Reading Roman Declamation

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Roman History ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Latin Literature ◽  
Sociocultural Context ◽  
International Group ◽  
Seneca The Elder ◽  
First Time ◽  
Literary Phenomenon

Situated at the crossroads of rhetoric and fiction, the genre of declamatio offers its practitioners the freedom to experiment with new forms of discourse. This volume places the literariness of Roman declamation into the spotlight by showcasing its theoretical influences, stylistic devices, and generic conventions as related by Seneca the Elder, the author of the Controversiae and Suasoriae, which jointly make up the largest surviving collection of declamatory speeches from antiquity. In so doing, it draws attention to the complexity of these texts, and maps out, for the first time, the sociocultural context for their composition, delivery, and reception. The volume’s chapters have been authored by an international group of leading scholars in Latin literature and rhetoric, and explore not only the historical roles of individual declaimers but also the physical and linguistic techniques upon which they collectively drew. In addition, the ‘dark side of declamation’ is illuminated by contributions on the competitiveness of the arena and the manipulative potential of declamatory skill. In keeping with the volume’s overall treatment of declamation as a literary phenomenon, a section has also been dedicated to intertextuality. This comprehensive, innovative, and up-to-date treatment provides thought-provoking analyses of Roman declamation, and therefore constitutes an essential volume for both students and scholars in the fields of Latin literature, Republican Roman history, and rhetoric.

The History of the Extortion Court at Rome, 123–70 b.c.

1938 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 98-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. P. V. D. Balsdon
Keyword(s):  
Roman History ◽  
Precise Statement ◽  
History Of ◽  
Age Limits ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Way

The available evidence concerning the history of the Extortion Court, the quaestio repetundarum, at Rome is tabulated opposite page 114. In view of the bulk of this evidence, it is at first sight surprising that this should be one of the most confused chapters of Roman history. Indeed, it is improbable that all Roman historians would agree upon any more precise statement of certainty than the following: that C. Gracchus, whether by a lex Sempronia iudiciaria, or by a lex Sempronia de repetundis, or by a lex Acilia de repetundis which may, or may not, be reproduced in the lex repetundarum, fragments of which are preserved at Naples and at Vienna (CIL i, 583), established equites (selected either from owners and past owners, within certain age limits, of the equus publicus, or from all those who possessed the equestrian census) either in place of, or in association with, senators as jurors in the quaestio de repetundis; that Q. Servilius Caepio, probably in his consulship in 106 B.C., proposed, and perhaps carried, a judiciary law in the interest of the Senate; that C. Servilius Glaucia either in m (Mommsen), 108 (Carcopino) 104 (Last) or 101 B.C. (Niccolini) carried a lex repetundarum and perhaps other judiciary laws in which he possibly either gave for the first time, or restored, to the equites complete possession of the juries and certainly effected two reforms in procedure, (a) by legalising the prosecution not only of recent magistrates and pro-magistrates, but also of their accomplices and (b) by introducing the form of ‘double action’ known as comperendinatio; that M. Livius Drusus, as tribune in 91 B.C., endeavoured unsuccessfully to establish, or to re-establish, as the case may be, mixed juries of senators and equites, and to make equestrian as well as senatorial jurors liable to prosecution for accepting bribes; that in 89 B.C. by a lex Plautia of the tribune M. Plautius Silvanus mixed juries were established, certainly for trials of maiestas, and perhaps for repetundae too. After this, the way is clearer, Sulla re-established senatorial juries, which survived until 70 B.C., when, by the lex Aurelia, jurors were selected from three panels—from senators, equites and tribuni aerarii.

