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  • After the Past

    Sallust on History and Writing History

    de 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: ... Leer más

    $46.00 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Historians

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Cicero

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Caesar in Gaul and Rome

    War in Words

    de 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. ... Leer más

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  • Conspiracy Narratives in Roman History

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Tacitus: Annals Book XV

    de Tacitus ...
    Series Libro 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 ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Tacitus

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Matrona Docta

    Educated Women in the Roman Elite from Cornelia to Julia Domna

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Reading Roman Friendship

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • Representing Agrippina

    Constructions of Female Power in the Early Roman Empire

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $107.99 USD

  • Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire

    A Study of Elite Communities

    de William A. Johnson ...
    Series series Classical Culture and Society
    In Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire, William Johnson examines the system and culture of reading among the elite in second-century Rome. The investigation proceeds in case-study fashion using the principal surviving witnesses, beginning with the communities of Pliny and Tacitus (with a look at Pliny's teacher, Quintilian) from the time of the emperor Trajan. Johnson then moves ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

  • A Companion to the Latin Language

    Edición de James Clackson ...
    Series Libro 132 - Wiley Companions to the Ancient World
    A Companion to the Latin Language presents a collection of original essays from international scholars that track the development and use of the Latin language from its origins to its modern day usage.Brings together contributions from internationally renowned classicists, linguists and Latin language specialistsOffers, in a single volume, a detailed account of different literary registers of the ... Leer más

    $182.00 USD