The Oxford History Of The Classical World

version of recent conflicts was a useful adjunct to foreign policy. So was publicity about the nature and antiquity of the city. ...

The first of these, antiquarianism, was apparent in Roman historiography from the beginning. The obvious Greek example for the R ...

respectability in Roman eyes. Furthermore, his desire that politicians and generals should write history, not men sitting in lib ...

Victories With A Shield: relief from a triumphal monument in Rome (early first century B.C.). This and other reliefs in the same ...

educated society woman in Sallust's Catiline. However, the analysis of the causes of decadence is comparatively superficial. Rom ...

As an interpreter of history in detail, Livy was unoriginal or simply defective in his treatment of causes. However, he substitu ...

He aimed not only to give moral edification by parading virtue and vice, but to give practical instruction. This justified his a ...

Roman Baths At Wroxeter (ancient Viriconium) near Shrewsbury (second century A.D.). Thermal baths were one of the amenities that ...

Head Of Tiberius, second of the Roman Emperors (A.D. 14-37). The portrait conveys something of the character painted by Tacitus ...

(below, pp. 667 ff.). Most of Plutarch's biographies took the form of parallel lives, in which an eminent Greek was compared wit ...

The Arts Of Prose The Early Empire (By Donald Russell) Two Languages, One Literature The first two centuries of the Christian ...

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 ...