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The Patrician Tribune : Publius Clodius Pulcher
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ISBN: 0807824801 0807872067 1469620650 Year: 1998 Publisher: Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press,


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A brief handbook on canvassing for office = : Commentariolum petitionis
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ISBN: 9780198153078 0198153074 Year: 2018 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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Rome's annual elections were central to civic and political life, and Quintus Cicero's Brief Handbook is our fullest account of campaigning for office in the republican era. This new translation with introduction and commentary offers a detailed examination of this important text, treating both its historical and literary dimensions.


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A Noble Ruin : Mark Antony, Civil War, and the Collapse of the Roman Republic
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ISBN: 9780197694909 Year: 2024 Publisher: Oxford, New York : Oxford University Press,

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In his lifetime, Mark Antony was a famous man. Ally and avenger of Julius Caesar, rhetorical target of Cicero, lover of Cleopatra, and mortal enemy of Octavian (the future emperor Augustus), Antony played a leading role in the transformation of the Roman world. Ever since his and Cleopatra's demise at the hands of Octavian, he has remained famous, or infamous, a figure of recurring fascination.His life—variegated, passionate, sensual, bold, and tragic—inspires vigorous reactions. Nearly everyone has a view on Antony. For Cicero, he was a distasteful though talented man. Octavian fashioned him a dangerous failure, a Roman noble corrupted by his appetites and his lust for Cleopatra. Later historians adopted and adapted these themes, delivering their readers an Antony who was irresistibly depraved, startlingly brave, sometimes cunning, but almost always constitutionally incapable of choosing the right side of history. From these, especially Plutarch's compelling portrait, Shakespeare gave us the chivalrous and unstudied Antony of Antony and Cleopatra.A Noble Ruin, the fullest biography of Antony in English, assimilates the various, often competing, ancient sources to provide a strong and much-needed dose of realism to the caricature we have of this major historical figure. The book gives ample attention to the varied cultural circumstances in which Antony operated, including the social and moral expectations of his republican heritage, as well as the exceptional challenges posed by the convulsion of civil war. In furnishing a complex and captivating portrait of Anthony, A Noble Ruin allows readers to freshly assess his conduct, ambitions, and attainments, as well as the turbulent age in which he lived

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Always I am Caesar
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ISBN: 9781405175265 9781405175258 Year: 2008 Publisher: Malden [etc.] Blackwell Publishing

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By examining his military and political career, home life and relationships with woman, Always I Am Caesar: Eight Perspectives provides a vivid portrait of Caesar's life and the times of ancient Rome during its transition from republic to empire.

The Religion of the Etruscans
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ISBN: 0292706871 0292796285 9780292796287 9780292706873 9780292721463 0292721463 Year: 2021 Publisher: Austin

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Includes information on Aphrodite, Apollo, Apulu, Artumes, Astarte, Athena, Atunis, birds, calendars, children, divination, funerary ritual, Hercules, Jupiter, lightning, Mars, Minerva, Neptune, Odysseus, Persephone, Pliny the Elder, prophecy, Pyrgi, Satyrs, Tages, Tarquinii, temples, thunder, Turan, Uni, Vei, Veii, Vulci, etc.


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Praise and blame in Roman republican rhetoric.

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