Lines of Enquiry

Lines of Enquiry
Author: Niall Rudd
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2005-01-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521611862

In these studies of Latin poetry Niall Rudd demonstrates a variety of critical methods and approaches. He shows how it can be fruitful at different times to consider the historical background of a poem, its language or structure, its place in a literary tradition, the role of critical paradigms, and so on. But if no single approach has special and invariable authority this does not imply critical anarchy. Each has its own validity for different purposes, its own strengths and limitations. The reader must be versatile and sensitive to a range of possibilities, but not doctrinaire.

Roman Women

Roman Women
Author: Paul Chrystal
Publisher: Fonthill Media
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2017-05-17
Genre: History
ISBN:

A Brief History of the Roman Empire

A Brief History of the Roman Empire
Author: Stephen P. Kershaw
Publisher: Robinson
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2013-06-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1780330499

In this lively and very readable history of the Roman Empire from its establishment in 27 BC to the barbarian incursions and the fall of Rome in AD 476, Kershaw draws on a range of evidence, from Juvenal's Satires to recent archaeological finds. He examines extraordinary personalities such as Caligula and Nero and seismic events such as the conquest of Britain and the establishment of a 'New Rome' at Constantinople and the split into eastern and western empires. Along the way we encounter gladiators and charioteers, senators and slaves, fascinating women, bizarre sexual practices and grotesque acts of brutality, often seen through eyes of some of the world's greatest writers. He concludes with a brief look at how Rome lives on in the contemporary world, in politics, architecture, art and literature.

Ancient Rome in the English Novel

Ancient Rome in the English Novel
Author: Randolph Faries
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1923
Genre: American fiction
ISBN:

A fieldmouse is visited by his uncle who teaches him to work and to take the risk of dancing in the moonlight.

Historical Stories

Historical Stories
Author: Providence (R.I.). Public Library (R.I.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1894
Genre: Historical fiction
ISBN: