Lives of Famous Romans
Author | : Olivia E. Coolidge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Rome |
ISBN | : 9780977900060 |
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Author | : Olivia E. Coolidge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Rome |
ISBN | : 9780977900060 |
Author | : Olivia Coolidge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1992-05-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780756779832 |
The lives of 12 famous Romans are vividly portrayed here in biographical sketches set firmly in the context of their times. Included are Cicero, Caesar, Augustus, Vergil and Horace, Nero and Seneca, Trajan, Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius, Diocletian, and Constantine. Long known for her many biographies and histories, British historian and author Olivia Coolidge is a scrupulous researcher who has breathed life into dry texts and brought to ancient history the flesh and blood that will make it real for young people today. Here, each profile of a famous Roman resonates and changes when juxtaposed with the others so we see ancient Roman history from several different angles, and thereby receive a richly detailed picture. Each Roman is depicted in a line drawing.
Author | : Alberto Angela |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
This voyage of exploration chronicles twenty-four hours in the life of a Roman patrician, beginning at dawn on an ordinary day in the year 115 A.D., with Imperial Rome at the height of its power.
Author | : Lesley Adkins |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0816074828 |
Describes the people, places, and events of Ancient Rome, describing travel, trade, language, religion, economy, industry and more, from the days of the Republic through the High Empire period and beyond.
Author | : Plutarch |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 2101 |
Release | : 2012-12-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1625584458 |
Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving Parallel Lives, contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired, single lives. It is a work of considerable importance, not only as a source of information about the individuals biographized, but also about the times in which they lived.
Author | : Plutarch |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 1999-10-07 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0191605085 |
Marcus Cato Sulla Aemilius Paullus Pompey The Gracchi Marius Julius Caesar Anthony 'I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I receive and welcome each of them in turn as my guest.' In the eight lives of this collection Plutarch introduces the reader to the major figures and periods of classical Rome. He portrays virtues to be emulated and vices to be avoided, but his purpose is also implicitly to educate and warn those in his own day who wielded power. In prose that is rich, elegant and sprinkled with learned references, he explores with an extraordinary degree of insight the interplay of character and political action. While drawing chiefly on historical sources, he brings to biography a natural story-teller's ear for a good anecdote. Throughout the ages Plutarch's Lives have been valued for their historical value and their charm. This new translation will introduce new generations to his urbane erudition. The most comprehensive selection available, it is accompanied by a lucid introduction, explanatory notes, bibliographies, maps and indexes. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author | : Robert Knapp |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2011-10-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674063287 |
What survives from the Roman Empire is largely the words and lives of the rich and powerful: emperors, philosophers, senators. Yet the privilege and decadence often associated with the Roman elite was underpinned by the toils and tribulations of the common citizens. Here, the eminent historian Robert Knapp brings those invisible inhabitants of Rome and its vast empire to light. He seeks out the ordinary folk—laboring men, housewives, prostitutes, freedmen, slaves, soldiers, and gladiators—who formed the backbone of the ancient Roman world, and the outlaws and pirates who lay beyond it. He finds their traces in the nooks and crannies of the histories, treatises, plays, and poetry created by the elite. Everyday people come alive through original sources as varied as graffiti, incantations, magical texts, proverbs, fables, astrological writings, and even the New Testament. Knapp offers a glimpse into a world far removed from our own, but one that resonates through history. Invisible Romans allows us to see how Romans sought on a daily basis to survive and thrive under the afflictions of disease, war, and violence, and to control their fates before powers that variously oppressed and ignored them.
Author | : Plutarch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1008 |
Release | : 2015-07-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781781395134 |
The complete text of Clough's edition of Plutarch's Lives; containing fifty lives and eighteen comparisons.
Author | : John Percy Vyvian Dacre Balsdon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Rome |
ISBN | : |