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Complete interlinked edition of Machiavelli''s six best known works complemented by biography and analysis: The Prince, The Art of War, Discourses on Livy or Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Description of the Methods Adopted by the Duke Valentino when Murdering Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliverotto da Fermo, the Signor Pagolo, and the Duke di Gravina Orsini, The Life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca, and History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy. Table of Contents. List of Works:. 1. The Prince, 1513. 2. The Art of War, 1519-1520. 3. Discourses on Livy or Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, 1512-1517. 4. Description of the Methods Adopted by the Duke Valentino when Murdering Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliverotto da Fermo, the Signor Pagolo, and the Duke di Gravina Orsini, 1502. 5. The Life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca, 1520. 6. History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy or Florentine Histories, 1520-1525. Appendix:. 1. Biography of Niccolò Machiavelli. 2. Introduction by W. K. Marriott and Analysis of The Prince. 3. Analysis of The Art of War. 4. Analysis of The Discourses on Livy. 5. List of Works in Chronological Order. 6. About and Navigation. Complete interlinked edition. Includes the modern view of history and the analysis of Machiavelli''s works. more...

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At his death in 323 BC, Alexander the Great ruled an empire stretching from the Balkans to India, yet the best accounts we have of his life were written hundreds of years after his death. This book presents new translations of the most important ancient writings on Alexander's life and legacy. more...

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List of Illustrations. Abbreviations. List of Contributors. 1. Introduction. PART I Situating Literacies. 2. Writing, Reading, Public and Private "Literacies": Functional Literacy and Democratic Literacy in Greece. 3. Literacy or Literacies in Ancient Rome?. 4. Reading, Hearing, and Looking at Ephesos. 5. The Anecdote: Exploring the Boundaries between Oral and Literate Performance in the Second Sophistic. 6. Situating Literacy at Rome. PART II Books and Texts. 7. The Corrupted Boy and the Crowned Poet or the Material Reality and the Symbolic Status of the Literary Book at Rome. 8. The Impermanent Text in Catullus and Other Roman Poets. 9. Books and Reading Latin Poetry. PART III Institutions and Communities. 10. Papyrological Evidence for Book Collections and Libraries in the Roman Empire. 11. Bookshops in the Literary Culture of Rome. 12. Literary Literacy in Roman Pompeii: the Case of Virgil's Aeneid. 13. Constructing Elite Reading Communities in the High Empire. PART IV Bibliographical Essay. 14. Literacy Studies in Classics: The Last Twenty Years. PART V Epilogue. 15. Why Literacy Matters, Then and Now (May 30, 2006). Index locorum. General Index more...

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By offering, for the first time in a single edition, complete English translations of Apollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabulae —the two most important surviving "handbooks" of classical mythography—this volume enables readers to compare the two's versions of the most important Greek and Roman myths. A General Introduction sets the Library and Fabulae into the wider context of ancient mythography; introductions to each text discuss in greater detail issues of authorship, aim, and influence. A general index, an index of people and geographic locations, and an index of authors and works cited by the mythographers are also included. more...

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First book to treat Pliny's epistles as a work of literature, illuminating contemporary cultural debates. more...

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