The Portable Roman Reader The Culture Of The Roman State
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The Portable Roman Reader The Culture Of The Roman State
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Author : Basil Davenport
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
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The Portable Roman Reader
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Author : Various
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 1977-01-27
The Portable Roman Reader written by Various and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977-01-27 with Literary Collections categories.
The Romans conquered most of the known world and detailed their conquests in calm, unapologetic histories. They were a supremely urbane people who longed poetically for the farming life. Valuing toughness and practicality in all things, they turned the love poem into a cynical rebuke and wrote tragedies in which the unfathomable actions of gods gave way to the staggering cruelties of man. As the empire slid into decay, Tacitus pulled back the curtain on the perverse intrigues of the emperors, and a Roman-educated Christian named Augustine recounted his spiritual awakening in what may be the world’s first psychological novel. This collection presents the essential writings of the Romans in their finest English translations: the comedies of Terence and Plautus; the histories of Julius Caesar, Livy and Tacitus; the oratory of Cicero; poems by Catullus, Virgil, Horace, and Martial; the philosophy of Lucretius and Boëthius, along with the stylishly narrated and often ribald myths of Ovid and Apuleius.
The Portable Roman Reader
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Author : Basil Davenport
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
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Readers And Reading Culture In The High Roman Empire
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Author : William A. Johnson
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 2012-07-12
Readers And Reading Culture In The High Roman Empire written by William A. Johnson and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-12 with History categories.
Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire is a rich cultural history of individual reading communities that differentiate themselves in interesting ways.
The Roman Reader
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Author : Various
language : en
Publisher: Viking Adult
Release Date : 1959-08-21
The Roman Reader written by Various and has been published by Viking Adult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959-08-21 with Fiction categories.
The Roman Reader
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Author : Various
language : en
Publisher: Viking Adult
Release Date : 1951-11-12
The Roman Reader written by Various and has been published by Viking Adult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1951-11-12 with categories.
The World Of Rome
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Author : Peter V. Jones
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1997-03-06
The World Of Rome written by Peter V. Jones and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-03-06 with History categories.
The World of Rome is an introduction to the history and culture of Rome for anyone seriously interested in the ancient world. It covers all aspects of the city--its rise to power, what made it great and why it still engages and challenges us today. Frequent quotations from ancient writers and numerous illustrations make this a stimulating and accessible introduction to ancient Rome. The book is particularly designed to serve as a background to Reading Latin (CUP 1986).
Readers And Reading Culture In The High Roman Empire
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Author : William Allen Johnson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Readers And Reading Culture In The High Roman Empire written by William Allen Johnson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Books and reading categories.
In 'Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire', William Johnson examines the system and culture of reading among the elite in 2nd century Rome, with a focus on specific communities witnessed in surviving literary sources and in the papyri. The result is a rich cultural history of individual reading communities.
Aulus Gellius And Roman Reading Culture
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Author : Joseph A. Howley
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-04-12
Aulus Gellius And Roman Reading Culture written by Joseph A. Howley and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-12 with History categories.
Long a source for quotations, fragments, and factoids, the Noctes Atticae of Aulus Gellius offers hundreds of brief but vivid glimpses of Roman intellectual life. In this book Joseph Howley demonstrates how the work may be read as a literary text in its own right, and discusses the rich evidence it provides for the ancient history of reading, thought, and intellectual culture. He argues that Gellius is in close conversation with predecessors both Greek and Latin, such as Plutarch and Pliny the Elder, and also offers new ways of making sense of the text's 'miscellaneous' qualities, like its disorder and its table of contents. Dealing with topics ranging from the framing of literary quotations to the treatment of contemporary celebrities who appear in its pages, this book offers a new way to learn from the Noctes about the world of Roman reading and thought.
The Roman Book
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Author : Rex Winsbury
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2014-01-23
The Roman Book written by Rex Winsbury and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-23 with Literary Collections categories.
The publishing of Roman books has long and often been misrepresented by false analogies with modern publishing. This comprehensive new study examines, by appeal to what Roman authors themselves tell us, both the raw materials and aesthetic criteria of the Roman book (a papyrus scroll) and the process of literary composition. What was the 'scribal art' of the time? What was the role of bookshops and libraries? What control did an author have over his creation? How were new books received and used by readers? To answer these questions Roman publishing is placed firmly in the context of a society that, despite the omnipresence of writing, was still predominantly oral. This context helps to explain how some books and authors became politically dangerous, and how the Roman book could be both a cultural icon and integral part of the self-definition of Rome's governing elite and a direct contributor to popular culture through the mass medium of the Roman theatre.