Faunus and the Fauns in Latin Literature of the Republic and Early
... placed on the threshold between the rural and urban spheres as a mediator between nature and culture. Although Horace’s Odes contain a relatively small number of references in comparison to Virgil, we will see that their importance cannot be discounted as Faunus is clearly an important mediator betw ...
... placed on the threshold between the rural and urban spheres as a mediator between nature and culture. Although Horace’s Odes contain a relatively small number of references in comparison to Virgil, we will see that their importance cannot be discounted as Faunus is clearly an important mediator betw ...
ARRIAN OF NICOMEDIA: GRECO
... hundred Amazon women by stating that neither Aristoboulos nor Ptolemy recorded such a presentation. Arrian continued by stating that Xenophon would surely have mentioned the Amazons had they still been in existence at the time of Alexander.11 Arrian, the Roman, certainly held Xenophon, the Greek, in ...
... hundred Amazon women by stating that neither Aristoboulos nor Ptolemy recorded such a presentation. Arrian continued by stating that Xenophon would surely have mentioned the Amazons had they still been in existence at the time of Alexander.11 Arrian, the Roman, certainly held Xenophon, the Greek, in ...
File - HARVARD CLASSICS CLUB
... 1. Who am I? I was born to Leda after she was seduced by Zeus in the form of a swan. After hundreds of suitors tried to win my hand in marriage, I eventually chose Menelaus as my husband. My abduction sparked the Trojan War and it is said that my face launched a thousand ships. ...
... 1. Who am I? I was born to Leda after she was seduced by Zeus in the form of a swan. After hundreds of suitors tried to win my hand in marriage, I eventually chose Menelaus as my husband. My abduction sparked the Trojan War and it is said that my face launched a thousand ships. ...
Virgil`s Choice of Aeneas in the Light of His Purpose in Writing the
... I were a child, seeing I know well of myself to utter taunts and withal speech that is seemly. I declare that I am the son of the great hearted Anchises, and my mother is Aphroditeo Glib is the tongue of mortals, and words there be therein many and manifold, and of speech the range is wide on this s ...
... I were a child, seeing I know well of myself to utter taunts and withal speech that is seemly. I declare that I am the son of the great hearted Anchises, and my mother is Aphroditeo Glib is the tongue of mortals, and words there be therein many and manifold, and of speech the range is wide on this s ...
2014 Certamen All Rounds
... 10. Who at noon of his first day on earth, stepped outside of the cave he was born in, to encounter a tortoise which he promptly killed and invented the lyre out of it’s shell? HERMES BONUS: Bored of the music, Hermes departed the cave again only to discover a herd of whose cattle, which he immediat ...
... 10. Who at noon of his first day on earth, stepped outside of the cave he was born in, to encounter a tortoise which he promptly killed and invented the lyre out of it’s shell? HERMES BONUS: Bored of the music, Hermes departed the cave again only to discover a herd of whose cattle, which he immediat ...
Chapter Certamen Packet - Indiana Junior Classical League
... Gods and goddesses, heroes and heroines, Greek prehistory (the Trojan War, city foundation legends, etc.), Roman prehistory (Aeneas and his descendants through Romulus and Remus). ...
... Gods and goddesses, heroes and heroines, Greek prehistory (the Trojan War, city foundation legends, etc.), Roman prehistory (Aeneas and his descendants through Romulus and Remus). ...
Making Space for Bicultural Identity
... Roman colony of Corinth. Herodes’ father chose a wife from this family, into which his aunt had already married: his wife, Vibullia Alkia, was his niece.18 This marriage illustrates the ‘marked tendency towards endogamy’ characteristic of aristocratic marriages in Roman Greece.19 This tendency produ ...
... Roman colony of Corinth. Herodes’ father chose a wife from this family, into which his aunt had already married: his wife, Vibullia Alkia, was his niece.18 This marriage illustrates the ‘marked tendency towards endogamy’ characteristic of aristocratic marriages in Roman Greece.19 This tendency produ ...
OJCL State Convention Certamen
... 7. (lang 3) Excluding alliteration, what poetic device can be seen in the following lines from the Aeneid, which I shall read as prose: at rēgīna gravī iamdūdum saucia cūrā / vulnus alit vēnīs et caecō carpitur ignī? ANS: SYNCHYSIS, METONYMY, METAPHOR BONUS: Name another. ANS: SEE ABOVE 8. (lang 4) ...
