The Oxford History Of The Classical World

Mosaic Panel From Pompeii (second or first century B.C.) showing a scene from the beginning of Menander's play, the Synaristosai ...

Marble Relief Illustrating A Scene From New Comedy (first century A.D.?). The situation is typical of Menander and his Roman imi ...

Theatre At Pompeii: Initially constructed during the second century B.C., it is the earliest surviving theatre in Italy outside ...

army and outstanding warriors, and with their thousand ships they overcame after ten years Priam's town of Troy, its fortificati ...

The effect of such passages is to focus our attention on Chrysalus' trickery as an achievement on its own account rather than as ...

The element of social comment in this last passage is not typical. Plautus was above all an entertainer and a poet. He uses coll ...

"widely appreciated than it had been by Plautus' less cultured audience. But there is a danger of exaggerating this difference. ...

ring which is generally absent from Plautus. Scene From Terence's Adelphoe: illustration from a ninth-century manuscript in the ...

Within a century of his death, Terence's plays had become school texts; and they have continued to be so for as long as we know ...

adolescent sons should be handled with openness and tolerance. Micio's method seems to be presented for most of the play as the ...

Bronze Bust Of A Poet, from the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum. Long identified as Seneca, it is now generally regarded as a ...

At the beginning of the Annals Ennius claimed to be a reincarnation of Homer: the ghost of Homer had revealed this to him in a d ...

Cicero And Rome (By Miriam Griffin) This chapter is devoted to the period which opens with the dictatorship of Sulla in 82 BC ...

M. Tullius Cicero, the great Roman orator and statesman, whose speeches and letters are such a valuable source of information fo ...

For the critic Quintilian (below, p. 657), Cicero was 'the name, not of a man, but of eloquence itself. In what did the literary ...

history of Plato's school, who taught that certain knowledge was not to be had, but that probability was an intellectually respe ...

a firm follower in Seneca (below, pp. 663 f), and his ultimate heirs were the Latin Church Fathers. 'Latin philosophy, which bef ...

his consulship, and that he governed a distant province for a year and might even have attained a triumph for his military achie ...

ruthlessness with which he destroyed his enemies and rewarded his friends could, in the long run, jeopardize his constitutional ...

been replaced by the medieval Senatorial Palace. If Sulla had hoped that his confiscations would make his veterans prosperous an ...