The Gift of Correspondence in Classical Rome: Friendship in Cicero`s Ad Familiares and Seneca`s Moral Epistles, Amanda Wilcox

Автор: Jonathan Zarecki
Название: Cicero`s Ideal Statesman in Theory and Practice
ISBN: 1474261884 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474261883
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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The resurgence of interest in Cicero's political philosophy in the last twenty years demands a re-evaluation of Cicero's ideal statesman and its relationship not only to Cicero's political theory but also to his practical politics.

Jonathan Zarecki proposes three original arguments: firstly, that by the publication of his De Republica in 51 BC Cicero accepted that some sort of return to monarchy was inevitable. Secondly, that Cicero created his model of the ideal statesman as part of an attempt to reconcile the mixed constitution of Rome's past with his belief in the inevitable return of sole-person rule. Thirdly, that the ideal statesman was the primary construct against which Cicero viewed the political and military activities of Pompey, Caesar and Antony, and himself.

Автор: McConnell
Название: Philosophical Life in Cicero`s Letters
ISBN: 1107040817 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107040816
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This first book in English dedicated to philosophy in Cicero`s letters addresses classicists, philosophers, political theorists, and historians. Cicero`s political and philosophical activities are reassessed, with special attention given to the civil war and Caesar. A new picture emerges of Cicero the philosopher and philosophy`s place in Roman political culture.

Автор: Alessandra Zanobi
Название: Seneca`s Tragedies and the Aesthetics of Pantomime
ISBN: 1474248993 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474248990
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Описание: Pantomime was arguably the most popular dramatic genre during the Roman Empire, but has been relatively neglected by literary critics.

Seneca's Tragedies and the Aesthetics of Pantomime adds to our understanding of Seneca's tragic art by demonstrating that elements which have long puzzled scholars can be attributed to the influence of pantomime. The work argues that certain formal features which depart from the conventions of fifth-century Attic drama can be explained by the influence of, and interaction with, this more popular genre.
The work includes a detailed and systematic analysis of the specific pantomime-inspired features of Seneca's tragedies: the loose dramatic structure, the presence of "running commentaries+? (minute descriptions of characters undergoing emotional strains or performing specific actions), of monologues of self-analysis, and of narrative set-pieces.

Relevant to the culture of Roman imperial culture more generally, Seneca's Tragedies and the Aesthetics of Pantomime includes an outline of the general features of pantomime as a genre. The work shows that the influence of sub-literary-genres such as pantomime and mime, the sister art of pantomime, can be traced in several Roman writers whose literary production was antecedent or contemporary with Seneca's. Furthermore, the work sheds light on the interaction between sub-literary genres of a performative nature such as mime and pantomime and more literary ones, an aspect of Latin culture which previous scholarship has tended to overlook.

Seneca's Tragedies and the Aesthetics of Pantomime provides an original contribution to the understanding of the impact of pantomime on Roman literary culture and of controversial and little-understood features of Senecan tragedies.

Автор: Alessandra Zanobi
Название: Seneca`s Tragedies and the Aesthetics of Pantomime
ISBN: 1472511883 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472511881
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Pantomime was arguably the most popular dramatic genre during the Roman Empire, but has been relatively neglected by literary critics. Seneca’s Tragedies and the Aesthetics of Pantomime adds to our understanding of Seneca's tragic art by demonstrating that elements which have long puzzled scholars can be attributed to the influence of pantomime. The work argues that certain formal features which depart from the conventions of fifth-century Attic drama can be explained by the influence of, and interaction with, this more popular genre. The work includes a detailed and systematic analysis of the specific pantomime-inspired features of Seneca’s tragedies: the loose dramatic structure, the presence of “running commentaries” (minute descriptions of characters undergoing emotional strains or performing specific actions), of monologues of self-analysis, and of narrative set-pieces. Relevant to the culture of Roman imperial culture more generally, Seneca’s Tragedies and the Aesthetics of Pantomime includes an outline of the general features of pantomime as a genre. The work shows that the influence of sub-literary-genres such as pantomime and mime, the sister art of pantomime, can be traced in several Roman writers whose literary production was antecedent or contemporary with Seneca’s. Furthermore, the work sheds light on the interaction between sub-literary genres of a performative nature such as mime and pantomime and more literary ones, an aspect of Latin culture which previous scholarship has tended to overlook. Seneca’s Tragedies and the Aesthetics of Pantomime provides an original contribution to the understanding of the impact of pantomime on Roman literary culture and of controversial and little-understood features of Senecan tragedies.