... 7. (lang 3) Excluding alliteration, what poetic device can be seen in the following lines from the Aeneid, which I shall read as prose: at rēgīna gravī iamdūdum saucia cūrā / vulnus alit vēnīs et caecō carpitur ignī? ANS: SYNCHYSIS, METONYMY, METAPHOR BONUS: Name another. ANS: SEE ABOVE 8. (lang 4) ...
History of Roman Literature from its Earliest
... taste or feeling which prevailed among their countrymen. This sentiment continued to be cherished as long as the chief literary state in Greece preserved the sovereignty of the seas—compelled its allies to furnish vessels of war, and trusted to its naval armaments for the supremacy it maintained dur ...
... taste or feeling which prevailed among their countrymen. This sentiment continued to be cherished as long as the chief literary state in Greece preserved the sovereignty of the seas—compelled its allies to furnish vessels of war, and trusted to its naval armaments for the supremacy it maintained dur ...
Building the New Rome: Charles Cameron as the Architect of
... and its ideals was not mere copying. Neoclassicism combined Greek and Roman roots with contemporary ideas about the arts, which included rational thought and structure. John Yolton defines neoclassicism as a combination of “both the romance and science of archaeology with a rationalism especially a ...
... and its ideals was not mere copying. Neoclassicism combined Greek and Roman roots with contemporary ideas about the arts, which included rational thought and structure. John Yolton defines neoclassicism as a combination of “both the romance and science of archaeology with a rationalism especially a ...
Authority, originality and competence in the Roman Archaeology of
... place within that encompassing historical space; the accusation that predecessors have treated the period only summarily and inaccurately and the counter-assertion that the present writer will remedy these deficiencies. The recall of these elements serves several ends: to add another great predecess ...
... place within that encompassing historical space; the accusation that predecessors have treated the period only summarily and inaccurately and the counter-assertion that the present writer will remedy these deficiencies. The recall of these elements serves several ends: to add another great predecess ...
X - York University
... By the early 1400s, Europe had pulled itself out of its disorganization after the fall of Rome. The feudal system provided stable government and protection from raiders. The economy was flourishing and the population rising and in good health. But there was little literacy and almost no knowledge of ...
... By the early 1400s, Europe had pulled itself out of its disorganization after the fall of Rome. The feudal system provided stable government and protection from raiders. The economy was flourishing and the population rising and in good health. But there was little literacy and almost no knowledge of ...
summaria dissertationum inauguralium
... Panathenaia and Eumeneia7 – and guarded the sanctuary of Apollo, bestowing promanteia on selected people. In the Hellenistic period, Delphi’s hard-won political independence came to an end and was never regained in the period under analysis. The Macedonians controlled the city from the 350s onwards; ...
... Panathenaia and Eumeneia7 – and guarded the sanctuary of Apollo, bestowing promanteia on selected people. In the Hellenistic period, Delphi’s hard-won political independence came to an end and was never regained in the period under analysis. The Macedonians controlled the city from the 350s onwards; ...
THE EMPIRE`S MUSE: ROMAN INTERPRETATIONS OF THE
... The Empire’s Muse: Roman Interpretations of the Amazons through Literature and Art by Erin W. Leal Master of Arts in History San Diego State University, 2010 Modern historians and classicists have studied the ancient Greeks’ use of Amazon mythology extensively and exhaustively. Their analysis of the ...
... The Empire’s Muse: Roman Interpretations of the Amazons through Literature and Art by Erin W. Leal Master of Arts in History San Diego State University, 2010 Modern historians and classicists have studied the ancient Greeks’ use of Amazon mythology extensively and exhaustively. Their analysis of the ...
Chapter Two: The Annalistic Form - UFDC Image Array 2
... different ways, signifying both annual lists as well as histories, and even poetry.2 Indeed the first Roman historical writing can be claimed by Naevius, who wrote a history of Rome in epic form, the Bellum Punicum, and a historical tragedy, Clastidium. Though the Romans in theory often viewed hist ...
... different ways, signifying both annual lists as well as histories, and even poetry.2 Indeed the first Roman historical writing can be claimed by Naevius, who wrote a history of Rome in epic form, the Bellum Punicum, and a historical tragedy, Clastidium. Though the Romans in theory often viewed hist ...
his master`s voice
... way of legitimizing his speaking; and Tiro, in a sense, became his master's voice. Cicero’s surviving speeches were never delivered as written and are clearly the product of collaboration. But what specific role did Tiro play in them? Classicist Michael Grant provides some answers by performing an a ...
... way of legitimizing his speaking; and Tiro, in a sense, became his master's voice. Cicero’s surviving speeches were never delivered as written and are clearly the product of collaboration. But what specific role did Tiro play in them? Classicist Michael Grant provides some answers by performing an a ...
