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Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Il dono e il debito written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Luca Grillo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190266376
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Cicero's De Provinciis Consularibus Oratio written by Luca Grillo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps no other single Roman speech exemplifies the connection between oratory, politics and imperialism better than Cicero's De Provinciis Consularibus, pronounced to the senate in 56 BC. Cicero puts his talents at the service of the powerful "triumviri" (Caesar, Crassus and Pompey), whose aims he advances by appealing to the senators' imperialistic and chauvinistic ideology. This oration, then, yields precious insights into several areas of late republican life: international relations between Rome and the provinces (Gaul, Macedonia and Judaea); the senators' view on governors, publicani (tax-farmers) and foreigners; the dirty mechanics of high politics in the 50s, driven by lust for domination and money; and Cicero's own role in that political choreography. This speech also exemplifies the exceptional range of Cicero's oratory: the invective against Piso and Gabinius calls for biting irony, the praise of Caesar displays high rhetoric, the rejection of other senators' recommendations is a tour de force of logical and sophisticated argument, and Cicero's justification for his own conduct is embedded in the self-fashioning narrative which is typical of his post reditum speeches. This new commentary includes an updated introduction, which provides the readers with a historical, rhetorical and stylistic background to appreciate the complexities of Cicero's oration, as well as indexes and maps.
Author : Neil Coffee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190496436
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Gift and Gain written by Neil Coffee and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gift and Gain: How Money Transformed Ancient Rome shows how, over the course of Rome's classical era, a vibrant commercial culture progressively displaced traditional systems of gift giving that had long been central to Rome's material, social, and political economy, with effects on areas of life from marriage to politics.
Author : Neil W. Bernstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199964114
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Ethics, Identity, and Community in Later Roman Declamation written by Neil W. Bernstein and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Major Declamations is a collection of nineteen full-length Latin speeches attributed in antiquity to Quintilian but most likely composed by a group of authors in the second and third centuries CE. Though there has been a recent revival of interest in Greco-Roman declamation, the Major Declamations has generally been neglected. This is the first book devoted exclusively to the Major Declamations and its reception in later European literature. It argues that the fictional scenarios of the Major Declamations enable the conceptual exploration of a variety of ethical and social issues. These include the construction of authority, the verification of claims, the conventions of reciprocity, and the ethics of spectatorship. Chapter 5 presents a study of the reception of the collection by the Renaissance humanist Juan Luis Vives and the eighteenth century scholar Lorenzo Patarol. A brief postscript surveys the use of declamatory exercises in the contemporary university and will inform current work in rhetorical studies.
Author : Andreas Heil
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004217088
Total Pages : 895 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Brill's Companion to Seneca written by Andreas Heil and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 895 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new and important introduction to Seneca provides a systematic and concise presentation of this author’s philosophical works and his tragedies. It provides handbook style surveys of each genuine or attributed work, giving dates and brief descriptions, and taking into account the most important philosophical and philological issues. In addition, they provide accounts of the major steps in the history of their later influence. The cultural background of the texts and the most important problem areas within the philosophic and tragic corpus of Seneca are dealt with in separate essays.
Author : Karl-J. Hölkeskamp
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691140383
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Reconstructing the Roman Republic written by Karl-J. Hölkeskamp and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-11 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, scholars have argued that the Roman Republic's political culture was essentially democratic in nature, stressing the central role of the 'sovereign' people and their assemblies. Karl-J. Hölkeskamp challenges this view in Reconstructing the Roman Republic, warning that this scholarly trend threatens to become the new orthodoxy, and defending the position that the republic was in fact a uniquely Roman, dominantly oligarchic and aristocratic political form. Hölkeskamp offers a comprehensive, in-depth survey of the modern debate surrounding the Roman Republic. He looks at the ongoing controversy first triggered in the 1980s when the 'oligarchic orthodoxy' was called into question by the idea that the republic's political culture was a form of Greek-style democracy, and he considers the important theoretical and methodological advances of the 1960s and 1970s that prepared the ground for this debate. Hölkeskamp renews and refines the 'elitist' view, showing how the republic was a unique kind of premodern city-state political culture shaped by a specific variant of a political class. He covers a host of fascinating topics, including the Roman value system; the senatorial aristocracy; competition in war and politics within this aristocracy; and the symbolic language of public rituals and ceremonies, monuments, architecture, and urban topography. Certain to inspire continued debate, Reconstructing the Roman Republic offers fresh approaches to the study of the republic while attesting to the field's enduring vitality.
Author : Marianna Muravyeva
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349949973
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (499 download)
Download or read book Parricide and Violence Against Parents throughout History written by Marianna Muravyeva and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book combines the approaches of history and criminology to study parricide and non-fatal violence against parents from across traditional period and geographical boundaries, encompassing research on Asia as well as Europe and North America. Parricide and non-fatal violence against parents are rare but significant forms of family violence. They have been perceived to be a recent phenomenon related to bad parenting and child abuse often in poorer socioeconomic circumstances – yet they have a history, which provides insights for modern-day explanation and intervention. Research on violence against parents has concentrated on child abuse and mental illness but, by using a rich array of primary and secondary documents, such as court cases, criminal statistics, newspaper reports, and legal and medical literature, this book shows that violence against parents is also shaped by conflicts related to parental authority, the rise of children’s rights, conflicting economic and emotional expectations, and other sociohistorical factors.
Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402061609
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Timing and Temporality in Islamic Philosophy and Phenomenology of Life written by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-09-19 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The puzzling nature of temporality and timing of reality remains controversial. This book offers a collection of studies that seeks a new answer by initiating a novel investigation informed by the ancient wisdom of the Greaco-Arabic-Islamic sources and inheritance, on the one side, and the contemporary discernment of Occidental phenomenology of life, on the other, in a common dialogical effort to unravel this great enigma of existence.
Author : Laura Zientek
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350097438
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Lucan's Imperial World written by Laura Zientek and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These new essays comprise the first collective study of Lucan and his epic poem that focuses specifically on points of contact between his text and the cultural, literary, and historical environments in which he lived and wrote. The Bellum Civile, Lucan's poetic narrative of the monumental civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey Magnus, explores the violent foundations of the Roman principate and the Julio-Claudian dynasty. The poem, composed more than a century later during the reign of Nero, thus recalls the past while being very much a product of its time. This volume offers innovative readings that seek to interpret Lucan's epic in terms of the contemporary politics, philosophy, literature, rhetoric, geography, and cultural memory of the author's lifetime. In doing so, these studies illuminate how approaching Lucan and his text in light of their contemporary environments enriches our understanding of author, text, and context individually and in conversation with each other.
Author : John Weisweiler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197647170
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)
Download or read book Debt in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East written by John Weisweiler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his Debt: The First 5000 Years, the anthropologist David Graeber put forward a new grand narrative of world history. From the Late Bronze Age onwards, all across the Near East and Mediterranean, relationships of mutual obligation were transformed into quantifiable and legally enforceable debts. Graeber suggests that this transformation made possible new economic institutions, such as IOUs, coinage, and chattel slavery. It also led to the emergence of modes of thought that have shaped Eurasian philosophical and religious traditions ever since. Debt in the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East explores the implications of this theory for the history of the Mediterranean and Near East. A distinguished group of ancient historians assesses how well Graeber's interpretations fit current understandings of ancient and late antique economies. At the same time, this volume offers a history of premodern credit systems which takes seriously the dual nature of debt as both quantifiable economic reality and immeasurable social obligation. By exploring the diverse ways in which social relationships were quantified in different ancient and late antique societies, the work introduces a method of writing the history of premodern systems of exchange that departs from the currently dominant paradigm of neo-institutional economics.
Author : Gaetano Chiurazzi
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643904347
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)
Download or read book The Frontiers of the Other written by Gaetano Chiurazzi and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2013 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the problem of translation has received renewed attention, but it has been mostly approached from a linguistic or ontological perspective. This book focuses on another aspect, i.e. the political and ethical implications of translation. Engaged in a debate, which encompasses various philosophers - such as Schleiermacher, Benjamin, Ortega y Gasset, Quine, Gadamer, Derrida, and Ricur - the book's contributions show that translation can be considered in an ambivalent way (which has a great ethical and political significance) as an attempt to bring the other back to one's own world or, vice versa, as an attempt to open up one's own world and to experience different cultures. Translation is in fact, inevitably, an experience of alterity. (Series: Philosophy - Language - Literature / Philosophie - Sprache - Literatur - Vol. 4)
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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385051193
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (85 download)
Download or read book written by and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Archer Crowe
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Life and Times of Titian written by Joseph Archer Crowe and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 586 pages
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Download or read book Archivio per l'antropologia e la etnologia written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Società geografica italiana
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Total Pages : 994 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Bollettino della Società geografica italiana written by Società geografica italiana and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 538 pages
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Download or read book Titian His Life and Times, with Some Account of His Family, Chiefly from New and Unpublished Records by J. A. Crowe and G. B. Cavalcaselle written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Lindemann
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1644533383
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (445 download)
Download or read book Redreaming the Renaissance written by Mary Lindemann and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redreaming the Renaissance seeks to remedy the dearth of conversations between scholars of history and literary studies by building on the pathbreaking work of Guido Ruggiero to explore the cross-fertilization between these two disciplines, using the textual world of the Italian Renaissance as proving ground. In this volume, these disciplines blur, as they did for early moderns, who did not always distinguish between the historical and literary significance of the texts they read and produced. Literature here is broadly conceived to include not only belles lettres, but also other forms of artful writing that flourished in the period, including philosophical writings on dreams and prophecy; life-writing; religious debates; menu descriptions and other food writing; diaries, news reports, ballads, and protest songs; and scientific discussions. The twelve essays in this collection examine the role that the volume’s dedicatee has played in bringing the disciplines of history and literary studies into provocative conversation, as well as the methodology needed to sustain and enrich this conversation.
