Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 379 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 945 g
Reihe: Lumina
From Pliny the Younger to Symmachus
Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 379 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 945 g
Reihe: Lumina
ISBN: 978-3-11-150088-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
This book investigates one of the most polysemic Latin words, While the first chapter briefly retraces the history of from its origins, the book as a whole focuses on its uses in the pagan literary texts from the Trajanic (late first century CE) to the Theodosian age (late fourth century CE). The aim of this study is to explore the extent to which the different meanings usually attributed to by dictionaries (roughly ‘human nature’, ‘education and culture’, ‘philanthropy’) are much more nuanced and in continuous relation with one another, and how the use of by some authors often performs clear rhetorical and/or ideological strategies.
This book is therefore not only a lexicographical study, but pays careful attention to the wider historical and cultural contexts in which was employed. More specifically, the use of reveals the ways in which Roman authors considered themes that were at the core of their conception of culture and civilisation, such as the relationship between being learned and behaving morally, the ideas of moral nobility and clemency, the notion that a value concept can distinguish one category of men from another, or even one historical period from another.
Zielgruppe
Classicists, Roman and Greek historians, historians of ideas, Ren
