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Roman Concrete: The Ascent, Summit, And Decline Of An Art, Thomas Nelson Winter Sep 1979

Roman Concrete: The Ascent, Summit, And Decline Of An Art, Thomas Nelson Winter

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

The evidence of the surviving literature and structure provides this chronology for the development of concrete: Fronto dates for us, by naming consuls, two aqueducts utterly devoid of concrete at 312 and 272 B.C. From Cato, who died in 149 B.C., we can discern that (a) concrete has now become the normal foundation for building, (b) limeburning is now an established trade, and (c) his recipe for cement is primitive-—even medieval—-and non-hydraulic. The year 140 saw the opening of the Marcian Aqueduct, its water-channel lined in non-hydraulic cement. Vitruvius, ca. 25 B.C., describes different cement formulations for different purposes, even …

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The Direction Of Vergil's Weather, Thomas Nelson Winter Jan 1979

The Direction Of Vergil's Weather, Thomas Nelson Winter

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

The first question one must ask of a work of literary art is purpose. Once the purpose is clear, the method of construction can be seen, and the workmanship better evaluated. There is no better shortcut to an author's purpose in construction than to see where he ends: He has total control over where his words go. Presuming a planning author rather than an automatic amanuensis, which school of writing has its adherents, one has as a corollary a literary law: if X is where the author arrived, X is where he intended to go, meditating all the while on …

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Review. Ralph Marcellino, The Greek Anthology, Selected Epigrams, Thomas Nelson Winter Jun 1977

Review. Ralph Marcellino, The Greek Anthology, Selected Epigrams, Thomas Nelson Winter

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

Ralph Marcellino has hidden, for all but classicists, a long series of meticulously polished rhymed verse in the Classical Bulletin and the Classical Outlook. Bobbs Merrill published his Martial: Selected Epigrams (a ne plus ultra, in my judgment) in 1968. This winter, he has, on his own, published a chapbook of some sixty‐five poems from the Greek Anthology.

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“Did The Romans Really Talk Like That ?”, Thomas Nelson Winter Mar 1977

“Did The Romans Really Talk Like That ?”, Thomas Nelson Winter

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

Each of the two high school Latin teachers working with me this past summer asked me how to handle such a question as I have used for the title. It gets around to the case-endings: did they really have to listen for them to understand conversational Latin, or weren’t they really talking much more simply than got written in the books? The answer is perhaps a bit disappointing for the student who wants to be reassured that the ancient Romans were really speaking English.

The evidence is architectural as well as literary. Surprisingly enough, the best and firmest answer lies …

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Emetics Illustrated: A Review Of C. R. Beye, Ancient Greek Literature And Society, Thomas Nelson Winter Dec 1976

Emetics Illustrated: A Review Of C. R. Beye, Ancient Greek Literature And Society, Thomas Nelson Winter

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

C. R. Beye, Ancient Greek Literature and Society, Anchor, 1975.

The book attempts a synthesis of several areas: the Homeric (a recap of Beyeʹs earlier Iliad, Odyssey and Epic Tradition, with some other material), forty pages of good background material on fifth‐century Athens, Herodotus and Thucydides, Tragedy (including Euripides), Comedy (also including Euripides. Justly, I think), and, for the sake of the contrast, Professor Beye includes the Alexandrian literature, a good choice. Plato, though aptly fitted into the warp of the warp and woof of fifth‐century Athens, is otherwise deliberately omitted, another good choice. The Attic Orators are also consciously …

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The Strategy That Gave Independence To The U.S., Thomas Nelson Winter Nov 1976

The Strategy That Gave Independence To The U.S., Thomas Nelson Winter

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

We celebrate this year our nation's "birthday," but 1976 is also the bicentennial of what General Washington, a master of understatement, as well as, as we shall see, a master of strategy, called an "unhappy predicament." The commander-in-chief's solution to the predicament was the strategy that won the war, and put the United States on the way towards being a real country. This solution was the thoroughgoing adoption of Fabian strategy. Looking into what this was, and how Washington made it work, permits a better appreciation of Washington's real stature in military history.

