Author : Dr John Rich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 30,93 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1134919913
This volume focuses on the changing relationship between warfare and the Roman citizen body, from the Republic, when war was at the heart of Roman life, through to the Principate, when it was confined to professional soldiers and expansion largely ceased, and finally on to the Late Empire and the Roman army's eventual failure.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 24,89 MB
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9004425365
This is the first edition since its original publication of Daniel Heinsius’ Latin tragedy Auriacus, sive Libertas saucia (Orange, or Liberty Wounded, 1602), with an introduction, a parallel English translation, and a commentary. Centering on the assassination of William of Orange, one of the leaders of the Dutch Revolt against King Philip II of Spain, Auriacus was Heinsius’ history drama, with which he aimed to raise Dutch drama to the level of classical drama. Highly influential, the tragedy contributed to the construction of a national identity in the Low Countries and launched Heinsius’ long career as an internationally celebrated poet and professor at Leiden University.
Author : Justina Gregory
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 10,29 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1405152052
The Blackwell Companion to Greek Tragedy provides readers with a fundamental grounding in Greek tragedy, and also introduces them to the various methodologies and the lively critical dialogue that characterize the study of Greek tragedy today. Comprises 31 original essays by an international cast of contributors, including up-and-coming as well as distinguished senior scholars Pays attention to socio-political, textual, and performance aspects of Greek tragedy All ancient Greek is transliterated and translated, and technical terms are explained as they appear Includes suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter, and a generous and informative combined bibliography
Author : Parmenides,
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 16,53 MB
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1725229609
Parmenides and Empedocles, along with Heraclitus the most important of the pre-Socratic philosophers, were at the same time among the greatest poets of the ancient world. But their work is rarely treated and still more rarely translated in its original form--as poetry. The complete extant fragments of Parmenides and Empedocles are collected here for the first time in a translation responsive to the original verse texts. Parmenides' philosophical fragments are here given as the poetic remains of the thinker from Elea in Southern Italy whom Socrates wondered at and Plato held in awe. What emerges from the poetry is at once an uncompromising vision of absolute Being and a compassionate understanding of the human cosmos: It is the body grows to Mind. All men desire the same thing, apprehend the same The plenum is thought, and thought preponderates. The poetry of Empedocles--reincarnationist, naturalist, cosmologist, religious leader, physiologist, and a metaphysician--is presented here in the personal idiom of the fifth-century Sicilian who has been called the last of the Greek shamans: I have already been A bush and a bird A boy and a girl A mute fish in the sea.
Author : Stella Purce Revard
Publisher : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 46,41 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
"This book examines Pindar and his influence in a broad way by evaluating the impact of his poetry in religious, cultural, and literary contexts. Revard studies the literature that resulted from Pindaric imitation and probes the reason for the great popularity of Pindar and his odes on the continent and in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The study will be of interest to classicists, scholars in comparative literature, and students of Italian, French, and English literature." --
Author : Donald Andrew Russell
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 46,34 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Wiep van Bunge
Publisher : Thoemmes Continuum
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 48,94 MB
Release : 2003-12-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
In this Dictionary, more than four hundred biographical entries encompass all the Dutch thinkers who exercised a major influence on the intellectual life of the Golden Age, as well as those who developed their ideas and beliefs through interaction with other scholars. Additional entries describe foreign philosophers who lived in the country temporarily and whose work was influenced by their stay. These include John Locke, René Descartes and Pierre Bayle.
Author : Stella Purce Revard
Publisher : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,88 MB
Release : 2009
Category : European poetry
ISBN : 9780866983990
The praise of great men : politics and patronage in Italy and France -- Royal encomia : Ronsard and his followers in France and England -- The political Pindaric in Commonwealth England -- Cowley and the Pindarique odes : text and subtext -- Stuart apologetics : Aphra Behn and John Dryden -- The art of the funeral Pindaric : Threnody in Italy and France -- "Melodious tears" : the English ode-elegy -- The poetics of the familiar Pindaric -- The celebration of place : the early modern city ode
Author : Michiel Vincent Roscam Abbing
Publisher :
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 37,84 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN : 9789075035490
At the occasion of his death the Leiden humanist Petrus Scriverius (1576-1660) was characterized as someone who published his own writings or those of others. Financially independent, this antiquarian and philologist published countless books during his long and productive live, among them annotated classical texts and historical treatises. Scriverius indeed published many works by other authors, especially poetry. We encounter him in learned circles as composer of laudatory poems, correspondent or as contributor to alba amicorum. Scriverius is omnipresent in Dutch seventeenth century culture, but relatively unknown.0This volume presents a comprehensive documentation on Scriverius: his life, his works, his contacts, etc. It is the result of many years of study conducted, guided and stimulated by Dr. Pierre Tuynman (1929-2016) of the former Institute of Neophililogy and Neo-Latin of the University of Amsterdam.
Author : Geoffrey Parker
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 24,53 MB
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300210442
Philip II is not only the most famous king in Spanish history, but one of the most famous monarchs in English history: the man who married Mary Tudor and later launched the Spanish Armada against her sister Elizabeth I. This compelling biography of the most powerful European monarch of his day begins with his conception (1526) and ends with his ascent to Paradise (1603), two occurrences surprisingly well documented by contemporaries. Eminent historian Geoffrey Parker draws on four decades of research on Philip as well as a recent, extraordinary archival discovery—a trove of 3,000 documents in the vaults of the Hispanic Society of America in New York City, unread since crossing Philip’s own desk more than four centuries ago. Many of them change significantly what we know about the king. The book examines Philip’s long apprenticeship; his three principal interests (work, play, and religion); and the major political, military, and personal challenges he faced during his long reign. Parker offers fresh insights into the causes of Philip’s leadership failures: was his empire simply too big to manage, or would a monarch with different talents and temperament have fared better?
