Avdaces: A Study in Political Phraseology

1961 ◽  
Vol 51 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 12-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ch. Wirszubski
Keyword(s):  
Roman History ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Bellum Civile ◽  
Critical Juncture ◽  
Political Career ◽  
Republican Period ◽  
Velleius Paterculus

‘Audax venali comitatur Curio lingua’ wrote Lucan in a familiar line of his Bellum Civile, at a time when C. Scribonius Curio the younger had been a hundred years in his grave. Lucan was not the first to describe Curio as audax; Velleius Paterculus did so before him: ‘bello autem civili … non alius maiorem flagrantioremque quam C. Curio tribunus plebis subiecit facem, vir nobilis, eloquens, audax,’, 11, 48, 3. It seems, indeed, that the attribute audax was traditional for Curio and, if this is so, the tradition may well have originated in Curio's own time. His title to a place in Roman history rested on the fact that he changed sides at a critical juncture—‘momentumque fuit mutatus Curio rerum’ (Lucan IV, 819). And what earned him, whether in his lifetime or posthumously, the derogatory attribute audax was, I think, his political career, notably the record of his tribuneship, no less, if not more, than his character. Audax, as originally applied to Curio, was very probably a conventional partisan appellation which classified him more effectively as a political type than it characterized him as an individual. For the derogatory audax, as I shall presently try to show, belongs in the late Republican period to the current phraseology of political backbiting and it carries a distinctly political connotation. It is the purpose of this paper to consider what audax denotes in the vocabulary of Roman political life in the late Republic as well as who are regarded as audaces in Roman politics.

Roman Literature After The Gracchi

1951 ◽  
Vol 20 (60) ◽  
pp. 123-136
Author(s):  
R. E. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
The State ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Roman History ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Great Power ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
Roman Society ◽  
Roman Literature

The Gracchi in literature as in all else mark a turning-point in Roman history; they brought one epoch to a close and inaugurated a fresh one; and by their choice of means to effect their end they unwittingly determined the direction of events for the following century. In order to be able to appreciate the literature as a reflection and a phenomenon of its society, we must first briefly consider the effects of the Gracchi upon political life, and then the effects of that political life upon Roman society. The Gracchi set out to solve certain problems; but owing to the twist that they gave to Roman history, those problems fell into the background, to be supplanted by a problem of politics which absorbed all the energies of the governing class to the exclusion of the problems which should have been their main concern and responsibility.The problems that confronted the State at the time of the Gracchi were many; they were social, economic, political, and administrative problems of vast complexity that required wisdom, patience, and, above all, goodwill for their solution. By this time real political power was wielded by a comparatively small number of families, grouped round leading men; they had come to believe that they governed by divine right, and while the better among them were aware of their responsibilities, there were many to whom the emoluments of government were reason enough for restricting the profits of empire among the smallest number. During the second century the attitude of the governing class had become conservative, opposed to any change which might alter the existing organization or deprive them of some of their great power.

scholarly journals Philosophical interpretation to the history in Nosherwan Mustafa’s perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Azad Ali Maulud ◽  
Aras Abdulrahman Mustafa ◽  
Qadir Muhammed Muhammed
Keyword(s):  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
History Writing ◽  
Political Career ◽  
Philosophical Interpretation ◽  
Philosophical School ◽  
Political Activist ◽  
Political Figure

Noshrwan Mustafa Emin ( 1944 -2017), commonly known as Noshirwan Mustafa, was a prominent Kurdish political figure and Peshmerga commander. He played an important role in the political life of southern Kurdistan as a Peshmarga commander and political activist. Therefore, the majority of Kurdish people may know him as a politician rather than as an author or historian. Pondering upon Noshrwan Mustafa’s history related writings, indicates that his contributions in that area is as significant as his political career. This research deals with a side of     Noshrwan Mustaf’s history writing style, which is " philosophical interpretation to the history in Noshrwan mustaf’s perspective". It appears that Noshrwan Mustafa was aware of the philosophical iterepretations. They could easily be noticed in his historical books. He, however, did not rely on only one philosophical school of thought to analyze historical events. He appears to have taken into account a plethora of philosophical views to analyze history.

scholarly journals Tragic Time in Ben Jonson's Sejanus and Catiline

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-153
Author(s):  
Leon Grek ◽  
Aaron Kachuck
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
Civil Conflict ◽  
Roman History ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Classical Literature ◽  
Bellum Civile ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Roman Tragedies

This essay explores Ben Jonson's treatment of dramatic and historical time in his Roman tragedies, Sejanus His Fall (1603) and Catiline His Conspiracy (1611). Although the plays conspicuously fail to respect neoclassical strictures about the unity of time, both reproduce the temporal compression of Greek and Roman tragedy through their sustained intertextual engagements with a wide range of Roman source texts, including, above all, Lucan's Bellum Civile, and the works of the late antique court poet Claudian. The ultimate effect of these quotations, allusions, and reminiscences is to transform Jonson's dramas of early imperial corruption and late Republican civil conflict into proleptic visions of Roman history as a phantasmagoria of unceasing political violence, extending to the ends of both classical antiquity and classical literature.

scholarly journals João Carlos Teixeira Brandão, the first Brazilian professor of Psychiatry

2018 ◽  
Vol 76 (10) ◽  
pp. 713-715
Author(s):  
Cátia Mathias ◽  
Antonio E. Nardi
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Political Life ◽  
National Politics ◽  
Political Career ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
Medical Institutions ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Definition Of

ABSTRACT Aim: To describe the highlights in the personal, professional, and political life of the first Brazilian Professor of Psychiatry. Methods: The article draws on a wide range of documents: newspaper articles, documents of Brazilian medical institutions, scientific articles, theses, and books. Results: João Carlos Teixeira Brandão was a distinguished 19th-century Brazilian psychiatrist and leader of the institutionalization and consolidation of the field of Psychiatry in Brazil. He contributed to the recognition of the professional jurisdiction of the “alienist”, a specialized professional, qualified in clinical practice, diagnosis, and the definition of the boundaries between sanity and madness, based on scientific criteria, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Conclusion: This article highlights the key moments in the professional and political career of Professor João Carlos Teixeira Brandão, from his graduation from the Rio de Janeiro School of Medicine in 1877 to his death in 1921, when he was still active in national politics.