Seneca the Elder, the Controuersia Figurata, and the Political Discourse of the Early Empire

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-150
Author(s):  
Matthew Leigh
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Roman History ◽  
The Political ◽  
Turn On ◽  
Specific Event ◽  
Imperial Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
Seneca The Elder

This paper studies examples of how exponents of Roman declamation could insert into arguments on the trivial, even fantastic, cases known as controuersiae statements of striking relevance to the political culture of the triumviral and early imperial period. This is particularly apparent in the Controuersiae of Seneca the Elder but some traces remain in the Minor Declamations attributed to Quintilian. The boundaries separating Rome itself from the declamatory city referred to by modern scholars as Sophistopolis are significantly blurred even in those instances where the exercise does not turn on a specific event from Roman history, and there is much to be gained from how the declaimers deploy Roman historical examples. Some of the most sophisticated instances of mediated political comment exploit the employment of universalizing sententiae, which have considerable bite when they are related to contemporary Roman discourse and experience. The declamation schools are a forum for thinking through the implications of the transformation of the Roman state and deserve a place within any history of Roman political thought.

scholarly journals EPOS 4 Patients

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
pp. 1-57
Author(s):  
C. Hopkins ◽  
P. Surda ◽  
A. Walker ◽  
A. Wolf ◽  
M.M. Speth ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Options ◽  
Position Paper ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
International Group ◽  
Patient Resources ◽  
Adults And Children ◽  
First Time ◽  
Recent Version ◽  
Patients Perspective ◽  
Accessible Format

EPOS2020 is the 4th and most recent version of the European Position Paper on Rhinosinusitis and Nasal Polyps which was first published in 2005. It aims to provide the most up to date scientifically robust information on the topic published in the literature which has been critically analysed by an international group of clinicians drawn from all disciplines dealing with these problems together with patients. The guidelines offer evidence-based recommendations and care pathways for acute and chronic rhinosinusitis in both adults and children. Management of these diseases from the patients' perspective is an important part of EPOS2020. Not only is this included in the main document but, for the first time, we have produced a separate supplement dedicated to and in collaboration with patients, EPOS4Patients, which aims to provide information in an accessible format, to answer frequently asked questions about these diseases and their treatment options as well as including useful patient resources and websites. It has never been more important for patients to be actively involved in their care. Being well informed helps you to make the best decisions together with your doctor.

Roman History

2015 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-241
Author(s):  
Lucy Grig
Keyword(s):  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Roman History ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
Clear Case ◽  
Classical Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lively Debate ◽  
First Time ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Future Reference

Let's start at the very beginning: that is, at the beginning of the history of Rome. This latest volume of the Oxford Readings in Classical Studies makes a clear case for the virtue of reprinting old articles even in an age of supposedly wide digital availability. An obvious virtue here is the fact this collection includes no fewer than seven articles that have been translated into English for the first time. In making this collection, the editors hope to show the continuing lively debate on the nature of the ancient historiographical tradition. Rather than taking a particular editorial line, the collection includes scholars with differing views as to the reliability of this tradition when it comes to early Roman history. That being said, it is not surprising that scholarship that aims wholeheartedly to uphold the historicity of the traditional accounts is definitely outnumbered by studies demonstrating instead the construction of historiographical tradition(s). Nonetheless, Andrea Carandini begins the collection by arguing once more for the congruence of the archaeological evidence and the literary tradition. The articles that follow vary somewhat in approach and in degrees of scepticism – for instance, Fausto Zevi admits a historical core to stories about Demoratus and the Tarquins, whereas Michael Crawford is forthright in his rejection of historicity in the earliest list of Roman colonies. The editors have taken the helpful decision to focus rather more on ‘stories’ than individual authors and this certainly helps shape a thought-provoking collection that can be read with profit rather than just put on the shelf for future reference. In particular, the editors’ suggestion that this volume could profitably be given to students in place of a single ‘authoritative’ version of the history of early Rome, so that they can see that there are indeed different ways of ‘doing’ ancient history, is persuasive. Finally, any selection of papers is, of course, subjective but an article focusing rather more particularly on non-literary historical traditions might have rounded out the picture more fully.

scholarly journals Ratis aemvla solis.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Navarro Antolín
Keyword(s):  
Latin Literature ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Heroic Epic ◽  
First Time

La gloriosa singladura de la Nao Victoria circunnavegando por primera vez la Tierra dio pie a un sinfín de festejos y celebraciones públicas. Se pasa revista a la huella poética que tan singular gesta ha dejado, entonces y andando los siglos, en la literatura vernácula y neolatina, huella que, si bien no es muy extensa, abarca desde el encomio puro y la epopeya heroica al símil o parangón como fórmula de sobrepujamiento. The glorious voyage of the ‘Nao Victoria’ circumnavigating the Earth for the first time gave rise to endless festivities and public celebrations. A review is made of the poetic imprint that such a singular feat has left, then and over the centuries, in vernacular and Neo-Latin literature, an imprint that, although not very extensive, ranges from pure praise and heroic epic to the simile or paragon as anoutbidding formula.

