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Beyond the Fifth Century brings together 13 scholars from various
disciplines (Classics, Ancient History, Mediaeval Studies) to
explore interactions with Greek tragedy from the 4th century BCE up
to the Middle Ages. The volume breaks new ground in several ways.
Its chronological scope encompasses periods that are not usually
part of research on tragedy reception, especially the Hellenistic
period, late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The volume also
considers not just performance reception but various other modes of
reception, between different literary genres and media
(inscriptions, vase paintings, recording technology). There is a
pervasive interest in interactions between tragedy and
society-at-large, such as festival culture and entertainment (both
public and private), education, religious practice, even
life-style. Finally, the volume features studies of a comparative
nature which focus less on genealogical connections (although such
may be present) but rather on the study of equivalences.
Love and tragedy dominate book four of Virgil's most powerful work,
building on the violent emotions invoked by the storms, battles,
warring gods, and monster-plagued wanderings of the epic's opening.
Destined to be the founder of Roman culture, Aeneas, nudged by the
gods, decides to leave his beloved Dido, causing her suicide in
pursuit of his historical destiny. A dark plot, in which erotic
passion culminates in sex, and sex leads to tragedy and death in
the human realm, unfolds within the larger horizon of a
supernatural sphere, dominated by power-conscious divinities. Dido
is Aeneas' most significant other, and in their encounter Virgil
explores timeless themes of love and loyalty, fate and fortune, the
justice of the gods, imperial ambition and its victims, and ethnic
differences. This course book offers a portion of the original
Latin text, study questions, a commentary, and interpretative
essays. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Ingo
Gildenhard's incisive commentary will be of particular interest to
students of Latin at both A2 and undergraduate level. It extends
beyond detailed linguistic analysis to encourage critical
engagement with Virgil's poetry and discussion of the most recent
scholarly thought.
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Virgil, Aeneid 11 (Pallas & Camilla), 1-224, 498-521, 532-96, 648-89, 725-835 - Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary (Hardcover)
Ingo Gildenhard, John Henderson
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R1,219
Discovery Miles 12 190
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The emperor Nero is etched into the Western imagination as one of
ancient Rome's most infamous villains, and Tacitus' Annals have
played a central role in shaping the mainstream historiographical
understanding of this flamboyant autocrat. This section of the text
plunges us straight into the moral cesspool that Rome had
apparently become in the later years of Nero's reign, chronicling
the emperor's fledgling stage career including his plans for a
grand tour of Greece; his participation in a city-wide orgy
climaxing in his publicly consummated 'marriage' to his toy boy
Pythagoras; the great fire of AD 64, during which large parts of
central Rome went up in flames; and the rising of Nero's
'grotesque' new palace, the so-called 'Golden House', from the
ashes of the city. This building project stoked the rumours that
the emperor himself was behind the conflagration, and Tacitus goes
on to present us with Nero's gruesome efforts to quell these
mutterings by scapegoating and executing members of an unpopular
new cult then starting to spread through the Roman empire:
Christianity. All this contrasts starkly with four chapters
focusing on one of Nero's most principled opponents, the Stoic
senator Thrasea Paetus, an audacious figure of moral fibre, who
courageously refuses to bend to the forces of imperial corruption
and hypocrisy. This course book offers a portion of the original
Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and a commentary. Designed
to stretch and stimulate readers, Owen's and Gildenhard's incisive
commentary will be of particular interest to students of Latin at
both A2 and undergraduate level. It extends beyond detailed
linguistic analysis and historical background to encourage critical
engagement with Tacitus' prose and discussion of the most recent
scholarly thought.
Roman Frugality offers the first-ever systematic analysis of the
variants of individual and collective self-restraint that shaped
ancient Rome throughout its history and had significant
repercussions in post-classical times. In particular, it tries to
do the complexity of a phenomenon justice that is situated at the
interface of ethics and economics, self and society, the real and
the imaginary, and touches upon thrift and sobriety in the material
sphere, but also modes of moderation more generally, not least in
the spheres of food and drink, sex and power. Adopting an
interdisciplinary approach drawing on ancient history, philology,
archaeology and the history of thought, the volume traces the role
of frugal thought and practice within the evolving political
culture and political economy of ancient Rome from the archaic age
to the imperial period and concludes with a chapter that explores
the reception of ancient ideas of self-restraint in early modern
times.
