Reading the Roman Republic in Early Modern England
Biographical note
Freyja Cox Jensen obtained her DPhil in History in 2009 from Christ Church, Oxford, where she now holds the post of Junior Research Fellow.
Readership
All those with an interest in the classical tradition, early modern literature and politics, the history of books and reading, and the history of education.
Table of contents
Table of Contents
List of tables
Abbreviations, and a note on the text
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Reading the Roman Republic
1. “The Attaining of Humane Learning”: Education and Roman History
2. Editions and Translations: The Publishing and Circulation of Roman History
3. Evidence of Reading: Catalogues and Inventories
4. Evidence of Reading: Commonplace Books, Notebooks and Marginalia
Part II. Re-imagining Rome
5. From Pharsalus to Philippi: Stories of Pompey and Caesar
6. ‘You Are His Heirs’: Antony, Octavian and Cleopatra after the Ides
7. Caesar Augustus: “How Happily He Governed”?
Conclusion. “[A]nother Rome in the West?”
Bibliography
List of tables
Abbreviations, and a note on the text
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Reading the Roman Republic
1. “The Attaining of Humane Learning”: Education and Roman History
2. Editions and Translations: The Publishing and Circulation of Roman History
3. Evidence of Reading: Catalogues and Inventories
4. Evidence of Reading: Commonplace Books, Notebooks and Marginalia
Part II. Re-imagining Rome
5. From Pharsalus to Philippi: Stories of Pompey and Caesar
6. ‘You Are His Heirs’: Antony, Octavian and Cleopatra after the Ides
7. Caesar Augustus: “How Happily He Governed”?
Conclusion. “[A]nother Rome in the West?”
Bibliography
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