“It's Your Face That Is Carrying You Through!”

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 64-83
Author(s):  
Laura E. Nym Mayhall
Keyword(s):  
Political Life ◽  
Political Career ◽  
Universal Suffrage ◽  
Female Member

While Nancy Astor's 1919 victory at the polls—making her the first female member of British Parliament—figures prominently in narratives of women's political progress in Britain, the taunt thrown at her while she was campaigning at the Barbican earlier that year, “It's your face that is carrying you through!” figures nowhere in discussions of women's entry into formal political life there. Astor's rejoinder, “No, it's the heart behind it,” points to a tension in her candidacy and subsequent political career that is characteristic of modern celebrity: between the superficial and the genuine, the artificial and the authentic. This text describes how a “film star” and “a personality,” rarely seen by contemporaries as a politician in any masculine sense, successfully publicized the democratic elements of her persona in order to make privilege more palatable in the age of universal suffrage.

An Ordinary Young Athenian Aristocrat?

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent Azoulay
Keyword(s):  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Career ◽  
Political Reforms

This chapter explores the genealogical, economic, and cultural trump cards that were held by the young Pericles at the point when he stealthily embarked upon his political career. At the time of Pericles' birth, there was no “aristocracy” in Athens in the sense of a system in which hereditary power was held by a few great families. The chapter first provides a background on Pericles' ancestry before discussing the rumors surrounding the fortune of his maternal family, the Alcmaeonids. It then considers Pericles' education and his gradual entry into political life. In particular, it examines Pericles' decision to volunteer as a khorēgos, along with his involvement in the lawsuit against the general Cimon. The chapter concludes with an analysis of the political reforms adopted by Athenians at the instigation of Ephialtes.

Los capitulos como unidades textuales. Enunciados temáticos + quippe en Veleyo Patérculo, H.R. 2.1-57

2005 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Ruit Castellanos
Keyword(s):  
Roman History ◽  
Velleius Paterculus ◽  
Cohesive Devices ◽  
Text Types ◽  
Opening And Closing ◽  
Argumentative Texts ◽  
Textual Critic

SummaryThis study stays at the crossroads of Rhetoric, Text Grammar and Textual Critic. It studies the division of chapters (made firstly by Gruter in 1607) of the Roman History (Historic Romwia: H.R.) of Velleius Paterculus: the old Rhetoric text types, the opening and closing marks, the characters and personages and the thematic sentences as cohesive devices. These thematic sentences are used as introductions of chapter, and they are followed by confirmatives with quippe and with demonstrative relatives. They constitute a mark similar to the propositions of the argumentative texts, with special syntactic characteristics in the text of Velleius. The studied corpus are the first 57 chapters of the second book of the Historia Romana.

Sicily and Roman Republican History in Chariton’s Chaereas and Callirhoe

2018 ◽  
Vol 138 ◽  
pp. 127-149
Author(s):  
Daniel Jolowicz
Keyword(s):  
Roman History ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Modern Approach ◽  
Republican Period ◽  
Greek History ◽  
Greek Novel

AbstractChariton's Chaereas and Callirhoe is a Greek novel that is extremely rich in historical and historiographical allusions. Virtually all of those so far detected derive from Greek texts and events in Greek history. In this article I shift the focus to Roman history, and suggest that Rome is not as absent as it is usually supposed to be in the Greek novels. In support of this claim, I propose that Chariton's choice of Sicily as a topographical setting can be related to three episodes from the Republican period that all involve Roman interventions in Sicily. Section I: the removal of Callirhoe (described at the beginning of the novel as an ἄγαλμα) from Syracuse recalls Verres’ provincial mismanagement of Sicily (73–71 BC), specifically his removal from Syracuse of Sappho's statue. Section II: the character of the pirate Theron is freighted with markers that point to the ‘pirate’ Sextus Pompey and his conflict with Octavian from 42–36 BC. Section III: Chaereas’ triumphant return to Syracuse at the end of the novel, loaded with spoils from the Persian king, symbolically reverses and redresses Marcellus’ sack of Syracuse in 211 BC. These all have significant ramifications for how readers (ancient and modern) approach the Greek novels.

The Procedure of the Senate

1933 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 112-121
Author(s):  
A. G. Russell
Keyword(s):  
Great Influence ◽  
Roman History ◽  
Political Life ◽  
House Of Commons ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Republic

The greatest contribution which Rome made to the history of the world is perhaps to be found in her government, in her solution of political problems, and in the machinery she devised to carry out the hundred and one duties that fall to the lot of executive powers. No one institution of Rome is so interesting and intriguing in its origin and development as the Senate, which from the early days of the Republic down to the foundation of the Empire played an enormous part in moulding the whole political life of Rome; and even when the golden days of senatorial authority were over, its name and tradition remained to exercise a great influence and fascination on succeeding times. When we read of the Senate and its part in Roman history we try to think of parallels in our own government, and the first thing that suggests itself to us is the Houses of Parliament and more particularly the House of Commons. But there are so many differences between the two that it is worth while briefly to describe the Senate and in so doing compare it with our own system.

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