Reading the Roman republic in early modern England
By: by Freyja Cox Jensen
Series: Library of the written word -- v. 22; The Handpress world -- 15
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004233034; 9789004233218
Subjects: Historiography; Books and reading; Study and teaching; History; Roman influences; Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Reading the Roman Republic.; title: "The attaining of humane learning": education and Roman history; title: Editions and translations: the publishing and circulation of Roman history; title: Evidence of reading: catalogues and inventories; title: Evidence of reading: commonplace books, notebooks and marginalia; title: Re-imagining Rome.; title: From Pharsalus to Philippi: stories of Pompey and Caesar; title: "You are his heirs": Antony, Octavian and Cleopatra after the ides; title: Caesar Augustus: "how happely he governed"?; title: Conclusion. "[A]nother Rome in the West?".