The Shadows of Poetry: Vergil in the Mind of AugustineImperial ceremony was a vital form of self-expression for late antique society. Sabine MacCormack examines the ceremonies of imperial arrivals, funerals, and coronations from the late third to the late sixth centuries A.D., as manifest in the official literature and art of the time. Her study offers us new insights into the exercise of power and into the social, political, and cultural significance of religious change during the Christianization of the Roman world. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1998. Imperial ceremony was a vital form of self-expression for late antique society. Sabine MacCormack examines the ceremonies of imperial arrivals, funerals, and coronations from the late third to the late sixth centuries A.D., as manifest in the official lit |
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... Verse . Poets in the Society of Augustan Rome , pp . 254-265 ; on literary biography , Andrew Wallace - Hadrill , Suetonius . The Scholar and His Caesars , pp . 50-60 ; further , Arnaldo Momigliano , The Development of Greek Biography ...
... Verse . Poets in the Society of Augustan Rome , pp . 254-265 ; on literary biography , Andrew Wallace - Hadrill , Suetonius . The Scholar and His Caesars , pp . 50-60 ; further , Arnaldo Momigliano , The Development of Greek Biography ...
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... verses in undistinguished ease , having made songs about shepherds , and , while still a daring young man , lityrus , of you I sang in the shade of a far - spreading beech tree . Haec super arvorum cultu pecorumque canebam et super ...
... verses in undistinguished ease , having made songs about shepherds , and , while still a daring young man , lityrus , of you I sang in the shade of a far - spreading beech tree . Haec super arvorum cultu pecorumque canebam et super ...
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... verses every morning and then , revising during the rest of the day , he would reduce them to a considerably smaller number . He gave birth to the poem , so he said , like a bear gives birth to her cubs , licking them into shape once ...
... verses every morning and then , revising during the rest of the day , he would reduce them to a considerably smaller number . He gave birth to the poem , so he said , like a bear gives birth to her cubs , licking them into shape once ...
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... Verse , p . 161 with note 8 , " the middle 305 . " Ronald Syme , The Roman Revolution , chapter 18 , contextualizes the literary creations of those years within political events in the wider world . For a less gloomy view , see now ...
... Verse , p . 161 with note 8 , " the middle 305 . " Ronald Syme , The Roman Revolution , chapter 18 , contextualizes the literary creations of those years within political events in the wider world . For a less gloomy view , see now ...
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Contents
xvii | |
The Scent of a Rose Language and Grammar between Pagans and Christians | 41 |
The Tears Run Down in Vain Emotions Soul and Body | 85 |
Gods of Our Homeland The Nature of True and False Worship | 128 |
The High Walls of Rome The City on Earth and the Heavenly City | 171 |
Epilogue | 221 |
Select Bibliography | 229 |
247 | |
General Index | 251 |
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