170 research outputs found
Valerius Maximus and Exemplum
No full textValerius Maximus' exempla collection, Facta et dicta memorabilia, has for a long time stayed out of focus of modern literary science. Viewed rather as a practical handbook for orators, it had earned criticism for its allegedly low literary value, especially in the first half of the 20th century. Although this view was later revised at least to some extent, and Valerius was admitted to have literary ambitions in so far that his work was characterized as an original literary achievement of an author who in his collection presented a summary of moral values and standards of his time, the interest in his work has stayed rather fragmented, with researchers preferring to analyze only its specific aspects (such as ethics, religion, historical reflection, etc.). This thesis aims for a comprehensive view of Valerius' collection as a whole against the analysis of theoretical interpretation of exemplum as preserved within the Roman theoretical rhetorical writings. The interpretation is performed by the analysis of the whole, examining the way the entire collection is arranged, through the description of the structure and division of individual chapters, down to the level of the core structural unit, the exemplum. It emphasizes information related to the work's focus or to the inclusion of specific topics that Valerius..
Die Gartenlaube, 1882
No full textAn issue of Die Gartenlaube containing an article celebrating one hundred years of aeronautics, with illustrations of various historical airships (on pages 215-218).For more information about this item, visit https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/digital_objects/73
Verecundia in Livy and Valerius Maximus
No full textThis thesis considers the ways in which Livy and Valerius Maximus integrate the Roman emotion verecundia into their exemplary pasts. It asks what nuance verecundia adds to the moral and historical narratives in which it is embedded. By so doing, this thesis achieves three interwoven objectives. It deepens our understanding of how verecundia was conceptualised during the Principate; provides new interpretations of the ways in which literature explored and engaged the (exemplary) past to explore moral issues; and, consequently, reveals something of the concerns of each author within their socio-political milieu. Both Livy and Valerius Maximus extend and adapt Cicero's philosophical conceptualisation of verecundia as a moral quality that regulates appropriate behaviour. Livy's use of verecundia reflects an anxiety about ethical governance and its effect on Rome's imperial reputation, which challenges traditional understandings of Livy as a patriotic author whose history legitimises Roman hegemony. Complementary analysis of Valerius Maximus' collection of moral-didactic anecdotes (exempla) reveals the complex workings of verecundia as a social mechanism which produces 'correct' behaviour. Valerius' assertion that domestic officium et verecundia are the foundation of territorial acquisitions extends Livy's thinking as it recognises a symbiotic relationship between the behaviour of the Roman elite and their imperial endeavours. Comparison of Livy and Valerius' treatment of verecundia in episodes about women exposes how gendered assumptions about proper female conduct have distorted modern scholarship's translation and interpretation of the original Latin texts. This thesis demonstrates that verecundia was understood as a vital social, political, and cultural quality that was integral to recognisably honourable action in all spheres of life, both at home and abroad.</p
Gradivus földművesei (Valerius Flaccus 5, 142: ruricolae, Gradive, tui)
No full textValerius Flaccus Argonauticája 5, 142 ruricolae, Gradive, tui kifejezésének értelmezése vitatott: az apollóniosi eredeti mögött valószínűleg egy a görög költő által még ismert, a vasérc mosására vonatkozó forrás állt. Apollónios Rhodios Chalybsökről adott, általa még szó szerint értett információit Valerius Flaccus fordítása a vaskorhoz kapcsolódó római képzetek jegyében romanizálva, metaforikus értelemben adja vissza.
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The interpretation of the expression ’ruricolae, Gradive, tui’ from the Argonautica 5, 142 of Valerius Flaccus is controversial: behind the original of Apollonios most probably there was a fountain referring to the cleaning of iron ore, which was known by the Greek author. The information given by Apollonios Rhodios about Chalybes, which were taken by him literally, were interpreted by Valerius Flaccus in a romanized, metaphoric sense, of Roman ideas regarding the iron age
Valerius Maximus on Vice: a commentary on Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 9.1-11
No full textThe Facta et Dicta Memorabilia of Valerius Maximus, written during the formative stages of the Roman imperial system, survives as a near unique instance of an entire work composed in the genre of Latin exemplary literature. By providing the first detailed historical and historiographical commentary on Book 9 of this prose text - a section of the work dealing principally with vice and immorality - this thesis examines how an author employs material predominantly from the earlier, Republican, period in order to validate the value system which the Romans believed was the basis of their world domination and to justify the reign of the Julio-Claudian family. By detailed analysis of the sources of Valerius' material, of the way he transforms it within his chosen genre, and of how he frames his exempla, this thesis illuminates the contribution of an often overlooked author to the historiography of the Roman Empire
Valerius Maximus on the Legal Procedure of the Plebeian Tribunes
No full textСтатья посвящена проблеме роли плебейских трибунов в римском судопроизводстве. Автор анализирует сведения об участии данных магистратов в судебной практике, содержащиеся в сочинении Валерия Максима "Достопамятные деяния и изречения". The article is devoted to the problem of the role of the plebeian tribunes in the Roman judicial proceedings. The author analyses the evidences about the participation of these magistrates in the Roman judicial proceedings contained in Valerius Maximus' "Memorable Deeds and Sayings".Статья подготовлена при поддержке Министерства образования и науки РФ, проект "Междисциплинарные исследования публично-правовых систем и политической культуры античных социумов с применением информационных технологий", темплан ЯрГУ (ЗН-1094)
