scholarly journals Play on the Proper Names of Individuals in the Catullan Corpus: Wordplay, the Iambic Tradition, and the Late Republican Culture of Public Abuse

2014 ◽  
Vol 104 ◽  
pp. 51-72
Author(s):  
Jennifer Ingleheart
Keyword(s):  
Roman Republic ◽  
Proper Names ◽  
The Public ◽  
Late Roman

AbstractThe paper explores the significance of names and naming in Catullus. Catullus’ use of proper names, and in particular his play on the connotations of the names of individuals who are attacked within his poems, has not been fully explored to date, and the paper identifies several examples of such play which have not previously been recognized. The paper examines Catullan wordplay in the context of both the iambic tradition and the public abuse culture of the late Roman Republic.

Fighting Corruption

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Arena
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Roman Republic ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
The Public ◽  
Republican Rome ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Late Roman

Corruption was seen as a major factor in the collapse of Republican Rome, as Valentina Arena’s subsequent essay “Fighting Corruption: Political Thought and Practice in the Late Roman Republic” argues. It was in reaction to this perception of the Republic’s political fortunes that an array of legislative and institutional measures were established and continually reformed to become more effective. What this chapter shows is that, as in Greece, the public sphere was distinct from the private sphere and, importantly, it was within this distinction that the foundations of anticorruption measures lay. Moreover, it is difficult to defend the existence of a major disjuncture between moralistic discourses and legal-political institutions designed to patrol the public/private divide: both were part of the same discourse and strategy to curb corruption and improve government.

scholarly journals THEQVINQVATRVSOF JUNE, MARSYAS ANDLIBERTASIN THE LATE ROMAN REPUBLIC

2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro López Barja De Quiroga
Keyword(s):  
Roman Republic ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Third ◽  
Republican Rome ◽  
Multiple Meanings ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
Pass Through ◽  
The Way ◽  
Late Roman

Masked revelry, the quaffing of large amounts of wine and the sound of flutes … this cavalcade would pass through the streets of Rome every 13th June, even crossing the forum itself. As we will show later on, a connection can be established between this celebration (theQuinquatrus minusculae) and the statue of Marsyas, the acolyte of Dionysus, which stood in the forum and was associated with freedom, wine and charivari. In turn, this connection will open the way for a new interpretation of the multiple meanings of the feast and the satyr in the highly charged political atmosphere of Late Republican Rome. The main aim of this study will be to show, in the third part of this article, howpopularespoliticians tried to exploit the opportunities presented to them by religious festivities andludito draw more of the public into theircontionesor to obtain a favourable verdict in a political trial.

Trials in the Late Roman Republic 149 B.C. to 50 B.C.

1992 ◽  
Vol 85 (6) ◽  
pp. 732
Author(s):  
J. Drew Harrington ◽  
Michael C. Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Roman Republic ◽  
Late Roman

Libertas and the Practice of Politics in the Late Roman Republic

Phoenix ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 67 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 415-417
Author(s):  
Eleanor Cowan
Keyword(s):  
Roman Republic ◽  
Late Roman

scholarly journals Marginal cost of contextualizing stigma of zoonotic diseases

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiwen Hu ◽  
Zhangqiu Huang
Keyword(s):  
Marginal Cost ◽  
Proper Names ◽  
Zoonotic Diseases ◽  
The Public ◽  
Wrong Side ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Leading Journals ◽  
The Way

In the scientific sphere, understanding the way naming rules strengthen the integrity and quality of naming zoonotic diseases and viruses remains nominal rather than substantial. Arguably, the looming worry is that the public is susceptible to the stigmatized proper names like German measles in the leading journals. Our survey indicates that some stigmatizing names have always come at the cost of unintentional sociocultural impacts, despite their seemingly harmless origins. This study first unveils that terminological evolution of German measles is on the wrong side of history.

Wheat Prices and Trade in the Early Roman Empire

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Temin
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Roman Republic ◽  
Small Data ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Data Points ◽  
Small Data Sets ◽  
Few Data ◽  
Late Roman

This chapter discusses how there is little of what economists call data on markets in Roman times, despite lots of information about prices and transactions. Data, as economists consider it, consist of a set of uniform prices that can be compared with each other. According to scholars, extensive markets existed in the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire. Even though there is a lack of data, there are enough observations for the price of wheat, the most extensively traded commodity, to perform a test. The problem is that there is only a little bit of data by modern standards. Consequently, the chapter explains why statistics are useful in interpreting small data sets and how one deals with various problems that arise when there are only a few data points.

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