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Book A Concordance to Livy

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  • Author : David W. Packard
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1968
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 4024 pages

Download or read book A Concordance to Livy written by David W. Packard and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 4024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Concordance to Livy

Download or read book A Concordance to Livy written by David W. Packard and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Roman Law

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  • Author : A. Arthur Schiller
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
  • Release : 2011-05-02
  • ISBN : 311080719X
  • Pages : 645 pages

Download or read book Roman Law written by A. Arthur Schiller and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Livy  Ab urbe condita Book XXII

Download or read book Livy Ab urbe condita Book XXII written by Livy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treats a compelling narrative of two of history's most famous battles, and assists translation and literary and historical appreciation.

Book Livy  Ab urbe condita Book XXII

Download or read book Livy Ab urbe condita Book XXII written by John Briscoe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Livy's Ab urbe condita Book XXII narrates Hannibal's massive defeats of the Romans at Trasimene (217 BC) and Cannae (216 BC). It is Livy's best and most dramatic book, and the one most likely to appeal to students at every level. Livy drew on the Greek historian Polybius, but transformed his drier treatment into a rhetorical masterpiece, which by a series of insistent thematic contrasts brings out the tensions between the delaying tactics of Fabius and the costly rashness of Flaminius, Minucius and Varro. A substantial and accessibly written introduction by two experienced commentators covers historical, religious, literary and linguistic matters, including the place of Book XXII in the structure of Livy's long work. A new text by Briscoe is followed by a full commentary, covering literary and historical aspects and offering frequent help with translation. The volume is suitable for undergraduates, graduate students, teachers, and scholars.

Book Livy

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  • Author : Gary B. Miles
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2018-09-05
  • ISBN : 1501724614
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Livy written by Gary B. Miles and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some critics of the Roman historian Livy (59 B.C.-A.D. 17) have dismissed his work as a compendium of stale narratives and conventional attitudes. Gary B. Miles reveals in Livy's history a creative interplay between traditional stories, contemporary ideological assumptions, and the historian's own perspective at the margins of Roman aristocracy. Drawing on a range of critical approaches, Miles considers Livy's stance as a historian, the ways in which he reworked his sources, and his interpretation of such historical phenomena as recurrence, continuity, and change. Miles focuses on the foundation stories with which Livy begins his account, detecting in Livy's rendition certain original conceptions of historical time including the suggestion that Roman identity and greatness might be preserved indefinitely through successive reenactments of a historical cycle. Miles pays particular attention to two stories—those of the abduction of the Sabine women and of Romulus and Remus, showing how Livy's versions of these traditional narratives—far from leading to a simplistic moral—address unresolved political issues of his day. According to Miles, Livy shows an unusually tenacious willingness to confront dilemmas in historiography and Roman ideology which were commonly ignored or suppressed by both his predecessors and his contemporaries.

Book Livy

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  • Author : Jane D. Chaplin
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 0199286337
  • Pages : 537 pages

Download or read book Livy written by Jane D. Chaplin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains 18 important essays on the work of Livy, which together present a picture of this creative and acutely observant historian writing during the Augustan principate.

Book A Commentary on Livy

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  • Author : John Briscoe
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN : 0199216649
  • Pages : 845 pages

Download or read book A Commentary on Livy written by John Briscoe and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 845 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Livy

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  • Author : Torrey James Luce
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2019-03-26
  • ISBN : 0691656266
  • Pages : 351 pages

Download or read book Livy written by Torrey James Luce and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Luce considers to what extent Livy may be said to have been in control of his historical material. What is the significance, the author asks, of the units by which Livy structured his history? How did he go about preparing himself to write, and what methods did he use in the course of actual composition? Did he have an interpretation of his own concerning the overall course of Roman history, and, if so, how did it affect his selection and arrangement of material? The author examines these questions largely by the means of an analysis of Books 31-45, which he compares with the work of Polybius. He then scrutinizes the design of the history as a whole, its author's attitude toward his srouces generally, and his method of composition. A final chapter considers how Livy's use of material may have been influenced by his view of change and development in Roman history, particularly with regard to the genesis and declince of the Roman national character. By examining LIvy's method of creation, Professor Luce extends our understanding of his achievement. T.J. Luce is Professor and Chairman of the Classics Department at Princeton University. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book Livy s Written Rome

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  • Author : Mary Jaeger
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780472107896
  • Pages : 234 pages

Download or read book Livy s Written Rome written by Mary Jaeger and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern age is not the only one in which Romans and visitors to Rome have been fascinated with the city's striking juxtapositions of past and present. Rome's wealth of history also captured the imagination of the ancients. Livy's Written Rome, by Mary Jaeger, shows how one writer explored the relationship between events in Roman history, the landscape in which they occurred, and the monuments that commemorated them. While Augustus reconstructed the physical city to reflect the ideology of the Empire, the historian Livy created a written Rome and taught his readers to look beyond the city's dramatically altered landscape. In so doing, they gained insight into the lessons of the lost Republic. Drawing upon modern discourse on the connection between private mental spaces and public civic spaces, this first in-depth study of Livy's use of the urban landscape offers discerning views on his interpretation of ancient theories of historiography. Livy's Written Rome discusses the Roman idea of the monument as a place where memory and space intersect and includes fresh readings of several historical episodes, including the battle over the Sabine Women, the sedition of Marcus Manlius, and the trials of the Scipios. Scholars have long criticized Livy as a historian because his work is not in accord with modern historiographical standards. Yet even his critics agree that Livy is a masterful literary artist, and recent work on Livy has argued for the complexity and originality of his thought. Across the humanities, recent scholarship has focused on the role of memory in civic consciousness and identity. This book explores the ways in which Livy's texts question traditional assumptions about the preservation and use of the past. In doing so, it identifies a new and important facet of Livy's representation of urban Rome. Livy's Written Rome will be of interest to classicists and historians, students of ancient historiography and classical rhetoric, as well as general readers interested in memory, monuments, and historical narrative. Mary Jaeger is Professor of Classics, University of Oregon.

