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Reading After Actium

Vergil's Georgics, Octavian, and Rome

By: Christopher Nappa

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Reading After Actium

Vergil's Georgics, Octavian, and Rome

By: Christopher Nappa

Reading after Actium is a study of Vergil's Georgics, a didactic poem ostensibly about farming but in fact a brilliant exercise challenging readers to develop a broader perspective on the basic problems and the dangers of human life. Octavian is treated as one of the poet's students and given the opportunity to learn lessons in handling power, in controlling Rome's vast resources, and in preventing the bloody cycle of civil war from beginning again. Most of all the Georgics asks Octavian to consider what is involved in assuming godlike power over his fellow citizens. Reading after Actium provides an introduction to the history of scholarship surrounding the Georgics and the political questions surrounding Octavian and his career. Nappa gives a book by book analysis of the entire poem, and a conclusion that draws together the themes of the whole. Reading after Actium will appeal to students and critics of Vergil and other Augustan Literature as well as those of didactic poetry and its traditions. Students of Roman history and politics should read this as well. Christopher Nappa is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Minnesota.

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University of Michigan Press

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047202583X

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9780472025831

The Arts of Imitation in Latin Prose

Pliny's Epistles /Quintilian in Brief

By: Christopher Whitton

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The Arts of Imitation in Latin Prose

Pliny's Epistles /Quintilian in Brief

By: Christopher Whitton

Imitation was central to Roman culture, and a staple of Latin poetry. But it was also fundamental to prose. This book brings together two monuments of the High Empire, Quintilian's Institutio oratoria ('Training of the orator') and Pliny's Epistles, to reveal a spectacular project of textual and ethical imitation. As a young man Pliny had studied with Quintilian. In the Epistles he meticulously transforms and subsumes his teacher's masterpiece, together with poetry and prose ranging from Homer to Tacitus' Dialogus de oratoribus. In teasing apart Pliny's rich intertextual weave, this book reinterprets Quintilian through the eyes of one of his sharpest readers, radically reassesses the Epistles as a work of minute textual artistry, and makes a major intervention in scholarly debates on intertextuality, imitation and rhetorical culture at Rome. The result is a landmark study with far-reaching implications for how we read Latin literature.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108476570

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9781108476577

Baronia Anglica Concentrata, Or, a Concentrated Account of All the Baronies

Vol. II

By: Thomas Christopher Banks

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Baronia Anglica Concentrata, Or, a Concentrated Account of All the Baronies

Vol. II

By: Thomas Christopher Banks

Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.

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310

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385118883

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9783385118881

Piety and Pythagoras in Renaissance Florence: The Symbolum Nesianum

By: Christopher Celenza

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Piety and Pythagoras in Renaissance Florence: The Symbolum Nesianum

By: Christopher Celenza

This volume sheds light on the transitions in the intellectual life of Renaissance Florence in the last quarter of the fifteenth century. Its point of departure is a hitherto unedited Latin text, the Symbolum Nesianum, whose original version was written by Giovanni Nesi, a follower of the famous Platonist Marsilio Ficino and then of the austere, fiery reformer, Girolamo Savonarola. The first part of the book presents a lengthy introductory study that illuminates the text’s cultural context. The second part offers a critical edition, translation, and commentary for the text. The book will be of use to historians and to all scholars interested in the culture of the city often called the cradle of the Renaissance as it underwent one of its most difficult times.

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BRILL

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9004475877

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9789004475878

Est insolitum inquirere taliter

Latin and German Documents from Heinricus Institoris’s Witch Hunts in Ravensburg and Innsbruck

By: Christopher S. Mackay

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Latin and German Documents from Heinricus Institoris’s Witch Hunts in Ravensburg and Innsbruck

By: Christopher S. Mackay

This volume contains the only full and complete edition of the Latin and German documents illustrating the activities of Heinricus Institoris (the author of the Malleus Maleficarum) as prosecutor of witchcraft in Ravensburg in 1484 and Innsbruck in 1485.

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9004454764

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Henry V

By: Christopher Allmand

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Henry V

By: Christopher Allmand

Thanks in part to Shakespeare, Henry V is one of England's best-known monarchs. The image of the king leading his army against the French, and the great victory at Agincourt, are part of English historical tradition. Yet, though indeed a soldier of exceptional skill, Henry V's reputation needs to be seen against a broader background of achievement. This sweepingly majestic book is based on the full range of primary sources and sets the reign in its full European context. Christopher Allmand shows that Henry V not only united the country in war but also provided domestic security, solid government, and a much needed sense of national pride. The book includes an updated foreword which takes stock of more recent publications in the field. "A far more rounded picture of Henry as a ruler than any previous study."--G.L. Harris, The Times

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