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Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome

Ancient Ideas for Modern Times

By: Christopher Pelling,Maria Wyke

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Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome

Ancient Ideas for Modern Times

By: Christopher Pelling,Maria Wyke

Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome is a book for all readers who want to know more about the literature that underpins Western civilization. Chistopher Pelling and Maria Wyke provide a vibrant and distinctive introduction to twelve of the greatest authors from ancient Greece and Rome, writers whose voices still resonate strongly across the centuries: Homer, Sappho, Herodotus, Euripides, Thucydides, Plato, Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, Horace, Juvenal and Tacitus. To what vital ideas do these authors give voice? And why are we so often drawn to what they say even in modern times? Twelve Voices investigates these tantalizing questions, showing how these great figures from classical antiquity still address some of our most fundamental concerns in the world today (of war and courage, dictatorship and democracy, empire, immigration, city life, art, madness, irrationality, and religious commitment), and express some of our most personal sentiments (about family and friendship, desire and separation, grief and happiness). These twelve classical voices can sound both compellingly familiar and startlingly alien to the twenty-first century reader. Yet they remain suggestive and inspiring, despite being rooted in their own times and places, and have profoundly affected the lives of those prepared to listen to them right up to the present day.

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OUP Oxford

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0191053651

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9780191053658

The Contest for Knowledge

Debates over Women's Learning in Eighteenth-Century Italy

By: Maria Gaetana Agnesi,Diamante Medaglia Faini,Aretafila Savini de' Rossi,Accademia de' Ricovrati

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The Contest for Knowledge

Debates over Women's Learning in Eighteenth-Century Italy

By: Maria Gaetana Agnesi,Diamante Medaglia Faini,Aretafila Savini de' Rossi,Accademia de' Ricovrati

At a time when women were generally excluded from scholarly discourse in the intellectual centers of Europe, four extraordinary female letterate proved their parity as they lectured in prominent scientific and literary academies and published in respected journals. During the Italian Enlightenment, Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Giuseppa Eleonora Barbapiccola, Diamante Medaglia Faini, and Aretafila Savini de' Rossi were afforded unprecedented deference in academic debates and epitomized the increasing ability of women to influence public discourse. The Contest for Knowledge reveals how these four women used the methods and themes of their male counterparts to add their voices to the vigorous and prolific debate over the education of women during the eighteenth century. In the texts gathered here, the women discuss the issues they themselves thought most urgent for the equality of women in Italian society specifically and in European culture more broadly. Their thoughts on this important subject reveal how crucial the eighteenth century was in the long history of debates about women in the academy.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226010562

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9780226010564

Evenings at Donaldson Manor; Or, the Christmas Guest

By: Maria J. McIntosh

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Evenings at Donaldson Manor; Or, the Christmas Guest

By: Maria J. McIntosh

Maria Jane McIntosh (1803-1878) was an American novelist and children's writer. She wrote a series of children's books under the name "Aunt Kitty" as well as a successful series for adults. She also wrote various essays on women's rights and slavery. Her works include: Grace Elliot; or, To Seem and to Be (1851), Evenings at Donaldson Manor; or, The Christmas Guest (1851), The Lofty and the Lowly; or, Good in All and None All Good (2 volumes) (1853), Violet; or, The Cross and the Crown (1856) and Two Pictures; or, What We Think of Ourselves and What the World Thinks of Us (1863).

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