This book explores how Roman ideas about human behaviour and historiography affected the ways in which the Romans wrote about their past. The first of the book's three chapters considers Roman views...

Archaic Rome grew by the gradual integration of ethnically disparate communities into the political life of the city; it successfully united cultures as different as the Latin, Sabine and Etruscan. A...

Studying references and writings in over 900 personal letters, an unparalleled source, this book presents a rounded and intriguing account of the three women who, until now, have only survived as...

This is the first general introduction to Pliny's Letters published in any language, combining close readings with broader context and adopting a fresh and innovative approach to reading the letters...

Roman women were the procreators and nurturers of life, both in the domestic world of the family and in the larger sphere of the state. Although deterred from participating in most aspects of public...

Using evidence from a wide array of sources including literature, papyri, inscriptions, coins, and terra-cotta figurines, Sarah Pomeroy discusses women ranging from queens such as Arsinoë II and...

Nothing from the subsequent Augustan age can be fully explained without understanding the previous Triumviral period (43-31 BC). In this book, twenty experts from nine different countries and...

Questi due volumi comprendono tutti i versi di Mario Luzi pubblicati dal 1935 al 1994. Il primo volume raccoglie "Il giusto della vita", che rappresenta la produzione poetica luziana da "La barca"...

Discovering reliable information about women in early Christianity is a challenging enterprise. Most people have never heard of Bitalia, Veneranda, Crispina, Petronella, Leta, Sofia the Deacon, and...

1er janvier 1949, à Trieste, vient de mourir le peintre Vito Timmel ou Thümmel. Il était depuis un an interné dans un asile psychiatrique. Ses amis se retrouvent et parlent du mort qui est parmi eux...

Ce livre rassemble des essais qui tous relèvent la vigueur de l'héritage culturel de la Bible, et en suivent les méandres, dans des oeuvres comme celles de Péguy, Kierkegaard, Simone Weil, Kafka,...

Book by Quasimodo, Salvatore

Extensively illustrated and clearly written, this book examines the major categories of Greek architecture, sculpture, vasepainting, wallpainting, and metalwork in a historical, social, and...

Nel suo laboratorio Petrarca celava epigrammi latini che, per il loro carattere spesso occasionale e leggero, non volle mai radunare in forma di libro. Francisco Rico, uno dei massimi studiosi del...