Valerius Maximus’ Facta et Dicta Memorabilia and the Roman Biographical Tradition
No full textThe Facta et dicta memorabilia contains, as the title suggests, the “Memorable Deeds and Sayings” of famous men both Roman and foreign, penned by its author Valerius Maximus about whom little is known apart from his time of writing somewhere in the middle of the emperor Tiberius’ reign. The work offers to the reader, ancient and modern alike, a treasure trove of anecdotes that can comfortably be used by authors to illustrate behaviour or to add spice to a description. Indeed, the exempla, as the anecdotes are normally categorised in a rhetorical sense, are most likely to have been used by authors from the fields of declamation, historiography, or biography. What, however, does this practice – the mining of a text rich in exempla – tell us about the original goal of the work from which the exempla were taken? I will examine closely the authorial comments that Valerius makes, most conspicuous in the preface to the Facta et dicta memorabilia, but also noticeable throughout the work. From this I will show that Valerius uses key language that enables us to perceive a connection with the genre of works entitled De viris illustribus, a branch of Latin literature akin to biography, and which permits us to posit that the Facta may be a sub-species of biography
Scire nefas homini: Vatic Voices and the Perils of Prophecy in Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, and Statius
No full textThis thesis will explore episodes of divination and the vatic praxis of three poets of the Latin Imperial period. The texts to be examined are Lucan’s De Bello Civili, Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica, and Statius’ Thebaid. In Chapter One four episodes of divination in Lucan’s civil war epic (in Books 1, 5, 6, and 9) will be examined for the way in which they reveal elements of Lucan’s vatic praxis and the author’s notions of the limitations placed upon his own vatic persona as an author of historical epic. Lucan’s apostrophe at the start of Book 2 will also be examined as it reveals the narrator’s attitude toward mankind’s obsession with learning the future through divination - an attitude that will be critiqued by Statius in particular. Chapter Two begins with a discussion of the consecutive prophecies of Mopsus and Idmon in Book 1 of Valerius’ Argonautica. The technique of consecutive prophecies is borrowed from Lucan and I will explore the ways in which Valerius uses this episode to comment on Lucan’s vatic praxis and to advance his own argument about the importance of delivery and interpretation of prophecies. The way that various allusions to Lucan’s vatic voices have an effect on the trustworthiness of Valerius’ seers will also be examined. The second half of Chapter Two deals with the consecutive prophecies of Melampus and Amphiaraus in Book 3 of Statius’ Thebaid. Statius’ use of consecutive prophecies signals another moment of intertextuality with Lucan’s vatic technique, and I will argue that in the apostrophe that follows directly on from Melampus’ and Amphiaraus’ prophecies Statius alludes to and engages with Lucan’s vatic praxis and criticises his forgiving attitude towards mankind’s need for divination
The iudgement, or exposition of dreames, written by Artimodorus, an auntient and famous author, first in Greeke, then translated into Latin, after into French, and now into English [electronic resource]
No full textA translation, possibly by Robert Wood, of: Daldianus Artemidorus. Oneirocritica.Printer's name from STC."A little epitomy of Valerius Maximus, concerning dreames" has caption title.Numerous mispaginations; 169, final numbered page, misnumbered 174.Final leaf is blank.Signatures: A-N.Some print show-through.Reproduction of the original in the Cambridge University Library.STC (2nd ed.)Electronic reproduction
GAIUS VALERIUS MAXIMUS, OR THE MORALISING HISTORY, ITS FATES THROUGHOUT THE PAST CENTURIES AND THE POLISH TRANSLATION OF BOOK IV 1-15
No full textG. Valerius Maximus, a roman author living in the times of Augustus and Tiberius, wrote somewhat singular volume entitled Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri novem. Its intention was to supply teachers of schools of rhetoric with historical material that they were to use in teaching and resuscitating mores maiorum as well as in drafting moralising speeches. Nine books demonstrate over 950 examples taken from history of Rome (exempla domestica) and foreign nations (exempla externa). Valerius took the generally well-know historic figures, their fates, events and sayings, adopted from various historians and writers and arranged them according to virtues and vices. His historiographic method relied on the Cyceronian concept which was founded on two canonical premises: “historia magistra vitae” and “historia opus oratori magnum maxime”. The introductions to almost every chapter, whose number exceeds 90, are the most original fragments. Facta et dicta memorabilia, with its air of Roman tradition, patriotic and humanitarian notions and feelings enjoyed great popularity throughout the ages, as a reference work on general history of antiquity and handbook of Latin. That students were able to learn moral values on actual examples was even more important. In Poland, Valerius’ work was known since the times of Wincenty Kadłubek (12th/13th cent.); in the 15th-17th century the volume is discussed at lectures at the Academy of Cracow, is referenced or quoted in the writings of Polish historians and writers (Paweł of Krosno, Marcin Bielski, Stanisław Iłowski, Krzysztof Opaliński and others). 1609 saw the publication of a somewhat peculiar translation by Andrzej Wargocki, in which the translator not only omitted certain parts, but also extended the text by examples taken from the history of Poland. The author of the paper argues that a new Polish translation of the antique monument be made and himself translates fragments 4, 1, praef., 1-15.Based on Facta et dicta memorabilia by Valerius Maximus, the author discusses a type of moralising history in the ancient times and selected examples of its fates in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque periods in Europe, Poland in particular. The quoted translations of excerpts from Book IV indicate the need to effect a Polish translation of the text.919721812Studia Europaea Gnesnensi
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