The Oxford History Of The Classical World

impressing the body of the Senate with his sweet reasonableness. From now on, however, he showed how little he could be deflecte ...

Model Of Theatre And Porticoes Of Pompey In Rome. Pompey inaugurated the first permanent stone theatre in Rome in 55 B.C., perpe ...

Civil War Meanwhile a change in the method of appointing provincial governors not only resulted in the dispatch of the reluctant ...

problems of the Republic was the existence of statesmen or a statesman of their calibre who could serve as a model of conduct to ...

Shops in the Forum Julium, Caesar's answer to Pompey's theatre and porticoes. Begun in 51 B.C. to provide a much-needed enlargem ...

jurisdiction. Hence the Ides of March. After Caesar's death one of his intimates, Gaius Matius, was to lament: 'If he, for all h ...

The Poets Of The Late Republic (By Robin Nisbet) Lucretius Early in 54 B.C. Cicero ended a letter to his brother with a note o ...

liberated oppressed mankind from the lowering menace of religion. In a typically Roman metaphor we are told how the philosopher' ...

show how far Epicurus was from the popular misconception of the epicure (above, p. 372). Fame and riches do no more for the mind ...

can be translated into action; in the same way a puff of breath can scatter a heap of poppy seeds, while corn-ears are too big a ...

(931 ff): Away with your tears, you rascal, and muzzle your moans ... Because you always long for what you don't have and disreg ...

This leads to a satirical account of lovers' euphemistic endearments, which are expressed in the affected Greek of the girls con ...

human race would not have been preserved (a sometimes forgotten aspect of the 'survival of the fittest'). Language was not arbit ...

Catullus There is much about humanity in Lucretius, but no people. The balance is redressed by his young contemporary Catullus, ...

metre, now in another, tit for tat amid laughing and drinking'); the very fact that he explains the details shows that he is bui ...

Love-poetry of this sort has no precedent in Greek literature, and was conditioned by a novel combination of social circumstance ...

war about 65 B.C.; his captor Cinna has been identified with the Cisalpine poet of that name, who will be familiar to readers of ...

poem's languorous beauty. 'As soon as the ship ploughed the windy plain with her beak and churned by the oars the wave whitened ...

post uento crescente magis magis increbescunt, purpureaque procul nantes ab luce refulgent. (269-75) Then just as the West Wind ...

Hellenistic And Graeco-Roman Art (By Roger Ling) Introduction Hellenistic art is an unfashionable field. To the aficionados of ...