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Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus

Author : Marcus Junianus Justinus
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198149071
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (49 download)

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Book Synopsis Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus by : Marcus Junianus Justinus

Download or read book Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus written by Marcus Junianus Justinus and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the first authoritative English translation and scholarly commentary on a little known but important ancient historical source: the 2nd/3rd century Roman historian Justin's epitome or abridged version of the Philippic History by Pompeius Trogus (27 BC-AD 14). This book covers books 11-12 and represents one of the five major sources for historians on the life and times of Alexander the Great.

Ancient Macedonians in Greek and Roman Sources

Author : Tim Howe
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
ISBN 13 : 1910589977
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Macedonians in Greek and Roman Sources written by Tim Howe and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent scholars have analysed ways in which authors of the Roman era appropriated the figure of Alexander the Great. The essays in this collection cast a wider net, to show how Classical Greek, Hellenistic and Roman authors reinterpret and sometimes misinterpret information on ancient Macedonians to serve their own literary and political aims. Although Roman ideas pervade the historiographical tradition, this volume shows that the manipulation of ancient Macedonian history largely occurred much earlier. It reflected the complicated dynastic politics of the Argead royal house, the efforts of Alexander himself to redefine Macedonian kingship, and the competing strategies of the Successors to claim his legacy. Facing the complexity of the source tradition about the ancient Macedonians yields a richer and more balanced reflection of both the history and the historiography of this important and controversial people.

British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Valorizing the Barbarians

Author : Eric Adler
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292744684
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Valorizing the Barbarians written by Eric Adler and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the growth of postcolonial theory in recent decades, scholarly views of Roman imperialism and colonialism have been evolving and shifting. Much recent discussion of the topic has centered on the ways in which ancient Roman historians consciously or unconsciously denigrated non-Romans. Similarly, contemporary scholars have downplayed Roman elite anxiety about their empire's expansion. In this groundbreaking new work, Eric Adler explores the degree to which ancient historians of Rome were capable of valorizing foreigners and presenting criticisms of their own society. By examining speeches put into the mouths of barbarian leaders by a variety of writers, he investigates how critical of the empire these historians could be. Adler examines pairs of speeches purportedly delivered by non-Roman leaders so that the contrast between them might elucidate each writer's sense of imperialism. Analyses of Sallust's and Trogus's treatments of the Eastern ruler Mithradates, Polybius's and Livy's speeches from Carthage's Hannibal, and Tacitus's and Cassius Dio's accounts of the oratory of the Celtic warrior queen Boudica form the core of this study. Adler supplements these with examinations of speeches from other characters, as well as contextual narrative from the historians. Throughout, Adler wrestles with broader issues of Roman imperialism and historiography, including administrative greed and corruption in the provinces, the treatment of gender and sexuality, and ethnic stereotyping.

Justin and Pompeius Trogus

Author : John Yardley
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802087669
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (876 download)

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Download or read book Justin and Pompeius Trogus written by John Yardley and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around 200AD, Marcus Junianus Justinus produced an abridged or 'epitomized' version of the Philippic Histories of the Augustan historian Pompeius Trogus. In doing so, he omitted all he did not find either intrinsically interesting or of use for historical examples. Over the centuries that followed, the abridgement eclipsed the original work in popularity, to the extent that Trogus' original work vanished and only Justin's version survived. In this investigation of the language of the Epitome, the first in almost a century, J.C. Yardley examines the work to establish how much of the text belongs to Trogus, and how much to Justin. His study compares words and expressions used in the Epitome with the usage of other Roman authors, and establishes areas where diction is similar to Augustan-era Latin and less in use in Justin's time. Yardley's extensive analysis reveals that there is more of Justin in the work than is often supposed, which may have implications for the historical credibility of the document. Yardley also demonstrates how much Trogus was influenced by his contemporary Livy as well as other Roman authors such as Sallust and Caesar, and how the Epitome reveals the influence of Roman poetry, especially the work of Virgil.

