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Author : Craig A. Williams
Release : 2012-10-18
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 652/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Reading Roman Friendship by : Craig A. Williams
Download or read book Reading Roman Friendship written by Craig A. Williams. This book was released on 2012-10-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of friendship in ancient Rome attentive to gender and social status, language and the commemoration of the dead.
Author : Craig Arthur Williams
Release : 2012
Genre : Friendship in literature
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 295/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Reading Roman Friendship by : Craig Arthur Williams
Download or read book Reading Roman Friendship written by Craig Arthur Williams. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive study of friendship in ancient Rome attentive to gender and social status, language and the commemoration of the dead.
Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
Release : 2018-10-09
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 899/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis How to Be a Friend by : Marcus Tullius Cicero
Download or read book How to Be a Friend written by Marcus Tullius Cicero. This book was released on 2018-10-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A splendid new translation of one of the greatest books on friendship ever written In a world where social media, online relationships, and relentless self-absorption threaten the very idea of deep and lasting friendships, the search for true friends is more important than ever. In this short book, which is one of the greatest ever written on the subject, the famous Roman politician and philosopher Cicero offers a compelling guide to finding, keeping, and appreciating friends. With wit and wisdom, Cicero shows us not only how to build friendships but also why they must be a key part of our lives. For, as Cicero says, life without friends is not worth living. Filled with timeless advice and insights, Cicero’s heartfelt and moving classic—written in 44 BC and originally titled De Amicitia—has inspired readers for more than two thousand years, from St. Augustine and Dante to Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. Presented here in a lively new translation with the original Latin on facing pages and an inviting introduction, How to Be a Friend explores how to choose the right friends, how to avoid the pitfalls of friendship, and how to live with friends in good times and bad. Cicero also praises what he sees as the deepest kind of friendship—one in which two people find in each other “another self” or a kindred soul. An honest and eloquent guide to finding and treasuring true friends, How to Be a Friend speaks as powerfully today as when it was first written.
Author : William A. Johnson
Release : 2010-06-03
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 05X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire by : William A. Johnson
Download or read book Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire written by William A. Johnson. This book was released on 2010-06-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire, William Johnson examines the system and culture of reading among the elite in second-century Rome. The investigation proceeds in case-study fashion using the principal surviving witnesses, beginning with the communities of Pliny and Tacitus (with a look at Pliny's teacher, Quintilian) from the time of the emperor Trajan. Johnson then moves on to explore elite reading during the era of the Antonines, including the medical community around Galen, the philological community around Gellius and Fronto (with a look at the curious reading habits of Fronto's pupil Marcus Aurelius), and the intellectual communities lampooned by the satirist Lucian. Along the way, evidence from the papyri is deployed to help to understand better and more concretely both the mechanics of reading, and the social interactions that surrounded the ancient book. The result is a rich cultural history of individual reading communities that differentiate themselves in interesting ways even while in aggregate showing a coherent reading culture with fascinating similarities and contrasts to the reading culture of today.
Author : Teresa Bateman
Release : 2009-03-01
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 893/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Damon, Pythias, and the Test of Friendship by : Teresa Bateman
Download or read book Damon, Pythias, and the Test of Friendship written by Teresa Bateman. This book was released on 2009-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outside of ancient Syracuse on the island of Sicily, there lived a cruel ruler named Dionysius. He trusted no one. Nearby lived two best friends, Damon and Pythias. One day Pythias spoke out against Dionysius, who quickly ordered his execution, to take place in one month. Pythias wanted to return to his elderly parents to say goodbye and arrange for their care. Dionysius laughed, not trusting that Pythias would return. Damon stood up and offered to take Pythias' place until he returned. The ruler agreed only after stipulating that if Pythias did not come back, Damon would die instead. When the execution day arrived, Pythias had not returned, but Damon still believed that his friend would be there if he could. Just in time, Pythias ran in, offering up his own life for his friend's.
