Baetica Felix

Author : Evan W. Haley
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292779235

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Baetica Felix by Evan W. Haley Pdf

Baetica, the present-day region of Andalusia in southern Spain, was the wealthiest province of the Roman Empire. Its society was dynamic and marked by upward social and economic mobility, as the imperial peace allowed the emergence of a substantial middle social and economic stratum. Indeed, so mutually beneficial was the imposition of Roman rule on the local population of Baetica that it demands a new understanding of the relationship between Imperial Rome and its provinces. Baetica Felix builds a new model of Roman-provincial relations through a socio-economic history of the province from Julius Caesar to the end of the second century A.D. Describing and analyzing the impact of Roman rule on a core province, Evan Haley addresses two broad questions: what effect did Roman rule have on patterns of settlement and production in Baetica, and how did it contribute to wealth generation and social mobility? His findings conclusively demonstrate that meeting the multiple demands of the Roman state created a substantial freeborn and ex-slave "middle stratum" of the population that outnumbered both the super-rich elite and the destitute poor.

Author : Duane W. Roller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108595926

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A Guide to the Geography of Pliny the Elder by Duane W. Roller Pdf

This is the first thorough English commentary on the geographical books of Pliny the Elder, written in the AD 70s. Pliny's account is the longest in Latin, and represents the geographical knowledge of that era, when the Roman Empire was the dominant force in the Mediterranean world. The work serves both cultural and ideological functions: much of it is topographical, but it also demonstrates the political need to express a geographical basis for the importance of the Roman state. In five books, Pliny covers the entire world as it was known in his era and includes some of the first information on the extremities of the inhabited region, including Scandinavia and the Baltic, eastern Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. The commentary provides a detailed analysis of all the points Pliny raises: his sources, toponyms, and understanding of the place of the earth in the cosmos.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004685734

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Law and Power by Anonim Pdf

In the Roman world, landscapes became legal and institutional constructions, being the core of social, political, religious, and economic life. The Romans developed ambitious urban transformations, seeking to equate civic monumentality and legal status. The built environment becomes the axis of the legal, administrative, sacred, and economic system and the main element of dissemination of imperial ideology. This volume follows the modern trend of a multifaceted, composite, multi-layered Roman world, but at the same time reduces its complexity. It views ‘Roman’ not only in the sense of power politics, but also in a cultural context. It highlights ‘landscapes’ and puts into the shadow important administrative and legal structures, i.e., individuals viz. local and imperial members of the elites living in cities, which ran the Roman world.

Author : G. de Kleijn,Stéphane Benoist
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004256675

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Integration in Rome and in the Roman World by G. de Kleijn,Stéphane Benoist Pdf

Integration in the empire under the political control of the city of Rome, her princeps, and the different authorities in the provinces includes processes of inclusion and exclusion. They are explored from juridical, political, social and religious points of view.

Author : Luuk de Ligt,Emily Hemelrijk,H.W. Singor
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004401655

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Roman Rule and Civic Life: Local and Regional Perspectives by Luuk de Ligt,Emily Hemelrijk,H.W. Singor Pdf