scholarly journals Los cimerios homéricos (Od. XI 11-19) y su presencia en la literatura grecolatina

Myrtia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 23-39
Author(s):  
Jorge J. Linares Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Latin Literature ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
First Time

En el canto XI de la Odisea se incluye por primera vez una descripción del pueblo de los cimerios en el marco del relato de un viaje al mundo de los muertos. En este artículo realizamos un análisis comparativo del pasaje homérico y de diversos textos de la literatura grecolatina a fin de mostrar cómo, a partir de Homero, los cimerios se convirtieron en un elemento tradicional del tema. Para ello, explicamos las semejanzas y diferencias en cuanto a la presencia, denominación, características y ubicación de este pueblo mítico en cada texto con respecto al modelo homérico. In canto Odyssey XI a description of the Cimmerian people is included for the first time as part of a journey to the netherworld’s narrative. In this paper a comparative analysis of the Homeric passage and of various texts from Greek and Latin literature is carried out in order to show how, since Homer, the Cimmerians became a traditional motive of this theme. For that purpose, the similarities and differences produced in terms of the presence, name, characteristics and location of this mythical town have been explained in each text regarding the Homeric model.

scholarly journals The Roman Virtue of Pietas and the Glorification of the Deceased Wife (CIL VI, 1527 “Laudatio Turiae”)

Literatūra ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-77
Author(s):  
Darius Alekna
Keyword(s):  
Family Relations ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Latin Literature ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Hierarchical Order ◽  
Strong Action ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Augustan Age ◽  
The Times ◽  
First Time

The subject of this paper is the multiplicity of meaning of the word pietas as it is used in the famous inscription CIL VI, 1527 called Laudatio Turiae. In revealing traditional and innovative aspects of this notion, the author tries to see the ideology of relations in the Roman family of the laudator and the laudata behind it, and to set it into the context of the changing world in the times of the Late Republic and the Principate within the Roman history.The inscription reveals that, in the eyes of laudator, pietas is the most important virtue of his defunct wife, laudata. In the course of the research, three features of pietas are marked out: 1) the virtue of pietas is operative exclusively in the sphere of family relations; 2) pietas relations always presuppose the hierarchical ones (e.g. children to the father / mother, wife to husband, younger brother / sister to the elder one); 3) the virtue of pietas always implies a strong action. Some new aspects of the functioning of the virtue of pietas can be observed when exploring the usage of the word in the inscription. For the first time in the Latin literature, the word pietas signifies the transfer of the virtue of pietas into the female domain, using it to describe the relation of the younger sister to the elder. But the most striking innovation is an inversion of the hierarchical order of children to the parents. For the first time, pietas means the duty of the parents to bring up their children in the best manner possible – an obligation which will find its place in the Roman law codes.The large usage of the notion of pietas and experimentation with its meaning, which finds parallels in the poetry of the Augustan age (Virgil, Ovid) signifies the susceptibility of the laudator to the ideas of the Augustan policies and his ideological stances.The article is preceded by a Lithuanian translation of the inscription with a short introduction.

scholarly journals THE IMAGE OF A WITCH: G. F. KVITKA-OSNOVYANENKO'S LITERARY VERSION

2019 ◽  
pp. 244-255
Author(s):  
T. Ya. Danyliuk-Tereshchuk
Keyword(s):  
Social Consciousness ◽  
National Literature ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Main Character ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Witch ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Way

The article reveals the functional peculiarities of the image of a witch in the folklore text and in the text created by an author. In the focus of the analysis is the story “Konotopska Witch” by G. F. Kvitka-Osnovianenko. For the first time in the national literature the writer has traced the way and the means of how popular beliefs or prejudices form the social consciousness. The witch's “might” of the main character gives the author an oportunity to deduce the way to the archetypal content of the image. This demonological character embodies the dark side of the female nature and exposes the attitude of a man to a woman, his fear of her power. The irrational power of the witch frightens and determines the incomprehensibility of the Otherness.

