De oratore libri III: A commentary on Book III, 96-230 written by Anton Daniël Leeman and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tobias Reinhardt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199277141
Total Pages : 1119 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Cicero's Academici Libri and Lucullus written by Tobias Reinhardt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-12 with total page 1119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cicero's so-called Academica is a significant text for European cultural and intellectual history: as a substantial and self-contained body of evidence for one of the two varieties of scepticism in antiquity, as evidence for Stoic thought presented on its own terms and in interaction with objections, as a key text in a broader tradition which is devoted to the possibility of knowledge arising from perceptual experience, and as evidence for the fate of Plato's Academy in its final phase as a functioning school. This volume is the first detailed commentary on this set of texts since Reid's, published in 1885. It takes full account of the scholarly debate to date and seeks to elucidate the dialogues and fragmentary remains from a philosophical, historical, literary, and linguistic point of view.
Author : Gary A. Remer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022643933X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Ethics and the Orator written by Gary A. Remer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Succeeds admirably in showing how the study of Cicero’s political thought . . . can still be relevant for modern debates in political philosophy.” —Political Theory For thousands of years, critics have attacked rhetoric and the actual practice of politics as unprincipled, insincere, and manipulative. In Ethics and the Orator, Gary A. Remer disagrees, offering the Ciceronian rhetorical tradition as a rejoinder. Remer’s study is distinct from other works on political morality in that it turns to Cicero, not Aristotle, as the progenitor of an ethical rhetorical perspective. Ethics and the Orator demonstrates how Cicero presents his ideal orator as exemplary not only in his ability to persuade, but in his capacity as an ethical person. Remer makes a compelling case that Ciceronian values—balancing the moral and the useful, prudential reasoning, and decorum—are not particular only to the philosopher himself, but are distinctive of a broader Ciceronian rhetorical tradition that runs through the history of Western political thought post-Cicero, including the writings of Quintilian, John of Salisbury, Justus Lipsius, Edmund Burke, the authors of The Federalist, and John Stuart Mill. “Gary Remer’s very fine new book could not be more familiar or more central to contemporary politics.” —Perspectives on Politics “Well illustrates ways in which Cicero was perhaps the classical political thinker most concerned with the transcendence of the common good.” —The Review of Politics
Author : Christos Kremmydas
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191625388
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Hellenistic Oratory written by Christos Kremmydas and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-05-16 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hellenistic oratory remains an elusive subject as not one Greek speech has survived from the end of the fourth century BC until the beginning of the first century AD. This collection of fourteen interdisciplinary essays offers a wide-ranging study of the different ways in which Hellenistic oratory can be approached. Written by a team of leading scholars in the field, it examines the different kinds of evidence which shed light on the dynamic character of oratory during the Hellenistic period. All essays stress the pervasive influence of Hellenistic oratory and survey its different manifestations in diverse literary genres and socio-political contexts, especially the dialogue between the Greek oratorical tradition and the developing oratorical practices at Rome. The volume opens with a detailed introduction, which sets the study of Hellenistic oratory within the context of current trends in Hellenistic history and rhetoric, and closes with an afterword which underlines the vibrancy and sophistication of oratory during this period. It will appeal to all students and scholars of Hellenistic history, society, and the history of rhetoric.
Author : Luca Grillo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107023416
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Writings of Julius Caesar written by Luca Grillo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-known as a brilliant general and politician, Caesar also played a fundamental role in the formation of the Latin literary language and history of Latin Literature. This volume provides both a clear introduction to Caesar as a man of letters and a fresh re-assessment of his literary achievements.
Author : Matthew Leigh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199668612
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book From Polypragmon to Curiosus written by Matthew Leigh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of how Greek and Latin writers describe curious, meddlesome, and exaggerated behavior. Founded on a family of Greek terms, and the Latin words used to describe them, Leigh surveys how they were used in Greek literature from the 5th and 4th centuries BC and their Latin usage in relation to Hellenistic and imperial Greek.