Book Livy and Early Rome

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  • Author : Gary Forsythe
  • Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9783515074957
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book Livy and Early Rome written by Gary Forsythe and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 1999 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Livy's work is of interest to two distinct schools of history and literary criticism and Forsythe argues that this has resulted in some conflicting interpretations about various aspects, including Livy's sources and his relationship to his subjects.

Book Livy s Political Philosophy

Download or read book Livy s Political Philosophy written by Ann Vasaly and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the political implications of the first five books of Livy's celebrated history of Rome, challenging the common perception of the author as an apolitical moralist. Ann Vasaly argues that Livy intended to convey through the narration of particular events crucial lessons about the interaction of power and personality, including the personality of the Roman people as a whole. These lessons demonstrate the means by which the Roman republic flourished in the distant past and by which it might be revived in Livy's own corrupt time. Written at the precise moment when Augustus' imperial autocracy was replacing the republican system that had existed in Rome for almost 500 years, the stories of the first pentad offer invaluable insight into how republics and monarchies work. Vasaly's innovative study furthers the integration in recent scholarship of the literary brilliance of Livy's text and the seriousness of its purpose.

Book Spectacle and Society in Livy s History

Download or read book Spectacle and Society in Livy s History written by Andrew Feldherr and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-08-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public spectacle—from the morning rituals of the Roman noble to triumphs and the shows of the Arena—formed a crucial component of the language of power in ancient Rome. The historian Livy (c. 60 B.C.E.-17 C.E.), who provides our fullest description of Rome's early history, presents his account of the growth of the Roman state itself as something to be seen—a visual monument and public spectacle. Through analysis of several episodes in Livy's History, Andrew Feldherr demonstrates the ways in which Livy uses specific visual imagery to make the reader not only an observer of certain key events in Roman history but also a participant in those events. This innovative study incorporates recent literary and cultural theory with detailed historical analysis to put an ancient text into dialogue with contemporary discussions of visual culture. In Spectacle and Society in Livy's History, Feldherr shows how Livy uses the literary representation of spectacles from the Roman past to construct a new sense of civic identity among his readers. He offers a new way of understanding how Livy's technique addressed the political and cultural needs of Roman citizens in Livy's day. In addition to renewing our understanding of Livy through modern scholarship, Feldherr provides a new assessment of the historian's aims and methods by asking what it means for the historian to make readers spectators of history.

Book Livy s Exemplary History

Download or read book Livy s Exemplary History written by Jane D. Chaplin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea that it is possible to learn from history is fascinating, but also complex. What exactly can you learn from the past? Does it repeat itself? If it does, how can you prevent repetition of evil and ensure repetition of good? Livy's History of Rome is all about people learning or failing to learn from the past, so in many ways his work is an extended exploration of this problem. In this book Dr Chaplin starts from Livy's programmatic claim that history offers examples of good and bad conduct. Where previous studies have focused on the meaning of exemplary episodes and characters in isolation, this treatment traces the way historical figures try to interpret the past to their advantage. In doing so, the book demonstrates Livy's awareness of the shifting relevance of history and argues that a narrative organized around exempla allowed Livy, poised between the collapse of the Republic and the foundation of the Empire, to make the Romans' past meaningful for their future.

Book A History of Roman Literature

Download or read book A History of Roman Literature written by Michael von Albrecht and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1997 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Roman Literature  2 vols

Download or read book A History of Roman Literature 2 vols written by M. von Albrecht and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 1864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael von Albrecht's A History of Roman Literature, originally published in German, can rightly be seen as the long awaited counterpart to Albin Lesky's Geschichte der Griechischen Literatur. In what will probably be the last survey made by a single scholar the whole of Latin literature from Livius Andronicus up to Boethius comes to the fore. 'Literature' is taken here in its broad, antique sense, and therefore also includes e.g. rhetoric, philosophy and history. Special attention has been given to the influence of Latin literature on subsequent centuries down to our own days. Extensive indices give access to this monument of learning. The introductions in Von Albrecht's texts, together with the large bibliographies make further study both more fruitful and easy.

Book Harvard Studies in Classical Philology  Volume 86

Download or read book Harvard Studies in Classical Philology Volume 86 written by Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature Wendell Clausen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1982-11-10 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of sixteen essays includes "The Earliest Stages in the History of Hesiod's Text," by Friedrich Solmsen; "Notes on Plautus' Bacchides," by Otto Skutsch; "Gadflies (Virg. Geo. 3.146-148)," by Richard F. Thomas; "Homoeoteleuton in Latin Dactylic Poetry," by Lennart Håkanson; "Augustus and August: Some Pitfalls of Historical Fiction," by A. B. Bosworth; and "The Career of Arrian," by Ronald Syme.