Author: Peter Michael Swan
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195167740
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
"This commentary pays close critical attention to Dio's historical sources, methods, and assumptions as it also strives to present him as a figure in his own right. During a long life (ca. 164-after 229), Dio served as a Roman senator under seven emperors from Commodus to Severus Alexander, governed three Roman provinces, and was twice consul."--BOOK JACKET.
The Augustan Succession
Author: Peter Michael Swan
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195167740
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
"This commentary pays close critical attention to Dio's historical sources, methods, and assumptions as it also strives to present him as a figure in his own right. During a long life (ca. 164-after 229), Dio served as a Roman senator under seven emperors from Commodus to Severus Alexander, governed three Roman provinces, and was twice consul."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195167740
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
"This commentary pays close critical attention to Dio's historical sources, methods, and assumptions as it also strives to present him as a figure in his own right. During a long life (ca. 164-after 229), Dio served as a Roman senator under seven emperors from Commodus to Severus Alexander, governed three Roman provinces, and was twice consul."--BOOK JACKET.
Augustan Studies
Author: Geoffrey Tillotson
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472508556
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
It is still true that most readers of eighteenth-century poetry approach it by way of nineteenth-century poetry; they know what Wordsworth said about Pope before they read Pope. This means that when they read Pope and other eighteenth-century poets, they apply the wrong criteria. An eighteenth-century poet did not have to create the taste by which he was enjoyed to the same extent as a nineteenth-century poet was conscious of having to. The kinds were ready waiting for him, and, if the rules of poetic diction for the kinds of which he elected to write were properly complied with, the products were recognisable: epic, tragedy in verse, Pindaric, elegy, heroic and familiar epistle, pastoral, georgic, occasional verse, translation and imitation. This book, a collection of essays by Dr Tillotson, examines these types of eighteenth-century poetry with particular focus on poetic diction, as well as discussing works such as Pope's letters and Johnson's dictionary.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472508556
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
It is still true that most readers of eighteenth-century poetry approach it by way of nineteenth-century poetry; they know what Wordsworth said about Pope before they read Pope. This means that when they read Pope and other eighteenth-century poets, they apply the wrong criteria. An eighteenth-century poet did not have to create the taste by which he was enjoyed to the same extent as a nineteenth-century poet was conscious of having to. The kinds were ready waiting for him, and, if the rules of poetic diction for the kinds of which he elected to write were properly complied with, the products were recognisable: epic, tragedy in verse, Pindaric, elegy, heroic and familiar epistle, pastoral, georgic, occasional verse, translation and imitation. This book, a collection of essays by Dr Tillotson, examines these types of eighteenth-century poetry with particular focus on poetic diction, as well as discussing works such as Pope's letters and Johnson's dictionary.
Augustan Culture
Author: Karl Galinsky
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691058900
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Weaving analysis and narrative throughout an illustrated text, the author provides an account of the major ideas of the Augustan age, and offers an interpretation of the creative tensions and contradictions that made for its vitality and influence.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691058900
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Weaving analysis and narrative throughout an illustrated text, the author provides an account of the major ideas of the Augustan age, and offers an interpretation of the creative tensions and contradictions that made for its vitality and influence.
The Cultural History of Augustan Rome
Author: Matthew Loar
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108480608
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
This volume explores the interrelationship of the literature, monuments, and urban landscape of Augustan Rome. Targeting scholars of both literature and material culture, its interdisciplinary studies range from canonical authors (such as Cicero, Livy, and Ovid) to iconic monuments (such as the Rostra, Pantheon, and Meridian of Augustus).
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108480608
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
This volume explores the interrelationship of the literature, monuments, and urban landscape of Augustan Rome. Targeting scholars of both literature and material culture, its interdisciplinary studies range from canonical authors (such as Cicero, Livy, and Ovid) to iconic monuments (such as the Rostra, Pantheon, and Meridian of Augustus).
