Cicero: Epistulae ad Familiares: Volume 1, 62-47 B.C.
Professor Shackleton Bailey's edition of Cicero's letters to Atticus, also published in the Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries series, has been generally recognized as an outstanding achievement. Now Professor Shackleton Bailey presents hi...
Cicero: Epistulae ad Familiares: Volume 2, 47-43 BC
Professor Shackleton Bailey's edition of Cicero's letters to Atticus, also published in the Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries series, has been generally recognized as an outstanding achievement. Now Professor Shackleton Bailey presents hi...
Cicero: Select Letters
Professor Shackleton Bailey is renowned for his major scholarly editions of Cicero's letters already published by Cambridge University Press. This selection from the complete correspondence is designed specifically for students at universities and...
Shackleton
Sir Ernest Shackleton, known as a tough polar explorer and inspirational leader, also held the words of poets close to his heart. 'Poetry was his other world and he explored it as eagerly as he did the great Antarctic spaces,' said his friend, Mrs...
Shackleton
This inspiring story of Ernest Shackleton, whose men called him 'The Boss', involved four expeditions to Antarctica between 1901 and 1922. His incredible adventures included a breathtaking march to within a few miles of the South Pole and the amaz...
Shackleton
Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow an...
Shackleton
Ernest Shackleton is one of history's great explorers, an extraordinary character who pioneered the path to the South Pole over 100 years ago and became a dominant figure in Antarctic discovery. A charismatic personality, his incredible adventures...
Shackleton
Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expedition Told through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . . 'For...
Tullius noster: Kirjoituksia Cicerosta, E-bok
Kuka ja millainen mies oli Cicero? Teoksessa Tullius noster. Kirjoituksia Cicerosta antiikin Rooman merkittävimpiin henkilöihin kuulunutta Marcus Tullius Ciceroa (106-43 eaa.) esitellään usean tutkijasukupolven voimin. Ciceroa ja hänen maailmaansa valotetaan monipuolisesti - osansa saavat niin julkinen ura, kirjallinen tuotanto kuin yksityinenkin puoli. Lisäksi luodaan katsaus siihen, millainen merkitys Cicerolla on ollut myöhempinä aikoina sekä maailmalla että Suomessa.Teos tarjoaa niin Ciceroon ensi kertaa tutustuvalle kuin perehtyneemmällekin lukijalle yleistajuisen ja ajantasaisen kuvan paitsi henkilöstä myös häntä ympäröineestä antiikin maailmasta ja sen tutkimuksesta.Kirjan sisällys:LukijalleCiceron elämä ja teoksetCiceron teokset genreittäinAntiikin teokset ja niistä käytetyt lyhenteetCiceron teoksia suomennoksinaI Ciceron julkiset roolitKaj Sandberg & Jyri Vaahtera: Ciceron poliittinen uraJorma Kaimio: Cicero KonsulikaudestaanOlli Salomies: Roomalainen oikeudenkäynti ja Ciceron toiminta asianajajanaII Cicero kirjoittajanaToivo Viljamaa: Puheen eetos - Ciceron viihdyttävä puhujaAnne Helttula: Interpres mentis oratio. Kääntämisen teoriaa ja käytäntöä Ciceron teoksissaVeli-Matti Rissanen: Cicero ja kirjeenkirjoittamisen taitoAntti Lampinen: Inhumanus ac barbarus. Cicero ja vieraat kansatIII Yksityishenkilö CiceroMinna Seppänen: Aut possem vivere, nisi in litteris viverem? Cicero vapaa-ajallaMika Kajava: Ciceron ruokapöytäIV Myöhempien aikojen CiceroVeli-Matti Rissanen: Non tantum perfectus orator, sed etiam philosophus - Ciceron filosofisten teosten jälkivaikutuksestaInkeri Kinnari: Turkulaiset ylioppilaat Ciceron jalanjäljillä. Turun akatemia ja Cicero 1700-luvullaH. K. Riikonen: Cicero Fennicus: tutkimusta, kouluopetusta ja käännöksiä 1800-luvulta 2000-luvun alkuunKirjoittajatIndex nominum
Cicero: Letters to Atticus: Volume 1, Books 1-2
These two volumes form the first part of Dr Shackleton Bailey's long-awaited edition of the Atticus letters. The introduction (printed in volume I only) deals successively with the historical background and Cicero's relations with Atticus, manuscr...