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Cincinnatus And The Disbanding Of Washington's Army, Thomas Nelson Winter Apr 1975

Cincinnatus And The Disbanding Of Washington's Army, Thomas Nelson Winter

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

Who was Cincinnatus? It bespeaks a great loss of our own traditions that there is a great number of Americans who do not know. Cincinnatus was the favorite model of Roman virtue, frugality, integrity, and above all, of republican citizenship, even for the Romans themselves. He was the farmer who plowed his own land, the man elected consul in 460 B.C., the man called in 458 to the dictaborship - the supreme but temporary military command - to deliver the Roman consular army from the beseiging Aequian forces. Summoned from the plow, he saved the Roman army, defeated the Aequians, …

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A New Prescription For A Lens To Homer: Review Of Robert Fitzgerald's Translation Of The Iliad, Thomas Nelson Winter Mar 1975

A New Prescription For A Lens To Homer: Review Of Robert Fitzgerald's Translation Of The Iliad, Thomas Nelson Winter

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

HOMER, The Iliad, translated by ROBERT FITZGERALD, Doubleday.

One of the best things about this version was Fitzgerald’s decision to use the purist transliterations: the effect of this is to invite the reader to read as if he had never read an Iliad before. A single newly thought‐out rendering can nudge the reader into new thinking about Homer, thinking which he otherwise would not have done. The ultimate way to experience Homer will ever remain to become at home in Greek. Then the experience is your own. But for the price of fifteen dollars you can experience Fitzgerald’s experience of …

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Review Of New World Bible Translation Committee's The Kingdom Interlinear Translation Of The Greek Scriptures, Thomas Nelson Winter Apr 1974

Review Of New World Bible Translation Committee's The Kingdom Interlinear Translation Of The Greek Scriptures, Thomas Nelson Winter

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures. Translated by the New World Bible Translation Committee. Brooklyn, N. Y.: Watchtower Bible and Tract Society (International Bible Students Assn.), 1969 Pp. 1, 165. $2.00.

An original Greek text for two dollars is something of a miracle, and it should not surprise us that it took a world-wide group of Bible students to pull it off. This is no ordinary interlinear: the integrity of the text is preserved, and the English which appears below it is simply the basic meaning of the Greek word. Thus the interlinear feature of this book …

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On The Corpus Of Lysias, Thomas Nelson Winter Oct 1973

On The Corpus Of Lysias, Thomas Nelson Winter

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

From CLASSICAL TIMES to the present, scholars have been rejecting Lysias' speeches. Their efforts are now complete. In the time of Dionysius of Halicarnassus the Lysian corpus included 425 speeches. Of these, Dionysius averred that "no fewer than 200" juridical orations were the work of Lysias. Including some nonjuridical speeches, he settled upon a total of 230 as genuine works. The scholarship factor and the usual accidents of transmission have left us but thirty-five. This includes two epitomes (orations 11 and 15), three extensive quotations in Dionysius' De Lysia ludicium (orations 32, 33, and 34) and the Eroticus from Plato's …

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Idyllic Greek And Honest Verse: Review Of Daryl Hine, The Homeric Hymns And The Battle Of The Frogs And Mice: A Translation, Thomas Nelson Winter Jun 1973

Idyllic Greek And Honest Verse: Review Of Daryl Hine, The Homeric Hymns And The Battle Of The Frogs And Mice: A Translation, Thomas Nelson Winter

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

The editor chose to write poetry. He succeeded. I checked him against the Greek and found him accurate; I checked him against earlier translations and found him independent. I read Hine's English alone and found it poetic. I am impressed, nearly overwhelmed. The book is fun to read, just like the original.The material is captivating, too. It provides a vision of Man and the Olympians, idyllic narratives and comic ones. Many, like that of Aphrodite obliged to submit to her own power and to Anchises, deserve to become part of everyone's general cultural background. The Hymns (with the Frogs and …

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Catullus Purified: A Brief History Of Carmen 16, Thomas Nelson Winter Jun 1973