Three Historians of Alexander the Great

Author : N. G. L. Hammond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521036535
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Three Historians of Alexander the Great written by N. G. L. Hammond and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our knowledge of Alexander the Great is derived from the widely varying accounts of five authors who wrote three and more centuries after his death. The value of each account can be determined in detail only by discovering the source from which it drew, section by section, whether from a contemporary document, a memoir by a companion of Alexander, a hostile critique or a romanticizing narrative. In this book the three earliest accounts are studied in depth, and it becomes apparent that each author used more than one source, and that only occasionally did any two of them or all three use the same source for an incident or a series of incidents. This book will be of value to ancient historians and of interest also to those studying Alexander the Great.

Catalogue of the Library of the Late J.A. Maconochie ... which Will be Sold by Auction by Mr. P.S. Fraser ... 31st May 1845, Etc

Author : James Allan Maconochie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Late J.A. Maconochie ... which Will be Sold by Auction by Mr. P.S. Fraser ... 31st May 1845, Etc written by James Allan Maconochie and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jew and Gentile in the Ancient World

Author : Louis H. Feldman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400820804
Total Pages : 691 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Jew and Gentile in the Ancient World written by Louis H. Feldman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relations between Jews and non-Jews in the Hellenistic-Roman period were marked by suspicion and hate, maintain most studies of that topic. But if such conjectures are true, asks Louis Feldman, how did Jews succeed in winning so many adherents, whether full-fledged proselytes or "sympathizers" who adopted one or more Jewish practices? Systematically evaluating attitudes toward Jews from the time of Alexander the Great to the fifth century A.D., Feldman finds that Judaism elicited strongly positive and not merely unfavorable responses from the non-Jewish population. Jews were a vigorous presence in the ancient world, and Judaism was strengthened substantially by the development of the Talmud. Although Jews in the Diaspora were deeply Hellenized, those who remained in Israel were able to resist the cultural inroads of Hellenism and even to initiate intellectual counterattacks. Feldman draws on a wide variety of material, from Philo, Josephus, and other Graeco-Jewish writers through the Apocrypha, the Pseudepigrapha, the Church Councils, Church Fathers, and imperial decrees to Talmudic and Midrashic writings and inscriptions and papyri. What emerges is a rich description of a long era to which conceptions of Jewish history as uninterrupted weakness and suffering do not apply.

Alexander the Great

Author : Elizabeth Baynham
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472108589
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Alexander the Great written by Elizabeth Baynham and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literary tradition surrounding the Macedonian conqueror is rich, contradictory and complex. Much of what we know comes from the history of Quintus Curtius, who wrote a history of Alexander in the first century AD. Baynham explores Curtius' historical style and his presentation of the legendary king. She examines his use of ancient sources, and discusses why Curtius chose to preserve the information about Alexander that he did. She demonstrates that his work was a carefully planned narrative, and that he was not only interested in presenting Alexander as a clever ruler and accomplished tactician, but also as a human subject to the whims of chance, of fortuna .

Early Arsakid Parthia (ca. 250-165 B.C.)

Author : Marek Jan Olbrycht
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004460764
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Early Arsakid Parthia (ca. 250-165 B.C.) written by Marek Jan Olbrycht and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Early Arsakid Parthia (ca. 250-165 B.C.): At the Crossroads of Iranian, Hellenistic, and Central Asian History, Marek Jan Olbrycht depicts the early Arsakid Parthian state in northeastern Iran and Turkmenistan within the broader historical context of Western and Central Asia in the post-Achaemenid/Hellenistic period.

The Shepherd of Hermas in Latin

Author : Christian Tornau
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110340747
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Shepherd of Hermas in Latin written by Christian Tornau and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-09-12 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shepherd of Hermas is a Greek visionary text written in Rome during the 2nd century CE with the aim to exhort men to change life and repent for their sins, taking advantage of the last chance given by the Lord before world’s end. The Shepherd is a very important witness of history of the early Christian thought and it was so widely-read that it was immediately translated into Latin and other languages. Despite the considerable amount of Greek textual witnesses of the Shepherd (more than twenty-five written between the 2nd and the 14th century), its complete text did not survive until today, therefore its translations in other languages are of crucial importance for the constitutio textus. Among the various translations, the Latin Vulgata stands out for its antiquity, accuracy and links with some important Greek witnesses like the Papyrus Bodmer 38 (4th/5th century) and the Codex Athous Grigoriou 96 (14th century). The last critical edition of the Vulgata was made by H.A. Hilgenfeld in 1873 and is still quoted by scholars today. The Shepherd of Hermas in Latin offers a more modern and complete philological study through an investigation of new unknown textual sources from 9th to 14th century and gives new philological and textual data with the aim to replace the accurate but not updated edition of Hilgenfeld.

