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  • The Political Biographies of Cornelius Nepos

    by S. Rex Stem ...
    The Roman writer Cornelius Nepos was a friend of Cicero and Catullus and other first-century BCE authors, and portions of his encyclopedic work On Famous Men are the earliest surviving biographies written in Latin. In The Political Biographies of Cornelius Nepos, Rex Stem presents Nepos as a valuable witness to the late Republican era, whose biographies share the exemplary republican political ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • The Gallic War

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  • Beyond Greek

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  • Rome's Mediterranean Empire

    Books 41-45 and the Periochae

    by Livy ...
    Translated by Jane D. Chaplin ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'I will do as the Senate decrees.' These words from one of Rome's opponents encapsulate the authority Rome achieved by its subjugation of the Mediterranean. The Third Macedonian War, recounted in this volume, ended the kingdom created by Philip II and Alexander the Great and was a crucial step in Rome's eventual dominance. For Livy, the story is also a fascinating moral study of the vices and ... Read more

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  • Libanius the Sophist

    Rhetoric, Reality, and Religion in the Fourth Century

    by Raffaella Cribiore ...
    Series Book 63 - Cornell Studies in Classical Philology
    Libanius of Antioch was a rhetorician of rare skill and eloquence. So renowned was he in the fourth century that his school of rhetoric in Roman Syria became among the most prestigious in the Eastern Empire. In this book Raffaella Cribiore draws on her unique knowledge of the entire body of Libanius's vast literary output—including 64 orations, 1,544 letters, and exercises for his students—to ... Read more

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  • Deep Classics

    Rethinking Classical Reception

    Edited by Professor Shane Butler ...
    Fragmented, buried, and largely lost, the classical past presents formidable obstacles to anyone who would seek to know it. 'Deep Classics' is the study of these obstacles and, in particular, of the way in which the contemplation of the classical past resembles – and has even provided a model for – other kinds of human endeavor. This volume offers a new way to understand the modalities and aims of ... Read more

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  • Roman Social Imaginaries

    Language and Thought in the Context of Empire

    by Clifford Ando ...
    In an expansion of his 2012 Robson Classical Lectures, Clifford Ando examines the connection between the nature of the Latin language and Roman thinking about law, society, and empire. Drawing on innovative work in cognitive linguistics and anthropology, Roman Social Imaginaries considers how metaphor, metonymy, analogy, and ideation helped create the structures of thought that shaped the Roman ... Read more

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  • Selections from Virgil Aeneid X

    An Edition for Intermediate Students

    Series series Bloomsbury Classical Languages
    This is the first intermediate-student edition of a selection from Virgil's Aeneid X. Lines 215–250, 260–307, 362–398 and 426–542 are included as Latin text with an accompanying commentary and vocabulary. Focusing on a deliberately concise extract from the original, this edition is designed to be manageable for students reading the text for the first time while also perfectly encapsulating the ... Read more

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  • Latin Verse Satire

    An Anthology and Reader

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  • A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities

    Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the World's Greatest Empire

    by J. C. McKeown ...
    Here is a whimsical and captivating collection of odd facts, strange beliefs, outlandish opinions, and other highly amusing trivia of the ancient Romans. We tend to think of the Romans as a pragmatic people with a ruthlessly efficient army, an exemplary legal system, and a precise and elegant language. A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities shows that the Romans were equally capable of bizarre ... Read more

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