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Writing Down Rome

Author : John Henderson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191584428
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Writing Down Rome written by John Henderson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1998-12-17 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of controversial essays, this book examines the Roman penchant for denigration, and in particular self-denigration, at the expense of Roman culture. Comedy in Republican Rome radically transformed both itself and the culture from which it sprang: in Poenulus, Plautus laughed at Roman depreciation of Carthage; in Adelphoe, Terence turned on his audience in provocation. The comic Roman poets played with self-mockery: in Eclogue III, Virgil tests his audience's security in judging peasant unpleasantness; in Odes III.22, Horace sends up his own pious rusticity down on the farm. In the second half of the book, Roman verse satire is the subject: the genre of male bragging mocks its own masculine aggression. The great Latin satirists make fun of making fun: Horace, Satires I.9, shows up the politics of humour, unmanned by his own good manners; Persius nails his own weaknesses in fortifying himself against the world; Juvenal, Satire 1, loathes the literary scene he bids to dominate. The book shows a vital ingredient of Roman poetry to be an energetic surge of urbane banter directed towards Roman culure.

Whereabouts

Author : Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593318323
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Whereabouts written by Jhumpa Lahiri and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies about a woman questioning her place in the world, wavering between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. “Another masterstroke in a career already filled with them.” —O, the Oprah Magazine Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. In the arc of one year, an unnamed narrator in an unnamed city, in the middle of her life’s journey, realizes that she’s lost her way. The city she calls home acts as a companion and interlocutor: traversing the streets around her house, and in parks, piazzas, museums, stores, and coffee bars, she feels less alone. We follow her to the pool she frequents, and to the train station that leads to her mother, who is mired in her own solitude after her husband’s untimely death. Among those who appear on this woman’s path are colleagues with whom she feels ill at ease, casual acquaintances, and “him,” a shadow who both consoles and unsettles her. Until one day at the sea, both overwhelmed and replenished by the sun’s vital heat, her perspective will abruptly change. This is the first novel Lahiri has written in Italian and translated into English. The reader will find the qualities that make Lahiri’s work so beloved: deep intelligence and feeling, richly textured physical and emotional landscapes, and a poetics of dislocation. But Whereabouts, brimming with the impulse to cross barriers, also signals a bold shift of style and sensibility. By grafting herself onto a new literary language, Lahiri has pushed herself to a new level of artistic achievement.

Asinaria

Author : Plautus
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299219933
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Asinaria written by Plautus and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asses, asses, and more asses! This new edition of Plautus' rumbustious comedy provides the complete original Latin text, witty scholarly commentary, and an English translation that both complements and explicates Plautus' original style. John Henderson reveals this play as a key to Roman social relations centered on many kinds of slavery: to sex, money, and family structure; to masculinity and social standing; to senility and partying; and to jokes, lies, and idiocy. The translation remains faithful to Plautus' syllabic style for reading aloud, as well as to his humorous colloquialisms and wordplay, providing readers with a comfortable affinity to Plautus himself. An indispensable teaching and learning tool for the study of Roman New Comedy, this edition includes comprehensive commentary, useful indexes, and a pronunciation guide that will help readers of all levels understand and appreciate Plautus and his era.

Legible Religion

Author : Duncan MacRae
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674969685
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Legible Religion written by Duncan MacRae and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have long separated a few privileged “religions of the Book” from faiths lacking sacred texts, including ancient Roman religion. Looking beyond this distinction, Duncan MacRae delves into Roman treatises on the nature of gods and rituals to grapple with a central question: what was the significance of books in a religion without scripture?

Omnium Annalium Monumenta: Historical Writing and Historical Evidence in Republican Rome

Author : Kaj Sandberg
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004355553
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Omnium Annalium Monumenta: Historical Writing and Historical Evidence in Republican Rome written by Kaj Sandberg and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical Writing and Historical Evidence in Republican Rome: Omnium Annalium Monumenta is a major collection of essays by distinguished authors on the development of Roman historiography.

