Brill’s New Pauly Supplements II - Volume 7 : Figures of Antiquity and their Reception in Art, Literature and Music
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Subject: Classical Studies
Edited by: Peter van Möllendorff, Annette Simonis and Linda Simonis
The 96 contributions in Brill’s New Pauly Supplement 7: Historical Figures from Antiquity depict the survival of great characters from Antiquity to the modern world. Each article presents an overview of the latest research on what we know concerning the lives of the historical person or legendary figure and then recounts the reception of these figures throughout history, giving special attention on the viewpoints in the early modern and contemporary periods.
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The 96 contributions in Brill’s New Pauly Supplement 7: Historical Figures from Antiquity depict the survival of great characters from Antiquity to the modern world. Each article presents an overview of the latest research on what we know concerning the lives of the historical person or legendary figure and then recounts the reception of these figures throughout history, giving special attention on the viewpoints in the early modern and contemporary periods.
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Cicero
(7,265 words)
(
Marcus Tullius Cicero; Greek Κικέρων/
Kikérōn)
A. Historical dimension Marcus Tullius C., renowned author, orator and politician of the late Roman Republic (106–43 BC), was born in Arpinum in southern Latium. Through his father's connections, he received his education at Rome from the foremost orators (Lucius Licinius Crassus and Marcus Antonius) and jurists of the day (Mucius Scaevola Augur and Mucius Scaevola Pontifex). He achieved his first successes as a lawyer with his defence of Quincti…
Date:
2016-02-22
Claudius
(4,929 words)
(
Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus; Greek Κλαύδιος/
Klaúdios)
A. Historical dimension C. (10 BC–AD 54), the fourth Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, was born Tiberius C. Drusus at Lugdunum (modern Lyon), the youngest son of Drusus Maior and Antonia Minor, brother to Germanicus in Lugdunum (Lyon). His family kept him from public sight because of physical and (slight) mental impairment following either a nervous affliction or premature birth. As a young man, he devoted himsel…
Date:
2016-02-22
Cleopatra
(9,609 words)
(Κλεοπάτρα/
Kleopátra; Latin
Cleopatra)
A. Historical dimension C. VII Philopator (69–30 BC) was the last queen of the Egyptian Ptolemaic kingdom and hence also its last Pharaoh. The daughter of Ptolemy XII, she was born into the royal Hellenistic dynasty that traced its line back to the Macedonian Ptolemy I (a general of Alexander the Great). The epithet "Egyptian woman" used – mostly disparagingly – by Roman contemporaries is therefore historically incorrect [29.34]. She assumed the regency in 51 BC with her brother-husband Ptolemy XIII, ten years her junior. T…
Date:
2016-02-22
Clodia
(2,989 words)
(
Clodia, also
Clodia Metelli; Greek Κλωδία/
Klōdía)
A. Historical dimension C. was born into the Roman patrician
gens Claudii around 94 BC, the second daughter of the consul Appius Claudius Pulcher and elder sister of Publius Clodius Pulcher (people's tribune 59–52 BC) [24.]. After her marriage to the influential Quintus Metellus Celer, her cousin on her mother's side, she became the most notorious woman in Rome. Her supposed infidelities and her debauched way of life were the stuff of gossip across the city [24.36]. As a person in the public eye whose family connections b…
Date:
2016-02-22