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Item Details
Title:
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A ROMAN LIFE
RUTILIUS GALLICUS ON PAPER AND IN STONE |
By: |
John Henderson |
Format: |
Paperback |
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£17.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0859895653 |
ISBN 13: |
9780859895651 |
Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER PRESS |
Pub. date: |
1 April, 1998 |
Series: |
Exeter Studies in History S. |
Pages: |
160 |
Description: |
Rutilius Gallicus was chief of police, poet and courtier of the Roman Emperor Domitian. He is a unique figure in that he can be studied in detail through both text and inscription, thereby fusing literature with history, and linking poetry with epigraphy. |
Synopsis: |
Rutilius Gallicus was chief of police, poet and courtier of the Roman Emperor Domitian. He is a unique figure in that he can be studied in detail through both text and inscription, thereby fusing literature with history, and linking poetry with epigraphy. His recovery from a critical illness was celebrated in a sparkling poem by Statius, the poet laureate whose work is currently being read with new interest. As well as taking the reader on a tour across the city of Rome and the provinces, and through Flavian history and culture, Gallicus is by turns a sternly formal public servant, a delicate amateur poet and speaker, a workaholic chasing an early grave, the darling of his people, the strong-man of his tyrant Emperor, the miraculously resurrected patient of Apollo and a soldier-hero of the empire. How long could his luck last? |
Illustrations: |
b&w illustrations, 2 maps |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
University of Exeter Press |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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