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Book Cicero s Catilinarians

Download or read book Cicero s Catilinarians written by D. H. Berry and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Catilinarians are a set of four speeches that Cicero, while consul in 63 BC, delivered before the senate and the Roman people against the conspirator Catiline and his followers. Or are they? Cicero did not publish the speeches until three years later, and he substantially revised them before publication, rewriting some passages and adding others, all with the aim of justifying the action he had taken against the conspirators and memorializing his own role in the suppression of the conspiracy. How, then, should we interpret these speeches as literature? Can we treat them as representing what Cicero actually said? Or do we have to read them merely as political pamphlets from a later time? In this, the first book-length discussion of these famous speeches, D. H. Berry clarifies what the speeches actually are and explains how he believes we should approach them. In addition, the book contains a full and up-to-date account of the Catilinarian conspiracy and a survey of the influence that the story of Catiline has had on writers such as Sallust and Virgil, Ben Jonson and Henrik Ibsen, from antiquity to the present day.

Book The Americana

Download or read book The Americana written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Americana

Download or read book The Americana written by Frederick Converse Beach and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Masters of Achievement

Download or read book Masters of Achievement written by Henry Woldmar Ruoff and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Manual of Dates  a Dictionary of Reference to the Most Important Events in the History of Mankind

Download or read book The Manual of Dates a Dictionary of Reference to the Most Important Events in the History of Mankind written by George Henry Townsend and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke

Download or read book The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke written by Edmund Burke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The People s Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge

Download or read book The People s Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge written by William Harrison De Puy and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Selections from the Poetry of Alexander Pope

Download or read book Selections from the Poetry of Alexander Pope written by Alexander Pope and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ormond

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles Brockden Brown
  • Publisher : Broadview Press
  • Release : 1999-06-01
  • ISBN : 9781551110912
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Ormond written by Charles Brockden Brown and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brown is often called the first American novelist. Originally published in 1799, Ormond was inspired by enlightenment philosophers and Gothic writers. The novel engages with many of the period’s popular debates about women’s education, marriage, and the morality of violence, while the plot revolves around the Gothic themes of seduction, murder, incest, impersonation, romance and disease. Set in post-revolutionary Philadelphia, Ormond examines the prospects of the struggling nation by tracing the experiences of Constantia, a young virtuous republican who struggles to survive when her father’s business is ruined by a confidence man, and her friends and neighbors are killed by a yellow fever epidemic.

Book The Traditions of European Literature from Homer to Dante

Download or read book The Traditions of European Literature from Homer to Dante written by Barrett Wendell and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For contents and other editions, see Author Catalog.

Book A Dictionary of Music Titles

Download or read book A Dictionary of Music Titles written by Adrian Room and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title of a great musical composition is not always a clear or simple matter. An allusive title, particularly in a foreign language, or a title that does not seem related to the work, can confuse even the most devoted music lover. Here are histories of the creation of 3,500 titles for symphonies, operas, oratorios, ballets, orchestral works, choral works, chamber music, keyboard compositions, and songs, ranging from the popular to the obscure. Each entry (arranged by English, French, German, Italian or Spanish title) includes alternate titles where appropriate, the composer's name, date of composition and first performance, opus number where appropriate, a description of the work, and the origin of the title or any story behind it. A bibliography and an index conclude the work.

Book How to Master the Spoken Word

Download or read book How to Master the Spoken Word written by Edwin Gordon Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Great World History Book

Download or read book The Great World History Book written by Stephan P. Dinkgreve and published by Stephan P. Dinkgreve. This book was released on 2020-12-06 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book—which took me over ten years to complete—will reveal you to be a beneficiary of an ancient heritage of dazzling depth and beauty. By the sheer fact of being a human being, you are connected to the heroes of the past, who through their titanic acts have moved the world incrementally forward. It is time for you to become acquainted with this heritage—and this book will do just that. We will trace the coming into consciousness of the human race from its tribal beginnings all the way up to the modern day. We will focus not on the succession of wars and kings, but on the soul-stirring and brave individuals, who with their ideas and insights have shaped our world, our self-perception, our understanding, and our freedom, and whose stories can give rich meaning to our lives. We start our story when humanity finds itself in a foreign body in the midst of nature, interpreting the world as an interplay of gods and demons. The West increasingly placed the individual center stage, seeing human beings as agents with a free will, able to comprehend the world through reason and science, and deserving of inalienable rights. In the East, the emphasis was on finding a timeless reality within ourselves, resulting in a relentless quest to understand and control the mind and rid ourselves of its illusions. It is the greatest story ever told.

Book LITERARY ALLUSION AND REFERENCE IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATURE

Download or read book LITERARY ALLUSION AND REFERENCE IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATURE written by OAKLEY C. JOHNSON and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable written by Elizabeth Knowles and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-10-12 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Dictionary is part of the Oxford Reference Collection: using sustainable print-on-demand technology to make the acclaimed backlist of the Oxford Reference programme perennially available in hardback format. What is a ham-and-egger? What are Anglo-Saxon attitudes? Who or what is liable to jump the shark? Who first tried to nail jelly to the wall? The answers to these and many more questions are in this fascinating book. Here in one volume you can track down the stories behind the names and sayings you meet, whether in classic literature or today's news. Drawing on Oxford's unrivalled bank of reference and language online resources, this dictionary covers classical and other mythologies, history, religion, folk customs, superstitions, science and technology, philosophy, and popular culture. Extensive cross referencing makes it easy to trace specific information, while every page points to further paths to explore. A fascinating slice of cultural history, and a browser's delight from start to finish. What is the fog of war? Who first wanted to spend more time with one's family? When was the Dreamtime? How long since the first cry of Women and children first? Where might you find dark matter? Would you want the Midas touch? Should you worry about grey goo?

Book Chart of Famous Characters  and Salient Points of History

Download or read book Chart of Famous Characters and Salient Points of History written by Edward G. Hewitt and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cicero  Classicism  and Popular Culture

Download or read book Cicero Classicism and Popular Culture written by Marshall Fishwick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn why Cicero is considered one of the most important individuals in all of Western culture! Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) was a poet, philosopher, writer, scholar, barrister, statesman, patriot, and the linguist who helped make Latin into a universal language. His many influences in rhetoric, politics, literature, and ideas are seen throughout Western civilization. Cicero, Classicism, and Popular Culture explores the fascinating man behind the eloquence and his monumental effect on language, morality, and popularity of Western culture. One of the leading authorities on popular culture, Dr. Marshall Fishwick discusses the multifaceted man who may be, besides Jesus, the central figure in all of Western civilization. The author recounts his own personal quest of traveling the land and ancient cities of Italy, gleaning insights from people he met along the way who have knowledge about Cicero’s life and times. However, Cicero, Classicism, and Popular Culture is more than a simple search for the man and his accomplishments, a man whose mere words changed the way people think. This book shows in each of us the roots of our own ideas, beliefs, and culture. Cicero, Classicism, and Popular Culture discusses: Cicero’s rise to acclaim his affect on the language of popular culture common traits Cicero shared with Thomas Jefferson rhetoric, the art of oratory community two pivotal essays on friendship and old age vision of his reputation the search for peace Marshall McLuhan, Ciceronian Cicero’s Rome Cicero’s ancestral home of Arpinum Julius Caesar, politics, and the influences of Cicero the Roman republic and its downfall America as the new Rome much more! Cicero, Classicism, and Popular Culture is a startling, entertaining examination of the man who made Western culture what it is today. The book is insightful reading for educators, students, or anyone interested in one of the major forces in popular culture.