This volume shifts perspective to the everyday aspects of ancient rhetoric-its teaching, exercises, and daily life-and concentrates on persons less visible in narratives of rhetoric's history: teachers, slaves and freedmen, speech performers, political dissidents, mavericks, and dropouts.
Using Roman literary and legal sources, this book assesses Roman penal policy through an in-depth examination of six high-profile criminal cases, ranging from the Bacchanalian trials in 186 BC to the trials for treason and magic in the fourth century.
In parallel to the development of democracy, the Athenians of the Classical period established a series of sophisticated economic institutions for the time through which they developed a maritime and commercially oriented economy.
In parallel to the development of democracy, the Athenians of the Classical period established a series of sophisticated economic institutions for the time through which they developed a maritime and commercially oriented economy.
David Price Williams is a well-known Middle Eastern archaeologist and 'An Ancient Land: Genesis of an archaeologist' is an account of his work in the Holy Land, especially about his four-year multi-disciplinary expedition to find for the first time the effects of climatic change on human cultural and physical evolution.
Le banquet est un thème riche tant sur le plan religieux, anthropologique et sociologique que philosophique, littéraire et iconographique ; il est à la fois lieu de sociabilité, de réflexion, de justice ou d'antagonisme, de manifestation et de contestation du pouvoir.
Sun Tzu - Die Kunst des KriegesDie Weisheiten der chinesischen Kriegskunst, verfasst von den genialen Generälen Sun Tzu und Wu Tzu vor über 2000 Jahren.
What made Virgil special was the artisanship behind his work (which was political, but gracefully and passionately evoked the soul) and the way in which he shaped his borrowed material to his and Augustus's and Rome's purposes.