scholarly journals Diachronic model of the word “official” in the Russian language: semantic features and vectors of development

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-166
Author(s):  
Galina A. Zavarzina
Keyword(s):  
Russian Language ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Sociocultural Context ◽  
Lexical Unit ◽  
Diachronic Study ◽  
Ethical Norms ◽  
Modern Mass ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Russian Language

The relevance of this article is determined by the demand for the stereotype of a civil servant in Russian public communication and the need for its regular research in order to form an objective public opinion and determine the dynamics of social processes. The purpose of the research was to identify and describe the changes in terms of the content of the language sign official in the Russian language in Pre-Soviet, Soviet and modern periods. The methods of synchronous, diachronic, component, lexicographic and contextual analysis are used in the paper. The study was carried out on the material of lexicographic sources and modern mass media discourse on government administration. For the first time, the main vectors for developing semantics of the key lexical unit of the administrative language in the modern period were identified and described. The changes were caused by the destruction of ideologized subject-conceptual semes of the Soviet era; by the expansion of paradigmatic and syntagmatic ties, reflecting the disappearance of geo-conditioned characteristics and consolidating the features of the hierarchy of the modern management, as well as by the actualization and unification of the verbal sign. It is concluded that, in terms of the semantics of the studied verbal signs, there is a traditionally stable pejorative-evaluative emotiveness due to the sociocultural context which is reflected in associative characteristics - stimuli indicating human weaknesses associated primarily with violated moral and ethical norms. The prospects of the research are seen in continuing the synchronous-diachronic study of the most important for the modern Russian language verbal signs official, manager, bureaucrat, functionary in the lexical-semantic field bureaucracy, which is actively developing, and in using the proposed methods of analysis to study other subsystems of the Russian language.

scholarly journals Remizov's myth in the structure of Yaroslavl text

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (26) ◽  
pp. 17-23
Author(s):  
Nikolay N. Ivanov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Literature ◽  
Scientific Understanding ◽  
Conceptual Space ◽  
Creative Evolution ◽  
Auxiliary Material ◽  
Complex Phenomena ◽  
First Time ◽  
Outstanding Representative ◽  
Literary Phenomenon

The purpose of the article is to consider an important scientific historical and literary issue: the place of A. M. Remizov, an outstanding representative of Russian neorealism, in the structure of the so-called Yaroslavl text. For the first time Remizov's auteur myth is inscribed into the structure of a local text, to which type the Yaroslavl text belongs. This literary phenomenon is presented in the context of studying the author's individuality along the lines common to Russian prose: the enrichment of content, the search for new narrative and artistic forms. The following objectives of the work were also dealt with in the context of contemporary studies of the first half of the XX century Russian literature: to clarify the definitions of the Yaroslavl text and the Remizov myth; to determine the biographical, narrative, historical and literary contours of the latter; to identify and establish the place of archetypes and motives in this myth; and, finally, to incorporate myth into the conceptual space of the Yaroslavl text. The most significant results of the work are the following: the historical-literary and personal-biographical components of the Remizov myth are described; the role of folklore, literary motives and archetypes in the system of motives and images of Remizov's prose is established; the latter are shown in the context of his creative evolution. Remizov's auteur myth is integrated into the historical and literary space of the Yaroslavl text. Some observations are made on the philosophy, aesthetics, and poetics of Remizov's prose and the expressiveness of his writings. Diaries and documents are taken into account as a full-fledged link in the writer's legacy; the attitude to them as secondary, auxiliary material has been overcome. The approaches used in the work led to an original view of the writer’s skills and allowed to break the existing opinions about Remizov's type of artistic thinking. The article evaluates the artistic merits of some of the well-known works in a new way, clarifies the writer's position, shows its connection with mythology and folklore, with the functions of the components of external and internal forms. Remizov's skill is analyzed in the context of neo-mythologism and word-making relevant to the Russian prose of the XX century. Thus, scientific understanding of the complex phenomena in Russian literature of the first third of the XX century have been enriched.

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