Author : Tosca A. C. Lynch
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119275490
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (192 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Music written by Tosca A. C. Lynch and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This chapter provides an overview of the Muses in Greek mythology and argues that their multiplicity, their indefinite number, their lack of fixed personalities and their metapoetic status make them highly unusual members of the Olympian pantheon. As the embodiment of music and the means by which music is channelled to human beings they are essential to our understanding of the meaning of mousikē in Greek culture. Above all their origins in an oral society foregrounds the performative nature of music which has characterised it as an art form throughout the ages"--
Author : Paolo Poccetti
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110431890
Total Pages : 956 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Latinitatis rationes written by Paolo Poccetti and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume assembles 50 contributions presented at the XVII International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics. They embrace essential topics of Latin linguistics with different theoretical and methodological approaches: phonetics, syntax, etymology and semantics, pragmatics and textual analysis. It is a useful resource for the study of comparative and general linguistics, not only for linguists but also for scholars of classical philology.
Author : Giuseppe Eugenio Rallo
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN 13 : 3949189971
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Laughing at domestica facta written by Giuseppe Eugenio Rallo and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2024-01-22 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this monograph, the author embarks on a captivating journey to shed fresh light on the togata, a mid-Republican theatrical genre which survives only in fragments. The book seeks to answer pressing questions surrounding the togata's significance in identity construction during the middle Republic from a literary and cultural perspective. Delving deep into the fragmentary textual remains of the togata, the book explores how the Roman elite fashioned their identity. The author challenges the notion of monolithic identity construction, and explores the diverse forms of identity within the togata, offering a new perspective on the subject. This study thus positions the togata as a vital source for discerning the characteristics and beliefs by which the Romans distinguished themselves and their culture from others. By examining how Romans perceived themselves, their ideas about different social groups, and their literary and cultural ties to earlier traditions, this book aims to transform our understanding of the togata's role in Roman drama.
Author : Christina S. Kraus
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 019955868X
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Ancient Historiography and Its Contexts written by Christina S. Kraus and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2010-05-20 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of studies on ancient poetry and historiography pays tribute to the distinguished classicist Tony Woodman. It focuses on the impact of rhetoric on both genres, and on the importance of the literature on illuminating the historical Roman context, and the historical context to illuminate the literature.
Author : Malcolm Schofield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139619802
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Aristotle, Plato and Pythagoreanism in the First Century BC written by Malcolm Schofield and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an up-to-date overview of the main new directions taken by ancient philosophy in the first century BC, a period in which the dominance exercised in the Hellenistic age by Stoicism, Epicureanism and Academic Scepticism gave way to a more diverse and experimental philosophical scene. Its development has been much less well understood, but here a strong international team of leading scholars of the subject reconstruct key features of the changed environment. They examine afresh the evidence for some of the central Greek thinkers of the period, as well as illuminating Cicero's engagement with Plato both as translator and in his own philosophising. The intensity of renewed study of Aristotle's Categories and Plato's Timaeus is an especially striking outcome of their discussions. The volume will be indispensable for scholars and students interested in the history of Platonism and Aristotelianism.
Author : Christopher Whitton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108476570
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Arts of Imitation in Latin Prose written by Christopher Whitton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imitation was central to Roman culture, and a staple of Latin poetry. But it was also fundamental to prose. This book brings together two monuments of the High Empire, Quintilian's Institutio oratoria ('Training of the orator') and Pliny's Epistles, to reveal a spectacular project of textual and ethical imitation. As a young man Pliny had studied with Quintilian. In the Epistles he meticulously transforms and subsumes his teacher's masterpiece, together with poetry and prose ranging from Homer to Tacitus' Dialogus de oratoribus. In teasing apart Pliny's rich intertextual weave, this book reinterprets Quintilian through the eyes of one of his sharpest readers, radically reassesses the Epistles as a work of minute textual artistry, and makes a major intervention in scholarly debates on intertextuality, imitation and rhetorical culture at Rome. The result is a landmark study with far-reaching implications for how we read Latin literature.
