The Roman Antiquities of Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Author : Dionisio de Halicarnaso
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Page : pages
File Size : 14,4 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Rome
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Author : Dionisio de Halicarnaso
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Page : pages
File Size : 14,4 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Rome
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Author : Dionysius (of Halicarnassus.)
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 19,72 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Classical literature
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DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS migrated to Rome in 300 B.C., where he lived until his death some time after 8 B.C., writing his Roman Antiquities in twenty books and teaching the art of rhetoric and literary composition to a small group of upper-class Romans. His purpose, both in his own work and in his teaching, was to re-establish the classical Attic standards of purity, invention and taste in order to reassert the primacy of Greek as the literary language of the Mediterranean world. The essays in the present volume display the full range of Dionysius' critical expertise. In the treatise On Literary Composition, his finest and most original work, discussion of the effects produced by the arrangement of words involves minute analysis of phonetics and metre in addition to more general aspects of literary aesthetics such as the difference between poetry and prose, and the tripartite classification of the types of arrangement. The other four essays are on a less ambitious scale. The Dinarchus is primarily a study of authenticity in which Dionysius attempts to identify the genuine speeches of the latest Attic orator from the list of those ascribed to him by the librarians. The three literary letters are all concerned with possible models. In the Letter to Pompeius, Dionysius gives his reasons for criticizing Plato on stylistic and also moral grounds, and appends critiques of Herodotus, whom he greatly admired, and three other historians -- Xenophon, Philistus and Theopompus. Of the two Letters to Ammaeus, the second may be read as an appendix to the Thucydides, but the first concerns literary history, and investigates the question of whether Demosthenes could have learnt his oratorical skills from Aristotle's Rhetoric. Volume I contains the essays On the Ancient Orators, Lysias, Isocrates, Isaeus, Demosthenes, and Thucydides.
Author : Richard Cooper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 46,73 MB
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1317061861
Making use of new and original material based on firsthand sources, this book interrogates the vogue for collecting, discussing, depicting, and putting to political and cultural use Roman antiquities in the French Renaissance. It surveys a range of activity from the labours of collectors and patrons to royal entries, considers attacks on the craze for the antique, and sets literary instances among a much wider spectrum of artistic endeavour. While Renaissance collecting and antiquarianism have certainly been the object of critical scrutiny, this study brings disparate fields into a single focus; and it examines not only areas of antiquarian expertise and interest (such as statues, coins, and books), but also important individual historical figures. The opening chapters deal with the role played in Rome by French ambassadors, who sent back antiques to collectors at court, who in the person of Jean Du Bellay, undertook excavations, and assembled a major personal collection, which was housed in a new villa in the ruined Baths of Diocletian. The volume includes a valuable appendix, which presents in transcription catalogues of the collections of Cardinal Jean du Bellay.
Author : Frank M. Snowden
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 43,20 MB
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674076266
Investigates the participation of black Africans, usually referred to as "Ethiopians," by the Greek and Romans, in classical civilization, concluding that they were accepted by pagans and Christians without prejudice.
Author : Charles Knapp Dillaway
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Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,90 MB
Release : 1831
Category : Mythology, Classical
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Author : Anthony Rich
Publisher :
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 31,17 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Classical dictionaries
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Author : Flavius Josephus
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 17,38 MB
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789355399977
The book, "" Antiquities of the Jews; Book - XVIII "", has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.
Author : Alexander Petrie
Publisher :
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 41,18 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Latin language
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Author : Kathleen Wren Christian
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,64 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300154214
In the early fifteenth century, when Romans discovered ancient marble sculptures and inscriptions in the ruins, they often melted them into mortar. A hundred years later, however, antique marbles had assumed their familiar role as works of art displayed in private collections. Many of these collections, especially the Vatican Belvedere, are well known to art historians and archaeologists. Yet discussions of antiquities collecting in Rome too often begin with the Belvedere, that is, only after it was a widespread practice. In this important book, the author steps back to examine the "long" fifteenth century, a critical period in the history of antiquities collecting that has received scant attention. Kathleen Wren Christian examines shifts in the response of artists and writers to spectacular archaeological discoveries and the new role of collecting antiquities in the public life of Roman elites.
Author : Charles Anthon
Publisher :
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 19,3 MB
Release : 1851
Category : Rome
ISBN :