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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “andrew feldherr”
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  • After the Past

    Sallust on History and Writing History

    by Andrew Feldherr ...
    Series series Blackwell-Bristol Lectures on Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition
    Provides a unique and accessible understanding of Sallust and his influence on writing the history of RomeGaius Sallustius Crispus ('Sallust', 86-35 BCE) is the earliest Roman historian from whom any works survive. His two extant writings chronicle crucial moments of a political, social, and ethical revolution with profound consequences for his own life and those of his audience. After the Past: ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Playing Gods

    Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Politics of Fiction

    by Andrew M. Feldherr ...
    This book offers a novel interpretation of politics and identity in Ovid's epic poem of transformations, the Metamorphoses. Reexamining the emphatically fictional character of the poem, Playing Gods argues that Ovid uses the problem of fiction in the text to redefine the power of poetry in Augustan Rome. The book also provides the fullest account yet of how the poem relates to the range of ... Read more

    $95.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Historians

    Edited by Andrew Feldherr ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    No field of Latin literature has been more transformed over the last couple of decades than that of the Roman historians. Narratology, a new receptiveness to intertextuality, and a re-thinking of the relationship between literature and its political contexts have ensured that the works of historians such as Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus will be read as texts with the same interest and sophistication ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

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    In response to critics who charged him with plagiarism, Virgil is said to have responded that it was easier to steal Hercules' club than a line from Homer. This was to deny the allegations by implying that Virgil was no plagiarist at all, but an author who had done the hard work of making Homer's material his own. Several other texts and passages in Latin literature provide further evidence for ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Cicero

    Edited by Catherine Steel ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Cicero was one of classical antiquity's most prolific, varied and self-revealing authors. His letters, speeches, treatises and poetry chart a political career marked by personal struggle and failure and the collapse of the republican system of government to which he was intellectually and emotionally committed. They were read, studied and imitated throughout antiquity and subsequently became ... Read more

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  • Caesar in Gaul and Rome

    War in Words

    by Andrew M. Riggsby ...
    A fresh interpretation of Caesar's The Gallic War that focuses on Caesar's construction of national identity and his self-presentation.Anyone who has even a passing acquaintance with Latin knows "Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres" ("All Gaul is divided into three parts"), the opening line of De Bello Gallico, Julius Caesar's famous commentary on his campaigns against the Gauls in the 50s BC. ... Read more

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  • Conspiracy Narratives in Roman History

    by Victoria Emma Pagán ...
    Conspiracy is a thread that runs throughout the tapestry of Roman history. From the earliest days of the Republic to the waning of the Empire, conspiracies and intrigues created shadow worlds that undermined the openness of Rome's representational government. To expose these dark corners and restore a sense of order and safety, Roman historians frequently wrote about famous conspiracies and about ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Tacitus: Annals Book XV

    by Tacitus ...
    Series Book 15 - Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
    Tacitus' account of Nero's principate is an extraordinary piece of historical writing. His graphic narrative (including Annals XV) is one of the highlights of the greatest surviving historian of the Roman Empire. It describes how the imperial system survived Nero's flamboyant and hedonistic tenure as emperor, and includes many famous passages, from the Great Fire of Rome in AD 64 to the city-wide ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Tacitus

    Edited by A. J. Woodman ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Tacitus is universally recognised as ancient Rome's greatest writer of history, and his account of the Roman Empire in the first century AD has been fundamental in shaping the modern perception of Rome and its emperors. This Companion provides a new, up-to-date and authoritative assessment of his work and influence which will be invaluable for students and non-specialists as well as of interest to ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Matrona Docta

    Educated Women in the Roman Elite from Cornelia to Julia Domna

    by Emily A. Hemelrijk ...
    Matrona Docta presents a unique study of the education of upper-class women in Roman society in the central period of Roman history, from the second century BC to AD 235.Emily A. Hemelrijk reconstructs women's opportunities to acquire an education, the impediments they faced, the level of education they could reach and the judgement on educated women in Roman society. She examines also the role of ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Reading Roman Friendship

    by Craig A. Williams ...
    This book invites us to approach friendship not as something that simply is, but as something performed in and through language. Roman friendship is read across a wide spectrum of Latin texts, from Catullus' poetry to Petronius' Satyricon to the philosophical writings of Cicero and Seneca, from letters exchanged by the Emperor Marcus Aurelius and his beloved teacher Fronto, to those written by men ... Read more

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  • Representing Agrippina

    Constructions of Female Power in the Early Roman Empire

    by Judith Ginsburg ...
    Series series Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies
    Agrippina the Younger, wife of the emperor Claudius and mother of his successor Nero, wielded power and authority at the center of the Roman empire in ways unmatched by almost any other woman in Roman history. Such, at least, is the portrait of Agrippina delivered by our sources and perpetuated in modern scholarship. In this posthumous work, Judith Ginsburg provides a fresh look at both the ... Read more

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