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Book A Literary History of Rome in the Silver Age

Download or read book A Literary History of Rome in the Silver Age written by John Wight Duff and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This second volume if a standard introduction to Roman Literature provides authoritative assessments of all the important writers from the close of the Golden Age till the decline which set in after the death of Hadrian"--Back cover.

Book A Literary History of Rome in the Silver Age

Download or read book A Literary History of Rome in the Silver Age written by John Wight Duff and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A L A  Catalog  1926

Download or read book A L A Catalog 1926 written by Isabella Mitchell Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rome

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Hughes
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2011-11-01
  • ISBN : 0307700585
  • Pages : 545 pages

Download or read book Rome written by Robert Hughes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Robert Hughes, one of the greatest art and cultural critics of our time, comes a sprawling, comprehensive, and deeply personal history of Rome—as city, as empire, and, crucially, as an origin of Western art and civilization, two subjects about which Hughes has spent his life writing and thinking. Starting on a personal note, Hughes takes us to the Rome he first encountered as a hungry twenty-one-year-old fresh from Australia in 1959. From that exhilarating portrait, he takes us back more than two thousand years to the city's foundation, one mired in mythologies and superstitions that would inform Rome's development for centuries. From the beginning, Rome was a hotbed of power, overweening ambition, desire, political genius, and corruption. Hughes details the turbulent years that saw the formation of empire and the establishment of the sociopolitical system, along the way providing colorful portraits of all the major figures, both political (Julius Caesar, Marcus Aurelius, Nero, Caligula) and cultural (Cicero, Martial, Virgil), to name just a few. For almost a thousand years, Rome would remain the most politically important, richest, and largest city in the Western world. From the formation of empire, Hughes moves on to the rise of early Christianity, his own antipathy toward religion providing rich and lively context for the brutality of the early Church, and eventually the Crusades. The brutality had the desired effect—the Church consolidated and outlasted the power of empire, and Rome would be the capital of the Papal States until its annexation into the newly united kingdom of Italy in 1870. As one would expect, Hughes lavishes plenty of critical attention on the Renaissance, providing a full survey of the architecture, painting, and sculpture that blossomed in Rome over the course of the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries, and shedding new light on old masters in the process. Having established itself as the artistic and spiritual center of the world, Rome in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries saw artists (and, eventually, wealthy tourists) from all over Europe converging on the bustling city, even while it was caught up in the nationalistic turmoils of the Italian independence struggle and war against France. Hughes keeps the momentum going right into the twentieth century, when Rome witnessed the rise and fall of Italian Fascism and Mussolini, and took on yet another identity in the postwar years as the fashionable city of "La Dolce Vita." This is the Rome Hughes himself first encountered, and it's one he contends, perhaps controversially, has been lost in the half century since, as the cult of mass tourism has slowly ruined the dazzling city he loved so much. Equal parts idolizing, blasphemous, outraged, and awestruck, Rome is a portrait of the Eternal City as only Robert Hughes could paint it.

Book Rhetorical Criticism of the Bible

Download or read book Rhetorical Criticism of the Bible written by Duane Frederick Watson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1994 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains extensive bibliographies of works on rhetorical criticism of both the Old and New Testaments. Introductory chapters treat the development of rhetorical criticism and its influence on contemporary biblical interpretation.

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 Themes in Drama  Volume 8  Historical Drama

Download or read book Themes in Drama Volume 8 Historical Drama written by James Redmond and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-04-17 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Boethius s In Ciceronis Topica

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780801489341
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book Boethius s In Ciceronis Topica written by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ciceronis Topica and De topicis differentiis are Boethius's two treatises on Topics (loci). Together these two works present Boethius's theory of the art of discovering arguments, a theory that was highly influential in the history of medieval logic. Eleonore Stump here presents the first English language translation of In Ciceronis Topica, Boethius's extended commentary on Cicero's Topica. To supplement her translation, Professor Stump has provided an introduction that supplies essential information about In Ciceronis Topica, Boethius's life, and the tradition of dialectic; her detailed notes explore the many philosophical problems in Boethius's text. A significant contribution to the history of Western intellectual life in its own right, Boethius's ''In Ciceronis Topica" makes an excellent companion to Professor Stump's earlier work, Boethius's "De topicis differentiis" (also available from Cornell).

Book The Rhetoric of the New Testament

Download or read book The Rhetoric of the New Testament written by Duane F. Watson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new, comprehensive bibliography of books and articles on the rhetoric of the New Testament published since AD 1500. The bibliography is arranged by categories, which include Jewish heritage, invention, arrangement, style, hermeneutics, with specific listings for each book of the NT. It is prefaced with a select bibliography of primary and secondary sources on classical and modern rhetoric. An invaluable research tool.

Book The Stoic Tradition from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages  Volume 1  Stoicism in Classical Latin Literature

Download or read book The Stoic Tradition from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages Volume 1 Stoicism in Classical Latin Literature written by Marcia L. Colish and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-03-28 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Stoic Tradition from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages

Download or read book The Stoic Tradition from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages written by Marcía L. Colish and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1990 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reader s Index and Guide

Download or read book Reader s Index and Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Literary Meaning

Download or read book Literary Meaning written by Wendell V. Harris and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this clearly written and accessible book, (Wendell) Harris sets out to expose the inadequacies of current methods and trends in literary criticism. . . . The book's greatest strength is its lucid presentation of critical works, which are then shown to be compromised by fallacies and flaws".-- CHOICE.

Book The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World

Download or read book The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World written by George Alexander Kennedy and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recipient of the Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit from the American Philological Association in 1975. The Goodwin Award is the only honor for scholarly achievement given by the Association. It is presented at the Annual Meeting for an outstanding contribution to classical scholarship published by a member of the association within a period of three years before the ending of the preceding calendar year. "A remarkable and valuable achievement, balanced in judgment and attractively presented." Journal of Roman Studies, "This book is a reissue of the important 1972 work on the development of Greek and Latin oratory and rhetorical theory... Many students of the classics, and people interested in later European literatures as well, will find themselves turning to it again and again." The Times Literary Supplement

Book The Stoic Tradition from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages

Download or read book The Stoic Tradition from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages written by Marcia l. Colish and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1985 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: