The Manuscript Tradition Of The Historia Augusta Scholars Choice Edition

Download The Manuscript Tradition Of The Historia Augusta Scholars Choice Edition full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online The Manuscript Tradition Of The Historia Augusta Scholars Choice Edition ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

History of Scholarship

Author : Christopher Ligota
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199284318
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis History of Scholarship by : Christopher Ligota

Download or read book History of Scholarship written by Christopher Ligota and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006-04-06 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of scholarship has undergone a complete renewal in recent years, and is now a major branch of research with vast territories to explore; a substantial introduction to History of Scholarship surveys the past vicissitudes of the history of scholarship and its current expansion.The authors, all specialists of international standing, come from a variety of backgrounds: classical studies, history of religions, philosophy, early modern intellectual and religioushistory. Their papers illustrate a variety of themes and approaches, including Renaissance antiquarianism and philology; the rise of the notion of criticism; Biblical and patristic scholarship, and its implications for both confessional orthodoxy and eighteeenth-century free thought; the history of philosophy;and German historiographical thought in both the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. This challenging volume constitutes a collection of remarkable quality, helping to establish the history of scholarship as a more broadly acknowledged, worthwhile field of study in its own right.

Scribes and Scholars

Author : L. D. Reynolds
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199686335
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Scribes and Scholars by : L. D. Reynolds

Download or read book Scribes and Scholars written by L. D. Reynolds and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It explores how the texts from classical Greece and Rome have survived and gives an account of the reasons why it was thought worthwhile to preserve them for future generations. In this 4th edition adjustments have been made to the text and the notes have been revised in order to take account of advances in scholarship over the last twenty years.

Approaching the Roman Revolution

Author : Ronald Syme
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191091871
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Approaching the Roman Revolution by : Ronald Syme

Download or read book Approaching the Roman Revolution written by Ronald Syme and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-24 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects twenty-six previously unpublished studies on Republican history by the late Sir Ronald Syme (1903-1989), drawn from the archive of Syme's papers at the Bodleian Library. This set of papers sheds light on aspects of Republican history that were either overlooked or tangentially discussed in Syme's published work. They range across a wide spectrum of topics, including the political history of the second century BC, the age of Sulla, the conspiracy of Catiline, problems of constitutional law, and the Roman conquest of Umbria. Each of them makes a distinctive contribution to specific historical problems. Taken as a whole, they enable us to reach a more comprehensive assessment of Syme's intellectual and historiographical profile. The papers are preceded by an introduction that places them within the context of Syme's work and of the current historiography on the Roman Republic, and are followed by a full set of bibliographical addenda.

Emperors and Biography

Author : Ronald Syme
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Emperors and Biography by : Ronald Syme

Download or read book Emperors and Biography written by Ronald Syme and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides biographical information for Roman emperors of the third century.

Reading History in Early Modern England

Author : D. R. Woolf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521780469
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (84 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Reading History in Early Modern England by : D. R. Woolf

Download or read book Reading History in Early Modern England written by D. R. Woolf and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of writing, publishing and marketing history books in the early modern period.

Splendide Mendax

Author : Edmund P. Cueva
Publisher : Barkhuis
ISBN 13 : 9491431986
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (914 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Splendide Mendax by : Edmund P. Cueva

Download or read book Splendide Mendax written by Edmund P. Cueva and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many new and fruitful avenues of investigation open up when scholars consider forgery as a creative act rather than a crime. We invited authors to contribute work without imposing any restrictions beyond a willingness to consider new approaches to the subject of ancient fakes and forgeries.

