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Author : Benjamin Markovits
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571217939
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Syme Papers Exp written by Benjamin Markovits and published by . This book was released on 2008-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin Markovits
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571217915
Total Pages : 591 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (179 download)
Download or read book The Syme Papers written by Benjamin Markovits and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douglas Pitt is a man obsessed. Laughed at, mocked and dismissed at every turn, Pitt has spent the best part of an unremarkable academic career attempting to prove the genius of Samuel Highgate Syme (b 1794, Baltimore; soldier, geologist, inventor). After years of frustration, Pitt finally stumbles into the good fortune he hopes will make his name: he uncovers a manuscript written by a fledgling scientist which recounts a year in the company of the irrespresible Syme. Teeming with comic detail and fierce intelligence, The Syme Papers recreates a time when to question the world and the origin of creation was the greatest project a scientist could undertake. It is a novel of genius and failure; of a man who thought he could prove the world was hollow, and in the glorious process of discover, broke his own heart.
Author : Ronald Syme
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Historia Augusta Papers written by Ronald Syme and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1983 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together fifteen studies written since 1972 on the notorious Historia Augusta. Syme advances the theory, supported by computer evidence, that the papers are the work of only one person, rather than six as they purport, and that they were written considerably later than the reigns of Diocletian and Constantine. He argues that, taken as a whole, the papers are a work of "fictional history" and constitute an elaborate and erudite hoax.
Author : Syme family
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (111 download)
Download or read book Papers of the Syme Family written by Syme family and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald Syme
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520929101
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Sallust written by Ronald Syme and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this classic book, Sir Ronald Syme became the first historian of the twentieth century to place Sallust—whom Tacitus called the most brilliant Roman historian—in his social, political, and literary context. Scholars had considered Sallust to be a mere political hack or pamphleteer, but Syme's text makes important connections between the politics of the Republic and the literary achievement of the author to show Sallust as a historian unbiased by partisanship. In a new foreword, Ronald Mellor delivers one of the most thorough biographical essays of Sir Ronald Syme in English. He both places the book in the context of Syme's other works and details the progression of Sallustian studies since and as a result of Syme's work.
Author : Ronald Syme
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198767064
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Approaching the Roman Revolution written by Ronald Syme and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a series of previously unpublished studies on aspects of the Roman Republic by one of the greatest Roman historians of all time, Sir Ronald Syme (1903-1989), the author of The Roman Revolution.
Author : Ronald Mellor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195151925
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Tacitus' Annals written by Ronald Mellor and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tacitus' Annals is the central historical source for first-century C.E. Rome. It is prized by historians since it provides the best narrative material for the reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero, as well as a probing analysis of the imperial system of government. But the Annals should be seen as far more than an historical source, a mere mine for the reconstruction of the facts of Roman history. While the Annals is a superb work of history, it has also become a central text in the western literary, political, and even philosophical traditions - from the Renaissance to the French and American revolutions, and beyond. This volume attempts to enhance the reader's understanding of how this book of history could have such a profound effect.Chapters will address the purpose, form, and method of Roman historical writing, the ethnic biases of Tacitus, and his use of sources. Since Tacitus has been regarded as one of the first analysts of the psychopathology of political life, the book will examine the emperors, the women of the court, and the ambitious entourage of freedmen and intellectuals who surround every Roman ruler. The final chapter will examine the impact of Tacitus' Annals since their rediscovery by Boccaccio in the 14th century.
Author : Ronald Syme
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191647187
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Roman Revolution written by Ronald Syme and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-08-08 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman Revolution is a profound and unconventional treatment of a great theme - the fall of the Republic and the decline of freedom in Rome between 60 BC and AD 14, and the rise to power of the greatest of the Roman Emperors, Augustus. The transformation of state and society, the violent transference of power and property, and the establishment of Augustus' rule are presented in an unconventional narrative, which quotes from ancient evidence, refers seldomly to modern authorities, and states controversial opinions quite openly. The result is a book which is both fresh and compelling.
Author : Patrick Syme
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Werner's nomenclature of colours, with additions by P. Syme written by Patrick Syme and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Becca Syme
Publisher : QuitBooks for Writers
ISBN 13 : 9780997970616
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Dear Writer, You Need to Quit written by Becca Syme and published by QuitBooks for Writers. This book was released on 2019-01-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Okay, people, here's the drill. You want to know if you should quit writing or not. If you want someone to tell you to quit writing, let me save you the time. Yes, you should quit. There. Now. Do you want my real advice? This book is my real advice. Of course, you could still click away, and go about your business. Or buy the book and see if I'm right. Up to you, Neo. Red pill or blue pill?If you're here, you're probably a writer. I'm a coach of writers. Wanna see what I have to say? Great. The price of admission is a promise to me. You promise me, when you buy this book, that you're going to do the work. You're going to read it. You might not quit writing, but you will quit something.Read my bio if you're unconvinced. I've coached a lot of successful people and I'm not here to play. This is the big leagues. I don't pull punches, and I'm not your friend. I want you to succeed, and that means there will be some work. But you can do this, dear writer. I know you can.
