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  • Comparing Roman Hellenisms in Italy

    Modifié par Basil Dufallo, Riemer A. Faber ...
    The story of Roman Hellenism—defined as the imitation or adoption of something Greek by those subject to or operating under Roman power—begins not with Roman incursions into the Greek mainland, but in Italy, where our most plentiful and spectacular surviving evidence is concentrated. Think of the architecture of the Roman capital, the Campanian towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum buried by Vesuvius, ... En savoir plus

    $76.89 CAD

  • Disorienting Empire

    Republican Latin Poetry's Wanderers

    par Basil Dufallo ...
    Disorienting Empire is the first book to examine Republican Latin poetry's recurring interest in characters who become lost. Basil Dufallo explains the prevalence of this theme with reference to the rapid expansion of Rome's empire in the Middle and Late Republic. It was both a threatening and an enticing prospect, Dufallo argues, to imagine the ever-widening spaces of Roman power as a place where ... En savoir plus

    $124.99 CAD

  • Roman Error

    Classical Reception and the Problem of Rome's Flaws

    Modifié par Basil Dufallo ...
    Collections series Classical Presences
    In the eyes of posterity, ancient Rome is deeply flawed. The list of censures is long and varied, from political corruption and the practice of slavery, to religious intolerance and sexual immorality, yet for centuries the Romans' "errors" have not only provoked opprobrium, but also inspired wayward and novel forms of thought and representation, themselves errant in the broad sense of the Latin ... En savoir plus

    $98.99 CAD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Cicero

    Modifié par Catherine Steel ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Cicero was one of classical antiquity's most prolific, varied and self-revealing authors. His letters, speeches, treatises and poetry chart a political career marked by personal struggle and failure and the collapse of the republican system of government to which he was intellectually and emotionally committed. They were read, studied and imitated throughout antiquity and subsequently became ... En savoir plus

    $40.99 CAD

  • Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire

    A Study of Elite Communities

    par William A. Johnson ...
    Collections series Classical Culture and Society
    In Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire, William Johnson examines the system and culture of reading among the elite in second-century Rome. The investigation proceeds in case-study fashion using the principal surviving witnesses, beginning with the communities of Pliny and Tacitus (with a look at Pliny's teacher, Quintilian) from the time of the emperor Trajan. Johnson then moves ... En savoir plus

    $51.99 CAD

  • Women and War in Antiquity

    Modifié par Jacqueline Fabre-Serris, Alison Keith ...
    Women in ancient Greece and Rome played a much more active role in battle than previously assumed.The martial virtues—courage, loyalty, cunning, and strength—were central to male identity in the ancient world, and antique literature is replete with depictions of men cultivating and exercising these virtues on the battlefield. In Women and War in Antiquity, sixteen scholars reexamine classical ... En savoir plus

    $63.79 CAD

  • Roman Theories of Translation

    Surpassing the Source

    par Siobhán McElduff ...
    Collections series Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
    For all that Cicero is often seen as the father of translation theory, his and other Roman comments on translation are often divorced from the complicated environments that produced them. The first book-length study in English of its kind, Roman Theories of Translation: Surpassing the Source explores translation as it occurred in Rome and presents a complete, culturally integrated discourse on its ... En savoir plus

    $116.99 CAD

  • Carthage in Virgil's Aeneid

    Staging the Enemy under Augustus

    par Elena Giusti ...
    Collections series Cambridge Classical Studies
    Founded upon more than a century of civil bloodshed, the first imperial regime of ancient Rome, the Principate of Caesar Augustus, looked at Rome's distant and glorious past in order to justify and promote its existence under the disguise of a restoration of the old Republic. In doing so, it used and revisited the history and myth of Rome's major success against external enemies: the wars against ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • Apuleius and Africa

    Modifié par Benjamin Todd Lee, Ellen Finkelpearl, Luca Graverini ...
    Collections series Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
    The Metamorphoses or Golden Ass of Apuleius (ca. 170 CE) is a Latin novel written by a native of Madauros in Roman North Africa, roughly equal to modern Tunisia together with parts of Libya and Algeria. Apuleius’ novel is based on the model of a lost Greek novel; it narrates the adventures of a Greek character with a Roman name who spends the bulk of the novel transformed into an animal, traveling ... En savoir plus

    $89.99 CAD

  • Saeculum

    Defining Historical Eras in Ancient Roman Thought

    par Paul Hay ...
    How the notion of unique eras influenced the Roman view of time and the narration of history from various perspectives.The Victorian Era. The Age of Enlightenment. The post-9/11 years. We are accustomed to demarcating history, fencing off one period from the next. But societies have not always operated in this way. Paul Hay returns to Rome in the first century BCE to glimpse the beginnings of ... En savoir plus

    $55.99 CAD

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  • Carpe Diem

    The Poetics of Presence in Greek and Latin Literature

    par Robert A. Rohland ...
    Collections series Cambridge Classical Studies
    Carpe diem – 'eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die!' – is a prominent motif throughout ancient literature and beyond. This is the first book-length examination of its significance and demonstrates that close analysis can make a key contribution to a question that is central to literary studies in and beyond Classics: how can poetry give us the almost magical impression that something is ... En savoir plus

    $40.99 CAD

  • Blood in the Arena

    The Spectacle of Roman Power

    par Alison Futrell ...
    "Fresh perspectives [on] the study of the Roman amphitheater . . . providing important insights into the psychological dimensions" of gladiatorial combat ( Classical World).From the center of Imperial Rome to the farthest reaches of ancient Britain, Gaul, and Spain, amphitheaters marked the landscape of the Western Roman Empire. Built to bring Roman institutions and the spectacle of Roman power to ... En savoir plus

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