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Valerius Maximus was born into a poor family.
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Valerii Maximi Factorum Dictorumque Memorabilium Libri Novem: Ex Editione Joannis Kappii V.1 (Latin Edition)
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Memorable Deeds and Sayings: A Thousand Tales from Ancient Rome
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Popular in its day both as a sourcebook for writers and orators and as a guidebook for living a moral life, this remarkably rich document serves as an engaging introduction to the cultural and moral history of ancient Rome. Valerius' "thousand tales" are arranged thematically in ninety-one chapters that cover nearly every aspect of life in the ancient world, including such wide-ranging topics as military discipline, child rearing, and women lawyers. As a whole, the work gives the reader fascinating insights into what it felt like to be an ancient Roman, what the ancient Romans really believed, what their private world was like, how they related to one another, and what they did when nobody was watching.
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Valerius Maximus' Memorable Deeds and Sayings: Book 1 (Clarendon Ancient History Series) (Bk.1)
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This is the first English translation of, and commentary on, Valerius Maximus, an early first century AD author. His collection of examples of Roman religious practice and thought offers a unique perspective from the early principate on Roman beliefs about their religious heritage.
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Valerius Maximus de Dictis Factisque Memorabilibus, et Jul. Obsequens de Prodigiis
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Valerius Maximus de Dictis Factisque Memorabilibus, et Jul. Obsequens de Prodigiis by Valerius Maximus. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1823 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.
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The Students' Series of Latin Classics. Fifty Selections from Valerius Maximus
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Valerius Maximus
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Valerius Maximus owed everything to Sextus Pompeius (consul ad 14 and proconsul of Asia), his friend and patron, whom he accompanied to the East about ad 24/25. His book, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri ix (c. ad 31; “Nine Books of Memorable Deeds and Sayings”), was intended for use in the schools of rhetoric and written to exemplify human virtues and vices. The book’s anecdotes, drawn chiefly from Roman history, include extracts from the annals of other peoples, principally the Greeks. The arrangement is loose and irregular and the style turgid, artificial, and showy, but Valerius sometimes managed an effective and well-placed pointed expression, an ingenious transition, or a clever piece of fancy. Despite its contradictions and errors, his collection proved very popular, especially in the Middle Ages.
Valerius’ sources are not easily determined. He made considerable use of Cicero and Livy, and he also used Pompeius Trogus, Varro, and some Greek writers. Valerius was a champion of the empire and of the emperor Tiberius, to whom the work is dedicated, and he voiced the general feeling that the Romans of his day were inferior to their ancestors but greatly superior to the rest of the world.
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Memorable Deeds and Sayings: A Thousand Tales from Ancient Rome
( Popular in its day both as a sourcebook for writers and...)
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Valerius Maximus' Memorable Deeds and Sayings: Book 1 (Clarendon Ancient History Series) (Bk.1)
(This is the first English translation of, and commentary ...)
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The Students' Series of Latin Classics. Fifty Selections from Valerius Maximus
(Leopold is delighted to publish this classic book as part...)
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Valerius Maximus de Dictis Factisque Memorabilibus, et Jul. Obsequens de Prodigiis
(Valerius Maximus de Dictis Factisque Memorabilibus, et Ju...)
- Valerii Maximi Factorum Dictorumque Memorabilium Libri Novem: Ex Editione Joannis Kappii V.1 (Latin Edition)
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Memorable Deeds and Sayings: A Thousand Tales from Ancient Rome
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Quotations:
“Where there exists the most ardent and true love, it is often better to be united in death than separated in life. ”
“I would appeal to Philip, she said, but to Philip sober. ”
“The divine wrath is slow indeed in vengeance, but it makes up for its tardiness by the severity of the punishment. ”
