Author: Justus Liebig-Universität Giessen
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Category : Classical drama
Languages : en
Pages : 590

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Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Author: T. P. Wiseman
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191028142
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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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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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Includes section "Notices of recent publications".

Author: Cornelius Tacitus
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Category : Rome
Languages : en
Pages : 730

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Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Category : Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin
Languages : en
Pages : 620

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Author: Juvenal
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Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Author: Steven M. Oberhelman
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004463410
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 550

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Habent sua fata libelli honors the work of Craig Kallendorf, offering studies in his primary fields of expertise: the history of the book and reading, the classical tradition and reception studies, Renaissance humanism, and Virgilian scholarship.

Author: University of Chicago
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Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Author: Giuseppe Veltri
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311036641X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Rabbinic hermeneutics in ancient Judaism reflects this multifaceted world of the text and of reality, seen as a world of reference worth commentary. As a mirror, it includes this world but perhaps also falsifies reality, adapting it to one's own aims and necessities. It consists of four parts: Part I, considered as introduction, is the description of the "Rabbinic Workshop" (Officina Rabbinica), the rabbinic world where the student plays a role and a reformation of a reformation always takes place, the world where the mirror was created and manufactured. Part II deals with the historical environment, the world of reference of rabbinic Judaism in Palestine and in the Hellenistic Diaspora (Reflecting Roman Religion); Part III focuses on magic and the sciences, as ancient (political and empirical) activities of influence in the double meaning of receiving and adopting something and of attempt to produce an effect on persons and objects (Performing the Craft of Sciences and Magic). Part IV addresses the rabbinic concern with texts (Reflecting on Languages and Texts) as the main area of "influence" of the rabbinic academy in a space between the texts of the past and the real world of the present.