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Author : Adam M. Kemezis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107062726
This book explores how Greek authors who witnessed sudden political change reacted by re-imagining the larger narrative of the Roman past.
Author : Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004516922
This book argues that Herodian uses an orderly and coherent historiographical form to reconfigure and explicate a most chaotic period of Roman history. Through patterning he offers a distinctive interpretative framework in which successive reigns and individual emperors need to be read in a dovetailed way.
Author : Michael Grant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317798972
The Severans analyses the colourful decline of the Roman Empire during the reign of the Severans, the first non-Italian dynasty. In his learned and exciting style, Michael Grant describes the foreign wars waged against the Alemanni and the Persians, and the remarkable personalities of the imperial family. Thus the reader encounters Julia Domna's alleged literary circle, or Elagabalus' curious private life - which included dancing in the streets, marrying a vestal virgin and smothering his enemies with rose petals. With its beautifully selected plate section, maps and extensive bibliography, this book will appeal to the student of ancient history as well as to the general reader. Michael Grant is one of the world's greatest writers on ancient history. His previous publications include: Art in the Roman Empire, Greek and Roman Historians and Who's Who in Classical Mythology all published by Routledge.
Author : Zahra Newby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107072244
A new reading of the portrayal of Greek myths in Roman art, revealing important shifts in Roman values and identities.
Author : James Corke-Webster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108474078
Presents a radical new reading of how Christian history was rewritten in the fourth century to suit its circumstances under Rome.
Author : Dexter Hoyos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786725394
Rome – Urbs Roma: city of patricians and plebeians, emperors and gladiators, slaves and concubines – was the epicentre of a far-flung imperium whose cultural legacy is incalculable. How a tiny settlement, founded by desperate adventurers beside the banks of the River Tiber, came to rule vast tracts of territory across the face of the known world is one of the more improbable stories of antiquity. The epic scale of the Colosseum; majestically columned temples; formidable legionaries marching in burnished steel breastplates; and capricious Caesars clad in purple robes who thought themselves gods: all these images speak of a grandeur that continues to be associated with this most celebrated of ancient capitals. The glory of Rome is further underlined by enduring monuments like Hadrian's Wall, holding the line as it did against ferocious Pictish barbarians thought to be from Hyperborea: the mythic Land Beyond the North Wind. This book vividly recounts the rags-to-riches story of Rome's unlikely triumph. Perhaps the most famous example in history of modest beginnings rising to greatness, Rome's empire was never static or uniform. Over the centuries, under the 'boundless grandeur of the Roman peace' (as the Elder Pliny put it), imperial law, civilisation and language vigorously interacted with and influenced local cultures across western and central Europe and North Africa. Provincial subjects were made Roman citizens, generals and senators. In AD 98 Trajan became the first of many Romans from outside Italy to assume supreme power as Emperor. Poets, philosophers, historians and legalists – and many others besides – all participated in the brilliant intellectual constellation secured by the pax Romana. However, as Dexter Hoyos reveals, the empire was not won cheaply or fast, and did not always succeed. The Carthaginian general Hannibal came close to destroying it. Arminius freed Germania by brutally annihilating three irreplaceable legions in the Teutoburg Forest – a disaster that broke Augustus' heart. And the Romans themselves, in expanding their empire, were often ruthless. Caesar boasted of killing a million enemy fighters in his Gallic Wars, while the accusation of a Caledonian lord became proverbial: they make a desert and call it peace. Yet at the same time the Romans strove to impose moral and legal principles for directing their subjects as much as themselves, and laid down standards of government that are still valid today. Rome Victorious is a masterful new treatment of the rise of Rome – from the viewpoints both of the city itself and the people it came to rule and make its own.
Author : Christopher Burden-Strevens,Mads Lindholmer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004384552
Cassius Dio’s Forgotten History of Early Rome brings together ten studies on the literary, historiographical, rhetorical, and generic and textual dimensions of the least explored section of Dio’s enormous history of Rome: Books 1–21.
Author : Jared Secord
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271087641
Early in the third century, a small group of Greek Christians began to gain prominence and legitimacy as intellectuals in the Roman Empire. Examining the relationship that these thinkers had with the broader Roman intelligentsia, Jared Secord contends that the success of Christian intellectualism during this period had very little to do with Christianity itself. With the recognition that Christian authors were deeply engaged with the norms and realities of Roman intellectual culture, Secord examines the thought of a succession of Christian literati that includes Justin Martyr, Tatian, Julius Africanus, and Origen, comparing each to a diverse selection of his non-Christian contemporaries. Reassessing Justin’s apologetic works, Secord reveals Christian views on martyrdom to be less distinctive than previously believed. He shows that Tatian’s views on Greek culture informed his reception by Christians as a heretic. Finally, he suggests that the successes experienced by Africanus and Origen in the third century emerged as consequences not of any change in attitude toward Christianity by imperial authorities but of a larger shift in intellectual culture and imperial policies under the Severan dynasty. Original and erudite, this volume demonstrates how distorting the myopic focus on Christianity as a religion has been in previous attempts to explain the growth and success of the Christian movement. It will stimulate new research in the study of early Christianity, classical studies, and Roman history.
Author : Werner Riess,Garrett G. Fagan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472119820
Examines how location confers cultural meaning on acts of violence, and renders them socially acceptable--or not
Author : Díaz Fernández, Alejandro
Publisher : Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9788447230891
When the Roman Republic became the master of an overseas empire, the Romans had to adapt their civic institutions so as to be able to rule the dominions that were successively subjected to their imperium. As a result, Rome created an administrative structure mainly based on an element that became the keystone of its empire: the provincia. This book brings together nine contributions from a total of ten scholars, all specialists in Republican Rome and the Principate, who analyse from diverse perspectives and approaches the distinct ways in which the Roman res publica constituted and ruled a far-flung empire. The book ranges from the development of the Roman institutional structures to the diplomatic and administrative activities carried out by the Roman commanders overseas. Beyond the subject on which each author focuses, all chapters in this volume represent significant and renewed contributions to the study of the provinces and the Roman empire during the Republican period and the transition to the Principate.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004405158
Cassius Dio and the Late Roman Republic offers new understandings of Dio’s late republican narrative both as a well-informed historical source and a skillful narrative informed by the rich tradition of Greco-Roman history writing.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004510517
This volume addresses the intellectual and political contexts that produced Cassius Dio's (c. 160–c. 230 CE) massive and indispensable synthesis of Roman history. Contributors examine the literary influences, cultural identity and political ideologies of this much read but enigmatic author.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004461604
The volume Cassius Dio the Historian: Methods and Approaches explores the Roman historian’s methodology and agendas. He had his own agendas for writing his Roman History, but at the same time, he was a historian with an ambition to tell the history of Rome.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004434431
Cassius Dio: The Impact of Violence, War, and Civil War is part of a renewed interest in the Roman historian Cassius Dio. This volume focuses on Dio’s approaches to foreign war and stasis as well as civil war.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004524187
This Companion is the first of its kind on the Roman historian Cassius Dio. It introduces the reader to the life and work of one of the most fundamental but previously neglected historians in the Roman historical cannon.