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The Roman republic of letters : scholarship, philosophy, and politics in the age of Cicero and Caesar
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ISBN: 069122434X 9780691224343 0691193878 9780691193878 0691253951 Year: 2021 Publisher: Princeton: Princeton university press,

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"An intellectual history of the late Roman Republic-and the senators who fought both scholarly debates and a civil war. In The Roman Republic of Letters, Katharina Volk explores a fascinating chapter of intellectual history, focusing on the literary senators of the mid-first century BCE who came to blows over the future of Rome even as they debated philosophy, history, political theory, linguistics, science, and religion. It was a period of intense cultural flourishing and extreme political unrest-and the agents of each were very often the same people. Members of the senatorial class, including Cicero, Caesar, Brutus, Cassius, Cato, Varro, and Nigidius Figulus, contributed greatly to the development of Roman scholarship and engaged in a lively and often polemical exchange with one another. These men were also crucially involved in the tumultuous events that brought about the collapse of the Republic, and they ended up on opposite sides in the civil war between Caesar and Pompey in the early 40s. Volk treats the intellectual and political activities of these "senator scholars" as two sides of the same coin, exploring how scholarship and statesmanship mutually informed one another-and how the acquisition, organization, and diffusion of knowledge was bound up with the question of what it meant to be a Roman in a time of crisis. By revealing how first-century Rome's remarkable "republic of letters" was connected to the fight over the actual res publica, Volk's riveting account captures the complexity of this pivotal period"--

Greek literature and the Roman Empire : the politics of imitation
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ISBN: 0199240353 9780199240357 Year: 2001 Publisher: Oxford: Oxford university press,

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Beschaving [Grieks-Romeinse ] --- Civilisation gréco-romaine --- Civilization [Greco-Roman ] --- Cultuur [Grieks-Romeinse ] --- Grieks-Romeinse beschaving --- Grieks-Romeinse cultuur --- Mimésis dans la littérature --- Balkan literature --- Byzantine literature --- -Civilization, Greco-Roman. --- -Greco-Roman civilization --- Greek literature --- -Greek literature --- -Civilization, Greco-Roman --- Hellenism --- Politics and literature --- -Politics and literature --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- History and criticism --- Appreciation --- -History --- Political aspects --- Rome --- -Greece --- -Rome --- -Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Griechenland --- Grèce --- Hellas --- Yaṿan --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Kingdom of Greece --- Hellenic Republic --- Ancient Greece --- Ελλάδα --- Ellada --- Ελλάς --- Ellas --- Ελληνική Δημοκρατία --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grecia --- Grčija --- Hellada --- History --- -Relations --- Hellenism. --- History and criticism. --- Civilization, Greco-Roman --- Greco-Roman civilization --- Civilization, Classical --- Classical literature --- Classical philology --- Greek philology --- Greece --- Rim --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy) --- اليونان --- يونان --- al-Yūnān --- Yūnān --- 希腊 --- Xila --- Греция --- Gret︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Relations --- Civilization, Greco-Roman. --- History. --- Mimesis in literature --- Emperors --- Littérature grecque --- Politique et littérature --- Mimésis dans la littérature --- Empereurs --- Duties --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Devoirs --- Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D. --- Politics and government --- 146 B.C.-323 A.D. --- To 500 --- Greek literature - Rome - History and criticism. --- Politics and literature - Greece - History - To 1500. --- Politics and literature - Rome - History. --- Greek literature - Appreciation - Rome.

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