Télécharger le livre :  Poppaea Sabina
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Like many famous figures from antiquity, we must work through layers of fantasy in order to uncover the life of Poppaea Sabina (c. 30-65 CE). As the ancient sources tell it, Poppaea pushed the young emperor Nero to murder his mother, execute his wife Octavia, marry her...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-06-06

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Télécharger le livre :  Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 9
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Book 9 of Silius Italicus' first-century Latin epic poem Punica begins the narrative of the Battle of Cannae (August 216 BC). This book is an integral part of the epic's three-book movement that narrates one of the largest battles in Roman history. It opens with the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-07-21

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Télécharger le livre :  Ethics, Identity, and Community in Later Roman Declamation
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Rhetorical training was the central component of an elite Roman man's education, and declamations--imaginary courtroom speeches in the character of a fictional or historical individual--were the most advanced exercises in the standard rhetorical curriculum. The Major...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2013-07-29

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