Catullus Purified: A Brief History Of Carmen 16, Thomas Nelson Winter

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

“The obscenity of Catullus has long been a stumbling block,” writes C. H. Sisson. Carmen 16 probably offers more of an impediment to the translator than any other poem in the corpus. It seems also to have suffered more: coyly rendered, opaquely rendered, bowdlerized, and finally truncated through being misunderstood, this poem may show how some losses have occurred in the transmission of classical texts. An obvious difficulty is in the repeated first and final line. What can a translator do with it? Until recently, English as forthright as the Latin could never be printed. A variety of circumlocutions have …

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Review Of Aldo Scaglione, The Classical Theory Of Composition: From Its Origins To The Present—A Historical Survey, Thomas Nelson Winter Apr 1973

Review Of Aldo Scaglione, The Classical Theory Of Composition: From Its Origins To The Present—A Historical Survey, Thomas Nelson Winter

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

This is more bibliothèque than book. A labyrinthine gold mine, but mapped. It presents theories and ideals of style and composition from Aristotle and Dionysius to Weil and Jespersen. Also Chomsky. The historic sweep stuffs them somehow between two covers, finding and interweaving illustrations for everything, while showing developmental lines. One can read this volume and then see one’s Vergil or Montaigne with new eyes and new appreciation.

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Review Of Frank Regen, Apuleius Philosophus Platonicus. Untersuchungen Zur Apologie (De Magia) Und Zu De Mundo, Thomas Nelson Winter Sep 1972

Review Of Frank Regen, Apuleius Philosophus Platonicus. Untersuchungen Zur Apologie (De Magia) Und Zu De Mundo, Thomas Nelson Winter

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

This work examines the demonology of the Apology, De Mundo, De Deo Socratis, Florida, and De Dogmate Platonis in various aspects, noting places where De Mundo transmutes the meaning of its Greek model, the Peri Kosmou. These changes in meaning Dr. Regen shows to be systematic; they align the Latin version with Plato’s Symposium in places, and with Apuleius’ principles generally. Some changes may be illusory: does “rex omnium et pater” differ enough from ho panton hegemon kai genetor that conclusions can be drawn from the difference? Most changes, though, are more substantive. The sum is a useful …

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Review Of A. R. W. Harrison, The Law Of Athens: Procedure, Thomas Nelson Winter Aug 1972

Review Of A. R. W. Harrison, The Law Of Athens: Procedure, Thomas Nelson Winter

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

For the topics covered, the book is a useful and thorough reference. The evidence is presented, and where Harrison goes beyond it, there is always fair warning (e.g., “on a priori grounds, one would have expected that,” or “we may suppose ...”). The book is full of discussion of the finer points, and the discussion is honest and undogmatic. Harrison would clearly have been a fine fellow to discuss the Attic orators with: I am sorry I shall not have the chance; I am glad that his colleague preserved this book for all of us.

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A Protean Work: Review Of Anthony Burgess, Mf, Thomas Nelson Winter Mar 1972

A Protean Work: Review Of Anthony Burgess, Mf, Thomas Nelson Winter

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

The novel is a recasting of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex. Burgess’s love of language is becoming proverbial, and this novel is a philologist’s delight. Many of the words he uses as English are to be found in neither first, second, nor third edition of the unabridged. Browsing through dictionaries, including Classical Greek dictionaries, is part of the fun of reading this book, and was presumably part of the fun of writing it. It is crammed with significant names and with riddles, the first of which would have pleased the Sphinx, the answer to which is ingenious enough to be Oedipal. …

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The Publication Of Apuleius' Apology, Thomas Nelson Winter Jan 1969

The Publication Of Apuleius' Apology, Thomas Nelson Winter

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

How did the text of Apuleius' Apology originate? The question has seldom drawn the attention of scholars. Those who have dealt with it simply assume that Apuleius worked out and elaborated upon whatever he had actually said in court and then had the finished version published. Paul Vallette thus assumes Apuleius must have reworked the speech. Adam Abt is so confident that the Apology was improved and augmented that he attempts to determine which sections would have been added for publication. Georg Misch writes: "He brilliantly defended himself ... and he then published a long and lively version of his …

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The Altercatio Phyllidis Et Florae As An Ovidian Satire, Robert S. Haller Jan 1968