A Companion to Greek Democracy and the
... Greece. He has published Aeschines, Against Timarchos (2001), Slavery in Classical Greece (1993), HYBRIS. A Study in the Values of Honour and Shame in Ancient Greece (1992), a sourcebook on Social Values in Classical Athens (1976), and many articles and co-edited volumes. Michael P. Fronda is Associ ...
... Greece. He has published Aeschines, Against Timarchos (2001), Slavery in Classical Greece (1993), HYBRIS. A Study in the Values of Honour and Shame in Ancient Greece (1992), a sourcebook on Social Values in Classical Athens (1976), and many articles and co-edited volumes. Michael P. Fronda is Associ ...
GSC2010 LL Questions
... TOSS-UP 1: Welcome to the 2nd annual Granite State Certāmen, sponsored by the New Hampshire Classical Association! Let’s start out by being polite, shall we? Greet your moderator in Latin. SALVĒ/AVĒ BONUS A: Now greet the moderator and spotter/scorekeeper! SALVĒTE/AVĒTE BONUS B: The word for “goodby ...
... TOSS-UP 1: Welcome to the 2nd annual Granite State Certāmen, sponsored by the New Hampshire Classical Association! Let’s start out by being polite, shall we? Greet your moderator in Latin. SALVĒ/AVĒ BONUS A: Now greet the moderator and spotter/scorekeeper! SALVĒTE/AVĒTE BONUS B: The word for “goodby ...
Tracing the Antinous Cult - UvA-DARE
... How exactly they met is unknown, though there is a good chance the young boy could have joined the vast crowd of Hadrian’s imperial entourage, which included huntsmen, or the emperor might have had the chance to lay his eyes upon him during some kind of public event, such as an athletics competition ...
... How exactly they met is unknown, though there is a good chance the young boy could have joined the vast crowd of Hadrian’s imperial entourage, which included huntsmen, or the emperor might have had the chance to lay his eyes upon him during some kind of public event, such as an athletics competition ...
A History of Roman Literature
... but which the many calls of advancing life have made it difficult to pursue. All who intend to undertake a thorough study of the subject will turn to Teuffel's admirable History, without which many chapters in the present work could not have attained completeness; but the rigid severity of that exha ...
... but which the many calls of advancing life have made it difficult to pursue. All who intend to undertake a thorough study of the subject will turn to Teuffel's admirable History, without which many chapters in the present work could not have attained completeness; but the rigid severity of that exha ...
Pfingsten-11
... granting inalienable rights, common to every man, would provide inspiration to the Founding Fathers of America. Cicero's Legacy Cicero's legacy began forming even before his death. Caesar is said to have said of Cicero, 'it is more important to have greatly extended the frontiers of the Roman spirit ...
... granting inalienable rights, common to every man, would provide inspiration to the Founding Fathers of America. Cicero's Legacy Cicero's legacy began forming even before his death. Caesar is said to have said of Cicero, 'it is more important to have greatly extended the frontiers of the Roman spirit ...
Where Titus Quintius Flamininus`s interests in line with those of the
... command in Greece. His fluency in Greek and command experience with Greek soldiers in Tarentum earned him Plutarch’s description as ‘the first Roman philhellene’ in The Parallel Lives. However, these are insufficient grounds to accept that Flamininus was the best tailored for command in Greece, sinc ...
... command in Greece. His fluency in Greek and command experience with Greek soldiers in Tarentum earned him Plutarch’s description as ‘the first Roman philhellene’ in The Parallel Lives. However, these are insufficient grounds to accept that Flamininus was the best tailored for command in Greece, sinc ...
Contrast of Plautus and Terence. - ThinkIR
... nothing more than a transition period between Old and New Comedy. ...
... nothing more than a transition period between Old and New Comedy. ...
CORINTH AFTER 44 BC: ETHNICAL AND CULTURAL CHANGES
... than the birth rate, and the difference was closed by immigrants, who migrated to cities for various reasons, but usually economic.16 The phenomenon must have occurred on a large scale in Corinth, where there were few original colonists, while the necessity e.g. to build public buildings created dem ...
... than the birth rate, and the difference was closed by immigrants, who migrated to cities for various reasons, but usually economic.16 The phenomenon must have occurred on a large scale in Corinth, where there were few original colonists, while the necessity e.g. to build public buildings created dem ...
Classics
Classics (also Classical Studies) is the study of the languages, literature, laws, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and other material culture of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome; especially during Classical Antiquity (ca. BCE 600 – AD 600). Traditionally, the study of Classical literature (Greek and Roman) was the principal study of the humanities.