Sixteen Satires Upon The Ancient Harlot

Author : Juvenal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Humor
ISBN : UCSC:32106007114017

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Sixteen Satires Upon the Ancient Harlot by Juvenal Pdf

The Satires of Juvenal capture the splendor, squalor, and sheer vibrant energy of everyday Roman life better than any other work. A member of the traditional landowning class that was rapidly seeing power slip into the hands of dynamic outsiders, Juvenal offers savage portraits of decadent aristocrats, women interested only in "rough trade" like actors and gladiators, and the pretentious sons of pimps and auctioneers. With an eye to the stern forebears of Rome's past, Juvenal puts into exquisite relief the degradation of his infamous times.For this third edition, Peter Green's celebrated translation has been substantially revised to bring it still closer to the tone and structure of Juvenal's Latin and to take into account important scholarship of the past quarter-century. The Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography have all been updated and expanded. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Juvenal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Humor
ISBN : UOM:39015001722837

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Sixteen Satires Upon the Ancient Harlot by Juvenal Pdf

The Satires of Juvenal capture the splendor, squalor, and sheer vibrant energy of everyday Roman life better than any other work. A member of the traditional landowning class that was rapidly seeing power slip into the hands of dynamic outsiders, Juvenal offers savage portraits of decadent aristocrats, women interested only in "rough trade" like actors and gladiators, and the pretentious sons of pimps and auctioneers. With an eye to the stern forebears of Rome's past, Juvenal puts into exquisite relief the degradation of his infamous times.For this third edition, Peter Green's celebrated translation has been substantially revised to bring it still closer to the tone and structure of Juvenal's Latin and to take into account important scholarship of the past quarter-century. The Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography have all been updated and expanded. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Juvenal
Publisher : Harmondsworth : Penguin
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Rome
ISBN : UOM:39015005372944

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The Sixteen Satires by Juvenal Pdf

Author : Ole Thomsen,Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen,Jesper Carlsen,Karsten Friis-Jensen,Minna Skafte Jensen
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 8772896620

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Classica Et Mediaevalia vol.51 by Ole Thomsen,Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen,Jesper Carlsen,Karsten Friis-Jensen,Minna Skafte Jensen Pdf

Classica et Mediaevalia - Volume 51

Author : Marianne Pade
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 8772895853

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Renaissance Readings of the Corpus Aristotelicum by Marianne Pade Pdf

The conference was part of the international research network Renaissance: The Origins of Modernity organized by the University of Copenhagen. The 13 papers include discussions of the reception of the political Aristotle from Brunetto Latini to Dante Alighieri, Greek and Latin learning in Theodore Gaza's Antirrheticon, and Caspar Bartholin. One of the papers is in Italian. Distributed in the US by ISBS. c. Book News Inc.

Author : Tonnes Bekker-Nielsen
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 8772898534

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Classica Et Mediaevalia by Tonnes Bekker-Nielsen Pdf

Classica et Mediaevalia is an international periodical, published annually, with articles written by Danish and International scholars. The articles are mainly written in English, but also in French and German. The periodical deals from a philological point of view with Classical Antiquity in general and topics such as history of law and philosophy and the medieval ecclesiastic history. It covers the period from the Greco-Roman Antiquity until the Late Middle Ages.

Author : Georges Minois
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1989-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0226530310

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History of Old Age by Georges Minois Pdf

History of Old Age is the first major study of the ways in which old age has been perceived in western culture throughout history. Georges Minois paints a vast fresco, starting with the first old man to relate his own story—an Egyptian scribe some 4500 years ago—and ending with the deaths of Elizabeth I and Henry IV in the sixteenth century. Tracing the changing conceptions of the nature, value, and burden of the old, Minois argues that western history during this period is marked by great fluctuation in the social and political role of the aged. Minois shows how, in ancient Greece, the cult of youth and beauty on the one hand, and the reverence for the figure of the Homeric sage, on the other, created an ambivalent attitude toward the aged. This ambiguity appears again in the contrast between the active role that older citizens played in Roman politics and their depiction in satirical literature of the period. Christian literature in the Middle Ages also played a large part in defining society's perception of the old, both in the image of the revered holy sage and in the total condemnation of the aged sinner. Drawing on literary texts throughout, Minois considers the interrelation of literary, religious, medical, and political factors in determining the social fate of the elderly and their relationship to society. This book will be of great interest to social and cultural historians, as well as to general readers interested in the subject of the aged in society today.

