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Massie Allan
Augustus: The Memoirs of the Emperor
8vo, 339 pp. British First. ex library, 2 small stamps, ow. very good in vg dj. Ex-Library
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Flohr Miko
The World of the Fullo: Work, Economy, and Society in Roman Italy
8vo, hardcover in dj, xviii-401pp. The World of the Fullo takes a detailed look at the fullers, craftsmen who dealt with high-quality garments, of Roman Italy. Analyzing the social and economic worlds in which the fullers lived and worked, it tells the story of their economic circumstances, the way they organized their workshops, the places where they worked in the city, and their everyday lives on the shop floor and beyond. Through focusing on the lower segments of society, Flohr uses everyday work as the major organizing principle of the narrative: the volume discusses the decisions taken by those responsible for the organization of work, and how these decisions subsequently had an impact on the social lives of people carrying out the work. It emphasizes how socio-economic differences between cities resulted in fundamentally different working lives for many of their people, and that not only were economic activities shaped by Roman society, they in turn played a key role in shaping it. Using an in-depth and qualitative analysis of material remains related to economic activities, with a combined study of epigraphic and literary records, this volume portrays an insightful view of the socio-economic history of urban communities in the Roman world.
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Loewenstein Karl
The Governance of Rome
8vo large xxxi-502pp.as new copy.
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Weber Carli W.
Panem et Circenses. La Politica Dei Diverftimenti Di Massa Nell'antica Roma
8vo, ril. ed. sovracoperta, pp.316, 16 illustraz, f. t.
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Thornton, M.K. and Thornton, R. L.
Julio-Claudian Building Program: A Quantitative Study in Political Management
8vo 150 pages; An analysis of the Imperial Policy of Public Programs and of Labor Management. A significant contribution to a better understanding of the Early Empire and to political management in general. augusto imperatori caludio-giulii, progetti edilizi a roma, in inglese.
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BRANCATI Antonio
Il Regime Delle Acque nell'antichità
In 8, pp. 36. Bross. edit. numerose ill. n. testo.
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Ridley Ronald
The Emperor's Retrospect: Augustus' Res Gestae in Epigraphy, Historiography, and Commentary (Studia Hellenistica, 39)
8vo, br. ed. xxv + 251pp., 24cm., in the series "Studia Hellenistica" vol.39, softcover, fine condition,
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Wells Colin M.
L'impero Romano
In 8°- bross. edit. policroma- collana " Universale Paperbacks " - pp. 356
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CARCOPINO Jérome
Silla o La Monarchia Mancata
8vo. leg.ed.titoli in oro al dorso. e sovracoperta Intr.di M.A.Levi. cm.14x22, pp.257, alcune tavv.e ill.bn.ft. Coll.La Storia.
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SPINOSA ANTONIO
Tiberio l'imperatore che non amava Roma
8vo. leg.ed. sopraccop.fig.a col. cm.11x18,5, pp.228, Coll.Le Scie prima ed.
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Anderson William S.
Anger in Juvenal and Seneca
Octavo. Softcover Paper. 1964. Text in English 127-195 pp. Bound in original printed paper wrap. From university of california publications in Classical Philology volume 19, no.3. California U.P.1964
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Guidorizzi Giulio
La Trama Segreta Del Mondo. La Magia nell'antichità
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O'Brien-Moore, Ainsworth
Madness in Ancient Literature
8vo lge 280 x 216 mm. 232 pages. facsimile reprint The chief interest of this dissertation will lie in the study of the elevated representations of madness in literature of the grand manner; the popular, medical, cosmic and to a lesser extent, the social and legal aspects of the subject will be considered only as a contrast and background to the literary. Contents: popular conception of madness; medical conception; reverberations of the medical conception in literature; general attitude of comedy towards madness; madness in elevated literature, Homer and the deistic conception; Aeschylus; Sophocles and Bacchylides; Euripides; madness after the tragedians; Roman tragedians; Vergil; fury after Vergil; late Greek epic, Quintas Smyrnaeus; Nonnus; Seneca s Hercules Furens; madness of mantic inspiration
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Michael Nylan (a cura di), Griet Vankeerberghen (a cura di)
Chang'an 26 BCE: An Augustan Age in China
