Proceedings of the African Classical Associations
Author : African Classical Associations
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 31,34 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Classical antiquities
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Author : African Classical Associations
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 31,34 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Classical antiquities
ISBN :
Author : African Classical Associations. Proceedings. 1967
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 42,59 MB
Release : 1967
Category :
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 22,46 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Classical antiquities
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Author : Classical Association (Great Britain)
Publisher :
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 34,57 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Classical education
ISBN :
Rules and list of members included in each volume.
Author : African Classical Association
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 31,94 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Classical antiquities
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Author : Christopher Stray
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 23,7 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Classical education
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Author : Quintus Curtius Rufus
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 39,79 MB
Release : 2005-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0141914343
Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt, Syria, Persia and India, was perhaps the most successful conqueror the world has ever seen. Yet although no other individual has attracted so much speculation across the centuries, Alexander himself remains an enigma. Curtius' History offers a great deal of information unobtainable from other sources of the time. A compelling narrative of a turbulent era, the work recounts events on a heroic scale, detailing court intrigue, stirring speeches and brutal battles - among them, those of Macedonia's great war with Persia, which was to culminate in Alexander's final triumph over King Darius and the defeat of an ancient and mighty empire. It also provides by far the most plausible and haunting portrait of Alexander we possess: a brilliantly realized image of a man ruined by constant good fortune in his youth.
Author : Alan K. Bowman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1228 pages
File Size : 17,49 MB
Release : 1996-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521264303
The period described in Volume X of the second edition of The Cambridge Ancient History begins in the year after the death of Julius Caesar and ends in the year after the fall of Nero, the last of the Julio-Claudian emperors. Its main theme is the transformation of the political configuration of the state and the establishment of the Roman Empire. Chapters 16 supply a political narrative history of the period. In chapters 7-12 the institutions of government are described and analysed. Chapters 13-14 offer a survey of the Roman world in this period region by region, and chapters 15-21 deal with the most important social and cultural developments of the era (the city of Rome; the structure of society; art, literature and law). Central to the period is the achievement of the first emperor, Augustus.
Author : Frank W. Walbank
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 17,43 MB
Release : 2010-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521136808
This volume contains a selection of Professor F. W. Walbank's papers on classical Greco-Roman subjects.
Author : David H. J. Larmour
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 30,24 MB
Release : 2016-01-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0806155043
In this first comprehensive reading of Juvenal’s satires in more than fifty years, David H. J. Larmour deftly revises and sharpens our understanding of the second-century Roman writer who stands as the archetype for all later practitioners of the satirist’s art. The enduring attraction of Juvenal’s satires is twofold: they not only introduce the character of the “angry satirist” but also offer vivid descriptions of everyday life in Rome at the height of the Empire. In Larmour’s interpretation, these two elements are inextricably linked. The Arena of Satire presents the satirist as flaneur traversing the streets of Rome in search of its authentic core—those distinctly Roman virtues that have disappeared amid the corruption of the age. What the vengeful, punishing satirist does to his victims, as Larmour shows, echoes what the Roman state did to outcasts and criminals in the arena of the Colosseum. The fact that the arena was the most prominent building in the city and is mentioned frequently by Juvenal makes it an ideal lens through which to examine the spectacular and punishing characteristics of Roman satire. And the fact that Juvenal undertakes his search for the uncorrupted, authentic Rome within the very buildings and landmarks that make up the actual, corrupt Rome of his day gives his sixteen satires their uniquely paradoxical and contradictory nature. Larmour’s exploration of “the arena of satire” guides us through Juvenal’s search for the true Rome, winding from one poem to the next. He combines close readings of passages from individual satires with discussions of Juvenal’s representation of Roman space and topography, the nature of the “arena” experience, and the network of connections among the satirist, the gladiator, and the editor—or producer—of Colosseum entertainments. The Arena of Satire also offers a new definition of “Juvenalian satire” as a particular form arising from the intersection of the body and the urban landscape—a form whose defining features survive in the works of several later satirists, from Jonathan Swift and Evelyn Waugh to contemporary writers such as Russian novelist Victor Pelevin and Irish dramatist Martin McDonagh.