Elisa Della Calce
Author
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Clemency plays an important role among Livy's concepts of value. This work offers a wide-ranging analysis of this virtue, in order to highlight its impact and pattern of distribution in Livy's History of Rome. Clemency is pleaded, exercised or denied within different areas (family, especially concerning fathers and sons, justice and army), which are all characterized by an uneven relationship between those who decide to exercise it or not, and those...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2025]
Description
The Global Latin II Conference has highlighted the role of the Latin language as cultural medium between West and East. Adopting a diachronic perspective which spans from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age, the conference and its proceedings have paid special attention to texts related to Africa and Asia. The richness of literary genres as well as the dialogue between the Humanities and hard sciences characterize this volume. Students of Classics will...