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Nero’s Nubian Nile, India and the rubrum mare (Tacitus, Annals 2.61) [PDF]
This paper considers ancient and some modern thought about the general characteristics of ‘client kings.’ Arguably exceptional cases (especially Parthians) and key issues (especially succession) are examined in the larger framework of Roman ...
Braund, David
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The Evolution of Book Circulation in Imperial Age: Legal and Christian Literature
With the Principate legal literature gained in importance as consequence of the democratization of knowledge. An unlearned character in Petronius’ Satyricon sought to buy aliquot libra rubricata (law-texts), in order to enable his son to acquire ...
Arnaldo MARCONE
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Rethinking the History of the Literary Symposium [PDF]
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Greek Seminar 420 Spring 1992 UIUC +1 more
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An I for an I: Reading Fictional Autobiography [PDF]
The distinction between author and narrator is central to narratology, and to modern literary criticism in general. Why is it that ancient critics seem so often to ignore it, and to confuse the narrator's words with authorial autobiography?
Whitmarsh, Tim
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El viaje en la novela latina: El Satiricón de Petronio y El asno de oro de Apuleyo
The aim of this paper is to show how in the latin novels is possible to find some basic formal and structural aspects of travel literature.
Antonio López Fonseca
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The Case of Petronia Iusta [PDF]
This article examines a lawsuit from the 70s AD, concering a young woman from ...
Metzger, Ernest
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¿Petronio en la biblioteca de San Isidoro de Sevilla?
The author begins his study with an appraisal of the quotations from the Satyricon which appear in the Etymologiae of S. Isidore and later reviews the sources of the Isidorian worlis.
Jesús Rodríguez Morales
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The paper takes as its starting point a translation or, better, an adaptation into Italian of ‘The Widow of Ephesus’, the well-known story from Petronius’ Satyricon.
Corinna Onelli
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Food for the soul and food for the body. Studying dietary patterns and funerary meals in the Western Roman Empire: An anthropological and archaeozoological approach. [PDF]
Salazar-García DC +2 more
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