Roman Satire and the Old Comic Tradition

Author : Jennifer L. Ferriss-Hill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107081548
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis Roman Satire and the Old Comic Tradition by : Jennifer L. Ferriss-Hill

Download or read book Roman Satire and the Old Comic Tradition written by Jennifer L. Ferriss-Hill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume demonstrates that distinctive features of Roman satire found in the writings of Lucilius, Horace, and Persius derived from Greek Old Comedy.

Writing and Power in the Roman World

Author : Hella Eckardt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108506887
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Writing and Power in the Roman World written by Hella Eckardt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Hella Eckardt offers new insights into literacy in the Roman world by examining the tools that enabled writing, such as inkwells, styli and tablets. Literacy was an important skill in the ancient world and power could be and often was, exercised through texts. Eckardt explores how writing equipment shaped practices such as posture and handwriting and her careful analysis of burial data shows considerable numbers of women and children interred with writing equipment, notably inkwells, in an effort to display status as well as age and gender. The volume offers a comprehensive review of recent approaches to literacy during Roman antiquity and adds a distinctive material turn to our understanding of this crucial skill and the embodied practices of its use. At the heart of this study lies the nature of the relationship between the material culture of writing and socio-cultural identities in the Roman period.

A Plautus Reader

Author : John Henderson
Publisher : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0865166943
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book A Plautus Reader written by John Henderson and published by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Juvenal and the Satiric Emotions

Author : Catherine Keane
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019026697X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Juvenal and the Satiric Emotions written by Catherine Keane and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his sixteen verse Satires, Juvenal explores the emotional provocations and pleasures associated with social criticism and mockery. He makes use of traditional generic elements such as the first-person speaker, moral diatribe, narrative, and literary allusion to create this new satiric preoccupation and theme. Juvenal defines the satirist figure as an emotional agent who dramatizes his own response to human vices and faults, and he in turn aims to engage other people's feelings. Over the course of his career, he adopts a series of rhetorical personae that represent a spectrum of satiric emotions, encouraging his audience to ponder satire's proper emotional mode and function. Juvenal first offers his signature indignatio with its associated pleasures and discomforts, then tries on subtler personae that suggest dry detachment, callous amusement, anxiety, and other affective states. As Keane shows, the satiric emotions are not only found in the author's rhetorical performances, but they are also a major part of the human farrago that the Satires purport to treat. Juvenal's poems explore the dynamic operation of emotions in society, drawing on diverse ancient literary, rhetorical, and philosophical sources. Each poem uniquely engages with different texts and ideas to reveal the unsettling powers of its emotional mode. Keane also analyzes the "emotional plot" of each book of Satires and the structural logic of the entire series with its wide range of subjects and settings. From his famous angry tirades to his more puzzling later meditations, Juvenal demonstrates an enduring interest in the relationship between feelings and moral judgment.

The Function of Humour in Roman Verse Satire

Author : Maria Plaza
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191535842
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book The Function of Humour in Roman Verse Satire written by Maria Plaza and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria Plaza sets out to analyse the function of humour in the Roman satirists Horace, Persius, and Juvenal. Her starting point is that satire is driven by two motives, which are to a certain extent opposed: to display humour, and to promote a serious moral message. She argues that, while the Roman satirist needs humour for his work's aesthetic merit, his proposed message suffers from the ambivalence that humour brings with it. Her analysis shows that this paradox is not only socio-ideological but also aesthetic, forming the ground for the curious, hybrid nature of Roman satire.

Daily Life in Ancient Rome

Author : Jérôme Carcopino
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300101867
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Daily Life in Ancient Rome written by Jérôme Carcopino and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides insight into Roman life of the second century A.D.

From Memory to Written Record

Author : Michael T. Clanchy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118295986
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book From Memory to Written Record written by Michael T. Clanchy and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This seminal work of scholarship, which traces the development of literacy in medieval England, is now fully updated in a third edition. This book serves as an introduction to medieval books and documents for graduate students throughout the world Features a completely re-written first chapter, ‘Memories and Myths of the Norman Conquest', and a new postscript by the author reflecting on the reception to the original publication and discussing recent scholarship on medieval literacy Includes a revised guide to further reading and a revision of the plates which illustrate medieval manuscripts in detail

Politeia in Greek and Roman Philosophy

Author : Verity Harte
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107020220
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Politeia in Greek and Roman Philosophy written by Verity Harte and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how politeia (constitution) structures both political and extra-political relations throughout the entire range of Greek and Roman thought. Topics include the vocabulary of politics, the practice of politics, the politics of value, and the extension of constitutional order to relations with animals, gods and the cosmos.