Author : Ronald Syme
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Anatolica written by Ronald Syme and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No historian of ancient Rome in this century has had a greater influence on historical research or won greater international acclaim than Sir Ronald Syne (1903-89). His outstanding position was due mainly to his first two books, The Roman Revolution, which appeared in 1939, and Tacitus (twovolumes, 1958) - although he went on to produce many more monographs, and seven volumes of his Roman Papers have so far appeared. The long gap between his first two books is partly explained by the war, which took him on official duties to Belgrade and Ankara; and he spent the years 1943-5 atIstanbul as Professor of Classical Philology. It was known that in spite of the war, Syme had continued to write in these years, in particular `Strabonia', investigations into the famous ancient Geography composed by Strabo, a native of Asia Minor in the time of Augustus. After Syme's death, themanuscript was discovered among his papers: he had not quite completed the work, but what he had written, with almost complete annotation, represents a substantial and fascinating study of the historical geography of Anatolia in the Hellenistic and early Roman period. Syme ruthlessly dissects theoften incoherent and inconsistent text of Strabo, at the same time providing rich detail on client kings, Roman generals and emperors, writers and travellers. Above all, he shows unequalled ability to understand the landscape and settlement of Anatolia; and the work is composed in the same forcefuland elegant style that made his other books classics of historical literature.
Author : Benjamin Markovits
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393346269
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Imposture: A Novel written by Benjamin Markovits and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2007-05-17 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Markovits] leaves us wanting, in the most delicious way, more." —Kirsty Gunn, The Observer Lord Byron was the greatest writer and the most notorious, scandalous lover of his age—an irresistible attraction for a sheltered, bookish, and passionate young woman like Eliza Esmond. Eliza believes she’s met Byron on the doorstep of his publisher, and that her dreams have come true when he arranges to meet her in secret. But what if the man she believes to be Byron is someone else—a look-alike named John Polidori, who once toured Europe as Byron’s doctor?
Author : Ronald Syme
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Roman Papers: Volume IV written by Ronald Syme and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988-04-14 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes Iv and V of Roman Papers contain forty-two of Sir Ronald Syme's papers composed between 1981 and 1985. A good many deal with the younger Pliny and Tacitus; other ancient authors examined here include Strabo, the elder Pliny, Statius, Quintilian, and Arrian. Several papers focus on the Spanish provinces and on the Greek east. New light is shed on the 'Hispano-Narbonensian nexus' that emerged under the Flavians and was to form the Antonine dynasty, on the emperor Hadrian and his Antonine successors, and on the usurper Avidius Cassius. There is an Index of Persons for the two volumes at the end of Roman Papers V.
Author : Bertrand M. ROEHNER
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674042840
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Pattern and Repertoire in History written by Bertrand M. ROEHNER and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to analyze clusters of similar "elementary" occurrences that serve as the building blocks of more global events. Making connections between seemingly unrelated case studies, Roehner and Syme apply scientific methodology to the analysis of history. Their book identifies the recurring patterns of behavior that shape the histories of different countries separated by vast stretches of time and space. Taking advantage of a broad wealth of historical evidence, the authors decipher what may be seen as a kind of genetic code of history.
Author : Rodney Syme
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0522870945
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (228 download)
Download or read book Time to Die written by Rodney Syme and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical science now allows us to live longer than ever before. So living with pain and dying well have become major concerns for the general community, health practitioners, church groups and politicians. Should these issues be decided in private by individuals or must we legislate ethical guidelines? Rodney Syme has been an advocate for medically assisted dying for more than twenty years. In Time to Die he reflects on those living and dying in pain and shares their stories. Syme makes a powerful case for extending the right to die to those whose suffering is unbearable.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Papers of N. R. Syme written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian Vickers
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674970330
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book The One King Lear written by Brian Vickers and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Lear exists in two different texts: the Quarto (1608) and the Folio (1623). Because each supplies passages missing in the other, for over 200 years editors combined the two to form a single text, the basis for all modern productions. Then in the 1980s a group of influential scholars argued that the two texts represent different versions of King Lear, that Shakespeare revised his play in light of theatrical performance. The two-text theory has since hardened into orthodoxy. Now for the first time in a book-length argument, one of the world’s most eminent Shakespeare scholars challenges the two-text theory. At stake is the way Shakespeare’s greatest play is read and performed. Sir Brian Vickers demonstrates that the cuts in the Quarto were in fact carried out by the printer because he had underestimated the amount of paper he would need. Paper was an expensive commodity in the early modern period, and printers counted the number of lines or words in a manuscript before ordering their supply. As for the Folio, whereas the revisionists claim that Shakespeare cut the text in order to alter the balance between characters, Vickers sees no evidence of his agency. These cuts were likely made by the theater company to speed up the action. Vickers includes responses to the revisionist theory made by leading literary scholars, who show that the Folio cuts damage the play’s moral and emotional structure and are impracticable on the stage.
