Author: Rawson, Elizabeth
Title: Intellectual Life in the Late Roman Republic
Description: Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; red dj with black lettering, mylar cover; ix, 355 pp. Contents: Romans and Greeks: a closer acquaintanceship -- Rome and the Italian background -- Patterns of intellectual life -- Greek writers and their readers -- Intellectuals in Rome I -- Intellectuals in Rome II -- Towqards public patronage -- Grammatica: the study of language -- Dialectica -- Rhetoric -- The mathematical arts -- Medicine -- Architecture and allied subjects -- Law -- Historiography and allied subjects -- Antiquarianism -- Geography and ethnography -- Grammatica: 'the part dealing with writers' -- Philosophy -- Theology and the arts of divination. Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-336) and index. VG-/VG- (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Pen mark to block. Pages are clean and clear.) .

Keywords: European History ; Roman History ; ;


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