The Tacitus Encyclopedia

Author : Victoria Emma Pagán
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119743338
Total Pages : 1883 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (197 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Tacitus Encyclopedia by : Victoria Emma Pagán

Download or read book The Tacitus Encyclopedia written by Victoria Emma Pagán and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-05-24 with total page 1883 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tacitus Encyclopedia ist das einzige vollständige Referenzwerk seiner Art im Bereich der Tacitus-Studien. Das zweibändige Werk enthält mehr als 1.000 Einträge zu jeder Person und jedem Ort, die in den erhaltenen Werken des römischen Historikers und Politikers Tacitus (ca. 56-120 n. Chr.) Erwähnung finden. In den von einem internationalen Autorenteam verfassten Beiträgen werden die bei Tacitus genannten Personen und Orte in den Kontext eingeordnet, und es werden ihre Beziehungen zum größeren taciteischen Korpus aufgezeigt. Die Einträge sind alphabetisch geordnet und mit Querverweisen versehen. Sie enthalten allgemeine Beschreibungen und Hintergrundinformationen zu den in den Texten genannten Stichworten, Zitate aus antiken Quellen und der einschlägigen Wissenschaft sowie Empfehlungen zum Weiterlesen. Die Enzyklopädie, die als Ausgangspunkt für weitere Forschungen gedacht ist, umfasst zudem 165 Themenschwerpunkte in Verbindung mit den Tacitus-Studien, darunter antike Geschichtsschreibung, Geschichte, Sozialgeschichte, Geschlecht und Sexualität, Literaturkritik, antike Autoren, Rezeption und materielle Kultur. Dieses unverzichtbare Nachschlagewerk bietet nicht nur einen umfassenden Überblick über die Inhalte der taciteischen Schriften, sondern darüber hinaus: * Eine Darstellung von rund 1.000 Personen sowie 400 Regionen, Städten und Orten, geografischen und topologischen Merkmalen * Einen verständlichen Einstieg in die Werke des Tacitus, insbesondere die Annalen, Historien, Agricola, Germania und Dialogus de oratoribus für Leserinnen und Leser mit unterschiedlichen Vorkenntnissen * Die Erörterung einer großen Bandbreite an Themen wie Geschlechterfragen, Sklaverei, Literaturgeschichte sowie der Regentschaft einzelner Herrscher * Eine Präsentation der wissenschaftlichen Erforschung und Rezeption von Tacitus von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart * Betrachtungen der wissenschaftlichen Trends, der aktuellen Methodik und künftigen Richtungen der Tacitus-Studien Das Werk The Tacitus Encyclopedia ist als Druckfassung und als Online-Version erhältlich. Es ist ein unentbehrliches Referenzwerk für Studierende und Forschende in den Bereichen Geschichte und Geschichtsschreibung, Klassische Philologie, Kunstgeschichte, Sozialwissenschaften, Europäische Geistesgeschichte, Archäologie und Romanistik.

Studies in the Historia Augusta

Author : Mark Thomson (Classicist)
Publisher : Latomus/Tournai
ISBN 13 : 9782870312780
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (127 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Studies in the Historia Augusta by : Mark Thomson (Classicist)

Download or read book Studies in the Historia Augusta written by Mark Thomson (Classicist) and published by Latomus/Tournai. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This short monograph examines the authorship, date, context, redaction and reception of the Historia Augusta - a corpus of biographies of emperors and usurpers of the second and third centuries, which purports to be the work of six writers active in the reigns of Diocletian and Constantine. Thomson accepts the widely held view that one author, a scholarly impostor, composed and redacted the Historia Augusta some time after about 395. Internal evidence -which includes administrative anachronisms and allusions to events, as well as spurious names, genealogies and documents - suggests that the corpus was intended for an audience among the Roman elite of the end of the fourth century. Thomson argues that the lives were not written for a polemical purpose. Their author instead responded to widespread interest in the works of Suetonius and Marius Maximus; his countless fabrications represented attempts to fill lacunae in the record with material appropriate to the genre of imperial biography. To this end, the scholarly impostor plundered the tradition for literary models and historical examples, apparently unmoved by the strict demands of chronology. This monograph advances several arguments that may be considered innovative. After examining the evidence of the text and the tradition, Thomson substantively revises existing theories on the redaction of the corpus. He proposes that an extant collection of panegyrics (the Panegyrici Latini) -or some similar work now lost- may have provided a model for the otherwise baffling imposture of collective authorship and tetrarchic date. Thomson also tentatively suggests a connection between the scholarly impostor, the spurious author Flavius Vopiscus Syracusius and a Syracusan poetaster and antiquarian active in the relevant period (Naucellius)."--Publisher's website.