Catalogue of the J. William Smith Collection

Author : Syracuse Public Library (Syracuse, N.Y.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of the J. William Smith Collection written by Syracuse Public Library (Syracuse, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lewis Carroll Among His Books

Author : Charlie Lovett
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476609411
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Lewis Carroll Among His Books written by Charlie Lovett and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--known better by his pseudonym, Lewis Carroll--was a 19th century English logician, mathematician, photographer, and novelist. He is especially remembered for his children's tale Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass. By the time of Dodgson's death in 1898, Alice (the integration of the two volumes) had become the most popular children's book in England. By the time of his centenary in 1932, it was perhaps the most famous in the world. This book presents a complete catalogue of Dodgson's personal library, with attention to every book the author is known to have owned or read. Alphabetized entries fully describe each book, its edition, its contents, its importance, and any particular relevance it might have had to Dodgson. The library not only provides a plethora of fodder for further study on Dodgson, but also reflects the Victorian world of the second half of the 19th century, a time of unprecedented investigation, experimentation, invention, and imagination. Dodgson's volumes represent a vast array of academic interests from Victorian England and beyond, including homeopathic medicine, spiritualism, astrology, evolution, women's rights, children's literature, linguistics, theology, eugenics, and many others. The catalogue is designed for scholars seeking insight into the mind of Charles Dodgson through his books.

Sex Acts in Early Modern Italy

Author : Allison Levy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351549030
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Sex Acts in Early Modern Italy written by Allison Levy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emphasizing the peculiar, the perverse, the clandestine and the scandalous, this volume opens up a critical discourse on sexuality and visual culture in early modern Italy. Contributors consider not just painted (conventional) representations of sexual activities and eroticized bodies, but also images from print media, drawings, sculpted objects and painted ceramic jars. In this way, the volume presents an entirely new picture of Renaissance sexuality, stripping away layers of misconceptions and manipulations to reveal an often-misunderstood world. 'Sex acts' is interpreted broadly, from the acting out, or performing, of one's (or another's) sex to sexual activity, including what might be considered, now or then, peculiar practices and preferences and a variety of possibly scandalous scenarios. While the contributors come from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, this collection foregrounds the visual culture of early modern sexuality, from representations of sex and sexualized bodies to material objects associated with sexual activities. The picture presented here nuances our understanding of Renaissance sexuality as well as our own.

The Life of David Hume

Author : Ernest Campbell Mossner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199243365
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book The Life of David Hume written by Ernest Campbell Mossner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mossner's Life of David Hume remains the standard biography of this great thinker and writer. First published in 1954, and updated in 1980, this excellent life story is now reissued in paperback, in response to an overwhelming interest in Hume's brilliant ideas. Containing more than a simple biography, this exemplary work is also a study of intellectual reaction in the eighteenth century. In this new edition are a detailed bibliography, index, and textual supplements, making it the perfect text for scholars and advanced students of Hume, epistemology, and the history of philosophy. It is also ideal for historians and literary scholars working on the eighteenth century, and for anyone with an interest in philosophy.

Bibliothèque Quatremère. Catalogue d'une collection de livres précieux ... provenant pour la plupart de la bibliothèque de fou M. E. Quatremère ... Rédigé par C. H., etc. 4 pt. [With the prices in MS.]

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Author : Carl Felix von HALM
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 824 pages
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Anthologies of Historiographical Speeches from Antiquity to Early Modern Times

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004341862
Total Pages : 558 pages
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Download or read book Anthologies of Historiographical Speeches from Antiquity to Early Modern Times written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthologies of speeches excerpted from history books constitute a relatively little-known rhetorical and bibliographic genre. From ancient times to the present day, the practice of culling characters’ orations from one or more works and publishing them independently of their original source has produced new and different ways of reading and using history. Anthologies of Historiographical Speeches offers an introduction to the very diverse questions that arise from the study of the genre through a variety of approaches and methodological tools. Lying at the point where rhetoric and historiography intersect, the essays included in this volume focus on the rhetorical aspects of the collections, as well as on their production, transmission, and reception from antiquity to the early modern period.