Wit and the Writing of History: The Rhetoric of Historiography in Imperial RomeUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1988 - 182 من الصفحات |
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... Seneca's style may to some extent be another such method for coming to terms with reality . Though not a historian , Seneca does deal with the same moral and social reality that is the historians ' ultimate concern . He is very ...
... Seneca's style may to some extent be another such method for coming to terms with reality . Though not a historian , Seneca does deal with the same moral and social reality that is the historians ' ultimate concern . He is very ...
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... Seneca's audience had cultivated an extraordinary sensitivity to the texture of language . To take one example , Quintilian's strange ( from a modern point of view ) remarks about the sexual depravity of an " effeminate " style ( Inst ...
... Seneca's audience had cultivated an extraordinary sensitivity to the texture of language . To take one example , Quintilian's strange ( from a modern point of view ) remarks about the sexual depravity of an " effeminate " style ( Inst ...
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... Seneca's example is a double entendre by Cato on the distinction between want and need : " buy not what you want but what you need ; what you don't need is expensive when it is cheap " ( " emas quod non opus est , sed quod necesse est ...
... Seneca's example is a double entendre by Cato on the distinction between want and need : " buy not what you want but what you need ; what you don't need is expensive when it is cheap " ( " emas quod non opus est , sed quod necesse est ...
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Ludibrium and Political Wit | 15 |
Techniques of Wit | 56 |
Enacted Wit | 69 |
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