Cicero, "Philippics" 3-9
Cicero,

Author: Gesine Manuwald

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2012-02-14

Total Pages: 1180

ISBN-13: 3110920476

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The Philippics form the climax of Cicero’s rhetorical achievement and political activity. Besides, these fourteen speeches are an important testimony to the critical final phase of the Roman Republic. Yet for a long time they have received little scholarly attention. This two-volume edition now provides a comprehensive scholarly commentary on Philippics 3-9, seven central speeches of the corpus. Full annotations explain the speeches in terms of linguistic, literary and historical issues (vol. 2); they are based on a revised Latin text with a facing translation into English as well as a detailed introduction dealing with problems relevant to the whole corpus; a bibliography and indices complete the edition (vol. 1). Besides a running commentary on each speech, the study shows these orations to be rhetorical constructs in a historical conflict; hence particular emphasis is placed on an analysis of Cicero’s rhetorical techniques and political strategies. The format of the commentary is also intended to present scholarly information to a wide and diverse readership.

Rank and Participation in the Republican Senate
Rank and Participation in the Republican Senate

Author: Francis X. Ryan

Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9783515070935

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This work examines the status, privileges, and functions of each division of the republican Roman senate: the consular grade (especially the principes senatus) and the junior senators (especially the tribunician and quaestorian grades). The author's analysis focuses on the level of participation in senate debates by each rank of senator.

Reclaiming Rome: Cardinals in the Fifteenth Century
Reclaiming Rome: Cardinals in the Fifteenth Century

Author: Carol Mary Richardson

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2009-03-25

Total Pages: 552

ISBN-13: 9047425154

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The fifteenth century was a critical juncture for the College of Cardinals. They were accused of prolonging the exile in Avignon and causing the schism. At the councils at the beginning of the period their very existence was questioned. They rebuilt their relationship with the popes by playing a fundamental part in reclaiming Rome when the papacy returned to its city in 1420. Because their careers were usually much longer than that of an individual pope, the cardinals combined to form a much more effective force for restoring Rome. In this book, shifting focus from the popes to the cardinals sheds new light on a relatively unknown period for Renaissance art history and the history of Rome. Dr. Carol M. Richardson has been awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize (2008) in the field of History of Arts.

Cretan Women
Cretan Women

Author: Rebecca Armstrong

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2006-02-23

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 0199284032

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Rebecca Armstrong investigates the myths of three Cretan women - King Minos' wife, Pasiphae, and their daughters Ariadne and Phaedra - as they appear in Latin poetry of the late Republic and early Empire. She offers detailed readings of the most prominent treatments of the stories, alongside a thematic investigation of the ideas of memory, wildness, and morality which recur so prominently in the tales.

Hugo Grotius, Ordinum Hollandiae ac Westfrisiae pietas (1613)
Hugo Grotius, Ordinum Hollandiae ac Westfrisiae pietas (1613)

Author: Edwin Rabbie

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-12-06

Total Pages: 736

ISBN-13: 9004477276

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This volume contains Hugo Grotius' first work in the field of Church politics, orginally published in 1613. The book was written to defend the policy of the States of Holland, which was being attacked by the orthodox Calvinistic party in the Netherlands. It was written with an eye to foreign Dutch allies, especially King James I. Grotius' Latin text is here edited critically for the first time and provided with an introduction, an English translation and an extensive commentary. In several appendixes, various texts that are important for the background and the reception of the book are printed, many of them for the first time. Ordinum Pietas is one of the key texts for the knowledge of the religious disputes in the Netherlands during the Twelve Years' Truce (1609-1621).

The statesman in Plutarch&s works. 2. “The” statesman in Plutarch&s Greek and Roman "Lives"
The statesman in Plutarch&s works. 2. “The” statesman in Plutarch&s Greek and Roman

Author: Lukas De Blois

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9004138080

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This volume presents the second half of the proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of the International Plutarch Society (2002). The selected papers are divided by theme in sections concentrating on statesmen and statesmanship in Plutarch's Greek and Roman Lives. The volume bears witness to the ongoing, wide-ranging interest in Plutarch's biographies.