Author : Olga Spevak
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004265686
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Noun Phrase in Classical Latin Prose written by Olga Spevak and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The internal ordering of Latin noun phrases is very flexible in comparison with modern European languages. Whereas there are a number of studies devoted to the variable placement of modifiers, The Noun Phrase in Classical Latin Prose proposes an entirely new approach: a discussion of the semantic and syntactic properties of both nouns and modifiers. Using recent insights in general linguistics, it argues that not only pragmatic factors but also semantic factors (whether we are dealing with an inherent property, the author’s assessment, or a further specification of a referent) are responsible for the internal ordering of Latin noun phrases. Additionally, this book discusses prepositional phrases functioning as modifiers, and appositions, which have received little attention in the literature.
Author : Alex Dressler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110710596X
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Personification and the Feminine in Roman Philosophy written by Alex Dressler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-03 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A literary approach to Roman philosophy demonstrating the relevance of gender, feminism and rhetoric to the history of the self.
Author : Eleanor Dickey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113948852X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Colloquial and Literary Latin written by Eleanor Dickey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is colloquial Latin? What can we learn about it from Roman literature, and how does an understanding of colloquial Latin enhance our appreciation of literature? This book sets out to answer such questions, beginning with examinations of how the term 'colloquial' has been used by linguists and by classicists (and how its Latin equivalents were used by the Romans) and continuing with exciting new research on colloquial language in a wide range of Latin authors. Each chapter is written by a leading expert in the relevant area, and the material presented includes new editions of several texts. The Introduction presents the first account in English of developments in the study of colloquial Latin over the last century, and throughout the book findings are presented in clear, lucid, and jargon-free language, making a major scholarly debate accessible to a broad range of students and non-specialists.
Author : John Oksanish
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190696982
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Vitruvian Man written by John Oksanish and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professionalism is political. This book offers a new assessment of the Roman architect Vitruvius and his treatise, On Architecture, dedicated to Augustus in the 20s BCE. Once reviled by scholars, Vitruvius emerges as an imperial expert par excellence when read alongside literary coevals through an intertextual lens. No building of Vitruvius' name survives from antiquity, but his treatise remains a formidable literary construction that partakes of Rome's vibrant textual culture. The book explores Vitruvius' portrait of the ideal architect as an imposing "Vitruvian man" at the dawn of Augustus' empire. In direct dialogue with his republican model, Cicero's ideal orator, the architect embodies a distinctly imperial civic ethos in which technically skilled partisans supersede old elites as guarantors of Augustan authority. Vitruvius promises to shape not only the emperor's legacy with architecture, but also the notion of a Roman citizen through his ideal architect.
Author : Sophie Aubert-Baillot
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004278737
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Le Brutus de Cicéron written by Sophie Aubert-Baillot and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rédigé par Cicéron en 46 av. J.-C., le Brutus se présente comme une histoire de l’éloquence romaine depuis ses origines et ses sources grecques jusqu’à l’époque de sa rédaction, mais entend surtout répondre aux défis institutionnels et intellectuels qu’a fait naître la dictature de César. Le traité autorise ainsi des lectures très diverses, qui sont souvent restées isolées les unes des autres. À travers une approche pluridisciplinaire rassemblant des contributeurs de spécialités diverses, cet ouvrage cherche à rendre compte de la réflexion cicéronienne dans toute sa richesse en examinant les enjeux historiographiques, prosopographiques, rhétoriques, philosophiques et politiques du traité. Il propose une réflexion synthétique et originale sur ce texte majeur, essentiel à la compréhension de la République tardive. Cicero’s dialogue Brutus offers a history of Roman eloquence from its origins and Greek roots up to the time of the work's composition (46 BC) in the late Republic. It forms part of Cicero’s response to the political and intellectual changes brought about by Caesar’s dictatorship and has therefore attracted considerable scholarly attention from a number of fields. However, scholarly discourse has frequently remained isolated. This volume addresses the need to look at Cicero’s treatise from an interdisciplinary angle and assembles contributions from scholars of historiography, prosopography, rhetoric, philosophy and politics. It thus puts forward a coherent and genuine interpretation of Cicero’s Brutus that showcases the significance of this text for our understanding of the final years of the Roman Republic.