8vo hardcover, 642 pagine. During the last two centuries BCE, the Western Han capital of Chang'an, near today's Xi'an in northwest China, outshone Augustan Rome in several ways while administering comparable numbers of imperial subjects and equally vast territories. At its grandest, during the last fifty years or so before the collapse of the dynasty in 9 CE, Chang'an boasted imperial libraries with thousands of documents on bamboo and silk in a city nearly three times the size of Rome and nearly four times larger than Alexandria. Many reforms instituted in this capital in ate Western Han substantially shaped not only the institutions of the Eastern Han (25-220 CE) but also the rest of imperial China until 1911. Although thousands of studies document imperial Rome's glory, until now no book-length work in a Western language has been devoted to Han Chang'an, the reign of Emperor Chengdi (whose accomplishments rival those of Augustus and Hadrian), or the city's impressive library project (26-6 BCE), which ultimately produced the first state-sponsored versions of many of the classics and masterworks that we hold in our hands today. Chang'an 26 bce addresses this deficiency, using as a focal point the reign of Emperor Chengdi (r. 33-7 bce), specifically the year in which the imperial library project began. This in-depth survey by some of the world's best scholars, Chinese and Western, explores the built environment, sociopolitical transformations, and leading figures of Chang'an, making a strong case for the revision of historical assumptions about the two Han dynasties. A multidisciplinary volume representing a wealth of scholarly perspectives, the book draws on the established historical record and recent archaeological discoveries of thousands of tombs, building foundations, and remnants of walls and gates from Chang'an and its surrounding area. cina han e roma di augusto.
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Canali Luca
Vita Sesso Morte Nella Letteratura Latina
In 8, pp. 86. Legat. edit. t. tela, sovracop. ill. con alette. Collana La Cultura n° 55 Esemplare in ottime condizioni.
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Phang, Sara Elise
Roman Military Service: Ideologies of Discipline in the Late Republic and Early Principate
8vo pp.354. In this book, Sara Phang explores the ideals and realities of Roman military discipline, which regulated the behaviour of soldiers in combat and their punishment, as well as economic aspects of their service, including compensation and other benefits, work and consumption. This thematically-organized study analyzes these aspects of discipline, using both literary and documentary sources. Phang emphasizes social and cultural conflicts in the Roman army. Contrary to the impression that Roman emperors 'bought' their soldiers and indulged them, discipline restrained such behaviour and legitimized and stabilized the imperial power. Phang argues that emperors and aristocratic commanders gained prestige from imposing discipline, while displaying leadership in person and a willingness to compromise with a restive soldiery
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Roberts Tolbert Jennifer
Athens on Trial: The Antidemocratic Tradition in Western Thought
8vo, 426 pages. Dimensions: 9.1in. x 6.0in. x 1.0in.The Classical Athenians were the first to articulate and implement the notion that ordinary citizens of no particular affluence or education could make responsible political decisions. For this reason, reactions to Athenian democracy have long provided a prime Rorschach test for political thought. Whether praising Athenss government as the legitimizing ancestor of modern democracies or condemning it as mob rule, commentators throughout history have revealed much about their own notions of politics and society. In this book, Jennifer Roberts charts responses to Athenian democracy from Athens itself through the twentieth century, exploring a debate that touches upon historiography, ethics, political science, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, gender studies, and educational theory.
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Henderson John
Figuring Out Roman Nobility: Juvenal's Eighth Satire
8vo, pp.168. Juvenal is a central author on courses in Classical Studies and has an important place on courses in comparative literature, both in the UK and USA. This new book by John Henderson shows how the eighth Satire, a brilliant piece of writing, makes fun of traditional Roman family values, and in the process displays the core of ideas and practices with which aristocratic culture at Rome enshrined itself - the display of geneologies, ancestral busts, proliferating names, the cult of exemplary legends - in all seriousness. Virgil and Horace are Juvenal's prize scalps in his spoof of the Roman fame-machine. The book is aimed at undergraduate students of Roman Satire, and advanced school students of Classical Civilisation; but the notes and Appendices also address scholars and advanced readers of Latin poetry and Roman cultural politics, supporting a new close-reading and engaging with literary theory. All Latin is translated.
