Author: Wayland Johnson ChasePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : la
Pages : 60
Book Description
The Distichs of Cato
Author: Wayland Johnson ChasePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : la
Pages : 60
Book Description
The Distichs of Cato
Author: Cato's Distichs
Author: CatoPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9781291546057
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
The best-tried Latin primer ever, tested for fifteen centuries and more. The greatest textbook, oodles more readable than Caesar's wanderings round Gaul or made-up texts about the sailor loving the table or, if you're lucky, the girl. REAL. Latin. The perfect short text for schools and home learners in this innovative new edition by Finnegan, an experienced Latin teacher, with explanatory commentary and engaging study questions. Unmissable. Callender Classical Texts
Distichs of Cato
Author: Dionysius CatoPublisher:
ISBN: 9781977542694
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
The Distichs of Cato, by Catonis Disticha, most famously known simply as Cato, is a Latin collection of proverbial wisdom and morality by an unknown author named Dionysius Cato from the 3rd or 4th century AD. The Cato was the most popular medieval schoolbook for teaching Latin, prized not only as a Latin textbook, but as a moral compass. Cato was in common use as a Latin teaching aid as late as the 18th century, used by Benjamin Franklin. It was one of the best-known books in the Middle Ages and was translated into many languages. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
Accessus ad auctores
Author: Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN: 1580441904
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Medieval commentaries typically included an accessus, a standardized introduction to an author or book. In the twelfth century these introductions were anthologised, referred to now as Accessus ad auctores. They served as the first handbooks of literary criticism. The earliest and most comprehensive example, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 19475, saec. XII,is presented here for the first time in a faithful critical edition, with a new translation and explanatory notes addressing different aspects of the text. This book's aim is to present an accurate version of the text while respecting the arrangement and integrity of the anthology as a whole, and includes previously unpublished material from the anthology.
The School of Rome
Author: W. Martin BloomerPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520948408
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
This fascinating cultural and intellectual history focuses on education as practiced by the imperial age Romans, looking at what they considered the value of education and its effect on children. W. Martin Bloomer details the processes, exercises, claims, and contexts of liberal education from the late first century b.c.e. to the third century c.e., the epoch of rhetorical education. He examines the adaptation of Greek institutions, methods, and texts by the Romans and traces the Romans’ own history of education. Bloomer argues that whereas Rome’s enduring educational legacy includes the seven liberal arts and a canon of school texts, its practice of competitive displays of reading, writing, and reciting were intended to instill in the young social as well as intellectual ideas.
Why Do We Quote?
Author: Ruth FinneganPublisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1906924333
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Quoting is all around us. But do we really know what it means? How do people actually quote today, and how did our present systems come about? This book brings together a down-to-earth account of contemporary quoting with an examination of the comparative and historical background that lies behind it and the characteristic way that quoting links past and present, the far and the near.Drawing from anthropology, cultural history, folklore, cultural studies, sociolinguistics, literary studies and the ethnography of speaking, Ruth Finnegan 's fascinating study sets our present conventions into crosscultural and historical perspective. She traces the curious history of quotation marks, examines the long tradition of quotation collections with their remarkable recycling across the centuries, and explores the uses of quotation in literary, visual and oral traditions. The book tracks the changing defi nitions and control of quoting over the millennia and in doing so throws new light on ideas such as imitation, allusion, authorship, originality and plagiarism .
The Distichs of Cato
Author: Wayland Johnson ChasePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Preachers, Poets, and the Early English Lyric
Author: Siegfried WenzelPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400854148
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The Middle English lyric is intimately related to late medieval preaching, not only because many lyrical poems have been preserved in sermon manuscripts, but also because preaching furnished a unique opportunity to create and utilize poems. Preachers, Poets, and the Early English Lyric explores this relationship in detail. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
From Literacy to Literature
Author: Christopher CannonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191084832
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The first lessons we learn in school can stay with us all our lives, but this was nowhere more true than in the last decades of the fourteenth century when grammar-school students were not only learning to read and write, but understanding, for the first time, that their mother tongue, English, was grammatical. The efflorescence of Ricardian poetry was not a direct result of this change, but it was everywhere shaped by it. This book characterizes this close connection between literacy training and literature, as it is manifest in the fine and ambitious poetry by Gower, Langland and Chaucer, at this transitional moment. This is also a book about the way medieval training in grammar (or grammatica) shaped the poetic arts in the Middle Ages fully as much as rhetorical training. It answers the curious question of what language was used to teach Latin grammar to the illiterate. It reveals, for the first time, what the surviving schoolbooks from the period actually contain. It describes what form a 'grammar school' took in a period from which no school buildings or detailed descriptions survive. And it scrutinizes the processes of elementary learning with sufficient care to show that, for the grown medieval schoolboy, well-learned books functioned, not only as a touchstone for wisdom, but as a knowledge so personal and familiar that it was equivalent to what we would now call 'experience'.