Author : Heather A. McKay
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004507449

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Sabbath and Synagogue by Heather A. McKay Pdf

Sabbath worship as a communal event does not feature in the Hebrew Bible. In the context of the first century CE, according to Philo and Josephus, the sabbath gatherings took place only for the purpose of studying the law, and not for the liturgical recital of psalms or prayer. Classical authors depict Jews spending the sabbath at home. Jewish inscriptions provide no evidence of sabbath-worship in prayer-houses (proseuchai), while the Mishnah prescribes no special communal sabbath activities. The usual picture of Jews going on the sabbath to the synagogue to worship thus appears to be without foundation. It is even doubtful that there were synagogue buildings, for "synagogue" normally meant "community." The conclusion of this study, that there is no evidence that the sabbath was a day of communal Jewish worship before 200 CE, has far-reaching consequences for our understanding of early Jewish-Christian relationships. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.

Author : Paul Dunbavin
Publisher : Third Millennium Publishing
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780952502906

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Picts and Ancient Britons by Paul Dunbavin Pdf

Few problems in British history have proved as intractable as that of the origin and ethnic associations of the Picts. For although we may find numerous references to them within Roman and Celtic sources they have left us no historical texts of their own. So often we find the early Picts mentioned within histories of Roman Britain as mere opponents of Roman arms -- but who these tattooed barbarians were remains a mystery. First published in hardback 1998 now also available in Kindle hard and soft editions Modern opinion holds that the Picts were Celts, like the Scots and Welsh. This book seeks to demonstrate the scarcity of evidence for this common assumption and follows instead the evidence of native tradition. In a stimulating new study the author offers a view of the Picts that is certainly not the current text book standard. It concentrates on the very oldest traditions of Pictish origins, which together with early historical sources, would suggest that the Picts were not Celts at all, but ‘Scythians’. It will put an alternative case that the Picts were Finno-Ugrian immigrants from the Baltic coast. The author provides an investigation which subjects the traditions of Pictish origin to thorough scrutiny and by offering a viewpoint that does not commence from a Celtic bias, thereby offers some new ideas on a much neglected subject.

Author : Susan H. Braund,Susanna Morton Braund
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1988-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0521356377

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Beyond Anger by Susan H. Braund,Susanna Morton Braund Pdf

Beyond Anger is a detailed literary analysis of the three poems which make up Juvenal's third book of Satires (i.e. Satires 7, 8 and 9). Dr Braund pays particular attention to the satiric techniques Juvenal employs in this book, arguing that in Book III Juvenal uses a new, ironic persona, which makes his satire more indirect, subtle and double-edged than does the angry approach found in the earlier books.

Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 052144697X

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Augustine: Political Writings by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) Pdf

Collection containing thirty-five letters and sermons of St Augustine on politics, addressing essential themes in Augustine's thought.

Author : Juvenal
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Rome
ISBN : 0674996127

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Juvenal and Persius by Juvenal Pdf

The bite and wit of two of antiquity's best satirists - Persius and Juvenal are captured in this text.

Author : Peter D. Gooch
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780889208025

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Dangerous Food by Peter D. Gooch Pdf

Recognizing the social meaning of food and meals in Greco-Roman culture and, in particular, the social meaning of idol-food, is an integral part of understanding the impact of Paul’s instructions to the Christian community at Corinth regarding the consumption of idol-food. Shared meals were a central feature of social intercourse in Greco-Roman culture. Meals and food were markers of social status, and participation at meals was the main means of establishing and maintaining social relations. Participation in public rites (and sharing the meals which ensued) was a requirement of holding public office. The social consequences of refusing to eat idol-food would be extreme. Christians might not attend weddings, funerals, celebrations in honour of birthdays, or even formal banquets without encountering idol-food. In this extended reading of 1 Corinthians 8:1-11:1, Paul’s response to the Corinthian Christians’ query concerning food offered to idols, Gooch uses a social-historical approach, combining historical methods of source, literary and redaction criticism, and newer applications of anthropological and sociological methods to determine what idol-food was, and what it meant in that place at that time to eat or avoid it. In opposition to a well-entrenched scholarly consensus, Gooch claims that although Paul had abandoned purity rules concerning food, he would not abandon Judaism’s cultural and religious understanding concerning idol-food. On the basis of his reconstruction of Paul’s letter in which he urged the Corinthian Christians to avoid any food infected by non-Christian rites, Gooch argues that the Corinthians rejected Paul’s instructions to avoid facing significant social liabilities.

Author : Regina Barreca
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000579246

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Last Laughs by Regina Barreca Pdf

First published in 1988, the 19 original essays (and three "Sylvia" cartoons) included in this volume deal with the gender-specific nature of comedy. This pioneering collection observes the creation of women’s comedy from a wide range of standpoints: political, sociological, psychoanalytical, linguistic, and historical. The writers explore the role of women’s comedy in familiar and unfamiliar territory, from Austen to Weldon, from Behn to Wasserstein. The questions they raise will lead to a redefinition of the genre itself.

Author : Beno Weiss,Louis C. Pérez
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004615250

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Beginnings and Discoveries: Polydore Vergil's De inventoribus rerum by Beno Weiss,Louis C. Pérez Pdf

An unabridged translation and edition with introduction, notes and glossary. First publication of the integral text in the English language.