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Autor:
Ingo Gildenhard, Andrew Zissos
Publikováno v:
Dictynna, Vol 4 (2010)
This article offers a detailed examination of Ovid's Tereus, Procne and Philomela épisode (Met. 6.412-674). Our focus on the tale's literary and thematic profile, within its history of reception (from Seneca's Thyestes through Shakespeare's Titus An
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Augustus and the Destruction of History explores the intense controversies over the meaning and profile of the past that accompanied the violent transformation of the Roman Republic into the Augustan principate. The ten case studies collected here an
Autor:
Ingo Gildenhard, John Henderson
A dead boy (Pallas) and the death of a girl (Camilla) loom over the opening and the closing part of the eleventh book of the Aeneid. Following the savage slaughter in Aeneid 10, the book opens in a mournful mood as the warring parties revisit yesterd
Autor:
Ingo Gildenhard
Cicero composed his incendiary Philippics only a few months after Rome was rocked by the brutal assassination of Julius Caesar. In the tumultuous aftermath of Caesar's death, Cicero and Mark Antony found themselves on opposing sides of an increasingl
Autor:
Ingo Gildenhard, Andrew Zissos
This extract from Ovid's'Theban History'recounts the confrontation of Pentheus, king of Thebes, with his divine cousin, Bacchus, the god of wine. Notwithstanding the warnings of the seer Tiresias and the cautionary tale of a character Acoetes (perhap
Autor:
Ingo Gildenhard, Louise Hodgson
In republican times, one of Rome's deadliest enemies was King Mithridates of Pontus. In 66 BCE, after decades of inconclusive struggle, the tribune Manilius proposed a bill that would give supreme command in the war against Mithridates to Pompey the
Autor:
Mathew Owen, Ingo Gildenhard
The emperor Nero is etched into the Western imagination as one of ancient Rome's most infamous villains, and Tacitus'Annals have played a central role in shaping the mainstream historiographical understanding of this flamboyant autocrat. This section
Autor:
Ingo Gildenhard
Love and tragedy dominate book four of Virgil's most powerful work, building on the violent emotions invoked by the storms, battles, warring gods, and monster-plagued wanderings of the epic's opening. Destined to be the founder of Roman culture, Aene
Autor:
Ingo Gildenhard
Looting, despoiling temples, attempted rape and judicial murder: these are just some of the themes of this classic piece of writing by one of the world's greatest orators. This particular passage is from the second book of Cicero's Speeches against V