Monsters and Monstrosity in Augustan Poetry
Author: Dunstan Lowe
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472119516
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
An important contribution to the growing interdisciplinary field of monster studies
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472119516
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
An important contribution to the growing interdisciplinary field of monster studies
i A Brief History of an English Literature: An Augustan Age
Author: Rakesh Rathod (MA English)
Publisher: Nitya Publications
ISBN: 8194343259
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
The eighteenth century in English literature has been called the Augustan Age the Neoclassical Age, and the Age of Reason. The term 'the Augustan Age' comes from the self-conscious imitation of the original Augustan writers, Virgil and Horace, by many of the writers of the period. Specifically, the Augustan Age was the period after the Restoration era to the death of Alexander Pope (~1690 - 1744). The major writers of the age were Pope and John Dryden in poetry, and Jonathan Swift and Joseph Addison in prose. Dryden forms the link between Restoration and Augustan literature; although he wrote ribald comedies in the Restoration vein, his verse satires were highly admired by the generation of poets who followed him, and his writings on literature were very much in a neoclassical spirit. I particularly aimed at interpretation of sociopolitical milieu of Augustan Age, of social change, of literary tendencies of the age, and of prose, novel, poetry and drama of the Augustan Age.
Publisher: Nitya Publications
ISBN: 8194343259
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
The eighteenth century in English literature has been called the Augustan Age the Neoclassical Age, and the Age of Reason. The term 'the Augustan Age' comes from the self-conscious imitation of the original Augustan writers, Virgil and Horace, by many of the writers of the period. Specifically, the Augustan Age was the period after the Restoration era to the death of Alexander Pope (~1690 - 1744). The major writers of the age were Pope and John Dryden in poetry, and Jonathan Swift and Joseph Addison in prose. Dryden forms the link between Restoration and Augustan literature; although he wrote ribald comedies in the Restoration vein, his verse satires were highly admired by the generation of poets who followed him, and his writings on literature were very much in a neoclassical spirit. I particularly aimed at interpretation of sociopolitical milieu of Augustan Age, of social change, of literary tendencies of the age, and of prose, novel, poetry and drama of the Augustan Age.
Domitian’s Rome and the Augustan Legacy
Author: Raymond Marks
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472132679
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Combines material and literary cultural approaches to the study of the reception of Augustus and his age during the reign of the emperor Domitian
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472132679
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Combines material and literary cultural approaches to the study of the reception of Augustus and his age during the reign of the emperor Domitian
Augustan Egypt
Author: Livia Capponi
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135873690
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
First published in 2005. With updated documents including papyri, inscriptions and ostraka, this book casts fresh and original light on the administration and economy issues faced with the transition of Egypt from an allied kingdom of Rome to a province of the Roman Empire.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135873690
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
First published in 2005. With updated documents including papyri, inscriptions and ostraka, this book casts fresh and original light on the administration and economy issues faced with the transition of Egypt from an allied kingdom of Rome to a province of the Roman Empire.
Augustan Rome
Author: Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 147253297X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
Written by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, one of the world's foremost scholars on Roman social and cultural history, this well-established introduction to Rome in the Age of Augustus provides a fascinating insight into the social and physical contexts of Augustan politics and poetry, exploring in detail the impact of the new regime of government on society. Taking an interpretative approach, the ideas and environment manipulated by Augustus are explored, along with reactions to that manipulation. Emphasising the role and impact of art and architecture of the time, and on Roman attitudes and values, Augustan Rome explains how the victory of Octavian at Actium transformed Rome and Roman life. This thought-provoking yet concise volume sets political changes in the context of their impact on Roman values, on the imaginative world of poetry, on the visual world of art, and on the fabric of the city of Rome.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 147253297X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
Written by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, one of the world's foremost scholars on Roman social and cultural history, this well-established introduction to Rome in the Age of Augustus provides a fascinating insight into the social and physical contexts of Augustan politics and poetry, exploring in detail the impact of the new regime of government on society. Taking an interpretative approach, the ideas and environment manipulated by Augustus are explored, along with reactions to that manipulation. Emphasising the role and impact of art and architecture of the time, and on Roman attitudes and values, Augustan Rome explains how the victory of Octavian at Actium transformed Rome and Roman life. This thought-provoking yet concise volume sets political changes in the context of their impact on Roman values, on the imaginative world of poetry, on the visual world of art, and on the fabric of the city of Rome.
Slavery and Augustan Literature
Author: John A. Richardson
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415312868
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This book investigates slavery in the work of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and John Gay. These writers were connected with a Tory ministry, which attempted to increase the English share of the international slave trade.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415312868
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This book investigates slavery in the work of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and John Gay. These writers were connected with a Tory ministry, which attempted to increase the English share of the international slave trade.