Beyond the Fifth Century brings together 13 scholars from various
disciplines (Classics, Ancient History, Mediaeval Studies) to
explore interactions with Greek tragedy from the 4th century BCE up
to the Middle Ages. The volume breaks new ground in several ways.
Its chronological scope encompasses periods that are not usually
part of research on tragedy reception, especially the Hellenistic
period, late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The volume also
considers not just performance reception but various other modes of
reception, between different literary genres and media
(inscriptions, vase paintings, recording technology). There is a
pervasive interest in interactions between tragedy and
society-at-large, such as festival culture and entertainment (both
public and private), education, religious practice, even
life-style. Finally, the volume features studies of a comparative
nature which focus less on genealogical connections (although such
may be present) but rather on the study of equivalences.
The statesman Cicero (106-43 BC) left behind a corpus of about 50
orations, all designed as interventions in the legal and political
struggles that marked the final decades of the Roman republic. Ever
since their publication during his lifetime they have functioned as
models of eloquence. However, they also contain profound
philosophical thoughts on the question of being human, on politics,
society, and culture, and on the sphere of the divine. Now, for the
first time, Ingo Gildenhard systematically analyses this dimension
of Cicero's oratory and, in so doing, touches upon many key issues
and concepts that still preoccupy us today, such as the ethics of
happiness or the notion of conscience, the distinction between
civilization and barbarity, or the problem of divine justice.
The writing of letters often evokes associations of a single author
and a single addressee, who share in the exchange of intimate
thoughts across distances of space and time. This model underwrites
such iconic notions as the letter representing an 'image of the
soul of the author' or constituting 'one half of a dialogue'.
However justified this conception of letter-writing may be in
particular instances, it tends to marginalize a range of issues
that were central to epistolary communication in the ancient world
and have yet to receive sustained and systematic investigation. In
particular, it overlooks the fact that letters frequently
presuppose and were designed to reinforce communities-or, indeed,
to constitute them in the first place. This volume explores the
interrelation of letters and communities in the ancient world,
examining how epistolary communication aided in the construction
and cultivation of group-identities and communities, whether
social, political, religious, ethnic, or philosophical. A
theoretically informed Introduction establishes the interface of
epistolary discourse and group formation as a vital but hitherto
neglected area of research, and is followed by thirteen case
studies offering multi-disciplinary perspectives from four key
cultural configurations: Greece, Rome, Judaism, and Christianity.
The first part opens the volume with two chapters on the theory and
practice of epistolary communication that focus on ancient
epistolary theory and the unavoidable presence of a letter-carrier
who introduces a communal aspect into any correspondence, while the
second comprises five chapters that explore configurations of power
and epistolary communication in the Greek and Roman worlds, from
the archaic period to the end of the Hellenistic age. Five chapters
on letters and communities in Ancient Judaism and Early
Christianity follow in the third, part before the volume concludes
with an envoi examining the trans-historical, or indeed timeless,
philosophical community Seneca the Younger construes in his Letters
to Lucilius.
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Virgil, Aeneid 11, Pallas and Camilla, 1-224, 498-521, 532-596, 648-689, 725-835 - Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary (Paperback)
Ingo Gildenhard, John Henderson
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R1,032
Discovery Miles 10 320
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Augustus and the Destruction of History explores the intense
controversies over the meaning and profile of the past that
accompanied the violent transformation of the Roman Republic into
the Augustan principate. The ten case studies collected here
analyse how different authors and agents (individual and
collective) developed specific conceptions of history and
articulated them in a wide variety of textual and visual media to
position themselves within the emergent (and evolving) new Augustan
normal. The chapters consider both hegemonic and subaltern
endeavours to reconfigure Roman memoria and pay special attention
to power and polemics, chaos, crisis and contingency - not least to
challenge some long-standing habits of thought about Augustus and
his principate and its representation in historiographical
discourse, ancient and modern. Some of the most iconic texts and
monuments from ancient Rome receive fresh discussion here,
including the Forum Romanum and the Forum of Augustus, Virgil's
Aeneid and the Fasti Capitolini.
