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How can I communicate even more effectively with people who have
learning disabilities? Communicate with Me is an invaluable toolkit
for carers, professionals, schools and services striving to improve
the quality of their communication with those they support. Key
features include: a comprehensive range of techniques and guidance
for carers and professionals around how to communicate with and
involve children and adults with learning disabilities a wealth of
practical examples and case studies to illustrate and contextualise
the suggested approaches a detailed quality assurance framework to
help schools and services develop CPD, establish excellence across
their organisations in the way that they communicate with people
with learning difficulties and improve outcomes for those they
support. Communicate with Me is a resource for anyone involved in
supporting children or adults with a learning disability including
residential or community support workers, play workers, advocates
and teachers who work directly with people, as well as line
managers and service managers who can facilitate change within
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The Lives of the Caesars include the biographies of Julius Caesar
and the eleven subsequent emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius
Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitelius, Vespasian, Titus,
Domitian. Suetonius composed his material from a variety of
sources, without much concern for their reliability. His
biographies consist of the ancestry and career of each emperor in
turn; however, his interest is not so much analytical or
historical, but anecdotal and salacious which gives rise to a
lively and provocative succession of portraits. For example, the
account of Julius Caesar does not simply mention his crossing of
the Rubicon and his assassination, but draws attention to his dark
piercing eyes and attempts to conceal his baldness. The life of
Caligula presents a vivid picture of the emperor's grotesque
appearance, his waywardness, and his insane cruelties.
The format and style of Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars was to set
the tone for biography throughout western literature--his work
remains thoroughly readable and full of interest. Indeed, it was
Robert Graves's primary reference source when he was writing I,
Claudius, and those who have read his book will enjoy the original
accounts as set down here.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
For the Romans, the manner of a person's death was the most telling
indication of their true character. Death revealed the true
patriot, the genuine philosopher, even, perhaps, the great
artist-and certainly the faithful Christian. Catharine Edwards
draws on the many and richly varied accounts of death in the
writings of Roman historians, poets, and philosophers, including
Cicero, Lucretius, Virgil, Seneca, Petronius, Tacitus, Tertullian,
and Augustine, to investigate the complex significance of dying in
the Roman world. Death in the Roman world was largely understood
and often literally viewed as a spectacle. Those deaths that
figured in recorded history were almost invariably violent-murders,
executions, suicides-and yet the most admired figures met their
ends with exemplary calm, their last words set down for posterity.
From noble deaths in civil war, mortal combat between gladiators,
political execution and suicide, to the deathly dinner of Domitian,
the harrowing deaths of women such as the mythical Lucretia and
Nero's mother Agrippina, as well as instances of Christian
martyrdom, Edwards engagingly explores the culture of death in
Roman literature and history.
The letters of Seneca are uniquely engaging among the works that
have survived from antiquity. They offer an urgent guide to Stoic
self-improvement but also cast light on Roman attitudes towards
slavery, gladiatorial combat and suicide. This selection of letters
conveys their range and variety, with a particular focus on letters
from the earlier part of the collection. As well as a general
introduction, it features a brief introductory essay on each
letter, which draws out its themes and sets it in context. The
commentary explains the more challenging aspects of Seneca's Latin.
It also casts light on his engagement with Stoic (and Epicurean)
ideas, on the historical context within which the letters were
written and on their literary sophistication. This edition will be
invaluable for undergraduate and graduate students and scholars of
Seneca's moral and intellectual development.
The letters of Seneca are uniquely engaging among the works that
have survived from antiquity. They offer an urgent guide to Stoic
self-improvement but also cast light on Roman attitudes towards
slavery, gladiatorial combat and suicide. This selection of letters
conveys their range and variety, with a particular focus on letters
from the earlier part of the collection. As well as a general
introduction, it features a brief introductory essay on each
letter, which draws out its themes and sets it in context. The
commentary explains the more challenging aspects of Seneca's Latin.
