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Telling, turning moments in the classical political world /

Turning, Telling Moments in the Classical Political World examines developments in the classical political world which are both turning and telling moments. All the moments-from Theseus's founding of Athens to Augustus's establishment of the Principate-possess the double character of being...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Blits, Jan H. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, A division of Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, [2011]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Athens and Rome : Plutarch's Theseus and Romulus
  • Redeeming lost honor : Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece
  • The end of the noble
  • No middle way, no second way : Rome and the Caudine Forks
  • The politics of authority and rhetoric in republican Rome
  • Political murder in Rome
  • Power without office, office without power : Augustus's Principate
  • Afterword: Greece versus Rome
  • Appendix.