Ancient Rome: The Empire after Augustus

2019 ◽  
pp. 106-121
Author(s):  
Derek Attridge
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Rome ◽  
Pliny The Younger ◽  
Roman Poetry ◽  
A Site

This chapter focuses on the institution of the recitatio, characteristic of late Augustan and post-Augustan Rome, whereby poets read out their unfinalized poetry for an audience to criticize before revising it for publication. The main source of evidence is the Letters of Pliny the Younger, who describes in some detail both the recitationes he organized in his own house and those he attended. Comments by other writers on recitationes are cited, both those in favour and those opposed, and the value of the institution to Roman poetry is considered. The symposium as a site for the reading of verse continues to be attested, and there is evidence for the continued inclusion of poetry contests in celebratory games. Other places where poetry might be found, such as walls and monuments, are reviewed.

Rome, London, and Condemning the Metropolitan Male

2018 ◽  
pp. 169-188
Author(s):  
Laura Eastlake
Keyword(s):  
Physical Condition ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Ancient Rome ◽  
Popular Theatre ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
A Site

This chapter explores the possibilities that ancient Rome afforded to writers of the fin de siècle for exploring the nature of the London metropolis, which was at once the glittering capital of empire and a site of overcrowding, disease, and perceived degeneration. Through an examination of contemporary journalism, literature, and the late Victorian popular theatre phenomenon of the toga play, it traces the growing anxieties among conservative critics like Max Nordau about the moral and physical condition of the London metropolitan male, who became increasingly linked with narratives of decline and fall and with Rome’s more corrupt emperors.

All About the Money? Authorship and Copyright in Ancient Rome

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasmina Marie Benferhat
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Ancient Rome ◽  
Pliny The Younger ◽  
Roman Literature ◽  
The Times

This paper aims at studying some aspects of intellectual property in ancient Rome, from the beginnings of Roman literature to the times of Trajan, and especially the tie between writing and rewards. If this tie is clearly established for some authors such as Plautus, it was not the most important for most of Roman authors of the Republican times, and the material rewarding was even inexistant for many of them including Pliny the Younger. Thus the ancient Rome offers an another model to consider at a time where the copyright rules in the field of intellectual property. 

scholarly journals CHARIOT RACING AS THE ENTERTAINMENT FORM OF ANCIENT ROME EVENTS IN THE CULTURAL STUDIES DIMENSION

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olena Goncharova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
Ancient Rome ◽  
Pliny The Younger ◽  
Functional Features ◽  
Cornelius Tacitus ◽  
Chariot Racing ◽  
Entertainment Culture

The purpose of the article is the introduction into the cultural discourse of analytically processed and summarized information on the genesis and evolution of chariot racing as the form of entertainment events in ancient Rome, their functional features, specific features of mass events of Antiquity in the context of entertainment culture of Rome. The methodological basis consisted of the methods of critical analysis of cultural, historical, and literary sources, specific and historical analysis, and interdisciplinary synthesis, induction, and deduction. The problematic and chronological, system and structural, comparative, descriptive methods and methods of social and phenomenological analysis were applied from specific and scientific methods. Scientific novelty. The article analyzes the genesis and evolution of chariot racing as a form of events in the context of entertainment culture in ancient Rome. Based on the ancient literary reflection, through the prism of works of culturologists, philosophers, historians, poets, writers of the ancient Rome Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, annals of Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Cassius Dio, ethic works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca, letters of Gaius Pliny the Younger, poetry pages of Publius Ovidius Naso, epigrams of Marcus Valerius Martialis and others. The author revealed the essence and content of chariot racing as an entertainment form of events in ancient Rome, statistics, and specific features of entertainment events and instruments of ruling the Roman emperors. The author describes the moral aspects of chariot racing in the context of the entertainment culture of antiquity. Conclusions. The place of entertainment culture of Antiquity in the system of cultural knowledge and cultural tradition of their social universe is revealed. The transformations of chariot racing as a social and humanitarian experience of ancient society, the political instrument of government in Rome are explored. The role of entertainment of Antiquity for modern cultural practices is established.

Eels Under Standing Wave Conditions

1982 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 492-495
Author(s):  
O.L. Krivanek ◽  
J. TaftØ
Keyword(s):  
Standing Wave ◽  
Wave Conditions ◽  
Set Up ◽  
A Site ◽  
Complex Crystal

It is well known that a standing electron wavefield can be set up in a crystal such that its intensity peaks at the atomic sites or between the sites or in the case of more complex crystal, at one or another type of a site. The effect is usually referred to as channelling but this term is not entirely appropriate; by analogy with the more established particle channelling, electrons would have to be described as channelling either through the channels or through the channel walls, depending on the diffraction conditions.

Head Size and DNA Content in Bacteriophage T4

1972 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 200-201
Author(s):  
Fred Eiserling ◽  
A. H. Doermann ◽  
Linde Boehner
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Dna Content ◽  
Bacteriophage T4 ◽  
Head Size ◽  
Virus Particles ◽  
Altered Protein ◽  
A Cell ◽  
Bacterial Viruses ◽  
A Site ◽  
Protein Shell

The control of form or shape inheritance can be approached by studying the morphogenesis of bacterial viruses. Shape variants of bacteriophage T4 with altered protein shell (capsid) size and nucleic acid (DNA) content have been found by electron microscopy, and a mutant (E920g in gene 66) controlling head size has been described. This mutant produces short-headed particles which contain 2/3 the normal DNA content and which are non-viable when only one particle infects a cell (Fig. 1).We report here the isolation of a new mutant (191c) which also appears to be in gene 66 but at a site distinct from E920g. The most striking phenotype of the mutant is the production of about 10% of the phage yield as “giant” virus particles, from 3 to 8 times longer than normal phage (Fig. 2).

957: Masters of Mictrition: The Fullers of Ancient Rome

2006 ◽  
Vol 175 (4S) ◽  
pp. 309-309
Author(s):  
Jennifer R. Hill
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Rome
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