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ANNA MARIA RICCOMINI
LA RUINA DI SI BELA COSA VICENDE E TRASFORMAZIONI DEL MAUSOLEO DI AUGUSTO
4to, RILEG.EDIT.CON SOVRAC.E COFANETTO PP.207 CON ILL.n the fortune and vicissitutes of augustus mausoleum. sarce. international customers please inquire on shipping.
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Robin Lorsch Wildfang Ed.
Divination and Portents in the Roman World
8vo, br. ed. 79pp, The ancient Romans believed that the gods sent signs of future events to men through the flight of birds, meteorological disturbances and other natural phenomena. These signs influenced every sphere of ancient life, both public and private, from a state's decision to go to war or make peace, hold an election or meet a public crisis to an individual's business, marriage or travel plans. The book illustrates how the various Roman divinatory techniques were inter-woven into the structures of ancient society as well as how they were used in literary contexts. The intriguing question of the alleged doublethink among the Roman intellectuals in their attitude to Divination is another important theme taken up in "Divination and Portents in the Roman World".
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Virlouvet Catherine
Tessera frumentaria. Les procédures de distribution du blé public à Rome à la fin de la République et au début de l'Empire
Volume Cartonato Di 8vo Pp. 424 Con 24 Tavole In Bianco E Nero Fuori Testo. Opera In Stato Di Nuovo.
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Jones Arnold H. M.
The Later Roman Empire, 284-602: A Social, Economic, and Administrative Survey. Vol. 1 and 2
8vo, volume 1 basil blackwell 1986, xv-766, vol 2 johns hopkins 1986 vi-767-1518.
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Grunewald, Thomas/ Drinkwater, John (Translator)
Bandits in the Roman Empire: Myth and Reality
8vo, 1st edition. 272 pages. survey of 'outsider' groups in the Roman Empire will contribute greatly to our understanding of Roman social history. Examining men such as as Viriatus, Tacfarinus, Maternus and Bulla Felix, who were called latrones after clashing with the imperial authorities, special attention is given to perhaps the best-known 'bandit' of all, Spartacus, and to those who impersonated the emperor Nero after his death. Topics covered include: * Whom did the Romans see as bandits (latrones)? * What did they understand as robbery (lactrocinium)? * How pressing was the threat that the bandits posed? * How did their contemporaries perceive the danger? We are shown that the term latrones was not just used to refer to criminals but was metaphorically and disparagingly applied to failed political rebels, rivals and avengers. The word also came to represent the 'noble brigands', idealising the underdog as a means of criticising the winning side. The author therefore presents 'the bandit' as a literary construct rather than a social type.
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Galinsky Karl
Augustus: Introduction to the Life of an Emperor
8vo, br. pp.220. Augustus, Rome's first emperor, is one of the great figures of world history and one of the most fascinating. In this lively and concise biography Karl Galinsky examines Augustus' life from childhood to deification. He chronicles the mosaic of vicissitudes, challenges, setbacks and successes that shaped Augustus' life, both public and private. How did he use his power? How did he manage to keep re-inventing himself? What kind of man was he? A transformative leader, Augustus engineered profound change in Rome and throughout the Mediterranean world. No one would have expected such vast achievements from the frail and little-known eighteen-year-old who became Caesar's heir amid turmoil and crisis. A mere thirteen years later, after defeating Antony and Cleopatra, he had, in his words, 'power over all things'.
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Scheidel Walter Ed.
State Power in Ancient China and Rome
8vo, 303 pages.The Chinese and the Romans created the largest empires of the ancient world. Separated by thousands of miles of steppe, mountains and sea, these powerful states developed independently and with very limited awareness of each other's existence. This parallel process of state formation served as a massive natural experiment in social evolution that provides unique insight into the complexities of historical causation. Comparisons between the two empires shed new light on the factors that led to particular outcomes and help us understand similarities and differences in ancient state formation. The explicitly comparative perspective adopted in this volume opens up a dialogue between scholars from different areas of specialization, encouraging them to address big questions about the nature of imperial rule. In a series of interlocking case studies, leading experts of early China and the ancient Mediterranean explore the relationship between rulers and elite groups, the organization and funding of government, and the ways in which urban development reflected the interplay between state power and communal civic institutions. Bureaucratization, famously associated with Qin and Han China but long less prominent in the Roman world, receives special attention as an index of the ambitions and capabilities of kings and emperors. The volume concludes with a look at the preconditions for the emergence of divine rulership. Taken together, these pioneering contributions lay the foundations for a systematic comparative history of early empires.
