Octavia
Octavia

Author: Rolando Ferri

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-12-18

Total Pages: 483

ISBN-13: 1139440519

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This 2003 book is a full-length study of Octauia, the only complete Roman drama of an historical subject, or fabula praetexta. The play deals with Nero's divorce from the princess Octavia, Claudius' daughter by Valeria Messalina, and with his subsequent marriage to Poppaea Sabina. Professor Ferri presents a critical edition of the text based on a fresh re-examination of the relevant manuscripts and provides a full discussion of textual issues. In the Introduction he argues that the play, wrongly ascribed to Seneca in our MSS, was composed in the late Flavian period, and that the author relied on pre-existing historical accounts written after the death of Nero. He also discusses in detail the style and language of the play, strongly influenced by Senecan tragedy, its relationship to the other plays of the Senecan corpus, and particularly to Hercules Oetaeus, its stagecraft and post-Classical dramatic conventions, and the author's political position.

Roman Liturgy and Frankish Creativity
Roman Liturgy and Frankish Creativity

Author: Arthur Westwell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-12-31

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1009360469

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This incisive, in-depth study unearths the significance of a neglected group of early medieval manuscripts, those which transmit the Ordines Romani. These texts present detailed scripts for Christian ceremonies that narrate the gestures, motions, actions and settings of ritual performance, with particular orientation to the Roman church. While they are usually understood as liturgical, and thus lacking any particular creative flair, Arthur Westwell here foregrounds their manuscript permutations in order to reveal their extraordinary dynamism. He reflects on how the Carolingian Church undertook to improve liturgical practice and understanding, questioning the accepted idea of a “reform” aimed at uniformity led by the monarch. Through these manuscripts, Westwell reveals a diversity of motivations in the recording of Roman liturgy and demonstrates the remarkable sophistication of Carolingian manuscript compilers.

Ordines Coronationis Franciae, Volume 1
Ordines Coronationis Franciae, Volume 1

Author: Richard A. Jackson

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2017-01-30

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1512821608

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The ordines coronationis are essentially the scripts for the coronation of Frankish and French sovereigns. Combining detailed religious, ceremonial, and political material, they are an extraordinarily important source for the study of individual rulers or dynasties, as well as for the study of kingship, queenship, and the evolution of political institutions. Complete in two volumes, Richard A. Jackson's is the first full edition of these texts, including all the ordines from the early thirteenth century through the end of the fifteenth century, a period during which the texts shift from Latin to the vernacular, and the institutions of kingship become distinctively French.

Wings of the Doves
Wings of the Doves

Author: Elena Lombardi

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 0773539719

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The tragic love of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta - a classic story of passion and death - revisited through the lenses of literature, philosophy, and theology.

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology

Author: Harvard

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9780674379428

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This volume of twenty-two articles offers: Jared S. Klein, "Some Indo-European Systems of Conjunction: Rigveda, Old Persian, Homer"; Ramond Westbrook, "The Trial Scene in the Iliad"; Thomas K. Hubbard, "Remaking Myth and Rewriting History: Cult Tradition in Pindar's Ninth Nemean"; William F. Wyatt, Jr., "The Root of Parmenides"; Joe Park Poe, "Entrance-Announcements and Entrance-Speeches in Greek Tragedy"; Edward M. Harris, "Pericles' Praise of Athenian Democracy: Thucydides 2.37.1"; Simon Hornblower, "The Religious Dimension to the Peloponnesian War, or, What Thucydides Does Not Tell Us"; Michael Haslam, "Hidden Signs: Aratus Diosemeiai 46ff., Vergil Georgics 1.424ff."; Ralph M. Rosen, "Mixing of Genres and Literary Program in Herodas 8"; Lowell Edmunds, "Lucilius 730M: A Scale of Power"; Cynthia Damon, "Sex, Cloelius, Scriba"; Brent Vine, "On the "Missing" Fourth Stanza of Catullus 51"; Henri J. W. Wijsman, "Female Power in Georgics 3. 269/270"; Garth Tissol, "An Allusion to Callimachus' Aetia 3 in Vergil's Aeneid 11"; A. S. Hollis, "Hellenistic Colouring in Virgil's Aeneid"; G. P. Goold, "Paralipomena Propertiana"; Christina S. Kraus, "How (Not?) to End a Sentence: The Problem of -que"; R. J. Tarrant, "Nights at the Copa: Observations on Language and Date"; J. Linderski, "Aes Olet: Petronius 50.7 and Martial 9.59.11"; Ian Rutherford, "Inverting the Canon: Hermogenes on Literature"; Dana R. Miller, "Found: A Folio of the Lost Full Commentary of John Chrysostom on Jeremiah"; and Otto Skutsch, "Recollection of Scholars I Have Known."

