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Author | : John T. Ramsey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This unique collaboration between a classicist and physicist at the University of Illinois at Chicago is the first work to combine the evidence from both China and Rome for the spectacular daylight comet of 44 BC, perhaps the most famous comet in antiquity. This investigation, which alsoexamines allusions to this comet in astrological literature from later antiquity, sheds new light on the significance of the comet as a powerful symbol in the political propaganda that launched Augustus' career.
Author | : Michael Koortbojian |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2013-10-31 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0521192153 |
This book examines the newly institutionalized divinization of Caesar and Augustus at the advent of the Roman empire.
Author | : Nandini B. Pandey |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2018-10-11 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1108422659 |
Explores the dynamic interactions among Latin poets, artists, and audiences in constructing and critiquing imperial power in Augustan Rome.
Author | : J. S Richardson |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2012-03-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0748655336 |
Centring on the reign of the emperor Augustus, volume four is pivotal to the series, tracing of the changing shape of the entity that was ancient Rome through its political, cultural and economic history.
Author | : Emma Gee |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2000-03-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521651875 |
The astronomical material in Ovid's Fasti has been overlooked. It is this material which is the subject of this book.
Author | : Miriam Griffin |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 555 |
Release | : 2015-07-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1119062357 |
A Companion to Julius Caesar comprises 30 essays from leading scholars examining the life and after life of this great polarizing figure. Explores Caesar from a variety of perspectives: military genius, ruthless tyrant, brilliant politician, first class orator, sophisticated man of letters, and more Utilizes Caesar’s own extant writings Examines the viewpoints of Caesar’s contemporaries and explores Caesar’s portrayals by artists and writers through the ages
Author | : Anne-Marie Lewis |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 561 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Astrology and politics |
ISBN | : 0197599648 |
"Celestial Inclinations: A Life of Augustus provides a new perspective on the life and career of the first Roman emperor Augustus (63 B.C.-A.D. 14) and presents the case that Augustus used his knowledge of the celestial sphere in various ways to confirm for himself and convey to others that the heavens supported his activities on earth and his inevitable greatness. The book is based on fresh assessments of relevant ancient historical, literary, astronomical, astrological, and artistic sources for the years prior to and during the life of Augustus. The book combines these sources with astronomical sky maps and astrological diagrams to offer fresh interpretations of critical events in the life of Augustus at a time when the celestial sphere had come to play an important cultural and political role. Topics include the identification of the celestial object that appeared at the ludi in honor of Caesar in 44 B.C.; the Battle of Actium; the iconography of the Tellus Relief Panel on the Ara Pacis Augustae; the Ludi Saeculares; Augustus' major building projects in Rome; and Augustus' interactions with major figures of the period such as Cicero, Caesar, Agrippa, and Antonius"--
Author | : Jon C. R. Hall |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2009-05-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195329066 |
This is a fresh examination of the letters exchanged between Cicero and his correspondents, during the final decades of the Roman Republic. Drawing upon sociolinguistic theories of politeness, it explores the distinctive conventions of epistolary courtesy that shaped formal interaction among men of the Roman elite.
Author | : Michael Nylan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 671 |
Release | : 2010-11-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521852978 |
Shows how recent archaeological discoveries have enriched our perception of the cultural history of China in the Classical era.
Author | : Gareth D. Williams |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2012-04-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199742510 |
Seneca's Natural Questions is an eight-book disquisition on the nature of meteorological phenomena, ranging inter alia from rainbows to earthquakes, from comets to the winds, from the causes of snow and hail to the reasons why the Nile floods in summer. Much of this material had been treated in the earlier Greco-Roman meteorological tradition, but what notoriously sets Seneca's writing apart is his insertion of extended moralizing sections within his technical discourse. How, if at all, are these outbursts against the luxury and vice that are apparently rampant in Seneca's first-century CE Rome to be reconciled with his main meteorological agenda? In grappling with this familiar question, The Cosmic Viewpoint argues that Seneca is no blinkered or arid meteorological investigator, but a creative explorer into nature's workings who offers a highly idiosyncratic blend of physico-moral investigation across his eight books. At one level, his inquiry into nature impinges on human conduct and morality in its implicit propagation of the familiar Stoic ideal of living in accordance with nature: the moral deviants whom Seneca condemns in the course of the work offer egregious examples of living contrary to nature's balanced way. At a deeper level, however, The Cosmic Viewpoint stresses the literary qualities and complexities that are essential to Seneca's literary art of science: his technical enquiries initiate a form of engagement with nature which distances the reader from the ordinary involvements and fragmentations of everyday life, instead centering our existence in the cosmic whole. From a figurative standpoint, Seneca's meteorological theme raises our gaze from a terrestrial level of existence to a more intuitive plane where literal vision gives way to 'higher' conjecture and intuition: in striving to understand meteorological phenomena, we progress in an elevating direction - a conceptual climb that renders the Natural Questions no mere store of technical learning, but a work that actively promotes a change of perspective in its readership.