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Scullard Howard H. a Cura Di Emanuele Narducci
Storia del mondo romano.Volume primo: Dalla fondazione di Roma alla distruzione di Cartagine, Volume Secondo: Dalle riforme dei Gracchi alla morte di Nerone
2 VOLL 8vo, BROSS.EDIT,PP.XVIII+521+509
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Levrero Paolo
Il diritto e la Giustizia
8vo, br. ed. pp.174
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Montanari Enrico
Identità culturale e conflitti religiosi nella Roma Repubblicana
8vo, br. ed. Pagg. 178.
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Burrow Colin
Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity
This book explains that Shakespeare did not have 'small Latin and less Greek' as Ben Jonson claimed. Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity shows the range, extent and variety of Shakespeare's responses to classical antiquity. Individual chapters on Virgil, Ovid, Classical Comedy, Seneca, and Plutarch show how Shakespeare's understanding of and use of classical authors, and of the classical past more generally, changed and developed in the course of his career. An opening chapter shows the kind of classical learning he acquired through his education, and subsequent chapters provide stimulating introductions to a range of classical authors as well as to Shakespeare's responses to them. Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity shows how Shakespeare's relationship to classical authors changed in response to contemporary events and to contemporary authors. Above all, it shows that Shakespeare's reading in classical literature informed more or less every aspect of his work
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Grant Michael
La città e I Metalli. Società e cultura degli Etruschi
In 8° leg. edit., senza sovracoperta. pp. 369, con ill.ni f/t,
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Frier, Bruce W.
Landlords and Tenants in Imperial Rome
8vo, 251 pages, 8 pages of plates and 1 plan. Using archaeological data as well as literary and legal texts, Bruce Frier shows that members of the upper class, including senatorial families, lived in rented apartments and that the Roman law of urban lease was designed mainly for them, not for the lower class. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. proproetari edilizi e inquilini in affitto nella roma imperiale.
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Brillante Carlo
Studi sulla rappresentazione del sogno nella Grecia Antica
8vo, br. ed. bandelle, 190 pagine. esaurito fuori catalogo.
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Bleicken Jochen
Augustus. the Biography
8vo, Hard Cover. First Edition English Language. First published in German in 1998. 771 pages, some b&w illustrations and maps, notes, chronology, literature on the Augustan period, index. The great modern biography of Augustus, founder of the Roman Empire Born to a plebeian family in 63 BC, Octavian was a young solder training abroad when he heard news of Julius Caesar's brutal assassination - and discovered that he was the dictator's sole political heir. With the opportunism and instinct for propaganda that were to characterize his rule, Octavian rallied huge financial, military and political backing to eliminate his opponents, end the bloody turmoil that had so long wracked Rome and, finally, take autocratic control of a state devoted to republicanism. He became Augustus - Rome's first Emperor, and the founder of the greatest empire the world had ever seen. In this monumental biography, translated into English for the first time by Anthea Bell, Jochen Bleicken tells the story of a man who found himself a demi-god in his own lifetime and paints a portrait of one of the most dramatic periods of Roman history.
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Bradley, K. R.
Slaves and Masters in the Roman Empire: A Study in Social Control
8vo, br. ed. . 168 pages. extensive underlinings and highlirigs. ow good., Remains usable and very readable. Structurally sound
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Filippo Carlà (Autore), Arnaldo Marcone (Autore)
Economia e finanza a Roma
8vo, br. ed. 281.offre un'introduzione aggiornata all'economia, alla finanza, alla fiscalità di Roma antica, facendo costante riferimento al dibattito scientifico in corso. I vari argomenti sono trattati in modo chiaro e sistematico e spaziano dall'agricoltura al commercio, dal ruolo dello Stato al livello della tassazione, dalle funzioni della moneta alla produzione schiavistica.