Автор: David Randall
Название: The Concept of Conversation: From Cicero`s Sermo to the Grand Siecle`s Conversation
ISBN: 1474430112 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474430111
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Описание: The Concept of Conversation traces the way the rise of conversation spread out from the history of rhetoric to include the histories of friendship, the court and the salon, the Republic of Letters, periodical press and women.

Автор: Horace
Название: The Epistles of Horace Book I
ISBN: 1107683742 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107683747
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Originally published in 1888, this book contains the Latin text of the first book of Horace`s Epistulae. Distinguished classicist Shuckburgh includes a biography of the poet and commentaries on each of the 20 poems in the book, as well as a brief synopsis of each letter.

Автор: Hanaghan M.P.
Название: Reading Sidonius` Epistles
ISBN: 1108429211 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108429214
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This introduction to Sidonius` letters and their literary dynamics draws comparisons with those of other writers and applies the science of storytelling (narratology) to the genre. Historians of Late Antiquity will see how the literary features of Sidonius` letters affect their evidentiary value.

Автор: Pliny the Younger
Название: Pliny the Younger: `Epistles` Book II
ISBN: 0521187273 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521187275
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Описание: This edition presents the Latin text of Epistles II together with a full introduction and commentary for the first time in over a century. With clear linguistic explanations and full literary analysis, it invites students, teachers and scholars to a fresh appreciation of Pliny`s lettered art.

Автор: Christopher Whitton
Название: The Arts of Imitation in Latin Prose: Pliny`s Epistles/Quintilian in Brief
ISBN: 1108476570 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108476577
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Описание: This landmark study of Latin prose intertextuality radically reinterprets Pliny`s Epistles as a brilliant transformation of Quintilian`s Institutio oratoria and a unique reply to Tacitus` Dialogus. Indispensable to readers of imperial Latin prose, the book is also essential reading for all students of imitation in Roman literature and culture.

Автор: Gunderson
Название: The Sublime Seneca
ISBN: 1107090016 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107090019
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Описание: This is an extended meditation on ethics in literature across the Senecan corpus. There are two chapters on the Moral Letters, asking how one is to read philosophy or how one can write about being. Moving from the Letters to the Natural Questions and Dialogues, Professor Gunderson explores how authorship works at the level both of the work and of the world, the ethics of seeing, and the question of how one can give up on the here and now and behold instead some other, better ethical sphere. Seneca's tragedies offer words of caution: desire might well subvert reason at its most profound level (Phaedra), or humanity's painful separation from the sublime might be part of some cruel divine plan (The Madness of Hercules). The book concludes by considering what, if anything, we are to make of Seneca's efforts to enlighten us.

Автор: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Название: On Duties
ISBN: 1501704516 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501704512
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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"This new translation of Cicero's De Officiis, which combines scrupulous faithfulness to the Latin text with smooth readability in English, is a welcome gift to students of manners, morals, ethics, and politics. Cicero’s classic book, somewhat neglected over the last century or so, is due for a revival of interest; this translation, together with its helpful aids to interpretation, should contribute to that end."
?James H. Nichols, Claremont McKenna College

Benjamin Patrick Newton’s translation of Cicero’s On Duties is the most complete edition of a text that has been considered a source of moral authority throughout classical, medieval, and modern times. Marcus Tullius Cicero was a preeminent Roman statesman, orator, and philosopher who introduced philosophy into Rome, and through Rome, into Christendom and the modern world. On Duties was championed by important thinkers including Thomas Aquinas, Montesquieu, and Voltaire, and it was one of the earliest books printed on the Gutenberg press.

The true significance of On Duties lies in its examination of several fundamental problems of political philosophy, the most important being the possible conflict between the honorable and the useful. The honorable encompasses the virtues of human beings, which include justice and concern for the common good. The useful refers to the needs of living beings, which includes certain necessities and concern for private good. Only by understanding the possible conflict between these two sides of human nature, Cicero declares, may we understand our duties to our community and to ourselves.

This new edition of On Duties aims to provide readers who cannot read Latin but wish to study the book with a literal yet elegant translation. It features an introduction, outline, footnotes, interpretative essay, glossary, and indexes, making Cicero’s thought accessible to a general audience.

Автор: Spencer Cole
Название: Cicero and the Rise of Deification at Rome
ISBN: 1108730035 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108730037
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Building on fundamental re-evaluations of literature and religion in Rome in recent years, this study explores Cicero`s innovative roles in debates about deification. By considering Cicero`s works in their broader cultural contexts, it tracks changing concepts of death and the afterlife, and re-examines the backgrounds to ruler worship at Rome.