Frank Frost Abbott

Revival

Society and Politics in Ancient Rome (1912): Essays and Sketches

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book is aimed at the general reader, as well as to the special student of Roman life and literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 277g
• ISBN-13: 9781138566101
• ISBN-10: 1138566101
• Artikelnr.: 56894354

Autorenporträt

Frank Frost Abbott (March 27, 1860 - July 23, 1924) was an American classical scholar. Born in Redding, Connecticut, he taught at the University of Chicago, then moved to Princeton University in 1907. He died in Montreux, Switzerland.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Municipal Politics in Pompeii 2. The story of Two Oligarchies 3. Women
and Public Affairs under the Roman Republic 4. Roman Women in Trades and
Professions 5. The Theatre as a Factor in Roman Politics under the Republic
6. Petronius: A study in ancient Realism 7. A Roman Puritan 8. Petrarch's
Letters to Cicero 9. Literature and the Common People of Rome 10. The
Career of a Roman Student 11. Some Spurious Inscriptions and Their Authors
12. The Evolution of the Modern Forms of the Letters of Our Alphabet Index.