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MARCONE Arnaldo
Augusto
8vo, br. ed. pp.370. Verso la metà del IV secolo l'imperatore Giuliano nei "Cesari", una singolare opera satirica, ma dalle forti connotazioni personali, in cui sono passati in rassegna, con Alessandro Magno, i suoi principali predecessori, dà di Augusto una definizione peculiare: era un "camaleonte". Non è da sottovalutare questo giudizio da parte di una personalità come Giuliano che, arrivato inaspettatamente all'età di trent'anni al potere supremo, aveva concepito un disegno profondamente innovatore dello Stato romano, in primo luogo in senso religioso, e che dimostrò particolare sensibilità per le strategie comunicative. In verità Augusto risulta una personalità difficile da valutare già per gli antichi e non stupisce che tanto articolate siano state le presentazioni che la sua figura ha conosciuto anche negli studi più recenti. Appartiene senza dubbio a quel genere di personaggi poliedrici dei quali non è facile delineare un ritratto fedele e di cui è lecito privilegiare un aspetto rispetto a un altro. Giuliano è sicuramente in difficoltà a dare un giudizio netto su una figura tanto multiforme come quella di Augusto, il cui carattere autentico risulta alla fine sfuggente, soprattutto se si vuole uscire da schemi precostituiti.
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Massie Allan
Augusto. Autobiografia. Le Memorie Del più Grande Imperatore Di Roma Marrate Da Un Celebre Romanziere. La Straordianaria Autobiografia Di Un Uomo Che Divenne Simbolo Del Potere: Le Ansie, Le Paure Gli entusiasmi
8vo, rilegatura editoriale in soivracoperta, pp. 318, illustrazioni.
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Marc Le Diacre
Vie De Porphyre éveque de Gaza. Texte Établi , Traduit et Commenté Par Henri Gr*goire et M. a- Kuegner
8vo, br. ed. 159pp. texte grec et trad. français. epuisé.
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Long Anthony A.
La mente, l'anima, il corpo. Modelli Greci
8vo, pp.162. I greci hanno contribuito in modo sostanziale a formulare un linguaggio della mente e a svilupparne i concetti. Le nozioni greche di mente e identità umana - che da Omero e Platone giungono fino a Epitteto e Plotino - toccano questioni di interesse ricorrente e universale, riguardano il modo in cui descriviamo le nostre esperienze, reali o potenziali, e il modo in cui ci confrontiamo, o dovremmo confrontarci, con il mondo e con noi stessi. Cosa ci accade quando moriamo? Gli esseri umani sono mortali o hanno la possibilità di conseguire l'immortalità? Come sono legate la mente, l'anima e il corpo? Siamo responsabili per la nostra felicità? Perché si è giunti a pensare che la vita migliore è una vita governata dalla ragione, con i desideri e le emozioni subordinate al suo comando? Che cosa ha significato pensare all'intelletto umano nei termini di una facoltà divina? Anthony Long si chiede quando e come queste questioni siano emerse nella Grecia antica, e dimostra quanto i modelli di mente ereditati dai pensatori greci siano ancora efficaci nel cogliere e illuminare la nostra comprensione di noi stessi e delle nostre aspirazioni.
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Hall Edith
I Geci Antichi
Traduzione di Giacone L. Torino, 2016; 8vo, rileg. edit sovracoperta., pp. 360, 15 ill. (Biblioteca Einaudi). Chi erano gli antichi greci? Ci hanno dato la democrazia, la filosofia, la poesia, la scienza. Ma cosa ha permesso loro di raggiungere tali vette? Gli antichi greci erano un popolo geograficamente eterogeneo la cui civiltà è durata piú di venti secoli - e che ci ha resi quello che siamo oggi. Edith Hall ci fa scoprire la civiltà greca in modo inconsueto e rivelatore: individuando dieci tratti caratteristici, e fondamentali per la diffusione degli antichi greci nel territorio. Un popolo curioso, con grandi doti comunicative e di mentalità aperta, ma anche ribelle, individualista, competitivo ed edonista. Centrale per la sua identità è il rapporto con il mare, che è alla base di ogni aspetto della loro società. Estremamente documentata, questa elegante ricostruzione ci svela una civiltà di incomparabile ricchezza e un popolo di incredibile complessità
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SANTI Claudia
Sacra facere. Aspetti della prassi ritualistica divinatoria nel mondo Romano
8vo, 260pp.Il presente studio indaga la funzione cosmologica e cosmogonica che la prassi ritualistica divinatoria ebbe nel mondo Romano. Oltrepassato il livello dello scetticismo pregiudiziale, il materiale disponibile è stato considerato, alla luce della comparazione, nel suo svolgimento storico-culturale, al fine di rilevare gli elementi di continuità e di cambiamento prodottisi all'interno del sistema di divinazione di Roma antica, nel corso di quasi mille anni di storia. Ricostruire il significato religioso e civico della prassi ritualistica del sacra facere significa comprendere uno dei meccanismi essenziali di regolazione del sistema politeistico romano, del suo continuo ristrutturarsi nella storia, del suo rispondere alle sollecitazioni politico-religiose provenienti dall'esterno, senza rinunziare ai valori del mos maiorum.
