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A Rhetorical Figure in Latin Historical Style: The Imaginary Second Person Singular
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This article is published in Transactions of the American Philological Association.The article was published on 1975-01-01. It has received 10 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Rhetorical question & The Imaginary.read more
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Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography: Futures Past from Herodotus to Augustine
TL;DR: This paper explored the fundamental tension between experience and teleology in major works of Greek and Roman historiography, biography and autobiography, and the combination of theoretical reflections with close readings yields a new, often surprising assessment of the history of ancient history.
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The Annals of Tacitus: Book 11
TL;DR: This paper present a new text of Book 4 of Tacitus' Annals, as well as a full commentary on the text, covering textual, literary, linguistic and historical matters, and discuss the relationship between Tacitus and Sallust.
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Classical Literature on Screen: Affinities of Imagination
TL;DR: Winkler as discussed by the authors examines screen adaptations of classical epic, tragedy, comedy, myth, and history, exploring, for example, how ancient rhetorical principles regarding the emotions apply to moving images and how Aristotle's perspective on thrilling plot-turns can recur on screen.
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Narrator interventions in Thucydides
TL;DR: The main narrative of Thucydides is characterised by a third person "objective" style where signs of the narrator are concealed as mentioned in this paper, but this predominant narrative mode is punctuated by passages where the narrator interrupts the main account, referring to himself in the first person and/or to time outside that of the main narrative.
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Arms and the Man: Wordplay and the Catasterism of Chiron in Ovid, Fasti 5
TL;DR: In a recent essay as mentioned in this paper, Brookes has drawn attention to the way in which Ovid's description of the catasterism of Chiron in Fasti 5 "sup- presses Chiron's hybrid nature" as centaur "in order to allow us to sympathize with him as a fellow human."