Pragmatic approaches to drama : studies in communication on the ancient stage /

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Plutarch's pragmatic biographies : lessons for statesmen and generals in the Parallel Lives / by Jacobs, Susan G.

Table of Contents: “…Training the Politikos under Rome -- Plutarch and His Audience -- Plutarch's Concept of the Politikos -- Plutarch's Audience as Politikoi -- Political Careers Open to the Educated Elite -- Conclusion: Implications for Interpreting the Parallel Lives -- Pragmatic Literature for Statesmen and Generals -- Advice Literature -- Pragmatic History -- Individual Lives of Statesmen and Generals: Nepos and Plutarch -- Conclusion: Implications for the Purpose of the Parallel Lives -- Didactic Agenda of the Parallel Lives: Insights from the Prologues and Synkriseis -- Statesmanship and Generalship in the Prologues -- Statesmanship in the Synkriseis -- Techniques for Reinforcing Pragmatic Lessons Across the Parallel Lives -- Conclusion: Didactic Agenda of the Parallel Lives as Pragmatic Biography -- Political and Military Leadership -- Pericles-Fabius Maximus -- Introduction -- Life of Pericles -- Life of Fabius Maximus -- Insights from the Synkrisis -- Coriolanus-Aleibiades -- Introduction -- Life of Coriolanus -- Life of Alcibiades -- Insights from the Synkrisis -- Agesilaus-Pompey -- Introduction -- Life of Agesilaus -- Life of Pompey -- Insights from the Synkrisis -- Ruling and Being Ruled -- Aemilius-Timoleon -- Introduction -- Life of Aemilius Paullus -- Life of Timoleon -- Insights from the Synkrisis -- Demetrius-Antony -- Introduction -- Life of Demetrius -- Life of Antony -- Insights from the Synkrisis -- Phocion-Cato Minor -- Introduction -- Life of Phocion -- Life of Cato Minor -- Insights from Analyzing Differences -- Conclusion -- Plutarch's Project in the Parallel Lives -- Applying the Exempla -- Reception of the Lives as Pragmatic Biography in the Western Classical Tradition -- "Pragmatic Biography" versus "Explorations of Issues of Virtue and Vice."…”

Plutarch's pragmatic biographies : lessons for statesmen and generals in The parallel lives /

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Sources and Abbreviations; List of Tables; Introduction; Part 1 Training the Politikos under Rome; Chapter 1 Plutarch and His Audience; 1.1 Plutarch's Concept of the Politikos; 1.2 Plutarch's Audience as Politikoi; 1.3 Political Careers Open to the Educated Elite; 1.4 Conclusion: Implications for Interpreting the Parallel Lives; Chapter 2 Pragmatic Literature for Statesmen and Generals; 2.1 Advice Literature; 2.2 Pragmatic History; 2.3 Individual Lives of Statesmen and Generals: Nepos and Plutarch…”
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Poverty in the Roman world /

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Poverty in the Roman world /

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A companion to Roman religion /

Table of Contents: “…Roman cult sites : a pragmatic approach /…”
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Holy bishops in late antiquity : the nature of Christian leadership in an age of transition / by Rapp, Claudia

Table of Contents: “…Pragmatic authority -- Spiritual authority -- Ascetic authority -- Two unlikely bishops : Synesius of Cyrene and Theodore of Sykeon -- The episcopate : work or honor? …”
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Holy bishops in late antiquity : the nature of Christian leadership in an age of transition / by Rapp, Claudia

Table of Contents: “…Pragmatic authority -- Spiritual authority -- Ascetic authority -- Two unlikely bishops : Synesius of Cyrene and Theodore of Sykeon -- The episcopate : work or honor? …”
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Eager to be Roman : Greek response to Roman rule in Pontus and Bithynia / by Madsen, Jesper Majbom

Table of Contents: “…A Governor at Work -- Roman Rule in Pontus and Bithynia -- The Pompeian provincialisation --The polis constitution in Pontus and Bithynia -- Emperor-worship : Greek traditions and Roman influence -- A question on temples -- Greek autonomy and Roman rule -- Greeks in the Roman World -- Greek influence on Roman politics -- In Roman service -- Roman Greeks -- Turning Roman in Pontus and Bithynia -- Becoming legally Roman -- Affiliation to the emperor -- Roman names, status and identity -- Roman identity and Greek pragmatism -- Responses to Roman rule -- Dio Chrysostom : a bitter patriot -- L. …”
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Studies in rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity : text and context /

Table of Contents: “…Schwartz -- The Jewish-Christian's move from Jerusalem as a pragmatic choice / Jonathan Bourgel -- The Temple in Mark. …”
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Reading Greek and Hellenistic-Roman spolia : objects, appropriation and cultural change /

Table of Contents: “…Spolia and the Question of Appropriation / Irene J.F. de Jong and Miguel John Versluys -- How to Deal with 'Things from Outside' : An Anthropological Perspective / Pieter ter Keurs -- Triumphus and the Taming of Objects : Spoliation and the Process of Appropriation in Late Republican Rome / Miguel John Versluys -- Spolia as Exempla, Exempla as Spolia : Two Case Studies on Historical (Dis)Continuity and Morality / Christoph Pieper -- Herodotus' Framing of the Persian Spolia at Plataea / Irene J.F. de Jong -- Herodotus and the Persian Spolia on the Acropolis of Athens / J.Z. van Rookhuijzen -- 'A City Is Not Adorned by What Comes from Outside, but by the Virtue of Its Inhabitants' : Polybius on the Pragmatics of Spoliation / Rutger J. Allan -- Spoils of Sicily and Their Impact on Late Republican Rome : An Archaeological Perspective / Suzan van de Velde -- Luxuria peregrina (Livy 39.6) : Spolia and Rome's Gastronomic Revolution / Lidewij van Gils and Rebecca Henzel -- Showing and Telling Spolia : The Triumphal Procession of Aemilius Paullus in Plutarch and Diodorus Siculus / Michel Buijs -- 'The Glory of Alexander and Philip Made Spoil by Roman Arms' : The Triumph of Aemilius Paullus in 167 BCE / Rolf Strootman -- Between Triumph and Tragedy : Josephus, Bellum Judaicum 7.121-157 / Luuk Huitink -- Judaea at the Tiber : Sacred Objects from Judaea and Their New Function in Imperial Rome / Eric M. …”
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Evicted from eternity : the restructuring of modern Rome / by Herzfeld, M.

Table of Contents: “…The Wages of Original Sin -- Accountability and accommodation: the pragmatics of original sin -- Original sinners or elder brothers? …”

Roman imperial policy from Julian to Theodosius / by Errington, R. M.

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Spatial 'Christianisation' in context : strategic intramural building in Rome from the 4th-7th C. AD / by Mulryan, Michael

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A cabinet of Roman curiosities : strange tales and surprising facts from the world's greatest empire / by McKeown, J. C.

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Julian and Christianity : revisiting the Constantinian revolution / by Greenwood, David Neal, 1970-

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The ruin of the Eternal City : antiquity and preservation in Renaissance Rome / by Karmon, David E.

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