Contents: I. INSTRUMENTS OF IMPERIAL RULE. ECK, W.: Lateinisch, Griechisch, Germanisch ...? Wie sprach Rom met seinen Untertanen? TALBERT, R.: Rome’s provinces as framework for world-view. KOKKINIA, C.: Ruling, inducing, arguing: how to govern (and survive) a Greek province. SLOOTJES, D.: The governor as benefactor in Late Antiquity. LIGT, L. DE: Direct taxation in western Asia Minor under the early Empire. II. CONQUEST AND ITS EFFECTS BIRLEY, A.: Britain 71-105: advance and retrenchment. ROSSUM, J.A.. VAN: The end of the Batavian auxiliaries as ‘national’ units. COULSTON, J.C.N.: Military identity and personal self-identity in the Roman army. BRUUN, C.: The legend of Decebalus. III. ROMANIZATION AND ITS LIMITS LOMAS, K.: Funerary epigraphy and the impact of Rome in Italy. BINTLIFF, J.L.: Town and chôra of Thespiae in the imperial age. ELTON, H.: Romanization and some Cilician cults. HESBERG, H. VON: Grabmonumente als Zeichen des sozialen Aufstiegs der neuen Eliten in den germanischen Provinzen. HAAN, N. DE: Living like the Romans? Some remarks on domestic architecture in North Africa and Britain. IV. URBAN ELITES AND CIVIC LIFE VRIES, T. DE & W.J. ZWALVE: Roman actuarial science and Ulpian’s life expectancy table. KRIECKHAUS, A.: Duae Patriae? C. Plinius Caecilius Secundus zwischen germana patria und urbs. STRUBBE, J.H.M.: Cultic honours for benefactors in Asia Minor. HORSTER, M.: Substitutes for emperors and members of the imperial families as local magistrates. DONDIN-PAYRE, M.: Notables et élites dans les Trois Gaules. BRANCO, M. DI: Entre Amphion et Achille: réalité et mythologie de la défense d’Athènes du IIIe au IVe siècle. NAVARRO CABALLERO, M.: L’élite, les femmes et l’argent dans les provinces hispaniques. HIRSCHMANN, V.: Methodische Überlegungen zu Frauen in antiken Vereinen. HEMELRIJK, E.: Patronage of cities: the role of women.

Author : Frank McLynn
Publisher : Random House
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446449332

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Marcus Aurelius by Frank McLynn Pdf

Marcus Aurelius is the one great figure of antiquity who still speaks to us today, nearly 2,000 years after his death. A philosopher as well as an emperor, his was an extraordinary reign. He proved himself a great leader, protecting the Empire from Germans in the North and fighting the Parthians in the East, and his Meditations - compared by John Stuart Mill to the Sermon on the Mount - remains one of the most widely-read Classical books. Impeccably researched and vividly told, Frank McLynn's Marcus Aurelius is the definitive biography of a monumental historical figure.

Author : Thorsten Opper
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Emperors
ISBN : 0674030958

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Hadrian by Thorsten Opper Pdf

"Hadrian, a Roman emperor, the builder of Hadrian's Wall in the north of England, a restless and ambitious man who was interested in architecture and was passionate about Greece and Greek culture. Is this the common image today of the ruler of one of the greatest powers of the ancient world?" "Published to complement a major exhibition at the British Museum, this wide-ranging book rediscovers Hadrian. The sharp contradictions in his personality are examined, previous concepts are questioned and myths that surround him are exploded." --Book Jacket.

Author : William Smith,Henry Wace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 950 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Christian biography
ISBN : OXFORD:N12981141

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A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines: Eaba-Hermocrates by William Smith,Henry Wace Pdf

Author : Marcella Frangipane,Monika Poettinger,Bertram Schefold
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783031087639

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Ancient Economies in Comparative Perspective by Marcella Frangipane,Monika Poettinger,Bertram Schefold Pdf

This book investigates the economic organization of ancient societies from a comparative perspective. By pursuing an interdisciplinary approach, including contributions by archaeologists, historians of antiquity, economic historians as well as historians of economic thought, it studies various aspects of ancient economies, such as the material living conditions including production technologies, etc.; economic institutions such as markets and coinage; as well as the economic thinking of the time. In the process, it also explores the comparability of economic thought, economic institutions and economic systems in ancient history. Focusing on the Ancient Near East as well as the Mediterranean, including Greece and Rome, this comparative perspective makes it possible to identify historical permanencies, but also diverse forms of social and political organization and cultural systems. These institutions are then evaluated in terms of their capacity to solve economic problems, such as the efficient use of resources or political stability. The first part of the book introduces readers to the methodological context of the comparative approach, including an evaluation of the related historiographical tradition. Subsequent parts discuss a range of development models, elements of economic thinking in ancient societies, the role of trade and globalization, and the use of monetary and financial instruments, as well as political aspects.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Southwest, New
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172145908746

