Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Persuasive Language in Cicero’s Pro Milone: A close reading and commentary

Persuasive Language in Cicero’s Pro Milone: A close reading and commentary
Lynn S. Fotheringham
Persuasive Language in Cicero’s Pro Milone: A close reading and commentary - cover image 

This innovative approach to Cicero's persuasive language analyses the style and structure of one of his important speeches in more detail than has ever been done before. It applies ideas from modern linguistics (sentential topic, lexical patterning, interactional discourse), and explores the possibilities and limitations of quantitative analysis, made easier by modern computing power, in the areas of syntax and vocabulary. The result is a reading of the Pro Milone as a unified text, whether aimed at persuading the jury to acquit Milo or at persuading a wider audience that Milo should have been acquitted. This reading not only contributes to our understanding of late republican discourse, but also suggests a new methodology for using the study of language and style to illuminate literary/historical aspects of texts.
PublisherUniversity of London Press
Publication placeLondon, GB
Published on2017-09-01
Series
  • Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplements vol. 4
  • ISSN Print: 2398-8770
  • ISSN Digital: 2398-8770
ISBN978-1-905670-48-2 (Paperback)
978-1-905670-68-0 (PDF)

 

 

 

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Tacitus, Annals, 15.20-23, 33-45: Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary

  • Mathew Owen (author)
  • Ingo Gildenhard (author)
    • Tacitus, Annals, 15.20-23, 33-45: Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary - cover image 

     

    The emperor Nero is etched into the Western imagination as one of ancient Rome’s most infamous villains, and Tacitus’ Annals have played a central role in shaping the mainstream historiographical understanding of this flamboyant autocrat. This section of the text plunges us straight into the moral cesspool that Rome had apparently become in the later years of Nero’s reign, chronicling the emperor’s fledgling stage career including his plans for a grand tour of Greece; his participation in a city-wide orgy climaxing in his publicly consummated ‘marriage’ to his toy boy Pythagoras; the great fire of AD 64, during which large parts of central Rome went up in flames; and the rising of Nero’s ‘grotesque’ new palace, the so-called ‘Golden House’, from the ashes of the city. This building project stoked the rumours that the emperor himself was behind the conflagration, and Tacitus goes on to present us with Nero’s gruesome efforts to quell these mutterings by scapegoating and executing members of an unpopular new cult then starting to spread through the Roman empire: Christianity. All this contrasts starkly with four chapters focusing on one of Nero’s most principled opponents, the Stoic senator Thrasea Paetus, an audacious figure of moral fibre, who courageously refuses to bend to the forces of imperial corruption and hypocrisy. This course book offers a portion of the original Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and a commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Owen’s and Gildenhard’s incisive commentary will be of particular interest to students of Latin at both A2 and undergraduate level. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis and historical background to encourage critical engagement with Tacitus’ prose and discussion of the most recent scholarly thought.
    Print length278 pages (vi + 272)
    LanguageEnglish (Original)
    Dimensions156 x 15 x 234 mm | 6.14" x 0.58" x 9.21" (Paperback)
    156 x 17 x 234 mm | 6.14" x 0.69" x 9.21" (Hardback)
    Weight870g | 30.69oz (Paperback)
    1253g | 44.20oz (Hardback)
    Media2 illustrations
    11 tables
    OCLC Number1086537339
    LCCN2019452794
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    Languages, Objects, and the Transmission of Rituals: An Interdisciplinary Analysis On Some Unsearched Ritual Practices in the Graeco-Egyptian Papyri (PGM)

  • Sabina Crippa(editor)
  • Emanuele Marcello Ciampini(editor)
    •  Languages, Objects, and the Transmission of Rituals: An Interdisciplinary Analysis On Some Unsearched Ritual Practices in the Graeco-Egyptian Papyri (PGM) - cover image

    The transformations in ancient mind can be recognized by means of texts, which testify to the elaboration of the cultural semantic. Amongst these written sources, we can recognize some specific case-studies, such as the Greaco-Egyptian Papyri (PGM). By conducting open and experimental group research, this study aims to introduce new elements and suggestions for the history of both ideas and tradition of the scientific thought, in the frame of some late rituals. The starting point of this research is the Mediterranean Late Antiquity, an extraordinary lab for exchange, contacts and conflicts amongst traditions and knowledge: as stated by Ph. Borgeaud in his foreword, a perfect place for the study of cultures in contact. 

    PublisherEdizioni Ca’ Foscari – Venice University Press
    Publication placeVenice, Italy
    Published on2017-07-12
    Series
    • Antiquity Studies vol. 11
    • ISSN Print: 2610-9344
    • ISSN Digital: 2610-9344
    ISBN978-88-6969-180-5 (PDF)

     

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    Life in Nuzi’s Suburbs: Text Editions from Private Archives (JEN 834-881)

    Maynard P. Maidman
    Life in Nuzi’s Suburbs: Text Editions from Private Archives (JEN 834-881) - cover image 

    Nuzi was a town in what is today northeastern Iraq. It flourished as part of the kingdom of Mittanni from about 1475 to 1350 BCE, early in the Late Bronze Age. Uniquely for a town of its moderate size, Nuzi produced a huge number of documents of which almost 7,000 survive. These include economic, legal, administrative, and even a few scholastic texts. They come from government offices in the town, private houses from several of the town’s neighborhoods, and private villas in Nuzi’s wealthy suburbs. The present volume presents text editions, including transliterations, translations, and analyses of some of these tablets from the suburbs, predominantly from a single family’s records, a huge private archive, one of the largest ever to have been unearthed in the entire ancient world. 