Letters to Quintus and Brutus. Letter Fragments. Letter to Octavian. Invectives. Handbook of Electioneering
Private correspondence and dubious disquisitions. Cicero had an affectionate relationship with his only brother, Quintus, down to the closing years of their lives. The letters from Cicero to him in this collection offer an intimate look at their w...
Philippics 1-6
Invectives against Antony. Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman advocate, orator, politician, poet, and philosopher, about whom we know more than we do of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and de...
Philippics 7-14
Invectives against Antony. Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman advocate, orator, politician, poet, and philosopher, about whom we know more than we do of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and de...
Letters to Atticus, Volume I
The private correspondence of Rome's most prolific public figure. To his dear friend Atticus, Cicero reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except perhaps his brother. In Cicero's Letters to Atticus we get an intimate look at his mot...
Letters to Atticus, Volume II
The private correspondence of Rome's most prolific public figure. To his dear friend Atticus, Cicero reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except perhaps his brother. In Cicero's Letters to Atticus we get an intimate look at his mot...
Letters to Friends, Volume I
The private correspondence of Rome's most prolific public figure. Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise...
Letters to Friends, Volume II
The private correspondence of Rome's most prolific public figure. Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise...
Letters to Friends, Volume III
The private correspondence of Rome's most prolific public figure. Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise...
Letters to Atticus, Volume III
The private correspondence of Rome's most prolific public figure. To his dear friend Atticus, Cicero reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except perhaps his brother. In Cicero's Letters to Atticus we get an intimate look at his mot...
Letters to Atticus, Volume IV
The private correspondence of Rome's most prolific public figure. To his dear friend Atticus, Cicero reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except perhaps his brother. In Cicero's Letters to Atticus we get an intimate look at his mot...
Ernest Shackleton
In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Ernest Shackleton, the fearless Antarctic adventurer. When Ernest Shackleton was young, he longed for a life of advent...
Ernest Shackleton
Learn all about the thrilling adventures of the Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton and how he and his team survived against the odds. This book commemorates the anniversary of Shackleton's famous Antarctic expedition of 1914 - 1917, an incredibl...
Cicero: Letters to Atticus: Volume 6, Books 14-16
The fifth and sixth volumes of Dr Shackleton Bailey's edition of the Atticus letters contain a revised version of the text first published in the Oxford Classical Texts in 1961. Problems of dating in this part of the correspondence are severe, and...
Ice Trap!
An amazing tale of heroism and ingenuity, this dramatic picture book tells the story of Sir Ernest Shackleton's incredible adventure in the heroic age of Antarctic exploration. August, 1914: Shackleton sets off from England with a team of explorer...
Endurance
In March 2022, an international polar expedition team made an astonishing find: the wreck of Ernest Shackleton's legendary¿Endurance, lost in 1915 after being crushed by ice and then swallowed by the Weddell Sea. The harrowing story of Shackleton'...
South
Experience in the polar explorer's own words, Ernest Shackleton's thrilling yet ill-fated expedition on the ship Endurance, the wreck of which was discovered off the coast of Antarctica in March 2022. In 1914, Ernest Shackleton announced an ambiti...
Death of an Avid Reader
'Frances Brody has made it to the top rank of crime writers' Daily Mail 'Brody's writing is like her central character Kate Shackleton: witty, acerbic and very, very perceptive' Ann Cleeves A lady with a secret Kate Shackleton's sterling reputatio...
Epigrams, Volume I
Poetic concision in abundance. It was to celebrate the opening of the Roman Colosseum in AD 80 that Martial published his first book of poems, "On the Spectacles." Written with satiric wit and a talent for the memorable phrase, the poems...
Epigrams, Volume II
Poetic concision in abundance. It was to celebrate the opening of the Roman Colosseum in AD 80 that Martial published his first book of poems, "On the Spectacles." Written with satiric wit and a talent for the memorable phrase, the poems...
Shackleton: Fabric 55 :
109th Release from the Fabric Records mix series
South Ernest Shackleton
When his ship Endurance sinks in the icy Antarctic, Ernest Shackleton is left with the responsibility of getting his crew safely back home.
South!
Ernest Shackleton sailed to the South Pole as the First World War broke out in Europe, intent on making the first ever trans-Antarctic crossing. South! is Shackleton's first-hand account of the epic expedition, which he described as 'the last grea...
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Combining the latest scholarship with a highly readable style, Kathryn Tempest looks at Cicero the politician and orator, and the private man. On the back of his natural talent for oratory, Cicero set out on the path to a glorious reputation - his...
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