Download or read book Virtus Romana written by Catalina Balmaceda and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political transformation that took place at the end of the Roman Republic was a particularly rich area for analysis by the era's historians. Major narrators chronicled the crisis that saw the end of the Roman Republic and the changes that gave birth to a new political system. These writers drew significantly on the Roman idea of virtus as a way of interpreting and understanding their past. Tracing how virtus informed Roman thought over time, Catalina Balmaceda explores the concept and its manifestations in the narratives of four successive Latin historians who span the late Republic and early Principate: Sallust, Livy, Velleius, and Tacitus. Balmaceda demonstrates that virtus in these historical narratives served as a form of self-definition that fostered and propagated a new model of the ideal Roman more fitting to imperial times. As a crucial moral and political concept, virtus worked as a key idea in the complex system of Roman sociocultural values and norms that underpinned Roman attitudes about both present and past. This book offers a reappraisal of the historians as promoters of change and continuity in the political culture of both the Republic and the Empire.
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Download or read book Roman Manliness written by Myles McDonnell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-03 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Download or read book Paideia Romana written by Ingo Gildenhard and published by Cambridge Philological Society. This book was released on 2020-08-30 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paideia Romana: Cicero's Tusculan Disputations takes a new look at an unloved text of the western canon to reveal it as a punchy and profoundly original work, arguably Cicero's most ingenious literary response to the tyranny of Caesar. The book shows how the Tusculans' much lambasted literary design, critically isolated prefaces, and overlooked didactic plot start to cohere once we read the dialogue for what it is: not a Latin treatise on Greek philosophy, but a Roman drama on education, with a strong political subtext. The first chapter ('The form enigmas and answers') tries to make sense of those features of the work that scholars have found baffling or disappointing, such as the nondescript characters, the uncertain genre, or the lack of setting. Chapter 2 ('The prologues in tyrannum and cultural warfare') analyses how Cicero in his prologues to the five individual books situates his desire to create and teach a 'Latin philosophy' within wider contexts, in particular the dictatorship of Caesar and the intellectual traditions of Greece and Rome. The final chapter 3 ('The plot teacher and student') explores the pedagogy enacted in the dialogue as a form of constructive outreach, addressed to a future generation of Roman aristocrats. With its emphasis on rhetoric, literary artistry, and historical context, the present volume breaks with earlier scholarship on the Tusculans and thereby makes a significant contribution to the on-going reassessment of Cicero's thought and authorial practice.
Download or read book A Companion to the Political Culture of the Roman Republic written by Valentina Arena and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful and original exploration of Roman Republic politics In A Companion to the Political Culture of the Roman Republic, editors Valentina Arena and Jonathan Prag deliver an incisive and original collection of forty contributions from leading academics representing various intellectual and academic traditions. The collected works represent some of the best scholarship in recent decades and adopt a variety of approaches, each of which confronts major problems in the field and contributes to ongoing research. The book represents a new, updated, and comprehensive view of the political world of Republican Rome and some of the included essays are available in English for the first time. Divided into six parts, the discussions consider the institutionalized loci, political actors, and values, rituals, and discourse that characterized Republican Rome. The Companion also offers several case studies and sections on the history of the interpretation of political life in the Roman Republic. Key features include: A thorough introduction to the Roman political world as seen through the wider lenses of Roman political culture Comprehensive explorations of the fundamental components of Roman political culture, including ideas and values, civic and religious rituals, myths, and communicative strategies Practical discussions of Roman Republic institutions, both with reference to their formal rules and prescriptions, and as patterns of social organization In depth examinations of the 'afterlife' of the Roman Republic, both in ancient authors and in early modern and modern times Perfect for students of all levels of the ancient world, A Companion to the Political Culture of the Roman Republic will also earn a place in the libraries of scholars and students of politics, political history, and the history of ideas.