     
    PublisherEdizioni Ca’ Foscari – Venice University Press
    Publication placeVenice, Italy
    Published on2020-05-21
    Series
    • Antiquity Studies vol. 26
    • ISSN Print: 2610-9344
    • ISSN Digital: 2610-9344
    ISBN978-88-6969-404-2 (Paperback)
    978-88-6969-404-2 (PDF)
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    Tuesday, September 8, 2026

    Il mito degli Atridi dal teatro antico all’epoca contemporanea

    a cura di Laura Carrara, Rolando Ferri, Enrico Medda 
    Il mito degli Atridi dal teatro antico all’epoca contemporanea - cover image 

    The volume collects the proceedings of the International Conference The Myth of the Atreidai from Ancient Theatre to Contemporary Times, held in Pisa on 26-27 May 2022, at the conclusion of a Research Project financed by the University of Pisa and coordinated by Prof. Enrico Medda. The papers presented here aim to investigate various aspects of a myth that had an immense fortune in antiquity and profoundly influenced art and literature throughout Western culture. The subject is approached from a number of different perspectives and methods (textual-critical study of ancient texts, historical-anthropological research on issues posed by the myth, dramaturgical analysis of plays, and study of their reception in modern authors). Without aspiring to deal comprehensively with such a broad topic, the authors have concentrated on peculiar aspects that have been less investigated up to now, and on modern authors for whom there is still much to say about their relationship with ancient myth. The contributions range, for the ancient part, from mythographers to Greek tragedy and comedy (with particular attention to fragments of lost works), up to Roman tragedy and comedy; for the modern part, the investigations concern authors from Italian, English and German literature: Alfieri, D’Annunzio, Pirandello, Saba, Pasolini, Testori, E. Pfeiffer, G. Hauptmann. 
    PublisherEdizioni Ca’ Foscari – Venice University Press
    Publication placeVenice, Italy
    Published on2023-07-07
    Series
    • Lexis Supplements vol. 12
    • ISSN Print: 2724-3362
    • ISSN Digital: 2724-3362
    ISBN978-88-6969-709-8 (Paperback)
    978-88-6969-709-8 (PDF)

     

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    Illuminare i testi: La parola-segnale nelle tradizioni manoscritte di prosatori latini

    Illuminare i testi: La parola-segnale nelle tradizioni manoscritte di prosatori latini
    Giuseppina Magnaldi
    book cover 

    Collana | Lexis Supplementi
    Volume 7

    Il volume raccoglie i risultati più significativi di trent’anni di ricerche su antiche integrazioni e correzioni con parola-segnale meccanicamente inglobate nel testo tràdito di prosatori latini dall’età repubblicana alla tarda antichità (Cicerone, Varrone, Livio, Seneca Padre, Seneca, Petronio, Svetonio, Tacito, Gellio, Apuleio e Pseudo-Apuleio, Macrobio). La parola-segnale (ovvero la parola antecedente o seguente il termine omesso o erroneo, duplicata dai correttori più scrupolosi per indicare il luogo di lacuna o di errore) consente ancor oggi di decifrare ed eseguire l’antico intervento correttivo. Si possono così sanare gravi corruttele, come mostrano le decine di luoghi qui discussi. 

     Copyright © 2022 Giuseppina Magnaldi. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    dc.identifier.doi

    10.30687/978-88-6969-605-3

    dc.publisher

    Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari

    dc.issued

    2022-05-23

    dc.dateAccepted

    2022-02-23

    dc.dateSubmitted

    2022-01-27

    dc.identifier.uri

    http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-606-0/

    dc.identifier.issn

    2210-8866

    dc.identifier.eissn

    2724-3362

    dc.identifier.isbn

    978-88-6969-606-0

    dc.identifier.isbn

    978-88-6969-605-3


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    La falsificazione epigrafica:Questioni di metodo e casi di studio

    La falsificazione epigrafica:Questioni di metodo e casi di studio 
    a cura di Lorenzo Calvelli  
    book cover 

    Collana | Antichistica
    Volume 25

    Il libro indaga le complesse articolazioni della falsificazione epigrafica, un fenomeno ampiamente attestato in Italia fra il tardo Medioevo e il XVIII secolo. Le iscrizioni non genuine o falsae, come le chiamava Theodor Mommsen, sono quelle che si presentano come antiche, ma in realtà non lo sono. Possono essere prodotte tanto su supporto materiale, quanto semplicemente su carta. Al loro interno si distinguono diverse tipologie di documenti: falsi realizzati a scopo di dolo, repliche di iscrizioni antiche, nonché testi o monumenti che si ispirano a modelli epigrafici classici. Il volume raccoglie quindici saggi scientifici, che esaminano singoli casi di falsificazione, ricostruiscono l'epistemologia della critica dei falsi e riabilitano numerose epigrafi ritenute erroneamente false, confermandone invece l'effettiva antichità. 

     Copyright © 2019 Lorenzo Calvelli. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    dc.identifier.doi

    10.30687/978-88-6969-386-1

    dc.publisher

    Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing

    dc.issued

    2019-12-16

    dc.identifier.uri

    http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-387-8/

    dc.identifier.issn

    2610-8828

    dc.identifier.eissn

    2610-9344

    dc.identifier.isbn

    978-88-6969-387-8

    dc.identifier.isbn

    978-88-6969-386-1

    dc.rights

    Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License

    dc.rights.uri

    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

     

     

     

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