Author : A. R. Humphreys
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 20,97 MB
Release : 2020-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000031292
The outlook of writers in the eighteenth century was profoundly influenced by the social and intellectual interests of Augustan life. Originally published in 1954, this book aims to describe that influence, and to set the literature of the period in its social environment with a critical attention. The treatment is compact but readable, and effective use is made of quotations from contemporary literature.
Author : Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 33,31 MB
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1472528999
Written by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, one of the world's foremost scholars on Roman social and cultural history, this well-established introduction to Rome in the Age of Augustus provides a fascinating insight into the social and physical contexts of Augustan politics and poetry, exploring in detail the impact of the new regime of government on society. Taking an interpretative approach, the ideas and environment manipulated by Augustus are explored, along with reactions to that manipulation. Emphasising the role and impact of art and architecture of the time, and on Roman attitudes and values, Augustan Rome explains how the victory of Octavian at Actium transformed Rome and Roman life. This thought-provoking yet concise volume sets political changes in the context of their impact on Roman values, on the imaginative world of poetry, on the visual world of art, and on the fabric of the city of Rome.
Author : Arthur R. Humphreys
Publisher :
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 12,80 MB
Release : 1976
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Peter Michael Swan
Publisher : Oxford : Oxford University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 11,55 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0195167740
"This commentary pays close critical attention to Dio's historical sources, methods, and assumptions as it also strives to present him as a figure in his own right. During a long life (ca. 164-after 229), Dio served as a Roman senator under seven emperors from Commodus to Severus Alexander, governed three Roman provinces, and was twice consul."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Arthur Raleigh Humphreys
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 27,53 MB
Release : 1964
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Author : Fergus Millar
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 25,62 MB
Release : 2003-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0807875082
Fergus Millar is one of the most influential contemporary historians of the ancient world. His essays and books, including The Emperor in the Roman World and The Roman Near East, have enriched our understanding of the Greco-Roman world in fundamental ways. In his writings Millar has made the inhabitants of the Roman Empire central to our conception of how the empire functioned. He also has shown how and why Rabbinic Judaism, Christianity, and Islam evolved from within the wider cultural context of the Greco-Roman world. Opening this collection of sixteen essays is a new contribution by Millar in which he defends the continuing significance of the study of Classics and argues for expanding the definition of what constitutes that field. In this volume he also questions the dominant scholarly interpretation of politics in the Roman Republic, arguing that the Roman people, not the Senate, were the sovereign power in Republican Rome. In so doing he sheds new light on the establishment of a new regime by the first Roman emperor, Caesar Augustus.
Author : Anthony Birley
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 12,79 MB
Release : 2005-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0141935995
One of the most controversial of all works to survive from ancient Rome, the Augustan History is our main source of information about the Roman emperors from 117 to 284 AD. Written in the late fourth century by an anonymous author, it is an enigmatic combination of truth, invention and humour. This volume contains the first half of the History, and includes biographies of every emperor from Hadrian to Heliogabalus - among them the godlike Marcus Antonius and his grotesquely corrupt son Commodus. The History contains many fictitious (but highly entertaining) anecdotes about the depravity of the emperors, as the author blends historical fact and faked documents to present our most complete - albeit unreliable - account of the later Roman Caesars.
Author : Joseph M. Levine
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 26,91 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801481994
1. Wotton vs. Temple -- 2. Bentley vs. Christ Church -- 3. Stroke and Counterstroke -- 4. The Querelle -- 5. Ancient Greece and Modern Scholarship -- 6. Pope's Iliad -- 7. Pope and the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns -- 8. Bentley's Milton -- 9. History and Theory -- 10. Ancients -- 11. Moderns -- 12. Ancients and Moderns.
Author : Jonathan Edmondson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 27,4 MB
Release : 2014-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0748695389
This book presents a selection of the most important scholarship on Augustus and the contribution he made to the development of the Roman state in the early imperial period.
Author : Arthur Raleigh Humphreys
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 10,96 MB
Release : 1963
Category : England
ISBN :
The outlook of writers in the eighteenth century was profoundly influenced by the social and intellectual interests of Augustan life. Originally published in 1954, this book aims to describe that influence, and to set the literature of the period in its social environment with a critical attention. The treatment is compact but readable, and effective use is made of quotations from contemporary literature. -- Provided by publisher
