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  • Cicero, Against Verres, 2.1.53–86

    Latin Text with Introduction, Study Questions, Commentary and English Translation

    par Ingo Gildenhard ...
    Collections Livre 1 - Classics Textbooks
    Looting, despoiling temples, attempted rape and judicial murder: these are just some of the themes of this classic piece of writing by one of the world’s greatest orators. This particular passage is from the second book of Cicero’s Speeches against Verres, who was a former Roman magistrate on trial for serious misconduct. Cicero presents the lurid details of Verres’ alleged crimes in exquisite and ... En savoir plus

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  • Cicero, On Pompey's Command (De Imperio), 27-49

    Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, Commentary, and Translation

    In republican times, one of Rome's deadliest enemies was King Mithridates of Pontus. In 66 BCE, after decades of inconclusive struggle, the tribune Manilius proposed a bill that would give supreme command in the war against Mithridates to Pompey the Great, who had just swept the Mediterranean clean of another menace: the pirates. While powerful aristocrats objected to the proposal, which would ... En savoir plus

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  • Ovid, Metamorphoses (3.511–733)

    Latin Text with Introduction, Commentary, Glossary of Terms, Vocabulary Aid and Study Questions

    This part of Ovid's 'Theban History' recounts the confrontation of Pentheus, king of Thebes, with his divine cousin, Bacchus, the god of wine. Notwithstanding the warnings of the seer Tiresias and the cautionary tale of a character Acoetes (perhaps Bacchus in disguise), who tells of how the god once transformed a group of blasphemous sailors into dolphins, Pentheus refuses to acknowledge the ... En savoir plus

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  • Virgil, Aeneid 4.1–299

    Latin Text, Study Questions, Commentary and Interpretative Essays

    par Ingo Gildenhard ...
    Collections Livre 2 - Open Reports Series
    Love and tragedy dominate book four of Virgil’s most powerful work, building on the violent emotions invoked by the storms, battles, warring gods, and monster-plagued wanderings of the epic’s opening. Destined to be the founder of Roman culture, Aeneas, nudged by the gods, decides to leave his beloved Dido, causing her suicide in pursuit of his historical destiny. A dark plot, in which erotic ... En savoir plus

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  • Cicero, Philippic 2, 44–50, 78–92, 100–119

    Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary

    par Ingo Gildenhard ...
    Collections Livre 6 - Classics Textbooks
    Cicero composed his incendiary Philippics only a few months after Rome was rocked by the brutal assassination of Julius Caesar. In the tumultuous aftermath of Caesar’s death, Cicero and Mark Antony found themselves on opposing sides of an increasingly bitter and dangerous battle for control. Philippic 2 was a weapon in that war.Conceived as Cicero’s response to a verbal attack from Antony in the ... En savoir plus

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  • Teaching Dido

    Critical Perspectives on Aeneid 4

    par Ingo Gildenhard ...
    Collections Livre 9 - Classics Textbooks
    A companion to Virgil, Aeneid 4, with Study Questions, Vocabulary, and Commentary (OBP 2026), Teaching Dido includes five essays that explore aspects of Virgil’s poetry in a student-friendly way. They range from issues in poetics (verse design, allusion) to key themes (‘historiographical Dido’, religion, pietās). Six reprinted scholarly articles follow, allowing students and their teachers to ... En savoir plus

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  • Virgil, Aeneid 4, with Study Questions, Vocabulary, and Commentary

    par Ingo Gildenhard ...
    Collections Livre 8 - Classics Textbooks
    In Dido’s encounter with Aeneas, the Aeneid explores abiding themes of love and loyalty, fate and fortune, the justice of the gods, imperial ambitions and its victims, as well as cross-cultural encounters and the geopolitics of colonial settlement. As Aeneas’ most significant other, Dido also assumes a crucial role in Virgil’s epic aetiology of Roman history and the Augustan principate. She owns ... En savoir plus

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  • Tacitus, Annals, 15.20–23, 33–45

    Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary

    Collections Livre 3 - Open Reports Series
    The emperor Nero is etched into the Western imagination as one of ancient Rome’s most infamous villains, and Tacitus’ Annals have played a central role in shaping the mainstream historiographical understanding of this flamboyant autocrat. This section of the text plunges us straight into the moral cesspool that Rome had apparently become in the later years of Nero’s reign, chronicling the emperor ... En savoir plus

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  • Augustus and the destruction of history

    The politics of the past in early imperial Rome

    Collections Livre 41 - Cambridge Classical Journal Supplements
    Augustus and the Destruction of History explores the intense controversies over the meaning and profile of the past that accompanied the violent transformation of the Roman Republic into the Augustan principate. The ten case studies collected here analyse how different authors and agents (individual and collective) developed specific conceptions of history and articulated them in a wide variety of ... En savoir plus

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  • Virgil, Aeneid 11 (Pallas & Camilla), 1–224, 498–521, 532–96, 648–89, 725–835

    Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary

    Collections Livre 7 - Classics Textbooks
    A dead boy (Pallas) and the death of a girl (Camilla) loom over the opening and the closing part of the eleventh book of the Aeneid. Following the savage slaughter in Aeneid 10, the book opens in a mournful mood as the warring parties revisit yesterday’s killing fields to attend to their dead. One casualty in particular commands attention: Aeneas’ protégé Pallas, killed and despoiled by Turnus in ... En savoir plus

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  • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.511-73

    Latin Text with Introduction, Commentary, Glossary of Terms, Vocabulary Aid and Study Questions

    Collections Livre 5 - Open Reports Series
    This extract from Ovid's 'Theban History' recounts the confrontation of Pentheus, king of Thebes, with his divine cousin, Bacchus, the god of wine. Notwithstanding the warnings of the seer Tiresias and the cautionary tale of a character Acoetes (perhaps Bacchus in disguise), who tells of how the god once transformed a group of blasphemous sailors into dolphins, Pentheus refuses to acknowledge the ... En savoir plus

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  • Paideia Romana

    Cicero's Tusculan Disputations

    par Ingo Gildenhard ...
    Collections Livre 30 - Cambridge Classical Journal Supplements
    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 ... En savoir plus

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