Book Description
This book will be of interest to any person, whether an interested party, student, or scholar of the Roman Empire. It highlights the way in which we should consider ancient figures--be they good or bad.
Author : Geoff W. Adams
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,43 MB
Release : 2014-07-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739197769
This book will be of interest to any person, whether an interested party, student, or scholar of the Roman Empire. It highlights the way in which we should consider ancient figures--be they good or bad.
Author : Geoffrey William Adams
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 22,91 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0739176382
This book examines the biography of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. It seeks to further understand the author of the Historia Augusta alongside the reminiscences of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Geoff W. Adams arrives at this understanding through a study of a wide range of literary texts. Marcus Aurelius was a very important ruler of the Roman Empire, who has had an impact symbolically, philosophically, and historically upon how the Roman Empire has been envisioned. Adams achieves this end to bring a clearer understanding to his representation and to modern interpretations of his highly interpreted and romanticized representations in the ancient texts.
Author : Charles Martindale
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 39,11 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 0198723415
Pater the Classicist is the first book to address in detail Walter Pater's important contribution to the study of classical antiquity. Widely considered our greatest aesthetic critic and now best known as a precursor to modernist writers and post-modernist thinkers of the twentieth century, Pater was also a classicist by profession who taught at the University of Oxford. He wrote extensively about Greek art and philosophy, but also authored an influential historical novel set in ancient Rome, Marius the Epicurean, and a variety of short stories depicting the survival of classical culture in later ages. These superficially diverging interests actually went closely hand-in-hand: it can plausibly be asserted that it is the classical tradition in its broadest sense, including the question of how to understand its workings and temporalities, which forms Pater's principal subject as a writer. Although he initially approached antiquity obliquely, through the Italian Renaissance, for example, or the poetry of William Morris, later in his career he wrote more, and more directly, about the ancient world, and particularly about Greece, his first love. The essays in this collection cover all his major works and reveal a many-sided and inspirational figure, whose achievements helped to reinvigorate the classical studies that were the basis of the English educational system of the nineteenth century, and whose conception of Classics as cross-disciplinary and outward-looking can be a model to scholars and students today. They discuss his classicism generally, his fiction set in classical antiquity, his writings on Greek art and culture, and those on ancient philosophy, and in doing so they also illuminate Pater's position within his Victorian context, among figures such as J. A. Symonds, Henry Nettleship, Vernon Lee, and Jane Harrison, as well as his place in the study and reception of Classics today.
Author : John W. Cairns
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,1 MB
Release : 2007-05-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 0748631771
This book is an important contribution to the current lively debate about the relationship between law and society in the Roman world. This debate, which was initiated by the work of John Crook in the 1960's, has had a profound impact upon the study of law and history and has created sharply divided opinions on the extent to which law may be said to be a product of the society that created it. This work is a modest attempt to provide a balanced assessment of the various points of view. The chapters within this book have been specifically arranged to represent the debate. It contains an introductory chapter by Alan Watson, whose views on the relationship between law and society have caused some controversy. In the remaining chapters a distinguished international group of scholars address this debate by focusing on studies of law and empire, codes and codification, death and economics, commerce and procedure. This book does not purport to provide a complete survey of Roman private law in light of Roma
Author : Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome)
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 15,15 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192839077
A. S. L. Farquharson's translation was originally published in 1944, as part of a major commentary on Marcus Aurelius' work. In this volume, Farquharson's work is brought up to date and supplied with an introduction and notes for the student and general reader. A selection of lively letters from Marcus to his tutor Fronto, most of which date from his earlier years, is also included.
Author : R. B. Rutherford
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 35,7 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor from 161 to 180 A.D., is renowned for his just rule and long frontier wars. But his lasting fame rests on his Meditations, a bedside book of reflections and self-admonitions written during his last years, that provide unique insights into the mind of an ancient ruler and contain many passages of pungent epigram and poetic imagery. This study is designed to make the Meditations more accessible to the modern reader. Rutherford carefully explains the historical and philosophical background, charts the main themes and tendencies of Marcus's thought, and relates stylistic detail to the intellectual and moral outlook of the author. His goal is to define Marcus's aims, attitudes, and styles more precisely and restore his work to the position it held in the past, that of a spiritual classic which can be read and enjoyed by people who are not professional scholars.
Author : Norman Hepburn Baynes
Publisher :
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 44,47 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Scriptores historiae Augustae
ISBN :
Author : Frank McLynn
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 48,63 MB
Release : 2009-08-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0306818302
Critically acclaimed author McLynn pens this masterful and long-overdue biography of Marcus Aurelius, whose life as a philosopher, soldier, and emperor still resonates with contemporary relevance. b&w photographs throughout.
Author : Henry Dwight Sedgwick
Publisher : AMS Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 39,81 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : George Lang
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 22,22 MB
Release : 2023-11-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
This meticulously edited and carefully compiled edition contains not only the biography of the famous Roman emperor, but also the collection of his thoughts and philosophical views on Stoicism in his "Meditations". Marcus Aurelius wrote this work originally in Greek and as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement. The original title of this work is unknown but even without the original title it is still considers as a literary monument to a government of service and duty.