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Tacitus
Dylan Sailor
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Tacitus Introduction Publius Cornelius Tacitus (the name Publius is likely, but not certain) was born around 56 ce, probably in Narbonese o...
Technology, Greek and Roman
John Peter Oleson
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2014-07-30
Greek and Roman Technology Introduction This bibliography is designed to survey the role of technology in the Greek and Roman cultures and the...
Terence
Susanna Braund
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Terence Introduction Publius Terentius Afer was born at Carthage (the last part of his name means “the African”) but was brought to Rome as a s...
Terence’s Adelphoe
Robert Maltby
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2018-08-28
Terence’s AdelphoeIntroductionThe Adelphoe (Adelphi in some older editions), in English Brothers, was the last, and regarded by many as the best, of T...
Tertullian
Vincent Hunink, Stéphanie Binder
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2016-10-27
TertullianIntroductionTertullian is the first major Latin author of Christianity (and his sparse writings in Greek are lost). He was born in Carthage ...
The Sophists
Richard D. McKirahan
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2018-02-22
The SophistsIntroductionSophistês (from sophos, “wise”) originally designated epic poets, prophets, sages, Presocratic philosophers and others with wi...
The Tabula Peutingeriana (Peutinger Map)
Silke Diederich
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2018-05-24
The Tabula Peutingeriana (Peutinger Map)IntroductionThe Peutinger Map, part of the UNESCO Memory of the World Register, is a case sui generis in the h...
Theater Production, Greek
Peter Meineck
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2014-06-30
Greek Theater Production Introduction Greek theater production means the physical manner in which ancient Greek (mainly Athenian) drama was re...
Theocritus of Syracuse
J. Andrew Foster
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Theocritus of Syracuse Introduction Theocritus, the imagined father of Western pastoral poetry, flourished in the first half of the 3rd cen...
Theoderic the Great and Ostrogothic Italy
Hans-Ulrich Wiemer
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2021-05-26
Theoderic the Great and Ostrogothic ItalyIntroductionThe Ostrogothic king Theoderic is the only non-Roman ruler of Late Antiquity to have acquired the...
Theophrastus of Eresus
Han Baltussen
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2018-04-26
Theophrastus of EresusIntroductionTheophrastus of Eresus (372/1–282/1 bce) came from the island of Lesbos (near Turkey) and was originally named Tyrta...
Thucydides
Jeffrey S. Rusten
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Thucydides Introduction Thucydides is known as the historian of the “Peloponnesian” war (431–404 bce, between Athens with its subject citie...
Tibullus
Paul Allen Miller
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
TibullusIntroductionOf the three major elegists—Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid—Tibullus is today probably the most difficult to approach. He is often ...
Topography of Athens
Jeffrey M. Hurwit, Ioannis Mitsios
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Topography of AthensIntroductionThe ancient city-state (or polis) of Athens was contiguous with the region known as Attica, a large, triangular penins...
Topography of Rome
Eve D'Ambra
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Topography of Rome Introduction Roman topography is the study of the city of Rome, its monuments, buildings, and open spaces in their physic...
Tragic Chorus, The
Luigi Battezzato, Marco Catrambone
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2016-05-26
The Tragic ChorusIntroductionThe chorus was a standard feature of Greek tragedy (see Choral Interactions and the Structure of Tragedy). Aristotle argu...
Translation and Classical Reception
Alexandra Lianeri
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2019-07-31
Translation and Classical ReceptionIntroductionTranslation has been central to engagement with the Greek and Roman worlds and their cultures ever sinc...
Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature
Richard Tarrant
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2018-02-22
Transmission of Greek and Latin LiteratureIntroduction“Transmission” in this context refers to the ways in which the texts of classical Greek and Lati...
Valerius Flaccus
Tim Stover
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Valerius Flaccus Introduction Gaius Valerius Flaccus Setinus Balbus, usually known simply as Valerius Flaccus, is the author of the Argonautic...
Valerius Maximus
John Briscoe
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2017-02-28
Valerius MaximusIntroductionValerius Maximus lived in the age of the emperor Tiberius and wrote a work entitled Facta et dicta memorabilia (“Memorable...
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