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Jeezes, da's een goeie! Humor en christendom
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ISBN: 9789085281139 908528113X Year: 2009 Volume: 9 Publisher: Antwerpen Halewijn

Memorable doings and sayings
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ISBN: 0674995414 0674995422 9780674995413 9780674995420 Year: 2000 Volume: 492, 493 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.) : Harvard university press,

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Valerius Maximus compiled his handbook of notable deeds and sayings during the reign of Tiberius (14-37 CE). The collection was very popular in the Renaissance and has recently attracted renewed scholarly attention. Valerius arranges his instructive examples in short chapters, each focused on a particular virtue, vice, religious practice, or traditional custom--including Omens, Dreams, Anger, Cruelty, Bravery, Fidelity, Gratitude, Friendship, Parental Love. The moral undercurrent of this collection is readily apparent. But Valerius tells us that the book's purpose is practical: he decided to select worthwhile material from famous writers so that people looking for illustrative examples might be spared the trouble of research. Whatever the author's intention, his book is an interesting source of information on Roman attitudes toward religion and moral values in the first century. - Publisher.

Juvenal and Persius
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ISBN: 0674996127 9780674996120 Year: 2004 Volume: 91 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard university press

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Bite and wit characterize two seminal and stellar authors in the history of satirical writing, Persius (34-62 CE) and Juvenal (writing about sixty years later). The latter especially had a lasting influence on English writers of the Renaissance and succeeding centuries.

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