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Inni omerici
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ISBN: 9788804119463 8804119462 Year: 2010 Publisher: Milano Mondadori

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Keria : studia Latina et Graeca.
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ISSN: 15800261 23504234 Year: 1999 Publisher: Ljubljana : Društvo za antične in humanistične študije Slovenije


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The muse at play : riddles and wordplay in Greek and Latin poetry
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ISSN: 16160452 ISBN: 3110270617 9783110270617 9783110270006 3110270005 1299719562 Year: 2013 Volume: Bd. 305 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter,

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In May 2011, a conference on riddles and word games in Greek and Latin poetry took place at the Institute of Classical Studies of the University of Warsaw. The conference was intended as an open forum where specialists working in different fields of classical studies could meet to discuss the varied manifestations of riddles and other technopaegnia - both terms being understood broadly to encompass the full range of play with language in classical antiquity, in keeping with the use made of the two terms in ancient and early modern theoretical discussions. This volume offers revised versions of the papers presented during the conference. Contributions by scholars from Europe and the USA treat a number of interconnected topics, including: ancient and modern attempts to formulate a definition of the riddle; poetic games at Greek symposia; experimentation with language in late classical poetry; riddles in the book cultures of the Hellenistic age and late antiquity; the functions of word games carved in stone, written on papyrus, or inscribed on the wall as graffiti; authors famed for their obscurity, such as Heraclitus and Lycophron; wordplay in Neo-Latin poetry; oracles, magic squares, pattern poetry, palindromes and acrostichs.


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The new Latino studies reader : a twenty-first-century perspective
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ISBN: 0520960513 9780520960510 9780520284838 0520284836 9780520284845 0520284844 Year: 2016 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,

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The New Latino Studies Reader is designed as a contemporary, updated, multifaceted collection of writings that bring to force the exciting, necessary scholarship of the last decades. Its aim is to introduce a new generation of students to a wide-ranging set of essays that helps them gain a truer understanding of what it's like to be a Latino in the United States. With the reader, students explore the sociohistorical formation of Latinos as a distinct panethnic group in the United States, delving into issues of class formation; social stratification; racial, gender, and sexual identities; and politics and cultural production. And while other readers now in print may discuss Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans and Central Americans as distinct groups with unique experiences, this text explores both the commonalities and the differences that structure the experiences of Latino Americans. Timely, thorough, and thought-provoking, The New Latino Studies Reader provides a genuine view of the Latino experience as a whole.


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The school of Rome : Latin studies and the origins of liberal education
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ISBN: 128327762X 9786613277626 0520948408 9780520948402 9781283277624 9780520255760 0520255763 0520296184 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press,

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This fascinating cultural and intellectual history focuses on education as practiced by the imperial age Romans, looking at what they considered the value of education and its effect on children. W. Martin Bloomer details the processes, exercises, claims, and contexts of liberal education from the late first century b.c.e. to the third century c.e., the epoch of rhetorical education. He examines the adaptation of Greek institutions, methods, and texts by the Romans and traces the Romans' own history of education. Bloomer argues that whereas Rome's enduring educational legacy includes the seven liberal arts and a canon of school texts, its practice of competitive displays of reading, writing, and reciting were intended to instill in the young social as well as intellectual ideas.


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Monita et exempla politica : political admonitions and examples
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ISBN: 9789462703056 9462703051 9789461664204 Year: 2022 Publisher: Leuven Leuven University Press

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In 17th-century intellectual life, the ideas of the Renaissance humanist Justus Lipsius (1547–1606) were omnipresent. The publication of his Politica in 1589 had made Lipsius's name as an original and controversial political thinker. The sequel, the Monita et exempla politica (Admonitions), published in 1605, was meant as an illustration of Lipsius's political thought as expounded in the Politica. Its aim was to offer concrete models of behavior for rulers against the background of Habsburg politics.Lipsius's later political treatise also forms an indispensable key to interpret the place and function of the Politica in Lipsius's political discourse and in early modern political thought. The Admonitions – widely read, edited and translated in the 17th and 18th centuries – show Lipsius's pivotal role in the genesis of modern political philosophy.

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