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Tertullian, de Pallio: A Commentary
ISBN: 9789050634397 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. De Pallio is one of the strangest and perhaps most difficult texts ever written in Latin. In this speech, presented before a live audience in Carthage around 200 AD, Tertullian defends his radical choice to drop the Roman toga and take up the pallium of philosophers and christians. This theme may seem innocently simple, but it has been elaborated with impressive rhetorical pyrotechnics, couched in deliberately artificial language. And is this speech profoundly christian or shamefully pagan? A work of youth or of old age? Is it a serious apology or satire? Tertullian's De Pallio has puzzled...
De Pallio is one of the strangest and perhaps most difficult texts ever written in Latin. In this speech, presented before a live audience in Carthage...
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M. Annaeus Lucanus Bellum Civile, Book III: A Commentary
ISBN: 9789050630788 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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Apuleius of Madauros, Florida: A Commentary
ISBN: 9789050632188 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In recent years there has been growing interest in Apuleius' works. Notably his famous novel Metamorphoses and his speeches are increasingly appreciated as the special products of a Second Sophist writing in Latin. In the Florida, a collection of 23 excerpts of speeches, we have a unique example of Roman demonstrative rhetoric. In the text we see Apuleius performing before great audiences, and even in the theatre of Carthage. He delivers speeches on topics as diverse as the eye of the eagle, the inventions of Hippias, or the distinctive features of the parrot. The speaker's wide literary...
In recent years there has been growing interest in Apuleius' works. Notably his famous novel Metamorphoses and his speeches are increasingly appreciat...
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413,68 zł |