W Martin Bloomer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1007948 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W Martin Bloomer |
| GIVEN NAMES | W Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Bloomer |
| SIGNATURE | BLOOMER W M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Papers on Quintilian and Ancient Declamation by Michael Winterbottom
Reviewed by: Papers on Quintilian and Ancient Declamation by Michael Winterbottom W. Martin Bloomer Michael Winterbottom. Papers on Quintilian and Ancient Declamation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. xxvi, 371. $115.00. ISBN 978-0-19-883605-6. From the vast (19 books listed in the complete bibliography), various (mostly Latin prose from Cicero through medieval Latin, text critical studies, editions, and studies of Quintilian and declam…
Latinitas
This chapter examines the idea of Latinitas, Latinity, the quality of writing and speaking a pure Latin, which in its history from the beginnings of Latin literature in the third century bce has been both a socio-linguistic and a literary critical, stylistic category. Constitutive influences have been the standardization of the language of the capital as the language of an empire, the development of Latin literary styles, and the teaching of Lati…
A Companion to Ancient Education
Companion to Ancient Education
Quintilian on the Child as a Learning Subject
Quintilian communicates definite ideas about the educability of children. From the perspectives of the history of education and childhood, his innovation is a theory of the child as a learning subject. The child (consistently represented as the male, free puer ) has a native mimetic ability lacking judgment but with a natural, almost bodily need for book learning. The teacher (not parent) shapes the child's developing mind just as if he were writ…
Popular Morality in the Early Roman Empire by Teresa Morgan
186 PHOENIX créationnisme, disons un mot sur la téléologie aristotélicienne. Celle-ci fascine justement parce qu'Aristote refuse un dieu créateur. Aristote défend les explications finales comme légitimes non seulement dans la psychologie des acteurs rationnels, leur domaine propre, peut-on penser, mais aussi au-delà de ces derniers. Or, un des débats les plus acharnés sur cette question concerne la portée de la téléologie aristotélicienne : inclu…
Constructing Literature in the Roman Republic
Reviewed by: Constructing Literature in the Roman Republic: Poetry and Its Reception W. Martin Bloomer Sander M. Goldberg . Constructing Literature in the Roman Republic: Poetry and Its Reception. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 249. $75.00. ISBN 978-0-521-85461-0. As Goldberg's Epic in Republican Rome fought against the harsh judgments, ancient and modern, that impugned the early poets, this new work champions much of the sa…
Roman Declamation
Valerius Maximus and the Rhetoric of the New Nobility
Quintilian on the Child as a Learning Subject
Quintilian communicates definite ideas about the educability of children. From the perspectives of the history of education and childhood, his innovation is a theory of the child as a learning subject. The child (consistently represented as the male, free puer ) has a native mimetic ability lacking judgment but with a natural, almost bodily need for book learning. The teacher (not parent) shapes the child's developing mind just as if he were writ…
Valerius Maximus and the Rhetoric of the New Nobility
Roman Declamation
Constructing Literature in the Roman Republic
Reviewed by: Constructing Literature in the Roman Republic: Poetry and Its Reception W. Martin Bloomer Sander M. Goldberg . Constructing Literature in the Roman Republic: Poetry and Its Reception. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 249. $75.00. ISBN 978-0-521-85461-0. As Goldberg's Epic in Republican Rome fought against the harsh judgments, ancient and modern, that impugned the early poets, this new work champions much of the sa…
Popular Morality in the Early Roman Empire by Teresa Morgan
186 PHOENIX créationnisme, disons un mot sur la téléologie aristotélicienne. Celle-ci fascine justement parce qu'Aristote refuse un dieu créateur. Aristote défend les explications finales comme légitimes non seulement dans la psychologie des acteurs rationnels, leur domaine propre, peut-on penser, mais aussi au-delà de ces derniers. Or, un des débats les plus acharnés sur cette question concerne la portée de la téléologie aristotélicienne : inclu…
Quintilian on the Child as a Learning Subject
Quintilian communicates definite ideas about the educability of children. From the perspectives of the history of education and childhood, his innovation is a theory of the child as a learning subject. The child (consistently represented as the male, free puer ) has a native mimetic ability lacking judgment but with a natural, almost bodily need for book learning. The teacher (not parent) shapes the child's developing mind just as if he were writ…
A Companion to Ancient Education
Companion to Ancient Education
Latinitas
This chapter examines the idea of Latinitas, Latinity, the quality of writing and speaking a pure Latin, which in its history from the beginnings of Latin literature in the third century bce has been both a socio-linguistic and a literary critical, stylistic category. Constitutive influences have been the standardization of the language of the capital as the language of an empire, the development of Latin literary styles, and the teaching of Lati…
Papers on Quintilian and Ancient Declamation by Michael Winterbottom
Reviewed by: Papers on Quintilian and Ancient Declamation by Michael Winterbottom W. Martin Bloomer Michael Winterbottom. Papers on Quintilian and Ancient Declamation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. xxvi, 371. $115.00. ISBN 978-0-19-883605-6. From the vast (19 books listed in the complete bibliography), various (mostly Latin prose from Cicero through medieval Latin, text critical studies, editions, and studies of Quintilian and declam…
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