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Veyne Paul
Palmyre, l'irremplacable Trésor
8vo, br. ed. pp144. Au moment où le site prestigieux de Palmyre, classé au Patrimoine mondial de l Humanité par l UNESCO, est en train d être saccagé, quel meilleur guide que Paul Veyne pour parcourir les vestiges d une si vaste cité, aujourd hui interdite ? Antique métropole florissante, située en plein désert au centre de la Syrie, au nord-est de Damas, Palmyre est l ancienne Tadmor qui, selon la Bible, aurait été construite par Salomon. Cette importante cité caravanière, fut la plus grande puissance commerciale du Proche-Orient entre le Ier et le IIIe siècle, véritable plaque tournante des échanges entre l Orient et l Occident, entre l Inde, la Chine, la Mésopotamie, la Perse et Rome. Au Ier siècle de notre ère, sous Tibère, elle a le statut de province romaine. Elle atteint son apogée sous l empereur Hadrien au IIe siècle. Après 260, Zénobie, la veuve d Odénat, un notable palmyrénien chargé de coordonner la défense de l Orient, tenta de prendre le pouvoir et entra en conflit avec Rome. Elle est vaincue en 272 par l empereur Aurélien. C est la fin de la splendeur de Palmyre. Les grandioses monuments, savant mariage d architecture gréco-romaine et d influences locales, s étirent sur plusieurs kilomètres et sont (étaient) parmi les plus importants du monde antique. C est cette histoire de la « Venise du désert » que nous peint Paul Veyne ; avec lui, nous découvrons cet immense vestige d un monde aboli.
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Fleres Ugo
ITALIA E MEDITERRANEO NELL'ENEIDE
8vo grande, br. ed. buona parte dei fogli ancora chiusi, mancanza da taglio di paertura all' angolo in basso pp. 29- 32 che non tocca minimamente il testo, altrimenti ottimo.
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Pollione Trebellio, a Cura Di Eugenio Manni
Le Vite di Valeriano e di Gallieno
8vo, br. ed. pp.172. firma di app. e di adesivo da sovracoperta trasparente rimossa, altrimenti in ottimo stato senza altri segni on sottolineature.
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SEDLEY DAVID
Creazionismo. Il dibattito antico da Anassagora a Galeno
8vo, br. ed. pp.395. Da Anassagora a Socrate, da Empedocle a Platone, dagli Atomisti agli Stoici, da Aristotele a Galeno, il volume ripercorre le principali tappe storiche dell'acceso dibattito antico sul creazionismo. L'esame, criticamente acuto e filologicamente puntuale, degli apporti dei maggiori filosofi o movimenti filosofici dell'antichità fornisce su tale questione un punto di riferimento essenziale per gli specialisti del pensiero antico e per coloro che si occupano del dibattito contemporaneo fra creazionismo ed evoluzionismo, le cui basi storico-concettuali e teorico-argomentative sono rintracciabili, mutatis mutandis, proprio in quei pensatori che sono al fondamento della filosofia e della scienza occidentali.
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Beretta Marco
La rivoluzione culturale di Lucrezio. Filosofia e scienza nell'antica Roma
8vo, br. ed. 311pp. La diffusione dell'epicureismo nel mondo antico trova in Lucrezio uno degli interpreti più originali. La filosofia presentata nel "De rerum natura", scompaginando l'ordine costituito, mette la conoscenza della natura a fondamento della felicità dell'uomo e della liberazione dalle sue paure: solo attraverso un'indagine spregiudicata dei fenomeni naturali e delle cause recondite del loro manifestarsi diviene possibile assegnare all'uomo un'etica capace di renderlo libero nelle sue azioni e, contemporaneamente, di farlo vivere in sintonia con le leggi dell'universo. La scienza della natura viene dunque posta a base dell'etica, della cultura e addirittura della politica. Da allora, mai alla scienza è stato tributato un più alto valore culturale.