Marguerite Yourcenar’s Hadrian

Author : Keith Bradley
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487548893
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Marguerite Yourcenar’s Hadrian by : Keith Bradley

Download or read book Marguerite Yourcenar’s Hadrian written by Keith Bradley and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marguerite Yourcenar is best known as the author of the 1951 novel Mémoires d’Hadrien, her recreation of the life of the Roman emperor Hadrian. The work can be examined from the perspective of the issues raised by writing Roman imperial biography at large and the many ways in which Mémoires has a claim to historical authenticity. In Marguerite Yourcenar’s Hadrian, Keith Bradley explains how Mémoires d’Hadrien came to be written, gives details of Yourcenar’s own biography, and describes some of the intricate historical problems that her novel’s portrait of Hadrian presents. He draws on Yourcenar’s correspondence, her interviews with journalists, and her literary corpus as a whole, emphasizing Yourcenar’s profound knowledge of the ancient evidence on which her life of Hadrian is based and exploiting a wide range of contemporary Yourcenarian criticism. The book pays special attention to the methods by which Yourcenar believed Hadrian’s life history to be recoverable, compares examples of modern life-writing, and contrasts the procedures of conventional Roman biographers. Revealing how and why Mémoires d’Hadrien is as it is, Marguerite Yourcenar’s Hadrian illustrates how imaginative literary recreation is often little different from historical speculation.

A Commentary on the Vita Hadriani in the Historia Augusta

Author : Herbert W. Benario
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Commentary on the Vita Hadriani in the Historia Augusta by : Herbert W. Benario

Download or read book A Commentary on the Vita Hadriani in the Historia Augusta written by Herbert W. Benario and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Goose longs for baby of his own, but the egg he finds to sit on hatches into the most unusual chick!

Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire

Author : Matthew Bunson
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438110278
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire by : Matthew Bunson

Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire written by Matthew Bunson and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not much has happened in the Roman Empire since 1994 that required the first edition to be updated, but Bunson, a prolific reference and history author, has revised it, incorporated new findings and thinking, and changed the dating style to C.E. (Common Era) and B.C.E. (Before Common Era). For the 500 years from Julius Caesar and the Gallic Wars in 59-51 B.C.E. to the fall of the empire in the west in 476 C.E, he discusses personalities, terms, sites, and events. There is very little cross-referencing.

Choice

Author : Richard K. Gardner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Choice by : Richard K. Gardner

Download or read book Choice written by Richard K. Gardner and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Oxford Companion to Food

Author : Alan Davidson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191018252
Total Pages : 1944 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Oxford Companion to Food by : Alan Davidson

Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Food written by Alan Davidson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-09-21 with total page 1944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Companion to Food by Alan Davidson, first published in 1999, became, almost overnight, an immense success, winning prizes and accolades around the world. Its combination of serious food history, culinary expertise, and entertaining serendipity, with each page offering an infinity of perspectives, was recognized as unique. The study of food and food history is a new discipline, but one that has developed exponentially in the last twenty years. There are now university departments, international societies, learned journals, and a wide-ranging literature exploring the meaning of food in the daily lives of people around the world, and seeking to introduce food and the process of nourishment into our understanding of almost every compartment of human life, whether politics, high culture, street life, agriculture, or life and death issues such as conflict and war. The great quality of this Companion is the way it includes both an exhaustive catalogue of the foods that nourish humankind - whether they be fruit from tropical forests, mosses scraped from adamantine granite in Siberian wastes, or body parts such as eyeballs and testicles - and a richly allusive commentary on the culture of food, whether expressed in literature and cookery books, or as dishes peculiar to a country or community. The new edition has not sought to dim the brilliance of Davidson's prose. Rather, it has updated to keep ahead of a fast-moving area, and has taken the opportunity to alert readers to new avenues in food studies.

