Автор: Fane-Saunders Название: Pliny the Elder and the Emergence of Renaissance Architecture ISBN: 1107079861 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107079861 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 15191.00 р. 21701.00-30% Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) Описание: The Naturalis historia by Pliny the Elder, written in the first century CE, provided Renaissance scholars, artists and architects with details of ancient architectural practice and long-lost architectural wonders. This book is the first to demonstrate the extent of Pliny`s contribution to Italian Renaissance architecture.
Автор: Laehn Название: Pliny?s Defense of Empire ISBN: 1138943010 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138943018 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6430.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Despite perennial interest in Pliny the Elder's Natural History, the world's first encyclopedia, as a record of the prodigious, the quotidian, and the useful in Rome in the first century AD, for centuries Pliny has been derided as little more than an inept compiler of facts and marvels intellectually incapable of formulating a cogent argument supported through the selective marshaling of his materials.
In Pliny's Defense of Empire, Laehn offers a radical reinterpretation of the architecture of Pliny's encyclopedia, exposing fundamental errors in the inherited understanding of the text traceable to its initial reception in ancient Rome. Recognition of the text's true structure reveals that Pliny's encyclopedia is in fact a first-rate work of political philosophy constituting an apology for Roman imperial expansionism grounded in a sophisticated account of human nature. Correcting the accreted errors and prejudices of nearly 2,000 years of faulty Plinian scholarship, Laehn critically examines one of the most persuasive apologies for the Roman Empire ever written and succeeds in rehabilitating the Elder Pliny as one of the world's greatest political thinkers.
An excellent resource and a must read for scholars in political theory, philosophy, and classical studies.
Pliny the Elder's Natural History is a vast encyclopaedia, surveying natural phenomena from cosmology to biology, medicine to magic. Direct observation, informed speculation and common knowledge are combined to present a key snapshot of ancient thought and the Romans' perspective on the world around them.
Book VII of The Natural History provides a detailed examination of the human animal and is crucial to understanding the work as a whole. In Pliny's eyes, mankind 'for whose sake nature was created', represents the basis for which the natural world was founded and structured. As a result, the book provides valuable insight into the extraordinary complex of ideas and beliefs that were current in Pliny's era. One of the most interesting transitions of subject in The Natural History is that from man to animals (between Books VII and VIII) and for this reason the section on elephants at the beginning of Book VIII is included here, to show how Pliny moves on to his account of the animal he considers 'nearest to the human disposition'. This edition provides the full Latin text accompanied by commentary notes that provide linguistic help and explanations, plus vocabulary lists of Latin terms and an index of proper names. The in-depth introduction provides valuable details about the work's historical, scientific and literary context, as well as an overview of the work's legacy and reception.
Описание: Using unpublished manuscript writings, this book reinterprets material, social, literary, philosophical and religious contexts of women`s letter-writing in the long 18th century. It shows how letter-writing functions as a form of literary manuscript exchange and argues for manuscript circulation as a method of engaging with the republic of letters.
Автор: Shelton Название: The Women of Pliny`s Letters ISBN: 0415374286 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415374286 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 21437.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The large collection of letters by Pliny the Younger includes a number of women among its addressees, and Pliny also gives us plentiful information about many women of his acquaintance. This book brings together this material to build up a portrait of a peer-group of women in their social setting.
Автор: Carlon Название: Pliny`s Women ISBN: 1107647142 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107647145 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6494.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Pliny`s Women provides a comprehensive consideration of the many women who appear in the letters of Pliny the Younger. Jacqueline Carlon shows how important women were to Pliny`s reputation and more generally to any Roman man`s self-representation in the late first century.
Автор: Rex Winsbury Название: Pliny the Younger: A Life in Roman Letters ISBN: 1472514580 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472514585 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 20592.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Pliny the Younger who lived c. 100 AD, left a large collection of letters, thanks to which we know him better than almost any other Roman. He is best known as witness to the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 that destroyed Pompeii, and for his dealings with the early Christians when a regional governor. He was not an emperor or general, but a famous lawyer of his time specialising in private finance and later a senior state official specialising in public finance.
His life straddled both a 'bad'; emperor (Domitian) and a 'good'; emperor (Trajan), so his life and letters are relevant to perennial political questions like how an honourable man could serve an absolute autocracy such as Rome, and how justice could live alongside power. His letters also give a unique insight into social, literary and domestic life among the wealthy upper classes of the empire. He knew most of the famous writers of his time, and wrote love letters to his wife. But there are serious controversies about how honest and truthful a man he was - did he use his letters to rewrite history (his own history) and cover up questionable aspects of his career?
This general biographical account of Pliny is the first of its kind and covers all aspects of his life in a systematic way. This accessible title tackles key issues including his political anxieties and issues, his relationship with women and his literary style in a roughly chronological order. It covers his life as a lawyer, both in private practice and in state prosecutions, his literary circle, his career in state office and his working relationships with two very different emperors, his background, his property and his family life.
Автор: Pliny the Younger, Melmoth William Название: The Letters of the Younger Pliny ISBN: 1731702892 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781731702890 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 4449.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Pliny the Younger, Melmoth William Название: The Letters of the Younger Pliny ISBN: 1731702906 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781731702906 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2892.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Pliny the Younger Название: Pliny the Younger: `Epistles` Book II ISBN: 0521187273 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521187275 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4435.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This edition presents the Latin text of Epistles II together with a full introduction and commentary for the first time in over a century. With clear linguistic explanations and full literary analysis, it invites students, teachers and scholars to a fresh appreciation of Pliny`s lettered art.
Автор: Roche Название: Pliny`s Praise ISBN: 1107526507 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107526501 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Pliny`s Panegyricus is one of our best sources for the Emperor Trajan and a vital source of information on senatorial views of the emperor in the early Empire. This book contextualises this very important but almost completely neglected speech for scholars and students of Roman history, literature and rhetoric.
Описание: This landmark study of Latin prose intertextuality radically reinterprets Pliny`s Epistles as a brilliant transformation of Quintilian`s Institutio oratoria and a unique reply to Tacitus` Dialogus. Indispensable to readers of imperial Latin prose, the book is also essential reading for all students of imitation in Roman literature and culture.
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