Author: Gnaeus Naevius
Publisher: Delphi Classics
ISBN: 180170211X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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DRA006000 DRAMA / Ancient & Classical

Author: Theodor Mommsen
Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 2644

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In 1902 Mommsen was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and acclaimed as 'the greatest living master of the art of historical writing'. Mommsen rejected traditional Enlightenment accounts, which glorified ancient Rome; instead, guided by a new and rigorous criticism of sources, Mommsen began the demythologisation of Roman history. In a vivacious and engaging style, Mommsen drew bold parallels between the nineteenth century and classical Rome. Mommsen wrote his history with the pressing political and national issues facing both pre-unification Germany and the rest of the mid-nineteenth century Europe directly in mind. With exceptions, Mommsen in his Römische Geschichte (1854–1856) narrates a straight chronology of historic events and circumstances. Often strongly worded, he carefully describes the political acts taken by the protagonists, demonstrates the immediate results, draws implications for the future, while shedding light on the evolving society that surround them. The chronology of the contents of his five 'books' (in his first three volumes) are in brief: Book I, Roman origins and the Monarchy; Book II, the Republic until the Union of Italy; Book III, the Punic Wars and the East; Book IV, the Gracchi, Marius, Drusus, and Sulla; Book V, the Civil Wars and Julius Caesar.

Author: Julius Caesar
Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 9497

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This collection includes classic works on the history of Rome from its foundation to the collapse of the empire into Western and Eastern: Julius Caesar: The Gallic Wars The Civil War Tacitus: The Histories The Annals Appian: Roman History The Civil Wars Edward Gibbon: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Theodor Mommsen: The History of Rome

Author: Van Rooy
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004675418
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243

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Author: C. A. Van Rooy
Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Author: Terry V.F. Brogan
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691228213
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Drawn from the acclaimed New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, the articles in this concise new reference book provide a complete survey of the poetic history and practice in every major national literature or cultural tradition in the world. As with the parent volume, which has sold over 10,000 copies since it was first published in 1993, the intended audience is general readers, journalists, students, teachers, and researchers. The editor's principle of selection was balance, and his goal was to embrace in a structured and reasoned way the diversity of poetry as it is known across the globe today. In compiling material on 106 cultures in 92 national literatures, the book gives full coverage to Indo-European poetries (all the major Celtic, Slavic, Germanic, and Romance languages, as well as other obscure ones such as Hittite), the ancient middle Eastern poetries (Hebrew, Persian, Sumerian, and Assyro-Babylonian), subcontinental Indian poetries (the widest linguistic diversity), Asian and Pacific poetries (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Mongolian, and half a dozen others), continental American poetries (all the modern Western cultures and native Indian in North, Central, and South American regions), and African poetries (ancient and emergent, oral and written).

Author: Michael Avi-Yonah
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780060101787
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 526

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Donated by Sydney Harris.

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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 592

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Author: Ward W. Briggs
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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The history of Rome is essentially the history of one nation imitating another, namely Greece. The Romans invented only one genre, the satire. Roman writers borrowed their subject matter from the Greeks in all but one respect, history. Several of these Roman authors were slaves or came from slave families. It was the Greek-speaking early-freed slaves that taught the Romans to give their literature subjectivity.

Author: Thelma Beryl De Graff
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeneas (Legendary character)
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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