It served a poet well indeed to have Augustus for a friend. And if Augustus were a friend of poets? All the better for the great glory of Roman letters. It is this arrangement, complicated by questions of influence and accommodation and simple human susceptibility to the blandishments of power, that Peter White explores in "Promised Verse". Combining social history and literary...(展开全部)

While previous studies have concentrated largely upon political concerns, The Augustan Art of Poetry is an exploration of the influence of the Roman Augustan aesthetic on English neo-classical poets of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. At the conclusion of his translation of Virgil, Dryden claims implicitly to have given English poetry the kind of refinement in language...(展开全部)

While previous studies have concentrated largely upon political concerns, The Augustan Art of Poetry is an exploration of the influence of the Roman Augustan aesthetic on English neo-classical poets of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. At the conclusion of his translation of Virgil, Dryden claims implicitly to have given English poetry the kind of refinement in language...(展开全部)

Politics and Society in Imperial Rome offers fresh new interpretations of the politics, society, and culture Rome's imperial era. Argues that the early principate was fundamentally incompatible with the persisting structures of the Roman Republic Demonstrates how these contradictory systems affected the development of Roman society Includes case studies on the imperial court a...(展开全部)

【美】约翰·斯坦贝克（John Steinbeck） 美国文学家，1962年获诺贝尔文学奖。 一生共创作27部作品，包括喜剧小说《罐头厂街》、跨类型作品《伊甸之东》、普利策奖获奖作品《愤怒的葡萄》、旅行作品《横越美国》等。 斯坦贝克是地位崇高的文学大师，也是深受读者喜爱的畅销书作家。他1968年过世之后，多部作品持续畅销至今。 ----------------------- 译者：王一凡 文学译者。译有《故园风雨后》《福尔摩斯先生》《接触！一本邂逅之书》《夜幕降临》《无罪的罪人》《请你帮我杀了她》《许愿树》《旅行的意义》《永远的异乡客》等多部作品。

【美】约翰·斯坦贝克（John Steinbeck） 美国文学家，1962年获诺贝尔文学奖。 一生共创作27部作品，包括喜剧小说《罐头厂街》、跨类型作品《伊甸之东》、普利策奖获奖作品《愤怒的葡萄》、旅行作品《横越美国》等。 斯坦贝克是地位崇高的文学大师，也是深受读者喜爱的畅销书作家。他1968年过世之后，多部作品持续畅销至今。 ----------------------- 译者：王一凡 文学译者。译有《故园风雨后》《福尔摩斯先生》《接触！一本邂逅之书》《夜幕降临》《无罪的罪人》《请你帮我杀了她》《许愿树》《旅行的意义》《永远的异乡客》等多部作品。

While the monarchy established by Caesar Augustus has attracted much scholarly attention, far less has been said about the reemergence of the old nobility at that time after years of civil war. One clear reason for this has been the lack of reliable evidence from the period. This book goes backward to the early years of the first century B.C. and forward to the reign of Nero in...(展开全部)

The reign of Augustus, the first of the Roman emperors, has been seen, both by contemporaries and over the centuries that have followed, as a pivotal moment in the history of Rome. The final stage in the move to monarchical government and the structures he put in place, which were to last largely unchanged for over two hundred years, ensured this; but Augustus himself remains a...(展开全部)

Originally published in 1893 and never out of print, Emile Durkheim's groundbreaking work remains one of the cornerstone texts of the sociological canon--now updated and re-translated in this new edition. As the Industrial Revolution was changing the landscape of society, Durkheim presented a new vision of the social structures at the root of capitalism, and the issues he grapp...(展开全部)