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Book Synopsis Inscriptions and Their Uses in Greek and Latin Literature by : Peter Philip Liddel
Download or read book Inscriptions and Their Uses in Greek and Latin Literature written by Peter Philip Liddel and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the archaic period onwards, ancient literary authors working within a range of genres discussed and quoted a variety of inscriptions. This volume offers a wide-ranging set of perspectives on the diversity of epigraphic material present in ancient literary texts, and the variety of responses, both ancient and modern, which they can provoke.
Book Synopsis Greek and Latin Inscriptions by : William Kelly Prentice
Download or read book Greek and Latin Inscriptions written by William Kelly Prentice and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the USA by : John P. Bodel
Download or read book Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the USA written by John P. Bodel and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of nine volumes published ... to celebrate the Eleventh International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy at Rome in 1997, [it] ... attempts to register all ancient Greek and Latin inscriptions in museum, university, and private collections in the United States. " -- Back cover.
Download or read book Rest Lightly written by Paul J. Shore and published by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- Introduction with chapters on the Value of Tomb Inscriptions, the Underworld, the Study of Tomb Inscriptions, and Women and Children -- Edited text of thirty inscriptions -- Line drawings -- Notes and English translations -- Thirteen plates
Download or read book Greek and Latin Inscriptions written by and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Latin Inscriptions of Rome by : Tyler Lansford
Download or read book The Latin Inscriptions of Rome written by Tyler Lansford and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2009-08-15 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 15 guided walking tours of the ancient Latin descriptions found throughout Rome. Rome’s oldest known Latin inscription dates from the sixth century BC; the most recent major specimen was mounted in 2006—a span of more than two and a half millennia. Remarkably, many of these inscriptions are still to be found in situ, on the walls, gates, temples, obelisks, bridges, fountains, and churches of the city. Classicist Tyler Lansford has collected some 400 of these inscriptions and arranged them—with English translations—into fifteen walking tours that trace the physical and historical contours of the city. Each itinerary is prefaced by an in-depth introduction that provides a survey of the history and topography of the relevant area of the city. The Latin texts appear on the left-hand page with English translations on the right. The original texts are equipped with full linguistic annotation, and the translations are supplemented with historical and cultural notes that explain who mounted them and why. This unique guide will prove a fascinating and illuminating companion for both sophisticated visitors to the Eternal City and armchair travelers seeking a novel perspective into Rome's rich history. “This book is wonderful. . . . Lansford’s evocative depictions of monuments, cityscape, and memorable humans have inspired me anew with the fascination of Rome.” —Mary T. Boatwright, Duke University “If this book is not slipped into many a Rome-bound suitcase, there is no justice in the world. I can think of few more enjoyable companions on a prowl through the city.” —Jane Stevenson, Times Literary Supplement (UK)
Download or read book Epigraphic Evidence written by John Bodel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epigraphic Evidence is an accessible guide to the responsible use of Greek and Latin inscriptions as sources for ancient history. It introduces the types of historical information supplied by inscriptional texts and the methods with which they can be used. It outlines the limitations as well as the advantages of the different types of evidence covered. Epigraphic Evidence includes a general introduction, a guide to the arrangement of the standard corpora inscriptions and individual chapters on local languages and native cultures, epitaphs and the ancient economy amongst others.
Download or read book Beyond Greek written by Denis Feeney and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Roman authors are firmly established in the Western canon, and yet the birth of Latin literature was far from inevitable. The cultural flourishing that eventually produced the Latin classics was one of the strangest events in history, as Denis Feeney demonstrates in this bold revision.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy by : Christer Bruun
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy written by Christer Bruun and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2015 with total page 929 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Inscriptions are for anyone interested in the Roman world and Roman culture, whether they regard themselves as literary scholars, historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, religious scholars or work in a field that touches on the Roman world from c. 500 BCE to 500 CE and beyond. The goal of The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy is to show why inscriptions matter and to demonstrate to classicists and ancient historians, their graduate students, and advanced undergraduates, how to work with epigraphic sources"--
Book Synopsis Latin Epigraphy by : John Edwin Sandys
Download or read book Latin Epigraphy written by John Edwin Sandys and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Language of Ruins by : Patricia A. Rosenmeyer
Download or read book The Language of Ruins written by Patricia A. Rosenmeyer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colossal statue, originally built to honor an ancient pharaoh, still stands today in Egyptian Thebes, with more than a hundred Greek and Latin inscriptions covering its lower surfaces. Partially damaged by an earthquake, and later re-identified as the Homeric hero Memnon, it was believed to "speak" regularly at daybreak. By the middle of the first century CE, tourists flocked to the colossus of Memnon to hear the miraculous sound, and left behind their marks of devotion (proskynemata): brief acknowledgments of having heard Memnon's cry; longer lists by Roman administrators; and more elaborate elegiac verses by both amateur and professional poets. The inscribed names left behind reveal the presence of emperors and soldiers, provincial governors and businessmen, elite women and military wives, and families with children. While recent studies of imperial literature acknowledge the colossus, few address the inscriptions themselves. This book is the first critical assessment of all the inscriptions considered in their social, cultural, and historical context. The Memnon colossus functioned as a powerful site of engagement with the Greek past, and appealed to a broad segment of society. The inscriptions shed light on contemporary attitudes toward sacred tourism, the role of Egypt in the Greco-Roman imagination, and the cultural legacy of Homeric epic. Memnon is a ghost from the Homeric past anchored in the Egyptian present, and visitors yearned for a "close encounter" that would connect them with that distant past. The inscriptions thus idealize Greece by echoing archaic literature in their verses at the same time as they reflect their own historical horizon. These and other subjects are expertly explored in the book, including a fascinating chapter on the colossus's post-classical life when the statue finds new worshippers among Romantic artists and poets in nineteenth-century Europe.