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SMRC Revista by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hannelore Vanhaverbeke
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015082652036

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Thinking about Space by Hannelore Vanhaverbeke Pdf

The incorporation of new provinces in the Roman Empire, both in the East and the West, coincides with marked changes in urban infrastructure and layout, and in rural settlement patterns, as is attested by numerous excavations and surveys. While scholars agree on the quantitative and qualitative transformation of cities and their territories, such as an increase in the number of monumental buildings and rural sites, a significantly higher degree of urbanization, a more sophisticated lifestyle etc., little research has been devoted to the ways in which these structures and sites, and their internal components, were organized spatially. The eleven papers presented in this volume result from workshops organized by the international, interdisciplinary ROCT-network (Roman Crafts and Trade). From a heterogeneous chronological and geographical background, the peer-reviewed collection of papers focuses on one central issue: the use of space in the Roman world. Space, on all sorts of levels, shapes human life, now as in the past. The edited volume contrasts two dimensions of space: the macro-scale at regional level and the micro-scale at local level. Moreover, the selected papers are written against a variety of methodological backgrounds and practices, including excavation and surveying strategies, contextual analysis and material culture studies. The variety of content, approaches and interpretation results from the conscious deliberation that this is the only possible way to think about space in the Roman world. The contributions cover the Roman world with its provinces, throughout the long period in history which can be considered Roman in each of the study areas. Frank Vermeulen is professor of Roman archaeology and of archaeological method at Ghent University. His research interests cover settlement history and landscape development in the western Mediterranean during Antiquity. Raymond Brulet est Professeur d'Archeologie nationale a l'Universite catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve). Il est specialise dans la periode de l'Antiquite tardive et dans le domaine de l'Archeometrie. Hannelore Vanhaverbeke is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO-Belgium); she is the field director of the annual rural surveys near Sagalassos and teaches at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium). Jeroen Poblome is a research professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He studies artisanal production organization and exchange patterns and mechanisms in the ancient eastern Mediterranean, with fieldwork in Boeotia, Pisidia and Cilicia.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Classical philology
ISBN : UCD:31175030345725

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The Classical Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Micah Young Myers,Erika Zimmermann Damer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000427455

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Travel, Geography, and Empire in Latin Poetry by Micah Young Myers,Erika Zimmermann Damer Pdf

This volume considers representations of space and movement in sources ranging from Roman comedy to late antique verse, exploring how poetry in the Roman world is fundamentally shaped by its relationship to travel within the geography of Rome’s far-reaching empire. The volume surveys Roman poetics of travel and geography in sources ranging from Plautus to Augustan poetry, from the Flavians to Ausonius. The chapters offer a range of approaches to: the complex relationship between Latin poetry, Roman identity, imperialism, and travel and geospatial narratives; and the diachronic and generic evolutions of poetic descriptions of space and mobility. In addition, two chapters, including the concluding one, contextualize and respond to the volume’s discussion of poetry by looking at ways in which Romans not only write and read poems about travel and geography, but also make writing and reading part of the experience of traveling, as demonstrated in their epigraphic practices. The collection as a whole offers important insights into Roman poetics and into ancient notions of movement and geographical space. Travel, Geography, and Empire in Latin Poetry will be of interest to specialists in Latin poetry, ancient travel, and Latin epigraphy as well as to those studying travel writing, geography, imperialism, and mobility in other periods. The chapters are written to be accessible to researchers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates.

Author : William Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Biography
ISBN : UCSD:31822004157970

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A Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography, Mythology and Geography by William Smith Pdf

Author : William Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Classical dictionaries
ISBN : HARVARD:HN62HG

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A Classical Dictionary of Biography, Mythology, and Geography by William Smith Pdf