Richard Jenkyns Livres

Long considered the standard introduction to Rome's influence on later centuries (the original was published in 1923), this completely new edition of the classic work brings together the latest scholarship in the field. Unlike the previous version, which focused on such narrow topics as commerce and administration, the new edition broadens the spectrum of influence, showing the impact, for example, of Roman literature, art, politics, law, and language on western civilization. With 24 pages of plates. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Très peu de choses sont connues sur le poète et philosophe romain Titus Lucretius Carus. "De la nature" est son unique œuvre connue, visant à expliquer la philosophie épicurienne au peuple romain. Destinée à Gaius Memmius, un préteur et mécène de Lucretius, cette œuvre présente un argument en faveur de l'atomisme, affirmant que ce ne sont pas les dieux qui sont responsables des événements du monde, mais plutôt les atomes et le vide. Lucretius soutient également que la mort n'est que la dissipation de l'esprit humain et qu'elle ne devrait pas être crainte. "De la nature" est une articulation détaillée de débats anciens et stimulants qui demeurent pertinents aujourd'hui.

What makes Greek and Roman literature great? How has classical literature influenced Western culture? What did Greek and Roman authors learn from each other? Richard Jenkyns is emeritus Professor of the Classical Tradition and the Public Orator at the University of Oxford. His books include Virgil's Experience and The Victorians and Ancient Greece, acclaimed as 'masterly' by History Today.

God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination is a unique exploration of the relationship between the ancient Romans' visual and literary cultures and their imagination. Drawing on a vast range of ancient sources, poetry and prose, texts, and material culture from all levels of Roman society, it analyses how the Romans used, conceptualized, viewed, and moved around their city.Jenkyns pays particular attention to the other inhabitants of Rome, the gods, and investigates how the Romans experienced and encountered them, with a particular emphasis on the personal and subjective aspects of religious life. Through studying interior spaces, both secular (basilicas, colonnades, and forums) and sacred spaces (the temples where the Romans looked upon their gods) and their representation in poetry, the volume also follows the development of an architecture of the interior in the great Roman public works of the first and second centuries AD. While providing new insights into the working of the Romans' imagination, it also offers powerful challenges to some long established orthodoxies about Roman religion and cultural behaviour.