This is an edition of Tacitus' work on oratory, with a substantial introduction and commentary. It is the first commentary in English in over 100 years and the only one at this level. It is designed to elucidate problems of language and reference in the text and to put the reader in the picture as regards late first-century AD society and literature, particularly oratory, still the most important activity within the Roman elite.
This is an edition of Tacitus' work on oratory, with a substantial introduction and commentary. It is the first commentary in English in over 100 year...
Phaedra is one of Seneca's most successful tragedies. It was the first ancient drama to be performed in the Renaissance, marking an epoch in European theatre. The myth, as reworked by Seneca on the basis of dramas by Euripides, was endowed with fresh power, and his characterisation of Phaedra, especially in her frank avowal of love to her stepson, Hippolytus, fired the imagination of later tragic poets, especially Racine. Roland Mayer introduces the reader to the complex dramatic and literary inheritance which Seneca appropriated and in his turn bequeathed, and he sets out some of the main...
Phaedra is one of Seneca's most successful tragedies. It was the first ancient drama to be performed in the Renaissance, marking an epoch in Europe...
Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Sport - Sonstiges, Note: 2, Universitat Salzburg (Sportwissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Bewegung-Gesundheit-Fitness, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: "Gesundheit" wird zumeist genannt, wenn es darum geht, Beweggrunde und Motive fur die eigene Beteiligung am Sport zu erklaren. Dass dieser Ansatz bereits auch im Jugendalter seine Gultigkeit hat, beweisen Untersuchungen, wie unter anderem bereits 1990 von Brettschneider und Brautigam. Hierbei gaben Jugendliche in der Fragebogenerhebung an, deshalb Sport zu treiben, um etwas fur ihre Gesundheit zu tun....
Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Sport - Sonstiges, Note: 2, Universitat Salzburg (Sportwissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Bewegung-Gesundhe...
This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription of Annals Book I sections 16-30 and the A-Level (Group 2) prescription of Annals Book I sections 3-7, 11-14 and 46-49, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction that also covers the prescribed text to be read in English for A Level.
Annals I starts with the death of Augustus and the beginning of Tiberius' principate. Tacitus chronicles the uneasy and unprecedented transition from one to the other, in the context of...
This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription of Annals Book I sections 16-30 and...