Book Synopsis By Roman Hands by : Matthew Hartnett
Download or read book By Roman Hands written by Matthew Hartnett and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By Roman Hands takes Latin out of the textbook and allows students to see and translate Latin as it actually appeared on Roman monuments, walls and tombs. The first collection of entirely authentic and un-adapted inscriptions and graffiti accessible to beginning and intermediate students of Latin, By Roman Hands unites the study of language and culture in a novel and compelling way and at a level that the Latin can be grasped and discussed by early Latin learners. Ranging from a love letter hastily scratched on a Pompeian wall to the proclamation of an emperor’s achievements formally inscribed on a monumental arch, these carefully selected texts afford fascinating glimpses into the lives and minds of the Romans, even as they illustrate and reinforce the basic elements of the Latin language. This edition, revised to work in parallel with the second edition of Susan Shelmerdine' s Introduction to Latin or any standard beginning Latin text, includes more texts and illustrations, and an additional section of inscriptions for practice and review.
Book Synopsis Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the Collections of Uppsala University by : Christer Henriksén
Download or read book Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the Collections of Uppsala University written by Christer Henriksén and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present book is the first complete edition of the 24 Greek and Latin inscriptions in the Collection of Classical Antiquities and the Victoria Museum of Uppsala University. It contains an introduction that discusses the various types of inscriptions represented in the collections, their probable provenance and their history as part of the Uppsala collections. After the introduction follows an actual edition, which consists of a new reading of text of each inscription, followed (where possible) by an English translation, a summary of its physical and palaeographical features, and a line-by-line commentary.
Book Synopsis Epigraphy and the Greek Historian by : Phillip Harding
Download or read book Epigraphy and the Greek Historian written by Phillip Harding and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epigraphy is a method of inferring and analyzing historical data by means of inscriptions found on ancient artifacts such as stones, coins, and statues. It has proven indispensable for archaeologists and classicists, and has considerable potential for the study of ancient history at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Epigraphy and the Greek Historian is a collection of essays that explore various ways in which inscriptions can help students reconstruct and understand Greek History. In order to engage with the study of epigraphy, this collection is divided into two parts, Athens and Athens from the outside. The contributors maintain the importance of epigraphy, arguing that, in some cases, inscriptions are the only tools we have to recover the local history of places that stand outside the main focus of ancient literary sources, which are often frustratingly Athenocentric. Ideally, the historian uses both inscriptions and literary sources to make plausible inferences and thereby weave together the disconnected threads of the past into a connected and persuasive narrative. Epigraphy and the Greek Historian is a comprehensive examination of epigraphy and a timely resource for students and scholars involved in the study of ancient history.
Book Synopsis Greek and Latin Inscriptions at New York University by : Michael Peachin
Download or read book Greek and Latin Inscriptions at New York University written by Michael Peachin and published by L'Erma Di Bretschneider. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Greek and Latin Inscriptions on the Obelisk-crab in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, a Monograph by : Augustus Chapman Merriam
Download or read book The Greek and Latin Inscriptions on the Obelisk-crab in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, a Monograph written by Augustus Chapman Merriam and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Greek and Latin Inscriptions on the Obelisk-Crab in the Metropolitan Museum, New York by : Augustus C. Merriam
Download or read book The Greek and Latin Inscriptions on the Obelisk-Crab in the Metropolitan Museum, New York written by Augustus C. Merriam and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Greek and Latin Inscriptions on the Obelisk-Crab in the Metropolitan Museum, New York: A Monograph OF the two obelisks at Alexandria, Egypt, which for so long divided the interest of tourists with Pompey's Pillar, one lay prostrate upon the ground, the other, though erect, was hidden for some feet above its base-stone by the accumulation of deerz's about it. When Mr. Dixon was preparing, in 1877, to remove the fallen monolith to Eng land, he excavated about the base oi the other in order to ascertain what kind of a pedestal had originally supported the obelisk. In doing so he discovered that it had rested upon four bronze sea-crabs, two of which alone remained in place, the other pair having been wrenched out and carried off, apparently by plunderers. One of those still in position had lost both claws and all the legs, only the stumps of these remaining. The other had been mutilated very similarly, but the right claw in part was still left, and upon this had been engraved a Greek and a Latin inscription. These crabs were removed by Commander Gorringe with the obelisk to this city in 1880, and were presented by him to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Central Park in June, 1881. The Annual Report of the Museum, made public on the 12th of February, 1883, contained the following paragraph: In the last Report we acknowledged the gift of two bronze crabs, found at Alexandria, as supports to the obelisk now in Central Park, on one of which were inscriptions. Restrictions imposed by the donor against copying or publishing the inscriptions for a certain time having been recently removed, they have been copied, and impressions, photographs, and sketches made for the study of scholars. These fail to confirm the accuracy of the read ings which have been published. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.