It also casts light on his engagement with Stoic (and Epicurean)
ideas, on the historical context within which the letters were
written and on their literary sophistication. This edition will be
invaluable for undergraduate and graduate students and scholars of
Seneca's moral and intellectual development.
This collection of essays explores aspects of the reception of
ancient Rome in a number of European countries from the late
eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War. Rome has
been made to stand for literary authority, republican heroism,
imperial power and decline, the Catholic Church, the pleasure of
ruins. The studies offered here examine some of the sometimes
strange and unexpected places where Roman presences have manifested
themselves during this period. Scholars from several disciplines,
including English literature and history of art, as well as
classics, bring to bear a variety of approaches on a wide range of
images and texts, from statues of Napoleon to Freud's analysis of
dreams. Rome's seemingly boundless capacity for multiple, indeed
conflicting, signification has made it an extraordinarily fertile
paradigm for making sense of - and also for destabilizing -
history, politics, identity, memory and desire.
Rome stands today for an empire and for a city. The essays gathered
in this volume explore some of the many ways in which the two were
interwoven. Rome was fed, beautified and enriched by empire just as
it was swollen, polluted, infected and occupied by it. Empire was
paraded in the streets of Rome, and exhibited in the city's
buildings. Empire also made the city ineradicably foreign,
polyglot, an alien capital, and a focus for un-Roman activities.
The city was where the Roman cosmos was most concentrated, and so
was most contested. Deploying a range of methodologies on materials
ranging from Egyptian obelisks to human skeletal remains, via
Christian art and Latin poetry, the contributors to this volume
weave a series of pathways through the world-city, exploring the
different kinds of centrality Rome had in the empire. The result is
a startlingly original picture of both empire and city.
This book addresses the question not how immoral the ancient Romans were but why the literature they produced is so preoccupied with immorality. The modern image of immoral Rome derives from ancient accounts which are largely critical rather than celebratory. Far from being empty commonplaces these accusations constituted a powerful discourse through which Romans negotiated conflicts and tensions in their social and political order. This study proceeds by a detailed examination of a wide range of ancient texts (all of which are translated), exploring the dynamics of their rhetoric, as well as the ends to which they were deployed. Roman moralising discourse, the author suggests, may be seen as especially concerned with the articulation of anxieties about gender, social status and political power. Individual chapters focus on adultery, effeminacy, the immorality of the Roman theatre, luxurious buildings and the dangers of pleasure.
Exploring the significance of Rome from the late eighteenth century to 1945, scholars from several disciplines, including English literature and history of art as well as classics, discuss a wide range of images and texts, from statues of Napoleon to Freud's dream analysis. Rome's astonishing range of meanings has made it a fertile paradigm for making sense of--and also for problematizing--history, politics, identity, memory and desire.
What did the city of Rome mean to ancient Romans? Roman writers, Cicero, Virgil, Juvenal and others, described their city in many different ways: they marveled at its beauty, they despaired of its dirt, they explored its history, they lamented its absence. Their writings have played a vital part in determining responses to the city both in their own time and in later centuries. This book explores a wide range of descriptions of the city from later periods as well as from antiquity.
This book addresses the question not how immoral the ancient Romans
were but why the literature they produced is so preoccupied with
immorality. The modern image of immoral Rome derives from ancient
accounts which are largely critical rather than celebratory. Far
from being empty commonplaces these accusations constituted a
powerful discourse through which Romans negotiated conflicts and
tensions in their social and political order. This study proceeds
by a detailed examination of a wide range of ancient texts (all of
which are translated), exploring the dynamics of their rhetoric, as
well as the ends to which they were deployed. Roman moralising
discourse, the author suggests, may be seen as especially concerned
with the articulation of anxieties about gender, social status and
political power. Individual chapters focus on adultery, effeminacy,
the immorality of the Roman theatre, luxurious buildings and the
dangers of pleasure.
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