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›Humanitas‹ in the Imperial Age

From Pliny the Younger to Symmachus

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Buch | Hardcover
XVIII, 379 Seiten
2024
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-150088-1 (ISBN)

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›Humanitas‹ in the Imperial Age - Simone Mollea
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This book investigates one of the most polysemic Latin words, humanitas. While the first chapter briefly retraces the history of humanitas from its origins, the book as a whole focuses on its uses in the pagan literary texts from the Trajanic (late first century CE) to the Theodosian age (late fourth century CE). The aim of this study is to explore the extent to which the different meanings usually attributed to humanitas by dictionaries (roughly 'human nature', 'education and culture', 'philanthropy') are much more nuanced and in continuous relation with one another, and how the use of humanitas by some authors often performs clear rhetorical and/or ideological strategies.

This book is therefore not only a lexicographical study, but pays careful attention to the wider historical and cultural contexts in which humanitas was employed. More specifically, the use of humanitas reveals the ways in which Roman authors considered themes that were at the core of their conception of culture and civilisation, such as the relationship between being learned and behaving morally, the ideas of moral nobility and clemency, the notion that a value concept can distinguish one category of men from another, or even one historical period from another.

Simone Mollea, Università di Torino / Università della Svizzera italiana, Torino, Italy.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Lumina ; 1
Zusatzinfo 2 col. ill., 2 b/w tbl.
Verlagsort Berlin/Boston
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 230 mm
Gewicht 945 g
Themenwelt Literatur Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Altertum / Antike
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie Altertum / Antike
Schlagworte history of ideas • Ideengeschichte • Lateinische Literatur • Latin Literature • Roman imperial age • Römische Kaiserzeit
ISBN-10 3-11-150088-8 / 3111500888
ISBN-13 978-3-11-150088-1 / 9783111500881
Zustand Neuware
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