Love and tragedy dominate book four of Virgil's most powerful work,
building on the violent emotions invoked by the storms, battles,
warring gods, and monster-plagued wanderings of the epic's opening.
Destined to be the founder of Roman culture, Aeneas, nudged by the
gods, decides to leave his beloved Dido, causing her suicide in
pursuit of his historical destiny. A dark plot, in which erotic
passion culminates in sex, and sex leads to tragedy and death in
the human realm, unfolds within the larger horizon of a
supernatural sphere, dominated by power-conscious divinities. Dido
is Aeneas' most significant other, and in their encounter Virgil
explores timeless themes of love and loyalty, fate and fortune, the
justice of the gods, imperial ambition and its victims, and ethnic
differences. This course book offers a portion of the original
Latin text, study questions, a commentary, and interpretative
essays. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Ingo
Gildenhard's incisive commentary will be of particular interest to
students of Latin at both A2 and undergraduate level. It extends
beyond detailed linguistic analysis to encourage critical
engagement with Virgil's poetry and discussion of the most recent
scholarly thought.
The emperor Nero is etched into the Western imagination as one of
ancient Rome's most infamous villains, and Tacitus' Annals have
played a central role in shaping the mainstream historiographical
understanding of this flamboyant autocrat. This section of the text
plunges us straight into the moral cesspool that Rome had
apparently become in the later years of Nero's reign, chronicling
the emperor's fledgling stage career including his plans for a
grand tour of Greece; his participation in a city-wide orgy
climaxing in his publicly consummated 'marriage' to his toy boy
Pythagoras; the great fire of AD 64, during which large parts of
central Rome went up in flames; and the rising of Nero's
'grotesque' new palace, the so-called 'Golden House', from the
ashes of the city.
Looting, despoiling temples, attempted rape and judicial murder:
these are just some of the themes of this classic piece of writing
by one of the world's greatest orators. This particular passage is
from the second book of Cicero's Speeches against Verres, who was a
former Roman magistrate on trial for serious misconduct. Cicero
presents the lurid details of Verres' alleged crimes in exquisite
and sophisticated prose. This volume provides a portion of the
original text of Cicero's speech in Latin, a detailed commentary,
study aids, and a translation. As a literary artefact, the speech
gives us insight into how the supreme master of Latin eloquence
developed what we would now call rhetorical "spin." As an
historical document, it provides a window into the dark underbelly
of Rome's imperial expansion and exploitation of the Near East.
Ingo Gildenhard's illuminating commentary will be of particular
interest to students of Latin at both high school and undergraduate
level. It will also be a valuable resource to Latin teachers and to
anyone interested in Cicero, language and rhetoric, and the legal
culture of Ancient Rome.
This groundbreaking volume maps the shifting place and function of
marvelous transformations from antiquity to the present day.
Shape-shifting, taking animal bodies, miracles, transubstantiation,
alchemy, and mutation recur and echo throughout ancient and modern
writing and thinking and continue in science fiction today as tales
of gene-splicing and hybridisation. The idea of metamorphosis lies
in uneasy coexistence with orderly worldviews and it is often cast
out, or attributed to enemies. Augustine and the church fathers
consider shape-shifting ungodly; Enlightenment thinkers suppress
alchemy as unscientific; genetically-modified wheat and stem-cell
research are stigmatised as unnatural. Yet the very possibility of
radical transformation inspires hope just as it frightens. A
provocative, theorising, trans-historical history, this book ranges
across classics, literature, history, philosophy, theology and
anthropology.
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