Download or read book Libertas and Res Publica in the Roman Republic written by Catalina Balmaceda and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Libertas and Res Publica examines two key concepts of Western political thinking: freedom and republic. Contributors address important new questions on the principles of, and essential connection between res publica and libertas in Roman thought and Republican history.
Download or read book Models from the Past in Roman Culture written by Matthew B. Roller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a coherent model for understanding historical examples in Ancient Rome and their rhetorical, moral and historiographical functions.
Download or read book Decoration and Display in Rome s Imperial Thermae written by Maryl B. Gensheimer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the Roman Empire, ubiquitous archaeological, art historical, and literary evidence attests to the significance of bathing for Romans' routines and relationships. Public baths were popularly viewed as necessities of daily life and important social venues. Given the importance of bathing to the Roman style of living, by endowing eight magnificent baths (the so-called imperial thermae) in the city of Rome between 25 BCE - 315 CE, imperial patrons greatly enhanced their popular and political stature. Decoration and Display in Rome's Imperial Thermae presents a detailed analysis of the extensive decoration of the best preserved of these bathing complexes, the Baths of Caracalla (inaugurated 216 CE). Maryl B. Gensheimer takes an interdisciplinary approach to existing archaeological data, textual and visual sources, and anthropological theories in order to generate a new understanding of the visual experience of the Baths of Caracalla and show how the decoration played a critical role in advancing imperial agendas. This reassessment of one of the most ambitious and sophisticated examples of large-scale architectural patronage in Classical antiquity examines the specific mechanisms through which an imperial patron could use architectural decoration to emphasize his own unique sociopolitical position relative to the thousands of people who enjoyed his benefaction. The case studies addressed herein--ranging from architectural to freestanding sculpture and mosaic--demonstrate that sponsoring monumental baths was hardly an act of altruism. Rather, even while they provided recreation for elite and sub-altern Romans alike, such buildings were concerned primarily with dynastic legitimacy and imperial largess. Decorative programs articulated these themes by consistently drawing analogies between the subjects of the decoration and the emperor who had paid for it. The unified decorative program--and the messages of imperial power therein--adroitly honored the emperor and consolidated his reputation.
Download or read book Roman Honor written by Carlin A. Barton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-08 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an attempt to coax Roman history closer to the bone, to the breath and matter of the living being. Drawing from a remarkable array of ancient and modern sources, Carlin Barton offers the most complex understanding to date of the emotional and spiritual life of the ancient Romans. Her provocative and original inquiry focuses on the sentiments of honor that shaped the Romans' sense of themselves and their society. Speaking directly to the concerns and curiosities of the contemporary reader, Barton brings Roman society to life, elucidating the complex relation between the inner life of its citizens and its social fabric. Though thoroughly grounded in the ancient writings—especially the work of Seneca, Cicero, and Livy—this book also draws from contemporary theories of the self and social theory to deepen our understanding of ancient Rome. Barton explores the relation between inner desires and social behavior through an evocative analysis of the operation, in Roman society, of contests and ordeals, acts of supplication and confession, and the sense of shame. As she fleshes out Roman physical and psychological life, she particularly sheds new light on the consequential transition from republic to empire as a watershed of Roman social relations. Barton's ability to build productively on both old and new scholarship on Roman history, society, and culture and her imaginative use of a wide range of work in such fields as anthropology, sociology, psychology, modern history, and popular culture will make this book appealing for readers interested in many subjects. This beautifully written work not only generates insight into Roman history, but also uses that insight to bring us to a new understanding of ourselves, our modern codes of honor, and why it is that we think and act the way we do.
Download or read book Latin Historians written by Christina Shuttleworth Kraus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-07-03 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The histories of Rome by Sallust, Livy, Tacitus and others shared the desire to demonstrate their practical applications and attempted to define the significance of the empire. Politics and military activity were the central subjects of these histories. Roman historians' claims to telling the truth probably meant they were denying bias rather than conforming to the modern tendency to be objective.
