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Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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Author: Richard Braccia
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1449043410
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 687

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Respublica recreates the teeming world of pre-Christian Rome with all its drama and sensualism, and it mirrors the strife and crises of contemporary America. Marcus Cicero, a respected but marginalized statesman, describes in his own voice, complemented by omniscient narrative, his life-long struggle against subversion and tyranny. Cicero combats the intrigues of the renegade, Catalina, and then fends off the attacks of the wild demogogue, Clodius. He idolizes the military hero, Pompeius, while distrusting the ambitions of the emergent Caesar. In the midst of civil war, Cicero strives to hold his family together. Devoted to his strong-willed wife, Terentia, he is alternately tempted and repelled by the wanton, Clodia Pulchra. He writes his personal history for the benefit of his son, Marcus, but the very light of his life is his beloved daughter, Tullia. Cicero's brother, Quintus is loyal despite a simmering envy of his older sibling. In his ultimate struggle against the usurpations of Marcus Antonius, Cicero is fated to live or perish with the free Repubic. Respublica is powerful historical fiction written with heart and mind and spirit... and guts.

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Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674379220
Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Author: George Birimisa
Publisher: Moving Finger Press through its subsidiary Sweetheart Press
ISBN: 0977421449
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 373

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An anthology featuring some of the playwright George Birimisa's own favorite works, including ten of his plays and excerpts from his satirical novel S&M Gym. Also included are prose portraits by colleagues, students, friends and rivals.

Author: Francis X. Ryan
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag
ISBN: 9783515070935
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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This work examines the status, privileges, and functions of each division of the republican Roman senate: the consular grade (especially the principes senatus) and the junior senators (especially the tribunician and quaestorian grades). The author's analysis focuses on the level of participation in senate debates by each rank of senator.

Author: William Smith
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 1328

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Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Languages : en
Pages : 588

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Author: Charles Rollin
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Author: William Desmond
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317492854
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Once regarded as a minor Socratic school, Cynicism is now admired as one of the more creative and influential philosophical movements in antiquity. First arising in the city-states of late classical Greece, Cynicism thrived through the Hellenistic and Roman periods, until the triumph of Christianity and the very end of pagan antiquity. In every age down to the present, its ideals of radical simplicity and freedom have alternately inspired and disturbed onlookers. This book offers a survey of Cynicism, its varied representatives and ideas, and the many contexts in which it operated. William Desmond introduces important ancient Cynics and their times, from Diogenes 'the Dog' in the fourth century BC to Sallustius in the fifth century AD. He details the Cynics' rejection of various traditional customs and the rebellious life-style for which they are notorious.The central chapters locate major Cynic themes (nature and the natural life, Fortune, self-sufficiency, cosmopolitanism) within the rich matrix of ideas debated by the ancient schools. The final chapter reviews some moments in the diverse legacy of Cynicism, from Jesus to Nietzsche.

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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Includes section "Notices of recent publications".