Edwin Shaw
Biographic Data
| ID | 5635725 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edwin Shaw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edwin |
| FAMILY NAME | Shaw |
| SIGNATURE | SHAW E |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cultural Memory in Republican and Augustan Rome
Cultural Memory and the Role of the Architect in Vitruvius’ De Architectura
The power of place to stir memory was well-known in antiquity, and is exemplified by a speech Cicero places in the mouth of Piso in de Finibus ( On Ends ). Piso reflects on the Athenian cityscape, and remarks on the capacity of places and the memory associated with them to stir emotion even more strongly than hearing or reading. 1 Accordingly, the role of monuments and buildings in Republican memory has been the focus of a good deal of recent sch…
Sallust, the lector eruditus and the Purposes of History
AccordingtoSeneca,inthe earlyAugustan period an enthusiasm for Sallustian style struck certain historians of Rome. His Ep. 114d escribes the work of ac ertain L. Arruntius( an author known otherwise onlyt hrough citation by Pliny), who took Sallust'sc haracteristic style to extremes. Seneca attacks Arruntius' overuse of charac-teristicallyS allustian stylistic tics: while Sallust had used abstrusev ocabulary sparingly in his works,S eneca critici…
Sallust and the Fall of the Republic
This book offers a new interpretation of the Roman historian Sallust, which places him at the centre of the rich intellectual world of late Republican Rome. Drawing on the evidence of Sallust's digressions in particular, and in contrast to previous views of his work as purely moralistic or unsophisticated, it argues that Sallust uses his historiography to advance a coherent set of ideas about the political chaos he saw around him, and to particip…
Sallust and the Fall of the Republic
This book offers a new interpretation of the Roman historian Sallust, which places him at the centre of the rich intellectual world of late Republican Rome. Drawing on the evidence of Sallust's digressions in particular, and in contrast to previous views of his work as purely moralistic or unsophisticated, it argues that Sallust uses his historiography to advance a coherent set of ideas about the political chaos he saw around him, and to particip…
Sallust and the Fall of the Republic
This book offers a new interpretation of the Roman historian Sallust, which places him at the centre of the rich intellectual world of late Republican Rome. Drawing on the evidence of Sallust's digressions in particular, and in contrast to previous views of his work as purely moralistic or unsophisticated, it argues that Sallust uses his historiography to advance a coherent set of ideas about the political chaos he saw around him, and to particip…
Sallust, the lector eruditus and the Purposes of History
AccordingtoSeneca,inthe earlyAugustan period an enthusiasm for Sallustian style struck certain historians of Rome. His Ep. 114d escribes the work of ac ertain L. Arruntius( an author known otherwise onlyt hrough citation by Pliny), who took Sallust'sc haracteristic style to extremes. Seneca attacks Arruntius' overuse of charac-teristicallyS allustian stylistic tics: while Sallust had used abstrusev ocabulary sparingly in his works,S eneca critici…
Cultural Memory in Republican and Augustan Rome
Cultural Memory and the Role of the Architect in Vitruvius’ De Architectura
The power of place to stir memory was well-known in antiquity, and is exemplified by a speech Cicero places in the mouth of Piso in de Finibus ( On Ends ). Piso reflects on the Athenian cityscape, and remarks on the capacity of places and the memory associated with them to stir emotion even more strongly than hearing or reading. 1 Accordingly, the role of monuments and buildings in Republican memory has been the focus of a good deal of recent sch…
Classical Antiquity Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works)