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Catullan Questions Revisited

By: T. P. Wiseman

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Catullan Questions Revisited offers a new insight into the brilliant poet who loved an aristocratic girl, attacked Julius Caesar and became a satirical playwright. Insisting on scrupulous use of the primary sources, Peter Wiseman combines textual, historical and even archaeological evidence to explode the orthodox view of Catullus' life and work. 'Lesbia' was not a woman in her thirties, as has been believed for 150 years, but a girl only recently married; Catullus' poems were written for performance, private or public, and it was only in 54 BC, at what he saw as the turning-point of his life, that he collected their texts into a sequence of probably seven volumes. His subsequent literary career, equally successful but much less well attested, was as a 'mime'-dramatist. This book is intended for everyone who is interested in poetry and history, and who does not believe that literary texts exist in a vacuum.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009235729

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9781009235723

Catullus and His World

A Reappraisal

By: Timothy Peter Wiseman,T. P. Wiseman

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Catullus and His World

A Reappraisal

By: Timothy Peter Wiseman,T. P. Wiseman

This book is an attempt to read the poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus in his own context; to look at the poet and his works against the cultural realities of the first century BC as recent advances in historical research allow us to understand them. Catullus' own social background, the circumstances of the literary life of his time, the true extent of his works and the variety of audiences he addressed - these and other questions are explored by Professor Wiseman with new and startling results. Contemporary high society and politics are illustrated through Clodia and Caelius Rufus, considered not as mere adjuncts to Catullus' story but as significant historical personalities in their own right. A final chapter on nineteenth- and twentieth-century interpretations of Catullus' world shows how anachronistic preconceptions have prevented a proper understanding of it, and made this radical reappraisal necessary. Anyone with a serious interest in Latin literature or Roman history will want to read this book. Students in the upper levels of school or at university will find it essential background reading to their work on Catullus and Cicero's Pro Caelio.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521319684

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9780521319683

Unwritten Rome

By: T. P. Wiseman

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Unwritten Rome

By: T. P. Wiseman

In Unwritten Rome, a new book by the author of Myths of Rome, T.P. Wiseman presents us with an imaginative and appealing picture of the early society of pre-literary Rome—as a free and uninhibited world in which the arts and popular entertainments flourished. This original angle allows the voice of the Roman people to be retrieved empathetically from contemporary artefacts and figured monuments, and from selected passages of later literature.How do you understand a society that didn’t write down its own history? That is the problem with early Rome, from the Bronze Age down to the conquest of Italy around 300 BC. The texts we have to use were all written centuries later, and their view of early Rome is impossibly anachronistic. But some possibly authentic evidence may survive, if we can only tease it out – like the old story of a Roman king acting as a magician, or the traditional custom that may originate in the practice of ritual prostitution. This book consists of eighteen attempts to find such material and make sense of it.

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Liverpool University Press

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1802079327

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9781802079326

Julius Caesar

Roman General

By: T. P. Wiseman

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Julius Caesar

Roman General

By: T. P. Wiseman

One of the most renowned names in history, Julius Caesar earned his reputation as a strict general, a resilient and resourceful thinker, and a determined dictator. This is the story of Caesar's life, accomplishments, and death, and the legacy of his name today.

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Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC

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1502632969

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The House of Augustus

A Historical Detective Story

By: T.P. Wiseman

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The House of Augustus

A Historical Detective Story

By: T.P. Wiseman

A radical reexamination of the textual and archaeological evidence about Augustus and the Palatine Caesar Augustus (63 BC–AD 14), who is usually thought of as the first Roman emperor, lived on the Palatine Hill, the place from which the word “palace” originates. A startling reassessment of textual and archaeological evidence, The House of Augustus demonstrates that Augustus was never an emperor in any meaningful sense of the word, that he never had a palace, and that the so-called "Casa di Augusto" excavated on the Palatine was a lavish aristocratic house destroyed by the young Caesar in order to build the temple of Apollo. Exploring the Palatine from its first occupation to the present, T. P. Wiseman proposes a reexamination of the "Augustan Age," including much of its literature. Wiseman shows how the political and ideological background of Augustus' rise to power offers a radically different interpretation of the ancient evidence about the Augustan Palatine. Taking a long historical perspective in order to better understand the topography, Wiseman considers the legendary stories of Rome’s origins—in particular Romulus' foundation and inauguration of the city on the summit of the Palatine. He examines the new temple of Apollo and the piazza it overlooked, as well as the portico around it with its library used as a hall for Senate meetings, and he illustrates how Commander Caesar, who became Caesar Augustus, was the champion of the Roman people against an oppressive oligarchy corrupting the Republic. A decisive intervention in a critical debate among ancient historians and archaeologists, The House of Augustus recalibrates our views of a crucially important period and a revered public space.

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Princeton University Press

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0691189080

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9780691189086

Remembering the Roman People

Essays on Late-Republican Politics and Literature

By: T. P. Wiseman

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Remembering the Roman People

Essays on Late-Republican Politics and Literature

By: T. P. Wiseman

In the Roman republic, only the People could pass laws, only the People could elect politicians to office, and the very word republica meant 'the People's business'. So why is it always assumed that the republic was an oligarchy? The main reason is that most of what we know about it we know from Cicero, a great man and a great writer, but also an active right-wing politician who took it for granted that what was good for a small minority of self-styled 'best people' (optimates) was good for the republic as a whole. T. P. Wiseman interprets the last century of the republic on the assumption that the People had a coherent political ideology of its own, and that the optimates, with their belief in justified murder, were responsible for the breakdown of the republic in civil war.

