Stories of daily life from the Roman world : extracts from the ancient colloquia
Eleanor Dickey
Bok · Engelsk · 2017
| Omfang | XVIII, 162 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | The ancient preface: version 1 -- The ancient preface: version 2 -- Days in the lives of schoolchildren -- Further reading -- A well-off child -- A model child -- A student in the greek east? -- Winning a school competition -- An abbreviated version -- An expanded version -- Let's go to court -- Further reading -- Winning a lawsuit -- Two criminal trials in the forum -- The easy life of a lawyer -- Another way to resolve a dispute -- Financial transactions -- Further reading -- A trip to the bank -- Two attempts to recover loans -- A shopping trip -- Supporting friends -- Further reading -- Visiting the sick -- Responding to an appeal -- Making plans -- Rebukes for neglect -- What to say when things do not go so well -- Preface to phrasebook -- A selection of excuses -- A selection of insults and other phrases to use in arguments -- Lunch time -- Further reading -- Preparing for a guest -- A celebratory meal -- Afternoons at the baths -- Further reading -- A family outing -- Instructions to slaves -- A deluxe experience -- Dinners -- Further reading -- Preparations for a big dinner -- A dinner party -- Another dinner party -- A private dinner -- Bedtime -- The aftermath of an orgy -- Rebuking the servants -- Preparing for bed -- The conclusion -- Passages providing additional context for the colloquia -- Philogelos -- Graffiti from pompeii -- Vindolanda tablets -- Oxyrhynchus papyri -- The poems of martial -- Seneca, letter 56.1-2 -- Apicius' cookbook -- The edict of diocletian -- Further information about the Colloquia -- The Colloquia -- The hermeneumata pseudodositheana -- Language study in antiquity: who and why? -- Language study in antiquity: how? -- How the colloquia were used -- The translation system used in the colloquia -- History and transmission of the colloquia -- Other colloquia -- Appendix: a school whipping at pompeii?
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| ISBN | 9781107176805. - 9781316627280
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