Clemency as a Virtue

TL;DR: Forgiveness: the self transformed self-forgiveness as discussed by the authors is the self-transformation of a person to be transformed from guilt and innocence before and after the act of penitence.

TL;DR: Cicero and Roman Education as discussed by the authors traces the history of the exegetical tradition on Cicero's oratory and re-assesses the didactic function of the speeches, whose preservation was largely determined by pedagogical factors.

TL;DR: The Bellum Civile Appendix as mentioned in this paper describes the history of the Civil War in the Roman Republic and its effect on the Roman people, including Caesar's art of characterization, the limits and risks of Caesar's leniency, and the barbarization of the enemy.

TL;DR: The Pharsalia, Lucan's epic on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey, is a document of fundamental importance for students of the history and literature of Rome in the early imperial period as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, W.V. Harris shows that the discourse of anger-control was of crucial importance in several different spheres, in politics - both republican and monarchical - in the family, and in the slave economy.

TL;DR: The Roman emperor served a number of functions within the Roman state as mentioned in this paper, and the emperor's public image reflected this diversity, and an extraordinary array of rituals, images, and texts, then, gave visual and symbolic expression to his numerous functions and publicized the manifold benefits of imperial rule.