Galen's Treatise Περὶ Ἀλυπίας (De Indolentia) in Context

Author : Petit
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (145 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Galen's Treatise Περὶ Ἀλυπίας (De Indolentia) in Context by : Petit

Download or read book Galen's Treatise Περὶ Ἀλυπίας (De Indolentia) in Context written by Petit and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Christian Emperors and Roman Elites in Late Antiquity

Author : Rita Lizzi Testa
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000591239
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Christian Emperors and Roman Elites in Late Antiquity by : Rita Lizzi Testa

Download or read book Christian Emperors and Roman Elites in Late Antiquity written by Rita Lizzi Testa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a number of case studies to show some of the ways in which, as soon as the Roman Senate gained new political authority under Constantine and his successors, its members crowded the political scene in the West. In these chapters, Rita Lizzi Testa makes much of her work – the fruit of decades of research –available in English for the first time. The focus is on the aristocratics' passion for aruspical science, the political use of exphrastic poems, and even their control of the hagiographic genre in the late sixth century. She demonstrates how Roman senators were chosen as legates to establish proactive relations with Christian emperors, their ministers and military commanders, and Eastern and Western provincial elites. Senators wove a web of relations in the Eastern and Western empires, sewing and stitching the empire's fabric with their diplomatic skills, wealth, and influence, while lively and highly litigious assembly activity still required of them a cultured rhetoric. Through employing astute political strategies, they maintained their privileges, including their own beliefs in ancient cults. Christian Emperors and Roman Elites in Late Antiquity provides a crucial collection for students and scholars of Late Antique history and religion, and of politics in the Late Roman Empire.

The Oxford Classical Dictionary

Author : Simon Hornblower
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199545561
Total Pages : 1650 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Oxford Classical Dictionary by : Simon Hornblower

Download or read book The Oxford Classical Dictionary written by Simon Hornblower and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 1650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revised third edition of the 'Oxford Classical Dictionary' is the ultimate reference on the classical world containing over 6,200 entries. The 2003 revision includes minor corrections and updates and all Latin and Greek words in the text are now translated into English.

Biondo Flavio's "Italia illustrata"

Author : Biondo Flavio
Publisher : Global Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781586842550
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (425 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Biondo Flavio's "Italia illustrata" by : Biondo Flavio

Download or read book Biondo Flavio's "Italia illustrata" written by Biondo Flavio and published by Global Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1447 Alfonso of Aragon, King of Naples, engaged the humanist antiquarian Biondo Flavio to compose in Latin a catalogue of famous men of Italy. This commission became Italia Illustrata, the first historical topography. In it, Biondo superimposed upon Italy’s classical heritage and her troubled medieval history a panorama of Italy in his own time. Although Italia Illustrata and three other major Latin treatises made Biondo’s reputation as the father of modern historiography and archaeology, these works have been accessible only in early modern printed editions to specialists with entrée to rare book rooms. Catherine J. Castner has now made this important treatise available in modern text with English translation and commentary. The Latin text is the best-known early printed edition, that of Froben (Basel, 1559). A clear, flowing English translation provides modern Italian equivalents for the majority of Biondo’s Latin toponyms. The commentary summarizes scholarship on the location and history of towns and cities of Italy and the building activities of their Renaissance lords. The plates include maps of cities and regions of Italy from medieval and early modern times. Italia Illustrata is an essential resource for any serious scholar of Renaissance humanism. Historians of medieval Italy, and of art and architecture, classicists, archaeologists, and epigraphers will value this work for its treasure of evidence: for example, Biondo’s eye-witness reports on the status of the building projects of the Malatesta; the Renaissance reception of Livy, Pliny, and Virgil (and the transmission of forged or misinterpreted inscriptions); and correlations of ancient sites with fifteenth-century settlements. This book will appeal to interests ranging from the current popular appetite for travel in Italy, to the growing scholarly attention to early modern geographical and travel literature; in short, to any reader with more than superficial interest in the urban centers and landscapes of Italy.