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Book Harvard Studies in Classical Philology

Download or read book Harvard Studies in Classical Philology written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guardians of Language

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  • Author : Robert A. Kaster
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2023-09-01
  • ISBN : 0520342763
  • Pages : 466 pages

Download or read book Guardians of Language written by Robert A. Kaster and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did it mean to be a professional teacher in the prestigious "liberal schools"—the schools of grammar and rhetoric—in late antiquity? How can we account for the abiding prestige of these schools, which remained substantially unchanged in their methods and standing despite the political and religious changes that had taken place around them? The grammarian was a pivotal figure in the lives of the educated upper classes of late antiquity. Introducing his students to correct language and to the literature esteemed by long tradition, he began the education that confirmed his students' standing in a narrowly defined elite. His profession thus contributed to the social as well as cultural continuity of the Empire. The grammarian received honor—and criticism; the profession gave the grammarian a firm sense of cultural authority but also placed him in a position of genteel subordination within the elite. Robert A. Kaster provides the first thorough study of the place and function of these important but ambiguous figures. He also gives a detailed prosopography of the grammarians, and of the other "teachers of letters" below the level of rhetoric, from the middle of the third through the middle of the sixth century, which will provide a valuable research tool for other students of late-antique education.

Book Tufts College Graduate

Download or read book Tufts College Graduate written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Classical Journal

Download or read book The Classical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Classical Commentaries

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  • Author : Christina Shuttleworth Kraus
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 0199688982
  • Pages : 551 pages

Download or read book Classical Commentaries written by Christina Shuttleworth Kraus and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rich collection of essays by an international group of authors explores a wide range of commentaries on ancient Latin and Greek texts. It pays particular attention to individual commentaries, national traditions of commentary, the part played by commentaries in the reception of classical texts, and the role of printing and publishing.

Book Classical Philology

Download or read book Classical Philology written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Neo Latin Commentaries and the Management of Knowledge in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period  1400 1700

Download or read book Neo Latin Commentaries and the Management of Knowledge in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period 1400 1700 written by Karl A. E. Enenkel and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds light on the various ways in which classical authors and the Bible were commented on by neo-Latin writers between 1400 and 1700.

Book The Lyon Terence

Download or read book The Lyon Terence written by Giulia Torello-Hill and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary approach to establish the significance of the first illustrated edition of the plays of Terence, its commentary and iconographic traditions and legacy in sixteenth-century Italy and France.

Book The Journal of Roman Studies

Download or read book The Journal of Roman Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Notices of recent publications".

Book Modelling the Individual

Download or read book Modelling the Individual written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most noticeable features of the Renaissance is what Jacob Burckhardt called the rise of the individual - in politics and religion, in its social life and in the arts, and in the mentality of Renaissance man, with his inclination to explore, to invent and to make new discoveries. Yet this characteristic is also very puzzling to modern people, who see that although the categories of art which depict particular people increased to a spectacular degree in a period when biography and portrait painting were among the most popular genres, and autobiography began to emerge as a genre in itself and painters began to produce self-portraits, an interest individuals is not necessarily the same thing as the more recent interest in the purely personal aspects of individuals. Literary and artistic traditions, social and ideological backgrounds, and the motives for the production of literature have changed profoundly: Renaissance biography and autobiography, portraiture and self-portraiture have little to do with their modern counterparts. Therefore this book stresses that the Renaissance is not predominantly a mirror of modernity, but rather a period of stimulating difference or alterity. The contributors to this collection of essays aim to create a better understanding of Renaissance biographies and portraits through the analysis and reconstruction of the traditions, contexts, backgrounds and circumstances of their production.

Book The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity

Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity written by Oliver Nicholson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 1743 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity is the first comprehensive reference book covering every aspect of history, culture, religion, and life in Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Near East (including the Persian Empire and Central Asia) between the mid-3rd and the mid-8th centuries AD, the era now generally known as Late Antiquity. This period saw the re-establishment of the Roman Empire, its conversion to Christianity and its replacement in the West by Germanic kingdoms, the continuing Roman Empire in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Persian Sassanian Empire, and the rise of Islam. Consisting of over 1.5 million words in more than 5,000 A-Z entries, and written by more than 400 contributors, it is the long-awaited middle volume of a series, bridging a significant period of history between those covered by the acclaimed Oxford Classical Dictionary and The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. The scope of the Dictionary is broad and multi-disciplinary; across the wide geographical span covered (from Western Europe and the Mediterranean as far as the Near East and Central Asia), it provides succinct and pertinent information on political history, law, and administration; military history; religion and philosophy; education; social and economic history; material culture; art and architecture; science; literature; and many other areas. Drawing on the latest scholarship, and with a formidable international team of advisers and contributors, The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity aims to establish itself as the essential reference companion to a period that is attracting increasing attention from scholars and students worldwide.

