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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1176 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : OSU:32435023409816
Author : Phillip Barlag
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781633886919
Nero fiddled while Rome burned. As catchy as that aphorism is, it’s sadly untrue, even if it has a nice ring to it. The one thing Nero is well-known for is the one thing he actually didn’t do. But fear not, the truth of his life, his rule and what he did with unrestrained power, is plenty weird, salacious and horrifying. And he is not alone. Roman history, from the very foundation of the city, is replete with people and stories that shock our modern sensibilities. Evil Roman Emperors puts the worst of Rome’s rulers in one place and offers a review of their lives and a historical context for what made them into what they became. It concludes by ranking them, counting down to the worst ruler in Rome’s long history. Lucius Tarquinius Suburbus called peace conferences with warring states, only to slaughter foreign leaders; Commodus sold offices of the empire to the highest bidder; Caligula demanded to be worshipped as a god, and marched troops all the way to the ocean simply to collect seashells as “proof” of their conquest; even the Roman Senate itself was made up of oppressors, exploiters, and murderers of all stripes. Author Phillip Barlag profiles a host of evil Roman rulers across the history of their empire, along with the faceless governing bodies that condoned and even carried out heinous acts. Roman history, deviant or otherwise, is a subject of endless fascination. What’s never been done before is to look at the worst of the worst at the same time, comparing them side by side, and ranking them against one another. Until now.
Author : Bernard William Henderson
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Emperors
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Michael Grant
Publisher : Phoenix
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Emperors
ISBN : 1842126520
The Roman Emperors were the men who wielded ultimate power over the vast empire stretching from Britain to the Sahara and from the Atlantic to the Euphrates - one of the greatest multi-racial states the world has ever known, to which we owe innumerable features of our lives today. Although the great evolutionary pressures shaping the empire were sometimes outside their control, the influence of these rulers was a decisive, often world-shaking, force in Roman history. Magisterial in its breadth and coverage, The Roman Emperors is a standard work for both the student and general reader by one of the greatest classical historians of our times.'Michael Grant never fails to be lively and well informed and he has done more, singlehandedly, to blow the dust off the classical world than any comparable populariser' Sunday Times
Author : Michael Kerrigan
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781502619112
The Caesars were the rulers of the Roman Empire, a Republic so large it encompassed parts of Asia and Northern Africa. From Caligula to Claudius, each emperor wielded immense power for good or for evil, depending on their temperament over the Roman army and their citizens. This book highlights the lives of some of the more memorable Caesars of Rome and the true history that exist beneath the legends.
Author : David Potter
Publisher : Quercus Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780873367
The Emperors of Rome charts the rise and fall of the Roman Empire through profiles of the greatest and most notorious of the emperors, from the autocratic Augustus to the feeble Claudius, the vicious Nero to the beneficent Marcus Aurelius, through to the maniac Commodus and beyond. Interwoven with these are vivid descriptions of sports and art, political intrigues and historic events. In this entertaining and erudite work, acclaimed classical scholar David Potter brings Imperial Rome, and the lives of the men who ruled it, to vivid life.
Author : Barry Strauss
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781451668841
Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers “an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire…much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones” (The Wall Street Journal)—a summation of three and a half centuries of the Roman Empire as seen through the lives of ten of the most important emperors, from Augustus to Constantine. In this essential and “enlightening” (The New York Times Book Review) work, Barry Strauss tells the story of the Roman Empire from rise to reinvention, from Augustus, who founded the empire, to Constantine, who made it Christian and moved the capital east to Constantinople. During these centuries Rome gained in splendor and territory, then lost both. By the fourth century, the time of Constantine, the Roman Empire had changed so dramatically in geography, ethnicity, religion, and culture that it would have been virtually unrecognizable to Augustus. Rome’s legacy remains today in so many ways, from language, law, and architecture to the seat of the Roman Catholic Church. Strauss examines this enduring heritage through the lives of the men who shaped it: Augustus, Tiberius, Nero, Vespasian, Trajan, Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius, Septimius Severus, Diocletian, and Constantine. Over the ages, they learned to maintain the family business—the government of an empire—by adapting when necessary and always persevering no matter the cost. Ten Caesars is a “captivating narrative that breathes new life into a host of transformative figures” (Publishers Weekly). This “superb summation of four centuries of Roman history, a masterpiece of compression, confirms Barry Strauss as the foremost academic classicist writing for the general reader today” (The Wall Street Journal).
Author : Björn C. Ewald,Carlos F. Noreña,Yale University. Department of Classics
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780521519533
This book explores ancient Rome under the impact of monarchy and as one of the structures which shaped the monarchy itself.
Author : Michael Grant
Publisher : Scribner Book Company
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015009396501
Provides brief descriptions of the careers, characters, and personal lives of the emperors of Rome.
Author : Theodor Mommsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134624799
A full and detailed transcript of Mommsen's famous lectures - made by two of his students - has been edited to provide an authoritative reconstruction. Includes detailed notes and references, and an introduction by Thomas Wiedemann.
Author : Paul Chrystal
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526728869
As with everything else, there were good and bad Roman emperors. The good, like Trajan (98117), Hadrian (117138), Antoninus Pius (138161) and Marcus Aurelius (161180) were largely civilized and civilizing. The bad, on the other hand, were sometimes nothing less than monsters, exhibiting varying degrees of corruption, cruelty, depravity and insanity. It is a sobering thought that these ogres were responsible for governing the greatest civilization in the world, simultaneously terrorizing, brutalizing and massacring. Tiberius, Caligula, Nero, Domitian, Commodus, Caracella, Elagabalus, Septimius Severus, Diocletian, Maximinus Thrax, Justinian and Theodora all had more bad days than good; they are all covered in this book.Their exploits have, of course, been well documented since classical times but much of the coverage can only be called gratuitous, sensationalist or tabloid. This book is different because it is based on primary sources and evidence and attempts to balance out the shocking with any mitigating aspects in each of their lives. Many of our monsters have some redeeming factors and it is important that these are exposed if a true record of their lives is to be conveyed. The book also examines how each of the twelve has been treated for posterity in literature, theatre and film, and the lessons intended to be drawn from popular culture through the ages.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004370920
Imagining Emperors in the Later Roman Empire offers new critical analysis of the textual depictions of a series of emperors in the fourth century within overlapping historical, religious and literary contexts.
Author : Jean Baptiste Louis Crevier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1814
Category : Emperors
ISBN : UCD:31175008336730
Author : Brian Croke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000388305
Roman Emperors in Context: Theodosius to Justinian brings together ten articles by renowned historian Brian Croke. Written separately and over a period of fifteen years, the revised and updated chapters in this volume provide a coherent and substantial story of the change and development in imperial government at the eastern capital of Constantinople between the reigns of Theodosius I (379-95) and Justinian (527-65). Bookended by chapters on the city itself, this book is based on a conviction that the legal and administrative decisions of emperors have an impact on the whole of the political realm. The fifth century, which forms the core of this book, is shown to be essentially Roman in that the significance of aristocracy and dynasty still formed the basic framework for political advancement and the conduct/conflict of political power around a Roman imperial court from one generation to the next. Also highlighted is how power at court was mediated through military generals, including major regional commanders in the Balkans and the East, bishops and bureaucrats. Finally, the book demonstrates how the prolonged absence of male heirs during this period allowed the sisters, daughters, mothers and wives of Roman emperors to become more important and more central to imperial government. This book is essential reading for scholars and students of Roman and Byzantine history, as well as those interested in political and legal history. (CS1100)
Author : Jean Baptiste Louis Crevier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1814
Category : Emperors
ISBN : MINN:31951002405647U