Author: FOWLER, W. WARDE
Title: Roman Essays and Interpretations
Description: Oxford Clarendon Press, 1920. Hardcover. Endpapers have some browning. Pages a little tanned. 2 corners bumped hard. Fraying and chipping to spine ends. Spine a little sunned. Boards have rubbing in places. ; Contents: The Latin history of the word religio --The original meaning of the word sacer --Mundus patet --The oak and the thunder-god --The religious meaning of the toga praetexta of Roman children --Was the flaminica dialis priestess of Juno? --The origin of the lar familiaris --Fortuna primigenia --Passing under the yoke --Note on privately dedicated Roman altars --The pontifices and the feriae : the law of rest-days --On the date of the Rhetorica ad Herennium --The Lex frumentaria of Gaius Gracchus --The Carmen saeculare of Horace and its first performance --On the Laudatio turiae and its additional fragments --An unnoticed trait in the character of Julius Caesar --Ancient Italy and modern Borneo --Parallela quaedam : The plague of locusts in 125 and a modern parallel, plagues of field-voles in ancient and modern times, 'armati terram exercent' and a modern parallel, the disappearance of the earliest Latin poetry and a modern parallel, Roman leges datae and English enclosure awards --Vergiliana : the swans in Aen. I.390ff, the harbour in iii. 533-6, note on Dido and Aeneas, Aen. V. 5-6, on the word nefas in v. 197, notes on Aen. Ix, x and xi --Notes on Horace Odes iii. 1-6 --Berthold Georg Niebuhr : a sketch --Theodor Mommsen : his life and works --The tragic element in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. ; 290 pages. Very Good- with no dust jacket .

Keywords: Roman Religion Paganism Latin Literature Classical Greek & Roman


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