Roman Culture and Society: Collected Papers

ISBN-13: 9780198147527 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 632 str.

Elizabeth Rawson; Fergus Millar

Opis

Elizabeth Rawson (1934-1988) was a distinguished specialist in the history, society, and culture of the later Roman Republic and Augustan period. First published between 1971 and 1989, her papers cover the workings of human politics and society, historical and antiquarian thinking at Rome, and literary history. The collection offers an essential contribution to the understanding of the central period of Roman history.

Recenzje

'Both the printer and the editor, Fergus Millar, are to be praised for a nearly faultless product; a 'General Index' and 'Index of Persons' to all the pieces round off the volume. Reading these historical essays evokes envy for their consummate learning: at each step in the argument no problem is shirked and on almost every page a tiny riddle is solved or a new suggestion made. The cumulative effect of these pieces is astonishing... Perhaps the greatest testaments to a scholar's work are only the solid foundations on which it allows others to build but the spur and inspiration it provides for the work of later enquirers. R. will always be remembered as a scholar uniquely gifted in both these ways. Thomas H. Tarver, Journal of Roman Studies