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Bowditch Lowell Phebe
Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage
8vo, br. ed. 281pp. This innovative study explores selected odes and epistles by the late-first-century poet Horace in light of modern anthropological and literary theory. Phebe Lowell Bowditch looks in particular at how the relationship between Horace and his patron Maecenas is reflected in these poems' themes and rhetorical figures. Using anthropological studies on gift exchange, she uncovers an implicit economic dynamic in these poems and skillfully challenges standard views on literary patronage in this period. Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage provides a striking new understanding of Horace's poems and the Roman system of patronage, and also demonstrates the relevance of New Historicist and Marxist critical paradigms for Roman studies. In addition to incorporating anthropological and sociological perspectives, Bowditch's theoretical approach makes use of concepts drawn from linguistics, deconstruction, and the work of Michel Foucault. She weaves together these ideas in an original approach to Horace's use of golden age imagery, his language concerning public gifts or munera, his metaphors of sacrifice, and the rhetoric of class and status found in these poems. Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage represents an original approach to central issues and questions in the study of Latin literature, and sheds new light on our understanding of Roman society in general.
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Daly Gregory
Cannae: The Experience of Battle in the Second Punic War
8vo, br. ed. On a hot and dusty summer s day in 216 BC, the forces of the Carthaginian general Hannibal faced the Roman army in a dramatic encounter at Cannae. Massively outnumbered, the Carthaginians nevertheless won an astonishing victory - one that left more than 50,000 men dead. Gregory Daly s enthralling study considers the reasons that led the two armies to the field of battle, and why each followed the course that they did when they got there. It explores in detail the composition of the armies, and the tactics and leadership methods of the opposing generals. Finally, by focusing on the experiences of those who fought, Daly gives an unparalleled portrait of the true horror and chaos of ancient warfare. This striking and vivid account is the fullest yet
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Traina Giusto
428 A.D.: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire
8vo, cloth n dj 214pp. This is a sweeping tour of the Mediterranean world from the Atlantic to Persia during the last half-century of the Roman Empire. By focusing on a single year not overshadowed by an epochal event, 428 AD provides a truly fresh look at a civilization in the midst of enormous change--as Christianity takes hold in rural areas across the empire, as western Roman provinces fall away from those in the Byzantine east, and as power shifts from Rome to Constantinople. Taking readers on a journey through the region, Giusto Traina describes the empires' people, places, and events in all their simultaneous richness and variety. The result is an original snapshot of a fraying Roman world on the edge of the medieval era. The result is an original snapshot of a fraying Roman world on the edge of the medieval era. Readers meet many important figures, including the Roman general Flavius Dionysius as he encounters a delegation from Persia after the Sassanids annex Armenia; the Christian ascetic Simeon Stylites as he stands and preaches atop his column near Antioch; the eastern Roman emperor Theodosius II as he prepares to commission his legal code; and Genseric as he is elected king of the Vandals and begins to turn his people into a formidable power. We are also introduced to Pulcheria, the powerful sister of Theodosius, and Galla Placidia, the queen mother of the western empire, as well as Augustine, Pope Celestine I, and nine-year-old Roman emperor Valentinian III. Full of telling details, 428 AD illustrates the uneven march of history. As the west unravels, the east remains intact. As Christianity spreads, pagan ideas and schools persist. And, despite the presence of the forces that will eventually tear the classical world apart, Rome remains at the center, exerting a powerful unifying force over disparate peoples stretched across the Mediterranean.
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Letta cesare Simonetta Segenni (a cura di)
Roma e le sue province. Dalla prima guerra punica a Diocleziano
8vo, br. ed. 319pp. Questa raccolta di saggi propone una sintesi aggiornata e completa sulle province di Roma antica, che ne analizza la natura e i meccanismi di funzionamento, fa il punto delle nostre conoscenze su ciascuna di esse e propone un primo approccio a quella realtà grandiosa, multiforme e complessa che fu l'impero romano, mettendo a fuoco aspetti che anche nei migliori manuali di storia romana sono trascurati o sottintesi.
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