The Altercatio Phyllidis Et Florae As An Ovidian Satire, Robert S. Haller

Department of English: Faculty Publications

The Altercatio Phyllidis et Florae is an Ovidian satire: a poem which ridicules certain mistaken notions of the meaning of the office of clerk by putting them in a context in which they become justifications for love. Such satire is possible in any age which, like Augustan Rome or twelfth-century France, defines a person according to his office and thereby can see the absurdity of making these definitions into reasons for praising a person's aptness for love. If Ovid is the inventor of this form of satire, he was followed, as we can see from the Altercatio, by poets …

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Hunting Scenes On Roman Glass In The Rhineland, Michael Ginsburg Aug 1941

Hunting Scenes On Roman Glass In The Rhineland, Michael Ginsburg

University Studies (University of Nebraska) (1888–1984)

THE Roman conquerors who settled down to colonize a new province always tried to surround themselves with a new life reminiscent of the life they had left behind in Rome. When the Roman Empire began to expand northward beyond the Alps, first in Gaul and then later in Western Germany, among the many articles brought over by the Romans for their daily use and unknown until then in the new countries were objects made of glass which were part of the common paraphernalia of life in Italy. First, glassware was imported from Italy and those provinces where its production had …

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Plato, Prosser Hall Frye Jan 1938

Plato, Prosser Hall Frye

University Studies (University of Nebraska) (1888–1984)

It is appropriate that the University of Nebraska should publish, as a grateful memorial, the principal work which Professor Frye left behind him at his death in 1934. And it is especially appropriate because not only the work itself but the very spirit which animated it was engendered here on the spot, in the sparse leisure of his nearly forty years of teaching. For when he came, in the middle nineties, he had a bent toward science and mathematics; and it was here, paradoxically through friendship with a man of science, Louis Trenchard More, that he turned his face to …

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The Ab Urbe Condita Construction In Latin, Otto William Heick Jan 1936

The Ab Urbe Condita Construction In Latin, Otto William Heick

University Studies (University of Nebraska) (1888–1984)

That type of the participial construction which has been the main object of the present investigation is known among English-speaking scholars by the name of the "ab urbe candita construction." This designation is derived from one of the outstanding examples of the type of expression in view. Ab urbe candita, "from the year of the founding of the city": thus the Romans were accustomed to reckon their chronology. The current name of this syntactical phenomenon, which is at once too vague and too narrow, might be misleading. The field of the construction is limited neither to a prepositional …

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The Supernatural In The Tragedies Of Euripides As Illustrated In Prayers, Curses, Oaths, Oracles, Prophecies, Dreams, And Visions, Ernest Heinrich Klotsche Jul 1918

The Supernatural In The Tragedies Of Euripides As Illustrated In Prayers, Curses, Oaths, Oracles, Prophecies, Dreams, And Visions, Ernest Heinrich Klotsche

University Studies (University of Nebraska) (1888–1984)

The spirit of the Greek drama is preeminently religious. Not only in its beginnings, hut throughout the most flourishing period of its history, it was in intimate connection with the supernatural which entered into its very heart, and constituted one of its essential elements. The theatrical representations at Athens, even in the days of Euripides and Aristophanes, were constituent parts of a great religious celebration. The presence of the supernatural element in Greek tragedy involved a definite attitude toward it on the part of each individual dramatist. The strength of personality which AEschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides possessed made them voice …

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New-England Or A Briefe Enarration Of The Ayre, Earth, Water, Fish And Fowles Of That Country. With A Description Of The Natures, Orders, Habits, And Religion Of The Natives; In Latine And English Verse, William Morrell, Andrew Gaudio , Editor Dec 1624

New-England Or A Briefe Enarration Of The Ayre, Earth, Water, Fish And Fowles Of That Country. With A Description Of The Natures, Orders, Habits, And Religion Of The Natives; In Latine And English Verse, William Morrell, Andrew Gaudio , Editor

Electronic Texts in American Studies

This text, a Latin poem in dactylic hexameter with an accompanying English translation in heroic verse stands as the earliest surviving work of poetry about New England and the second oldest poem whose origins can be traced directly to the British American colonies. Only two copies of the original 1625 edition are known to survive; one is held at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, and the other is housed at the British Museum. The Latin portion comprises 309 lines and praises the geographic features, flora and fauna of New England, and spends a majority of its verses describing …

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