Cicero: Catilinarians Writing and Empire The Cosmic Monastic Estates in Edited by Andrew R. Dyck in Tacitus Viewpoint Late Antique and divided between deliberative By Dylan Sailor a study of seneca's Early Islamic Egypt speeches given in the senate (1 and 4) sailor looks at the direct contrast natural Questions By Anne Boud'hors, James Clackson, and informational speeches delivered between tacitus’ own glittering career By Gareth D. Williams Catherine Louis, and P. J. Sijpesteijn before the general public (2 and 3), and the oppositional authorial voice the catilinarians illustrate cicero's a study of seneca’s innovative this volume presents previously in his historical oeuvre, and maintains unpublished ostraca and papyri, and adroit handling of several distinct that the latter is conditioned by the meteorological treatise, in which types of rhetoric. latin text with technical coverage of natural revised and expanded editions of particular circumstances of a political previously published items alongside introduction and commentary. career under the principate. sailor argues that through phenomena is combined with ethical reflections on human nature in one stoic philosophical nine essays addressing socio-economic and religious 312pp, Cambridge University Press, 2008, Hardback, was his writing tacitus attempts to position himself within issues that impacted upon the monastic communities of £64.99 whole. the growing popularity of martyrs in contemporary egypt during late antiquity and the early Islamic period. political culture. 392pp, Oxford University Press, 2012, Hardback, was Now £9.95 £29.99 285pp, American Society of Papyrologists, 2009, Hardback, 359pp, Cambridge University Press, 2008, Hardback, was was £45.00 £69.99 Now £12.95 Now £9.95 Now £19.95 Cicero: De Oratore Horace and the The Deaths of Prosopography of Book III Dialectic of Freedom Seneca Byzantine Aphrodito Edited by David Mankin By W. R. Johnson By James Ker By Giovanni Ruffini cicero's de oratore is one of the traces the key themes in the poems, the forced suicide of seneca is this volume, which replaces Girgis’s masterpieces of latin prose. this suchas horace's relationship with his one of the most tortured-and outdated prosopography from 1938, edition of book III is the first since father and with rome his adoptive most revisited-death scenes from is an annotated record of every 1893 to provide a latin text and full city, and the conflicts between classical antiquity. James ker offers a person attested in the byzantine- introduction and commentary in urban vitality and rustic serenity and comprehensive analysis of the scene, era papyri from the middle egyptian english. between inner freedom and outer situating it in the roman imagination village of aphrodito. Its papyri make 358pp, Cambridge University Press, 2011, Paperback, was freedom. and tracing its many subsequent interpretations. at the aphrodito the best attested village for this time period £27.99 172pp, Cornell University Press, 1993, Hardback, was book's centre is an exploration of seneca's own prolific with implications for the study of rural life throughout £38.50 writings about death. late antiquity. Now £7.95 432pp, Oxford University Press, 2013, Paperback, was 624pp, American Society of Papyrologists, 2011, Hardback, Now £9.95 £22.99 was £59.00 Now £9.95 Now £29.95 Pliny's Women Acts of Silence Recognizing Persius Archaeology of the By Jaqueline Carlon civil war, tyranny and suicide By Kenneth J. 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Following by mobilizing friends and family to of poet and patron.this is a refreshing criticism, generation. an introduction to the study’s concepts, each chapter spread the word from household to household, they uncovering the unstable basis of tibullan elegy. 400pp, Georg Olms Verlag, 2005, Paperback, was £45.00 concentrates on specific poems with extracts in latin created a wave of change not unlike modern ‘viral’ 328pp, Cambridge University Press, 1998, Hardback, was and in english translation. marketing. £50.00 Now £7.95 244pp, University of California Press, 2001, Paperback, was 368pp, Atlantic Books, 2014, Paperback, was £9.99 £18.95 Now £12.95 Now £4.95 Now £6.95 The Art of Pliny's Elegiac Passion A Sixth-Century Tax Augustine Letters Jealousy in roman love elegy Register from the the confessions By Illaria Marchesi By Ruth Rothaus Caston Hermopolite Nome By Gillian Clark this study looks at the strategies this study begins by examining By J. G. Keenan and Edited the avowed approach of this adopted by Pliny to attempt to ensure the differences between the by Roger S. Bagnall, James G. introductory book is to `historicise' that his letters could not only be elegiac treatment of love and that Keenan and Leslie MacCoull - to set augustine's own experiences published and continue to be read of philosophy, whether stoic or of religion, philosophy and christian but would achieve canonical literary this volume publishes the most epicurean. ruth caston uses the main complete documentary codex from faith against the long-standing political, status. the collection of letters is chapters to address the depiction of cultural and religious traditions of the carefully structured to be able to be profitably read 6th-century egypt which details jealousy in the love relationship and explores in detail money taxes paid by landowners at the village of classical world. cover to cover, and Ilaria Marchiesi argues that a central the role of the senses, the role of readers-both those 100pp, Bristol Phoenix Press, 2004, Paperback, was £12.99 part of this structuring is the inclusion of allusions from temseu skordon and the hamlet topos demeou in the internal and external to the poems-, and the use of hermopolite nome. other classical authors, already established parts of the violence as a response to jealousy. Now £4.95 canon. 230pp, American Society of Papyrologists, 2011, Hardback, 176pp, Oxford University Press, 2012, Hardback, was was £40.00 278pp, Cambridge University Press, 2008, Hardback, was £47.99 £69.00 Now £19.95 Now £14.95 Now £19.95 The Shadow of Function of Humour It is Our Father Who Unclassical Callimachus in Roman Verse Writes Traditions studies in the reception of Satire orders from the Monastery Volume I, alternatives to the hellenistic poetry at rome laughing and lying of apollo at bawit classical Past in late antiquity By Richard Hunter By Maria Plaza By S. J. Clackson By Michael Stuart Williams and Edited by Christopher Kelly, Richard through a series of critical readings Maria Plaza analyses the function editions of ninety-one papyri this book builds a picture of the of humour in horace, Persius, and associated with the day-to-day Flower and Michael Williams roman reaction to, and adoption of, Juvenal. she argues that, while the administration of the Monastery From the chronological tables of the Greek poetry of the last three roman satirist needs humour for his of apollo at bawit during the 8th eusebius of caesarea to the byzantine pre-christian centuries. the singularity of the poetry of work's aesthetic merit, his proposed message suffers century, seventy-eight of which are published for the first liturgy, eight papers explore how the persistence, catullus and Virgil, of horace and the elegists, emerges from the ambivalence that humour brings with it.