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Author : Robert Morstein-Marx
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 703 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108837842
Reinterprets Julius Caesar not as an autocrat seeking to overthrow the Roman Republic, but as an unusually successful political leader.
Author : Robert Morstein-Marx
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1108932088
Julius Caesar was no aspiring autocrat seeking to realize the imperial future but an unusually successful republican leader who was measured against the Republic's traditions and its greatest heroes of the past. Catastrophe befell Rome not because Caesar (or anyone else) turned against the Republic, its norms and institutions, but because Caesar's extraordinary success mobilized a determined opposition which ultimately preferred to precipitate civil war rather than accept its political defeat. Based on painstaking re-analysis of the ancient sources in the light of recent advances in our understanding of the participatory role of the People in the republican political system, a strong emphasis on agents' choices rather than structural causation, and profound scepticism toward the facile determinism that often substitutes for historical explanation, this book offers a radical reinterpretation of a figure of profound historical importance who stands at the turning point of Roman history from Republic to Empire.
Author : Michael Parenti
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781595585561
“A provocative history” of intrigue and class struggle in Ancient Rome—“an important alternative to the usual views of Caesar and the Roman Empire” (Publishers Weekly). Most historians, both ancient and modern, have viewed the Late Republic of Rome through the eyes of its rich nobility—the 1 percent of the population who controlled 99 percent of the empire’s wealth. In The Assassination of Julius Caesar, Michael Parenti recounts this period, spanning the years 100 to 33 BC, from the perspective of the Roman people. In doing so, he presents a provocative, trenchantly researched narrative of popular resistance against a powerful elite. As Parenti carefully weighs the evidence concerning the murder of Caesar, he adds essential context to the crime with fascinating details about Roman society as a whole. In these pages, we find reflections on the democratic struggle waged by Roman commoners, religious augury as an instrument of social control, the patriarchal oppression of women, and the political use of homophobic attacks. The Assassination of Julius Caesar offers a whole new perspective on an era thought to be well-known. “A highly accessible and entertaining addition to history.” —Book Marks
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Akasha Classics
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1603033793
What actions are justified when the fate of a nation hangs in the balance, and who can see the best path ahead? Julius Caesar has led Rome successfully in the war against Pompey and returns celebrated and beloved by the people. Yet in the senate fears intensify that his power may become supreme and threaten the welfare of the republic. A plot for his murder is hatched by Caius Cassius who persuades Marcus Brutus to support him. Though Brutus has doubts, he joins Cassius and helps organize a group of conspirators that assassinate Caesar on the Ides of March. But, what is the cost to a nation now erupting into civil war? A fascinating study of political power, the consequences of actions, the meaning of loyalty and the false motives that guide the actions of men, Julius Caesar is action packed theater at its finest.
Author : Victor Duruy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Rome
ISBN : NYPL:33433081564019
Author : Michael Parenti
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781458784353
Why did a group of Roman senators gather near Pompey's theater on March 15, 44 B.C., to kill Julius Caesar? Was it their fear of Caesar's tyrannical power? Or were these aristocratic senators worried that Caesar's land reforms and leanings toward democracy would upset their own control over the Roman Republic? Parenti (History as Mystery, etc.) narrates a provocative history of the late republic in Rome (100-33 B.C.) to demonstrate that Caesar's death was the culmination of growing class conflict, economic disparity and political corruption. He reconstructs the history of these crucial years from the perspective of the Roman people, the masses of slaves, plebs and poor farmers who possessed no political power. Roughly 99% of the state's wealth was controlled by 1% of the population, according to Parenti. By the 60s B.C., the poor populace had begun to find spokesmen among such leaders as the tribunes Tiberius Gracchus and his younger brother, Gaius. Although the Gracchi attempted to introduce various reforms, they were eventually murdered, and the reform movements withered. Julius Caesar, says Parenti, took up where they left off, introducing laws to improve the condition of the poor, redistributing land and reducing unemployment. As Parenti points out, such efforts threatened the landed aristocracy's power in the Senate and resulted in Caesar's assassination. Parenti's method of telling history from the ''bottom up'' will be controversial, but he recreates the struggles of the late republic with such scintillating storytelling and deeply examined historical insight that his book provides an important alternative to the usual views of Caesar and the Roman Empire.
Author : Victor Duruy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Rome
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118215107
Author : Victor Duruy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Rome
ISBN : CHI:097473333
Author : Mary Beard
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0674020596
It followed every major military victory in ancient Rome: the successful general drove through the streets to the temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill; behind him streamed his raucous soldiers; in front were his most glamorous prisoners, as well as the booty he’d captured, from enemy ships and precious statues to plants and animals from the conquered territory. Occasionally there was so much on display that the show lasted two or three days. A radical reexamination of this most extraordinary of ancient ceremonies, this book explores the magnificence of the Roman triumph, but also its darker side. What did it mean when the axle broke under Julius Caesar’s chariot? Or when Pompey’s elephants got stuck trying to squeeze through an arch? Or when exotic or pathetic prisoners stole the general’s show? And what are the implications of the Roman triumph, as a celebration of imperialism and military might, for questions about military power and “victory” in our own day? The triumph, Mary Beard contends, prompted the Romans to question as well as celebrate military glory. Her richly illustrated work is a testament to the profound importance of the triumph in Roman culture—and for monarchs, dynasts and generals ever since. But how can we re-create the ceremony as it was celebrated in Rome? How can we piece together its elusive traces in art and literature? Beard addresses these questions, opening a window on the intriguing process of sifting through and making sense of what constitutes “history.”
Author : Victor Duruy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Rome
ISBN : NWU:35556009307018
Author : Victor Duruy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Rome
ISBN : WISC:89095903076
Author : Victor Duruy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Rome
ISBN : UCLA:31158005317606
Author : Victor Duruy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Rome
ISBN : NYPL:33433081564753
Author : Victor Duruy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Rome
ISBN : WISC:89095888509
Author : Nathan Rosenstein,Robert Morstein-Marx
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781444357202
This Companion provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of Roman Republican history as it is currently practiced. Highlights recent developments, including archaeological discoveries, fresh approaches to textual sources, and the opening up of new areas of historical study Retains the drama of the Republic’s rise and fall Emphasizes not just the evidence of texts and physical remains, but also the models and assumptions that scholars bring to these artefacts Looks at the role played by the physical geography and environment of Italy Offers a compact but detailed narrative of military and political developments from the birth of the Roman Republic through to the death of Julius Caesar Discusses current controversies in the field
