The Oxford History Of The Classical World

the speed of historical narrative makes the pauses marked by rhythmical clausulae inappropriate, because they slow the whole mov ...

Critics and Rhetoric: The Sense of Decline A literature with such exacting formal standards and so closely linked with education ...

In the closing chapter, however, the perspective seems rather to be Roman. The 'philosopher's ' view that high oratory has been ...

one must pay the recipient the compliment of care and art. The central consideration is that a letter is 'the image of one's min ...

lyric or satire-or else a letter, as highly polished as any of these. He does not make it clear whether the letter is prose or v ...

L. Annaeus seneca the Younger (C.4BC-AD 65). Born at Corduba in Spain, he uneasily combined the roles of a wealthy money-lender, ...

Pont Du Gard, Near Nimes (late first century B.C.). This gigantic aqueduct bridge bears witness to the engineering skills of the ...

Detail Of The Canopus in Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli (between A.D. 124 and 133). As often with Roman villas, parts of the emperor' ...

Head of Autumn: detail of a mosaic at Cirencester, Gloucestershire (late second century A.D.). The Four Seasons were a popular s ...

spent the last three years of his life in study and writing: a retirement not unlike Cicero's, and perhaps modeled on it. His tr ...

Pliny's stylistic ambitions were not matched by competence or taste. He does not appear to have mastered either the periodic ele ...

Statue-Group Of Laocoon And His Sons (c. A.D. 10-30), one of the few works of art described in Pliny the Elders Natural History ...

The Parallel Lives were dedicated to Q. Sosius Senecio, an acquaintance of Pliny, and a great man-four times consul-of Trajan's ...

Painting Of Antony And Cleopatra by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1885): a late-Victorian romantic view of the affair which Plutarch ...

Philosophy and myth are not, however, the only elements in his dialogues: there is also a dramatic dimension. Thus he wrote The ...

Many of Lucian's dialogues are enlargements of the techniques of the 'miniatures'; but we also have-among nearly eighty books wh ...

Cosmological Mosaic At Merida (Emerita) In Spain (mid second century A.D.). The imagery of the pavement has been compared with t ...

An easterly breeze got up, and, as we proceeded, a brisk east wind, which broke out in the end into a fearful gale. Up went the ...

Silver Latin Poetry And The Latin Novel (By Richard Jenkyns) The Silver Age: Problems and Solutions The word 'silver', applied ...

an issue that was in the air as never before. It is intriguing, too, to find Statius, near the end of the century, concluding hi ...