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Understanding Integration in the Roman World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 273

Understanding Integration in the Roman World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-09-14
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Integration is a buzzword in the 21st century. However, academics still do not agree on its meaning and, above all, on its consequences. This book offers numerous examples showing that the inhabitants of the Roman Mediterranean were “integrated”, i.e. were aware of the existence of a common framework of coexistence, without this necessarily resulting in a process of cultural convergence. For instance, the Spanish poet Martial explicitly refused to be considered the brother of the Greek Charmenion (10.65): paradoxically, while reaffirming their differences, his satirical epigram confirms the existence of a common frame of reference that encompassed them both. Understanding integration in the Roman world requires paying attention to the complex and varied responses to diversity in Roman times.

Political Communication in the Roman World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

Political Communication in the Roman World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-07-31
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This volume aims to address the question of political communication in the Roman world. It draws upon social sciences and the current trend for the historical study of political communication. The book tackles three main problems: What constitutes political communication in the Roman world? In what ways could information be transmitted and represented? What mechanisms made political communication successful or unsuccessful? This edited volume covers questions like speech and mechanisms of political communication, political communication at a distance, bottom-up communication, failure of communication and representation of political communication. It will be of help to specialists in the Roman world, but also to students and researchers of political sciences, and specialists of political communication in pre-industrial times.

Game of Thrones - A View from the Humanities Vol. 1
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 374

Game of Thrones - A View from the Humanities Vol. 1

This book reflects on time, space and culture in the Game of Thrones universe. It analyses both the novels and the TV series from a multidisciplinary perspective ultimately aimed at highlighting the complexity, eclecticism and diversity that characterises Martin’s world. The book is divided into three thematic sections. The first section focuses on space—both the urban and natural environment—and the interaction between human beings and their surroundings. The second section follows different yet complementary approaches to Game of Thrones from an aesthetic and cultural perspective. The final section addresses the linguistic and translation implications of the Game of Thrones universe, as well as its didactic uses. This book is paired with a second volume that focuses on the characters that populate Martin’s universe, as well as on one of the ways in which they often interact—violence and warfare—from the same multidisciplinary perspective.

The Latin Poems of Manilius Cabacius Rallus of Sparta. On Longing, Fortune, and Displacement
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 395

The Latin Poems of Manilius Cabacius Rallus of Sparta. On Longing, Fortune, and Displacement

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-12-18
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The Latin Poems of Manilius Cabacius Rallus of Sparta presents the poetic oeuvre of a forgotten poet of Renaissance Rome. A Greek by birth, Manilius Cabacius Rallus (c. 1447–c. 1523) spent most of his life far from his motherland, unable to return. Through his poems, composed in a range of metres and genres, Rallus engaged with some major events and personalities of his time, including Angelo Poliziano, Ianus Lascaris, and Pope Leo X. His poems also reflect on timeless human experiences such as helplessness in the face of fortune and nostalgia for what is lost. Han Lamers edited the Latin text of Rallus’ poems (most of them printed for the last time in 1520) and added annotations and an English prose translation.

Dining at the End of Antiquity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 373

Dining at the End of Antiquity

The history of dining is a story that cannot be told without archaeology. Surviving texts describe the opulent banquets of Rome’s wealthy elite but give little attention to the simpler, more intimate social gatherings of domestic invitation dinners. The lower classes, in particular, are largely ignored by literary sources. We can, however, find the voices of the underprivileged by turning to the material detritus of ancient cultures that reflects their social history. Dining at the End of Antiquity brings together the material culture and literary traditions of Romans at the table to reimagine dining culture as an integral part of Roman social order. Through a careful analysis of the tools and equipment of dining, Nicholas Hudson uncovers significant changes to the way different classes came together to share food and wine between the fourth and sixth centuries. Reconstructing the practices of Roman dining culture, Hudson explores the depths of new social distances between the powerful and the dependent at the end of antiquity.

A Martial Reader
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 218

A Martial Reader

Latin selections from Roman poet Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis), with vocabulary and grammar notes. Includes an introduction, two maps, full vocabulary, and selected bibliography.

Communication and Applied Technologies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 573

Communication and Applied Technologies

This book features selected papers from the International Conference on Communication and Applied Technologies (ICOMTA 2022), jointly organized by the Universidad del Rosario (Bogotá, Colombia) and the Universidad Politécnica Salesiana (Cuenca, Ecuador), and as collaborators at the University of Vigo (Galicia, Spain), the University of Santiago de Compostela-Political Research Team (Galicia, Spain), and the Network of Communication Researchers of Ecuador (RICE), during August, 31–September 2, 2022. It covers recent advances in the field of digital communication and processes, digital social media, software, big data, data mining, and intelligent systems.

Renacimento 31-34
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 180

Renacimento 31-34

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Парадокс пениса: Уроки жизни из мира животных
  • Language: ru
  • Pages: 335

Парадокс пениса: Уроки жизни из мира животных

Эта полная искрометной иронии книга Эмили Уиллингем не только приоткрывает читателю дверь в удивительный мир пенисов животных, но и дает ответы на многие вопросы, связанные с человеческим членом. Часто встречающиеся на ее страницах забавные и поучительные иллюстрации и рассказы о спаривании различных живых существ заставят вас почувствовать облегчение от того, что вы не клоп и...

Communication and Smart Technologies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 600

Communication and Smart Technologies

This book features selected papers from the International Conference on Communication and Applied Technologies (ICOMTA 2021), jointly organized by Universidad del Rosario (Bogotá, Colombia); the University of Vigo (Galicia, Spain); the University of Santiago de Compostela-Equipo de Investigaciones Políticas (Galicia, Spain); the University of A Coruña (Galicia, Spain); and the Information and Technology Management Association (ITMA), during September 2021. It covers recent advances in the field of digital communication and processes digital social media, software, big data, data mining, and intelligent systems.