Fighting for Rome

Author : John Henderson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521580267
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Fighting for Rome written by John Henderson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-03-12 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in Fighting for Rome confront the traumatic disjunction between the militarist culture of classical Rome, with its heavy investment in valour, conquest and triumph, and the domination of its history by civil war, where Roman soldiers killed so many Romans for control of Rome. The essays gathered and rewritten here range across the literary forms (history, satire, lyric and epic) and work closely with the ancient texts (Appian and Julius Caesar; Horace; Lucan and Statius; Tacitus and Livy). Close reading and powerful translation communicate the ancient writers' efforts to grasp and respond to the Roman civil wars, and to their product, Roman terror under the Caesars. The book aims to bring to life strong reactions to a world order run by civil war.

Rome's Patron

Author : Emily Gowers
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691255989
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Rome's Patron written by Emily Gowers and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Maecenas and his role in the evolution and continuing legacy of ancient Roman poetry and culture An unelected statesman with exceptional powers, a patron of the arts and a luxury-loving friend of the emperor Augustus: Maecenas was one of the most prominent and distinctive personalities of ancient Rome. Yet the traces he left behind are unreliable and tantalizingly scarce. Rather than attempting a conventional biography, Emily Gowers shows in Rome’s Patron that it is possible to tell a different story, one about Maecenas’s influence, his changing identities and the many narratives attached to him across two millennia. Rome’s Patron explores Maecenas’s appearances in the central works of Augustan poetry written in his name—Virgil’s Georgics, Horace’s Odes and Propertius’s elegies—and in later works of Latin literature that reassess his influence. For the Roman poets he supported, Maecenas was a mascot of cultural flexibility and innovation, a pioneer of gender fluidity and a bearer of imperial demands who could be exposed as a secret sympathizer with their own values. For those excluded from his circle, he represented either favouritism and indulgence or the lost ideal of a patron in perfect collaboration with the authors he championed. As Gowers shows, Maecenas had and continues to have a unique cachet—in the fantasies that still surround the gardens, buildings and objects so tenuously associated with him; in literature, from Ariosto and Ben Johnson to Phillis Wheatley and W. B. Yeats; and in philanthropy, where his name has been surprisingly adaptable to more democratic forms of patronage.

The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire

Author : Kirk Freudenburg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521803595
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire written by Kirk Freudenburg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-12 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satire as a distinct genre of writing was first developed by the Romans in the second century BCE. Regarded by them as uniquely 'their own', satire held a special place in the Roman imagination as the one genre that could address the problems of city life from the perspective of a 'real Roman'. In this Cambridge Companion an international team of scholars provides a stimulating introduction to Roman satire's core practitioners and practices, placing them within the contexts of Greco-Roman literary and political history. Besides addressing basic questions of authors, content, and form, the volume looks to the question of what satire 'does' within the world of Greco-Roman social exchanges, and goes on to treat the genre's further development, reception, and translation in Elizabethan England and beyond. Included are studies of the prosimetric, 'Menippean' satires that would become the models of Rabelais, Erasmus, More, and (narrative satire's crowning jewel) Swift.

Roman Satire

Author : Daniel Hooley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470777087
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Roman Satire written by Daniel Hooley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compact and critically up-to-date introduction to Roman satire examines the development of the genre, focusing particularly on the literary and social functionality of satire. It considers why it was important to the Romans and why it still matters. Provides a compact and critically up-to-date introduction to Roman satire. Focuses on the development and function of satire in literary and social contexts. Takes account of recent critical approaches. Keeps the uninitiated reader in mind, presuming no prior knowledge of the subject. Introduces each satirist in his own historical time and place – including the masters of Roman satire, Lucilius, Horace, Persius, and Juvenal. Facilitates comparative and intertextual discussion of different satirists.