Download or read book Classica Et Mediaevalia vol 47 written by Dansk Selskab for Oldtids- og Mi and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holger Friis Johansen () and Giuseppe Torresin: Ole L. Smith in memoriam Holger Friis Johansen (): A poem by Theognis, part III 4. The collection and the corpus Victoria Wohl: ευσεβειας ενεκα και φιλοτιμιας. Hegemony and democracy at the Panathenaia Tasos Aidonis: Tissaphernes' dealings with the Greeks Asger Ousager: Plotinus on motion and personal identity in time and space David Bain: Some textual and lexical notes on Cyranides 'books five and six' Stavros A. Frangoulidis: (Meta)theatre as therapy in Terence's Phormio Francis Xavier Ryan: Four Republican senators Raymond J. Clarck: The Avernian Sibyl's cave: from military tunnel to mediaeval spa Jesper Carlsen: Saltuarius: a Latin job title W.S. Watt: Notes on the Latin anthology Zoja Pavlovskis-Petit: Storm and stress. The natural and the unnatural in De Sodoma and De Iona Note a la section suivante Jürgen Leonhardt: Classical metrics in medieval and Renaissance poetry. Some practical considerations Joachim Leeker: La présence des auters classiques dans l'histoirographie des pays romans (XIII au XV siècles) James Hankins: Antiplatonism in the Renaissance and the middle ages N.G. Wilson: The manuscripts of Greek classics in the middle ages and Renaissance Ole L. Smith: Medieval and Renaissance commentaires in Greek on classical Greek texts
Download or read book AKADEMOS BLISSBURG EIGHT written by Augustin Ostace and published by Alpha & Omega Sapiens - Uppublishing Being / Augustin Ostace. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: …Literature, the beauty, the sublime, the enrapture of Human Language, of Human Syntax, of Human Grammar, its emotion, its soul and en-soul, its impressing, its affects, its realm of letters, of idioms, of words, of wordage, of phrases and of endless imaginations… …Literature, the creation of books in prose and into verses of poetry, in short-story or essays, in screen-play or movies-sceneries, in monologue, in dialogue, in multi-logo, being written and re-written in schools and universities, in academies or in folk-epics talking orally… …Literature, the realm of many New Movement in art of poetry and art of prosody, as Pre–classic literature, as Classic one, as Neoclassic, as Romantic, as Post–Romantic literature, through currents of Naturalism, of Realism and Surrealism, literature as Concrete writing and Abstract writing, literature as Symbolism, as Expressionism, as Modernism, as Postmodernism, as Structuralism, as Post–Structuralism, through which every movements or development or exploring, have had its own authors and readers, everyone with its own harsh critics or apologetic supporters… …Literature, in its flourishing looking after of new styles and expression, of different form or rhyme, of white or non–white verses, whatever through Dadaism, Cubism, Surrealism, or in declining interest to readers and buyers of literary–books, whatever in classic–print, or Online print… …Literature in creating its own Manifesto and Counter – Manifesto, always overcoming its own borders, laying down by itself, finding into its own expression its own nobility and deplorability… …Literature, as human recognizing human, in letters, in numbers, in signs and symbols, in abstract alphabets, or exploding videology, always in its trying of surprising the others and oneself, living and re-living in generations after generations through endless dreamers and trans-dreamers… LiteraturBeing
Download or read book The Gladiators written by Fik Meijer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the lives of ancient Rome's gladiators explores how they were both despised and hero-worshiped, chronicling how tens of thousands of gladiators perished publicly over the course of six hundred years.
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Download or read book Valerius Flaccus Argonautica Book V written by H.J.W. Wijsman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contains a commentary on Book V of the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus, paying attention to linguistic, philological and literary aspects. Line by line the words and phrases chosen, sources used and literary models are treated. The last commentary on all eight books of the Argonautica appeared a century ago (Langen 1896), so there is ample room to apply new views in Latin linguistics and concepts of literature. A small number of textual variants is supported.
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