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OUP Oxford

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0191617016

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Unwritten Rome

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Unwritten Rome

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Liverpool University Press

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Literary Representations of Christianity in Late Qing and Republican China

By: John T. P. Lai

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Literary Representations of Christianity in Late Qing and Republican China

By: John T. P. Lai

Literary Representations of Christianity in Late Qing and Republican China contributes to the “literary turn” in the study of Chinese Christianity by foregrounding the importance of literary texts, including the major genres of Chinese Christian literature (novels, drama and poetry) of the late Qing and Republican periods. These multifarious types of texts demonstrated the multiple representations and dynamic scenes of Christianity, where Christian imageries and symbolism were transformed by linguistic manipulation into new contextualized forms which nurtured distinctive new fruits of literature and modernized the literary landscape of Chinese literature. The study of the composition and poetics of Chinese Christian literary works helps us rediscover the concerns, priorities, textual strategies of the Christian writers, the cross-cultural challenges involved, and the reception of the Bible.

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BRILL

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9004394486

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Solution Focused Briefly Illustrated

By: Simon TP Lee

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Solution Focused Briefly Illustrated

By: Simon TP Lee

This book is completed in the midst of COVID-19 when organizations and personal lives have been dislodged. In times of disruption, I hope this book offers a silver lining that our best can burst forth so that we may continue to serve, guide and inspire. It is my intention that this book will provide the bounce-back needed with tools, mindset and techniques for advancing a more meaningful and purposeful future. This book is about the essentials of effective human communication. It is irresistibly light, clear and simple, yet thought-provoking. It will help you to create authentic coaching conversations.

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Partridge Publishing Singapore

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1543762778

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Remembering the Roman People

Essays on Late-Republican Politics and Literature

By: T. P. Wiseman

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Essays on Late-Republican Politics and Literature

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Catullan Questions Revisited

By: T. P. Wiseman

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Catullus and His World

A Reappraisal

By: Timothy Peter Wiseman,T. P. Wiseman

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Catullus and His World

A Reappraisal

By: Timothy Peter Wiseman,T. P. Wiseman

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Julius Caesar

Roman General

By: T. P. Wiseman

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Roman General

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The Roman Audience

Classical Literature as Social History

By: T. P. Wiseman

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The Roman Audience

Classical Literature as Social History

By: T. P. Wiseman

Who were Roman authors writing for? Only a minority of the population was fully literate and books were very expensive, individually hand-written on imported papyrus. So does it follow that great poets and prose authors like Virgil and Livy, Ovid and Petronius, were writing only for the cultured and the privileged? It is this modern consensus that is challenged in this volume. In an ambitious overview of a thousand years of history, from the formation of the city-state of Rome to the establishment of a fully Christian culture, T. P. Wiseman examines the evidence for the oral delivery of 'literature' to mass public audiences. The treatment is chronological, utilizing wherever possible contemporary sources and the close reading of texts. Wiseman sees the history of Roman literature as an integral part of the social and political history of the Roman people, and draws some very unexpected inferences from the evidence that survives. In particular, he emphasizes the significance of the annual series of 'stage games' (ludi scaenici), and reveals the hitherto unexplored common ground of literature, drama, and dance. Direct, accessible, and clearly written, The Roman Audience provides a fundamental reinterpretation of Roman literature as part of the historical experience of the Roman people, making it essential reading for all Latinists and Roman historians.

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0191028142

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The Myths of Rome

By: Emeritus Professor of Classics T P Wiseman,T. P. Wiseman

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The Myths of Rome

By: Emeritus Professor of Classics T P Wiseman,T. P. Wiseman

There was once a dream that was Rome. So says the old emperor Marcus Aurelius in Ridley Scott's epic Gladiator. It was a Rome of free citizens, brave, incorruptible, loved by the gods. It had its own myths, the stories that defined what the Romans were, and in due course it achieved mythic status itself. The myths of Rome have inspired artists, writers and statesmen throughout the ages: from Botticelli's Primavera and Shakespeare's Roman plays to Machiavelli's Discourses and Addison's Cato - a key text for the founding fathers of the American revolution. And yet, while a wealth of material dealing with Greek myth exists, the myths of Rome are a neglected topic. Some authorities have even claimed that the Romans had no mythology at all. Wiseman's remarkable new contribution to this almost totally unexplored field is highly illustrated and characteristically ambitious in its threefold purpose: to collect, and present in readable and accessible form, the neglected evidence for Roman myths, both iconographical and literary; to attempt to trace the development of the Roman story-world over time, from the sixth century BC to the second AD; to explore its afterlife in western culture from the Renaissance to the present day, with generous illustration of the visual evidence from ancient and post-Renaissance sources. Peter Wiseman is Professor of Classics at the University of Exeter and a Fellow of the British Academy.

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University of Exeter Press

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0977409457

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The House of Augustus

A Historical Detective Story

By: T.P. Wiseman

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A Historical Detective Story

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Princeton University Press

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0691180075

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Catullan Questions Revisited

Catullan Questions Revisited

Catullus and His World

Catullus and His World

Unwritten Rome

Unwritten Rome

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

The House of Augustus

The House of Augustus

Remembering the Roman People

Remembering the Roman People

Unwritten Rome

Unwritten Rome

Literary Representations of Christianity in Late Qing and Republican China

Literary Representations of Christianity in Late Qing and Republican China

Solution Focused Briefly Illustrated

Solution Focused Briefly Illustrated

Remembering the Roman People

Remembering the Roman People

Catullan Questions Revisited

Catullan Questions Revisited

Catullus and His World

Catullus and His World

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

The Roman Audience

The Roman Audience

The Myths of Rome

The Myths of Rome

The House of Augustus

The House of Augustus

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