Critics, Compilers, and Commentators
Critics, Compilers, and Commentators

Author: James E. G. Zetzel

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 0195380517

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"To teach correct Latin and to explain the poets" were the two standard duties of Roman teachers. Not only was a command of literary Latin a prerequisite for political and social advancement, but a sense of Latin's history and importance contributed to the Romans' understanding of their own cultural identity. Put plainly, philology-the study of language and texts-was important at Rome. Critics, Compilers, and Commentators is the first comprehensive introduction to the history, forms, and texts of Roman philology. James Zetzel traces the changing role and status of Latin as revealed in the ways it was explained and taught by the Romans themselves. In addition, he provides a descriptive bibliography of hundreds of scholarly texts from antiquity, listing editions, translations, and secondary literature. Recovering a neglected but crucial area of Roman intellectual life, this book will be an essential resource for students of Roman literature and intellectual history, medievalists, and historians of education and language science.

Critics, Compilers, and Commentators
Critics, Compilers, and Commentators

Author: James E. G. Zetzel

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9780195380521

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"To teach correct Latin and to explain the poets" were the two standard duties of Roman teachers, and philology-the study of Latin language and texts-was important at Rome. Not only was a command of literary Latin a prerequisite for political and social advancement, but a sense of Latin's history and importance contributed to the Romans' sense of their larger cultural identity. In this important and original study James Zetzel traces the changing role and status of Latin as revealed in the ways it was explained and taught by the Romans themselves. Zetzel explores ideas about the origins of Latin and the nature of linguistic correctness; he provides an innovative account of the interconnections in Rome among philology, philosophy, rhetoric, law, and religion (both classical and Christian); and he charts the transformations of the Latin language and methods of instruction as the people using Latin became increasingly remote from its Roman origins: in the Greek East, in the Roman and then Vandal North Africa, Visigothic Spain, and ultimately Ireland, where a rich and exotic Christian understanding of Latin flourished in the seventh and eighth centuries. Critics, Compilers, and Commentators is the first comprehensive introduction to the history, forms, and texts of Roman philology. A great many Latin dictionaries, glossaries, commentaries, grammars, metrical handbooks, and other forms of scholarship survive from antiquity and the early middle ages, some unpublished and many of them difficult to find and identify. Zetzel provides a descriptive bibliography of hundreds of them, listing editions, translations, and secondary literature. This book recovers a neglected but crucial area of Roman intellectual life, and it will be an essential resource for students of Roman literature and intellectual history, medievalists, and historians of education and language science.

The Presence of Rome in Medieval and Early Modern Britain
The Presence of Rome in Medieval and Early Modern Britain

Author: Andrew Wallace

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-09-17

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1108853390

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This book explores the cultural and intellectual stakes of medieval and renaissance Britain's sense of itself as living in the shadow of Rome: a city whose name could designate the ancient, fallen, quintessentially human power that had conquered and colonized Britain, and also the alternately sanctified and demonized Roman Church. Wallace takes medieval texts in a range of languages (including Latin, medieval Welsh, Old English and Old French) and places them in conversation with early modern English and humanistic Latin texts (including works by Gildas, Bede, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Bacon, St. Augustine, Dante, Erasmus, Luther and Montaigne). 'The Ordinary', 'The Self', 'The Word', and 'The Dead' are taken as compass points by which individuals lived out their orientations to, and against, Rome, isolating important dimensions of Rome's enduring ability to shape and complicate the effort to come to terms with the nature of self and the structure of human community.

Goldsmith
Goldsmith

Author: William Black

Publisher: London : Macmillan

Published: 1880

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13:

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Strategic Review
Strategic Review

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13:

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... dedicated to the advancement and understanding of those principles and practices, military and political, which serve the vital security interests of the United States.

Delphi Collected Works of William Black (Illustrated)
Delphi Collected Works of William Black (Illustrated)

Author: William Black

Publisher: Delphi Classics

Published: 2022-06-09

Total Pages: 5595

ISBN-13: 1801700575

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The ‘Scottish Anthony Trollope’, William Black was a successful novelist of the latter half of the nineteenth century. He developed his own unique brand of novel, blending scenes of actual experience in travel and sport with fictitious adventures, resulting in part travel book, part novel. Few men of letters were more widely known and esteemed in literary circles at the time of his death. His works are noted for their vivid and atmospheric descriptions and their exquisite portrayal of character. This eBook presents Black’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, many rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Black’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major novels * 16 novels, with individual contents tables * Features rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare story collection available in no other collection * Includes Black’s non-fiction study of Oliver Goldsmith * Black’s autobiography, appearing here for the first time in digital print * Features a brief biography * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novels James Merle; An Autobiography (1864) In Silk Attire (1869) Mr Pisistratus Brown, M.P., in the Highlands (1871) A Daughter of Heth (1871) A Princess of Thule (1873) Madcap Violet (1876) Macleod of Dare (1878) White Wings (1880) The Beautiful Wretch, The Four MacNicols, The Pupil of Aurelius (1881) Sunrise (1881) Judith Shakespeare (1884) White Heather (1885) The New Prince Fortunatus (1890) Stand Fast Craig-Royston! (1890) Donald Ross of Heimra (1891) Wild Eelin (1898) The Short Story Collection The Magic Ink and Other Tales (1892) The Non-Fiction Goldsmith (1878) The Autobiography With the Eyes of Youth, and Other Sketches (1903) The Biography Brief Biography of William Black (1901) by Richard Garnett Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

Goldsmith
Goldsmith

Author: William Black

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-09-16

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Goldsmith" (English Men of Letters Series) by William Black. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.