Book Terence

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  • Author : Terence
  • Publisher : Aris and Phillips Classical Te
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 0856686069
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book Terence written by Terence and published by Aris and Phillips Classical Te. This book was released on 2012 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terence's Phormio, based on a Greek original by Apollodorus of Carystus, was produced towards the end of his short dramatic career in 161 BC. With its lively action, based on the traditional elements of love, deception and mistaken identity, the play provides an ideal introduction to the genre of New Comedy. What makes the Phormio unique amongst Terence's works is the central importance of the witty and scheming parasite who gives his name to the play and directs and controls its action throughout, even when absent from the stage. The use of the "double" plot with its two young men in love and two contrasting fathers provides ample scope for depth and variety of characterisation. The aim of the present edition is to bring out to the full Terence's skill in plot development and character portrayal which was to make the Phormio one of his most entertaining plays. Latin text with facing-page translation, introduction and commentary.

Book Studies in the Textual Tradition of Terence

Download or read book Studies in the Textual Tradition of Terence written by John N. Grant and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1986-12-15 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The textual tradition of the Latin dramatist Publius Terentius Afer (second century BC) is unusually rich and complex. Over six hundred manuscripts containing some or all of Terence's six comedies have survived, but only one codex and three small fragments date from antiquity. All the rest were copied in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance when Terence was very popular. Recently scholars have been devoting considerable study to the role of his works and the commentaries on them in the cultural and intellectual development of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. However, little attention has been given to an examination and re-examination of the manuscripts in order to determine which are the most useful for establishing a reliable text of the plays. In this study John N. Grant examines afresh the manuscript tradition of the comedies, looking in particular at a branch of the medieval manuscripts which has been neglected in the past. He establishes the primacy of one manuscript, the value of which has hitherto been disputed, and points out the importance of others which have been known but have been neglected by past editors of Terence. In addition, through a careful study of the cycle of illustrations that appear in some medieval manuscripts he brings under scrutiny the history of the transmission of the text in late antiquity. He shows that, contrary to the generally held view, the date of the original cycle of illustrations from which those in the medieval manuscripts are derived cannot be used to provide a chronological keystone for the lost ancient manuscripts which were the ancestors of the surviving witnesses. An appendix with a selection of readings from over 150 manuscripts will be of value to those interested in investigating further the relationships among the extant manuscripts. This study lays the foundation for a new edition of the plays of Terence.

Book Words and Sounds

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  • Author : Nigel Holmes
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2020-01-20
  • ISBN : 3110647583
  • Pages : 468 pages

Download or read book Words and Sounds written by Nigel Holmes and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These volumes assemble contributions presented at the XIX International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics in Munich (2017). They embrace essential topics of Latin linguistics with different theoretical and methodological approaches: The volumes contain chapters on Latin lexicography, etymology, morphology, phonology, Greek-Latin language contact, Latin syntax, semantics, and discourse-pragmatics.

Book Dictionary of American Biography

Download or read book Dictionary of American Biography written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 1350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Menander in Antiquity

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  • Author : Sebastiana Nervegna
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2013-04-25
  • ISBN : 1107004225
  • Pages : 335 pages

Download or read book Menander in Antiquity written by Sebastiana Nervegna and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconstructs the ancient afterlife of Menander by focusing on three contexts of reception: public theatre, private entertainment and schools.

Book Dictionary of American Biography  Troye Wentworth

Download or read book Dictionary of American Biography Troye Wentworth written by and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of an integrated online collection of primary documents, secondary reference sources, and journal articles covering all areas of U.S. history from pre-colonial times to the present day. The DAB records the lives of prominent Americans who died by Dec. 31, 1980.