Declamation, Paternity, and Roman Identity: Authority and the Rhetorical Self

This booklet explores the a lot maligned and misunderstood style of declamation. rather than a bastard rhetoric, declamation may be obvious as a venue during which the rhetoric of the valid self is built. those fictions of the self are uncannily genuine, and those stagey dramas are actually rehearsals for the intense play of Roman id.

Gab es einen Wandel in der Behandlung der Sklaven zur Zeit der römischen Antike? (German Edition)

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Weltgeschichte - Frühgeschichte, Antike, observe: 2,3, Technische Universität Dresden (Institut für Geschichte), Sprache: Deutsch, summary: „Das ganze Leben ist eine Knechtschaft. Deshalb muß guy sich an seine Lage gewöhnen und so wenig wie möglich darüber klagen, was once sie aber angenehmes an sich hat, ergreifen.

The Social History of Rome (Routledge Revivals)

This examine, first released in German in 1975, addresses the necessity for a accomplished account of Roman social background in one quantity. in particular, Alföldy makes an attempt to reply to 3 questions: what's the that means of Roman social heritage? what's entailed in Roman social heritage? How is it to be conceived as historical past?

The Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City: Volume 2, The Chinese City in Comparative Perspective

Those volumes elucidate the way within which there emerged, at the North China simple, hierarchically dependent, functionally really expert social associations geared up on a political and territorial foundation in the course of the moment millennium b. c. They describe the way, in the course of next centuries, those institutes have been subtle via a lot of the remainder of North and important China.