wyszukanych pozycji: 10
Latin Panegyric
ISBN: 9780199576715 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. With a full introduction, and with four essays translated into English, this volume plots the narratives of Roman praise and gives students of classical literature and rhetoric direct access to key scholarship.
With a full introduction, and with four essays translated into English, this volume plots the narratives of Roman praise and gives students of classic...
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751,91 zł |
Layers of Loyalty: Latin Panegyric 289 - 307
ISBN: 9780199249183 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is the first monograph in English on the Panegyrici Latini, and the first in any language dedicated to the five speeches of praise from 289-307. The study considers how the orators justified, accommodated, and projected these changes and related them to the local concerns of the people of Northern Gaul. Detailed analyses of the speeches highlight the literary flair and diplomatic acumen their orators required.
This is the first monograph in English on the Panegyrici Latini, and the first in any language dedicated to the five speeches of praise from 289-307. ...
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727,05 zł |
Latin Panegyric
ISBN: 9780199576722 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. What was Roman political praise for and what could it achieve? Could it have literary merit? What do the surviving examples of Roman political praise-giving reveal about the circumstances and milieu in which they originated?
Latin Panegyric brings together sixteen essays focusing on praise in the Roman Empire and, in particular, on praise of the emperor. Spanning a century of scholarship, and constituting landmark studies on different aspects of the largest collection of classical Latin oratory to survive after Cicero--the Panegyrici Latini--this collection includes speeches addressed to... What was Roman political praise for and what could it achieve? Could it have literary merit? What do the surviving examples of Roman political praise-...
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294,60 zł |
No Turning Back
ISBN: 9781925272802 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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104,74 zł |
Diocletian and the Tetrarchy
ISBN: 9780748616602 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book aims to make accessible the sources and controversies concerning a key period in the history of the Roman Empire - the reign of Diocletian and its immediate aftermath. Diocletian was an emperor of unusual ambition, and his reign saw considerable military success, an experiment in collegiate government, a move towards provincial capitals away from Rome, a reorganisation of the administrative machinery of empire and its finances, and a committed project to persecute the Christians.In Part I, an introduction to Diocletian and the world of the late third century is followed by six...
This book aims to make accessible the sources and controversies concerning a key period in the history of the Roman Empire - the reign of Diocletian a...
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629,62 zł |
Romane Memento: Vergil in the Fourth Century
ISBN: 9780715632420 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This new collection of essays, commissioned from a range of scholars across the world, takes as its theme the reception of Rome's greatest poet in a time of profound cultural change. Amid the rise of Christianity, the changing status of the city of Rome, and the emergence of new governing classes, Vergil remained a bedrock of Roman education and identity. This volume considers the different ways in which Vergil was read, understood and appropriated; by poets, commentators, Church fathers, orators and historians. The introduction outlines the cultural and historical contexts. Twelve... This new collection of essays, commissioned from a range of scholars across the world, takes as its theme the reception of Rome's greatest poet in ... |
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839,50 zł |
Diocletian and the Tetrarchy
ISBN: 9780748616619 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book aims to make accessible the sources and controversies concerning a key period in the history of the Roman Empire - the reign of Diocletian and its immediate aftermath. Diocletian was an emperor of unusual ambition, and his reign saw considerable military success, an experiment in collegiate government, a move towards provincial capitals away from Rome, a reorganisation of the administrative machinery of empire and its finances, and a committed project to persecute the Christians.In Part I, an introduction to Diocletian and the world of the late third century is followed by six...
This book aims to make accessible the sources and controversies concerning a key period in the history of the Roman Empire - the reign of Diocletian a...
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157,35 zł |
Ted Hughes and the Classics
ISBN: 9780199229710 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This collection of sixteen articles, written by leading specialists in Classical and English literature, is an important contribution to the critical assessment of Ted Hughes, one of the most popular and controversial English poets of the late 20th century. The chapters are arranged broadly chronologically according to Hughes's publications, and deal with different aspects of his engagement with the culture and literature of ancient Greece and Rome, including translations, original works, classical thought, and ideologies in his drama and verse. Hughes is revealed as a leading figure in...
This collection of sixteen articles, written by leading specialists in Classical and English literature, is an important contribution to the critical ...
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590,36 zł |
Roman Rule in Greek and Latin Writing: Double Vision
ISBN: 9789004277380 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Roman Rule in Greek and Latin Writing explores the ways in which Greek and Latin writers from the late 1st to the 3rd century CE experienced and portrayed Roman cultural institutions and power. The central theme is the relationship between cultures as reflected in Greek and Latin authors' responses to Roman power; in practice the collection revisits the orthodoxy of two separate intellectual groups, differentiated as much by cultural and political agenda as by language. The book features specialists in Greek and Roman literary and intellectual culture; it gathers papers on a variety of...
Roman Rule in Greek and Latin Writing explores the ways in which Greek and Latin writers from the late 1st to the 3rd century CE experienced an...
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674,37 zł |
The Thin Edge of Innovation: Metro Vancouver's Evolving Economy
ISBN: 9780774869928 / Angielski / 20-12-2024 Książka dostępna od: 20-12-2024 |
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Planowany termin premiery książki: 20-12-2024
Książkę można już zamówić z rabatem 5% |
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408,73 zł |