Shaping a Monastic Identity
Shaping a Monastic Identity

Author: Susan Boynton

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780801443817

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During the eleventh and early twelfth centuries, the imperial abbey of Farfa was one of the most powerful institutions on the Italian peninsula. In this period many of the lands of central Italy fell under its sway, and it enjoyed the protection of the emperor until the 1120s, when it passed gradually into the control of the papacy. At the same time, the monastery was an influential religious center, and the monks of Farfa filled their days with the celebration of the liturgy through prayers, processions, sermons, chants, and hymns.Susan Boynton, a historian of medieval music, addresses several of the major themes of present-day medieval historiography through a close study of the liturgical practices of the abbey of Farfa. Boynton's findings are a striking demonstration of the local nature of liturgical practices in the centuries before church ritual was controlled and codified by the papacy. Boynton shows that the liturgy was highly flexible, continually adapting to the monastery's changing circumstances. The monks regularly modified traditional forms to reflect new realities, often in the service of Farfa's power and prestige. Equally fascinating is Boynton's examination of the process by which Farfa, like other monasteries, cathedral chapters, and royal houses, constantly rewrote its history--particularly the stories of its founding--as part of the continuous negotiation of power that was central to medieval politics and culture.

Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)
Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)

Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero

Publisher: Delphi Classics

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 13885

ISBN-13:

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Cicero's Rome's greatest orator, Marcus Tullius Cicero was a renowned philosopher and political theorist whose influence upon the history of European literature has been immense. For the first time in digital publishing history, readers can now enjoy Cicero’s complete works in English and Latin on their eReaders, with beautiful illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Cicero's life and works * Features the complete works of Cicero, in both English translation and the original Latin * Concise introductions to the orations, treatises and other works * The complete speeches, with rare fragments, arranged in precise chronological order * Includes many translations previously appearing in Loeb Classical Library editions of Cicero’s works * Excellent formatting of the texts * Easily locate the orations or treatises you want to read with individual contents tables * Includes rare fragments of Cicero's epic poem, first time in digital print * Many rare treatises appearing here for the first time in digital print * Features four biographies – immerse yourself in Cicero's ancient world! * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: Orations PRO QUINCTIO PRO ROSCIO AMERINO PRO Q. ROSCIO COMOEDO PRO TULLIO DIVINATIO IN CAECILIUM IN VERREM PRO FONTEIO PRO CAECINA PRO LEGE MANILIA PRO CLUENTIO IN TOGA CANDIDA PRO RABIRIO PERDUELLIONIS REO PRO MURENA IN CATILINAM I-IV DE LEGE AGRARIA CONTRA RULLUM PRO SULLA PRO ARCHIA POETA) PRO FLACCO POST REDITUM IN SENATU POST REDITUM IN QUIRITES DE HARUSPICUM RESPONSIS DE DOMO SUA PRO SESTIO PRO CAELIO PRO BALBO IN VATINIUM TESTEM DE PROVINCIIS CONSULARIBUS IN PISONEM PRO RABIRIO POSTUMO PRO PLANCIO PRO MILONE PRO REGE DEIOTARO PRO MARCELLO PRO LIGARIO PHILIPPICAE FRAGMENTS OF SPEECHES Rhetorical and Political Treatises DE INVENTIONE (About the Composition of Arguments) DE ORATORE AD QUINTUM FRATREM LIBRI TRES (On the Orator) DE PARTITIONIBUS ORATORIAE (About the Subdivisions of Oratory) DE OPTIMO GENERE ORATORUM (About the Best Kind of Orators) DE RE PUBLICA (On the Republic) BRUTUS (Short History of Orators) ORATOR AD M. BRUTUM (About the Orator) TOPICA (Topics of Argumentation) DE LEGIBUS (On the Laws) Philosophical Treatises PARADOXA STOICORUM (Stoic Paradoxes) ACADEMICA (The Academics) DE FINIBUS BONORUM ET MALORUM (About the Ends of Goods and Evils) TUSCULANAE QUAESTIONES (Tusculum Disputations) DE NATURA DEORUM (On the Nature of the Gods) DE DIVINATIONE (On Divination) DE FATO (On Fate) CATO MAIOR DE SENECTUTE (On Old Age) LAELIUS DE AMICITIA (On Friendship) DE OFFICIIS (On Duties) Letters EPISTULAE AD ATTICUM (Letters to Atticus) EPISTULAE AD QUINTUM FRATREM (Letters to his brother Quintus) EPISTULAE AD BRUTUM (Letters to Brutus) EPISTULAE AD FAMILIARES (Letters to his friends) Poetry DE CONSULATU SUO (On Cicero’s Consulship) Spurious Works RHETORICA AD HERENNIUM (To the Tribune Publius Sulpicius Rufus) COMMENTARIOLUM PETITIONIS (Essay on Running for Consul) The Latin Texts LIST OF LATIN TEXTS The Biographies CICERO by Plutarch LIFE OF CICERO by Anthony Trollope CICERO by W. Lucas Collins ROMAN LIFE IN THE DAYS OF CICERO by Alfred John Church Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles

Astronomicon: Volume 2, Liber Secundus
Astronomicon: Volume 2, Liber Secundus

Author: M. Manilius

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-11-18

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1107648084

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This volume contains the Latin text of the second book of Manilius, first published in 1912 and then reissued in a second edition in 1937.