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(book reviews)
Renaissance Quarterly; 12/22/1997; Murphy, Stephen; 710 words
; ... The immense popularity of Valerius Maximus throughout the Middle Ages ... from the succinctness of Valerius. The notes are instructive ... As a collection of exempla, Valerius's work is organized thematically ... institutions and traditions, Valerius goes on to give examples of ...
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Introduction: Cornelia and her maternal legacy.(Critical essay)
Helios; 9/22/2006; Hallett, Judith P.; 12653 words
; ... first-century C.E. writer Valerius Maximus. Valerius writes that when a woman ... 12) If we are to trust Valerius Maximus 6.2.3, the conduct of Scipio ... refused. Our source, again Valerius Maximus, praises her at 3.8.6 for ...
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Exemplary grief: gender and virtue in Seneca's consolations to women.
Helios; 3/22/2006; Wilcox, Amanda; 11797 words
; ... appears, for example, in Valerius Maximus under the rubric of ... moment of receiving news of his son's death ... circumstances, for he hears the news while in service to ... story (Livy 2.8.6-8; Valerius Maximus 5.10.1), Pulvillus's ... Bloomer, W. M. 1992. Valerius Maximus ...
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The classic woman? (new ways of studying women's lives in ancient Greece and Rome)
History Today; 7/1/1993; Beard, Mary; 3042 words
; ... in any case, a tiny minority, news-worthy exceptions (the Princess ... upright old Roman (according to Valerius Maximus, a writer of the first century ... depended mostly on which window, Valerius Maximus or Catullus, say, they chose to ... have just quoted. Who was this Valerius ...
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Dance as power: the women at the baths in Roman Scandals.(women's studies)(Critical essay)
Helios; 9/22/2005; Scodel, Ruth; 5407 words
; ... taster of the evil emperor Valerius and an ally of the good Josephus ... the dream-papyrus that showed Valerius's bribes of senators, he recognizes ... event. The tower is marked with Valerius's name. The inscription around ... traditional Roman virtue that Valerius conspicuously lacks: Restitut ... sic] ...
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Perche non si usa allegare i Romani: Machiavelli and the Florentine militia of 1506.
Renaissance Quarterly; 3/22/2002; Hornqvist, Mikael; 19614 words
; ... d'Appiano, lord of Piombino. (42) Additional news reached him at the end of the month when ... the chancery, vividly described how the news was received in Florence: Here it is not ... all the people here have taken in the news of the recovery of that city of Pisa: in ...
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Anniversaries
The Independent - London; 4/14/1997; 72 words
; ... 1865. Today is the Feast Day of Saints Antony, John and Eustace, St Ardalion, St Benezet, St Bernard of Tiron or Abbeville, St Caradoc, St John of Vilna, St Lambert of Lyons, Saints Tiburtius, Valerius and Maximus and The Martyrs of Lithuania.
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Marriage and exile: Cicero's letters to Terentia.
Helios; 9/22/2003; Grebe, Sabine; 9602 words
; ... historian Sallust and then M. Valerius Messalla Corvinus, who had ... age of 103 (Pliny, HN 7.158; Valerius Maximus 8.13.6). III. The Celebration ... subleventur. nam ad me P. Valerius, homo officiosus, scripsit ... Laudatio Turiae; Valerius Maximus 4.4 praef. (about Cornelia ...
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The Pharisee and the Tax Collector: An Agonistic Story
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 4/1/2007; Doran, Robert; 4290 words
; ... of who is the happiest human. Valerius Maximus (7.1.2) and Pliny (Nat. Hist ... produce of his small estate. Valerius Maximus comments on the insolence of ... element of the comic. Porphyry, Valerius Maximus, and Pliny all tell the stories ...
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Gazette: Anniversaries
The Independent - London; 4/14/1999; 130 words
; ... Benezet, St Bernard of Tiron or Abbeville, St Caradoc, St John of Vilna, St Lambert of Lyons, Saints Tiburtius, Valerius and Maximus and the Martyrs of Lithuania. It is also the first day of the Sikh New Year.
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