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Author | : Paul Roche |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2011-05-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139497677 |
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Pliny's Panegyricus (AD 100) survives as a unique example of senatorial rhetoric from the early Roman Empire. It offers an eyewitness account of the last years of Domitian's principate, the reign of Nerva and Trajan's early years, and it communicates a detailed senatorial view on the behaviour expected of an emperor. It is an important document in the development of the ideals of imperial leadership, but it also contributes greatly to our understanding of imperial political culture more generally. This volume, the first ever devoted to the Panegyricus, contains expert studies of its key historical and rhetorical contexts, as well as important critical approaches to the published version of the speech and its influence in antiquity. It offers scholars of Roman history, literature and rhetoric an up-to-date overview of key approaches to the speech, and students and interested readers an authoritative introduction to this vital and under-appreciated speech.
Author | : Rex Winsbury |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2013-11-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472514041 |
Download Pliny the Younger Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Pliny the Younger who lived c. 100 AD, left a large collection of letters, thanks to which we know him better than almost any other Roman. He is best known as witness to the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 that destroyed Pompeii, and for his dealings with the early Christians when a regional governor. He was not an emperor or general, but a famous lawyer of his time specialising in private finance and later a senior state official specialising in public finance. His life straddled both a 'bad'; emperor (Domitian) and a 'good'; emperor (Trajan), so his life and letters are relevant to perennial political questions like how an honourable man could serve an absolute autocracy such as Rome, and how justice could live alongside power. His letters also give a unique insight into social, literary and domestic life among the wealthy upper classes of the empire. He knew most of the famous writers of his time, and wrote love letters to his wife. But there are serious controversies about how honest and truthful a man he was - did he use his letters to rewrite history (his own history) and cover up questionable aspects of his career? This general biographical account of Pliny is the first of its kind and covers all aspects of his life in a systematic way. This accessible title tackles key issues including his political anxieties and issues, his relationship with women and his literary style in a roughly chronological order. It covers his life as a lawyer, both in private practice and in state prosecutions, his literary circle, his career in state office and his working relationships with two very different emperors, his background, his property and his family life.
Author | : Maurice Pellisson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Rome |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Sorcha Carey |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2003-12-19 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0191531774 |
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One of the earliest surviving examples of 'art history', Pliny the Elder's 'chapters on art' form part of his encyclopaedic Natural History, completed shortly before its author died during the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. This important new work argues that the Natural History offers a sophisticated account of the world as empire, in which art as much as geography can be used to expound a Roman imperial agenda. Reuniting the 'chapters on art' with the rest of the Natural History, Sorcha Carey considers how the medium of the 'encyclopaedia' affects Pliny's presentation of art, and reveals how art is used to explore themes important to the work as a whole. Throughout, the author demonstrates that Pliny's 'chapters on art' are a profoundly Roman creation, offering an important insight into responses to art and culture under the early Roman empire.
Author | : Alfred John Church |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1875 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Gaius Plinius Secundus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1872 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Johannes Wienand |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 553 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199768994 |
Download Contested Monarchy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Contested Monarchy offers a fresh survey of the role of the Roman monarch in a period of significant and enduring change.
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 2022-03-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004510516 |
Download The Intellectual Climate of Cassius Dio Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume addresses the intellectual and political contexts that produced Cassius Dio's (c. 160–c. 230 CE) massive and indispensable synthesis of Roman history. Contributors examine the literary influences, cultural identity and political ideologies of this much read but enigmatic author.
Author | : Roy Gibson |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2011-04-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004210075 |
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Pliny's Naturalis Historia is a sophisticated encyclopaedia of the riches of the ancient world. The contributors to the present volume represent and join a new generation of critics who have begun to examine the dominant motifs which give shape to the work.
Author | : Assistant Professor of Classics and Senior Research Associate of the Cobb Institute of Archaeology Scott J Digiulio |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0197688268 |
Download Reading Miscellany in the Roman Empire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Aulus Gellius and his sole surviving work, the Noctes Atticae (NA), have long stood on the periphery of Classical scholarship. This second century CE compilation, conventionally termed a miscellany, collects vast amounts of otherwise lost ancient literature, and the depictions of scholarly activity throughout the work have led some to see in Gellius a kindred spirit-a Classicist avant la lettre. Yet, the NA is a fascinating work of literature in its own right, depicting the intellectual and literary culture at the height of the Roman Empire and offering invaluable evidence for the evolution of Latin prose as a literary form in the Antonine period. In contrast to previous scholarship that looks past the randomness of the NA, this book argues that the conceit of disorder enabled Gellius to probe the nature of reading in the second century CE. Gellius' central preoccupation is articulating a distinct set of "ways of reading" that may be employed to navigate the web of literature in the Roman Empire. In turn, each of these ways of reading-through material framing devices, focal characters, recurrent citations in dialogue with one another, and allusive references to other near-contemporary works-can be used to examine Gellius' collection and appreciate its literary qualities. Incorporating inter- and intratextual analysis alongside narratology-informed approaches, this book investigates the strategies used by Gellius to innovate within the Latin literary tradition and provides a framework for interpreting his varietas on its own terms"--